What was the last game glitch/bug/etc you encountered?

[Haoie]

Everyone hates glitches and bugs, except those that can be exploited. My latest encounter wasn't exploitable at all. In fact it was the worst type, the type that can cause you to never progress any further.

It was in the rather lame PS title, Martian Gothic, and it was well documented in FAQs, and called the "respirator glitch". At a point in the game, your character is meant to enter a room and use an item called the respirator. This then would promptly cause the game to totally freeze up. This happens randomly, but according the FAQs, the longer you've kept the console on, the more likely it'll occur. It potentially can cause you to stop there forever.

Crap. Another game I'll never finish.

[Ed Oscuro]

My last glitch was awesome, I'm amazed I forgot to write it down. I was playing my Konami GB Collection cart (official Euro release for GB/GBC) and went to make a jump in the first level of Probotector - I believe it was the jump at the second ground-level turret (there is another on tracks above you), and I missed the jump, sort of...I landed at the bottom of the screen, sort of inside the wall. I didn't have to run forward to stay there, and I was able to simply jump up the wall and keep playing. Fun! :D

[Teo]

I turtle tipped in mario bros. 1

[SlayerOfFurbies]

The last Gaming glitch i came across was in Sphynx, i saved at the wrong time, died and when i reloaded the save the way i needed to go was blocked. i had to start again, pissed me right off

[Yago]

Just recently I was playing KISS Psycho Circus on the Dreamcast. I was using a whip to latch onto a cliff on the other side of this large hole in the ground. I latched the whip onto the hook to pull myself across and at that point the game just froze completely. I tried it again a couple days later and it did it again! No scratches on the CD or anything, makes me mad, grrrrrrr.

[Videogamerdaryll]

A PSI Ops can't lift the canisters Glitch,That I read about over at Gamefaqs after my frustration.. :angry:
It's in the !!!!BOSS BATTLE!!!!MARLENA KESSLER/To fight the machine, toss the canisters at the gun.

I'm stuck in that game as I don't have previous save to load up before the glitch.. :/


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And this one below(my last) as I wrote in Gamplay..(IMO a Glitch)
I realized these men being stuck kept a whole other group from advancing too..

Medal Of Honor European Assault
So I gave it another go>Trying to finish this game.
I reached the inner compound with a good amount of life and revives only to find out my men were stuck somewhere.
I could move the icon to control them but they were stuck in the previous part of the level..A part I can see but can't get back to..I have yet to get this far with them alive..Then damn it they are glitched stuck.
I go in alone as I really need help and get my ass kicked...Aggravatingly kicked..

Start over from the beginning keeping my soldiers close and directing them into the second zone.
It seems there are railed to go thee yet something caught them up before.
This time around I seem to have bad luck as I'm in suck bad shape by the time I reach the compound that no way will I make it alone...I had ran into a detection glitch..I was shooting directly at an enemy and not hitting him/them but getting hit by them bad..and I had a clear shot.
Finally I get my guys up to the compound and they kinda help(draw fire) to take out two frontal enemies then they just go blank..
My icon/ability to control them disappears and they just stand there getting shot but not hit..sort of transparent.
Ahhhhhhhhh...All that wasted time keeping them alive was for nothing as they don't go into the compound with me.
I might as well just let them get killed,get stuck ..whatever.
Still after playing it smart going in alone even with no life I get hammered..

[sabre2922]

The worst of any recent games was GTA:vice city on Xbox I remember my car dipping into some of the bridges and getting completely stuck also the character getting stuck in walls etc. I think it was a shit port anyway so many glitches :angry:

The most recent I experienced was Stolen now I know Ive been singing the praises of this slightly flawed game and was blissfully anaware that blue52 (the developer) had since been disbanded but if this game had just had a few more weeks of tweaking it could have been great :/

[Rogmeister]

The only glitches I've encountered recently are actually at the DP Arcade. In Donkey Kong, sometimes all the barrels don't disappear...one will stay at the bottom right where Mario is at the start of the next level and WHAM WHAM WHAM your game is over. Then on Home Run Derby, after the first game, your hitter faces away from the plate...but if you swing, you still hit the ball.

