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Obligatory fully functioning Arwing enemy in OoT

>>15305248

Skyrim with over 200 mods being a good game.

All the stuff Mortal Kombat has done over the years. Especially since characters who were fake secrets at first were made real in later games.

The Mt Chilead mystery, or at least the parts of it that have actually resulted in more minor secrets being found, like that playable teen wolf.

>>15305248

If i'm not mistaken, there was a soccer game on Snes where you could insert some code to turn the arbiter into a dog.

And also in Daytona USA (Arcade or Saturn) you could race as a donkey after completing the hardest challenges in the game.

Could be those fake edited photos of older magazines though. Does anyone know about those two?

Pendulum manipulation in Mario 64.

>Panel de Pon Game Boy version prototype in Pokemon Puzzle Challenge (GBC)

To access reset the GBC to GB mode by pressing Up (2x), Right (4x), Down, Left (10x), Up (4x), Right, Down (6x), B.

Once the screen is displayed, pressing A (24x), B (24x) will launch Panel de Pon GB.

This even works on the 3DS VC version and people even posted screenshots of PDP to Miiverse.

>>15305248

There would tons more for Pokemon

>Duplicating Pokemon

Trade with someone and turn the system off when it says saving, don't turn the system off

>get Sonic 3

>get Sonic & Knuckles

>put the Sonic 3 cart on top of the Sonic & Knuckles cart

>go to the first level and grab onto the swinging vines. Before jumping off, put in a code

>this should let you quit to the main menu by pressing A while paused

>level select menu should now be available

>select level halfway through the game

>grab a different grabbable item that's only in this level

>put in the code again for debug mode

>go back to main menu then level select

>can now get Tails and Knuckles into secret Sonic-only last level, but they're all glitchy

>beat secret Sonic-only last level with Knuckles

>start game again without turning power off

>Knuckles is blue now

Lot of work for something really pointless. Pretty sure you can get Red Sonic by some similar means.

A jumbled up glitch Pokemon existing isn't really that surprising. What's surprising is that you can actually get Mew in the game through a series of seemingly unrelated arbitrary actions.

>>15305463

Isn't the Mew glitch just the Missingno glitch but realizing that you can manipulate which pokemon is spawned by some stat of the last pokemon fought? I once went through with a guide of every trainer Pokemon's stats to get the diploma without trading by using the Mew glitch to get every pokemon I would have had to trade for, since of course you can't trade anymore. Good job making your game have a real life time limit, Game Freak.

>>15305362

Honestly one of my most unbelievable secrets ever was Yoshi on top of the castle giving you 100 lives. I couldn't believe that you reward for completing everything in the game was giving you 100 lives, which are now useless since you already beat the game, and which were pointless to begin with since already in this game dying was no different than game over, and saving didn't save your lives anyway. Couldn't believe that such a good game would have such a dumb completion reward.

>You can play as Bill Clinton in NBA Jam!

>no I'm serious!

That stupid tornado thing with the red crystal in Castlevania.

Also getting that spear in FInal Fantasy 12.

>>15305485

>And Al Gore

>And George Clinton

>And the Beastie Boys

If you do sideflips back and forth in front of a random NPC in the first Ratchet & Clank, her boobs get bigger.

>>15305475

No, the Mew trick doesn't rely on that glitched shore of Cinnabar Island nor stacking items with the special trainer tutorial in Viridian City, it's much subtler and more unbelievable.

>>15305483

You also get the special triple jump which isn't much to write home about. The only interesting thing left to do is race the penguin again.

>>15305605

As I recall, it took someone well known in the Pokemon glitch community at the time to start a new file (given you can only fight trainers once at the time) to actually vouch for it with the two simple words of "it works" before anyone was willing to believe it. Does make me wonder how exactly anyone discovered it though.

If you walk out into the ocean you will find a secret room inside of a cliff face that houses a bunch of naked Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders in hot tubs.

>>15305634

Nobody discovered it until about gen 4

>>15305543

>the Zodiac Spear

fuck you for making me remember the stupid bullshit to get that goddamned spear

>>15305714

I can buy it taking at least two or three generations of time, but I still wonder what the thought process there was, given the steps involved, whether it was a deliberate attempt to see what glitches they could discover, or happened at pure random.

