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Glitches are a normal part of games. They can be game breaking, twisted to our advantage, hilarious, or down right disturbing. So, ever encountered a glitch so bizarre, hilarious or rage inducing it stuck with you well after the fact? Let's hear some stories!
Of course, it's not very fair if I ask for stories without giving one of my own . . .
It's been years now . . . maybe 11 or more at this point. I grew up playing The Legend of Zelda series, still play it today, still love it as much as I did then. I don't really remember which Zelda game was my first, either Ocarina of Time or Majora's Mask. I remember getting to play them once a year at my cousin's house until I'd gotten an N64 of my own.
The glitch that sticks out to me the most happened while playing Majora's Mask. While certainly not BEN DROWNED levels of insanity, it was plenty unnerving to little 10yr old me. I shared a young with my younger sister's at the time, we had a little tv in there to play SNES and N64 games on. I wanted to take another crack at trying to get through the Great Bay Temple. (Young me was not very good with puzzles, mind you) So I turn on the TV, turn on the game and-
The save files were gone . . .
Both of them. (I'd kept the original owner's file because he was further than me and I liked getting to run around with the extra masks)
So what's the first thing a kid with younger siblings would do? Blame them for messing with your stuff and deleting your files of course. As always though, they swore up and down they had nothing to do with it. Ugh, yeah right. Fine, whatever, I'll make another save file. Start the game back up and sit through the intro cutscene. Everything's fine until the cutscene's end. The moment I gained control of Link, he died. Just, keeled over. Luckily for me he at least respawned where you start and not in some weird, out of bounds spot. Unluckily for me, this bug wasn't done just yet. Immediately I noticed I had no sword or shield, and all the C-Items were Ocarinas of Time. I paused the game to bring up the inventory and every single slot was an ocarina.
Bottles? Ocarinas. Key items? Ocarinas. Mask!?
Ocarinas.
By that point, 10yr old me had enough and turned the game off. I pulled the cartridge out (Likely blew in it) and put it back in. When I turned the console back on lo and behold all my saves were back. Everything was fine after that. It was such a bizarre thing that happened, it never really did leave me.
A friend happened to quote some lines from that Haunted Majora's Mask creepypasta and reminded me of this little series of events. Finally I actually looked it up to see if anyone else encountered at least something similar. Wouldn't you know it was because my cartridge wasn't inserted all the way . . . Essentially a crooked cartridge glitch taken to the extreme. This link here explains what's going on and how to get something really similar to what happened to me. http://www.jaytheham.com/zcw/Majora's_Mask_Crooked_Cartridge_-_48_Ocarinas
So that's hands down the most memorable glitch I've encountered so far.
Now it's you turn, what have you stumbled across over the years?
Of course, it's not very fair if I ask for stories without giving one of my own . . .
It's been years now . . . maybe 11 or more at this point. I grew up playing The Legend of Zelda series, still play it today, still love it as much as I did then. I don't really remember which Zelda game was my first, either Ocarina of Time or Majora's Mask. I remember getting to play them once a year at my cousin's house until I'd gotten an N64 of my own.
The glitch that sticks out to me the most happened while playing Majora's Mask. While certainly not BEN DROWNED levels of insanity, it was plenty unnerving to little 10yr old me. I shared a young with my younger sister's at the time, we had a little tv in there to play SNES and N64 games on. I wanted to take another crack at trying to get through the Great Bay Temple. (Young me was not very good with puzzles, mind you) So I turn on the TV, turn on the game and-
The save files were gone . . .
Both of them. (I'd kept the original owner's file because he was further than me and I liked getting to run around with the extra masks)
So what's the first thing a kid with younger siblings would do? Blame them for messing with your stuff and deleting your files of course. As always though, they swore up and down they had nothing to do with it. Ugh, yeah right. Fine, whatever, I'll make another save file. Start the game back up and sit through the intro cutscene. Everything's fine until the cutscene's end. The moment I gained control of Link, he died. Just, keeled over. Luckily for me he at least respawned where you start and not in some weird, out of bounds spot. Unluckily for me, this bug wasn't done just yet. Immediately I noticed I had no sword or shield, and all the C-Items were Ocarinas of Time. I paused the game to bring up the inventory and every single slot was an ocarina.
Bottles? Ocarinas. Key items? Ocarinas. Mask!?
Ocarinas.
By that point, 10yr old me had enough and turned the game off. I pulled the cartridge out (Likely blew in it) and put it back in. When I turned the console back on lo and behold all my saves were back. Everything was fine after that. It was such a bizarre thing that happened, it never really did leave me.
A friend happened to quote some lines from that Haunted Majora's Mask creepypasta and reminded me of this little series of events. Finally I actually looked it up to see if anyone else encountered at least something similar. Wouldn't you know it was because my cartridge wasn't inserted all the way . . . Essentially a crooked cartridge glitch taken to the extreme. This link here explains what's going on and how to get something really similar to what happened to me. http://www.jaytheham.com/zcw/Majora's_Mask_Crooked_Cartridge_-_48_Ocarinas
This trick is actually a way of duplicating a certain hardware error that occurs when the cartridge is not inserted properly or otherwise cannot be "read" properly by the N64. This error causes any saved files to not appear, and if a new file is started, all saved data is written as zeros -- or not written at all.
If this happens to you, turning off the N64, taking out the cartridge and then firmly reinserting it should cause your save files to reappear and your game to write data properly.
So that's hands down the most memorable glitch I've encountered so far.
Now it's you turn, what have you stumbled across over the years?