#forever blue

[aquatark]

Ashore - Gatama Atoll

Endless Ocean: Blue World, Nintendo Wii

i think it would have been cute if you could see the marine iguanas walking around underwater too, since that's a thing they can do irl!

#endless ocean #endlessocean #forever blue #endless ocean 2 #endless ocean blue world #forever blue 2 #endlessoceanphotos #nintendo wii #wii #short tailed albatross #galapagos marine iguana #gatama atoll

[liberalsarecool]

The answer isn’t more guns, it’s fewer Republicans.

#vote blue #forever blue

[videogamepolls]

Requested by @i-qwerty

#endless ocean #endless ocean blue world #endless ocean 2 #endless ocean 2 adventures of the deep #forever blue #forever blue call of the ocean #video games #gaming #video game polls #polls #tumblr polls #adventure #simulation

[itstheartofx]

COMMISSION PROMO OPEN (starts at $15): BOMBASTIC BLUE My next piece for #ilovePowerRangers See full version on Twitter @the_artofx #SuperSentai and #PowerRangers Was going to wait for a another special day to release these but those are father out in the year. This has as many #BlueRangers as I can put ///#blueranger #mmpr #mightymorphin #dairanger #gokaiger #mightymorphin #spd #wildforce #powerrangersbeastmorphers #powerrangersdinofury #powerrangersspd #powerrangersinspace #powerrangerszeo #powerrangersninjastorm #powerrangersuniverse

#powerrangers mmpr mightymorphin mightymorphinpowerrangers #power rangers #super sentai #mmpr #gosei sentai dairanger #kaizoku sentai gokaiger #dino charge #dino fury #beast morphers #forever blue

[alpiku]

#endless ocean #endless ocean luminous #forever blue #arika #nintedo switch #endless ocean 3

[jt1674]

#chris isaak #things go wrong #forever blue

[pernillecfcw]

My club💙💚

#chelsea fc #chelsea fcw #football #blueisthecolour #up the chels #blues #ktbffh #theprideoflondon #forever blue #woso #woso community #cfcw #cfc #womens football #my club #one club #Chelsea forever #chelsea women #chelsea football club #wsl #premier league #womens super league #english premier league #epl #chelsea vs man city #everton vs chelsea

[bragascreenshot]

#cold case #arquivo morto #episódio 10 #forever blue #temporada 4 #série

[sugardaddydilf]

We were supposed to be forever

But I think the heavens decided our forever wouldn’t last so long,

because now I’m sat alone, on this ground, atoning for what could’ve been, beside your stone.

#foryou #poetry #idk what tags to use #sad poetry #love #poems and poetry #sadnees #death poetry #gravestone #pretty #forever blue

[mostafakeshk]

عيد الميلاد ال 118 لفخر لندن وملكها الأول والأخير 💙👑

#forever blue #chelsea fc #Pride Of London 👑

[zanzanryu]

Zanryu Zan - Zan Evolution Butouden

"One of my latest drawings out there."

#fighting game #original character #mugen #digital artwork #forever blue #hero #zan zanryu #zanryu #zan #shoto #zan evolution butouden #indie games

[aquatark]

My previous post made me realize that not a lot of people here are aware of Endless Ocean's bowmouth guitarfish glitch fiasco, which I think is a shame because 1) it's an interesting look into this game's history, and 2) I find it really funny... long-winded explanation incoming!

So! you see this guy?

You can place him in the game's aquarium, right? I bet if you've played the game, you've done it without even thinking twice!

...Well, in the initial Japanese release of Endless Ocean (known over there as Forever Blue), you couldn't. In fact, attempting to place this little scrimbly in the aquarium crashes your game.

Now this isn't too bad, since you can just press the reset button and continue your game normally, right? well... if you happen to leave the aquarium and save the game after having opened the creature placing menu, selecting a bowmouth guitarfish, and then closing the menu without placing anything... then congrats! you can never use the aquarium again, because it autoplaces whatever you left in that menu on your next visit! :D

In case you're wondering what this looks like in action, this video taken around the game's launch showcases it well, while also using the game's MP3 playback feature to put some anime music in the background, which I think adds to the experience:

So... how does this happen? How could something like this make it into the final game?

