Computer plays itself!
by David Wonn
Although I vaguely remember the game from many years back, this particular glitch sticks out in my mind from playing the game in school. Normally you have the option to play against the computer or against a human player. I noticed that the computer's name was always COMP. Out of curiosity, I decided to name my player "COMP", just to see the effects. Sure enough, your player will be computer-controlled! Do this in a 1-player game and watch the computer play itself! Cool!
Crusin' Exotica
(Arcade)
Game reset
First you have to be playing where two or more
machines are hooked up at once. Have one person stick
the tokens in. The screen will come to choose a
course and the time will tick down. Next choose your
car and have the other person stick money in and by
the time they choose their car you will already be
playing the game. Then they choose a race
coure(different then the one you chose) and you will
be playing two different courses. Now when you both
finish put more money in and both choose Alaska. You
should be playing head to head now. When player 2
gets to the part with the bears and such a weird game
coding screen comes up with text like line 5 and after
it comes up a screen with green and gray boxes comes
up. After a while the game resets and starts over
again. Does not effect player number 1 though. Also I do
not endorse this cuz you won't be able to finish the race.
Gauntlet
(Arcade)
Easy escape route
If you have your character stand still, and do
nothing for 200 life seconds, all the walls will turn into exits!
Lock Picking
When you don't have any keys, stand next to a
door, and don't do anything for 30 life seconds. After the time has elapsed,
the door will open.
Mr. Do!
(Arcade)
255 Extra Lives
It's possible to win 255 lives on the first screen,
but only if an apple appears in the top two rows of the playfield. Begin
by digging a tunnel directly from the bottom of the screen to just below
the apple, but leave enough dirt under it that it doesn't fall. Next, kill
all of the enemies but one, then lose all of your extra lives. As soon
as you're on your last life, go right under the apple and wait. Eventually,
the remaining enemy will come after you. Allow the apple to drop, but,
in the interval before you're squashed, kill the enemy with the powerball.
If all has gone well, you'll be carried to the bottom of the screen, the
music will go haywire for a moment, and you'll be awarded 255 extra lives.
WARNING: If you should
spell Extra while your lives are at 255, the number of lives you have will
go down to 0.
Spy Hunter
(Arcade)
The Illegal Super Turbo
Before you even attempt this you had either have a very understanding arcade
manager or be the owner of your own Spy Hunter arcade machine, otherwise you
may be flirting with some legal trouble. Now for the Glitch. In the arcade
version of Spy Hunter the machine is actually equipped to register the gas
pedal being pushed down farther then the cabinet allows you to. If you
remove the piece of plastic the prevents you from pushing the gas pedal down
any farther then you normally you can, you will then become able to make the
car go super fast as you push the gas pedal down beyond its normal limits.
Just be certain to put the pedal guard back if you don't own the machine.
Berzerk
(Atari 800)
Fake out Evil Otto
On any level, get to an exit on the left side
of the screen and get close to the edge of the screen without exiting.
When Evil Otto appears, he will go toward the right side
of the screen rather than follow you if you're in the right spot. If you
move away from the exit, he will start following you once again. With clever
use of this trick, you can easily let Evil Otto take out any remaining
robots for you!
Combat / Tank Plus
(Atari 2600)
Hyper Speed Tanks!
Plug in two Paddle controllers into port 1 and
hold the button on each one. Your tank will move at hyper speed with a
cool sound effect! Also, if you take your controller apart, you can press
left and right simultaneously to produce the same effect.
Score One from the Start
On any regular Tank level, hold the button on
your controller while pressing the Game Reset button and let go of Reset
just before the bullet hits your opponent. Your bullet will penetrate any
walls and will knock out your opponent right from the start! Warning: Your
opponent will not like this, though. :)
Q*Bert
(Atari 2600)
Never run out of lives!
This glitch is extremely useful
in that it allows you to jump off the board without losing
a life! Plus you get to score points! Here's all you have to do: When Coily
starts chasing you around the pyramid, head straight for the top cube.
Now wait for Coily to get on either adjacent cube. At this point jump off
to the upper right. You will fall off the pyramid, which would ordinarily
kill Q*Bert. But take a look at your lives. You haven't lost anything!
In fact, you've just gained 500 points, which is what you'd earn for luring
Coily off the board!
Fake out Coily once again
This is yet another useful way to get foil Coily's
plans. This takes advantage of the fact that Coily "warps" from cube to
cube in the Atari 2600 version. Anytime Coily is just one cube away from
Q*Bert, jump toward him. With good timing, you'll swap places with him
without getting killed!
Spy Vs. Spy II: The Island Caper
(Commodore 64 and Apple ][e)
Laughing Hysteria
Here's a trick that redefines the term “hilarious.”
First, set a Coconut Bomb or Napalm trap near an opening which leads north
and south. Make sure that the other player is on an adjacent screen north
or south. Now attempt to pick it up, but make the other player come over
and touch the trap. If you time it right, your spy will laugh as usual,
but he won't stop! Note: The only way you can get your spy to stop laughing
is by having the other player set a trap on top of your player.