[THATinkjar]

I don't know if it is well documented (I certainly haven't seen any information), and I don't know if it was an intentional inclusion in Tekken 5, but you can access a rather nifty debug screen in the arcade ports of Tekken 1, 2 and 3. You can change one or two things - and it probably existed on the arcade hardware.

That was the last thing I've seen.

[Slimedog]

In Mace Griffin, I found a part in one of the cave levels where you can jump from a bridge onto a nearby ledge. The area around this ledge is unfinished and there is an exit that leads off the map. If you fall off here, you fall forever and you can look back and watch the whole level getting smaller and smaller in the distance. The really strange thing was that the ledge you jump to was right next to the bridge and pretty obvious. I figured there were hidden items over there. Probably indicates that the game spent no time in QA at all. The game also crashed in several places for me.

[Daria]

Tales of Phantasia. I "randomly" aquired 99 of the second most powerful weapon in the game, in the first dungeon. Took me awhile to realize that I never needed to upgrade my weapon, I just assumed the game was really easy.

[Teo]

encountered a few in the arcade, donkey kong barrel glitch did me in but didn't matter since it was on the 3rd round.

[legov8]

About three weeks ago I was playing Spongebob Battle for Bikkini Bottom (GameCube). I was on Squidward's dream level (the one where you hop on all the notes). Anyhow, I was falling of this note a lot. Then after falling a few times the hand put spongebob back at the checkpoint, BUT ALL OF SPONGBOB'S COLOR WAS GONE. So I hoped around for a little bit, fell down, came back without color, fell again, and came back with color.

[hydr0x]

last console glitch:

Super Mario Sunshine (GC, PAL), if you rocket jump to a specific blue coin in that first world (with the windmills) the game freezes, every time... wonder how they missed that :/

[Aussie2B]

The most recent one? Well, I've been playing Final Fantasy on NES, and in the first dungeon, the one in which you fight Garland, I walked into a room with a treasure chest, and when I left the room, passing through the door, another door tile appeared a few tiles below, outside of the walls of the dungeon in the empty black space. Kinda funky. :)

[Haoie]

Tales of Phantasia. I "randomly" aquired 99 of the second most powerful weapon in the game, in the first dungeon. Took me awhile to realize that I never needed to upgrade my weapon, I just assumed the game was really easy.

That's probably because you're using an outdated translation patch. Check out Dejap for the latest.

[Kilik Kurosawa]

Tennis
Original Game Boy

play on level four and step back from the service line, wait for the computer to return the ball and press B and UP to lob over, if you catch it right before it hits the ground the second time, the ball will easily clear the net and stop dead without bouncing. found this last week while in the lav.

[pseudonym]

halo 2. we were playing a multiplayer match on ascension and my brother was flying around in the banshee. he hit me with it dead-on having used the turbo beforehand, and it knocked me very far off the playing field into the clouds. i didn't die but i was able to walk around for a good while before i finally fell through the clouds and died.

[RJ]

Slimedog wrote:
In Mace Griffin, I found a part in one of the cave levels where you can jump from a bridge onto a nearby ledge....Probably indicates that the game spent no time in QA at all. The game also crashed in several places for me.

Thats OK bc not long after that, there's a level ("Rustlers") where you have to shoot down TONS of enemy ships & then board an enemy freighter- all in about 7 min. I quit/shelved the game at that point bc I consider it humanly impossible. That particular situation also prompted my sig below.

Most of the reviews deemed the space combat/flight portions "abysmal".

Cheat codes never worked either- at least w/ a level skip I could keep playing...

[SamuraiSmurfette]

Oh jeez. Where do I begin? I seem to have a knack for finding these. Here's some from my most recent games.