In the first Dark Souls, you can roll off an elevator near Firelink which will get you onto a platform and if you jump onto the right spot, you'll be able to get taken back to the starting area. This also lets you go into an area that would be completely locked off otherwise as you have to get a specific item that only spawns when you come back.

>>15305784

Oh come on, I figured that shit out on my first playthrough. The Painted World of Ariamas is hardly secret.

>>15305805

Though to be fair it felt like it was trying to be secret.

>>15305773

What are the steps to this mysterious mew glitch in gen 1? I want to know to put it to the test.

>>15305826

From what I remember, you have to let a trainer outdoors not be battled. After you are able to use Fly, you run back to the trainer and stand at the end of their line of sight to cause the ! to show up. In that moment you can bring up your menu and fly to some other place. I think you had to get into a wild encounter after, and once you finish it you had to do a little bit of walking and Mew would show up. It's been ages since I looked it up though.

>>15305826

Need to leave two trainers unfought during normal progression; hard to go into specifics without visuals. Basically, once you have the ability to fly, you aggro the first one, but fly to Cerulean City before he can actually walk down to you (this also locks the start menu, if memory serves, and then go north and west to the area by Bill's Cottage and fight the other. Start menu unlocks again, fly to Lavender Town, take a few steps (west, I want to say), and a level 7 Mew will appear. You can catch it and the game will consider it legit.

There's video of the process out there as well.

>>15305836

Pretty sure the fucking manual mentions that, but I could be wrong.

>>15305836

>>15305976

Checked my own copy. The back of the manual mentions checking the manual for the "secret" code for the demo, which is mentioned quite plainly on page nine. Did you have a disc only copy or something growing up?

>>15305463

Arbitrary code execution glitches in Pokemon Red are absolutely crazy to watch. There's multiple different methods of doing it, and all of them sound like the kind of bullshit your friend would try to troll you with back on the playground twenty years ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8AgGp5cqPI

Also vid related, there's an ACE glitch in Super Mario World. This video is of a TAS, but I know of at least one speedrunner who was able to achieve the glitch by hand, which is pretty damn impressive as parts of it involve very precise inputs.

>>15305667

Sounds like a debug item the devs forgot to remove from the game, rather than an out and out glitch. A lot of games have stuff like that, random items or NPCs floating way out of bounds that do useful stuff when interacted with. It's always wild when out-of-bounds glitches allow players to reach those things during "normal" gameplay.

>>15306608

Knothole Island (The DLC that introduced appearance modifiers) has test levels and areas though.

>>15306773

That's literally how mirrors in video games work though. Which is also the reason why muh grafixs whore games can't do mirrors because instead of designing environments and lighting in a video game they need to waste tons of resources and processing power on thoughtless realism.

>>15305714

What? Finding how to catch Mew was around in magazines back in 99.

>>15306904

Super Mario 64 DS had a new stage behind a mirror iirc, and a star behind a door that leads to a blank white room.

>>15305348

You can unlock a playable horse on the Saturn version of Daytona. It doesn't lose speed or traction when it's off road.

>>15305714

This is definitely not true. I've known about this glitch maybe even pre-gen 2. I don't recall how it goes but I remember that in the end you go to a random grass patch west of Lavender Town.

>>15307084

lots of old games do that, it's not uncommon.

>>15307084

Lol fag

>GTA 3 / Vice City

There's a cheat called "flying cars"

If a car gains enough momentum it will temporarily defy gravity with comical results

If you're skilled enough you can use it to cross islands prematurely

If you spawn a tank, rotate the turret so that it's facing behind you, and spam the fire button you can generate enough forward momentum to stay airborne indefinitely

The tank flies better then the actual planes the game gives you. Although turning is a bitch.

And it has no artificial ceiling. You can reach out of bounds areas like the tops of skyscrapers. You can reach the prop jumbo jets flying well above the map. You can travel high enough to "leave the game" causing it to lock up out of confusion. If you've ever looked at the sky in Vice City you might have noticed one of the artifacts in the sky that leaves a contrail looks like a shapeless blob. That's a low resolution flying saucer. I've probably clipped through it at least five times back in the day.

Persona 1's secret snow queen quest can only be activated by doing the following series of actions. It is a secret alternate campaign that isn't mentioned anywhere within the game itself unless you do these very specific things at the beginning of the game.

