The chance of any random string of characters having such catastrophic effects is about the same, but the chance of any random string that causes such catastrophic effects _being discovered_ is much higher if the string makes sense.
There's also the absolutely terrifying final stage you didnt touch on: glitches that turn the game into a trojan virus. An example of this is the server vulnerability found in the dark souls pc netcode, which would allow another player to change and edit files on YOUR COMPUTER. THANKFULLY the person who discovered this glitch wasn't a malicious piece of shit and immediately reported it to bandai namco, so they shut down the servers before anyone was really hurt. Still terrifying to think that you could get your computer hacked for essentially just playing an online game.
Well, this isn't a glitch, but in the Japanese erotic game "Cross Days", part of the "Days" franchise (anime people are usually familiar with the "School Days" thing), when installing the game, you would be asked for the CD-Key or some shit like that. Well, that's fair, isn't it? As long as you have the CD-Key, you could play the game, right? Yes, but the devs did some very fucked up things, and basically, throughout the game's code, the game actively checks for the CD-Key, and if it does not detect it, the game will start to act as a Trojan virus, will hack into your webcam, take a picture of you and any sort of Internet browser search history will be uploaded to the dev's site as some sort of "Wall of Shame". To get rid of it, all you had to do was write a letter to the developers, confessing your mistakes, then paying a fee which would equal that of the game's full price, and they would actually remove your info from the site. Anyway, what kind of game has you fill out a survey inputting your data just so you could play it? Come on, now.
Reminds me of the time a 5-6 year kid figured you you could get into any Xbox account just by spamming the space bar. It was reported to Microsoft. His reward? $50.
In the Fist of The North Star arcade fighting game, there's a specific sequence of moves that causes the game to register an infinity hit combo. The game is stuck in a code loop so CPU intensive it actually overheats the processor, which eventually burns out the motherboard and may even cause the cabinet to literally catch fire. This has to be the most harmful bug I know of in a video game.
There's a bug in a racing game Tokyo Xtreme Racer 3 which prevents you from getting 100% completion. One of the racers requires you to have a certain amount of cash to challenge them. In the Japanese version, this was 100,000,000 credits. When the developers ported over the game, they forgot to change this value to 1,000,000, and since the credit cap was ten below 100 million, it's impossible to challenge them without cheating.
found out about this through Larry Bundy and gotta say, that's just one more reason for me to not fw racing games. Not like I needed more as an action/platformer/rpg type anyway
I haven't seen many people talking about this one, but it's one of my personal favorites: in Earthbound, if you interacted with a certain corner in the tent, pretty much anything could happen. You could be teleported to random places, textures could get messed up, the game could crash, you could bring up the dev console, a whole lotta stuff
@@americaonline3835 I can't remember if it was the centaur or the stripper boots or both, but they were both custom content and at least one of them would somehow stick to every sim or household you uploaded to the exchange and it would spread like a virus lol
In the GTA San Andreas remaster, streamer Vargskelethor Joel drank so much soda that the game crashed. Anytime he would load in, the sheer number of empty cans he left behind would crash the game again, leaving his save file useless. You can find the clip on TH-cam pretty easily.
Yep. That's an example of a shitty port more than anything though - it would only crash your game in the original, but because of the autosave it permanently screws up your save file.
The memory leak issue for the PS3 version of Skyrim isn't exclusive to just Skyrim, the PS3 versions of Oblivion, Fallout 3 and New Vegas also have that memory leak issue. And none of them have been patched
It's actually present in all versions of the games that use that engine, it's just most prominent in Skyrim for PS3. It's difficult to notice in other ports (unless you use mods lol because that can aggravate it), but it is there.
In The Sims 2 there was a glitch where if you deleted a gravestone, it had a possibility to corrupt your entire savefile. A sim would attempt to recollect a deceased sim, but that sim was no longer existing, causing the corruption. Always fun to watch a youtuber play the sims 2 and unknowingly delete a gravestone and have the entire comment section FREAKING OUT that their savefile was one thought away from corrupting itself.
reminds me of a something that once happened to me when playing Morrowind: i was trying to use an exploit i figured out, where you summon a creature, kill it yourself, then quickly loot it before it despawns. it's a sneaky way to get lots of Daedric weapons. BUT, every time you loot a creature in that game, there's an option to "remove corpse". IF you do that with a summoned creature, the game freaks out, throwing up a bunch of error messages because it can't show the proper despawn animation! it didn't crash the game, but it was certainly scary!
Fortunately rumors of deleting graves and Sims corrupting neighborhoods are pretty overstated. Both are safe, although there are still some other things one should avoid such as moving Sims between neighborhoods or marrying the Grim Reaper. Even knowing this, it's still hilarious watching people freak out when a streamer deletes a grave.
The Sims 2 was spaghetti coded and half of the game was an unfinished mess... and it is still considered the best one by the fans... thats says a lot about the quality of the franchise
You can actually get out of the eggman loop. By immediately activating your booster and holding forward and left youll eventually be able to see a tube you're supposed to float down through. You can bump into it and get back into the map. I know because I had to do it back in the day. The soulcalibur 3 one was a painful one since back then we didn't have great access to the internet and so had no idea what was causing the issue. Ended up using an Xploder disk to reunlock all my stuff. Myth 2 also had the uninstall bug that just uninstalled everything from your hard drive.
Red/Blue Missingno is surprisingly harmless compared to a lot of other glitch pokemon. Encountering it causes it to dump a bunch of garbage data into the hall of fame which will screw it up forever for that file but rarely has a ton of lasting consequence for the save file. Yellow Missingno just outright crashes the game.
@@saladmancer4802 Yeah, as far as i know a lot of the garbage data was overwritten by pikachu's voice samples so Yellow's glitches tend to work entirely differently from Green-Red-Blue
Can't confirm, a friend actually fried a pokemon red cartridge while messing around with missingno. (Fried as in the cartridge farted out a plume of smoke)
Yeah he's wrong about the Pokemon. I've watched enough content and played enough gen 1 with the glitch pkmn enough to know that MissingNo is relatively harmless in Red/Blue, like the other people were saying.
@LetsSayYesSuckerRofl not necessarily. There's a metric ton of missingno and a good chunk of glitch pokemon that aren't missingno can end up corrupting your save if you aren't careful. Your pokedex number going above 151 in pokemon blue because of catching them will cause the game to crash when getting your pokedex rating.
I got a copy of Brilliant Diamond for Christmas a couple years ago, and some creepypasta shit happened in the Underground. I was in one of the big areas, and caught a wild Pokemon (forgot what it was at this point), and when I got back into the overworld, I couldn't move. Hit the menu button, to try and leave the Underground, and the damn cursor wouldn't move afterwards. Then a Buneary walks onto the screen, completely untextured, and just hangs out there for a while being bright pink and an asshole. Sold it at a yard sale a couple months later, so disappointed in how that turned out.
god, remember when creepypastas were interesting because the games were so incredibly solid outside of gen 1 that signifigant glitches were the stuff of myth?
Congrats, you just made the classic "I bought a haunted game at a yard sale" creepypasta cliche someone's reality, in the event that they encounter a spooky glitch like you did.
0:10 NGL this one is kinda scary. Just him tripping into the void, screaming then being silenced as he eternally falls into the ether is just so simple, yet intense at the same time.
It’s funny this gives me the opposite feeling just because I remember encountering this same glitch in gta 4 as a kid. Some things never change just like in real life
I remember original red dead on ps3 getting REALLY fucky anytime I encountered a glitch. Like the few times I ran into a glitched animal hybrid(like horses would spawn, but just their butts poking through the ground, killing and skinning gave rabbit meat...... meaning a rabbit spawned as horse by glitch) I could almost guarantee I'd see another in the next hour so long as I didn't quit/turn it off.
@@nignamedmutt7270 god the human animal glitches were so fucked, the human birds especially freaked me out LOL My most notable bug in RDR on PS3 was the zombies not having heads for whatever reason..
I'm surprised you didn't mention the glitch in Ratchet & Clank 2016 where if you go back to collect a gold bolt on one of the planets during a Clank section, you'll get permanently stuck in the area, forcing you to start the whole game over
This video is a perfect snapshot of early 2010's youtube for me. I was super obsessed with videos about easter eggs and glitches back in the day and I still get that same feeling watching this. Thanks for making this.
If you don't already know, Vinesauce has a whole series where he corrupts games so they glitch out to an insane amount. They're really fun to watch unfold in real time
6:09 that's actually SA2's anti piracy measure, i believe what is happening in the clip is that the game detected something wrong with the game is happening (bad GDROM CD maybe) and decided to run it's payload, you can find about it more on tcrf (the cutting room floor)
it also wasn't a full progress halter, forums as far back as the 2000s had discussions about getting past it by hovering until you reached another platform at which point the game would continue as usual so it's been known for a while that you can beat it
It should be noted that MissingNo. proper cannot corrupt your game file-- it can give you access to, say, item underflow, which can corrupt your game if you're not careful, but MissingNo. is largely harmless. It's the many other glitch 'mons of RBY that are far more unfriendly (and also Yellow's MissingNo.), which are often conflated with or mistaken for MissingNo. One of these is Charizard 'M. This is not to be confused with 'M (which is essentially just synonymous with MissingNo.), because Charizard 'M resides in hex value FF. Those of you with any coding knowledge may immediately recognize the issue here, but for those who aren't aware, hex value FF indicates the end of a string. In other words, you're effectively picking a fight with the cancel button. That thing gets out of hand very quickly and will immediately destroy anything in its proximity for good, because if they're after the FF hex value, the game doesn't think they exist.
I also want to add Q was who I used to experiment with super glitch on cartridge due to how easy they are to get on yellow and how early they learn a glitch move to activate it (level 11 or 12 if I remember right), it's also worth noting that on an imperfect emulator, and possibly on cartridge too but I lost my gbc by the time I learned more about it to check it out, there is a way to view your pokemon menu when super glitch is active but it can overwrite your save file if you're not careful
One of the worst glitches that I ever saw was a data wiping glitch on Golden Sun: Dark Dawn. It didn't happen until the middle of the last post-game boss fight, the ABSOLUTE FINAL PART OF THE GAME, and it factory reset the cartridge so any save data you had - not just the one you were playing from - was entirely erased. I put it aside for about a month, thought about replaying it, and then got hit with a sense of "why bother" solely because of that glitch happening when I almost got 100% completion. I know it was always a niche series, but I do wonder if that glitch played a role in the Golden Sun series being shelved for good after that entry.
Worry not, the series was shelved because less than 10 people played the entirety of the games until the end, so they didn't bother with it anymore. Maybe one day Nintendo might get the idea to take it off the shelf for a remaster or something?
I remember my crowning achievement of gaming was speedrunning DK64 at age 7. For some reason, I assume a dead cmos battery, I couldn't save the game, on top of that, my game froze randomly from as quick as within 10 minutes to hours playing it. So I was forced to speedrun it. I got up to the final battle with King K. Rool when the game froze. I WAS THAT CLOSE! 😂
5:56 The Cannon's Core glitch is actually part of an anti-piracy code. It's supposed to activate when the game suspects the copy of Sonic Adventure 2 is pirated, but due to a glitch, some legit copies of the game were affected as well. Something similar happens in some copies of Rayman 2 where the game throws up a closeup of a robot pirate's face and de-loads some of the level geometries to make the game harder to play.
Related to piracy and Sonic Adventure: If you pirated Sonic Adventure DX, all the music in the game (save for the main menu) would be replaced with Windy Valley's.
