Odd bugs/glitches you've experienced

In Max Payne 1 on the PS2 when you're in the diner just before the bomb goes off I jumped up onto a hanging lamp above a table and when I fell off it onto the table it played the highly dramatic fall damage death animation of Max landing on his stomach and flinging up before falling back down dead even though he only fell a distance of about a foot, that was funny as hell.

In Fallout on the Xbox 360 I noticed Dogmeat was no longer following me and when I looked around for him I saw him floating high up in the sky with all his limbs extremely outstretched and flailing around wildly.
 
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Years and years ago when Rift first came out, I was playing it with friends when (unbeknownst to me at the time) the fan on my video card had stopped working and it was overheating. The graphics were glitching out weirdly in a 3d space, looking almost like particles of glitchy "dust" everywhere. Then I noticed the glitchy trees and other scenery before I smelled melting plastic and quickly figured out what was happening. I had screenshots but my hard drive ended up failing a few years later and I lost them. It was really cool, if not for my video card dying.
 
In Dragon Ball Xenoverse I somehow managed to repeatedly glitch the ultimate move Final Shine such that it made the user invincible but stuck in place while the beam of the attack continued indefinitely or until the opponent is dead. Pretty sure they never bothered fixing it.
 
My PS2 has a tendency of basically playing with itself. Only happens if I'm playing Suikoden 3 or Dragon Quest 8. It will start selecting things in the menus on its own. Mostly during battles.

Used to do the Missingno glitch because it made the Hall of Fame worth looking at. Sometimes, I'd get weird cries from glitch Pokemon that sometimes doubled as decent songs. Always enjoyed that.


Phantasy Star 4 has a glitch where you get punished for reaching max level. Some newer releases have this fixed.

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Tempted to play this game just to see which ones i get, it'll be like glitch pokemon only less destructive to my game system.
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If you want to see them, don't install any patches. This got fixed later on.
 
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Dunno if anyone else ever experienced this one, but back in the AssCreed III naval battles there was a bit of a glitch I liked to call the Flying Dutchman. Sank a decent sized ship and stayed next to it so the sinking animation would pull the Aquila down, and as the Aquila went down the seas parted. Then the sunk ship despawned after a spell and shat the Aquilla back up to the surface with a slight jump. Was a glitch I liked to enable.
 
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When I was a kid, I discovered in The Lion King (the Mega Drive version) that if you happen to jump at the same time as the hyena enemy, the hyena will jump in place instead of over Simba. I actually exploited that for a while.
 
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You would never believe what happened to my Links Awakening cartridge I once had. This story is completely unbelievable, and it's too bad it didn't happen in time for the Smart Phone to be a thing, as having one would make this story easy to prove. But here goes.

Links Awakening has a ton of glitches. Though I dont think anyone has really documented them properly.

Heck, I was 8 years old when I discovered the Tail Cave Glitch World and explored all over observing the whacked out enemies. The fifth dungeon boss transformed into a snake made out of Mr. Wright copies!

But then there was the Select Glitch, which I didnt learn about until after 2000, as I hadn't discovered it myself. I became obsessed with finding new things to do. Travel all over Koholint with the introduction music. Get all sorts of weapons before the Sword. Well, I ended up going too far to see how much I could break the game.

And I literally broke it.

I dont exactly remember what led up to this, it happened in 2003, and I was just frolicking and fiddling around with a Swordless-run. I decided to emphasize on getting the Magic Rod first. But first, I needed the Bow. Now, everyone knows in Links awakening you can steal items from the Shop, but if you do, the shopkeeper will kill you if you reenter and your Save name becomes "Theif"

Well, something really weird happened when the Shopkeeper killed me. All three of my Save Files were erased and replaced with Corrupt tiles. I could not delete any. All three of them sent me into the Kanalet Castle yard, with no Weapons at all. Most peculiar was the Sprite of the Ghost of the Bay, frozen static in the middle of each screen.

I was freaked out. All of the save files were like this. I knew Links Awakening was glitchy, but this took the cake for me.

Due to being a complete moron, I took the small Game Boy cart, and threw it in the trash. I literally broke my game. I thought it would never work again.

If I still had it, I could easily back this story up with the advent of Smart Phones, but I guess it couldn't happen.
 