I only figured out it existed because there's part of a cutscene shown as part of the opening video where the school freezes over.

Talk to the female student (女子生徒) in Class 2-4.

Talk to Tsutomu (黒瓜) in the Library on the 3F.

Head to the Drama Club (演劇部) at the St. Hermelin Gym on the 1F and talk to the people inside. (Walk through the emergency exit on the 1F, pass through the trash burner in the 1F Passageway, and walk around the outside of the gym and you'll find some club rooms at the other end. The Drama Club is at the first door, but also visit the other rooms cause you'll get some extra equipments!)

Head back up to the 3F and talk to the people in the Student Council Room (生徒会).

Go downstairs to the 1F and talk to Principal Ooishi (大石校長) in the Principal's Office (校長室).

Now go back to the St. Hermelin Gym, go inside the Gym (体育館) and go through the door next to the stage. You'll enter the Gym Storage (倉庫). Take the key item, Snow Queen Mask (雪の女王の仮面), from inside the box. (If the room states "There seems to be nothing here.", you may be missing a step in getting the Snow Queen Mask.)

Head back to the 1F Passageway and watch the scene

>>15307298

there's also persona 4's true(ly ridiculous) ending which I imagine some people STILL don't know exists

You actually could catch missing No. though.

You had a fish in a specific spot in one of the cities. My brother would catch them for me all the time. It corrupts your save.

>>15307360

That's the whole point, anon. Glitches that are real but SOUND bullshit.

>>15305797

You mean Sonic 3? It wasn't planned as an expansion. they were originally supposed to be one game, but SEGA ripped it in half to meet christmas sales

If you fulfil certain conditions with no hints in Etrian Odyssey Nexus, one of the easiest being scanning 100 different guild cards with at least one of them being infected with a vampire, you unlock an event at the bar. Talk to the man there, then go to the starting area and visit the square with the event with a bat. Go to two other points after that and you'll get an accessory that turns anyone into a vampire with red eyes. You also unlock secret vampire portraits.

>>15307604

No, he's saying that the 1 up in Sonic 2's originally cut Hidden Palace Zone doesn't grant you the extra life to anyone except Knuckles while you're there in the (original) final game. It's a glitch because after checking the footage of the S2 Beta version, it still grants you the extra life there, which makes sense since it isn't missing all of the level tiles compared to accessing it in the final pre 2012 version in it.

In Half-Life 2 episode if you carry a gnome all the way through the game you get an achievement.

Crazy I know! Yet somehow also true.

>>15307604

That excuse doesn't even make sense considering it came out in February.

In Crash Bandicoot: Warped, if you get ten relics by beating levels with fast times, you unlock a secret entrance to Level 7. From that secret entrance you can get the Gold Gem, which allows you to access a secret path in Level 11. On that secret path, you have to make it to the final section, where you get chased by a triceratops, then let yourself get killed by the third pterodactyl that you pass. Instead of killing you, the pterodactyl will carry you to a super secret level where you ride a dinosaur and are guaranteed two gems and a Platinum Relic just for beating it because it has no boxes to collect and a ridiculously high Platinum Relic time.

Also there's another secret level by crashing into a particular street sign in one of the motorcycle level, but that one isn't as bullshit, because at least the street sign is unique by having a picture of an alien on it. I still can't figure out how you're supposed to figure out that that one particular pterodactyl takes you to a secret level.

>>15309920

>I still can't figure out how you're supposed to figure out that that one particular pterodactyl takes you to a secret level.

Repeteadly fucking up, i guarantee you a lot more people ran into that secret level in the ps4 remaster than the UFO level, that one is well hidden since you're probably never paying attention to road signs.

>>15307662

Are they as powerful as the imperials or yggdroids though? Unlocking them seems tedious and i don't want to do all the requirements and be rewarded with a poor hexer/dark hunter mix.

>>15309950

Honestly the motorcycle levels are some of the hardest ones to beat if you're trying to get Relics. Certainly harder than getting the Gem from the Gold Gem Path. But of course the filthy casuals probably aren't even bothering with the Relics, so you're probably right. I mean I did find the secret level from getting killed by the pterodactyl when I was a kid. But I also found the other one by crashing into the street sign.