Omikron: The Nomad Soul
(Sega Dreamcast)
Freeze Gandhar
With perfect timing, it is possible to freeze Gandhar,
the boss that looks like a big centipede sticking up
out of a pool of lava that you fight in first-person
shooter mode. Fight Gandhar until both you and him
need to be hit only one more time to die. Then time
your last shot so that he shoots at you at
approximately the same time. If done correctly, your
shot will hit Gandhar and kill him, but as he's about
to go into his death animation, your character will be
hit and killed, too. The battle will restart, but
Gandhar will be frozen in place. He can no longer
shoot at you, and you cannot damage him at all,
either, but you can get as close as you want and look
at him! :) Unfortunately, the only way out of this
predicament is to jump into the lava pit and restart
the fight, again.
Aladdin
(Sega Genesis)
Change Boss Color
In the Cave of Wonders stage, head towards the area where you fight the gold
statue boss. When you first hear the boss music, immediately run to the
left as far as you can, then come back. If done correctly, the boss will
have turned from gold to dark-bluish!
Gunstar Heroes
(Sega Genesis)
Gun in no-gun battle?
In Black's stage, try to land on the space on the gameboard with the picture
of a gun with a line through it. As you're teleporting to the battle scene,
hold the fire button until after the battle starts. If done correctly,
you'll fire ONE shot towards the enemy character there when normally you
can't use your gun at all during this fight. This works best with the
Chaser weapon.
Lion King
(Sega Genesis)
Cheat Mode glitch
First, turn on your system with Lion King in, and go to the options
menu and don't push anything yet, not even up or down. Now as fast as
you can, push right, a, a, b and then start. Usually within a
second. Now push Yes for Cheat Mode and Level as "Can't Wait." Now
get to the area with the rinos piled on top of each other. Now beat
that area and go to the giraffe. When you land on his head, push jump
IMMEDIATELY. You don't have to be that precise, but just do it
anyway. Then you should land not on top of the ostrich, but right
beside it. You can go pretty far, but not enough to beat the level.
To go back to original form, keep going back and jumping, then you'll
die and return through the checkpoint hole. You can finish the level
like normal from here now. Seems as if you turned on a "Glitch Mode"
too, because as soon as you hit that ground normally, you die
instantaniously. So I guess that invincibility cheat worked on that,
too. I normally play with that cheat on, hey I just got the game. So
I have NO CLUE whether or not this works on normal mode.
Sonic the Hedgehog
(Sega Genesis)
Unlimited Lives!!
First, put the debug mode on. ( Up, C, Down, C, Left, C, Right, C)
Then go to any zone. (The Labrynth Zone: Act 1, works best)
Then kill Sonic until he is down to his last life. Then press B and go through the entire stage
in debug mode. Get out long enough to start the end of act music to begin. Now go back in debug
mode and go under the floor. Sonic should die and the game over music will play. If you do it
right, the point total will go, "Cha-Ching!" and you will be carried to the next act. Now take a
good look at your lives, It will say 0!!!!!! Kill yourself again and it will display something
really screwed up.
Note: Be EXTRA careful not to get any extra lives when the # of lives says 0 or you will have to
do the trick over. Debug Mode
At the title screen, press UP, C, DOWN, C, LEFT, C, and RIGHT
C, and listen for a ding. If you hear it, then press start and hold the A
button as the level starts up. Your score and timer are coordinates, and
you can do all kinds of neat crap. Press the B button to turn into an
object, A to change the object, and C to place the object on the screen,
then B to turn back to Sonic.
(This isn't really a glitch, but it's necessary for all of the glitches.)
Level Skip
Enable the debug mode. Start at any level and turn into an
object. Go as far left as you can go and keep holding left. Turn back into
Sonic while still holding left, and he should zip straight to the end of
the level! (But, this doesn't seem to work right in the first level, but
the rest are fine. Sorry!)
Clap on, clap off world
Enable the debug mode. Go to the third level of
the Labyrynth Zone and turn into an object. Follow the large/neverending
waterslide a little ways, and go through the right wall and move around
until you make water appear. It helps also to turn into Sonic to make it
appear, too. Go back through the wall back to the waterslide when there's
water present, and turn back into Sonic. As he goes down the slide, the
water seems to clap on, and clap off!
Really screwed up world
Enable the debug mode (again?). Go to a special
stage and turn into an object. Go as far down and left as you can go and
turn bacn into Sonic. As he falls, he appears at the side of this messed up
place. And if you're good enough, you can get a gray gem. Do this in all
the special levels and end up with 6 gray gems, instead of 6 different
colored gems!
Cloudy/Bubbly Background
Yes, enable the debug mode again. Start at any
level and finish with 50 or more rings. When you see the big ring, jump
into it. Let the end of the level music start, and let the score count
down. The instant that the score is finished counting down, pause the game
and hold the B button to do slow motion. When you do slow motion as it goes
to the Special Stage, the backgrounds of it will be cloudy and bubbly. But
they only stay like this while it's paused. The instant you unpause, you've
lost the backgrounds.
Messed Up Backgrounds
Yes, the debug mode. Start at any level and turn
into an object. Go to the very top of the level, where you can't go any
further. Place any sort of solid object on the screen that Sonic can stand
on, just a little ways below the very top of the screen. Stand on it, and
jump up and out of sight. Press the B Button once. The screen will zip down
to the bottom; make sure that Sonic is still an object, or he will fall and
die. Move back onto a place where you can stand, and turn back into Sonic.
