Your Most Liked & Hated Gaming Glitches

**Ascending Wordsmith** · 10-20-2002, 08:33 PM

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** · 10-20-2002, 08:50 PM

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** · 10-20-2002, 08:59 PM

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

RJ · 10-20-2002, 09:03 PM

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** · 10-20-2002, 09:31 PM

Favorate glitch on all time - SMB minus world

**maxlords** · 10-20-2002, 10:08 PM

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** · 10-20-2002, 10:37 PM

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** · 10-20-2002, 10:50 PM

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** · 10-20-2002, 11:40 PM

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** · 10-21-2002, 12:32 AM

Keeping Nei alive in Phantasy Star II---

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

-Rob

**GENESISNES** · 10-21-2002, 06:59 AM

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** · 10-21-2002, 01:41 PM

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** · 10-21-2002, 02:18 PM

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

**Lady Jaye** · 10-21-2002, 06:23 PM

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** · 10-21-2002, 06:36 PM

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** · 10-21-2002, 06:50 PM

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** · 02-12-2004, 09:59 PM

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** · 02-13-2004, 12:53 AM

Originally Posted by rbudrick

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** · 02-13-2004, 01:01 AM

Never
Mind.

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

**cheesystick** · 02-13-2004, 02:27 AM

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** · 02-16-2004, 05:16 AM

Originally Posted by Lady Jaye

@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** · 02-16-2004, 07:44 AM

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** · 02-16-2004, 09:05 AM

Originally Posted by PC Kwajalein

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** · 02-16-2004, 09:38 AM

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!

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** · 02-16-2004, 01:14 PM

- 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 ^_^