>>15309970

I don't recall yggdroids being very strong unless going for some insane gimmick build as a solo character. Also, they aren't in Nexus.

Vampire isn't a proper class, but rather it changes the character's force skills and raises all stats by 10%. Their force boost makes them unable to die for three turns except to instant death, and their force break revives everyone and does more damage for each party member that was revived. They also regen a small bit of health per turn at night, and lose it during day. Obviously they are a pretty gimmicky "class", but they should be powerful when they get to do their thing. Anyway, if you want OP classes, the retarded hero class is deliberately OP because fuck you and all your old classes, and nightseeker does insane damage.

>>15310042

>I don't recall yggdroids being very strong unless going for some insane gimmick build as a solo character.

Yggdroids were insanely strong even if you didn't subclass them, we're talking about a class that has 3 great passives, a damage buff that drains a fuckton of health, but lets you hit ungodly hard for 3-4 turns and also sets up another insanely powerful attack that does more damage the lower your HP is, the bots that either strenghten elemental attacks or absorb them and core dump+sleep mode which works really well considering their high HP, although you kinda need to subclass them into hoplites for this strategy to really work, but really it's all about yggroid subclassed into gladiator for retarded amounts of damage.

>Also, they aren't in Nexus.

Which sucks, i need my megane androids.

>Their force boost makes them unable to die for three turns except to instant death, and their force break revives everyone and does more damage for each party member that was revived. They also regen a small bit of health per turn at night, and lose it during day. Obviously they are a pretty gimmicky "class", but they should be powerful when they get to do their thing.

Same as an yggdroid really.

>Anyway, if you want OP classes, the retarded hero class is deliberately OP because fuck you and all your old classes, and nightseeker does insane damage.

I'll give them a try once they localize the game, weird that they bothered to bring this game to the west and not monster hunter XX, etrian odyssey is a lot more niche.

>>15305854

>>15305714

>>15305976

You fags serious? The only way to get Mew without hacking the game is checking under the truck

>>15312600

Embed related.

>>15306909

Explanation of this one:

>Super Mario 64 has a room in the upper floors where one wall is mostly mirrors

>The painting that previously lead to Cool Cool Mountain is visible on the mirror side, but it's a blank wall on your side

>If you jump into the 'blank' wall, you go to the tenth main level, Snowman's Land

>In the DS port, there's a Power Flower sitting on one of the room's pedestals

>if you use Invisibility, you can walk directly through the mirror to the 'other side'

>Trying to jump into the "Snowman's Land" wall on the mirror side leads you to the Wario stage instead

>If you use the room's main door on the mirror side, you find a tiny 'white void' room with invisible walls, containing one of the castle's secret stars

Master Hand unlock

If you fall into a pit in super mario world, and on TOP of a goomba that is loaded you'll pop out. The death barrier is deep in the pit. It happened to me once and it freaked me out.

That one glitch in true crime where you are stuck pushing someone on a beam forever because its physically impossible to mash the button fast enough.

>>15310297

>pikablu

>>15312764

Wow, so that Sonic 3d Blast secret was simply because the devs would rather use a shortcut to get their game through the quality testing phase, as opposed to making a good game that doesn't crash.

Christ, maybe the industry was always shit

>>15312909

To be fair, the ex-Traveller's Tales bongfag narrating the video seems to have spent the last weeks of dev-time fixing bugs before the game went 'gold', so wiggling the cart or ROM corruption is the only reliable way to trigger the 'secret' in the final release.

>>15312941

Not to mention that this happened a lot with the mega drive. I remember playing quackshot, tripping on a wire and teleporting to nearly the end.

>>15312909

Traveler's Tales were always terrible. The only thing that hasn't really changed is big companies outsourcing to talentless retards for chump change.

>>15312618

Because it contains everything from bad advice to outright lies in a strategy guide

But if it was Cranky Kong we'd know he was intentionally trolling us

>>15313438

Golden Sun is really dumb.

>>15305797

I unironically miss the fuck out of co-op Halo with friends. I was just talking with co-workers about when Halo 2 came out, too. I used to meet with a group of friends and we'd play with two xboxes + 8 controllers over Xbox Tunnel. Those were probably the best days of my life. We'd LAN Red Alert 2 on occasion, too.