You should notice, as you move around, that your background is turning into
one solid color as you move. When you want it back to normal, just turn
into an object.
Sonic the Hedgehog 2
(Sega Genesis)
Level select
Go to the options menu. Then, go down to the sound test
thing. Then play the
sounds: 19, 65, 9, 17. Then, listen for a ding. If you hear it, press
start. Then, at the title screen,
hold the A Button and press Start. This isn't a glitch, but you'll need to
know it...
Debug mode
Go to the level select screen. Then go to the level sound test
thing. Play the sounds:
1, 9 , 9, 2, 1, 1, 2, 4. Then press Start, holding Start + the A Button.
Your score and timer should be
all screwed up, and you can change into objects. To do that, press the B
Button. Then use the A
Button to choose different objects. When you have the one you want, press
the C Button to place it on
the screen. Then press the B Button to turn back to Sonic. This is
especially handy to go through
walls with and save yourself from dying... Not a glitch yet...
Super Sonic
Go to the level select screen. Then go to the sound test
thing. play the sounds: 4, 1,
2, 6. Then go to any level, colloct 50 rings, and jump. Sonic will turn
yellow, and will run faster and
jump higher.
Super Tails
Now to the glitches... Enable the Debug Mode and the Super
Sonic Mode. While playing, turn into a T.V. and put it on the screen. (The
T.V.'s are all transfer things that trade the position of you and Tails.)
Then hit the T.V. as Super Sonic. As Sonic and Tails trade places, Sonic
loses all of his powers, though he's still yellow, and Tails is invincible.
This is good if you're playing a two player game, (the real game, where you
can plug in a second controller and play as Tails, too.) when the person
playing as Tails can't do all the cool stuff like Super Sonic.
Fast, non-Super Sonic
Enable the Super Sonic Mode. Then, go to the Oil
Ocean, Level Two. Go right like normal, until you reach those green jet
platforms. Stand on the third one, and hold Right. Sonic will hit some
spikes, get thrown back into the little launcher, and get shot down. Jump
out, and
become a really speedy, high jumping, Sonic. He's even more powerful than
Super Sonic! Well,
minus the invincibility part.
Ultimate Sonic
Turn into the Fast, Non-Super Sonic, and then turn into
Super Sonic. Now you can outrun the screen!
Really screwed up ending
Enable the debug mode. Start out in the Death Egg
Zone. Kill the Metal Sonic, Then Robotnik's big robot. Right as Sonic is on his
way out of the exploding ship, quickly turn into an object before he makes it
out. Go back to where you fought Robotnik, and, sometimes, he'll come back. And
there is this stupid explosion following you around, too.
Freeze Game
Go into any level and kill yourself. Press B to go
into debug mode and place something. You have just
frozen the game. Just hit "Reset" To get out of it.
(Note: This also works on Sonic 3!)
It's Raining "Tails"!
Put on Debug mode, (1,9,9,2,1,1,2,4 in the sound test
in the Stage Select) then go to the Oil Ocean zone.
Have Tails sink in the oil and turn on debug mode.
Tails will start to fall real fast, slow down, stop,
then start falling again. He will die when you get out
of debug mode.
Mangled Robotnik
To do this glitch,you need the debug mode enabled along with the level
select. (should be somewhere on this site.) Go into the Death egg zone with
the debug mode on (highlight death egg zone and press start while holding the
"A" button on the level select screen) and head towards the Metal Sonic. When
he appears, press "B"
to turn into a ring. Now press "A" once to turn into a monitor. (the TV
thing.) Place it somewhere on the screen so you can reach it by pressing
"C". Press "B" to turn back into Sonic. Destroy it so that you teleport to a
weird place where Sonic looks like he's standing on nothing. Now listen
closely. DO NOT move Sonic!! If you do, he might fall down and
die!! Instead, press "B" turn back into the monitor and the screen will go up
back into the starting corridor, but instead the background of stars is
replaced by blue,and you will still hear Metal-Sonic's "whirr-whirr". Don't
turn back into Sonic, but go into Metal-Sonic's room. Now, though,you can
continue into the other hall as if you destroyed Metal-Sonic. Once you see
Robotnik running away, you can turn back into Sonic. Continue going right, and
stop where you see Robotnik jump into the ground. Now look at Robotnik's
exo-suit. It looks...quite mangled...
Two Mangled Robotnik's!!
Super Sonic is recommended for this one. Do the same as above, but when you
see the exo-suit come up, go back towards Metal-Sonic's room. Stop where you
see Robotnik (again?) and chase him back to the right. If you can dodge the
exo-suit, you should see the other Robotnik jump into the ground, and a second
exo suit should emerge. Now you have to battle TWO Mangled Robotniks!!
Twisted end scene
I did this one with Super Sonic, so you should too. Enable Debug mode, level
select, and Super Sonic (also somewhere on this site)
and go into the Death egg zone with Debug mode on. Beat the game as usual.(it
helps to turn into a ring and place a bunch of rings in one spot until you
get at least 50 to turn into Super Sonic) When you see Super Sonic in the
air (at the ending sequence), press "B" once and Sonic will
disappear. (????) When you see Tails (Miles) on the plane,you should be either a
little bunch of white dots or something that looks like a barcode. (???????)