@@Kemuja For whatever purpose, I used to believe that was a common version shared around for pirates with lesser storage, I've heard similar stories with the FMVs being removed as well, which is what fueled my thoughts. Hearing it was a real AP actually shocked me, lmao
I remember Version 1.0 of pokemon X and Y having a huge save issue where if you saved ANYWHERE in the main section of Lumiose city, your save would get bricked upon startup. Luckily it was patched, but its kinda nuts what slips through QA testing. Though looking at modern pokemon games, I guess it was just a Prelude
It's surprisingly easy to softlock platinum. Happened to me when I was a kid. The path to the distortion world never opened so I couldn't finish the story
@@sirspookybones1118on my 360 save I somehow broke vilkas ai. That fucker chased me around everywhere and if he ever gets a chance to he will forcibly open dialogue. I spent many a hours with him on my ass trying to do a quest, hell he was right their the whole time I was building my house, even fast travel wouldn't help he'd still pin point my location in minutes, now it's a bit less broken to where anytime I'm in jassvaskar he then tries to force dialogue but damn that took forever to some what fix
@dragonmaster3030 that reminds me of the bug where Hadvar just follows you round Whiterun like a lost puppy. He always has his weapon drawn too, even if you don't.
I remember in one of my old favorite games, Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy, there's a progress halter in one of the dungeons. If you use a save point conveniently located next to a certain open door, quit and reload, then that open door will be permanently closed and the game is essentially over. You can't leave the dungeon and you can't progress, so you have to restart the whole game (and this happens midgame, a good 6 hrs in). I lost two playthroughs to that glitch. The second time wasn't even my fault, we just happened to have a power outage while I was in that one particular dungeon, and when I rebooted the game the dreaded door of doom was forever locked
The SA2 one is copy protection I’ve heard, so if it happened to random people they probably had a fault with their Dreamcast, probably the disc reader. It’s also still possible to continue even when falling through the ground, Eggman’s Mech can hover and the level progresses in a descending manner.
If you say engage ridley m🤬ther f in front of a mirror in the dark, your bank account will be empty the next time you check, but if you don't have any money anyway then he slaps you and tells you to get a job 😂.
The kinds of glitches were the game just breaks, were polygons stretch to insane levels and people contort and clip into themselves terrify me to no end. Have any of you seen that old Corridor digital skit about glitches? It's like very uncomfortable body horror, the more realistic a game is the more I can feel the pain.
When I was little, I remember having a dream where I was being chased down by the guys from that one assassins creed game with only their teeth, hair and eyeballs showing, I swear I almost shat myself
Ugh. Yes. Screw progress halters and data corruptors, character contortions are terrifying. I remember them giraffe neck soldiers in Battlefield, and the atrocity that was WWE 2K20.
Missingno. cannot harm your save file, unless, for some reason, you consider HoF corruption or item duplication harmful. Other glitchmons have destructive capabilities, but Missingno. just does a steppy on the Hall of Fame, due to how the game (fails to) handles overly-large sprites.
Crash Twinsanity has a fun little glitch where you could take Cortex into the Jungle Bungle level as well as the subsequent boss fight against him (2 Cortexs basically). After the fight, if you turn the game off & come back later & try to load the file, the game will ALWAYS crash mid load. The game itself will still work, but the file’s done
I had my Wii break playing twilight princess and refuse to load the home menu. I had to put it in a box and ship it to Nintendo , and as a kid , that was terrifying .
I’m honestly surprised you didn’t mention the freezer from Saints Row 2. It’s basically this ethereal shadow being that appears if you glitch out of bounds in that game. If it appears on your screen, the game freezes and permanently breaks the game. It’s honestly terrifying. *Edit* As others have pointed out, he already discussed it in another video. Definitely worth checking it out though!
I remember there was a game breaking glitch in Pikmin where a necessary item could permanently fall out of bounds due to the game's awful physics system
Ah yeah, if Im correct the Libra on the geiser puzzle at the Forest Navel, as the Pikmin drag the ship part over the edge, falling from the slope to continue their path, the game just fucks with the physics and one of the results is the thing bouncing off and falling to the void, luckily you just gotta reset the current day, so is only about 10 minutes lost at worst. There's a similar glitch in Pikmin 2, due to the RNG cave generation, sometimes treasures would not just spawn, but just as well, reseting the last save (entering the cave floor) would fix that.
In the switch ver of pikmin 2 I had a similar issue with princess peaches crown. It. Would. Not. Move off the ledge. 100 pikmin? Nope. So to this day I can’t 100% pikmin 2, even on switch because of the awful physics engine.
encountered a horrible glitch in Luigi’s Mansion I’m surprised no one else really talks about. during the final boss, I stood too close to the edge of the roof, got hit by an attack and got pushed out of bounds. stuck out of the ring
I experienced the Soul Calibur 3 glitch a few times. What made it especially frustrating was that Chronicles of the Sword mode could have a lot of time sunk into it. You also had to complete each chapter in a single play session, as you couldn't save progress until you finished/lost the mission, which could take multiple hours. That made your CotS progress even more valuable.
Twilight Princess also had a game breaking glitch! At a certain point in the game Link needs to talk to an NPC to spawn a cannon, however if the player saved and quit in the room he spawns in he’ll despawn, and Midna won’t let link teleport out the room because she thinks there is a person nearby, the door to the room can’t be exited, and the NPC dialogue can’t be triggered anyway, making progression impossible. Nintendo would send the players new games copies, there was no patch. Definitely nasty.
I remember in one of the older versions of Minecraft, there was a glitch that could cause windows to crash. Basically back them commands worked differently, there were item ID numbers instead of names. For example the command "/give [player name] 1 2" would give you two stone blocks because ID of stone is 1 and the number next to it is the amount you're getting. You could also get spawn eggs this way but you would also have to add another number for the ID of the entity you're summoning. For example "/give [player name] [ID number for spawn egg] 1 1 would give you a pig spawn egg because ID of a pig was also 1. Now this is where shit got weird. In Minecraft paintings are also considered entities, and it was possible to get a painting spawn egg using this command. The egg itself would just do nothing but when you put it in a spawner block, your entire system would crash (or maybe it is because my PC was trash, but you get the point).
@@breannathompson9094 in many games devs do that. in castlevania dawn of sorrow there's one painting that has that feature, but it does nothing other than follow you around with its eyes
one glitch i remember for being exclusively bad was in the 3DS version of Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward. if you save in any of the puzzle rooms, your save file had a chance to get corrupted. although it most notoriously happened in thr P.E.C. room. considering the game is a visual novel with 28 odd endings, that's distinctly bad. and it seems the developer Spike Chunsoft couldn't get the bug to happen at all in JP copies of the game. in the end, they declared they physically couldn't patch the glitch out, but they did release the funniest workaround ever they just prevented you from saving in the PEC. it's just, amazing.
That sounds like my copy of Folklore. Any living world door is likely to stick you in a permaloading screen. There's one save point, and you're expected to go through at minimum two doors even if you leave the room with the save point and go back in, that's the two minimum. You might be expected to go through 6 doorways even if it's a same one twice before you go back to the afterlife. I genuinely just gave up and watched the rest of it.
MagicMush's videos remind me of ~2011ish 4chan /v/ when the site still actually held some discussion of video games but had moved past the site being defined by /b/ and /l/, so I'm not sure if the nostalgia you mean is the same as that site of that time period, but I certainly understand how you mean the nostalgia these videos impose.
It might be because the video is 90% nostalgic footage, possibly. Also yeah 2011 /v/ nosgalgia for sure, when you'd see Todd Howard and Skyrim 200 times a day.
Here's a fun little glitch i've experienced twice at this point. In the Phineas and Ferb game for the Nintendo DS, there's this fun little glitch that has a pretty high chance to occur. And when it does, it doesn't spawn in the VERY LAST OBJECT you need to collect to beat the game. So basically, you have to restart, and hope you don't get the glitch.
Missingno actually can't break a copy of pokemon red or blue. Some glitch pokemon can eat your save on some releases of the game, but none can actually render the game unplayable where you cant start over.
Notably though its cousin 'M who looks the same and often appears instead of MissingNo. can cause some serious damage. Additionally the corrupted Hall of Fame is basically gurenteed to include stupid dangerous Glitchmons that upon being viewed start fucking stuff up really bad. I'm not sure how likely they are to corrupt the game beyond repair, but it definitely can happen, mainly due to Red and Blue's lack of failsafes.
Oh man I remember dealing with the Soul Calibur 3 one all the time. That game and Jak X would constantly corrupt my memory card. The “fixes” people would post back in the day never worked either. Like leaving the memory card out until you save to prevent auto saves from activating the glitch.
Meanwhile, I managed to break my action replay to where it didn't work correctly and sometimes it would accidentially boot parts of game and watch gallery instead.(Which was possible because the makers illegally stole part of its code to get past Nintendo's validationsystem, making it boot on DSI and 3DS)
Imagine if that actually worked. You could have cheat codes for the cheat device so you could have more cheats per code! It would be the gaming equivalent of pouring milk powder into your milk to have more milk per milk!
When I was a kid, I had an extremely glitched copy of Red Dead Redemption on the PS3. It was a used copy from a pawn shop and it was covered in scratches. Funnily enough I never actually encountered any of the well known glitches like flying carts and NPCs acting like animals. The only glitches I ever had were frame drops, lag, and the game crashing. It was so bad, I could never actually beat the game because a mission in Mexico was literally unbeatable because the game would crash every single time. There were two missions earlier in the game that took me forever to beat because they would also crash a lot, but I was eventually able to get past them. Eventually, the old PS3 I was playing on also starting failing and it got to the point where the game could hardly even play normally. The console could only stay on for about an hour before it would crash. Eventually, it broke all together and I got a new PS3 and a good copy of Rdr to go with it. I was pretty mad when I got past the crashing mission in Mexico and saw that I was pretty close to beating the game.
I had so many hilarious clips of horse carts on hydraulics slamming around the streets before helicoptering away into the sky People literally walking around in the air above buildings, crazy ass lasso physics Shit was fire
@@mr420quickscops2 Yeah that's the weird thing about my copy. I remember seeing cool glitches like that on TH-cam but I literally never was able to trigger any of those on my old copy. The I just had lag and the game crashing. Well, there was actually one kinda neat thing that happened a few times. I would be riding on my horse like normal, but the game would sorta freeze up. The music was still playing and I could still move the camera, but my horse and John were stuck in the middle of their running animation. After a few seconds, they would teleport to where they should've been and everything would go on like it never happened.
Reminds me of our old PS3 that we still have somewhere. We used to play Dark Souls on that poor thing religiously, and when it got older the game itself saw consequences. Nothing nifty, just stuff like that one time where it took 15 minutes to load somewhere and walls becoming transparent when the console got too hot. I still find the wall transparency thing fascinating though; was it something built within the game (such as being coded to unload areas that take up too much memory to help the game run smoother) or was is something about the heat of the console that messed it up? I guess I’ll never know, but I’ll always find something fascinating about being able to basically see into the game’s code from inside the game while it’s still running. Like some sort of vivisection of a simply enthralling beast. Oh, but perhaps I have a strange perspective on things, I really don’t know.
The crazy part about the smash piranha plant glitch is that no one is exactly sure what is causing it to this day. The only theory with some merit is that the data gets weird when downloaded to certain brands of micro SD cards, which many victims of said glitch happened to possess at the time.
Had a gamecube for 8 years and played it daily for hours on end. Had no idea the memory card i had usually become corrupted if you used it on a wii. I watched my game data slowly die off untill the card stopped letting you save anything on it. Broke my heart
Im suprised you didn't mention the pokemon scarlet and violet save data corruption bug. It's extremely rare and nobody has been able to pinpoint why it happens but it'll randomly corrupt your save data for the game, making you start over from scratch
@@yarc9 while's being fixed, it was apparently determined that the glitch was not to do with pokemon go. Some people who didn't download/use pokemon Go still experienced the glitch. Seems the bug somehow found its way in via the update that was downloaded to fix other bugs, as to why it only affected certain people, I don't think they ever worked that out.
