Your Most Liked & Hated Gaming Glitches

[Ascending Wordsmith]

Ever been playing a game and something peculiar happens? You know this isn't part of the game because it's so ridiculously awkward and well out of place. Maybe it's a sprite that keeps occurring, or something that greatly affects the gameplay. Either way, these glitches either screw you over, or add a new dimension to the game.

I've always like the Sonic 2 glitch on the Oil Ocean stage. If you press the d-pad to the right when you break a certain pressure cap, you will miss the air cannon and land on some spikes. After losing some rings, Sonic will jump nearly three times as high and move much faster through the stage. It eventually wears off but areas you couldn't reach before are just a 60 foot vertical jump away!

On the other side, I hate the glitches that occur in Grand Theft Auto. One mission asks you to follow some guy on foot through the city. While I was tailing this guy on foot, a bus runs him over and I fail the mission. The game implies that it's my fault this idiot got run over by coachline bus. This happens on a few more missions. I'm told to blow up a truck that drug dealers are using to traffic drugs. The dealers themselves accidentally blow up their own truck... I fail the mission.

What are you most liked and hated gaming glitches?

[michael]

The missing no. glitch in pokemon has allways rocked but it erased my files a few times so it's my fave and least fave all in one =P

[cerex]

i hate the tony hawk glitches with every version of that game i play i also happen to get the glitches..very annoying :(

[RJ]

I heard about a Soul Reaver 2 glitch where if you scare some birds sittng on a railing, you can't get out of the place you're trying to enter. I was lucky I hadn't got that far yet, so I knew, but in the same game, upon meeting Janos Audron, a glitch forced me to start over from my last save...

[Raedon]

Favorate glitch on all time - SMB minus world

[maxlords]

My favorite glitch was the one in X-Com for the PC. I was playing and I saved, and my system crashed. When I rebooted and started the game up, I had $$360,000,000!!! Man, my research went FAST! :)

[Rogmeister]

I had this happen a number of times involving Triple Play Baseball...forget which version. Sometimes I'd pinch-hit and the new batter would be facing the wrong way with his back to home plate. You can still swing and hit the ball, it was just goofy. Not so nice is another TP glitch in that I could never get through a full season before the TP file on my memory card would get corrupted and rendered useless.

[ubersaurus]

My fav glitch is the CPS chain glitch in SF2 World Warriors, Champion Edition, and Hyper Fighting. Basically you do a crouching weak kick, then stand up and hit fierce punch and weak kick together, and it'll combo. You can also do it in reverse, standing weak kick-crouching fierce/weak kick. Basically, it's very effective, and makes the game alot crazier :twisted:

[mattpfeil]

Final Fantasy 3
Fight on the veldt with Relm and use stetch -alot- after a while the game will wig the hell out and get super crazy looking, it really rules though.
After the fight sceen your in....check your inventory...some of your stuff will be gone...but youll have 255 Illumina's, Atma weapons, and various other really powerfull items your not supposed to have yet.
During the fight sceen where the game is going nuts, its really sweet, i suggest everyone do this...and its not as tuff to do as the elusive pink puff's in FF2....
btw has anyone ever actaully spent the time on the getting the ad-armour from the pink puffs in FF2?

[rbudrick]

Keeping Nei alive in Phantasy Star II---

If only we could do it to Aeris In FF VII, heh heh

-Rob

[GENESISNES]

I hated most of the legend of zelda 4 glitches. I found this one out in need for speed 4:hot pursuit 2 where you can land in a tree, and get major points for air.

[Arcade Antics]

JOUST: squeeze through the staggered ledge.

POPEYE (Colecovision): Knock Bluto into Wimpy and he'll keep spinning across the board until you clear it!

[Sylentwulf]

Least Favorite:
Not being able to play Final Fantasy Anthologies and Chronicles reliably on my PS2 :(

[Lady Jaye]

I agree with Raedon on the Minus World glitch in SMB. Too bad Nintendo fixed it for Super Mario All Stars.

@Genesisnes: What Zelda 4 glitches? Do you mean Zelda 64?

My least fave glitches are the ones that involve the game's camera, notably in Sonic Adventure 2.

[Sylentwulf]

Camera Glitches.
Mario Sunshine would take the cake on that one. Without a doubt, the biggest letdown I have EVER experienced in a game. A scar on Nintendo's software reputation if you ask me. I sold my copy within a week of buying it.

[NE146]

Hated: that stupid Guile "handcuff" in the original Street Fighter 2. If the guy had Guile and wanted to be a jackass.. he'd do it.

Liked: the double shots in 2600 Space Invaders.. don't know if that was intentional or not. And in the Arcade version I liked the "Rainbow" trick.. which apparently was a bug that they later turned into a bonus in SI part 2.

[vision89]

My favorite glitch was the one that made The Pit look like it was filled with water in Mortal Kombat for the Sega Genesis. You play as Liu Kang, and when it comes time to do the finishing move on the pit, do the finishing move far enough away so that the spin punch misses the oponnent. Then walk up to the opponent and uppercut them so that they fall into the pit. When they land in the pit it will look like it's filled with water (well, with a little use of the imagination anyways).

[Ed Oscuro]

Keeping Nei alive in Phantasy Star II---

If only we could do it to Aeris In FF VII, heh heh

-Rob

EH.

I know that's an ancient reply (before I was posting here in fact...) but I would've thought that was impossible. Drat, now I'll have to restart the game. :(:(:(

[Ed Oscuro]

Never
Mind.

Googling did find me some stuff about a Visiphone, though :D

[cheesystick]

One of my favorites has to be the increased slowdown expierenced in some of the more intense battles of Gradius III for SNES. I don't believe I could have beaten some of those later levels without the slowdown. It is strange how this particular glitche would end up helping the players beat the game.
-crispy

[Jasoco]

@Genesisnes: What Zelda 4 glitches? Do you mean Zelda 64?I'm curious too.

Zelda 4 is Links Awakening. Refresh my memory to the glitches in that one.

