Dang it's been a while. Here's something that I originally wanted to put in a larger post, but I kept getting sidetracked and by now it is kind of silly to keep holding off. (Seriously, I uploaded the Youtube video half a month ago.)
In brief, if you press and hold SELECT and tap the triggers, you can rotate through 12 of the inventory items, regardless of if you've actually picked them up. (Snowballs are excluded from the rotation, for some reason.) The tricky thing about this is that, in normal gameplay, pressing SELECT opens the inventory screen. Ways to get around this include:
- closing the inventory screen by pressing and holding SELECT, then tapping the triggers
- pausing the game with START, holding SELECT, and leaving the pause screen with START or B
- literally just holding SELECT and tapping the triggers during a minigame
To be clear, this is not a glitch, it's a dedicated function somebody programmed. Why Saffire saw fit to include it is a mystery. Perhaps it was a debug/testing function they never commented out? I can't say for sure.
In any case, if you've ever wanted to mess around with the key items before you're supposed to get them, this is your chance!