@y/arc9 from all accounts though it sounds like you're really lucky. Majority of reviews I've seen have mentioned serious lag and various other glitches/bugs. One of the reasons I've been reluctant to get myself a copy
My brother used missingno to complete his Pokédex and level every pokemon to 100, and he’d let me play sometimes and I’d just search for missingno hoping to find a new glitch… last time I checked his cartridge all his pokemon were gone except for the ones in his party and I just prayed he never played it again lmao
What still ticks me off about the Luigi's Mansion one is that there is a Boo in the room which is very likely to leave the room and have you chase it, as the videoclip showed. Boos are time sensitive when they're fleeing and grabbing an item starts a long animation that does not pause the game, so you're not gonna stop to grab the key on the way out. Oh and catching the Boo prompts you to save the game. If you don't know the key does that, it's like that entire bit was designed to softlock you.
@@bsharpmajorscale The speedrun strat takes advantage of the chest from the very first boss taking just enough time to spawn in that you can go wedge behind it, so I don't know if the clip can still be performed there or anywhere else at that point Plus I think that for the time it would take to learn you might as well replay the whole thing instead :')
19:22 It's factually incorrect that a Nintendo 3DS gets bricked by Virtual Console. The VC just starts to hang like shown in the video; in such a way the only way out is to force-power-off the console. However, no harm was done to anything. The console boots back up as normal. What's actually happening is that the game hits an illegal opcode in the virtualized NES and Virtual Console doesn't know what to do so it deadlocks itself. This particular case of false information truly spreads like wildfire and no one bothers to check that it's actually the case, like I just did. And if there was a case where the 3DS would actually die is probably because the console is set to say goodbye at some point, be it malfunctioning RAM, the CPU and/or GPU are acting up or the VC title is corrupted and somehow the bytes line up to exploit the system. Otherwise, I think this was a decent video.
So there's this glitch on one of my childhood games: Tomb Raider Legend. I believe it happened to me although I'm not 100% sure. Basically there's a level in the end game where you go to England and near the end of that level there's an underground castle. Outside the castle there's multiple gears that you can interact with, but if you interact with them before the boss of that area spawns, congrats you have just killed your playthrough. There is no way of killing the boss without interacting with the gears, and if you interact with them beforehand they glitch out and don't work when you're actually meant to use them. This is very easy to do and I'm pretty sure it happened to me many moons ago.
There's a glitch in Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin, where if you skip a cutscene during the Death Boss Fight, it never sets the flag that lets you continue past that point. My first playthrough of the game, I skipped said cutscene since I died during the fight my first attempt, and saved afterwards not knowing that I just killed my save file and had to start over.
Thats weird. I remember skipping the cutscene when i finally beat him and i didnt have any problems. Only thing weird i remember is the second attempt, after the cutscene ended the game just kinda froze and i had to reset.
@@symphony-of-the-mint2008 the reason some glitches are region specific is because big glitches would be fixed before it was released in other regions. Usually Japan and NA would get games first, then PAL. I looked up the glitch as I never had it and it's because it was fixed for the PAL release and a newer Japan revision. If you have an NA cart and didn't get it, it only happens if you use start to skip instead of just spamming A
Ah, glitches, They're the "little miracles" that managed to somehow get past the development team. Either because they weren't seen just in time before the game released, Or because the team made a game so rushed that the code looks like utter spaghetti.
Funny story. InfernoMOO (a shard of the now-defunct HELLMOO) apparently hadn't been programmed to handle people putting lit explosives in a container. It's since been patched but at the time it caused the whole game server to lag to the point of needing to be rolled back. Since arming an explosive starts a timer and containers either stop timers or at least delay them significantly, naturally, this caused Problems.
I bought a copy of super Metroid that was stuck on the title screen so I returned it. Turns out the guy who used it before me was using game genie. The store took out the battery and put it back in. Cleared the save data and it’s right as rain.
There is one more notable console killer you could have included. The PSP version of NFL '07 had a severe glitch in every mode (excluding Exhibition) where if you attempted to tackle another player, it would crash the game so hard that it turns off the PSP, and makes it impossible to turn back on ever again. And when everyone complained about it, you wanna know what EA did? They quite literally told everyone to "deal with it". They didn't even bother trying to fix it, and as a result, it potentially bricked thousands of PSPs
I experienced that Viewtiful Joe demo wipe as a kid! Ugh! Also, Im surprised that you didn't mention Space Station Silicon Valley for the N64. That game is notorious for having a glitch that makes it absolutely impossible to 100% complete the game without cheat devices. On the very last (optional) item you have to collect in the game, they forgot to enable the collision detection for it, meaning you cannot collect it. I don't know if they fixed the glitch for the PS1 port (which is under a different name), but that version has plenty of its own problems. Also, SSSV is known to randomly crash if you're playing it with the Expansion Pack instead of the stock Jumper Pack in the N64.
I was playing Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon a few weeks ago and I walked out of Pelipper Island and the game told me its save data was corrupted and that I had to press A to restart the save file. I took the cartridge out of the 3DS and put it back in, and everything was fine. The game even saved the progress I made while playing that night. What a weird glitch.
That reminds me of one time, I was playing Lego Star Wars on the Gamecube with my older brother's memory card. The disc was heavily scratched, and this was after I found out if the game told you the game this could not be read, you could just take it out and put it back in, and it would start working again, but I'd have to reinsert it every couple of minutes. Eventually, it told me instead that an error has occurred and to turn the console off, and when I did, it told me that the memory card was corrupted and I needed to reformat it. I freaked out and thought I was screwed, until I took the card out and put it back in, and it worked completely fine, no reformat needed.
I saw mappy land during the game break section transition and I got really excited thinking someone was gonna talk about it. You glitched my experience by hyping me up.
funnily enough, that viewtiful joe 2 bug seemingly passed onto something FAR worse, back during the early days of rotmg exalt, the DECA launcher would flat out delete your ENTIRE HDD that it was downloaded on when you use the uninstaller, which ended up getting fixed eventually, but it was flat out horrendous.
One I experienced first-hand was the infamous "endless falling" in Batman Arkham: Origins, where you have to enter a criminal gang club and there is a high probability that when you jump down the floor, you fall endlessly while the game saves automatically, making your file an endless falling Batman into the void softlocked. It happens quite in the middle of the game after you get hooked on the villain story... then you have to start over again from zero hoping it won't happen again
13:41 Hey! Missingno is not harmful. Missingno. cannot harm your save file. Missingno. cannot harm your save file. Missingno. cannot harm your save file. Unless you consider HoF (hall of fame) corruption harmful, or duplicating rare candies. It is not harmful. You may be thinking of superglitch (such as the TM moves/TM Trainer Effect) or the ZZAZZ glitch, or the numerous glitch Pokémon and trainers that can actually mess up your save, but Missingno isn’t one of them.
Unless you caught a Fossil/Ghost version and encountered a Pokémon with a Super Glitch move as a starting move (ex: the Pokemaniac type glitch Pokémon) before that, R/B MissingNo is harmless! Yellow MissingNo, however…
@@Cyntaria "MissingNo" in the eyes of many just refers to a glitch pokemon. however, there are only 39 hexadecimal spots that have true MissingNo. all others are pure garbage data that is read by the game and are generally more unstable. but yes, 'm is more volatile than MissingNo.
Looking at you with the disappointment of broken hopes, Spore flora editor (no matter how much it's modded with fixes) If only Maxis officially finished your development
There's a glitch in Soul Reaver 2 where the door to the dungeon exit won't open and when you walk away and come back, it's just... Sealed. You're trapped in the dungeon forever. Apparently this is caused by scaring the crows away outside the dungeon before you go in. Which is REALLY HARD when you have bad impulse control lol. Terrifying when it happened to me, especially since the last save point is way back before you even discover the dungeon. So much lost progress
The most significant glitch I ever experienced was on Hannah Montana DS oddly enough lol. I'd played the same copy a million times since I was a kid so it wasn't a huge blow, but, I got to the second chapter, like more than halfway through that I was supposed to talk to the school janitor I think, pick up some papers he dropped and give them to him. After I gave them to him, he told me to go talk to someone in the cafeteria I believe. But for some reason, I have no idea why this happened, but when I tried, the person in the cafeteria never triggered the correct dialogue, and every time I exited and reentered the teacher's lounge, I had to find and give the janitor his papers back, every time. No matter how many times I did it, I was stuck in an endless loop and couldn't progress any further. Nothing like that had ever happened to me in that game before and I still have no idea why it happened. Very weird lol I couldn't find anything about it online so I figured there was just nothing I could do about it. It's either busted forever or I'll try again in a new save file and it'll be fine. No idea.
I dont know why but glitches have always fascinated me and I wish there was more interesting content about it like this on youtube that arent just lists of glitches everyone knows. One of the first things I ever remember looking up on youtube was "video game glitches"
There's a Missingno fighter in the Rivals of Aether workshop and it's honestly super impressive how far it can go in terms of screwing up your game, even outside of a proper match. Character select portraits will glitch out, stage colors could change, music could just stop, I'm pretty sure some moves are completely locked behind the guy bugging out. It's really some insane stuff.
"You get booted back to the PS2 start screen, and nothing seems out of the ordinary..." Bruh, I felt my heat sink when there were no grey blocks on that start screen after the crash
jak x: combat racing had something sorta like the viewtiful joe thing. if you played on a PS2 slim with the black-label version (as in the non greatest hits version), when the game autosaved, the icon would appear forever. this could lead to anything from the game save data being corrupted, undeletable corrupt blocks appearing on your memory card, and yes, the whole memory card being corrupted. the only ways to fix it were A. to just play the greatest hits version (which you were also able to mail your old copy in for), or B. after loading your save, take the memory card out while playing the game until you're done, then put it back in and save from there.
'ENGAGE RIDLEY MOTHER FUCKER' is so great because it feels like you're shouting to the heavens at the metroid gods for a true challenge. a real 'Strike me down if you dare, Zeus!" moment.
Interesting fact: back in the day, there was a bug in Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire that would cause berries to stop growing. Nintendo urged players to send in their copies to have it fixed, and those who did got a free shiny zigzagoon in their pc for the trouble.
@LedYouAshtray Yes and no. A dry battery will keep berries from growing, but there is also a glitch where berries won't grow during a save's second real time year. This was fixed by advancing the clock by a year, and it's wild how many things Nintendo made fix it when used: e-Reader cards, linking to later Gen 3 games, linking to the Gamecube games, linking to Pokemon Box storage. Pretty much doing anything except linking between Ruby and Sapphire fixes it.
I love game breaking glitches videos like this. They always had an aura of mystery around the glitches mentioned in the videos. So glad we’re getting a another one of those videos in the modern day.
Probably the best reward I’ve ever gotten for turning in a random art response two minutes before the deadline. New Magic Mush, White 2, cat. Life is good.
Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy has a really bad one, if you save at a normal save point at a certain part and then game over, when you load that save again a door needed to progress is permanently closed (similar to Metroid Other M). This was really bad because the game was hard so you were likely to game over (and that part was one of the hardest in the game), and save points were easily an hour or even two hours apart in most cases so you were very likely to game over there, and it was half-way into the game easily 10-20 hours lost because it was a lengthy game. And it was a linear game, not open-world so there was a good chance you'd get stuck. Thankfully it's as you said, they remastered it on GoG and quickly and easily made an update patch, since patches on PS2 weren't really a thing. Interestingly there were old game patches back in the 90's and 2000s, but generally only on the PC. Like in the PC release of Mafia they released a patch to reduce the difficulty of the racing mission.
