How many SRK peeps fell for THIS joke?!? [Archive]

thepeopleschamp

05-24-2006, 12:36 AM

Okay, no bullshit... who fell for the EGM April Fools Joke articles of Sheng Long?
What's funny is that when the 1st Sheng Long trick was posted for SF2 in EGM, I didn't know it was bullshit UNTIL... I actually completed all of the insanely difficult "requirements" to face Sheng Long and of course did NOT face Sheng Long! :annoy: It took me weeks to master the timing and patterns of Bison before I was able to do what the phony "requirements were. I was lucky enough to work at an arcade in which I could stay overnight after closing and play SF2 for free or I would've gone broke and probably could've won a lawsuit against EGM for how much money I would've lost. Anyways, back then the internet was not much of an option for confirming game hoaxes, not to mention that this was the biggest video game hoax of all time then. This hoax even fooled Japan, who believed it, and they thought they knew everything about SF2 at that time so they were hella surprised to see that!

I didn't get into SF3 very much to have ever bothered attemping the 2nd Sheng Long joke though. I DID however believe what I was reading and was very curious about it. The screen shots and the text descriptions made Sheng Long seem as though he was the new "King of Cheese" in fighting games!

Anybody else fall for either of these jokes? Who actually tried it and completed all of the trick requirements?

http://www.darktemplarz.com/tempmatt/sheng.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v709/smf3/sf3sheng.jpg

LOL, brings back memories of the good ol' days when SF WAS KING! :lovin:
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BTW, this shit never stops making me roll! Too funny! "The Best Version of SF2:CE"... what a f*cking joke!
http://media.putfile.com/Street-Fighter-commercial
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GalzPanic

05-24-2006, 12:56 AM

I remember some guy in the arcade who tried to do it for hella days...Rog was usually no problem but then he'd screw up against Vega...one time he ate it in round 2 vs bison and dood smashed the buttons and broke em. funny. and i swear it wasn't me!

ShinjiGohan

05-24-2006, 02:02 AM

Weren't some of the requirements to not get hit for 10 rounds against Bison (all the while not hitting him either?)

I would've tried it if I had access to an arcade but SNES was all I could muster.

Tension

05-24-2006, 02:09 AM

I fell for the Akuma in RE2 one...but I was like in 6th grade at the time.

thepeopleschamp

05-24-2006, 02:25 AM

Weren't some of the requirements to not get hit for 10 rounds against Bison (all the while not hitting him either?)

I would've tried it if I had access to an arcade but SNES was all I could muster.

Correct. And you couldn't lose any energy through block damage either which made this nearly IMPOSSIBLE! Like I said before, it took me a few weeks of almost nonstop playing every night to lock down the computer's pattern. I only managed to do it maybe 3 times, but by the 3rd time I knew something was definitely NOT RIGHT--- so true seeing as it was TOTAL BULLSHIT! I'll never forget the frustration I felt time and time again when I would make it to round 8 or 9 and then the CPU would throw me! :rofl: The feeling I felt when I actually got down the CPU's pattern to be able to last ten rounds without losing energy was a feat in itself though that I'll never forget. Again, those were the days when Street Fighter 2 was the dream we thought would never end.

Wouldn't it be crazy though if you could emulate the original SF2 and program your character not to lose any energy, and after 10 rounds with Bison find out that EGM pulled off the greatest hoax of a hoax because it really DID exist! I know for a fact though that it doesn't since I met all the requirements that were listed to be able to fight Sheng Long, not to mention that EGM admited that it was a joke anyway... unless I was doing something wrong and it DOES exist. :looney:
BTW, I still own that issue of EGM! :lovin:

psychochronic

05-24-2006, 02:27 AM

Hearing Denjin-Shinryuken still makes me laugh. :lol:

thepeopleschamp

05-24-2006, 02:33 AM

I fell for the Akuma in RE2 one...but I was like in 6th grade at the time.
:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: Yeah, I almost forgot about that one! I never tried that trick either, but I did believe what I was reading at the time, and I might have tried it if I ever played RE2 before.
Who would've figured EGM would fool us 3 times with Street Fighter type stuff. I don't think their jokes will fool anyone anymore though since we probably know what to expect, and we could research the trick through several internet resources nowadays.

Shin-RoTeNdO

05-24-2006, 07:16 AM

Yeah, I fell for it sadly, but I was younger...

also that April Fool's joke was Capcom's inspiration to create Akuma and if you realize, to fight against him the requirements are almost about the same.

Infested Jester

05-24-2006, 07:35 AM

Yeah I had that EGM also, with the horrible Blanka/Ryu/Chun Li art on it. I fell for that one but I never attempted it.