Now, when the Flickys (little birds) fly in, the barcode thing or dots move in
front of the plane. Press "B" to reappear as Super Sonic.But now,if you
noticed, he's standing instead of flying (or is it gliding?) You can make him
move in place for a few seconds. When he zooms out keep jumping and pressing
left. When he comes into the foreground, and if your lucky, a second Super
Sonic will appear in the background, and you can control it!!
Unused music?
This is not really a glitch. Go to the sound test,
and listen to #10. Now, if you've beaten the game before,
you haven't heard this, correct? It is thought that this is the music
for a cut level, The Hidden Palace zone. Was this intentional? Or is it a
glitch? No one but the people at Sega knows...
Reach the Hidden Palace Zone!
I found how to get to the Hidden Palace Zone in Sonic 2 for the Genesis. If
you don't believe me try this for yourself. First you need a Game Genie, but
if you have and emulator with a Game Genie mode you can use that too. First
you put in the Game Genie code ACLA-ATD4 and start the game. Then put in the
stage select code on the option screen (19 65 9 17) and go to the stage
select menu.( Hold A and press Start). Then put in the Debug code.
(1 9 9 2 1 1 2 4. You'll see why later)
Next Select Death Egg and you will be there! But
use the Debug code or you will fall and die right away. Also I only did this
next trick once but if you turn into Super Sonic and go into the water, you
will be blue but will look like Super Sonic!
Walking Flying Saucer
At Casino Night Zone get on top
of a big red spring when Tails is way behind and hold a, b, or c and you
will be launched into the air. If Tails gets there right after you are
launched he'll be launched too. You'll pass him up again and when you
land he'll be falling but he'll stop right over your head and be
walking in mid air sometimes the spinning or standing saucer will happen.
Sonic the Hedgehog 3
(Sega Genesis & PC)
Make Tails appear in a Sonic only game
Play the game as Sonic only, no Tails. In the first level of the Carnival
Zone, fight the boss. After you defeat it, immediately press and hold down
as the multicolored floor that you're standing on decends. You'll hear a
death sound, and then Tails will fly in! He'll tag along for a while, but
when he dies or gets lost from the screen, he won't appear again. Another
part to this glitch is that if you continue to hold down after the boss
dies, the face panel will appear below the floor, in the wall.
Blue Knuckles
This may only work in the Genesis version of the game. After you defeat a
miniboss and make the face panel fall, continuously press the pause button
and look at the faces. Knuckles is blue like Sonic, because the game uses
different sprite color palletes between Sonic and Knuckles.
Sonic 3 & Knuckles
(Sega Genesis & PC)
Knuckles fighting Robotnik
(This is also in Sonic & Knuckles standalone.) When you play the game as
Knuckles, the game is set up where Robotnik has no part in the game, only
his technology. Instead of him, "Robo Egg" (I think it's called) operates
everything. Why then, in the second level of Flying Battery Zone, is
Robotnik there? Sega was intricate in setting up the storyline to where
Robotnik plays no part in Knuckles' version of the game, yet there he is!
Strange.
Fight one of Sonic's bosses as Knuckles
Play the game as Super/Hyper Knuckles (with all of the emeralds) in the
Marble Ruin area. In the second level, accumulate as many rings as you can
and try not to transform into hyper mode. Go to the part toward the end of
the level where Knuckles has to climb his own separate way (because he can't
reach the jewel on the large face to destroy it). Kill the floating enemies
and the spike enemy. Now, go back a distance to where the spinning top is.
Go hyper (with many rings to make it last) and ride the top back to where
you killed the enemies. Ride the top over to where the face on the wall is
(this may be tedious; that's why you want a lot of rings to sustain hyper
form). In front of the face, ride the top until you're higher than the face.
Jump off and cling to the wall directly above the face. Slowly climb down
until you can touch the jewel, and touch it 3 times to destroy it. Proceed
downward and team up with Tails to fight Sonic's boss!
Play as Knuckles in the Death Egg Zone
Enable the level select mode (it's different for Genesis and PC), and play
the Death Egg Zone as Knuckles. The first level can't be beaten because the
miniboss is too high to reach, but the final boss in the second level can be
beaten by Knuckles! Like in the glitch above, he fights Robotnik instead,
but after you defeat the giant robot, "Robo Egg" flies off with the Master
Emerald! (Strange.) I tried this to see what the ending sequence would be
like (because there is none for Knuckles defeating the giant robot).
However, the game returned to the title screen after I defeated it. Still,
this is a fun little glitch.
Sand Glitch
If you have all the Super Emeralds, go to the second level of the Sandopolis
Zone as Knuckles. Inside the pyramid, there is one part where you must break
plugs in the ceiling to release sand, to raise yourself. As hyper Knuckles,
climb up a wall instead of breaking one, then glide over to another wall
when you are above the plug to break it (being hyper Knuckles). Immediately
climb upward, and the sand will be above you! Continue, and you'll end up in
an area where you can't see yourself in the sand, and you'll be stuck.