There was a glitch in the ''black label'' version of Jak X on ps2, which had a chance of being stuck constantly saving and if you restart you either will not have your save or stuck with a somewhat undeletable corrupted save. There is kinda a way to delete the corrupted save by playing gran turismo on ps2 which had a save editor that could also be used to delete saves from other games including some corrupted saves. Its called the Jak X Autosave glitch.
I've heard of restarting save files to undo a nasty glitch, but I didn't think a nasty glitch would INVOLVE saving over and over again in itself Then again, to be fair, I've never even heard of Jak X's existence before hearing about this either (Also you said some form of "Save" 8 times in that comment. Not complaining, since it makes the comment make more sense, I just thought it was funny)
the soul calibur 3 glitch pissed me off so hard growing up. finally got back to where i was only to find out the final boss is impossible to beat if you didnt grind out every single unit to max level.
In GTA 3 if you don't do the missions in a specific order, you can be locked out of 100% completion. This is because if you pass a mission which kills another character that also has missions, causing it to permanently lock. The main storyline can be completed, but you can't get 100%.
Loved to glitch my old copy of Pokémon blue. I did so many glitches and sought out more each play through, even completed the Pokédex with glitches alone via teleport glitch. But one glitch that really messed up one play through was catching a Kabutops fossil by doing the teleport glitch on Lavender town/ route 8. After I caught the fossil, every time I entered route 8 it would make the game extremely slow (like walking and using the start menu). It was only on that route no other route was affected. In the end, I restarted the game and it was fixed.
Something I remember about Missingno is that people made concept art for what it would “really” look like as a Pokémon, not a random glitchy rectangle thing. From what I remembered, some people interpreted it as a flamingo, and others interpreted it as a vulture with a similar color palette to the infamous glitched rectangle. The fan art I saw of the vulture used to absolutely **TERRIFY** me as a child. I have no idea why. Admittedly, I haven’t seen it in years, so I’m not sure if I’d still be scared by it. Still don’t have the guts to search it up again, though. Younger me was weird, and that vulture fan art was genuinely one of my biggest fears. I don’t even think normal vultures are that scary. Again, it’s been so long, so maybe I got it all wrong with these being “fan art”. Maybe they were scrapped Gen 1 Pokémon designs? I don’t really play Pokémon, but my brother does a lot, so I’m more than acquainted with a lot of things about the series.
They likely interpreted it as a bird because of it's typing, which iirc is an nonexistent "bird" type. My bet is that the fanart was creepy in nature because of how inherently "creepy" Missingno is. It's a being that shouldn't be, after all.
I remember being really careful on my playthrough of virtue's last reward because it had a well-known glitch where if you saved in the PEC escape section, your save file could get bricked. Also just recently I was playing through Eastshade for the first time, and the final quest bugged out to the point where I couldn't finish the game right at the very end.
That Sonic Adventure 2 one was actually a form of DRM. It was somehow able to detect if the copy you're playing was cracked and set the level to have no collision accordingly. This was in 2001 after all, after the death of the Dreamcast and during the height of Dreamcast piracy. Still extremely irritating though. I've read a few stories of people who were able to glide Eggman over to where his level exit is which is crazy. Had to have been pure luck but judging by the state of SA2 speedrunning it's totally possible.
@@theunknown2343 according to The Cutting Room Floor: "The game runs a disc check to make sure it is being run from an official GD-ROM rather than a copied disc. If this check fails, Eggman will fall through the floor when he starts his section of Cannon's Core, although the level can still be completed by navigating to the end. This cannot happen on emulators, even when using a pirate copy." My guess is if the people who got that far really enjoyed the game at that point, they'd buy it to see how it ends.
My guess as to why emulators never have a problem with this check is because the Dreamcast probably checks if it's being booted from MIL-CD mode, which is the exploit that allowed pirated games to be played. Dreamcast emulators don't even bother with the bios let alone the copy checks and boot routine, so the game just assumes it's running off of a gd rom.
I consider this as an unofficial sequel to top 40 game breaking glitches I love this, it felt like there's so many game breaking glitches i've yet to hear, it's just interesting to hear about games not working properly especially if it could change the game, it's shown through multiple n64 games for speedrunning and stuff from the 90s and 00s having game breaking glitches
It's interesting becuase just one letter or number in a line of code can cause CATASTROPHIC consequences! And then there's the crazy shit like that Mario 64 speedrun that can't be replicated due to a fucking solar flare causing it!
@@darienb1127 I assume you're refering to the clock tower warp and it's been proven to be the work of cosmic rays flipping a single thing in the ram that changes the value in the ram therefor changing the position of mario.
The Eggman glitch wasn't so much as a glitch, but was in fact an Anti Piracy measure from what I read anyway). What _was_ a game-breaking glitch in SA2 was checking the Chao Doctor about how many times your Chao has reincarnated (in the original Dreamcast version) in International copies - due to poor translation, the game will heavily bug out and inevitably crash. This can end up corrupting the save data.
I think one of the funniest oversights in gaming comes in pokemon red/blue. Say you really wanted that ivysaur, so much so that you grinded to get it before you got your Pokédex. While now you can’t get your Pokédex because the game thinks you already have it.
I cannot but feel bad for the kids who wake up on a christmas day, had their new game and game console and then they find those glitches and brick everything
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2:52 Is that Chris Chan as a child?
Yes, and he just won
Yes
Wow i knew it i just thought hmmm this child seems familliar...is this chris chan?
no thats me
I was only listening to this vid and the audio alone hit me like a flashbang
the "ENGAGE RIDLEY MOTHER FUCKER" glitch caught me so off guard i was expecting it to be a specific string of characters that made no sense lmfaoo
Nice pfp
@@laysthechip3356 thx brother you too
The chance of any random string of characters having such catastrophic effects is about the same, but the chance of any random string that causes such catastrophic effects _being discovered_ is much higher if the string makes sense.
@19:02 LOL 👍👍
Mmm Brain Toast!
Guess somebody tried a phrase they found cool
This video brings me back to those "top 10 worst glitches in video games" I've watched on repeat for years. Hell yeah
who did that vid i think i remember one that covered some of these
found them it was flippy
Good times, good times
So nice to know I’m not the only one who watches these glitch videos on repeat.
@@deso2 yaaaaad
There's also the absolutely terrifying final stage you didnt touch on: glitches that turn the game into a trojan virus. An example of this is the server vulnerability found in the dark souls pc netcode, which would allow another player to change and edit files on YOUR COMPUTER. THANKFULLY the person who discovered this glitch wasn't a malicious piece of shit and immediately reported it to bandai namco, so they shut down the servers before anyone was really hurt. Still terrifying to think that you could get your computer hacked for essentially just playing an online game.
There's so many ways to get into a system these days security is often an illusion
Well, this isn't a glitch, but in the Japanese erotic game "Cross Days", part of the "Days" franchise (anime people are usually familiar with the "School Days" thing), when installing the game, you would be asked for the CD-Key or some shit like that. Well, that's fair, isn't it? As long as you have the CD-Key, you could play the game, right? Yes, but the devs did some very fucked up things, and basically, throughout the game's code, the game actively checks for the CD-Key, and if it does not detect it, the game will start to act as a Trojan virus, will hack into your webcam, take a picture of you and any sort of Internet browser search history will be uploaded to the dev's site as some sort of "Wall of Shame". To get rid of it, all you had to do was write a letter to the developers, confessing your mistakes, then paying a fee which would equal that of the game's full price, and they would actually remove your info from the site.
Anyway, what kind of game has you fill out a survey inputting your data just so you could play it? Come on, now.
Gta online has a problem like that and rockstar just straight up doesn’t care
Reminds me of the time a 5-6 year kid figured you you could get into any Xbox account just by spamming the space bar. It was reported to Microsoft. His reward? $50.
That was the true hardest boss in Dark Souls.
In the Fist of The North Star arcade fighting game, there's a specific sequence of moves that causes the game to register an infinity hit combo. The game is stuck in a code loop so CPU intensive it actually overheats the processor, which eventually burns out the motherboard and may even cause the cabinet to literally catch fire. This has to be the most harmful bug I know of in a video game.
That's fucking metal
That would happen in a fist of the North Star game.
Oh, that is some anime nonsense. The game is so intense it causes a real life fire.
I'm no techie but shouldn't there be failsafes in place to cut off the machine or whatever upon getting too hot?
If its a cheap machine than maybe not. Or ya know.... old computer nonsense.@@lukemorgan6166
The eggman glitch is actually his canon ending, trapped in an endless cycle due to his massive karmic debts
Bro is NOT getting reincarnated
Eggman never reached the truth.
There's a bug in a racing game Tokyo Xtreme Racer 3 which prevents you from getting 100% completion. One of the racers requires you to have a certain amount of cash to challenge them. In the Japanese version, this was 100,000,000 credits. When the developers ported over the game, they forgot to change this value to 1,000,000, and since the credit cap was ten below 100 million, it's impossible to challenge them without cheating.
Did they change it from yen to dollars?
@@theonlybilge Yep
I never expected Tokyo Xtreme Racer to get brought up in the wild lmao
found out about this through Larry Bundy and gotta say, that's just one more reason for me to not fw racing games. Not like I needed more as an action/platformer/rpg type anyway
The video being about glitches & your comment being about a racing game makes me wanna say this:
YOU'RE WINNER
For the record, the Viewtiful Joe 2 demo doesn't even need to crash, it can still wipe a card just by timing out or completing the demo
Took demo to a whole new level
Demo-licious!
The boot screen isn't actually that innocent looking either, you can see it doesn't have pillars/blocks anymore
the demo demolishes your memory card!
welp at least you have enough memory in the memory card now
There is a way around it, so I hear: just kill the power before the demo times out.
"Diddy is now holding a stack of PS5 games"
Holy shit MY SIDES
I wasn’t ready for that one lol
Possible Pyrocynical fan?
ONE GAME
I DON’T KNOW WHY
I BOUGHT A PS5 WITH NO GAMES TO BUY
@@jessikamiranda2306 KEEP THAT IN MIND, THEY DESIGN THIS DRIVE TO IMPROVE LOADING TIMES; THAT'S ALL I KNOOOOW~
I haven't seen many people talking about this one, but it's one of my personal favorites: in Earthbound, if you interacted with a certain corner in the tent, pretty much anything could happen. You could be teleported to random places, textures could get messed up, the game could crash, you could bring up the dev console, a whole lotta stuff
Is it that glitch that triggers a dialogue window with no text and the more you try to interact with the corner the more it corrupts?
yeah!!!! i love the glitches in that game, it cracks me UP every time i play with it.
Mush: "You were kicked back to the PS2's home screen - nothing seems out of the ordinary."
Me: "THE DATA TOWERS ARE GONE THAT'S OUT OF THE ORDINARY"
"Sir, they hit the second data tower"
Sims 3 also has a pretty notorious memory leak issue. If you have reflections turned on eventually your save just breaks and sims won't do anything
oh so THAT'S what that was lmfao
i still remember the baby, oh the baby...
@@americaonline3835 you ever get that glitched centaur custom content
i've only seen footage of Sims 3 glitches, and oh boy it's definitely scarier than any new horror movies
@@americaonline3835 I can't remember if it was the centaur or the stripper boots or both, but they were both custom content and at least one of them would somehow stick to every sim or household you uploaded to the exchange and it would spread like a virus lol
In the GTA San Andreas remaster, streamer Vargskelethor Joel drank so much soda that the game crashed. Anytime he would load in, the sheer number of empty cans he left behind would crash the game again, leaving his save file useless. You can find the clip on TH-cam pretty easily.
Yep. That's an example of a shitty port more than anything though - it would only crash your game in the original, but because of the autosave it permanently screws up your save file.
SPRUNK'D IT
Sprunk'ed
Well, that's just called overloading a game. Not a glitch, just a performance limitation.
