A good mix of questions from different games... The mailbag messages below are usually selected to create a good mix, but Goldeneye 007 is still very common in my mailbox. I'm just bringing it up, because it's August...

And this year just happens to be lucky number 7 for Goldeneye 007, which was released in August of 1997... (Well, technically it was released on July 31, but it was August before this surprise hit took gamers by storm).

Seven years ago this summer, gamers were feeding their Goldeneye addictions with endless nights of Multiplayer deathmatches. And when a gamesite that covers a bunch of recent games still receives tons of questions about a seven year old game, it's definitely saying something about the depth and replay value.

I'd like to say that I've started to fiddle around with Goldeneye 007's memory editor, and I've found some weird stuff. I noticed twice in the item lists, an item called "heroine". I don't recall seeing that item on your beta items list on your site. Could it be an item we haven't found before?


Contrary to what you may have heard, James Bond doesn't do any drugs in Goldeneye 007... (He did consume more than his fair share of Vodka Martinis, but that's another story...) While many people seem to think that there's a long lost stash of 'heroin' in the game, the spelling of 'heroine' has been accepted by most Goldeneye fans as the female version of 'hero', which possibly refers to Natalya. Exactly what this means, and why it's in there with a bunch of items, we're really not sure.

I bought Perfect Dark, but have no instruction booklet. I have read your site, and loved it. Can you help me with finding info that is usually in the instruction booklet (i.e.: controls, how everything works etc.)?

Normally when I buy a game, I can't wait to open the box and get into the action... Which is why for the most-part, my instruction manuals remain unread (and usually in mint condition).

But I do keep all of my booklets for reference, to occasionally look up a small detail or feature. I've scanned a few of the most important pages of the Perfect Dark instruction booklet, and here they are...

Scanned sections from the booklet include; The Controls (pages 6-7), The Quick Menu & CamSpy (pages 8-9), and Multiplayer Advanced Setup & Simulant Menu (pages 16-17). Enjoy.

Why does everyone believe that sonic and/or tails are playable characters in Super Smash Bros Melee? There just is no reason for these rumors. If you check the SSBM official website no fast hedgehogs here. And it says that there are all the characters. IT couldn't be a glitch because a whole new character (that wasn't a clone) would be a huge glitch that Nintendo would've found.

I completely agree with you. These people are likely just bored, and feel like wasting my time. That's for the people who claim that they've unlocked them, that is.

As for the others who simply want to believe that Sonic and Tails are in Melee, I suppose it's just wishful thinking. They want them to be there so bad, and they have a hard time believing that something they read in a magazine isn't true.

EGM really should stop publishing fake codes like this... I myself could create some seriously bogus rumors about practically any featured game, post them on Detstar, and people would surely believe what they read...

Sure, it was just a fun little prank by EGM... But it probably pisses me off more than most people, because I have to read about it in my mailbox every day. Perhaps EGM is just unaware of the responsibility they have for being a respectable gaming magazine. Just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should.

You said that Donkey Kong was in all three Mario Kart games. Actually, the ape in the original was Donkey Kong Junior.

It was indeed Donkey Kong Junior who appeared on Super Mario Kart for the SNES. But Rareware has since transformed Donkey Kong Junior into the modern day Donkey Kong. I guess DK lost the name "Junior" now that he wasn't a baby ape anymore.

The evolution of the former Donkey Kong Junior also caused the original Donkey Kong (The one who first started throwing barrels at Mario) to become Cranky Kong.

Hello Det
This is about beta pictures, mainly Goldeneye and Perfect Dark, I see beta screenshots and I wonder where they came from.

A lot of the screenshots are from old gaming magazines, before the games were even released. The previews for these games often showed differences between the finished and unfinished versions.

Aside from the dozens of old magazines where these screenshots originated, some of them were snapped from a handful of 'beta' video clips. Some screenshots aren't even actually 'beta' screenshots, but just Gameshark codes that show beta features.

Other screenshots were even published by Rareware on their website... Unfortunately, these shots, along with a lot of really nice Goldeneye/Perfect Dark artwork and graphics were immediately removed when Microsoft bought Rare.