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21 votes
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Hackers discover how to reprogram NES Tetris from within the game
18 votes -
Super Mario 64's invisible walls explained once and for all
19 votes -
Ocarina of Time speedrunning glitch discovered - Ganonfloor
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Can you beat Final Fantasy with a White Mage? | VG Myths
6 votes -
I beat Breath of the Wild 100% in a single day
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Doom's most mysterious glitch finally solved after thirty years
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Can you beat Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories with a one card deck? | VG Myths
4 votes -
Access glitch worlds in Super Mario Bros. via NES Tennis
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The history of Lego Star Wars world records
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Can you beat the Metroid Minimalist Pacifist Challenge? | VG Myths
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Mario Kart Wii: The ultra shortcut revolution
12 votes -
The Minecraft End has been broken for two years
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MissingNo.'s glitchy appearance in Pokémon explained
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The history of Ninja Gaiden world records
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What are some bugs/glitches/exploits that have actually made games better?
Usually bugs, glitches, and exploits degrade the experience of a game, but occasionally they can actually work to a game's benefit. In some cases, they can become significant enough to become part...
Usually bugs, glitches, and exploits degrade the experience of a game, but occasionally they can actually work to a game's benefit. In some cases, they can become significant enough to become part of a game's identity. In others, they make a broken game worth playing in the first place. Even without such legendary status, a given wrinkle in a game might simply make it more enjoyable or entertaining, or perhaps open up unexpected modes or paths of play.
What are some examples of these, and how did they improve their associated games?
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Frappe Snowland: The history of Mario Kart 64's most broken track
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Anthem players say the game is shutting down and even sometimes bricking their PS4s
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What are some of the most interesting glitches in video games?
I've found a fair few glitches that I find really interesting, and I'd be pretty interested in seeing some more pixel vomit too. For the ones I'll be listing, they are in old games but are very...
I've found a fair few glitches that I find really interesting, and I'd be pretty interested in seeing some more pixel vomit too. For the ones I'll be listing, they are in old games but are very interesting.
Everyone's seen the MissingNo. glitch, but a far less famous (although in my opinion, more interesting) glitch is the Super Glitch. If you've got an emulator, I'd recommend doing a save state and messing around with it - it's results vary a lot.
A glitch available in quite a few games is arbitrary code execution. It's pretty interesting in general, as people can do loads of things, from loading up homebrew to replacing maps. Most of the time it is rather difficult or time consuming to do, but it's still fascinating to see.
This one technically isn't a glitch at all, but teleporting in SRS-based Tetris games is pretty cool. An actual glitch in Tetris (NES version) is pentrises don't clear all lines, which can make pretty interesting stuff happen.
EDIT: I nearly forgot about The Big Skip in Mario and Luigi: Superstar Saga. I recommend watching a speedrun from AGDQ, it only goes over it very briefly in the tasvideos page.
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Do you ever feel like glitches can actually make the games MORE entertaining?
A lot of the time people will by default mark a game being buggy as a negative, and on the one hand I do understand this. But, at the same time, some of my most memorable gaming moments will be...
A lot of the time people will by default mark a game being buggy as a negative, and on the one hand I do understand this. But, at the same time, some of my most memorable gaming moments will be stuff like walking entering the wasteland to find an old barrel just spinning violently on the floor. Now, obviously a GAME BREAKING bug will always destroy an experience, but if you look at a civilian floating up a wall in spider-man PS4 and you're too worried about your immersion to find humour in it, I'm sure you're very fun at parties.
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Mario Kart Wii: The history of the ultra shortcut
11 votes