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Nintendo’s Secret Song and How to Hear It

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Who doesn’t love finding hidden things? In video games there are often many different hidden secrets within the content and sometimes these little gems are referred to a “Easter Eggs”.

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One unique secret is actually a song known as “Totaka’s Song”. This interesting little number was created by Kazumi Totaka, a video game the composer who has created music for titles such as Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins and The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening.

The song, like any good secret, can be quite difficult to find. One of the easier ways to find the song is in the game Mario Paint where all you have to do to hear the special tune is click on the “O” when your at the title screen of the game.

Here is a list of known titles that contain this secret song:

  • Animal Forest (Japan) and Animal Crossing (World)
  • Animal Crossing: City Folk
  • Animal Crossing e-Reader cards (#P15, “Boy”, “Who’s Dunnit?”)
  • Animal Crossing: Wild World
  • Animal Crossing: New Leaf
  • Kaeru no Tame ni Kane wa Naru
  • The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening and the DX version
  • Luigi’s Mansion
  • Mario Artist: Talent Studio
  • Mario Paint
  • Pikmin 2
  • Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins
  • Virtual Boy Wario Land
  • X
  • X-Scape
  • Yoshi’s Story
  • Yoshi Touch & Go

 

5 Cool Mac OSX Easter Eggs

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Easter EggIn almost any software application, game, or website, the developers usually incorporate some type of hidden feature or message somewhere . These hidden features are known as “easter eggs”. Here are 5 cool easter eggs for OSX.

Slow Motion 

This one is super easy, just hold down the shift key and then perform any UI action.

For example, Hold Shift and then try to minimize an application using the (yellow) minimize button. This will also work when you go to restore the window.

Tetris in Terminal

Open Finder -> Open Applications -> Open Utilities -> Open Terminal -> Type “emacs” ->Press enter -> Press ESC -> Press X -> Then Type “tetris” and Press Enter.

Snake in Terminal

Open Finder -> Open Applications -> Open Utilities -> Open Terminal -> Type “emacs” ->Press enter -> Press ESC -> Press X -> Then Type “snake” and Press Enter.

Weather for Nowhere

Go to the Dashboard and add the weather widget, if you haven’t already. Hold down the Option Key + Command and then click on the weather icon(sun,cloud,rain). You should see something interesting, you can continue to click to cycle through the available weather icons.

The Suck Effect (for minimizing)

Normally you only have two choices for your minimize effect, the Genie effect and Scale effect. There is however, a hidden third option called suck.

To use this third option simply, open the terminal and type the following. “defaults write com.apple.dock mineffect -string suck”.

Do not include the quotes when typing into the terminal.

You will need to restart the dock in order to see the new effect. You can restart the Dock by either restarting the computer or by going to Applications->Utillities-> Activity Monitor. Then force quit the Dock and it will automatically restart.

If you would like to change your effect back to one of the other options you just need to go to System Preferences->Dock and then choose an effect where it says “minimize windows using:”.