Gliding Glitch
This also works in S&K standalone. In the Mushroom Hill Zone, play as
Knuckles. Find one of the little mushroom bots that bounce around, and glide
into it. You'll be quickly bounced backwards, and change your direction. As
you change, Knuckles will glide backwards in the other direction!
Street Fighter II: Special Chamionship Edition
(Sega Genesis)
Always throw red fireballs... and more!
WARNING! I don't endorse ejecting games while the
unit is powered on, so proceed at your own risk. Now, with that said and
done....
First you will need Super Street Fighter II to make
this work. A different game might work, but I don't have the means to check
every other Genesis title. :-) Start up Super Street Fighter II as normal,
without changing any of the game's options, then eject the game at any time.
The game will simply freeze at this point. Now insert Street Fighter II: CE.
Nothing happens yet. Now press the Reset button, and the game should boot up
as normal. However, since you didn't turn off the power switch, you'll find
that whatever initial variables were used as settings for Super SFII will now
be used at the start up of SFII: CE. Now things will just begin to get fun....
Look at your options menu. All of your moves are mapped to the same thing!
You will have to press Up (!) in order to execute any moves. You can change
these to normal if you wish, but you might want to play around with this
unusual setup first. :-) Now start up any fight (CE or Hyper, 1P or 2P, makes
no difference) with Ryu or Ken as one of your players. Fire a Hadoken (Down,
Down/Forward, Forward + Punch [or Up]) and you'll find that But the weirdness doesn't stop here. If you watch any
of the demos, you'll notice that Ryu is always the adversary. Each demo
will always end up the same way. Balrog's and Vega's demos will always freeze,
requiring you to hit the Reset button. Also all of the high scores are zeroed
out. Even a zero point game will make fifth place! Every solo mission starts
in Ryu's stage. Also, all of the CPU opponent's will repeat the same moves for
the first third of the match, and then repeat another set of moves after that.
Since the CPU opponents are so predictable, it should be easier to defeat them!
To sum up, this glitch takes out all of the random elements in the game! Play
around with it to see what you can find.
Astrosmash
(Intellivision)
Hidden Game Glitch
When playing AstroSmash, try pushing reset alot,
if you get lucky, and I do mean real lucky, you might come to a game select
screen. From there, select game 2 to play the hidden game.
Dig Dug
(Intellivision)
Deadly Dogs
When you have the game DIG DUG, press both 4 and
7 on both controllers at the same time, while pressing reset. The Deadly
Dogs game logo should then come up. It's a game almost exactly like TRON:
DEADLY DISCS, except the warrior's in this game have been replaced by hot
dogs from BURGER TIME.
Skiing
(Intellivision)
Change the Banner
This trick will you allow you to change the banner
from saying FINISH at the end of the skiing trails to saying PENDRAGON.
Push 4 and 8 on the left hand controller, and 5 and 7 on the right hand
controller, and reset all at once. This trick may require that you have
two people in the same room to do it succesfully.
Battle Chess
(Mac)
Rook oddity
For Macintosh LC I found this glitch in Battle Chess. Try to move your
rook as your first move even though there is a pawn in front of it. The rook stands up and spins
around. He don't stop so you have to shut your computer off.
Dinopark Tycoon
(Mac)
Steal Bid in Auction!
Ever want to buy Dinosaurs at auctions, but those annoying other
customers get in your way? Well, I can fix that.
First off, make a bid. Second, wait for the next person to bid. Just as
he or she is raising his or her hand, the bid button will become
pressable. Quickly press it and the guy will give YOU the bid for the
price the other person was offering! Repeat this until the other
customers stop. Money Trick
Okay, start a new game and pick a land (preferable plains). Buy all the
land you can in the real estate office and confirm it. Next, go back in
and press the red circle with the cross through it. When you get back to
the main screen, you'll see you have gotten all the money you spent on
the land you bought so far back, but still have the land! Repeat this,
buy the rest of the land, repeat some more, buy stone fences for all
pens and electrify them, BUY EVERYTHING IN THE GENERAL STORE! Buy your
Dinosaurs, get them food, hire a few workers of each type, and so on.
Free Food!
In the Dino Diner, press APPLE+1 to increase your food count to 999 for
each type of meat and plant! You won't get any seeds though.
Nanosaur
(Mac)
Max Out!
Ever thought maybe you could get all five of those illusive eggs if only you
could start out with a maxed out arsenal? This is going to be alot easier
then you think! Just jump to the top of one of those plateaus, do a double
jumps straight up. If fog effects block out the entire ground something
weird will happen. You will get a shield, all weapons with full ammo, full
health and a full jetpack to boot. This trick can be done as many times as
you want as well.
Reckless Drivin'
(Mac)
Type 1 error
Go start the game, but hold down OPTION as you click START. A testing
thing will come up, allowing you to choose your vehical and level.
