Secret of Mana -- The 9th Sword Orb

Secret of Mana (C) 1993 Square Enix Co. Movie recorded with zSNES 1.51 and Mencoder.

Secret of Mana, an SNES RPG released during the golden age of Squaresoft, tells the story of a world fraught with peril. Only the legendary Mana Sword can defeat evil incarnate and prevent the world from falling into eternal darkness.

In this game, the three heroes collect eight Mana weapons then power them up by collecting Mana orbs. Most of the weapons have 9 orbs in all to collect. But it is not normally possible to find the final sword orb.

This video shows how to unlock the full power of the Mana Sword. Enjoy!

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[ClassicalSquaresoft]

Someone must of been really bored to figure out a glitch like that...

[jtrevor99]

@ClassicalSquaresoft You're not kidding. I certainly can't claim credit for it.

[ChristianSNESGamer]

It's a nice glitch. Secret of Mana get cutted before they released it so in fact this glitch reveals One of the unused weapons. A Longe time ago I asked Nintendo of Europe to send me a List of all Orbs. The ninth Orb of every weapon is dropped by Monsters in the mana fortress well in fact you can't get a ninth Sword Orb they wrote: After Casting Yin and Yang onto the Sword it becomes the Mana Sword.

Well all because the Game Went much to Big. There are Mans unused Sprites and objects which are

[jtrevor99]

@ChristianSNESGamer Yep - Originally, SoM was going to be the debut game for the SNES CD addon. That meant it could be a LOT bigger than a cartridge.  Sadly, that plan was scrapped and SoM had to be cut way back. I always wondered what the original game would have looked like.

[NeoTifasRevenge]

8:42 what does the scouter say about his power level?

[jtrevor99]

@NeoTifasRevenge It's OVER NINE THOUSAND...

[jtrevor99]

@Draidis Check a few comments down, where someone else claimed the same thing. There are 7 enemies found only in the Fortress (Terminator, etc.). Each one drops the final orb for the game's other 7 weapons. But the ninth sword orb will never drop in-game, unless a glitch happens.

Think about it...there'd be no reason for Mana Magic if you could get the last Sword orb through normal means.

[steviopgrave]

Love it, also its 1 of my fave games of all time!! I think the word glitch is thrown about everywhere these days if something is strange or inexplicable but to me the way the guy gets the orb and goes to Watts to get it upgraded and it comes up with the new sword name and logo and stats tells me it was in the programming somewhere right? I wud like to think of it as a good old fashioned secret that is hard to find haha! I think gamers are selling themselves short, it had to be discovered right?!

[nerdboy02]

"The elder wants to speak with you."

"Fuck that!"

[CrossoverGameReviews]

@stretchypants123 It's all in the manual.

[CrossoverGameReviews]

That sword really is "off the charts". This is insane. How could someone discover such a secret?

[AbbeyNormal]

*Ugh, I mean Mana Fortress. 

[AbbeyNormal]

I remember when my brother and I were kids we were playing before school and a random enemy dropped a weapon orb in the Mana Palace, we freaked the fuck out. My dad yells, "Time to get going!" and we begged and pleaded to have a few minutes so we could get to a save point. My dad let us be a little late for school because he's awesome. I think we would have died of heart attacks if we'd known about the 9th sword orb.

[l33tpwnzord]

Dude if this song came on at the club I would dance the shit out of it