I have always wondered: Isn't it frustrating beyond belief to be making a speedrun (a regular unassisted one), everything is going just superb, you are going to make a huge record time, and then... you die or, in this case, stumble across a game-breaking bug which stops your attempt?
I can imagine I would get so frustrated that I think I couldn't even try it.
I didn't do this, my brother did.
Anyways, he was playing Super Mario Bros. 3, he stepped onto a falling platform. When he jumped off it, the platform turned green, and stayed that way. He tried jumping onto it again, but it still remained green. :P
I have always wondered: Isn't it frustrating beyond belief to be making a speedrun (a regular unassisted one), everything is going just superb, you are going to make a huge record time, and then... you die or, in this case, stumble across a game-breaking bug which stops your attempt?
I can imagine I would get so frustrated that I think I couldn't even try it.
Kinda depends. In this case, it was actually pretty funny.
Death on the other hand can really piss me off sometimes. But that's the nature of the game. Sometimes you win, sometimes you suck.
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Battletoads: first time my brother got to the final level, he somehow bugged out one of the sinking platforms so that it wouldn't stop when it returned to its normal altitude. He used it to get through much of the level.
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Golden Sun: the Lost Age. When walking from one room to another in that giant tree, I somehow ended up inside a wall about half a screen below the door. I have no idea how it happened or if it's possible to use it to your advantage in other places.
I didn't do this, my brother did.
Anyways, he was playing Super Mario Bros. 3, he stepped onto a falling platform. When he jumped off it, the platform turned green, and stayed that way. He tried jumping onto it again, but it still remained green. :P
That game has an odd way of having floating green blocks randomly. sprite overload I'm guessing.
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I remember encountering some sort of weird glitch in the Tournament Mode of SSBM where (under very specific conditions) a match would end instantly (the announcer would say "Game!" then "Go!) because of the lack of an opponent. Unlike most of the other glitches in this thread, I remember being able to reproduce it. Sadly, I don't remember how I did it.
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I also used to wake up every morning, open my curtains, and see the twin towers. And then one day, wasn't able to anymore, I'll never forget that.
Encountered a wierd bug while playing Lost Vikings 2 a long time ago, had no idea of how i enabled it. While holding L and R with any of the vikings I could fly through walls bypassing all the puzzles.
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Oh yes, there are two bugs I came across in the japanese version of SoTN back when the game was released:
1st one: playing as alucard, on the first castle, instead of meeting maria on the loading screen to the cathedral (where you go from right to left), go all the other way around and get there from the left. Yes, it's possible, and the game freezes... That was how I got there first.
2nd one: playing as Richter, on the inverted castle in a room in the cave where there are lots of sluggish octopuses, stand on a platform that's very close to the top of the screen and use the weapon special move. Richter goes over the top of the screen and the game freezes.
Mario Kart Double Dash. Stumbled upon this one on accident. Play a battle mode on Pipe Plaza. Get hit, run through a pipe shortly after getting hit and don't lose a balloon. My friends didn't particularly like this one. xD
Fladdermus wrote:
Golden Sun: the Lost Age. When walking from one room to another in that giant tree, I somehow ended up inside a wall about half a screen below the door. I have no idea how it happened or if it's possible to use it to your advantage in other places.
In case someone wants to try to recreate this later, are you referring to the tree towards the beginning in Golden Sun original, or is there something in the sequel that fits this description that I am forgetting about?
I have spent a lot of time time attacking Sonic Advance. During this time I have discovered a few glitches.
- Angel Island Zone Act 1 (possible only as Knuckles):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8fpZtVJtmg
The strategy seen on the first half of the video, optimized and with a few tweaks, is the strategy that I used to get the world record (0:32:25). A few days later, an awesome Russian player tied it. :P
- Cosmic Angel Zone:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZZLYxkz0Yo&fmt=18
- Neo Green Hill Zone Act 2 (probably possible only as Sonic because I think that you need the Air Dash movement to activate it):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwgMSfLiwWY&fmt=18
I haven't been able to replicate this glitch. However, you can grab your GBA and Sonic Advance cart and replicate the glitches seen in the other videos.
Do you want more glitchy action? Then you should watch the most bizarre TAS on the site... Yeah, I'm talking about Mukki's TAS of Sonic Advance.
Derakon wrote:
I got a similar "floating void" lession in Perfect Dark; one of the multiplayer maps (Skedar training grounds or something like that) had a particular place where you could easily walk through a seam and fall into the void.
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Haha, nice. I was thinking of a different level, though; I remember the seam that you could walk through was along a very narrow pathway in some sorta mountainous area. Still, I never managed to manipulate the AI like that.
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I was playing the Legend of Zelda one day on the Wii, and I suddenly walked off the side off the left side of the screen. The screen didn't transition. It was just stuck with a link-less scene, with all the enemies trying to swarm after me but bumping into the side of the screen, and it just stayed like that. I had to reset.
This was before that TAS trick was discovered, so I was like "what the heck did I just do". When I saw the glitched TAS, it all made sense.
This other time, I was playing Super Mario Bros. 2 US on the Wii, and I entered the World 1 Mouser room area as Toad, and I was holding a gray snifit for absolutely no reason. If this glitch could be reproduced, it would help with some of the TASes, I think.
My favorite unexpected glitchy moment would have to be one day when I was playing Metroid Prime Pinball, and the ball clipped off the side of the screen and I died. Funny because I was known around the Metroid community for having discovered many "Secret Worlds" in Metroid Prime, and now I could say I found one in Pinball.
Pocket Bike Racers - The advert-game from Burger King is actually one of my favorite Xbox or Xbox360 games of all time; mainly because it is one glitched piece of crap. There are intentional and unintentional shortcuts through the entire game.
One very funny glitch - On the second track, the Backyard Track, it is possible to end the race in 8th place with the lowest time.
The idea is that you are in 8th place, and you perform a jump large enough to cross the finish line while still airborne. The game only calculates place while you are on the ground, but calculates the race finished by crossing. Thus, you end the race, in last place, while finishing the race first. (In a better execution, you'd see that its possible to be the only one listed.)
If we ever get Xbox TASing, I am going to TAS this game, for the many, many glitches that are exploitable.
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In some of the Tony Hawk games (I found this on THPS3 for the 'Cube) if you're doing a manual, you approach an edge you can grind, do a revert (pivot from FS to BS), and hit the grind button while in the revert, you immediately fall off your board but the balance gauge stays on the screen. Even while your character gets back on his board and starts the "kick" animation, you still move as though you were doing a manual.
I saw this a while ago and couldn't stop laughing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6wFSx68hRw
The idea is that you are in 8th place, and you perform a jump large enough to cross the finish line while still airborne. The game only calculates place while you are on the ground, but calculates the race finished by crossing. Thus, you end the race, in last place, while finishing the race first. (In a better execution, you'd see that its possible to be the only one listed.)
If we ever get Xbox TASing, I am going to TAS this game, for the many, many glitches that are exploitable.