[jhd7]

NES Blaster Master... I think it's Level 5 (the swimming level). There's an area where you can swim upward toward some pipes. In that area, If you happen to blast a fish that's off to your left, you'll be thrown right into the cave wall. I don't mean into the side of the wall, but about four squares deep into the wall. Some recoil, eh? The kicker is that you can't get out! You're stuck in that one little character-sized square forever. All you can do is fire and face in different directions. The game is essentially over. Without passwords or saves, you're left to press RESET and start from the beginning.

Needless to say, from then on, I kept my blaster in its' holster when I reached that area.

Jeff D

[hu6800]

Ever been playing a game and something peculiar happens? You know this isn't part of the game because it's so ridiculously awkward and well out of place. Maybe it's a sprite that keeps occurring, or something that greatly affects the gameplay. Either way, these glitches either screw you over, or add a new dimension to the game.

I've always like the Sonic 2 glitch on the Oil Ocean stage. If you press the d-pad to the right when you break a certain pressure cap, you will miss the air cannon and land on some spikes. After losing some rings, Sonic will jump nearly three times as high and move much faster through the stage. It eventually wears off but areas you couldn't reach before are just a 60 foot vertical jump away!

On the other side, I hate the glitches that occur in Grand Theft Auto. One mission asks you to follow some guy on foot through the city. While I was tailing this guy on foot, a bus runs him over and I fail the mission. The game implies that it's my fault this idiot got run over by coachline bus. This happens on a few more missions. I'm told to blow up a truck that drug dealers are using to traffic drugs. The dealers themselves accidentally blow up their own truck... I fail the mission.

What are you most liked and hated gaming glitches?

Yeah i really hate when this happens.
I fire up my old pcengine cdrom, throw in hellfire S and
sometimes when somebody is walking too hard the game skips the music.

[Sotenga]

Any glitch that results in a quick and unceremonious death. Once, in level three of Batman for the Genesis, I somehow jumped through the roof of the museum, and Batsy was constantly resurrected over a pitfall. So I lost all my lives! :angry:

Speaking of Sunsoft titles, Sunman's hit detection is screwy and our hero suffers much pain from bugs that weren't worked out because the game is an unreleased prototype. This is best demonstrated in the boss fight of level 4. Geez, it's impossible to evade that spread of bullets! The battle pretty much comes down to basic attrition because there is no way to dodge the bullets. Bogus.

[Dangerboy]

- The FF 4/6 ones were always cool.

- The Double Dragon NES one where you could walk up the wall and get the wacky weapons were always a crowd pleaser...

- GameShark 'Save Anywhere Glitch' FF8
I had just beaten a really tough boss, and was in a room with some guys, one of them blocking the door. I save using the GS, went to bed and awoke the next morning. Fired up my game...and all the NPCs are gone...I try to walk out and can't. The GS save only took in location as a factor, and no teverything on screen. I Had to talk to the guy to be allowed out of the room. 30 hours" out the door" as I was trapped in a room with no way out. :(


- I don't know if this would count as a glitch, or just reliable observation, but my favorite game to exploit for something like this was Ys I + II on the Duo.

It involved a process of getting the Magic Ring, the ability to re-energize it, a basement in one of the towns, and a rubber band.

Basically if you went into this NPC's basement, there was a hole in the wall where monsters came out, allowing for some local EXP to be earned.

However, if you made your way around the objects in the basement, they formed a sort of maze that worked as a funneling system. By placing yourself at the very bottom, and constantly firing upwards (rubberbanded), the monsters would eventually catch on to your location, and try and kill you. All that would happen is that they meet their untimely deaths (since they havenowhere to run), it re-fills your magic, after a few, your EXP goes up, repeat. I was at the max 255 in about an hour.

Sure it's not a Raft, but it'll do ^_^

[KJN]

Favorate glitch on all time - SMB minus world
And lets not forget the "secret worlds" in Metroid.

Being able to map over 350% in Castlevania symphony of the night.

[Balloon Fight]

All of the various Mvc2 glitches, including the enormous Ruby Heart, and crazy Servbots. I also like on GTA3 where if you get hit in a certain spot on the bridge, you will be blasted into the other city.

[Jasoco]

My brother likes the glitch in GTA:VC where you can take the helicopter inside a building then under the city. And if you go down all the way, you materialize in the air above where you were. Great for sneaking into certain places.

[DigitalSpace]

The coolest glitch is definitely the Minus World on SMB1.

There were some interesting glitches in GTA Vice City too.
I can say that I own one of the rarest cars: an 80's style taxi without the overhead taxi sign. I was playing and I saw it, so I just jacked it and parked it in the garage. Looks like a retired taxi. I also like to enter the Hotring Racer codes whenever I want a fast car and I'm too lazy to hunt one down, and sometimes they would pop up without numbers.

Another one was a hovering car! I was on Starfish Island and I saw a Ferrari hovering in the air, definitely a glitch. It was almost as high as the palm trees and hovering like it was going down the street. I tried to steal it to see what would happen, but the car was going too fast and I was on foot. I ran and chased the car until poor Tommy was out of breath, and then I jacked a Porsche and tried to persue, but by the time I got in the car, the hovering car had disappeared. Damn!

The one glitch I hate more than any other glitch is something that happened while I was playing Legend Of Zelda: Ocarina Of Time. I had just beaten the Water Temple, and my game froze. I had no idea what the hell I did. I reset. I then discovered that I couldn't select my file to play it. My file was in the middle and the cursor would jump between the top and bottom save file! I couldn't even erase it or anything. To this day its still there, and Il wonder what the hell happened.

I also had a Gran Turismo 2 freeze while I was trying to save a game. I reset, but my file was corrupted. At least I could erase it, but I had to start the game all over again. I think it was because I had one of the early buggy copies of the game, though. I later replaced it with a GH version, no problems after that.

The Tony Hawk glitches for PS1 where the game would randomly freeze for a minute were a pain too, but they only lasted a few seconds and happened rarely, so it wasn't too much of an issue.

[Jasoco]

I ran and chased the car until poor Tommy was out of breath
Wanna never run out of breath? Tap the run button rather than hold it.