I'm stupid
I thought you were saying he drank too many cans in real life
I'm stupid
The memory leak issue for the PS3 version of Skyrim isn't exclusive to just Skyrim, the PS3 versions of Oblivion, Fallout 3 and New Vegas also have that memory leak issue. And none of them have been patched
The PC version of Oblivion had a memory leak caused by sitting in a chair too many times.
PS3 Skyrim was the reason why the DLC for the game was postponed. (Sort of)
It's actually present in all versions of the games that use that engine, it's just most prominent in Skyrim for PS3. It's difficult to notice in other ports (unless you use mods lol because that can aggravate it), but it is there.
Fallout 3 and New Vegas was such a mess on the PS3.And believe me, I know.
I experienced it on FNV and it was really annoying and unplayable at times
In The Sims 2 there was a glitch where if you deleted a gravestone, it had a possibility to corrupt your entire savefile. A sim would attempt to recollect a deceased sim, but that sim was no longer existing, causing the corruption. Always fun to watch a youtuber play the sims 2 and unknowingly delete a gravestone and have the entire comment section FREAKING OUT that their savefile was one thought away from corrupting itself.
reminds me of a something that once happened to me when playing Morrowind:
i was trying to use an exploit i figured out, where you summon a creature, kill it yourself, then quickly loot it before it despawns.
it's a sneaky way to get lots of Daedric weapons.
BUT, every time you loot a creature in that game, there's an option to "remove corpse".
IF you do that with a summoned creature, the game freaks out, throwing up a bunch of error messages because it can't show the proper despawn animation!
it didn't crash the game, but it was certainly scary!
Fortunately rumors of deleting graves and Sims corrupting neighborhoods are pretty overstated. Both are safe, although there are still some other things one should avoid such as moving Sims between neighborhoods or marrying the Grim Reaper.
Even knowing this, it's still hilarious watching people freak out when a streamer deletes a grave.
The Sims 2 was spaghetti coded and half of the game was an unfinished mess... and it is still considered the best one by the fans... thats says a lot about the quality of the franchise
@K3NSHIRODUBS If you use all the mods to stabilise it, then it is a good game.
It obviously shouldn't need them though.
Sims 2 corrupted if you breathed at it wrong lol. Great game but it was an absolute mess code-wise
You can actually get out of the eggman loop. By immediately activating your booster and holding forward and left youll eventually be able to see a tube you're supposed to float down through. You can bump into it and get back into the map. I know because I had to do it back in the day.
The soulcalibur 3 one was a painful one since back then we didn't have great access to the internet and so had no idea what was causing the issue. Ended up using an Xploder disk to reunlock all my stuff.
Myth 2 also had the uninstall bug that just uninstalled everything from your hard drive.
Red/Blue Missingno is surprisingly harmless compared to a lot of other glitch pokemon. Encountering it causes it to dump a bunch of garbage data into the hall of fame which will screw it up forever for that file but rarely has a ton of lasting consequence for the save file. Yellow Missingno just outright crashes the game.
Funnily enough this is because most versions of missingno you encounter in yellow try to load invalid soundbanks
@@saladmancer4802 Yeah, as far as i know a lot of the garbage data was overwritten by pikachu's voice samples so Yellow's glitches tend to work entirely differently from Green-Red-Blue
Can't confirm, a friend actually fried a pokemon red cartridge while messing around with missingno. (Fried as in the cartridge farted out a plume of smoke)
Yeah he's wrong about the Pokemon. I've watched enough content and played enough gen 1 with the glitch pkmn enough to know that MissingNo is relatively harmless in Red/Blue, like the other people were saying.
@LetsSayYesSuckerRofl not necessarily. There's a metric ton of missingno and a good chunk of glitch pokemon that aren't missingno can end up corrupting your save if you aren't careful. Your pokedex number going above 151 in pokemon blue because of catching them will cause the game to crash when getting your pokedex rating.
I got a copy of Brilliant Diamond for Christmas a couple years ago, and some creepypasta shit happened in the Underground. I was in one of the big areas, and caught a wild Pokemon (forgot what it was at this point), and when I got back into the overworld, I couldn't move. Hit the menu button, to try and leave the Underground, and the damn cursor wouldn't move afterwards. Then a Buneary walks onto the screen, completely untextured, and just hangs out there for a while being bright pink and an asshole. Sold it at a yard sale a couple months later, so disappointed in how that turned out.
That game was a dumpster fire
damn not even the remakes are turning out good
god, remember when creepypastas were interesting because the games were so incredibly solid outside of gen 1 that signifigant glitches were the stuff of myth?
And that’s how creepy pastas start with some guy selling a creepy cursed game at a yard sale.
Congrats, you just made the classic "I bought a haunted game at a yard sale" creepypasta cliche someone's reality, in the event that they encounter a spooky glitch like you did.
0:10 NGL this one is kinda scary. Just him tripping into the void, screaming then being silenced as he eternally falls into the ether is just so simple, yet intense at the same time.
He has no sfx yet he must scream.
It’s funny this gives me the opposite feeling just because I remember encountering this same glitch in gta 4 as a kid. Some things never change just like in real life
As a kid i was scared of playing spyro again because i fell through the map and it was just pure emptiness
I remember original red dead on ps3 getting REALLY fucky anytime I encountered a glitch.
Like the few times I ran into a glitched animal hybrid(like horses would spawn, but just their butts poking through the ground, killing and skinning gave rabbit meat...... meaning a rabbit spawned as horse by glitch) I could almost guarantee I'd see another in the next hour so long as I didn't quit/turn it off.
@@nignamedmutt7270 god the human animal glitches were so fucked, the human birds especially freaked me out LOL
My most notable bug in RDR on PS3 was the zombies not having heads for whatever reason..
I'm surprised you didn't mention the glitch in Ratchet & Clank 2016 where if you go back to collect a gold bolt on one of the planets during a Clank section, you'll get permanently stuck in the area, forcing you to start the whole game over
It got patched right
This video is a perfect snapshot of early 2010's youtube for me. I was super obsessed with videos about easter eggs and glitches back in the day and I still get that same feeling watching this. Thanks for making this.
If you don't already know, Vinesauce has a whole series where he corrupts games so they glitch out to an insane amount. They're really fun to watch unfold in real time
6:09
that's actually SA2's anti piracy measure, i believe what is happening in the clip is that the game detected something wrong with the game is happening (bad GDROM CD maybe) and decided to run it's payload, you can find about it more on tcrf (the cutting room floor)
Honestly I never got why as an anti piracy measure they only stop you when you’re basically done with the game
it also wasn't a full progress halter, forums as far back as the 2000s had discussions about getting past it by hovering until you reached another platform at which point the game would continue as usual so it's been known for a while that you can beat it
Apparently copies such as the SA2 Birthday Pack (from what I remember, Japan only) had this bug
@@glasshorse6893 So that pirates think they've cracked the game when they really haven't.
The problem with those anti piracy measures is sometimes the devs make a little oopsie and it triggers on legit players
It should be noted that MissingNo. proper cannot corrupt your game file-- it can give you access to, say, item underflow, which can corrupt your game if you're not careful, but MissingNo. is largely harmless. It's the many other glitch 'mons of RBY that are far more unfriendly (and also Yellow's MissingNo.), which are often conflated with or mistaken for MissingNo.
One of these is Charizard 'M. This is not to be confused with 'M (which is essentially just synonymous with MissingNo.), because Charizard 'M resides in hex value FF. Those of you with any coding knowledge may immediately recognize the issue here, but for those who aren't aware, hex value FF indicates the end of a string. In other words, you're effectively picking a fight with the cancel button. That thing gets out of hand very quickly and will immediately destroy anything in its proximity for good, because if they're after the FF hex value, the game doesn't think they exist.
Thanks
I haven't heard of 'M (FF) outright deleting Pokemon. Just makes em invisible and transmutes em according to Bulbapedia.
I also want to add Q was who I used to experiment with super glitch on cartridge due to how easy they are to get on yellow and how early they learn a glitch move to activate it (level 11 or 12 if I remember right), it's also worth noting that on an imperfect emulator, and possibly on cartridge too but I lost my gbc by the time I learned more about it to check it out, there is a way to view your pokemon menu when super glitch is active but it can overwrite your save file if you're not careful
I think my first comment got deleted bc of a link so I'll rewrite it
Thank you for taking the time to explain this!
One of the worst glitches that I ever saw was a data wiping glitch on Golden Sun: Dark Dawn. It didn't happen until the middle of the last post-game boss fight, the ABSOLUTE FINAL PART OF THE GAME, and it factory reset the cartridge so any save data you had - not just the one you were playing from - was entirely erased. I put it aside for about a month, thought about replaying it, and then got hit with a sense of "why bother" solely because of that glitch happening when I almost got 100% completion. I know it was always a niche series, but I do wonder if that glitch played a role in the Golden Sun series being shelved for good after that entry.
Worry not, the series was shelved because less than 10 people played the entirety of the games until the end, so they didn't bother with it anymore.
Maybe one day Nintendo might get the idea to take it off the shelf for a remaster or something?
Dark Dawn wasn't a worthy successor to the first two. Unfortunately. It lacked SOUL
@@TWLSpark i dont have much faith... they'll port the damn glitches with it lmaooo
did you ever find out what caused the bug/glitch? Or can you remember what the signs of it happening were?
As someone who played this game when I was younger, I would have literally ugly cried if this happened to my game 😭
12:08 the second i saw all the pillars not there anymore i said "oh no"
Right? It's so uncanny.
I remember my crowning achievement of gaming was speedrunning DK64 at age 7. For some reason, I assume a dead cmos battery, I couldn't save the game, on top of that, my game froze randomly from as quick as within 10 minutes to hours playing it. So I was forced to speedrun it. I got up to the final battle with King K. Rool when the game froze. I WAS THAT CLOSE! 😂
5:56 The Cannon's Core glitch is actually part of an anti-piracy code. It's supposed to activate when the game suspects the copy of Sonic Adventure 2 is pirated, but due to a glitch, some legit copies of the game were affected as well. Something similar happens in some copies of Rayman 2 where the game throws up a closeup of a robot pirate's face and de-loads some of the level geometries to make the game harder to play.
Damn
oh, that reminds me of a story:
Batman Arkham Asylum had a similar trick that would let you reach a certain point, then have batman falling forever.
@@ericb3157 Actually that one is in Arkham Origins. Arkham Asylum disables the glide mechanic which is crucial in several areas
Related to piracy and Sonic Adventure:
If you pirated Sonic Adventure DX, all the music in the game (save for the main menu) would be replaced with Windy Valley's.
@@Kemuja For whatever purpose, I used to believe that was a common version shared around for pirates with lesser storage, I've heard similar stories with the FMVs being removed as well, which is what fueled my thoughts. Hearing it was a real AP actually shocked me, lmao
I remember Version 1.0 of pokemon X and Y having a huge save issue where if you saved ANYWHERE in the main section of Lumiose city, your save would get bricked upon startup. Luckily it was patched, but its kinda nuts what slips through QA testing. Though looking at modern pokemon games, I guess it was just a Prelude
More of a sign of a reprise, since the first pokemon games had *tons* of glitches, including some that ruined your save
Meh, at least they actually bother to try patching their games unlike Bethesda, who I think rely more on fan modders to fix their games.
@@Santoryu90 Yeah, but how much of that is partly because Nintendo is heavily anti-modding, I wonder?
@@justacherry4406 Idk still kinda sad for a publisher to be like that.