Steam has destroyed it all.

Fucking hell, m

Fred Durst is an unlockable character in WWE Smackdown: Know Your Role!

>>15313891

>steam made it so you dont have any friends

>>15313167

Best i could find, pay no attention the choice of music and awful quality, it is a video from nearly a decade ago after all.

>>15314574

That's a pretty good one. I just wish the creator's explanation was a bit more specific. I might just be retarded, but I don't think the original description explained all too well how all of this is done, at least how the data is streamed at the end there to the cartridge.

>>15314605

It's streamed over button presses. Lots of button presses, more then you can humanly do in a reasonable time. Hence a TAS.

>>15314574

It's fucking amazing what you can do with those games

Anyone got any glitches that physically destroy the cart/disk/operating system? I always get a kick out of those

>>15314652

Not quite what you're asking for, but it did remind me of this.

If you open the disk tray on the overworld in FF7 and put in Saga Frontier it will screw up the geometry just right so that you can walk to the snow town and skip pretty much all of disc one.

>>15314574

That's bullshit but I believe it.

>>15314574

What the fuck did I just watch

>>15314710

Button pressing autism by tool assisted input. Attach four wires to a LRAB part of a gameboy with plastic removed and attach those wires to a adrino/rasberry pi GPIO controller and you could do the same thing on real hardware.

Modern software is shit optimized if you can play 24fps video and sound on something as ancient as a gameboy.

>>15305248

>yeah dude, you talk to the old man and have him teach you how to catch a pokemon, then you fly to cinnabar then sail along the shore and you'll encounter a pokegod that multiplies whatever's in your 16th item slot. it's true man, really.

That's not Missingno. That's M. Which uses Missingnos sprite. I want to say this because for many years I though all those screenshots of Missingno with the name "Missingno" was just a photoshop or they nicknamed it. The title "Missingno" is a proper name in the game but the only way to get true Missingno is through Mew glitch

>stand under a grate for 12 hours to traverse parallel universes

It's like some sort of lynchian nightmare. Like accidentally stumbling across the lodge in the middle of some dudes back yard.

>>15314820

You have not seen anything yet.

In Mario 64 DS's B Button Challenge (equivalent, since B is jump there), a common tactic is to overflow the item ID counter which is an 8 bit integer, equivalent to 4294967296 unique values, until an ID corresponding to the star item is reached.

This takes 420 years.

>>15314896

>420 years

DUDE

Minus World being an entirely different set of three glitched stages on the disk version of Super Mario Bros.

Once completed, the game resets to the second quest, as though 8-4 had just been beaten.

>>15315254

Even better, this one takes 1052 years.

>>15305284

That can't be real.

>>15314896

It probably doesn't take as long for other levels. I imagine there are other methods of overflowing the item ID back to star. The only reason that took so long was because one would have to wait for those enemies to spawn the flames

In some of the Ratchet and Clank games you could access a museum that contains cut content through either convoluted, time sensitive means or direct, very difficult means. I liked the way you could access the museum in 2. On a city planet I can't remember the name of you needed to derail yourself at a specific point on a grind rail about midway through the level and phase through some solid looking geometry which gave way to a corridor which contains reskinned variants of pre-existing early game and current level enemies that only appear in that area of the game. And even when you do manage to clear them out the entrance to the museum only appears within a specific 2 or 3 minute window so you'll need to set your system time to account for the amount of time it takes to reach the entrance from the starting area when the level loads.

Or you could get every skill point in the game. Then you can access it by pressing a button.

>>15316383

read them and weep, not a hack, but not accessable through normal means.

>>15305248

The cheat codes for Goldeneye. In its case it was more how long it took for the cheats to become known. The game had been for something like 5 years before it was all released and by that time you think everyone knew everything about it already.

>>15310297

was this the unofficial bradygames guide with the error-riddled pokedex in the back and the shit brown cover?

Just got this as a random page on Cutting Room Floor

https://tcrf.net/Zanac_%28NES%29

>The proper way to enable debug mode was finally discovered after digging through the game's code for a few hours, and it's a real doozy - it requires the U.S. cart, a Famicom, and a Family Basic keyboard!

>>15307048

That is it.

>>15316715

Thanks.

