"Unlisted Cheats" is the Unsung Hero of the Retro Gaming Community.

 

@new_cheat_news  is breaking retro ground.

    It's rare, but sometimes new cheats are discovered for very old games, and when it happens, it's always a buzz on the internet. Remember when Narpas Sword was discovered in Metroid? Insanity. Most games have hard coded passwords not seen by conventional password checks or Hex editors. Well, that was true until Unlisted Cheats blew up on twitter. 

Popular game, new game modes? What?

    All it took was an insane discovery in Super Punch-Out!! for SNES to blow the retro gaming community open, and transform what we know about cheat, hints and secrets in general. Skip to any one fight, new two player mode, debug mode, warp to chosen ending, sound test, and a few more. Any one of these codes would be a crazy discovery, but to find so many and all at once is just absurd. Is he done? Oh no. 

Top Gear 3000 - Only SNES game to use the DSP-4 Chip.

Previously, only two passwords were known to have any kind of advantage, and no one had found any more. How many did Unlisted Cheats find? If you guessed 17, you would be correct. Check out the links above, give the guy a follow as he breaks open a series of Game Boy games, finding 20+ year old easter eggs and hidden modes.

Long before Interstella 5555 by Daft Punk.. there was La Serenissima.

 

La Serenissima - Rondo Veneziano

         Twenty years before Daft Punk ever considered releasing Interstella 5555, an Italian Orchestra called Rondo Veneziano released an album that was a surrealist mix of bass, synth, drums and violins, written and orchestrated by Maestro Gian Piero Reverberi. This was matched with an animated short drawn and animated in a Japanese style and influenced by the pulp magazines and comic books of the late 70's and early 80s by Walter Cavazzuti & Giovanni Ferrari. The result was what you see above in all its pulpy Heavy Metal glory. 

      

You think Heavy Metal was some kind of influence here?

     You can clearly see the inspiration of the music video, art and album covers is based on the covers of Heavy Metal and Omni magazine. Raising Venice is an obvious choice for the Italian creators, and the mix of the rock-opera-roller-boogie vibe is strangely a pretty good marriage for the animation. Rondo Veneziano made several other animated shorts to pair with his music over the years, all based in science fiction and high fantasy. Quite the reality check when you compare the quality and music of this animation and some of the other things we find beautiful and different today. If you dig around enough, you may find out what you think is unique has already been done, and occasionally.. in some ways better. 

Enjoy some HQ animation cells below:

Robot Carnival (1987) Full Movie!

 

Robot Carnival.. it fucks

     Robot Carnival is an OVA anime-anthology style movie made in 1987, that saw some limited release in the US in 1991. Bootlegs were circulated, and you could find some unauthorized copies in shopping malls across the country with the segments mixed up.

     Made in nine parts by nine animators with vastly different styles and vibes. The music is pure 80's chillwave cheese, and is as good today as it was then. Other anthology OVA's like this came later after Carnival's success: Neo Tokyo, Memories, Genius Party, and Short Peace to name a few.

    This movie is absolutely stunning in every way. The themes range from serious and dramatic to sincere comedy. The high level of detail for its time, and the number of drawn frames is really a testament to the animators who put this together trying to show off their best stuff. Do yourself a favor and watch this classic before YouTube removes it for some reason. 

Enjoy the show.