You'll run FOREVER. (At least until your THUMB runs out of breath.)

[DigitalSpace]

I ran and chased the car until poor Tommy was out of breath
Wanna never run out of breath? Tap the run button rather than hold it.

You'll run FOREVER. (At least until your THUMB runs out of breath.)

If I knew what I know now...

btw, I like your sig.

[rbudrick]

I was just going to say that I can't believe no one mentioned the hidden worlds in Metroid, but it looks like kjn beat me to it! Now, what about the hidden worlds in the other metroid games?!

Another one is with a game genie you can jump to hidden poarts of the levels in the Sonic games and in Batman for the NES.

Also, it's not a glitch so much as very difficult, but there's a place in (I think level 3) in Bionic Commando that you can't normally get to unless you swing your arm in a really funky unintended way...I used to practice the hell out of that!

-Rob

[SegaAges]

favortie: Crazy Taxi 1 drift glitch. it may not be a glitch, but you can get super high scores by drifting, and pulling a 180 right into the side of a building, you will keep getting points since you pretty much get stuck on the building.

Least: Tokyo Xtreme Racer 3 for PS2. anyone else that owns this game can vouch that there are way too many annoying bugs in this game.

[DigitalSpace]

rbudrick, I know of some glitches in Super Metroid. I'm not sure there are hidden worlds in that game, but someone posted a "glitch FAQ" for the game on GameFAQs. Those look pretty cool.

SegaAges, that Crazy Taxi drift glitch is pretty cool, I would use that to set astronomical records, heh. Of course, when the time runs out sometimes it lets you finish the stunt you're trying to do, and of course, when you're stuck drifting on a building, there's no way the game's gonna stop and let you get a record, which sucks. It's fun to see the customer bitching at you to let them out, though.

[Dom Dunc]

I have too many favourite glitches to metion here, (I have a website for that, see sig) But my all time fovourite would probably have to be the 'Beat the final Bowser with only 31 stars' glitch. I love it because it was descovered by dedicated fans of the game years after everyone else had thought the game was dead.

[PapaStu]

Since were talking GTA:VC the save in the icecream shop and corrupt your data glitch... or my personal favorite, walking off of curbs into the street and loosing 3 life because you "fell"...A friend and I have spent many an hour just screwing around with all the GTA3 and GTA:VC stuff...... crashing cars into things, jumps, the craziness would go on forever, and it was allways fun

Most hated glitch: I got stuck in a loop in Metroid Prime. There are various spots where you turn into the ball and roll to the otherside under the floor. Well there are these crab monster thingies and they grab you and throw you back out on the side that you started on, well one time i got grabbed and i rushed back in before the crab had time to get away, only to watch myself get grabbed again, and watch it spin around in a circle trying to throw me back out, but unable to because it was to close to the ramp.... that was almost 2 hours of game down the drain when i was forced to reset it.....

[hiro1112]

Favorite: Has to be the sword brothers glitch in Castlevania: SOTN. Can't remember how sweet it was to finally be outside the castle.

Least favorite: Can't remember

[Darkness X]

Favorites...

-Minus World glitch(Super Mario Brothers)
-Super Jump glitch(GTA3)
-Lightless Taxi glitch(GTA3)

There are more, I just can't think of them at the moment...

Least Favorites...

-Stepping off the curb and losing 3 health!(GTA:VC)
-Vanishing cars from my garage(GTA3/GTA:VC)
-Voice mute glitch on the Xbox GTA:VC

Either GTA games are really glitch filled, or I spend to much time playing them! :P

[Nez]

Least favorite: Mafia for the pc Pauly is suposed to come out of his house when you honk the horn but dose he NO! I cant beat they game becouse he pry in there napping. Bastard

Favorite: The foating cars in San fransisco rush if you whanted a key it just took a little bit of patiance.

[shopkins]

I was messing around in canals in one level of Omikron: The Nomad Soul for the Dreamcast, swimming against the walls to try and stick my character's head into them, and I found if you push in just the right way you can swim through the wall. I swam under the city and then way up into the air, where I was like Superman with a swimming motion. I only fell down when I tried to swim over the water, but the glitch was repeatable. It was easier to do in some places than others.

[Escape•From•Jenny•Island]

Liked: If Snaking Technique in F-Zero GX is a glitch than tis be a mighty one...

Hated: Any game in which you can get stuck in objects such as walls... Metroid Prime- Elevator to Chozo Ruins from the Overworld.

[Drammy]

San Fransisco Rush...that was a glitch filled game.
It was one of the first N64 games I bought, and it more or less sucked outside of the ridiculous glitches that happened.

One of the levels you could do a giant jump off of a hill, and sometimes could get stuck in a wall when flying through the air. In another level, you could miss a jump and try to drive up this walkway onto a building. I never got there, but damn it was tempting.

Final one: One level had a giant bridge that was not fully assembled. I just ignored it most of the time and fell down through the middle onto the pavement. Well, a friend of mine saw it and tried to actually jump it. He made it and got into an area that was a giant loop-dee-loop. You could step on the gas, and keep spinning forever.

First reaction to the loop: Wtf?

[Aussie2B]

My most hated glitches are easily the ones in the Star Ocean games. Due to the fact that I put hundreds of hours into each game, I encounter the glitches a lot. I HATE it when it freezes in Star Ocean 2 and I lose my work. I've also had game crashes in the first and third games to a lesser extent, but usually I get graphics fuck-up in Star Ocean and loading delays (so it appears like it's crashed) in Star Ocean 3.