It's surprisingly easy to softlock platinum. Happened to me when I was a kid. The path to the distortion world never opened so I couldn't finish the story
A very early version of Skyrim, the npc that’s supposed to cure your vampirism would randomly vanish from existence. (this was before the dlc)
I had him start attacking me instead, so I couldn't finish the quest
@@sirspookybones1118on my 360 save I somehow broke vilkas ai. That fucker chased me around everywhere and if he ever gets a chance to he will forcibly open dialogue. I spent many a hours with him on my ass trying to do a quest, hell he was right their the whole time I was building my house, even fast travel wouldn't help he'd still pin point my location in minutes, now it's a bit less broken to where anytime I'm in jassvaskar he then tries to force dialogue but damn that took forever to some what fix
That happened to me. The cure vampirism quest in Oblivion is bugged too and caused dialogue options to not function.
@dragonmaster3030 that reminds me of the bug where Hadvar just follows you round Whiterun like a lost puppy. He always has his weapon drawn too, even if you don't.
@thelordelric8424
More than 10 years ago, that is what caused my 120hr run go right down the drain. I never picked it back up since.
I remember in one of my old favorite games, Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy, there's a progress halter in one of the dungeons. If you use a save point conveniently located next to a certain open door, quit and reload, then that open door will be permanently closed and the game is essentially over. You can't leave the dungeon and you can't progress, so you have to restart the whole game (and this happens midgame, a good 6 hrs in). I lost two playthroughs to that glitch. The second time wasn't even my fault, we just happened to have a power outage while I was in that one particular dungeon, and when I rebooted the game the dreaded door of doom was forever locked
The SA2 one is copy protection I’ve heard, so if it happened to random people they probably had a fault with their Dreamcast, probably the disc reader.
It’s also still possible to continue even when falling through the ground, Eggman’s Mech can hover and the level progresses in a descending manner.
Ridley is too powerful to even exist.
If you say engage ridley m🤬ther f in front of a mirror in the dark, your bank account will be empty the next time you check, but if you don't have any money anyway then he slaps you and tells you to get a job 😂.
Only Samus can defeat him.
You are not Samus.
Our three dimensions are not enough to contain Ridley
ENGAGE RIDLEY
MOTHER FUCKER
ENGAGE RIDLEY!
The kinds of glitches were the game just breaks, were polygons stretch to insane levels and people contort and clip into themselves terrify me to no end. Have any of you seen that old Corridor digital skit about glitches? It's like very uncomfortable body horror, the more realistic a game is the more I can feel the pain.
When I was little, I remember having a dream where I was being chased down by the guys from that one assassins creed game with only their teeth, hair and eyeballs showing, I swear I almost shat myself
Wonder how common this is
when I tried to emulate ninja gaiden 2 recently this was the entire game lol... wish 360 emulation was better :(
Ugh. Yes. Screw progress halters and data corruptors, character contortions are terrifying. I remember them giraffe neck soldiers in Battlefield, and the atrocity that was WWE 2K20.
at least in ksp it's funny because little green (dopey-looking) men
Missingno. cannot harm your save file, unless, for some reason, you consider HoF corruption or item duplication harmful. Other glitchmons have destructive capabilities, but Missingno. just does a steppy on the Hall of Fame, due to how the game (fails to) handles overly-large sprites.
Imagine finding you here, lol. I had to look after seeing the wording "does a steppy on" and chuckling to myself...
@@iankeith ^_^
Crash Twinsanity has a fun little glitch where you could take Cortex into the Jungle Bungle level as well as the subsequent boss fight against him (2 Cortexs basically). After the fight, if you turn the game off & come back later & try to load the file, the game will ALWAYS crash mid load. The game itself will still work, but the file’s done
I had my Wii break playing twilight princess and refuse to load the home menu.
I had to put it in a box and ship it to Nintendo , and as a kid , that was terrifying .
I’m honestly surprised you didn’t mention the freezer from Saints Row 2. It’s basically this ethereal shadow being that appears if you glitch out of bounds in that game. If it appears on your screen, the game freezes and permanently breaks the game. It’s honestly terrifying.
*Edit*
As others have pointed out, he already discussed it in another video. Definitely worth checking it out though!
He's mentioned it in a previous video
th-cam.com/video/Lb-8-BAirb8/w-d-xo.html
I think the freezer was in a previous video.
@@theonlybilgeOoooh yeah… I kinda forgot he mentioned it in that video. Thanks for the heads up.
I cannot believe that's a thing
Off topic but cool Jigen pfp
I remember there was a game breaking glitch in Pikmin where a necessary item could permanently fall out of bounds due to the game's awful physics system
ive legit had that happened to me when i got a legendary in borderlands 2
Ah yeah, if Im correct the Libra on the geiser puzzle at the Forest Navel, as the Pikmin drag the ship part over the edge, falling from the slope to continue their path, the game just fucks with the physics and one of the results is the thing bouncing off and falling to the void, luckily you just gotta reset the current day, so is only about 10 minutes lost at worst.
There's a similar glitch in Pikmin 2, due to the RNG cave generation, sometimes treasures would not just spawn, but just as well, reseting the last save (entering the cave floor) would fix that.
So glad that the Wii And Switch Version Of The game fix that problem
In the switch ver of pikmin 2 I had a similar issue with princess peaches crown. It. Would. Not. Move off the ledge. 100 pikmin? Nope. So to this day I can’t 100% pikmin 2, even on switch because of the awful physics engine.
@@Loki-bv7cx i didn’t have the issue on the peach’s crown treasure during my playthrough of Pikmin 2
14:29
"Diddy is now holding a stack of PS5 games"
I died
encountered a horrible glitch in Luigi’s Mansion I’m surprised no one else really talks about. during the final boss, I stood too close to the edge of the roof, got hit by an attack and got pushed out of bounds. stuck out of the ring
I experienced the Soul Calibur 3 glitch a few times. What made it especially frustrating was that Chronicles of the Sword mode could have a lot of time sunk into it. You also had to complete each chapter in a single play session, as you couldn't save progress until you finished/lost the mission, which could take multiple hours. That made your CotS progress even more valuable.
Twilight Princess also had a game breaking glitch! At a certain point in the game Link needs to talk to an NPC to spawn a cannon, however if the player saved and quit in the room he spawns in he’ll despawn, and Midna won’t let link teleport out the room because she thinks there is a person nearby, the door to the room can’t be exited, and the NPC dialogue can’t be triggered anyway, making progression impossible. Nintendo would send the players new games copies, there was no patch. Definitely nasty.
Did they mistakenly think there was a patch?
@@Roadent1241
Twilight Princess was a GameCube and Wii game, so I highly doubt it.
@@Rad-Dude63andathird Why do we doubt it? The Wii could connect to the internet, and I know these consoles are hackable to the tech savvy.
I remember in one of the older versions of Minecraft, there was a glitch that could cause windows to crash. Basically back them commands worked differently, there were item ID numbers instead of names. For example the command "/give [player name] 1 2" would give you two stone blocks because ID of stone is 1 and the number next to it is the amount you're getting. You could also get spawn eggs this way but you would also have to add another number for the ID of the entity you're summoning. For example "/give [player name] [ID number for spawn egg] 1 1 would give you a pig spawn egg because ID of a pig was also 1. Now this is where shit got weird. In Minecraft paintings are also considered entities, and it was possible to get a painting spawn egg using this command. The egg itself would just do nothing but when you put it in a spawner block, your entire system would crash (or maybe it is because my PC was trash, but you get the point).
launching minecraft was enough to crash my pc and turn off my city's entire powerline
@@ultracummer Did you launch a Java version after 1.12.2? Just wondering.
Reminds me how a few times Minecraft made my shitty old laptop run out of memory and I got so scared thinking I broke my whole computer
I remember the paintings themselves being so damn mysterious. Like how some paintings are haunted and the eyes follow you.
@@breannathompson9094 in many games devs do that. in castlevania dawn of sorrow there's one painting that has that feature, but it does nothing other than follow you around with its eyes
The viewtiful Joe one gave me actual chills
*There is no data.*
There was never any data.
Saddest part is that if you know what the towers/blocks mean you know immediately that the memory card is gone
15:30 F to anyone named Bob
Or Ed
Or Edd
(Eddy's fine though)
one glitch i remember for being exclusively bad was in the 3DS version of Zero Escape: Virtue's Last Reward. if you save in any of the puzzle rooms, your save file had a chance to get corrupted. although it most notoriously happened in thr P.E.C. room.
considering the game is a visual novel with 28 odd endings, that's distinctly bad. and it seems the developer Spike Chunsoft couldn't get the bug to happen at all in JP copies of the game. in the end, they declared they physically couldn't patch the glitch out, but they did release the funniest workaround ever
they just prevented you from saving in the PEC. it's just, amazing.
That sounds like my copy of Folklore. Any living world door is likely to stick you in a permaloading screen. There's one save point, and you're expected to go through at minimum two doors even if you leave the room with the save point and go back in, that's the two minimum.
You might be expected to go through 6 doorways even if it's a same one twice before you go back to the afterlife.
I genuinely just gave up and watched the rest of it.
These videos always feel kinda nostalgic? Like it's comforting and familiar. Great work as always.
Probably from the old TH-cam days. People like flippys videos on game breaking glitches, tats top 5. He just needs an awful mic from 2008
Yeah he hit my nostalgia button as well. The comfort is real.
yeah
MagicMush's videos remind me of ~2011ish 4chan /v/ when the site still actually held some discussion of video games but had moved past the site being defined by /b/ and /l/, so I'm not sure if the nostalgia you mean is the same as that site of that time period, but I certainly understand how you mean the nostalgia these videos impose.
It might be because the video is 90% nostalgic footage, possibly. Also yeah 2011 /v/ nosgalgia for sure, when you'd see Todd Howard and Skyrim 200 times a day.
Here's a fun little glitch i've experienced twice at this point. In the Phineas and Ferb game for the Nintendo DS, there's this fun little glitch that has a pretty high chance to occur. And when it does, it doesn't spawn in the VERY LAST OBJECT you need to collect to beat the game. So basically, you have to restart, and hope you don't get the glitch.
huh maybe that's why I couldn't beat the game, I never knew how to beat it lol
oh my god is THAT why i couldn't beat the game??? i thought i was just a stupid child
Holy shit really???
Thats why i could never beat it????
Wayward, I hope you realize how highly you have boosted the self-esteem of those who responded above!
There was also a weird glitch were you fly up forever after falling down a Pit.
Missingno actually can't break a copy of pokemon red or blue. Some glitch pokemon can eat your save on some releases of the game, but none can actually render the game unplayable where you cant start over.
Notably though its cousin 'M who looks the same and often appears instead of MissingNo. can cause some serious damage. Additionally the corrupted Hall of Fame is basically gurenteed to include stupid dangerous Glitchmons that upon being viewed start fucking stuff up really bad. I'm not sure how likely they are to corrupt the game beyond repair, but it definitely can happen, mainly due to Red and Blue's lack of failsafes.
In another comment i saw that a single variant of a glitch pokemon can PHYSICALLY EXPLODE A CARTRIDGE!
@@FunkyFurret 0_0
@@FunkyFurret wow, not only can Game Boys survive grenades and explosions, they ARE grenades and explosives!
@@FunkyFurret that isn't possible, whoever said that was either lying or experienced a very strange coincidence
"Kicked back to the ps2's home screen"
Tell me you've never played a ps2 without telling me you've never played a ps2.
TRUE, that never happens on a PS2 unless you reset it
Oh man I remember dealing with the Soul Calibur 3 one all the time. That game and Jak X would constantly corrupt my memory card. The “fixes” people would post back in the day never worked either. Like leaving the memory card out until you save to prevent auto saves from activating the glitch.
I once plugged an action replay into another action replay and plugged it into my dsi. It bricked it. I was a devastated child.
