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Easter Eggs referencing other hacks

To those who don't know, an Easter Egg is a fun little things developers put in an inside joke or a reference hidden somewhere in any sort of object or media. However when it comes to video games, they serve as a reference or a common tradition to a repeating element in every game. Mario hacks don't usually hide easter eggs, but when they do, it's certainly a cool little thing that proves that you went the extra mile.

However I've been wondering if it's okay to reference another hack without actually telling the player what it is or where it's from. I've only seen references to other users, but not true references to another's work. I suppose examples/ideas I would bring up when talking about this is a hall of pictures that represent other hacks, or a library that includes a book referencing The Devious Four Chronicles.

I don't know, what do you guys think of easter eggs that reference other hacks?
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Not a bad idea but if you were to add references I think they should be from pioneer and legacy hacks. The real popular ones. References to users is good but not everyone will really get it unless it's overt cameos in the hack like in Super Mario Underworld.

All in all it really depends who the references are for. I understand a lot of the best hackers don't play other hacks.
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I guess it depends on the tone you're going for. Since SMW hacking doesn't have to be professional or appeal to any market to "succeed" in an "industry", a hypothetical hack by me would have a lot of jokes and things that basically are representative of myself. So, there would doubtlessly be references in there, to SMW hacks and SMW hacking as a whole.

But a lot of hacks I see try to be somewhat professional for whatever reason. A reference in there would have to be one a lot of people playing would get to fit in I guess. I know some hack I savescummed through a billion years ago was mostly professional/"grounded" in it's status as a game, not too silly or meta or anything, and had included at least one easter egg reference I didn't get. I dunno.
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Well, if you want to put an Easter Egg referencing another hack that isn't yours into your hack, you should probably get permission from the author of the hack you're referencing. PM him or her with information about the Easter Egg, maybe give him or her a video showing the Easter Egg as well, and, if he or she says yes that you can reference his or her hack in yours, implement the Easter Egg into your hack and put the author's name in your hack's credits. If the author of the hack you're referencing says no that you can't use his or her stuff, well, you can't put in the Easter Egg.

In a hack I'm trying to make, I want to reference another hack that isn't mine.

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Originally posted by DPBOX
Well, if you want to put an Easter Egg referencing another hack that isn't yours into your hack, you should probably get permission from the author of the hack you're referencing. PM him or her with information about the Easter Egg, maybe give him or her a video showing the Easter Egg as well, and, if he or she says yes that you can reference his or her hack in yours, implement the Easter Egg into your hack and put the author's name in your hack's credits. If the author of the hack you're referencing says no that you can't use his or her stuff, well, you can't put in the Easter Egg.

In a hack I'm trying to make, I want to reference another hack that isn't mine.

I actually kind of don't agree with this. Having a reference to another hack would be really cool. I understand your point of concern, where you don't want someone else's work to be mistaken for the author's instead of the original developer, though I'm very certain with enough blatant or obvious point outs that the player would very clearly see that this is an easter egg. I'd be extremely flattered if someone made an easter egg referencing the Devious Four Chronicles, even if they didn't ask.

There was this one time inside a hack I ran into a museum and there was a picture of Scorpion inside a block and under it said "Hunter and Scorpion Mythos". I can't tell you how much I smiled.

What you said is a good idea, honestly it is, but think about how much time could go if you do send a PM, and there is the off chance that the author will even see it, much less care to reply. I doubt anyone will get upset at seeing a reference of their work inside someone else's hack as long as the proper allusions are made and not taken into the actual hack itself (I mean blatantly taking their work and using it for your actual purposes instead of just for a small thing).

If you look in OoT, inside Hyrule castle, you'll find a picture of Mario and some other nintendo characters. Granted, they are from the same organization, but incredibly different teams made and constructed these characters and universes, and there is no credit for using the said characters for an easter egg. It was a small addition that was added in for fun and I'm sure they never got any permission either.

Now granted, my opinion is just my opinion. As long as it isn't plagerism, I say go for making references.
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Well, I think that's fine. If there are people who don't get it, they'll just quickly forget about it and the users who get it will enjoy it.

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Since when Easter Eggs in hacks are a thing? I mean, lately there's been hacks that have these things.
Originally posted by Macky
Since when Easter Eggs in hacks are a thing? I mean, lately there's been hacks that have these things.


I personnally have never seen hacks containing easter eggs...
Maybe could you name some?
Originally posted by Eminus
I personnally have never seen hacks containing easter eggs...
Maybe could you name some?

Super Puzzle World 3 has a lot of easter eggs if you look way deeper in Lunar Magic. I can't recall any other hack that has them, though.

Easter eggs are fine, but like others said it depends on what reference you're going for. There might be some people who can't get it, but the ones that do so at least had their fun at trying to guess so; in other words, referencing another hack through those would be more feasible if that hack is really popular or something.
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Super Puzzle World 3 has a lot of easter eggs if you look way deeper in Lunar Magic. I can't recall any other hack that has them, though.

Easter eggs are fine, but like others said it depends on what reference you're going for. There might be some people who can't get it, but the ones that do so at least had their fun at trying to guess so; in other words, referencing another hack through those would be more feasible if that hack is really popular or something.


Thanks! I explored this hack a bit and I saw stuff like annoying messages like "Welcome to Lunar Magic... Cheater!" just when I opened it, or "Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisurewear and matching luggage." in a... Megaman stage? There was as well a lot of 8-bit games references like Super Mario Bros 2, Metroid, The Legend of Zelda, etc... Which also contain strange messages but too vulgar to be cited. Anyway, I had never saw this before so that's something interesting even if there wasn't references to others hacks.

Oh and you got right, reference to hack could be good if the hack is popular.

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I know of at least one easter egg, but it's related to the storyline of the hack in question, not another hack.

During the "Chaos CompleXX" level in The Second Reality Project Reloaded, after you leave the Glitch Cannon room after speaking to Marty Mole, you can reenter the room and enter the dimensional gate (which, by the way, you can enter even before you speak to Marty, but that's not the point), and you'll find a mole hole in the ceiling on the other side. Touching it will reveal a scene where Marty tells Mario there's no way to return to the First Reality after disabling the power switch in Thirdspace.
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Ah, that totally reminds me!
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In TD4C#6:Fourth Sector, Scorpion (the character) makes quite a good amount of references to other hacks
when he gets his memory back and becomes like he did in the Crater.
Not saying what those references are.