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My job requires me to find bugs in programs. Currently my "favourite" one is a bug where after trying to uninstall the program to see if everything get's removed it wipes the hard drive, similar to what Magic the Gathering Arena was reported to be doing. Luckily I do most of my work on VM's. Other bugs I've found in programs is early alpha builds where they not only wont save any progress you've made but black screen you, not even a BSOD, black screen. Another bug that would forget the information you put down to make an account and insta ban you for trying to get into the program. Encryption programs forgetting the password you used so if you want your data you'll have to find some way to brute force it.
 
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The best kinds of glitches are the ones that give different results every time.
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Sketch Glitch Exhibition

EDIT: I've come to understand that due to the nature of the sketch glitch this video is not a definitive guide of the glitch and it's guaranteed effects, jus...
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EarthBound – Episode 22: In-Tents Nightmares

Threed might be safe from zombies, but we find it still has some spooky magic left... Playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_sYhAj0WXRNAq14rcgKF7K...
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EarthBound – Episode Tent

I spend three hours alone with this glitch to learn more about it! Playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_sYhAj0WXRNAq14rcgKF7KZmGz8R3Xrh Second c...
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DKC2 Castle Crush Glitch Compilation (on real hardware!)

I've been wanting to do this for a while now, and I finally got around to it. This is a compilation of the infamous glitch in the Castle Crush level in Donke...
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Daggerfall has a glitch that allows you to steal from a shop without getting in trouble. You can sell your "legally" obtained goods back to your victim. Due to how the game handles its economy, don't do this often. You'll end up driving the price of high level swords down drastically.

Yeah, this game has an in-depth economy you can sabotage. Something Todd Howard claimed Skyrim would have. A game from 1996 has a better economic system than one from 2011.

Anyway, loiter around in a general store until it closes. Now start taking stuff off the shelves and sell anything you don't want. It's that easy. No precise timing, no doing fifty back flips. Just loitering.

This game is filled with useful glitches and exploits.

Daggerfall: Cheats - The Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages (UESP)

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Skyrim had an awesome way to get whatever you wanted they kept the inventory of shops in "chests" hidden underground and invisible. One they forgot to hide and you could loot it and just take huge amounts of items for free.
 
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Aberforth said:
Daggerfall has a glitch that allows you to steal from a shop without getting in trouble. You can sell your "legally" obtained goods back to your victim. Due to how the game handles its economy, don't do this often. You'll end up driving the price of high level swords down drastically.

Yeah, this game has an in-depth economy you can sabotage. Something Todd Howard claimed Skyrim would have. A game from 1996 has a better economic system than one from 2011.

Anyway, loiter around in a general store until it closes. Now start taking stuff off the shelves and sell anything you don't want. It's that easy. No precise timing, no doing fifty back flips. Just loitering.

This game is filled with useful glitches and exploits.
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Isn’t Daggerfall also the game where Bethesda had to release the developer tools to the public because the randomly generated dungeons were just that glitchy?
 
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One time I played Contra Hard Corps for Genesis, got all the way to the general where you fight him one on one in his humanoid form and the boss was stuck doing a spin in the corner and I couldn't hit him and couldn't take a hit. I wish recorded it because I've never seen this glitch documented.

BTW I had to reset the game. But I've beaten Hard Corps many times.
 
When I was a kid playing Pokemon Yellow, I couldn't beat Lance. I just couldn't. Then a weird glitch happened where Lance wasn't in the way of the champion's room. My tiny mind was blown when I found out that motherfucking Gary Oak was the champ.

In the same vein, the only reason I beat Yellow was because on a chance visit to Cerulean Cave, the entrance wasn't blocked. I caught some strong mons and kicked the Elite Four's ass.
 
I remember playing Mega Man and when I got to Wood man he just stood there. It was like the boss logic fried or something.

I'm not complaining, I just stood there blasting him with the buster in how he'd wake up. Easiest boss fight in history for me lol.
 
In Fallout 3 on PS3, I triggered the “You Gotta Shoot ‘Em In The Head” quest, and was heading north to the cult compound.

I walked into a seam glitch in the rocks on the downslope of a hill and fell into the geometry, but managed to jump and maneuver my way back to the real ground. As I emerged, I got the notification for successfully completing the quest, as well as four others, and went up four levels!
 
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