[stephen w]

Originally Posted by grazzt

Maybe just semantics here, but the hidden ending cant be achieved during the game (at least, it hasnt been found), maybe thats why its called hidden. lol.. I dunno. :-)

I think its just garbage Konami left behind by accident.

Too bad Konami doesnt give a rats ass about its users/players. They never respond to emails or anything like that. So we'll probably never know why its there.

And Im from Canada, so not all yanks here.

And maybe as an OT, anyone have the files that used to be on my site from way back when? Could swear I have them on cd somewhere, just cant find them. lol.

I mean - what makes the hidden ending so different that it remained hidden, why hide it?

[AXEL]

amazing game no matter how you play it ... there's always some thing
new

[fov]

Welcome to the forum, AXEL.

I agree 100%.

Stephen - sorry for the late response - I don't think there's anything particularly special or different about that ending. They probably just had to cut one of them for whatever reason (time / budget constraints, didn't like the direction the ending went, etc.) and that's the one they picked.

[AXEL]

Thanks alot fav nice meeting you
i've spend alot of time searching for this forum
you have no idea how bad and slow the internet lines here
any way have you been able to get 100% in all chapters ?
am off my head with it and so far i was only able to get 100%
in 7/10 chapters thanks for the reply

[AXEL]

won't be necessary any more i've done it at last
like big rock got of my chest ... lol
thanks any way

[MysterD]

Originally Posted by stephen w

I mean - what makes the hidden ending so different that it remained hidden, why hide it?

Why hide it?

Well, like a good majority of games (in some recent years), games such as KOTOR 2, PS:T, or GTA: SA, games are often heavily worked on by their makers and leave tons of code in the game itself b/c it'd be too much of a hassle to remove the code and all of the content entirely. This can be done for many reasons -- maybe the publisher didn't like the way the story was going from the developers and told them to cut it out and change it, maybe something was not completed by the designers b/c of contract agreements and time restraints limited them so they just quickly blocked the code out so they couldn't destroy the code (in case they decide to re-implement it later w/ a patch) so they can get the game out on the market, maybe they just decided the idea wasn't working so they commented it out quickly, maybe some content was commented out to try and avoid a certain rating from the ESRB, etc etc.

Basically, what designers do is "comment the blocks of code" out of the game from the game actually accessing it -- for you programmers out there, such as all C++ people, you know what I'm talking about. It's basically a quick and dirty way of not allowing the game itself to access such code and material, even though lazily left it in there....

But, I think you might see less of "code commented out," especially if leaving such content lingering there to be hacked back in possibly could cause a shift in the game having a ESRB rating change, after the fiasco that pretty much was caused by GTA: San Andreas' "Hot Coffee" scandal....

[Karmillo]

Erm....

I think its simply because its the final ending, after you have every other ending youve gotten the whole story pretty much

So its then safe for you do do what you need to get the ending that puts everything back the way its supposed to be, cause if you got access to that ending right off then youd pretty much miss out on all of the story

[AXEL]

i like this forum even though i didn't post in it alot
it's amazing the way you people talk about this game