>>15316496

>Normal means

>Kid link with bow

>No Navi hint until it's dead

>>15316715

What game?

>>15306855

I was how mirrors worked, thanks to additions to dx11 and opengl mirrors can actually work with ray casting these days.

>>15307360

I remember that while stuff would still mess up, the game was pretty playable as long as you left a slot in your party open. Sending it to the box would completely fuck everything but as long as it stayed in your party stuff worked.

>>15314702

>>15314710

The first gen pokemon games have no buffer overflow protection meaning you can literally code the game using itself. Not pictured is the computer inputting thousands of directions and button presses a second to create the code needed for all that shit.

>>15314139

I might try to find my old copy and recreate this. shame fable is pretty much dead and we'll never learn more of the lore other than the disjointed shit presented in the three games.

>>15314652

Quite a few games that have hard crashes by means of overflow can do something of the sort, if garbage ends up in save data. You'll end up crashing when the game tries to parse the save file for the file selection screen, and you don't get far enough to delete said save file. If you have some other means of getting rid of the save, like removing the battery, you'll be fine.

You don't really see wholesale irreversible destruction that often, though. Aside from the rare "oopsie, in specific circumstances our uninstaller deleted a little more than it should have" on computers and overflows in very early floppy-based games that allowed writing saves to the same disk, I can't think of anything.

In the original release of FF2 you can turn any enemy in the game into a frog by having your intelligence score low enough to underflow. This works on the last boss too.

>>15314896

That would be a 32 bit integer

Yeah, dude, you go back on the SS Anne's map, surf into the water, go to the right, push the truck out of the way, and there is a mew is under the truck.

23:55 in embed.

>>15305248

It gets even more ridiculous: the type, level and movesets of the encounters on the Cinnabar coast depends on your name. If you have certain characters as the 3rd, 5th or 7th letter in your name, you can get the regular L-shaped missingno, the 'M glitch pokemon that multiplies your 6th item slot and evolves into Kangaskhan once it gains a level, the Aerodactyl fossil missingno, the Kabutops fossil missingno, or a Pokemon Tower ghost missingno. You can also encounter glitch trainers with glitch pokemon of their own. Also the sprite data for 'M and L missingno is so large or badly null terminated that it corrupts your Hall of Fame, your character portrait data, and the battle UI.

And then there's the 8F glitch item that lets you write map coordinates as data into memory, save it into your save file, and then execute it as arbitrary code. Imagine if they printed this shit in the hints section of a games magazine back in 1999.

>>15316424

You can also just use the 'broken' teleporter on top of the fountain between 12 am and 2 am, which teleports you to the bit of level geometry you're talking about.

>>15318178

Already posted it here >>15314683 .

So instead, I'll share another from ZZAZZ, his latest A button challenge for Pokemon Blue. He just has to manipulate hardware timing to prevent a crash and repeatedly run a map script to change the exit in Viridian Forest to the Hall of Fame. Best part though, is that he needs the in game timer to reach a specific value range which starts at 41 hours, so he needs to wait for 41 hours before doing that script.

>>15314574

>>15314605

It's a TAS where he starts up the arbitrary code glitch and uses it to write in the rest of the video.

Here's his detailed explanation

http://tasvideos.org/5384S.html

>>15318178

>encounter gary oak on cinnabar island

>team of six, leads with a level 200 something

>hit it

>hp barely moves

>hit it again

>hp rapidly depletes

>the bar is empty

>it wraps around the entire screen in both axes

>the lowest row empties halfway

>game freezes

GOOD 🔥💨 SHIT 👏💯😂😂😂

>>15317185

>6 character names shown

>most fairly unique

>didn't even bother searching for them

>>15317976

Does Twilight Hack count? It doesn't do it in game, but it is an exploit based on making commands escape the name input boundaries it expects.

>>15316515

Off-topic but that picture is hideous uncropped. Fuck you for posting it and tempting me.

>>15314139

>7:27 vid

could have started at 4:20

>>15314820

I bet spergs who watch this shit still argue the semantics of 'a press'

>>15314820

This nigger needs a better hobby.

>>15317152

>but not accessable through normal means

Get yer eyes tested blindanon

>>15310297

>>15315365

I like how Dr Oak gets all the blame and some shitty writer making stuff up gets away with being the villain.