The SF3 Sheng Long joke was pretty bad, you had to be damn near retarded to believe that one.

specs

05-24-2006, 07:37 AM

I fell for both. :sad:

DarksydePhil

05-24-2006, 08:07 AM

The funny thing about the whole thing is that Capcom developers literally stole Sushi-X's ideas and put them into future games. First, they added the "fire" to Ken's fist during his dragon punch in Super Street Fighter II, then later they added Akuma/Gouki as a secret character in Super Turbo. He even ran in during the Bison fight, exactly as Sushi-X had made up for the way Sheng Long made his entrance.

The funniest part about all of it though, is that the Japanese fell for a joke that basically was based off of a bad English translation. The name Sheng Long was taken from Ryu's win quote: You must defeat Sheng Long to stand a chance. This win quote was actually a mistranslation of Shoryuken from Japanese into English; if you follow the series, later on they chance his win quote to "You must defeat the Dragon Punch to stand a chance." If the Japanese had thought it out for about 10 minutes, they would have realized it was a hoax from the start, since "Sheng Long" technically didn't even exist in Japan in the win quote.

Oh well...I admit it fooled me back then too. There was a guy who used Zangief exclusively and kept trying to do it but never could. I felt really bad for him when it was exposed as a hoax...

But I never fell for the second one in SF3!

MagnuScruB

05-24-2006, 09:57 AM

did u guys unlock Gill in 3s arcades? FFA did it in So Cal.

ImMrDurp

05-24-2006, 11:06 AM

Correct. And you couldn't lose any energy through block damage either which made this nearly IMPOSSIBLE! Like I said before, it took me a few weeks of almost nonstop playing every night to lock down the computer's pattern. I only managed to do it maybe 3 times, but by the 3rd time I knew something was definitely NOT RIGHT--- so true seeing as it was TOTAL BULLSHIT! I'll never forget the frustration I felt time and time again when I would make it to round 8 or 9 and then the CPU would throw me! :rofl: The feeling I felt when I actually got down the CPU's pattern to be able to last ten rounds without losing energy was a feat in itself though that I'll never forget. Again, those were the days when Street Fighter 2 was the dream we thought would never end.

Wouldn't it be crazy though if you could emulate the original SF2 and program your character not to lose any energy, and after 10 rounds with Bison find out that EGM pulled off the greatest hoax of a hoax because it really DID exist! I know for a fact though that it doesn't since I met all the requirements that were listed to be able to fight Sheng Long, not to mention that EGM admited that it was a joke anyway... unless I was doing something wrong and it DOES exist. :looney:
BTW, I still own that issue of EGM! :lovin:

Can you scan it? I'd love to read the original article :wonder:

xjester

05-24-2006, 11:11 AM

I fell for the Akuma in RE2 one...but I was like in 6th grade at the time.
My friend dspent a year trying to do the requirments for this. He actualy did it to.
He was pissed.

Lord BBH

05-24-2006, 11:21 AM

honestly, I didn't fall for it. Well okay, when I first read it I was like "Wow, cool!", but then when I read the name and location of the "person" who submitted the trick, I knew it was a fake. I knew it had to be a hoax since it wasn't the first time EGM had pulled an April Fool's stunt. You see, the year before they had printed a fake trick about using Simon Belmont in the NES version of TMNT 2. They did of course later admit it was a joke, and they showed some other fake screenshots in their letters page too, like Sonic running down the mountain on the 2nd stage of Strider. So yeah, when I realized it was the April issue, plus the questionable name/location thing and their track record of printing fake screenshots to screw with people's heads...

It was fun hearing everyone else swear to god it was real. Even when I explained the logic on why it was a hoax, they'd still swear up and down that it was possible.

Shin-RoTeNdO

05-24-2006, 11:33 AM

I may still have that issue around in the garage somewhere. Not going into the trouble in finding it just to scan it for you guys though.

xjester

05-24-2006, 11:34 AM

I rember when everyone thought sonic and tails were in SSBM.

ruthless_nash

05-24-2006, 11:43 AM

yeah i fell for that, but i was about 11 then lol

Hand Hanzo

05-24-2006, 11:45 AM

People still do think that Sonic and Tails are in SSBM. Sad, isn't it?

xjester

05-24-2006, 11:47 AM

What were the unlock requirments for that anyways?

dog-face

05-24-2006, 11:58 AM

Man, I just got to mention the great MvC3 hoax that was pulled off a few years ago. I was fooled by that.

And yeah, the old Sheng Long code had me fooled but I was like ten so I was never going to get to Sheng Long. I didn't know anyone actually could do the requirements. That's pretty sick.

