A new challenger appears: Master Hand playable in SSBM

GameTrailers.com has revealed that, despite the obsessive nature of Smash Bros. players, one game secret remained all the way up until November of 2008. The gaming site has tried and tested a rumoured Super Smash Bros. Melee glitch which allows players to take the infamous Master Hand into battle.

Exchord92 was the master smasher who discovered the “stage select” glitch after a half hour screw-around session. All you’ve got to do is trick the game into going to the stage select screen without having selected a character. It’s a little tricky, but following the instructions in the video above should put you in control of a giant white glove.

Master Hand can’t actually be beaten, must be controlled through controller port three, and his presence on the battlefield tends to cause freezing.

The Dungeon’s Boss: I am Fucked

As I announced on The Dungeon this week, my main GameCube memory card recently became corrupted, and I have lost hundreds of hours of game progress. For the most part, the data was for games I had already beaten, but it does set me back in a few cases. I am now forced to start over on one of my most hated nemeses, StarFox Adventures, for example.

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The Dungeon’s Boss: Controlling Handhelds

Preparations for my 2010 gaming strategy continue. I’ve spent a considerable amount of time debating with myself the particular issue of GameBoy games, and how to play them. I have a GameBoy, GBA, DS, Super GameBoy, and GameBoy Player, and just about any one or two of them are all that’s needed to get through my many pre-DS handheld games. Having said that, the only one that’s truly comfortable is the SNES controller that goes with the Super GameBoy, and that won’t play GBA games. The DS cuts into my hand, the GBA screen hurts my eyes, and the GameCube controller’s d-pad is horrendous.

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