There have been some really good glitches in Star Ocean games too, though. I especially like the one in Star Ocean 3 in which you can add a breakable item to some other item, and it no longer will be able to break. You can make weapons that make you practically unstoppable. There's also an MP roll back glitch, in which on the final secret bosses (who have ungodly amounts of MP) you can equip and then unequip an item that'll cause their MP to get messed up, go beyond the limit, and then starts from 0 and adds whatever is left over. It makes their MP significantly less, so they can be killed very fast and easily. >) It's a shame that these cool glitches were removed (along with the bad ones) in later print runs of the game, the Director's Cut, and the US version (which is essentially the Director's Cut). I'm lucky to have one of the very first copies of the game. :)

As for other games, I have to mention the minus world glitch, of course. It's a classic. Walking up that grassy wall before the castle in Zelda: OoT is pretty fun to show off, and I like the "Take Rambi into other levels" glitch in Donkey Kong Country (even though I've never been able to get it to fully work for me). Getting out of the castle in Castlevania: SotN is pretty spiffy too. The w-item trick in Final Fantasy 7 saved me much work when trying to get a Gold Chocobo.

And for other bad ones, the Neko save glitch in Secret of Mana has me too paranoid to ever save with him, and Lufia 2 is loaded with a lot of annoying glitches. Secret of Evermore can screw you over too, but I was lucky enough to never get caught by 'em.

[Demonic_destiny69]

fav glitch- mega man 1, if you make an enemy leave the screen, it is gone, as in the iceman lvl with little moving mines

most hated glitch- in Sonic 2 for genesis, in the chemical plant lvl you can get trapped in a wall and cant get out.

[SMB]

Gotta love the Minus World in SMB :hail: Hail to the beginny of glitches

[studvicious]

on tony hawk 3 for PS2 my guy got stuck mid-air doing a trick but I was able to keep doing tricks "floating" in mid-air LOL The screen was filled with all of the combos that had racked up and my score was unbelivable! 8-) Unfortunately I couldn't land so I had to reset. But those ten minutes of levitational trickery were quite entertaining!

Also on NBA Jam for the Snes.. after a game something weird happened and it showed my record as 500wins - 30 losses.. cool.

[Cauterize]

in ff7 when you get back attacked.. all you need to do is hold down the back buttons to run then let go and you face forwards... a very handy glitch!

[bluberry]

The coolest glitches are in the Metroid and Castletroid games, IMO. Things like the gravity jump in Super Metroid or the Wolf-Bounce in SotN let you explore the game more how you like and actually add a hell of a lot of replay to it.

Also, there's this guy called Kejardon who does stuff with Super Metroid... well, if things like the Grav Jump and the Murder Beam are considered to be abusing the programming, what he does is prison rape it. :D

[Dj Glitch]

My Favorite Glitches are:
Zelda Ocarina of Time: All 208 of them
Marvel vs. Capcom 2: The Jin Glitch discovered by me
Golden Eye 007: Null Glitch
Super Smash Bros. Melee: Jigglypuff's Guard Break
Zelda Majoras Mask: Be Fierce Deity anywhere

I don't hate Gltches.

[spoon]

Faovrite Glitch-Not sure if this one has ever been mentioned before.
Madden 2004-You have to be olaying it two player I believe. Never tried it in one-player mode. You have to be kicking off. One player is the Kicker, the other guy is the player to the left of the kicker. The only other guy on the screen.

As the Kicker is getting ready to kick the ball, move the other player in front of the ball. The kicker will kick the ball into the other player and then you can recover the ball. Sometimes it gives you the ball, sometimes the other team will get the ball. Other times you will just get called for offsides and have to re-kick. You can not do it more than three times per kickoff. If you do it more than three times on one try, the other tream will get the ball.

Also, when if it gives you or the other team the ball, it can be anywhere on the field.

Least Favorite- Comix Zone.The Lava glitch on one of the later levels. This was talked about in a thread about two motnhs back. It has actaully kept me from beating the game time and time again. Basically if you do not have a knife to hit a switch and you try and jump over to hit the switch, you get stuck in the lava and have to reset.

[Tron 2.0]

SFII the good old fasion Guile hand cuff glitch.

[andyfromspace]

Odd World!

I love the game, but it's so hard sometimes. Even with the cheats, the moves are so specific, it's almost impossible to do it. I don't think I ever finished the game even with the cheats - lol

[Psyleid]

Favorite

Found a glitch in Jet Moto a long time ago on the 'Suicide Swamp' track... You go to the dirt side and use all your turbos going around the corner and it'll cause you to fly out of the track.

Then you can drive where-ever you want... I put a book on the X button and left my playstation running for awhile ... when i came back the screen was black.

Don't know if thats bad.

[cessnaace]

CARMAGEDDON for the PC:

This didn't happen all the time, but sometimes, when I would hit another car head-on at about 180 M.P.H., as soon as our cars hit I would be dumped suddenly back to windows! What the ... :/ I mean, I've heard of "I'll knock you clear to next week". But, "I'll hit you so hard you will suddenly find yourself in windows; game over!"? :hmm:

Mark S. Hinds
U.S.A.

[PentiumMMX]

Wolf-Bounce in SotN



Getting out of the castle in Castlevania: SotN is pretty spiffy too.


How do you perform these glitches?

[bangtango]

FAVORITES

1. Wizards and Warriors (NES)

-When you reach the second forest level, there is a glitch where you can go over to the far left of the screen and levitate for a few seconds. Keep at it and eventually you warp back to the very first forest you started in. However, the game still recognizes how many levels you have completed. So you end up "replacing" the later forest and castle levels with earlier levels that you have already beaten. You even refight the same bosses. This means that you beat the game in either level 3 or 4 by beating a totally different boss than Malkil and get the very same ending. That was a weird glitch.


2. Double Dragon (NES)

-Used to find it hilarious that you can avoid a boss fight with Chintai on Level 2 by climbing all the way down the building you find him at the top of. There was also that fight you could avoid with Abobo in Level 4 by simply climbing up the ladder and continuing on with the level.



LEAST FAVORITE:

1. World Series Baseball (Genesis)

-In the original WSB, individual guys could hit a truckload of home runs in a season (over 100 or more) or steal a truckload of bases. For some reason, the game did not recognize those inflated stats or never assumed anyone would reach them. If you hit too many home runs or stole too many bases with the same guy in one season, the game would reset your SB and HR numbers back to 0. Pretty startling when you find yourself 80-90 games into a season with Jose Canseco, Mark McGwire or some other cleanup hitter and your HR totals are reset back to 0.