Meanwhile, I managed to break my action replay to where it didn't work correctly and sometimes it would accidentially boot parts of game and watch gallery instead.(Which was possible because the makers illegally stole part of its code to get past Nintendo's validationsystem, making it boot on DSI and 3DS)
Putting a Bag of Holding inside another Bag of Holding tsk tsk.
Imagine if that actually worked. You could have cheat codes for the cheat device so you could have more cheats per code! It would be the gaming equivalent of pouring milk powder into your milk to have more milk per milk!
When I was a kid, I had an extremely glitched copy of Red Dead Redemption on the PS3. It was a used copy from a pawn shop and it was covered in scratches. Funnily enough I never actually encountered any of the well known glitches like flying carts and NPCs acting like animals. The only glitches I ever had were frame drops, lag, and the game crashing. It was so bad, I could never actually beat the game because a mission in Mexico was literally unbeatable because the game would crash every single time. There were two missions earlier in the game that took me forever to beat because they would also crash a lot, but I was eventually able to get past them. Eventually, the old PS3 I was playing on also starting failing and it got to the point where the game could hardly even play normally. The console could only stay on for about an hour before it would crash. Eventually, it broke all together and I got a new PS3 and a good copy of Rdr to go with it. I was pretty mad when I got past the crashing mission in Mexico and saw that I was pretty close to beating the game.
*EVENTUALLY*
I had so many hilarious clips of horse carts on hydraulics slamming around the streets before helicoptering away into the sky
People literally walking around in the air above buildings, crazy ass lasso physics
Shit was fire
@@mr420quickscops2 Yeah that's the weird thing about my copy. I remember seeing cool glitches like that on TH-cam but I literally never was able to trigger any of those on my old copy. The I just had lag and the game crashing. Well, there was actually one kinda neat thing that happened a few times. I would be riding on my horse like normal, but the game would sorta freeze up. The music was still playing and I could still move the camera, but my horse and John were stuck in the middle of their running animation. After a few seconds, they would teleport to where they should've been and everything would go on like it never happened.
Afaik the manimal glitch is only found in the Xbox version of the game
Reminds me of our old PS3 that we still have somewhere. We used to play Dark Souls on that poor thing religiously, and when it got older the game itself saw consequences. Nothing nifty, just stuff like that one time where it took 15 minutes to load somewhere and walls becoming transparent when the console got too hot. I still find the wall transparency thing fascinating though; was it something built within the game (such as being coded to unload areas that take up too much memory to help the game run smoother) or was is something about the heat of the console that messed it up? I guess I’ll never know, but I’ll always find something fascinating about being able to basically see into the game’s code from inside the game while it’s still running. Like some sort of vivisection of a simply enthralling beast. Oh, but perhaps I have a strange perspective on things, I really don’t know.
The crazy part about the smash piranha plant glitch is that no one is exactly sure what is causing it to this day. The only theory with some merit is that the data gets weird when downloaded to certain brands of micro SD cards, which many victims of said glitch happened to possess at the time.
Had a gamecube for 8 years and played it daily for hours on end. Had no idea the memory card i had usually become corrupted if you used it on a wii. I watched my game data slowly die off untill the card stopped letting you save anything on it. Broke my heart
F
Damn, that really sucks. Hope you managed to back everything up.
@@RudolphTheRedNosedFox nope
@@johnroyal4054 oof, that sucks. Have you moved to using SD cards? Idk if that helps or if SD suffers the same data rot like the actual cards.
absolutely loving how the code is a funny sentence instead of random letters
Let alone something not only completely unintentional by the developers, but also something relevant to the game itself by the sentence alone
Im suprised you didn't mention the pokemon scarlet and violet save data corruption bug. It's extremely rare and nobody has been able to pinpoint why it happens but it'll randomly corrupt your save data for the game, making you start over from scratch
actually only from Pokémon go glitch
@@yarc9 while's being fixed, it was apparently determined that the glitch was not to do with pokemon go. Some people who didn't download/use pokemon Go still experienced the glitch. Seems the bug somehow found its way in via the update that was downloaded to fix other bugs, as to why it only affected certain people, I don't think they ever worked that out.
@@rebeccabriggs9452 I don’t really have bugs and glitches at all playing scarlet and violet
@y/arc9 not everyone got it. Those that did had their entire save file corrupted though
@y/arc9 from all accounts though it sounds like you're really lucky. Majority of reviews I've seen have mentioned serious lag and various other glitches/bugs. One of the reasons I've been reluctant to get myself a copy
My brother used missingno to complete his Pokédex and level every pokemon to 100, and he’d let me play sometimes and I’d just search for missingno hoping to find a new glitch… last time I checked his cartridge all his pokemon were gone except for the ones in his party and I just prayed he never played it again lmao
Literally impossible for Missingno to do that, he must've deleted them himself. Or you dreamed it. Or you're lying.
What still ticks me off about the Luigi's Mansion one is that there is a Boo in the room which is very likely to leave the room and have you chase it, as the videoclip showed. Boos are time sensitive when they're fleeing and grabbing an item starts a long animation that does not pause the game, so you're not gonna stop to grab the key on the way out. Oh and catching the Boo prompts you to save the game.
If you don't know the key does that, it's like that entire bit was designed to softlock you.
Is it far enough along to do the speedrun strat and go right to the final boss by clipping?
@@bsharpmajorscale The speedrun strat takes advantage of the chest from the very first boss taking just enough time to spawn in that you can go wedge behind it, so I don't know if the clip can still be performed there or anywhere else at that point
Plus I think that for the time it would take to learn you might as well replay the whole thing instead :')
@@Heriarka Right, right. I couldn't remember exactly how they get skew.
Probably. It's good that Luigi's Mansion isn't a 500 hour RPG or something.
Is the key glitch in Luigi's Mansion is fixed in the 3DS remake of the game?
19:22 It's factually incorrect that a Nintendo 3DS gets bricked by Virtual Console. The VC just starts to hang like shown in the video; in such a way the only way out is to force-power-off the console. However, no harm was done to anything. The console boots back up as normal. What's actually happening is that the game hits an illegal opcode in the virtualized NES and Virtual Console doesn't know what to do so it deadlocks itself. This particular case of false information truly spreads like wildfire and no one bothers to check that it's actually the case, like I just did.
And if there was a case where the 3DS would actually die is probably because the console is set to say goodbye at some point, be it malfunctioning RAM, the CPU and/or GPU are acting up or the VC title is corrupted and somehow the bytes line up to exploit the system.
Otherwise, I think this was a decent video.
So there's this glitch on one of my childhood games: Tomb Raider Legend. I believe it happened to me although I'm not 100% sure.
Basically there's a level in the end game where you go to England and near the end of that level there's an underground castle. Outside the castle there's multiple gears that you can interact with, but if you interact with them before the boss of that area spawns, congrats you have just killed your playthrough. There is no way of killing the boss without interacting with the gears, and if you interact with them beforehand they glitch out and don't work when you're actually meant to use them. This is very easy to do and I'm pretty sure it happened to me many moons ago.
There's a glitch in Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin, where if you skip a cutscene during the Death Boss Fight, it never sets the flag that lets you continue past that point.
My first playthrough of the game, I skipped said cutscene since I died during the fight my first attempt, and saved afterwards not knowing that I just killed my save file and had to start over.
Thats weird. I remember skipping the cutscene when i finally beat him and i didnt have any problems. Only thing weird i remember is the second attempt, after the cutscene ended the game just kinda froze and i had to reset.
@@symphony-of-the-mint2008it could just be certain regions that are affected as back then, the games used to have staggered releases
@@Cyntaria probably just the japanese and maybe pal release then. I dont know, i never heard if it was specific to certain regions
@@symphony-of-the-mint2008 the reason some glitches are region specific is because big glitches would be fixed before it was released in other regions. Usually Japan and NA would get games first, then PAL.
I looked up the glitch as I never had it and it's because it was fixed for the PAL release and a newer Japan revision. If you have an NA cart and didn't get it, it only happens if you use start to skip instead of just spamming A
@@Cyntaria i swear i just skipped it instead of spamming through but i cant be sure anymore. Oh well
Ah, glitches,
They're the "little miracles" that managed to somehow get past the development team.
Either because they weren't seen just in time before the game released,
Or because the team made a game so rushed that the code looks like utter spaghetti.
Funny story. InfernoMOO (a shard of the now-defunct HELLMOO) apparently hadn't been programmed to handle people putting lit explosives in a container.
It's since been patched but at the time it caused the whole game server to lag to the point of needing to be rolled back.
Since arming an explosive starts a timer and containers either stop timers or at least delay them significantly, naturally, this caused Problems.
I bought a copy of super Metroid that was stuck on the title screen so I returned it. Turns out the guy who used it before me was using game genie. The store took out the battery and put it back in. Cleared the save data and it’s right as rain.
There is one more notable console killer you could have included. The PSP version of NFL '07 had a severe glitch in every mode (excluding Exhibition) where if you attempted to tackle another player, it would crash the game so hard that it turns off the PSP, and makes it impossible to turn back on ever again.
And when everyone complained about it, you wanna know what EA did? They quite literally told everyone to "deal with it". They didn't even bother trying to fix it, and as a result, it potentially bricked thousands of PSPs
I experienced that Viewtiful Joe demo wipe as a kid! Ugh!
Also, Im surprised that you didn't mention Space Station Silicon Valley for the N64. That game is notorious for having a glitch that makes it absolutely impossible to 100% complete the game without cheat devices. On the very last (optional) item you have to collect in the game, they forgot to enable the collision detection for it, meaning you cannot collect it. I don't know if they fixed the glitch for the PS1 port (which is under a different name), but that version has plenty of its own problems. Also, SSSV is known to randomly crash if you're playing it with the Expansion Pack instead of the stock Jumper Pack in the N64.
The PS1 port did fix it
played this game as a kid, got genuinely frustrated because I couldn't finish it, now I know why
I was playing Pokemon Super Mystery Dungeon a few weeks ago and I walked out of Pelipper Island and the game told me its save data was corrupted and that I had to press A to restart the save file. I took the cartridge out of the 3DS and put it back in, and everything was fine. The game even saved the progress I made while playing that night. What a weird glitch.
That reminds me of one time, I was playing Lego Star Wars on the Gamecube with my older brother's memory card. The disc was heavily scratched, and this was after I found out if the game told you the game this could not be read, you could just take it out and put it back in, and it would start working again, but I'd have to reinsert it every couple of minutes. Eventually, it told me instead that an error has occurred and to turn the console off, and when I did, it told me that the memory card was corrupted and I needed to reformat it. I freaked out and thought I was screwed, until I took the card out and put it back in, and it worked completely fine, no reformat needed.
I saw mappy land during the game break section transition and I got really excited thinking someone was gonna talk about it. You glitched my experience by hyping me up.
funnily enough, that viewtiful joe 2 bug seemingly passed onto something FAR worse, back during the early days of rotmg exalt, the DECA launcher would flat out delete your ENTIRE HDD that it was downloaded on when you use the uninstaller, which ended up getting fixed eventually, but it was flat out horrendous.
Do even if you stop playing ROTMG, you can't escape a painful death
One I experienced first-hand was the infamous "endless falling" in Batman Arkham: Origins, where you have to enter a criminal gang club and there is a high probability that when you jump down the floor, you fall endlessly while the game saves automatically, making your file an endless falling Batman into the void softlocked.
It happens quite in the middle of the game after you get hooked on the villain story... then you have to start over again from zero hoping it won't happen again
19:02 - Honestly, the password itself just says it all at this point 😂🤣
13:41 Hey! Missingno is not harmful.
Missingno. cannot harm your save file. Missingno. cannot harm your save file. Missingno. cannot harm your save file. Unless you consider HoF (hall of fame) corruption harmful, or duplicating rare candies. It is not harmful.
