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- SS2 SECRET SHADOW MOVE FAQ v.1.7 (so I lied)
-
- Basically, this is just a collection of rumors and hearsay that
- may or may not be true at this point, including all the info on the known
- shadow moves. Put together because it interests me for some reason. Whee.
- - Damone <damone@ios.com>
-
- Because people have been bugging me for it, it is now at
- ftp.netcom.com /pub/vi/vidgames/faqs.
-
- WHAT'S THIS GONNA INCLUDE?
-
- WHAT'S NEW NOW?
- WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO DO HERE?
- WHAT IS A SECRET SHADOW MOVE?
- WELL, WHERE DID YOU GET THIS INFO FROM?
- HEY, I SAW THIS REALLY WEIRD MOVE, AND...
- WELL, WHAT ARE THE SECRET SHADOW MOVES?
- WHAT'S THE ARGUMENT AGAINST THERE BEING ANY MORE SECRET SHADOW MOVES?
- WHAT'S THE ARGUMENT FOR THERE BEING ANY MORE SECRET SHADOW MOVES?
- HOW DO I FIND SECRET SHADOW MOVES?
- WHO DO YOU WANT TO THANK?
-
- WHAT'S NEW NOW?
-
- This new version (1.7) just has some updated info from my own
- experiences and some new stuff posted on rec.games.video.arcade about
- newly discovered moves. Plus a possible move fro Ukyo. And I alphabetized
- things. Enough to justify another addition. So I said the last one was
- it. Sue me. It's archived now, too.
-
- WHAT ARE YOU TRYING TO DO HERE?
-
- Well, I'm making an offshoot to the Tapfaq at the moment. There
- have been a lot of rumors and the such about the Secret Shadow Moves and
- stuff like that, so I decided to start this thing as a clearing house for
- information about these things. When all of them are found, and while
- info for it comes in, I want to turn it all back to the Tapfaq where it
- belongs. Until then, don't sell this, but distribute it anywhere you like
- for free.
-
- WHAT IS A SECRET SHADOW MOVE?
-
- Apparently, in SS2, there are undocumented (i.e. not listed on
- the game or in the manuals) attacks that can be performed that do
- incredible things and/or damage. They have only been discovered for
- certain players, but there have been enough of them to substantiate the
- idea that every character has at least one.
-
- The stories go that they can only be performed when the POW bar
- is full and they are alternates to the POW Special Moves each character
- has, and others that say they can be performed at any time. Information
- is extremely sketchy. Major consensus seems to be that these are moves
- that can be performed anytime, and the current discovered moves bear this
- out, but rumors that there are some connected to the POW bar still exist.
-
- WELL, WHERE DID YOU GET THIS INFO FROM?
-
- Good question. For solid evidence, I picked out the moves that
- had already been discovered and documented in the Tapfaq v.4.0, edited by
- Shawn Holmes <shawnh@qb.island.net>. Those moves are reproduced here. I
- wanted to get the information straight on these secret shadow moves
- because they interest me, and, hey, it may save Shawn some work.
-
- As far as blind speculation, I basically picked it all out of the
- posts on rec.games.video.arcade concerning strange attacks that have been
- posted so far. In addition to unconfirmed info about the soundtrack and
- morf features, I have taken reports about moves from posts. The 'proof'
- of these attacks range from 'having seen the computer pull it off,' to 'I
- saw someone do it,' to 'I heard someone say they saw this.' Bottom line:
- if a normal faq follows the scientific method, this is old-school alchemy
- at its best. DO NOT TAKE ANYTHING HERE AT FACE VALUE.
-
- HEY, I SAW THIS REALLY WEIRD MOVE, AND...
-
- Cool. Mail me about it at damone@ios.com. Everything will be
- compiled as I get it and as my health holds out. If you have anything
- that fills in any of the blanks here (or, more to the point, connects the
- vast chasms between actual facts), drop me a line. If you've heard rumors
- of a move, thought you saw a move, have the actual move itself, etc, etc,
- mail me.
-
- WELL, WHAT ARE THE SECRET SHADOW MOVES?
-
- Form:
- CHARACTER: (* Denotes move info taken from Tapfaq v.4.0)
- SECRET SHADOW MOVE / DESCRIPTION
- JOYSTICK PATTERN (if known)
-
- CHAM CHAM:
- Tam Tam's Revenge: Apparently Paku Paku turns back to Tam Tam and Cham
- Cham turns into a monkey, and you can play as Tam Tam for a while.
-
- No move info
-
- CHARLOTTE:
- Super Power Gradiation: Charlotte tosses a rose in front of her and
- performs multiple power gradiations through it.
-
- -O | \ | / | + BCD OR - O | \ O - + BCD
- O O O O O O O
- (Movement unconfirmed)
-
- EARTHQUAKE:
- No move info (May be Ninja Fat Bomb)
-
- GALFORD: *
- Ninja Invisibility: Turns invisible, reappearing only to perform moves.
- Full reappearance occurs when opponent touches, or after a short time.
-
- -O O- -O O- | + BCD
- O
-
- GEN-AN:
- No move info (May be Alternate Shredder)
-
- GENJURO:
- Super Card Slash: Apparently Genjuro appears to be performing his POW
- super move when many cards come out, performing over 5 back and forth
- card slashes.
-
- No move info
-
- HANZO: *
- Ninja Invisibility: Turns invisible, reappearing only to perform moves.
- Full reappearance occurs when opponent touches, or after 10-12 seconds.