When the Sheng Long code came out for SF3, I fell for it again. My friend who played SF3 the night it came out said he'd fought him, so I believed him. Ugh. I love that it's just Gen's head on a shoto body. Best part is that Capcom then put Akuma in 2I.

And Magnuscrub, Gill isn't there anymore since the worker reset the game. I think the Japanese guys said they'd unlock him again if they come down to Socal. Which I guess means never. Gill was hella cheap so I don't mind.

-Vix

PimpC

05-24-2006, 12:31 PM

i got fooled by all that shit....but i was how old in 93? 9, so fuck that. I fell for the sf3 one for a little bit though.....after the code for akuma in ST had nothing to do with fighting i ignored it.....this just made me miss sushi X and 400 page EGMs....good times

9999

05-24-2006, 12:34 PM

I believed the whole Ermac in MK1 for the longest time :rofl:

GGL-steve

05-24-2006, 12:56 PM

I believed the whole Ermac in MK1 for the longest time :rofl:

And then Ermac showed up in UMK3!

I wouldn't put it past them to add a Sheng Long down the road. When you think about it a lot of characters (akuma and ermac as mentioned in this thread) were direct responses to a gag people fell for.

As for me I didn't fall for it. I heard about it from a friend at the time and when he explained the requirements I called bullshit on it, plus EGM was famous for playing jokes on people. However the end result was I also called bullshit on Akuma in ST and felt rather stupid when that turned out to be true.:sweat:

Mark Beast

05-24-2006, 01:16 PM

too bad the mvc3 trick didn't force capcom to work out a deal with marvel and release mvc3. =/

ShinJN

05-24-2006, 02:11 PM

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BTW, this shit never stops making me roll! Too funny! "The Best Version of SF2:CE"... what a f*cking joke!
http://media.putfile.com/Street-Fighter-commercial
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Does anyone have the SNES version of the commerical? I personally enjoyed that one much more than the crap genesis one. Awesome sound effects? Please, SNES owned that part.

SuperSamyon

05-24-2006, 02:56 PM

goodm0urning

05-24-2006, 03:51 PM

Hahaha, man... lots of great memories with EGM. I haven't read it in a while, but it was my console gaming mag of choice for probably eight years. I guess I only stopped because I'm a gaming dinosaur at this point. I haven't bought a new videogame in years, so it's kind of pointless for me to keep subscribing to the mags.

Although it never quite attained the legendary status of the Shen Long trick, the April Fool's gag where they printed screen grabs of Connery, Dalton, Moore, and Lazenby hidden in Goldeneye was great. They got so many angry letters for that one. It would have been so cool if it was for real.

Stylistics

05-24-2006, 03:57 PM

Damn, i remember falling for that back in the 4th grade. I tried a couple of times, but someone would challenge me and so I couldn't even try to do it.

I never heard so many liars saying," Yea, I did it. I beat SL". I never believed those people and when I found out it was a fake; good job old school EGM.

Hell no, didn't fool me twice with the SF3 Shang Long, old and wise do not get fooled again.....

jae hoon

05-24-2006, 04:13 PM

You know you guys were trying to get the Nude Code on DOA Volleyball.

Oh you wouldnt want to read EGM more, its pretty much a shell of its former self.

Infested Jester

05-24-2006, 08:03 PM

http://img125.imageshack.us/img125/8110/sf3shenglong0tz.jpg

http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/4057/re2akuma1rw.jpg

I'll hunt down the first Sheng Long joke later.

EDIT:

http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/4788/sheng7pk.jpg

TrueSephiroth

05-24-2006, 09:42 PM

Maybe its just me, but that Sheng Long sprite from Street Fighter III looks pretty darn good...and Denjin-Shinryuken...wow, if there was such a special, that shit would be pretty neat. Anyways, great jokes, I remember back in the day the Sheng Long one for SF got me as well...damn bastards.

Dreaded Fist

05-24-2006, 11:00 PM

I fell for the akuma thing but i didn't have the patience to beat RE2 that many times. I got into SF after the sheng long thing, unfortunately.

Sonic_Reaper

05-24-2006, 11:29 PM

I fell for the akuma thing but i didn't have the patience to beat RE2 that many times. I got into SF after the sheng long thing, unfortunately.

I called bullshit on the Akuma in RE2. However my friend lied and said he got him which promted me to try. I actually did manage the requirements (it's actually VERY easy to avoid enemies in RE2. The only problem is taking out the last boss with a handgun) but nothing happened (no surprise). After that I called my friend an asshole and moved on.