You may be thinking of superglitch (such as the TM moves/TM Trainer Effect) or the ZZAZZ glitch, or the numerous glitch Pokémon and trainers that can actually mess up your save, but Missingno isn’t one of them.
Unless you caught a Fossil/Ghost version and encountered a Pokémon with a Super Glitch move as a starting move (ex: the Pokemaniac type glitch Pokémon) before that, R/B MissingNo is harmless! Yellow MissingNo, however…
@@cattenchaostherandomperson so like the OP said. That would be Superglitch breaking your game, not MissingNo itself.
There's multiple Missingnos. I think M is the missingno that fucks things up
@@Cyntaria "MissingNo" in the eyes of many just refers to a glitch pokemon. however, there are only 39 hexadecimal spots that have true MissingNo. all others are pure garbage data that is read by the game and are generally more unstable. but yes, 'm is more volatile than MissingNo.
P R E A C H!! Justice for this glitchy boi, literally everything that goes wrong with ur games gets blamed on him
Besides data loss or corruption, game crashes are easily my biggest pet peeve. LOOKING AT YOU SKYRIM!
Im looking at LEGO GAMES FOR THE WIIU
Looking at you with the disappointment of broken hopes, Spore flora editor (no matter how much it's modded with fixes)
If only Maxis officially finished your development
There's a glitch in Soul Reaver 2 where the door to the dungeon exit won't open and when you walk away and come back, it's just... Sealed. You're trapped in the dungeon forever.
Apparently this is caused by scaring the crows away outside the dungeon before you go in. Which is REALLY HARD when you have bad impulse control lol. Terrifying when it happened to me, especially since the last save point is way back before you even discover the dungeon. So much lost progress
The most significant glitch I ever experienced was on Hannah Montana DS oddly enough lol. I'd played the same copy a million times since I was a kid so it wasn't a huge blow, but, I got to the second chapter, like more than halfway through that I was supposed to talk to the school janitor I think, pick up some papers he dropped and give them to him. After I gave them to him, he told me to go talk to someone in the cafeteria I believe. But for some reason, I have no idea why this happened, but when I tried, the person in the cafeteria never triggered the correct dialogue, and every time I exited and reentered the teacher's lounge, I had to find and give the janitor his papers back, every time. No matter how many times I did it, I was stuck in an endless loop and couldn't progress any further. Nothing like that had ever happened to me in that game before and I still have no idea why it happened. Very weird lol I couldn't find anything about it online so I figured there was just nothing I could do about it. It's either busted forever or I'll try again in a new save file and it'll be fine. No idea.
don't you hate it when your spiderwife falls out of the map
happens more then i like
I dont know why but glitches have always fascinated me and I wish there was more interesting content about it like this on youtube that arent just lists of glitches everyone knows. One of the first things I ever remember looking up on youtube was "video game glitches"
There's a Missingno fighter in the Rivals of Aether workshop and it's honestly super impressive how far it can go in terms of screwing up your game, even outside of a proper match. Character select portraits will glitch out, stage colors could change, music could just stop, I'm pretty sure some moves are completely locked behind the guy bugging out. It's really some insane stuff.
"You get booted back to the PS2 start screen, and nothing seems out of the ordinary..."
Bruh, I felt my heat sink when there were no grey blocks on that start screen after the crash
You can fix that 3DS "brick" by holding the power button until it shuts off.
only in later versions
Will murder your thumb considering how long that takes in general, though
15:24 I had a stroke because I thought the Scott the Woz video ended. 💀 my brain is rotten
jak x: combat racing had something sorta like the viewtiful joe thing. if you played on a PS2 slim with the black-label version (as in the non greatest hits version), when the game autosaved, the icon would appear forever. this could lead to anything from the game save data being corrupted, undeletable corrupt blocks appearing on your memory card, and yes, the whole memory card being corrupted. the only ways to fix it were A. to just play the greatest hits version (which you were also able to mail your old copy in for), or B. after loading your save, take the memory card out while playing the game until you're done, then put it back in and save from there.
'ENGAGE RIDLEY MOTHER FUCKER' is so great because it feels like you're shouting to the heavens at the metroid gods for a true challenge. a real 'Strike me down if you dare, Zeus!" moment.
Especially since it's in all caps too
Interesting fact: back in the day, there was a bug in Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire that would cause berries to stop growing. Nintendo urged players to send in their copies to have it fixed, and those who did got a free shiny zigzagoon in their pc for the trouble.
It's not a bug, it happens when the game battery runs dry. The game tells you when it happens too
@LedYouAshtray Yes and no. A dry battery will keep berries from growing, but there is also a glitch where berries won't grow during a save's second real time year. This was fixed by advancing the clock by a year, and it's wild how many things Nintendo made fix it when used: e-Reader cards, linking to later Gen 3 games, linking to the Gamecube games, linking to Pokemon Box storage. Pretty much doing anything except linking between Ruby and Sapphire fixes it.
Also you could patch it through getting Emerald and doing a data transfer to them through it iirc
I love game breaking glitches videos like this. They always had an aura of mystery around the glitches mentioned in the videos. So glad we’re getting a another one of those videos in the modern day.
Probably the best reward I’ve ever gotten for turning in a random art response two minutes before the deadline. New Magic Mush, White 2, cat. Life is good.
White 2 like the Pokémon game?
Those are certainly all words
Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy has a really bad one, if you save at a normal save point at a certain part and then game over, when you load that save again a door needed to progress is permanently closed (similar to Metroid Other M). This was really bad because the game was hard so you were likely to game over (and that part was one of the hardest in the game), and save points were easily an hour or even two hours apart in most cases so you were very likely to game over there, and it was half-way into the game easily 10-20 hours lost because it was a lengthy game. And it was a linear game, not open-world so there was a good chance you'd get stuck. Thankfully it's as you said, they remastered it on GoG and quickly and easily made an update patch, since patches on PS2 weren't really a thing. Interestingly there were old game patches back in the 90's and 2000s, but generally only on the PC. Like in the PC release of Mafia they released a patch to reduce the difficulty of the racing mission.
There was a glitch in the ''black label'' version of Jak X on ps2, which had a chance of being stuck constantly saving and if you restart you either will not have your save or stuck with a somewhat undeletable corrupted save. There is kinda a way to delete the corrupted save by playing gran turismo on ps2 which had a save editor that could also be used to delete saves from other games including some corrupted saves. Its called the Jak X Autosave glitch.
I've heard of restarting save files to undo a nasty glitch, but I didn't think a nasty glitch would INVOLVE saving over and over again in itself
Then again, to be fair, I've never even heard of Jak X's existence before hearing about this either
(Also you said some form of "Save" 8 times in that comment. Not complaining, since it makes the comment make more sense, I just thought it was funny)
Imagine a bug that’s so bad you need a completely different game just to fix it
the soul calibur 3 glitch pissed me off so hard growing up. finally got back to where i was only to find out the final boss is impossible to beat if you didnt grind out every single unit to max level.
In GTA 3 if you don't do the missions in a specific order, you can be locked out of 100% completion. This is because if you pass a mission which kills another character that also has missions, causing it to permanently lock. The main storyline can be completed, but you can't get 100%.
Loved to glitch my old copy of Pokémon blue. I did so many glitches and sought out more each play through, even completed the Pokédex with glitches alone via teleport glitch. But one glitch that really messed up one play through was catching a Kabutops fossil by doing the teleport glitch on Lavender town/ route 8. After I caught the fossil, every time I entered route 8 it would make the game extremely slow (like walking and using the start menu). It was only on that route no other route was affected. In the end, I restarted the game and it was fixed.
did you get an error message when you walked into the route?
This is why game QA is important. Good video as always! 👍
Something I remember about Missingno is that people made concept art for what it would “really” look like as a Pokémon, not a random glitchy rectangle thing.
From what I remembered, some people interpreted it as a flamingo, and others interpreted it as a vulture with a similar color palette to the infamous glitched rectangle.
The fan art I saw of the vulture used to absolutely **TERRIFY** me as a child. I have no idea why. Admittedly, I haven’t seen it in years, so I’m not sure if I’d still be scared by it. Still don’t have the guts to search it up again, though. Younger me was weird, and that vulture fan art was genuinely one of my biggest fears. I don’t even think normal vultures are that scary.
Again, it’s been so long, so maybe I got it all wrong with these being “fan art”. Maybe they were scrapped Gen 1 Pokémon designs? I don’t really play Pokémon, but my brother does a lot, so I’m more than acquainted with a lot of things about the series.
They likely interpreted it as a bird because of it's typing, which iirc is an nonexistent "bird" type. My bet is that the fanart was creepy in nature because of how inherently "creepy" Missingno is. It's a being that shouldn't be, after all.
i think missingno is meant to be a placeholder
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Over 20 years later and I learn this just now. For over 20 years I thought it was my fault the computer broke!
I remember being really careful on my playthrough of virtue's last reward because it had a well-known glitch where if you saved in the PEC escape section, your save file could get bricked. Also just recently I was playing through Eastshade for the first time, and the final quest bugged out to the point where I couldn't finish the game right at the very end.
That Sonic Adventure 2 one was actually a form of DRM. It was somehow able to detect if the copy you're playing was cracked and set the level to have no collision accordingly. This was in 2001 after all, after the death of the Dreamcast and during the height of Dreamcast piracy. Still extremely irritating though. I've read a few stories of people who were able to glide Eggman over to where his level exit is which is crazy. Had to have been pure luck but judging by the state of SA2 speedrunning it's totally possible.
But why put an anti piracy measure at the end of the game?
@@theunknown2343 according to The Cutting Room Floor: "The game runs a disc check to make sure it is being run from an official GD-ROM rather than a copied disc. If this check fails, Eggman will fall through the floor when he starts his section of Cannon's Core, although the level can still be completed by navigating to the end. This cannot happen on emulators, even when using a pirate copy." My guess is if the people who got that far really enjoyed the game at that point, they'd buy it to see how it ends.
My guess as to why emulators never have a problem with this check is because the Dreamcast probably checks if it's being booted from MIL-CD mode, which is the exploit that allowed pirated games to be played. Dreamcast emulators don't even bother with the bios let alone the copy checks and boot routine, so the game just assumes it's running off of a gd rom.
@@theunknown2343 so the people trying to crack the game have to spend the time to play through the entire game to make sure it works properly
I consider this as an unofficial sequel to top 40 game breaking glitches
I love this, it felt like there's so many game breaking glitches i've yet to hear, it's just interesting to hear about games not working properly especially if it could change the game, it's shown through multiple n64 games for speedrunning and stuff from the 90s and 00s having game breaking glitches
It's interesting becuase just one letter or number in a line of code can cause CATASTROPHIC consequences! And then there's the crazy shit like that Mario 64 speedrun that can't be replicated due to a fucking solar flare causing it!
@@darienb1127 I assume you're refering to the clock tower warp and it's been proven to be the work of cosmic rays flipping a single thing in the ram that changes the value in the ram therefor changing the position of mario.
The Eggman glitch wasn't so much as a glitch, but was in fact an Anti Piracy measure from what I read anyway). What _was_ a game-breaking glitch in SA2 was checking the Chao Doctor about how many times your Chao has reincarnated (in the original Dreamcast version) in International copies - due to poor translation, the game will heavily bug out and inevitably crash. This can end up corrupting the save data.
I think one of the funniest oversights in gaming comes in pokemon red/blue. Say you really wanted that ivysaur, so much so that you grinded to get it before you got your Pokédex. While now you can’t get your Pokédex because the game thinks you already have it.
i looked that up and apparently it only happens in pokemon green, not red/blue. still a huge (and quite comical) oversight though
I cannot but feel bad for the kids who wake up on a christmas day, had their new game and game console and then they find those glitches and brick everything
You have to feel bad for the parents, too. All that money that went down the drain.