Select Level 2, 6 or 10 and a boat (I think the Purple boat is Vehical
217. When you start, just go into the water. Instead of spashing in as
normal, it gives a Type 1 error! Talk about weird! Guess they didn't
look for this obvious one closely enough. :o
3D Pinball Space Cadet
(PC)
Tilt glitch
In 3D Pinball for Windows NT 4.0 (also on some newer
Windows OSes), you can make the red X appear on a new game. Repeatedly press
the tilt keys and the F2 key. You should eventually start a new game with the
red X activated, but without actually tilting the ball. Some lights will not
light up when they are supposed to, including the center lights that indicate
your rank as well as some of the lights that show when the ball passes through
certain targets. Normally you can "move" these lights with your flippers, but
in this case you might not be able to do so. This glitch wears off when you
lose your first ball, but it remains if you earned a replay.
Quick pause
When the F3 key seems to be too far to reach, try
simply pressing the Alt key to pause the game.
Quick start
Normally it takes a few seconds for the first ball
to show up if sound is enabled. To start a game up faster, just hit F2 twice
instead of once.
Start in fullscreen mode
Tired of hitting F4 each time you start up your game?
As long as you exit the game with Alt-F4 while in fullscreen mode, it will
remember to start up in fullscreen mode the next time you play.
Launch training glitch
Here's a handy glitch that will enable you to beat
the launch training without going up the ramp 3 times. All you have to
do is get the ball to go up the ramp slowly and if you're lucky, it
might count as more than one launch. The best thing to do is to try to get the
ball stuck if possible, then lightly tilt it into the ramp. It could easily
count double or triple this way. One time, I managed to accept the mission,
and complete all three launches, completing the mission, all in one move! Yep,
that's four launches for the price of one!
AOLIM Blackjack
(PC)
Win $2 billion from the start!
If you use AOL Instant Messenger, you can play blackjack
by sending an Instant Message to the screenname "SmarterChild". It is simply an
automated robot that will respond to anything you say, and of course it plays
games like blackjack and hangman, among many other cool things. During my time
playing blackjack with SmarterChild, I found a glitch which will let you win
any sum of money you wish, up to a maximum of $2,147,483,647. Don't get too
greedy by going a dollar over this, or else you'll end up with a huge negative
value and lose the game. To see how I exploited this, see this
text conversation I had with SmarterChild. If you
follow what I did, you can reap the benefits. Just make sure that your first hand
is very good, like a 19 or a 20 before trying. If not, just start over and bet
everything until you get a good hand. A blackjack will not work because it
automatically makes you go to the next round. If you get a 19 or 20, STOP
what you are doing and follow the instructions in the text file. Don't spend it
all in one place! :-)
Command and Conquer: Red Alert 2
(PC)
Weird option
While my bro was playin ccrd2 (he's an expert, he was fighting on
hardest mode 5 guys and dominated!)and then he built a battlelab. Strange
thing was we got a pretty weird option to build. It was was called cameo and
the pic. But it was the command and conquer symbol(cover of case). It didn't
cost anything completely free and it was the bunker type thing seen in the
last levels and elsewhere. Sorry I cant get a pic or give u the save
file. Anyway maybe someone can give you a pic. It's a white civillian bunker that
you can take over with conscripts or g.i's.
Counter-Strike
(PC)
Launch a counter-terrorist On the map de_dust be a Counter-Terrorist and go to the 2nd bok on your right run
up to the wall in betwenn the 2 boxes agianst the wall then jump on the 2nd box
take out your knife and crouch-jump( jump then crouch) on to the next box. You
will need two players to do this and then when your on top of the 2nd box a ct
must crouch and the other jump on his head then both of the cts keep jumping until
the 1 on top is launched in the air!! Really suprising for the ts!!
Duke Nukem 3D
(PC)
Falling Glitch
Whenever you fall down a large hole or canyon that you know will be fatal,
just set tripbombs on the wall as you fall. It will reset your falling
distance, so if you set one just before impact, the Duke will land safely on
the ground.
Kicking Glitch
This one is actually pretty funny. Just enable kicking, hold down the attack
button while Duke is kicking, and then press the hotkey for kicking (~
default). He's kicking with two legs like a Russian dancer, while being able
to move around.
DX-Ball
(PC)
Cheat codes
At the main screen...
Floating Ball
Start the game and perform the Alt + F3 cheat and the Alt + F2 cheat. You
should now have a large Grab Paddle. Launch the ball and catch it with the
grab paddle at the very end of the paddle. Then, Press Alt + F1. If Performed
correctly, you should have the ball floating off to a side of the paddle!!!
Useless but cool looking
DX-Ball 2
(PC)
Cheat codes
During play, enter eureka. You'll hear a sound to confirm. Now press the
following keys...
Right Skip board
Escape from Monkey Island
(PC)
Ways to Get Stuck 101
Be sure to save before doing this. First you need to go to the LUA bar on
Melee island during chapter 2. Now place the paint brush in the gear
mechanism to stop the boat. Now wait until the chef walks over to the paint
brush. Now try and look at the painting. With the chef in the way he'll
never be able to reach the painting and the game will be trapped in an
endless loop.
Ways to Get Stuck 102
This glitch is of the same variety as the glitch for getting stuck in the
LUA bar. In monkey Island pay off the monkey on the other side of the lava
field with bananas so he's following you around while in the presence of the
giant monkey head. Then while standing infront of the monkey head try to
remove the q-tip from it's ear. The monkey will follow blocking off your
return path. After Guybrush fails to remove the q-tip he'll try to return to
his original spot infront of the giant monkey head, but the monkey standing
that was following him will block his path. Once more the game will be stuck
in an endless loop.