>>15314652

>glitches that physically destroy the cart/disk/operating system

Can you imagine the amount of anal oedema it would cause if a modern title did this?

>>15317453

So it was deliberate, seems like an insane idea to actually implement, funny only for people who hear about it rather than fall victim I suppose.

>>15328345

There are modern titles that do that.

>>15328488

>Grown

Growl

>>15317185

Black/Matrix.

>>15328420

Do tell, there must be vast salt mines I have yet to explore.

>>15328276

That's the joke. Especially since Oak should come off as an authority figure whose advise is to be trusted, yet thanks to game mechanics, doesn't know the name of the kid in one of the four houses in the entire town for years on end, let alone remember what his own grandson's name is. Real question is if the guidebook writer/translator intentionally made shit up, or was given bad information to work with.

>>15328737

My absolute nigger. This thing even tells you how to get Missingno.

Dark Souls 2 Pick Ax.

Batman Arkham Asylum Secret Room In Warden's Office

>>15328488

The whole crux of it after pausing and flying away was that you had to fight a pokemon with a specific SPECIAL stat, I think it was 21, or 17. >>15305475 is right to remember it that way

>>15305543

Isn't the tornado/crystal part of the game, not a glitch?

>>15314798

it actually depended on your cart. I could run into missingno (blue) but my brother could only run into M (red)

>>15328961

I would listen to Cranky complain about things all day.

>>15328345

>So it was deliberate, seems like an insane idea to actually implement, funny only for people who hear about it rather than fall victim I suppose.

Actually, the way passwords in old NES games work is actually having the game execute code to load a certain game state. ENGAGE RIDLEY MOTHER FUCKER just happens to load a weird state, you can actually load lots of weird glitchy states with these "passwords".

>>15329234

I'm surprised no one has ever tried suing NISA for this, either the consumers or the original devs. Then again, I'm pretty sure Nips don't give a flying fuck about the state of their games in the west. They just want to sell the license off to someone.

Polite sage for offtopic.

>>15328737

>Versus Books

Lived and died with quality.

>>15328750

Have you ever looked into how much of a shitshow console mods for Fallout 4 was?

>>15312909

Sure it was a pain in the ass, but at least they thoroughly tested everything. Sony used to require 48+ hour torture tests of idling ingame or in the pause menu, after which the game was expected to continue working without bugs. Now almost every title needs a day 1 patch.

>>15314652

I read two stories in this vein about Crash Bandicoot. The first problem they had was a hardware issue that caused saving the game to corrupt the memory card, but it would only happen when fiddling with the controller during a memory card write. It turned out that the interference between controller inputs, the memory card controller timer, and an overclocked cpu interrupt timer they used to schedule physics calculations was interfering on the bus and sending corrupt data to the memory card. The solution was to lower the interrupt timer back to normal during save operations. Ever wonder why the framerate slows and the music skips as you save the game? Blame quantum mechanics.

The other (potential) physical damage issue was actually from normal operation: when Andy Gavin and his team pitched their prototype to an American Sony rep, who then asked how the level was being read from the disc. By seeking and streaming it into memory as the player progresses. And how many seek operations would that be over the course of the whole game? After some back-of-the-envelope calculations they produced a number of 40,000, to which the rep replied that the CD drive was only officially rated for 20,000… but the japanese executives didn't really have to know about that.

>>15306998

>imfree

>not Marty the Thwomp's ending

>>15317186

>I was how mirrors worked

WRONG

many games along the HL2 era put a second camera behind the mirror and streamed it's output to the mirror texture.

>You can trigger a credits warp in Magi Nation using a Pokemon catridge

>>15331498

What the fuck is this bullshit? Nobody in their right mind would call this an Easter egg. There's less than a millionbillionth of a chance of it occurring which means they put it in just spite cheaters. I'm sorry but if I buy the game and I own it I can play it however I want to. How dare you tell me I can't cheat and I have to play it your way

>>15321049

oh god i did the same

on the bright side i dont want to masterbate anymore

>>15336754

this is your fault

>>15331876

Magi-Nation was full of secrets that sounded like bullshit, particularly the Orathan Flyer and some of the Hyren locations. Ormagon wins points for being a secret trading chain that spans the entire game, but it's hinted at a bit too much to really fit the thread.