Metal Slug X Easter Egg question

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Sorry if this is common knowledge, but this topic hasn't been discussed in ages, at least.

Anyway, I didn't see this listed in faqs or anything so I figure I should ask.

Last night, I was having a Metal Slug night. And I was playing lots of X. Basically, I was repeating the first level and going for high scores like the Metal Slug 3 discussion on the other forum.

Anyway, one of the times I repeated level 1 animations changed around. What happened was at the start of the level, this time, one of the Mars People in a spaceship was zipping around the skies, in the distance. Then instead of the man with the suitcase talking to one of the locals, you saw a few people fleeing in terror.

I'm guessing the tell tale message that you're going to see different stuff is the flying saucer, but is there other easter egg animations I'm missing that people noticed? Looks like a random occurrance. Though this isn't the first time I seen that, it was brought to my attention by the mere fact of me trying to dissect the level for better scores.

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When I was playing Metal Slug X in the Japanese arcades this year and last it always started off with the flying saucer in the distance at the beginning of the mission. So what other stage-opening animation is there?
 
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The flying saucer is in Metal Slug 1.

Now that is an easter egg.
 
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Well, there's one without the saucer. And when you get to the first building, there's a guy dressed in a suit talking with some native. If you run past the guy in the suit, and pick up the thing next to him. He'll appear to look at where you just nabbed the object, face forward as if to say "Where did it go?" then turn back to the other guy and point. There is no people fleeing in panic with this opening.

I guess the idea is that there seems to be 2 sets of background animations for level 1.

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Kirk Foiden:
Well, there's one without the saucer. And when you get to the first building, there's a guy dressed in a suit talking with some native. If you run past the guy in the suit, and pick up the thing next to him. He'll appear to look at where you just nabbed the object, face forward as if to say "Where did it go?" then turn back to the other guy and point. There is no people fleeing in panic with this opening.

I guess the idea is that there seems to be 2 sets of background animations for level 1 at least.
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There's also the possibility of seeing two arabs talking and no rich old man.
 
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That makes sense. I do remember seeing 2 Arabs there talking before, but was afraid to mention it in case I was mixing facts with Metal Slug 2. Guess it's just SNK messing with our heads and throwing randomly selected events in there.
 
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EvilWasabi:
Kirk Foiden:
Well, there's one without the saucer. And when you get to the first building, there's a guy dressed in a suit talking with some native. If you run past the guy in the suit, and pick up the thing next to him. He'll appear to look at where you just nabbed the object, face forward as if to say "Where did it go?" then turn back to the other guy and point. There is no people fleeing in panic with this opening.

I've also seen the Arabs. I haven't seen the saucer though.

I guess the idea is that there seems to be 2 sets of background animations for level 1 at least.
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There's also the possibility of seeing two arabs talking and no rich old man.
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I just saw the flying saucer at the beginning of level-1 in MS3, Is that common?
 
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EvilWasabi:
The flying saucer is in Metal Slug 1.

Now that is an easter egg.
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What stage is the saucer on in Metal Slug 1? I don't recall ever having seen it before!
 
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It's just different random events. I don't think it means anything.
 
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dmhawkmoon:
It's just different random events. I don't think it means anything.
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Really? I must have played through Metal Slug 1 100 times since 1996 and I definitely have never seen a flying saucer in that game.
 
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Freelancer:
dmhawkmoon:
It's just different random events. I don't think it means anything.
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Really? I must have played through Metal Slug 1 100 times since 1996 and I definitely have never seen a flying saucer in that game.
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I never saw it either..

Could there be a difference between the mvs and aes version ? on the aes I'm sure I never saw it either.
 
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Freelancer:
dmhawkmoon:
It's just different random events. I don't think it means anything.
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Really? I must have played through Metal Slug 1 100 times since 1996 and I definitely have never seen a flying saucer in that game.
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I'm not sure that it's in there myself, but I saw a screen of where it's supposed to be, and you could easily play the game 1000 times and miss it.
 
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In MSX, I always see a flying saucer fly by in the beginning of the desert stage. I thought it was just a crazy new added detail from MS2.
 
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dmhawkmoon:
Freelancer:
dmhawkmoon:
It's just different random events. I don't think it means anything.
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Really? I must have played through Metal Slug 1 100 times since 1996 and I definitely have never seen a flying saucer in that game.
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I'm not sure that it's in there myself, but I saw a screen of where it's supposed to be, and you could easily play the game 1000 times and miss it.
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The spaceship itself is very small and is far in the distance. In Metal Slug 3 it doesn't come around too often, so I snapped a picture of it today when it came up. You can see it right above the word "GO" on the picture I took:
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