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Island of
Rejected Toys

Horribly Twisted Gifts... Like Baby's First
Table Saw

Grand Theft OTTO: Springfield

Snake... Wiggum... Homer... They're all here!

Episode 134

Lifeguard Opportunity at Bayview Beach

Rastafarian Homer

Pass the Dutchie on the left side, mon.

Episode 131

Dexter & Marley...
Forever borowing stuff that ain't theirs.

Star Whores

Looks like Han is sleeping solo tonight

Episode 128

Dexter takes a cheap shot at Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney

Episode 127

Mary & Dexter discuss the American flag

Episode 126

Dexter & Marley go shopping for female hygiene products

Episode 124

Marley goes Easter shopping

Bill Gates
Goes to Hell

Dexter's rant about
Windows Vista

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January 31, 2006

January Thaw...
The holidays are completely over, and the return to work and/or school has caused players to send slightly less mail this month... It was still a lot to sift through, and I've posted some of the most interesting messages. As always, plenty of Melee stuff, and some things that take me back to the goold old days of Goldeneye 007. Someone also claims to have unlocked Crazy Hand in Melee...

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In the "Monster" trophy in Super Smash Bros Melee, over the windshield it says Mario and Luigi, just thought You wanted to know that!

Best wishes
Super smash Master

Yet another hidden detail to be found on one of the game's trophies.
The word "Nintendo" is also visible on the front of the machine, and the rear license plate reads Nintendo.
Thanks for getting me to check this out.

hi first of all im a big fan of your website and everything i love all the stuff on Goldeneye and Perfect Dark and everything the most tho

my friend showed me this video of a guy who runs thru the area51 level without cheats (or so he says) and gets a fast time......well ok really fast time i tried to beat it but cant even come CLOSE i keep dying in the first elevator.

There are some insane videos out there where people have managed to snag incredibly fast times. In one of these record setting runs, it's important to going about your business as quickly and stealthily as possible to avoid as much confrontation with your enemies as you can. Also learn how to maximize the strafe technique to gain speed and dodge around enemy fire. If you don't get off to a good start, it's often a good idea to restart the mission. A bit of luck can help too, but practice makes perfect.

Hey i found this Super Smash Bros Melee stuff today its really cool.
If you play on tiny melee and put the poison mushroom, Mew-Two's charging B attack makes a full shield.

If you zoom inside ganondorfs trophy, you can see the inside of his mouth. (cause he opens it in his warlock punch)

Mewtwo's charging shadow ball is kinda cool, while the view from inside Ganon's mouth is just plain weird...

In your January 15, 2006 Mailbag, you said that you hadn't seen the message about 4,995 VS. Mode matches in Super Smash Bros Melee. I thought that you had an Action Replay and could see all the special messages. Does that mean that you also don't know about the special messages for 10,000, 100,000, and 1,000,000 VS. Mode matches? I had to find out about them from a friend.

Even though the Action Replay Debug Menu gives you access to everything, somehow it never occurred to me to go and check the special messages...
I figured that I had already seen them all, but they're definitely worth noting. I wonder if there's anyone out there who has honestly played a million matches...

Dear Detstar,

Have you ever played Mission Impossible for the N64? It's quite good. I think you should make a small section on that. It's a great N64 classic.

I remember playing Mission Impossible back when it was first released. Dropping in through the ceiling and avoiding those laser beams is a memorable moment, as was driving the gunboat. It was a fun game, but I managed to beat it on both "Possible" and "Impossible" difficulties over a weekend rental... Typically the games that are featured on Detstar are ones that take much longer to finish.

Hey, I was playing Super Smash Bros Melee, and testing each character out to see whether or not they could jump off of walls. It turns out that in addition to Captain Falcon, Young Link and Samus being able to jump off walls, Sheik, Falco, Mario, and Falco can too!

Wall-jumping seems to be an ability that many of the agile characters seem to have. The most surprising is Mario... He strikes me as a bit pudgy to be able to hop off a wall like the others, but he does it anyway.

I was wondering how you were able to ask rare about all the Goldeneye stuff. I would like to ask them myself to see if maybe i could find out some stuff. Can you tell me how to contact them? Please do this for me. Your site is awesome.
Thanks.

At one point in time, I was able to simply e-mail them and occasionally get a response. Of course due to Rareware's immense popularity, there's no way that they could have ever managed to reply to everyone. But they did return a number of e-mails, some of which were posted on the Goldeneye website. But times change, and eventually they became sick of getting questions they'd rather not answer.

In Super Smash Bros Melee, I seen the Goldeen Pokémon cause damage. My friend and I were fighting at Great Bay when she popped out in front of me and made a slapping noise and my character flinched. I have never seen it happen again but I won't worry about that Pokémon anyway, it didn't seem to cause much damage.

A few people have reported seeing the Goldeen occasionally knock off a bit of health, but no one seems to know how it's done. One person said an attack happened near water. I'm not sure if it's random, or whether it's something you can control. Anyone?

Hey, Det. Just a quick question - I've been browsing your site for a while now (mostly the Goldeneye section), and all the cool things you've managed to do with a Gameshark have finally convinced me that I should also get one.

As for my question: do stores still carry these? Which stores? And if they do (which I would assume at least some stores still do), how much would they go for?

Thanks, man. Keep up the good work.

That's a good question... I got my Gameshark years ago, at Wal-Mart I believe...
But now with the N64 being phased out, I'm honestly not sure if you can buy them in stores anymore.

They are available on e-Bay, and a few of them are advertised as new & unopened for less than $10, which is a lot less than I paid for mine. I'd definitely recommend getting a Gameshark PRO over a regular Gameshark.

Just do a Video Games search for Gameshark 64.

Hey, DetErest, what's your favorite game out of Perfect Dark, Goldeneye:007, Mario Kart: Double Dash, F-Zero GX, The Legend of Zelda:The Wind Waker, and Super Smash Bros. Melee?

It's not really fair to compare games on the N64 with ones on the GameCube... For the GCN, my pick would have to go to Super Smash Bros Melee... So many modes, and such a big game in terms of all the stuff you can unlock.

My favorite N64 game would undoubtedly be Goldeneye 007. Many hours of hacking the game provided endless fun, as did many late nights of Multiplayer deathmatches. Perfect Dark surpassed Goldeneye with graphics, but the core gameplay of Goldeneye rocks.

When you said that a (Mario Kart Double Dash) character in the crowd in Waluigi stadium looks like big bird, it is a hammer bro. without the hammer. Look closely and you'll see the helmet that they're always wearing. Do time trial or something, look hard and you'll see that Im not lying.

In this never ending debate (of the character in the front row, second from the left), you make a good point. I can actually see a bit of a resemblance to a Hammer Brother from Mario Bros 3. It explains the skintone, as well as the strange shape of the head that could be caused by a helmet.

(from Super Smash Bros Melee) pics from my screen and crazy hand. you wont believe me, but i did get him. how to get him is beat event 50 with every character once.

Wow, that's amazing... It's a complete lie, but that first screenshot looks SO convincing... If it wasn't for that minor flaw on the far right finger, it would be totally believable.

Your claim is quickly dissolved with that text screenshot though...
Not a single capital letter, and the original text was obviously rubbed out.

It looks like you put a lot of effort into faking the first screenshot, and then quickly rushed to finish the second one. Patience is a virtue. Don't join the dark side just yet... You have much to learn.