2. NHL 95 (Genesis)

-Similar problem to the above game. If you went undefeated too deep into the season, the game would reset your win total to 0 about 2/3'rds of the way into the season. That certainly threw a monkey wrench into your playoff race. I can't remember how many wins it was before the cart resetted your win total. But that left me with only two choices. Either do the "End Season After Today" option which automatically started the playoff race whenever you wanted, based on who was leading the various divisions, even if you weren't finished with the whole schedule. The other alternative was to either sim a bunch of games and hope your team would put up a few losses or play through them yourself and tank them to pad your loss total, which would keep the cart from resetting your # of wins. That glitch used to piss me off.

[TheDomesticInstitution]

Now it may fall outside the realm of a glitch... but I hate it when you have a NPC character following you in a game- and it gets stuck around obstacles. Like in Morrowind, when I find out that I've lost an NPC after a few minutes of traveling- I have to go back and look for him to see where he got stuck. Then you have to get creative and figure out how to get him (or her) unstuck. I've spent fifteen minutes trying to get someone unstuck in Morrowind. Then there are other times when they're following you and they suddenly turn and walk the opposite direction. This same glitch applies to NPC squad mates in Clancy-esque FPSs.

[Sparkster]

SMB2... and I haven't done the trick in a while, but you can get a vegetable stuck in your head. Put your sub-space door on top of a vegetable. If you time it right, you pick up the vegetable while leaving sub-space, and it's stuck in your head until you pass through the next door.

Super Metroid... and I haven't done this one recently either, and can't remember exactly how to do it. It once froze the cart, so I vowed to never try it again. It has to do with moving around in the final battle when you should be otherwise frozen (trying to be careful how I word it so as not to reveal spoilers). I think it's something about using your reserve tanks when MB is about to finish you off.

But Mega Man has the ultimate glitch with the Elec Beam/select button trick.

Mega Man also had a pretty BS glitch that I experienced... when fighting Gutsman, I stayed at the entrance the entire fight, and beat him. However, thanks to some glitch, it kicked me back into the previous room, and I had to beat Gutsman a second time.

I'm not a fan of glitches. I prefer to play the game the way it was meant to be played.

[Steve W]

As far as hated glitches go, mine would have to be in Vigilante 8: Second Offense for the Dreamcast. The game was badly programmed, and every once in a while you would literally fall through the polygons making up the roadway, and then the machine would figure it out and attempt to right you by flinging you into the sky like a rubber band. Sometimes you'd land back on solid ground, sometimes you'd go into the water. Other times you'd go through the road and get stuck, or just fall through and drown in the water that was underneath the ground level. It was annoying as hell to play sometimes, but I still loved the game.

[graciano1337]

Pokemon Red and Blue version Cinnabar Island = Best. Glitch. EVER.

[jb143]

Shooting fireballs as little mario in SMB is always fun.

[PentiumMMX]

Since I didn't actually list any glitches I liked or hated in my last post...

Like: Missingno. (Pokémon Red \ Blue)
Not just because of the side-effect of duplicating items, but because it was a blast to use in battle. I actually had one captured without any negitive effects besides the usual screwed up Hall of Fame.

Hate: Corrupted save (Phantasy Star Collection)
This is the reason I sold my copy of it. The 1st game has a glitch where if you happen to same just as the music is about to end and loop back to the start, your save file will go corrupt. The thing is, it's hard to tell when the loop begins, so saving becomes a game of chance; if you're not lucky, you better be ready to start from the beginning again.

Also hate: Getting stuck in the wall (Various games)
So you're making your way through a stage, when suddenly your character somehow got stuck in a wall and are forced to start from the beginning. This is one that's thankfully rare in most cases, though there are exceptions (Most of the time, it's fan-made games, though the occasional retail game suffer from this)

[The 1 2 P]

No question about it, the worst glitches were ALL the Halo 2 ones. Most notably is the super bounce. Oh how I hated those fucking super bouncers with sniper rifles.

[Baloo]

Minus World is probably the original glitch, then there's the little fire mario, and the one where if you get a koopa between two stair blocks and rack up tons of 1-ups, but if you rack over 100 you automatically die/freeze the game or whatever. SMB had a lot of glitches come to think of it.

[garagesaleking!!]

halo 2's superbounces, its a love hate thing.

[BetaWolf47]

True Crime: Streets of LA is littered with glitches. Some are a pain in the *** while some are amazingly fun. There's one that launches your car like a cannonball. If you take a car and do the two wheels stunt and crash into a certain guard rail, you can easily break your stunt records in that game.

Right now my most hated glitch is whatever is causing my copy of Phantasy Star Collection to freeze when I save!

[The 1 2 P]

I liked most of the "level escape" Burnout 3 glitches but I hated the "random obtrussive object" glitch that would kill you if you drove too close to a wall without ever touching it.

[Ed Oscuro]

Tomb Raider Anniversary has had a few minor irritating glitches (I know, that's not what's being asked for), and I had tons of trouble getting into a crack where you had to jump up but crouch. Lara would keep being pushed back out because she would stand. IIRC I think the solution was not to hit a button or press the joystick, or something. The amount of areas that will cause her to float upwards has been astounding - even just running a few feet from your starting point in the game will do it. Quality game otherwise.

A better example: In Secret of Evermore (US version), there's a monster that will push you back every time it gets hit by Corrosion. And there's ways to mess up your game. There's also a hidden boss that I simply was not able to access, which irritates me intensely. Good thing I had a walkthrough so I didn't waste more time bashing my head against the wall or this game - it loves hidden passageways you can't detect by looking around. Memories of running around for hours in individual DOOM and Quake levels, except with absolutely no clues to go by.

A game that I'm hoping returns soon, Myst Online: Uru Live (as Open Source Myst Online) had bugs that kept people entertained for a long time since the core mechanic, exploration and puzzle solving, doesn't last nearly as long as the standard MMO gameplay. Still was able to find a little bit of fun in walking on invisible ceilings, and I've read about sign dancing, cone stunts and other things.