God Of War: On the last Hydra battle on the first level. You have to hop up the crates, and jump on top of the anchor, in order for it to drop and pin down the hydra's head. Only, I missed jumping on the anchor. The cut scene started anyways, showing the anchor crashing down, only I was in mid-air floating during the scene. And when the scene finished, I got "You are dead!"

Jade Empire: I was fighting one of the earlier bosses (don't remember his name...evil guy...father of jerk kid?) but I transformed into toad style and started fighting. My chi ran out, so I was about to transform back, when the other guy pulled off a transformation of his own (dragon). So....I went back to doing my normal fighting style, but my character was still a toad.

Halo: It was one of the flood levels, with the broken doors that are on fire. I was playing 2-player co-op, and we were hiding in a corner waiting for our sheilds to regenerate, when my friend thought it would be funny to jump on my head, to see if he could stand on top of me. He could. So I looked straight up, and laughing, said I could shoot him in the ass. So I blasted him...with a shotgun. Instant kill. But since I was player 1, he respawned *slightly* behing me. In a wall. Well, behind one of the flaming broken doors in a small chamber. He had to stand in the flames so that he'd die and respawn elsewhere.

A good one from a friend of mine: He was playing a wrestling game (I think the first GC one) but, his character rendered in all heads. The arms were made up of all heads, the torso was a head, etc. Never could replicate that one, though.

[Mianrtcv]

Don't know if this is considered a glitch. I played over 15 seasons of Madden 2005 as the Raiders (no team allegiance just wanted to try them). 15 seasons and the team is completely mine, no holdovers or throwbacks or remakes of greats from the past. Just my trades, drafts and other signings. Mid season 16 th year just before the trade deadline some moves to be made ahead and BLAM! PEACE, to the saved files. I needless to say reached for my thesaurus and begin to describe my feelings in deep and personal ways. I also tried like infinity times to figure out what happened. Outside possibility it was the infamous demo disc from a while back that is the culprit but cant remember when or if that is it.

So I decide to finish Dragon Warrior 3 on the GBA and then not a glitch but doom by my own hand. First I screw up a save file by not properly saving before shutting. Then when I do complete it, I dont get to do my "victory lap because I hit the last town and ended my run abruptly. The mind is fading but that is the basic outline of some recent events.

[§ Gideon §]

Super Mario Sunshine: I went under the Pianta village. This glitch is cooler than the famous SM64 "inside the castle" trick, but it's harder to do.

It's beautiful down there, in the darkness beneath the night sky. You can see the whole island.

[dieourumov]

I was playing the Demonic Defend-The-Castle type game we have here at DP and one of the catapults wouldn't die, so i just had to sit there in agony as my castle was destroyed and my hardwork was erased.

[Videogamerdaryll]

I wrote a better explanation of the glitch occurrence tonight,but my server went nuts so I lost all I typed..(Heck with it)
Anyway it was in:Medal Of Honor European Assault


North Africa missions.
I found a glitch where I walked up an invisible wall that separated the bottom and top level..From the top level to the bottom is a small drop but the game forces me to go around..You just have to go around and it's stupid..
I was trying to force myself over the edge looking for a break point that would let me fall to the level below without having to go all the way around, as it's not a high drop....As I try I snag a invisible incline that takes me high above my men..then if I keep going and press to the side I wind up falling to the level below.. but now on the below/other side..(sometimes)..I did it over and over)
After falling below:
My men were trying to get to me but the glitch had them almost stuck as now they are to far from me and the game is confused...my men only get so far from me..they are programmed to stay a certain feet from me...I had started to go around to get to them but before I did that they seemed to squeeze between the invisible wall and fall to the level below.
...........the game has just been weird tonight,my men have been getting stuck in places more then ever.

Above my men..
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[Haoie]

With PC titles, glitches are far less of an issue. There are always plenty of patches/fixes.

With console, it's a different story. Like with my Martian Gothic, there's really no way to patch or fix, so if it's a fatal bug you're screwed any which way.

Maybe that's why PC games are buggier in general?