-
- -O O- -O O- | + BCD
- O
-
- HAOHMARU: *
- Super Kogetsuzan Rush: Leaps into the air doing multiple Kogetsuzans
-
- \ O- / | \ -O O- | / + BC
- O O O O O O
-
- JUBEI:
- No move info
-
- KYOSHIRO:
- No move info
-
- NAKORURU: *
- Apefuchi Kamui Rymuse: Performs three quick Kamui Ryuse and finishes by
- sending out a "shadow" of Falcon, allowing for four consecutive hits (if
- close to opponent).
-
- \ | / O- -O | \ + BC
- O O O O O
-
- NICOTINE:
- No move info
-
- SIEGER:
- Machine Gun: Apparently Sieger fires his cannon arm repeatedly for
- mega-damage. Another about a throw that takes him off-screen. First
- sounds suspiciously like the Vulcan Explosion, and the second like either
- his air throw or his back-breaker combo.
-
- No move info
-
- UKYO:
- Teleport Slash: Apparently Ukyo 'teleports' to the other side of the
- screen in his POW frame performing an upward slash.
-
- / | \ -o | \ + BC
- o o o o o
-
- (Movement Unconfirmed)
-
- WAN FU:
- No move info
-
- WHAT'S THE ARGUMENT AGAINST THERE BEING ANY MORE SECRET SHADOW MOVES?
-
- Whelp, it goes something a little like this:
- - The Soundtrack: Every move and character in the game is
- represented on the soundtrack, even the Secret Shadow Moves listed here
- and Kuroko. If there are any more moves or characters (alla Tam Tam),
- they must not use any additional sounds, but re-use other sounds. This is
- not likely.
- - The Test Feature: Apparently there is a test morph feature for
- the game that lets the game owner test all the characters. This function
- includes Kuroko, but not Tam Tam, or any other character.
- - The 'Protagonist Attacks': Apparently someone who knows someone
- at the game company says that the Shadow Attacks that exist already are
- 'Protagonist Attacks,' special attacks only for the 'heroes' of the game:
- Hoah, Nak, Galford, and Hanzo. They are the only ones to get them.
- - Weather Balloons Are Not UFOs: There are some glitches and bugs
- in the game that make it do weird things sometimes, but they are not
- special moves. As in most UFO sightings, most of the people who saw these
- things were just imagining it anyway or just saw some documented special
- attack they never saw before.
-
- WHAT'S THE ARGUMENT FOR THERE BEING ANY MORE SECRET SHADOW MOVES?
-
- Whelp, it goes something like this:
- - Screw The Soundtrack And Test Feature: No matter how unlikely
- it is, there could be special moves for the other players that either
- re-use sounds already on the soundtrack, or on tracks hidden in the
- soundtrack. Ditto the Test Feature. PLUS, the secret shadow moves that
- exist already, are additions to other moves, and some do not USE
- different sounds anyway. For example, Nak's is an extension of her hawk
- strike, Hoah's is a multiple Kogetsuzan, and Hanzo and Galford's
- invisibility is an extension of their ninja teleports in that they just
- stay 'gone.' SO, the secret shadow moves for the others characters are
- extensions of other moves, and don't NEED new sounds.
- - 'Protagonist' My Ass: Nak, Hoah, Galford, and Hanzo, while
- being more involved in the 'plot' of the game than the others, are by no
- means the only 'good guys' in it. And if it is for the people in those
- story lines, why shouldn't Genjuro, Ukyo, or Nicotine have one,
- considering their connection to Haoh's storyline? And while there are
- DEFINATELY some bad guys (Gen-an, Earthquake, etc), there are definately
- other good guys (Nicotine, Cham Cham, etc), as well as those of dubious
- morality (Kyoshiro, Sieger, etc.) What about them? Why screw up game
- balance by giving super-powerful special attacks to characters who in no
- way need them? And if the good guys get attacks, why not the villains as
- well?
- - It WAS a spaceship from Venus!: Many clearly sane people, who
- have played the game for a long time, have SEEN the moves that they claim
- with their own eyes, and they did appear to be bugs (How do you mistake
- seeing Tam Tam?). Some people have even PERFORMED the moves themselves.
- And there is the enough ambiguity to allow the possibility of these moves
- being reality.
-
- HOW DO I FIND SECRET SHADOW MOVES?
-
- Still convinced that more moves exist? Well, take a look at what
- we have already. It seems that all the Secret Shadow moves all have
- button combos that have both slash and kick button involved (usually BC),
- along with complex and unusual joystick movements. All of it is in some
- ways akin to the Super Deformed transformations (weird joystick
- movements/button combos). Also, all of the moves seem to have some sort
- of 'shadow' component. Haoh and Nak have 'shadows' of themselves trailing
- behind them as they perform their moves, while Hanzo and Galford turn
- INTO 'shadows.' Also, for more moves to exist at this point and defy the
- arguments against it, they are probably just extensions of moves the
- characters already have (see the examples of Charlotte and Genjuro). So
- go out, do weird things with the joystick, and hit slash and kick at the
- same time.
-
- WHO DO YOU WANT TO THANK?
-
- Well, first off again, Shawn Holmes <shawnh@qb.island.net>,
- editor of the Tapfaq v.4.0, for use of some of the moves from the Tapfaq.
-
- I'd also like to thank all the posters who I borrowed from. If
- you wish to be recognized for your info, please drop me a line and you
- will be included, and accept my apologies ahead of time.
-
- If you have any info, complaints, etc, drop me a line at
- damone@ios.com. Thanks again.
-
- Damone
- <damone@ios.com>
-