Unusual Events

This is the thread to discuss strange errors, glitches or crashes that have occurred during your gaming sessions.

 To list two examples:

 On the original Sonic on the Genesis, we were messing around with Labyrinth Zone 1 or 2(it was the one with the rising water) with debug mode. At the exit, we made a checkpoint pole, and passed it just as we beat the level. Well, somehow we were able to kill off Sonic, and when the game reloaded the level, the game massively crashed with lines of numbers on the screen and the words "ILLEGAL FUNCTION" on the lower middle half of it.

 The other example happened in FF6 on the SNES back in 96 or so. I had just completed Cyan's nightmare dungeon with Shadow, Strago and some other character(Sabin I think). The odd thing about all this is that I was able to keep the Magitek mecha up until(and after) the end of the dungeon. Afterwards, I simply reset the game in fear of what it would do to my file, though I really should have seen what would have happened if I kept playing.

Anyone else?

One time, there was an error in Tekken on the Playstation, where the models got screwed up and someone had their arms on backwards or something. If I jumped I would shoot up so high I would come through the ground again. I sidestepped and would appear way in the background in the bushes and trees that formed the scenery.

I've got a DKC III cart (SNES) that won't work at all, unless I plug it into a Game Genie...and then I get a "play a real version!11 lol" screen.

Once I managed to go right across the screen in Golden Axe (Genesis version, playing on my Nomad though I'm sure that makes no difference) without the screen scrolling upwards like it's supposed to.

Ultima VI and up are so freeform that there are more than enough glitches in the game engine to discover, though most are harmless.  Except IX.  The entire game was a glitch.

2004-12-31 15:45

holy shit that's an old post.

No shit man, interesting read though. Going to go find some of those Ultima glitches now.

On Just Cause I drove off a cliff and the whole screen went black. It then gave me every collect mission in the game. Shit was so cash.

On Just Cause I drove off a cliff and the whole screen went black. It then gave me every collect mission in the game. Shit was so cash.

I was playing Mega Man 3 on the Mega Man Anniversary Collection for the GC, and in one of the four Mega Man 2 boss stages, I shot one of those blue screws that fly to together and it's sprite rapidly formed a mixture of every enemy sprite in the game. Cash

oh, you don't know how easy to trigger that SOnic glitch it is, just by rolling past the  signpost while holding down....

Fighting spam, one bump at a time!