[jb143]

Mine is the glich I found in Montezuma's Revenge for the Sega Master System. If you press up and down at the same time while on a rope, then you'll climb up an invisible rope and off the screen letting you do all sorts of neat(though sometimes fatal) stuff.

Here's a link to the thread and video I made about it.
http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?t=133009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF_uilnmBBs

[TonyTheTiger]

Love:

I second the Mega Man 1 select trick.

I also love the clipping bugs in Super Mario 64 that allow for various shortcuts through the game. Also the ultimately useless but still entertaining canon trick that allows you to shoot yourself through the castle so you're inside but still technically outside.

Chrono Trigger. I suppose it's cheating a bit since a Game Genie was technically involved but it wasn't being used at the time or even attached to the game during the glitch. After playing the hell out of CT I found a robust list of Game Genie codes that allowed for some really neat effects. Walk anywhere on the map, walk through walls, etc. These codes really let you screw around with the game making for some interesting effects. I dedicated the third save slot as the "experimental" slot where I would just screw around with codes. My friend asked to borrow the game so I told him to save on the third slot since it wasn't important. Not too long after, I get a call from him telling me the game was acting weird.

After going over to check it out I realized just how weird the game was acting. There were absolutely no glitches that were overt. No graphical bugs, no sound issues, nothing. To somebody who didn't know the game everything would have been working as it should. But the game was giving far too few experience and tech points and giving the exact same amount for every battle. We played up until the Guardian and Bit boss fight which isn't far in the game at all. Right when the boss was supposed to descend, four Proto 3s or 4s (I can't remember which) came down instead and a battle with them started. We were stunned because not only are these enemies not encountered until much later, there were no other issues that would have suggested the game wasn't working right. After winning that battle the real boss came down and the fight started normally.

We decided to restart the game and never saw anything like that again. I really wish I could reproduce that though.

Hate:

Any glitch that basically requires the player to restart or load a previous save he hopefully has sitting in reserve.

Mass Effect has something like this. You can't save around most elevators in the game. But there's one elevator on Feros that doesn't gray out the save option when you're standing near it. I saved and upon loading the game I found myself actually inside the elevator with all the doors shut. Activating the elevator goes to the loading screen where it hangs forever. There's no way out. The save is ruined.

I hate freezing glitches, too. Black Sigil, while a pretty good game, has an unfortunate number of glitches that require the player to reload and lose whatever progress was made since the last save point.

[Malon_Forever]

I second the Mario 64 glitches. They are just fun.


I hate the NHL 09 glitch where you could bounce right back up from a hip check with a press of a button. It was fixed, but it was really annoying when you could do it.

[kaedesdisciple]

I love glitching around with Rygar. Probably the most well known one involves fighting the boss in the Lapis area. Get your energy down such that one more shot from him will kill you. Then stand just to the left of the door on the right, face left and let a beam hit you. If you did it right, you will be blasted back through the door and into a scrambled room and die. When you press start to continue, you'll start at Ligar (the last boss).

Speaking of Ligar, there is a way to find a glitchy version of his castle, too. Once you've climbed the rope and are at the start of the castle, immediately go as far to the left as you can and jump off the left side of the screen. You'll wind up on a weird looking screen where you can walk to different strange looking rooms. You can't get anywhere particularly useful from here, but it's fun to just wander around. When you're ready to get back on track, just go back to where you came in and jump off to the right.

Other ones involve simply warping around the screens. For this you need a controller with turbo fire or an emulator that supports it. When you are walking off of a cliff, you must hold down the attack with rapid fire. If done correctly, you will fall very slowly off the edge while throwing out the shield constantly. The good part is that this will allow you to jump at any point during your fall. This grants you the ability to speed up many different parts of the game and do the stages out of order if you so choose. Just be careful where you go, some of those glitchy screens have no floors and can kill you.

[Sonicwolf]

I found a glitch in GTA Vice City PS2. In one of the last missions where you have to race that guy with abandonment issues, if you shoot out his tires and finish the race as his spins out of control somewhere, the screen says you are first and right when you finish the race, as the mission fades out, it says MISSION FAILED - OPPONENT HAS DIED, and the game freezes. It killed hours of work for me so I very well hate this glitch. That mission is annoyingly hard too. Thats why I had to resort to shooting of the tires.

[FamicomFreak]

SMB2... and I haven't done the trick in a while, but you can get a vegetable stuck in your head. Put your sub-space door on top of a vegetable. If you time it right, you pick up the vegetable while leaving sub-space, and it's stuck in your head until you pass through the next door.


You can also do that when you use the bottle with the door and you pick a coin in the other world. I have gotten a coin stuck in my head without going away at times. That greedy mario....

[mobiusclimber]

I'm going to second the sketching glitches in FF6. There's actually two: one involves sketching a certain dinosaur over and over (I think that was how you glitched it, it's been awhile) and the other was sketching gau after he shows up in a monster party. That game really had some fun glitches.

My most hated happened in Grandia. I don't know how the game ended up glitching like this but the main character ended up getting really strong and really fast. So he'd get to go four times in a battle before anyone else. He couldn't use any magic at all, but there wasn't a single enemy, not even bosses, that could withstand him. Pretty much ruined the game. I ended up not playing it after awhile.

[Natty Bumppo]

My favorite glitch is in Dark Wizard (it may have not been a glitch, but it is hard to imagine that they intentionally put it in) is being able to give all of your non-summoned units ghost scythes. Freezes half the enemy army in its tracks before they know what hit them.

My least favorite glitch was in one of the Ultimas for the SNES (I don't remember which one - it was a long long time ago) basically I went down one dungeon and came out another. Screwed up the game since I didn't finish what I needed to do in the dungeon I went in and because I came out the the other one it wouldn't let me back in the one I originally entered.