Shade

05-24-2006, 11:44 PM

yeah i fell for that, but i was about 11 then lol

DAMN your young.

two2tone

05-25-2006, 12:12 AM

I believed that Sheng Long sh*t!!! ... and it didnt happen... it was fake...

....then when I didn't believe that Handcuff Sh*t (by guile)... guess what?...

...IT HAPPENED FOR REALS!!!

SNkNuT

05-25-2006, 12:13 AM

i thought playing as a tofu in RE2 was a joke.

psychochronic

05-25-2006, 02:43 AM

Marvel vs. Capcom 3:
http://www.videojuegosamazing.com/marvelvs3.htm

Translated:
The launching of the new part of the saga Marvel versus Capcom was announced, who will be in two Arcade versions with the platform NAOMI with which all the saying about which Capcom no longer was going to do nothing for Arcade and they were going away to dedicate exclusively to consoles, well by this decision, the side of the homemade version this will not be for Dreamcast which is already practically a dead console and will be developed for Playstation 2, according to say, will be no great changes with respect to the version Marvel versus Capcom 2, single is denied that will be some new personages:

Capcom:
Dante (Devil May Cry)
Zero (Rockman)
Nemesis (Resident Evil)
Rogue (Power Stone)

Marvel:
Bishop (X-Men)
Ghost Rider (Ghost Rider)
Thor (Thor)
Jubilee (X-Men)

In addition Sagat, Blanka, Abyss and Onslaught (apparently they will have trick to be able to select them) and all the personages of the MVC 2, the game style will stay with the addition of a new system of called guard “Burst Guardian equal, single” who will execute itself with the attending personage (to striker) as a Counter and that in addition could be bound to a Stand for casks.

Notice the phrase: INSERT COIN in the superior part of the image, with which the version for arcade is verified.

Yes, I fell for this long ago. :sad:
Guardian Burst? :lol:

Stylistics

05-25-2006, 07:19 AM

I believed that Sheng Long sh*t!!! ... and it didnt happen... it was fake...

....then when I didn't believe that Handcuff Sh*t (by guile)... guess what?...

...IT HAPPENED FOR REALS!!!

That handcuff trick was funny. I remember my cousin, one time showed my the Handcuff trick and went around and froze all of the machines in the arcade. shit was funny...

Infested Jester

05-25-2006, 07:29 AM

Anyone remember the later Gamepro follow ups?

Guiles back fist hand gun

Honda jumping into the tub in his stage via a jump LK

Ryu with a ninja mask

Kens crouching HP tossed barrels

Chun Lis standing LP tossed her bracelets

Dhalsims standing HK had his head at the end of the leg

Blankas standing HP fired electric blasts

Zangiefs Spinning Lariat created 100 fists on screen

I'll try and hunt down pics of them later.

9TNine

05-25-2006, 12:06 PM

Sonic_Reaper

05-25-2006, 12:28 PM

The RE2 thing I sort of fell for. Didn't exactly occur to me it'd be an April Fool's joke when it was mid-March that I had the magazine. I remember doubting it when I read it though, because they said you can only use the knife and pistol. You have to use the rocket launcher in that game at the end though, so there's no real way you could do it. I didn't try doing it legitly, I used some cheat thing and even then I didn't bother finishing it.

-9

I could be wrong but I don't think you have to use the Rocket Launcher to defeat Tyrant. Actually now that you mentioned it, I did go through the game six times with only the handgun but I don't remember exactly how I defeated the Tyrant on the B games :sweat:

I think I either took him out with the handgun (:confused:) cause that's what I did on the A games or I just assumed that the trick allowed the use of the Rocket Launcher. Either way the trick was vague at best.

goodm0urning

05-25-2006, 12:34 PM

Gamepro was always lame as shit. Even as a kid, I could tell it was second-rate.

I remember them printing strategies for SSF2T. "Pro-tip: throw a fireball at your opponent, and when they jump over it, dragon punch them!" They must have put their best guys to work on that one.

Bill Wood

05-25-2006, 12:40 PM

ParryAll

05-25-2006, 12:46 PM

Does anyone remember the old SFAlpha 2 comercial where they make it look like the player is masterbating but he is playing Alpha 2 on a PS1?

I loved that commercial.

goodm0urning

05-25-2006, 11:17 PM

PsychoSquall

05-25-2006, 11:17 PM

Drifting off-topic here, but I always liked Diehard Gamefan. At least they were turning people on to wacky Japanese fighters that no one else was covering back then. But I also remember when one of their reviewers insisted that the PS1 version of SF Alpha was better than the Saturn version, the poor guy nearly got lynched!