Half Life
(PC)
Strange hidden and empty room?!
First, you need to set up debug mode. Make a copy of
the program used to start the game, and put in the
following text after hl.exe:
_-console (The underscore represents a space.)
Now once you do that, start the game up. You should
see a thing above the list that says "Console". Load a
new game, and press the ~ key. A menu should show up.
type in the following text:
sv_cheats 1
After that is done, start a brand-spanking new game.
When you start, activate the no clipping cheat, which
is this:
/noclip
Once you are done that, follow the train's path until
you get to the part right after the helecopter and the
huge, circular door. Go through the door, and out into
the darkness. You should go through a wall. Turn to
your left, and look down. You should see an empty,
rectangular grey room. Go ahead in it! It's safe to
do. To deactivate the no clipping code, access the
cheat menu again and type in the same code you used to
turn it on. You'll find that you can walk around and
jump, etc. I seem to recall a somewhat similar glitch
on this site for Donkey Kong 64, for some reason.. :-) Mad Dog McGree
(PC)
Free Re-Play!
This CD-Rom classic is hard, and you're bound
to mess up sooner or later. Worse yet, after loosing all 3 lives, you have
to start all over! Not anymore! While the undertaker's telling you're out
of lives, click on menu button, this will skip the game over screen. Now
click continue, while continue normally only works if you have loaded a
saved game, this time it'll take you back to where you before you died
with three whole lives!
Mega Man X4
(PC)
Scrolling Backwards
When you're running up the stairs on Split Mushroom's
level, if you dash, it will appear that the stairs are scrolling backwards.
This happens because of how they altered this scene from the Play Station
version so as to make it work on a P.C.
Mega Knight Man
Start a new game, hold the up key. While holding
the up key, select Mega Man. Once the game begins mega man's armor will
be purple where it was normally green. Further more, when you go to Web
Spider's level, if you go to the place where you get the boots, you'll
get a surprise instead. Dr. Light will give you all of the armor, but this
time it will look different and make Mega Man look like a Knight. Mega
Man's Giga strike has been improved so that he can now fly using it. It's
also a great attack againt all enemies.
Microsoft Golf
(PC)
Water tricks
On Microsoft Golf for PC, if you hit the ball as hard as possible near
the water (course #2 is highly recommended), you can enter GlitchWorld!
GlitchWorld is a course where the graphics are really messed up and if you
hit the ball hard, you have to try again. Also, if you look at the course
map, it appears that you are on water.
Also on Microsoft Golf, if you get the ball as close to the water as you
can, you can stand on the water, but the ball can't. How fair :p Minesweeper
(PC)
Freeze time!
Proof Pic #1 Proof
Pic #2 Proof Pic #3
I have recently stumbled upon a way to beat Minesweeper
in just one second! Unfortunately this glitch only appears to work on Windows
3.1. Of course you could hack a certain .ini file in any Windows operating
system (it's not too hard to find) :), but that would defeat the purpose
of this glitch discovery! Here's how it works:
First, open up both Minesweeper and MS-DOS Prompt
in Windows 3.1. Start a game by clicking onto any square in the Minesweeper
game, and then quickly minimize the
window. If you're quick enough, you can do this while the timer reads 001
or 002. Minimizing the window essentially freezes the timer. Now switch
over to MS-DOS prompt. Once that is open, press Alt-Shift-Tab briefly to
switch back to the Minesweeper game. Now take notice... the timer isn't
even moving! You can continue to click squares at your own pace from this
point on, just as long as you don't hit a mine, of course. Now you can
conquer Minesweeper in just one second without doing any hacking!
Freeze time on any Windows OS!
There is an actual code to stop the timer in Minesweeper
(and it's slightly easier). It works on all Windows systems.
Just start a game and click, and hold, a square with both mouse buttons. Then press ESC
It's that simple :) Police Quest III
(PC)
Test Copy hack
In this fine game by Sierra, if you remove the
file entitled VERSION from the folder holding this game, you can access
the cheat menu. This is because without a version number that game runs
as if it were a "Test Copy" which they'd use to search for bugs with. A
test copy runs just the same as a normal copy, except that a menu appears
at he begining asking you which day you want to start at. In which you
could choose '1' to play the entire game normally if you wished to, or
watch the ending even!
Rebel Assault
(PC)
Ending Glitch
In “Rebel Assault” for the P.C. you can see the
ending to the game even if you lose at the last level. When you lose, it
will start a video sequence, in while the narrator talks about how the
destruction of yavin affected the Rebels. When he's talking about this,
repeatedly press the button to skip the narration, if you're lucky, it
will start up the movie showing what happens when you win. this only happens
10% of the time.
Shuffleboard 3D
(PC)
Crash the game
A simple glitch. When you play, just aim at the opponent's Puck Things.
If it hits even one, when the CPU tries to shoot, your Computer gives
you an error in a white box. It makes a division by 0 error, and you
need to close the program.