(There is also a very weird game killer glitch in Dark Wizard - you can temper the seal of the demons and you will get a very low level weapon. But if you do that, you cant get the fog chime to summon Tagon and you can't finish the game. )

[Game Freak]

Favorite Glitch: Pokemon Red Item Duplicator glitch
Least Favorite Glitch: Polygonal maps forcing you into the "underworld"

(It's also fun glitching the Tailor Shop in Animal Crossing City Folk)

[spartanclone]

Mine would definitional be Halo 2's "super jump". Sadly, it ruined the games on line play and forced Bungie to make Halo 3 the well balanced, lackluster game that it is today.:sob:

[ebenezer]

I had a pretty scratched Mortal Kombat Trilogy for Playstation. It glitched and I played as a red Cyrax (not Sector) and a blue version of Montoro (same as when he's frozen by Sub-Zero) who was about 3/4 lower on screen than normal. My brother keeps saying we have the only MK game where you can play as "low frozen Montoro"

[Peregrinus]

I would say that my favourite glitch, is probably the WGL6R in The Legend of Zelda: Links awakening, but then that's mine, I'm pretty sure...

My least favourite is Shadow the Hedgehog on PS2 err...I mean, anything that forces you to fall through the supposedly solid floor that is unintentional.

[Famidrive-16]

Best was almost everything in Pokemon R/B. Missingno, item duplication, cinnabar island glitch (I caught a lvl 100 Mewtwo thanks to that glitch before I even fought the Elite 4). It was so much fun to experiment around with, I didn't even need to buy a Gameshark.

Worst was some Harvest Moon glitch on the SNES where I had enough money to buy an item but for some reason the shopkeeper wouldn't give it to me, despite the fact I had about 100x the amount he wanted for it. I still don't know what was up with that but it pissed me off as a kid.

[obesolete]

my favorite and also my most hated is the OOTW/AW waterfall glitch that no one seemed to notice since it's in every version i've EVER played.

I can't even find a video of it.

Once you drain the water from the underground caves you run past a screen with a set of stairs, then past the lower waterfall, when you hit the next screen you end up at the top part of the next building, have to turn around, run past the upper part of the waterfall, down the stairs that you ran past on the first screen, past the lower waterfall again and THEN you're on the bottom section of the building. WTF?

[Smashed Brother]

My absolute favorite glitches of all time come courtesy of Dave Mirra Freestyle BMX 2 (Xbox, PS2, GCN). This game is seriously busted and that is an understatement. All of the humor comes from the fact that Acclaim/Z-Axis created their own Havoc-like physics engine for this game, with laughable results of course. I don't even know where to start, buuuut....

Doing a back-flip at the start of the Camp Woodward level and getting your head stuck in the floorboards, watching your legs slowly spread apart (?) while the score inexplicably skyrockets? Bailing into a chainlink fence and getting stuck in the spiderweb-like mesh? Riding your bike into any corner and watching your character slowly pour out of their bike into a boneless, drunken pile of polygons? Jumping leg first into any curved surface and getting sucked halfway into the platform before being blasted out like a ragdoll cannonball? Randomly falling through a 'programming void' and plummeting to your death in some sort of 'minus world'?

This list could go on and on... I would wager that there aren't enough terabytes on this site to cover all the goofs, gaffs and boners that exist in this game. This game is so hilarious, that a good buddy of mine would come over whenever we had the time and we would spend hours exploring the levels and abusing the sloppy programming. This was a regular activity for almost 6 years.

I've played all 3 versions and cried silently as Acclaim attempted to improve upon some things for the later Xbox and GCN releases, only to screw up the basics on those versions. The Xbox version gained a 1-second pause whenever the soundtrack switches to a new song. But, too bad for GCN owners; they were forced to actually pause and manually switch to a new song when the one playing would end. This is because that previously played song would just start playing all over again! If you want an easy laugh, just purchase the PS2 version (it's like less than $4), grab a buddy and have at it!

[Gameboy Color]

Least Favorite:
Not being able to play Final Fantasy Anthologies and Chronicles reliably on my PS2 :(

I know this is an ancient post, but I'm curious about this. I recently played through these two compilations (on a PS2) and, other than load times and some graphical issue with the menu in FF5, I didn't have any problems.


Worst was some Harvest Moon glitch on the SNES where I had enough money to buy an item but for some reason the shopkeeper wouldn't give it to me, despite the fact I had about 100x the amount he wanted for it. I still don't know what was up with that but it pissed me off as a kid.

That was due to a mistranslation of the actual price of said item. It's not the only instance of that in the game. The original Harvest Moon actually had a rather crappy translation, if you take a good look at it (and it's one of my favorite games), mostly grammatical and punctuation related.

[kedawa]

My most hated glitches would have to be...
-the 'no jump' glitch near the end of Half-Life 2 for PC
-the 'control room door won't open' glitch in MGS for PC
-the SRAM corrupting glitches in Super Street Fighter II Turbo Revival for GBA
-the Guile reset from Street Fighter II in the arcade

[Nebagram]

Where I used to work in the tech support centre I was sat next to a guy who one day downloaded a gameboy emulator along with pokemon red and spent the entirety of the next 3 days glitching his way to a complete pokedex full of level 100 pokemon.

This is the same guy, incidentally, who would later get a GBA emulator, a copy of FFTA and then forget to save after playing eight hours of it.

My favourite glitch is probably the FF7 item duplication, particularly when it comes to chocobo raising/level grinding, it makes life significantly less complicated.

[Flippy8490]

I love the Minus World glitch in SMB1....ahh so classic :)

and I wholeheartedly agree with the Missing no glitch in Pokemon R/B sucking...damn thing killed my save's multiple times XD

[nensondubois]

Favourite Glitch - Duke Nukem 64 - Hotel Hell Elevator hell. Its scary but incredibly fun to pull off!

Hated: In Turock 2: Seeds of Evil - In the dark fog level where you jump on the air panel that makes you jump, later in the level you will encounter a cliff and one time my brother was playing it, he fell off the cliff into an endless pit and the only way out was to reset the game since you couldn't pause as you would hear the "not allowed buzz sound".

[MichaelXX2]

My favorite glitches is in every Atari game- the "frying" effect. Ah, no game glitches more than that...

A glitch I hate happened when I was playing Mega Man 2. I dropped my controller and the game froze, then the console started blinking.