Turns out, this is due to how Endless Ocean categorizes creatures internally. Each creature in the game falls into a category, depending on the movements and behaviors the developers wanted to give them. For example, "migrate" type creatures follow a set of coordinate points creating a route around a stage, whereas "swim" type creatures simply swim around the area in which they are placed within a certain radius. Think of a whale shark's movements versus that of a butterflyfish - they have very different AI telling them how to behave.

Now, trying to load a creature of one type as a creature of another... does not make the game happy, to put it lightly. It doesn't know how to handle the request, and so crashes to prevent further weirdness from ensuing. There is only one byte (literally the second smallest unit of digital information storage you could use) per creature responsible for telling the game what type to load the creature as, and this includes when placing creatures in the aquarium. A slip of the keyboard caused a dev to type the wrong number in this byte, making it attempt to spawn bowmouth guitarfish placed in the aquarium as "swim" type rather than their correct "migrate" type. Literally one wrong number caused the game to crash, and for ears to bleed across Japan.

Since the aquarium is unlocked so early in the game, people discovered this on day one, in their first play session... and since Endless Ocean was a launch game for the Wii in Japan, that's even worse. It's not exactly a great look for your brand new console to have a game break so bad you can't use a mechanic anymore. And Wii game crashes are not pretty. So, Nintendo put out a statement on the day of release, notifying people of the problem, how to avoid it, and saying that a recall would be put in place. A week later, they released another statement, which stated people could apply to have their games replaced with an updated version, which would be mailed to them free of charge, by either phoning in or filling out an application online. This service continued up until 2020, over ten years after release! They really didn't want any copies of the broken version around... good thing we have archives of it!

The updated version even has different box art, with an added blue bar at the bottom, showcased in this incredibly crunchy image:

I love picturing Nintendo executives freaking out after a humble diving game causes such a mess they have to print the game again, losing them a lot of money and causing the game to get a lot of negative press...

I've seen old forum threads talking about the game as if it's garbage before it even came out internationally, because this situation was pretty much the only major news coming out about it. Can't have helped sales, at least...

Anyway, the game was patched to fix this glitch, along with a few other minor tweaks, and it was this version of the game that got translated worldwide. Japanese fans love joking about the whole ordeal, and I can see why! For example, on the bowmouth guitarfish's Niconico Pedia page (for which the closest equivalent in English would be something like Know Your Meme), this is recounted comedically as "...probably the most notable moment for the bowmouth guitarfish in the history of the internet", which is probably true! There's even image macros about it!

So yeah. The bowmouth guitarfish's reputation was forever tainted, and some Nintendo execs to this day probably wince when they see one.

tl;dr - A developer for Endless Ocean typed one number wrong in the code, making the game explode if you place a bowmouth guitarfish in the aquarium. Nintendo had to recall the game, and that specific fish has lived on in infamy among Japanese fans ever since.

Next time you use the aquarium, try putting a bowmouth guitarfish in there, and be grateful you can at all!

#endless ocean #endlessocean #forever blue #nintendo wii #wii #video game glitches #glitch #bowmouth guitarfish

[unforromass]

500 partidos! 💙💪🦁⚽️

#cesar azpilicueta #500 appearances #500 partidos #legend #chelsea football club #chelsea fc #chelsea fans #forever blue

[endlesstextureocean]

#EO #Endless Ocean #EndlessOcean #Endless Ocean Blue world #Endless Ocean Adventures of the Deep #forever blue

[agoodsongeveryday]

Day One Thousand and Fourteen

You ever toss and turn, you're lying awake And thinking about the one you love? I don't think so You ever close your eyes you're making believe You're holding the one you're dreaming of? Well, if you say so It hurts so bad when you finally know Just how low, low, low, low, low she'll go

#chris isaak #forever blue

[crudlynaturephotos]

#garden speedwell #longleaf speedwell #veronica longifolia #forever blue #plantaginaceae #flower buds #microflora #nursery #van nuys