I remember that Gamefan reviewer penalized the Saturn version because the shadow-trailing effect that occurs when a fighter does a Super move was a different color. He said that the PS1 version's Super shadows were blue colored, which matched the arcade's Super shadow effect. The Saturn's Super shadows were not blue-colored, and they had a sort of transparent effect. (the way the super shadows look in CvS2)

But then it was later revealed that for the Saturn version, if you turn the soundtrack option to 'original' than the Super shadows look exactly like the arcade's. If you turn the soundtrack option to 'arranged' then you end up with the different Super shadow effect.

DragonSama

05-26-2006, 11:39 AM

The only one I fell for was Simon in TMNT2. I was fucking pissed when that didn't work.

Silentness!

05-26-2006, 12:04 PM

Notice the article says Shen long was born on 4/1 .

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v709/smf3/sf3sheng.jpg

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Next year's EGM trick:

You must pay Capcom millions of dollars if you want to see a rehashed Street Fighter 4. (it'll probably be Street Fighter The Movie part 2. )

(live)

05-26-2006, 12:20 PM

This was a cruel joke.
I too feel for it.

But I am honored to be around when this happened.
Back when SF2 was king.

redshuma57

05-26-2006, 12:40 PM

if it wasnt for srk some people would still bleave they are real and that sucks

Brutal-R

05-26-2006, 02:16 PM

I believed the first Sheng Long trick but never saw it. I only heard about it. Only years later did I find out it was fake. ( I never subscribed or bought any mags.) From the off I can tell that the SF3 Sheng Long is fake because the person he is doing the denjin-shinryuken to is Elena. Ryu's name is in the bar though.

AllTooReal

05-29-2006, 07:45 PM

EveryFlowerFlow

05-29-2006, 09:35 PM

shocking divine dragon fist/punch??

ShotgunSteve

05-30-2006, 01:09 AM

I remember when EGM did the topless code for DOA:XBV...I tried it.

Over and Over and Over.

Their latest April Fools joke? The Apple iGame.

ruff0123

05-30-2006, 01:12 AM

I did it!!!

http://img128.imagevenue.com/img.php?loc=loc258&image=77048_sf2ua000.jpg

How does one evade Psycho Crusher without getting hit???

SNkNuT

05-30-2006, 01:18 AM

they fooled so many people with the sheng long thing. i don't blame them since the images were so real back then before we knew or had photoshop-ish software to whore ourselves with.

goodm0urning

05-30-2006, 10:47 AM

I did it!!!

http://img128.imagevenue.com/img.php?loc=loc258&image=77048_sf2ua000.jpg

How does one evade Psycho Crusher without getting hit???
Time your jumping fierce right and you can hit him out of it.

ruff0123

05-30-2006, 11:20 AM

Time your jumping fierce right and you can hit him out of it.

No, I mean when someone is trying to reach Sheng Long. You can't hit him or block it. I assume if you try to jump over, his feet would psychoize you.

goodm0urning

05-30-2006, 05:30 PM

No, I mean when someone is trying to reach Sheng Long. You can't hit him or block it. I assume if you try to jump over, his feet would psychoize you.
Perhaps a well-timed fierce Shoryuken? I just figured a forward flip would get you over it, but I haven't played WW in probably a million years or something.

GGL-steve

05-30-2006, 05:33 PM

No, I mean when someone is trying to reach Sheng Long. You can't hit him or block it. I assume if you try to jump over, his feet would psychoize you.

IIRC just jump over him and hit an attack button to make you float longer, you should be good. IMHO the scis kicks are more of a problem.

Graham

07-24-2006, 04:04 PM

i guess one of the benefits of being one of the oldest sf2 players is that i wasnt too young to fall for this crap. Especially since it was the april issue i knew it was bogus. But it was funny because id go to arcades and show them the article and people would go apeshit. Sushi-x years later got beat down by me at an e3 sf2 alpha 2 tourney for press only. I avenged all of you for being duped by him and his amateur sf2 skills.

elvis_a_presley

07-24-2006, 04:44 PM

Can you scan it? I'd love to read the original article :wonder:
Has anyone managed to scan the original article?

I *HAD* that issue, but I've since moved house about 10 times and it's either been lost or "borrowed" by someone and not returned! :annoy:

I've got the "Year in Review" issue with the follow-up article (already scanned and linked in the first post). But so far no-one has volunteered a scan of the original article.

If you have it, please scan it and post it somewhere.

[edit] And AS IF you'd fall for that. I still remember reading it as a kid and spitting my cornflakes half way across the room as I laughed. Most obvious April Fool's joke EVER.