[Ace]

My favorite glitch will always remain the Select glitch from the original MegaMan on the NES. Fire off a weapon, keep pressing Select over and over again for a 1-hit kill against a Robot Master... good stuff.:)

And my most hated, again from the original MegaMan(this would apply to other games, but this one really sticks out): stupid physics. I mean, you're on one of the Foot Holders or on one of those L-shaped moving platforms in GutsMan's stage, and if you mistime a jump on the L-shaped platforms or just try to move off either thing without jumping, you fall like a ton of bricks, often to your death.:bullshit:

[Famidrive-16]

That was due to a mistranslation of the actual price of said item. It's not the only instance of that in the game. The original Harvest Moon actually had a rather crappy translation, if you take a good look at it (and it's one of my favorite games), mostly grammatical and punctuation related.

Thanks, that makes sense now. Freakin Natsume translators!

[runinruder]

My most hated glitch is found in Monster Maker for the PC Engine. There's this tower really late in the game, and once you enter it, you must play through it. If you leave to head back to town or do some leveling up or whatever, you'll never be able to get past it, as you'll arrive at a dead-end in a certain room.

As for glitches I liked, the NES Double Dragon ones come to mind.

[Gameboy Color]

Thanks, that makes sense now. Freakin Natsume translators!

Yeah, but they've gotten better (the last game they made heavy mistakes with, as I recall, was Harvest Moon 64).

[TheCaptainniatpac]

SMB2 (All-Stars) :
Once I was dodging a phanto mask with a key on the secret door on level 2 (zone). It was a shadow zone and had a time limit. Trying to open a door, I accedently threw the key:oops:...but it didn't land.

For some reason or another. Luigi (my character) had crouched and the key was slighty to the left above him and looked glitchy. But when time ran out I went back in the ordinary zone. The game didn't look glitchy as I would think, but it's a good game so...ya.

[Sabz5150]

My favorite glitch will always remain the Select glitch from the original MegaMan on the NES. Fire off a weapon, keep pressing Select over and over again for a 1-hit kill against a Robot Master... good stuff.:)

And my most hated, again from the original MegaMan(this would apply to other games, but this one really sticks out): stupid physics. I mean, you're on one of the Foot Holders or on one of those L-shaped moving platforms in GutsMan's stage, and if you mistime a jump on the L-shaped platforms or just try to move off either thing without jumping, you fall like a ton of bricks, often to your death.:bullshit:

I hated that!

My most loved and hated glitch though is with Megaman 2 using my MobileII... I can fire a metal blade that stands perfectly still on the screen (you basically hit two opposing directions at the same time and fire). Great if you put it in the right place, but try to access your weapons screen...

[M15fit]

Favorite modern glitch has got to be duplication glitch for Elderscrolls Oblivion, Great game and a great glitch for your 2nd play through

Favorite classic glitch would be "the black hole" for level 1 donkey kong, and the invisible platform for Level 3. The other would be the meteor in intellivisions astrosmah

[hellraiser]

I love the Minus World glitch in SMB1....ahh so classic :)

holy crap i just found out about that from this thread... how in the hell did some one find that glitch!!!:eek 2: LOL!!!!

Favorite glitch....

Doing extra damage with elec man's weapon by taping pause in megaman 1.
the reason i say its may favorite is its imposible for me to beat it otherwise.

[SpaceHarrier]

My favorite and least favorite glitches probably come from the same game: the original Phantasy Star Online for Dreamcast.

Least Favorite: Black Screen of Doom

Most Favorite: Punch/Kick/backstep comboing through locked doors and barrier lasers; heal/targeting other players with lightning (though this could actually cause the BSOD as well).

I found these so much fun because you could share them with other players online, making it a social glitchfest. Sadly, I believe the later versions fixed most of these issues.

[Urzu402]

Favorite:
"9th" Sword orb glitch in Secret of Mana to get the Mana sword without having to do magic to it at the end boss, Replacing the Dragon Buster completely. But be careful if you do do the glitch and do the Mana Magic to the Mana Sword, it reverts into a level 1 glove.

Least:
Don't have one as of yet.

[Gameboy Color]

Yeah, but they've gotten better (the last game they made heavy mistakes with, as I recall, was Harvest Moon 64).

Now I think about it, they have made a few big mistakes sense. I think it was Friends of Mineral Town, a vital line of text for connecting the game to a different game was poorly translated, and the answers switched.

[Roms-bb.org]

Not sure if it's a glitch, but in Super Mario all stars; When you can fly through the whole stage :D

[Vault Dweller]

My favourite and least favourite is the tin whistle from Super Mario Bros 3, it's great that you can skip all the levels (no fun in it though), and it's useless because you have no power ups when you arrive in the hardest levels!

[Toasty]

Least Favorite Glitch:

Pokemon's Glitch to get Mew/Missingno: I remember back then, this was a rage to accomplish when Pokemon started out. Everyone wanted Mew, they wanted it on their team or to complete the Pokedex at the time. When, all that the glitch would do is potentially ruin your game. Why go through the effort to do that? And when people chose not to go for Mew, they went for Missingno instead, which almost guarantees damage to your game even when you encounter it. There's just no point.

Favorite Glitch: GTA III Flying Rhino Tank - Because that's just personally amusing to watch for a while. "It's a bird...It's a plane....It's....OH GOD A TANK!!"

[Tokimemofan]

Favorite: probably the final boss glitch in Keith Courage in Alpha Zones. Enter the room at an angle and the bosses don't even move.
Least Favorite: Sonic 3 and Knuckles Spin Dash death, easiest to do on Death Egg zone act 2 part 2. Spin Dashing into the battle can cause Sonic to spin right through the invisible hole in the floor that shouldn't exist. Made worse by the fact that there are no rings for the battle unless you have them left over from the spike cart dumper boss.
Honorable Mention: Sonic 3 and Knuckles Lava Reef Act 2, Just as Knuckles is about to rock drop you into the abyss jump off the edge where the breakable bridge is was and depending on the timing and angle at least 3 possible glitches WILL happen, the best ones are best done as Hyper Sonic.