Skifree
(PC)
Scramble the snow monster
Okay, here's what you do, first put the mouse on the minimize button before
you start skiing. Go down until the snow monster starts to chase you, or you
see him. (Hopefully you'll see him so you'll be ready) Ski past him so he
starts chasing you. Now QUICKLY press the minimize button. (You must do this
BEFORE he grabs you) Now bring it back whenever you feel like it. When the
snow monster eats you, he goes all screwy like he has a virus or something.
Important note!: This is a permanent effect, so once you do it, he will
always glitch, so if you don't want that to happen, don't do it! Space Quest 6
(PC)
500+ Scores!!!
The code of SQ6 contains a bug in the points scoring
that allows you to gain as many points as you want. When inside Stellar's
stomach, you can retrieve secretion from the Isles of Langerhans, return
to the stomach, pour the contents over the pill, then return and get more...
and you get three points for it every time! So, in theory, you can get
as many points as you want.
Soylent's Secret
In case you haven't discovered the Mr. Soylent
Clear's secret yet, you probably never will on your own. This machine will
accept only one food replicator code, and it can't even be found it the
game! It will only accept the code for Bjorn Chow (7469410) from the demo
of SQ6. For those of you who don't know, the demo featured different puzzles,
and it's own, albeit short, story. Entering this replicator code on the
full version will trigger a very funny argument between Roger and the Narrator.
Spear of Destiny
(PC)
Level Glitch!
Note: Spear of Destiny is basically a remixed version
of Wolfenstein 3D.
If you have the CD with the other Spear of Destiny
games on it, (2 and 3. They have remixed graphics). Go
into any of the missions, and save the game on a save
slot. Exit, and go into the SoD game with the
different graphics. (I.E. For SoD 1, Go to SoD2 or 3,
SoD 2 or 3, go to SoD 1.) Load up your game, and you
will be in the same level of the first game, yet the
walls look cluttered about sloppily! You may see a
purple brick wall inside a chunk of grey wall! Hidden Text in Spear of Destiny 2
On that same CD, Start up the Mission 2 game, and
exit. Go into FloEdit, (Get it here:
http://www.wolfnode.de ) and start to look at the
levels. In one level, there is a text message using
yellow walls that says "Dont Peek" and another one in
a level that looks like Tic Tac Toe that says "The
only way to win is not to play!" What on earth could
this text be about?
Speed Racer
(PC)
Water Hopper
There are a few different Speed Racer PC games,
so make sure your's has the subtitle 'CHALLENGE OF RACERX' for this to
work. If you should find that you are falling too often into the water,
and this is preventing you from obtaining money necessary to buy the water
gear to protect you from such mishaps, I have a solution. Whenever your
about to fall into the water, press the jump button and hold it before
you connect. The car will jump of the water as if it was solid land. This
only works some of the time.
Total Anihilation
(PC)
Self-destruct
On Total Anihilation for pc when your playing multiplayer gert a transport
and abduct the enemys commando and fly over the enemys base and they will
shoot it down killing the commando and there base will be destroyed by themselves.
Wolfenstein 3D
(PC)
Weapon Glitch
If you pick up a Chain Gun before getting the smaller
Machine Gun, you'll pick up both guns!
Worms Armegeddon
(PC)
Elite Channel Cheat
Yes, you can cheat your way into the elite channel,
even if your a beginner with just 0 points :)))
10 Cow Glitch
Better than 6 cow glitch from Worms2, W:A allows
10 cows in one turn!!!! How to do it. Well, get a jetpack and release 5
cows while on the ground, then fly up a couple of centimetres and press
return when the last (or fourth) cow comes out, the worm should fall unharmed
and another 5 cows come out.
The Low Backflip
You now have the choice of a "high" backflip,
or a "low" backflip! To do the high backflip, you just press BACKSPACE
twice. To do the low backflip, press BACKSPACE twice, followed by pressing
ENTER. This has to be done in quick sucession, but if performed correctly,
you will only jump backwards at half the hight of a normal backflip. =)
Fight fire with fire
A petrol bomb leaves fire lying around for a couple
of turns. But you can make it disappear on command by lauching a napalm
strike anywhere on the level. The petrol disappears before your eyes.
Floating Sheep
In sheep training, press space 3 times quickly.
The sheep will will float in mid air for a second even though it has lost
its powers. (this only works some of the time).
Super Sheep to the rescue
On the mission "Super sheep to the rescue", "
just kill the other worm with the sheep. You will die, but you will probably
get a gold medal regardless. =)
Kamikazing to survive?
Sometimes, if you kamikazee into an immediate
mine, your worm will survive, even after it has exploded.
Washing Worms Tails
With the water set to the lowest level, you can
position worms so that they are still sitting on the terrain, but have
their tails seen below the water level :).
Firey Drill
You can drill into an oil barrel without blowing
it up!
Super Sheep - Where'd you go?
Super Sheep can be flown OUTSIDE the terrain boundary
in cavern levels, and still be controlled! Just use the arrows showing
which direction the sheep is flying in, and what distance the sheep is
from the screen. These appear on the screen when the Super Sheep leaves
the screen area. Use these to fly the sheep to the other end of the cavern
and BOOM - hit a worm which you couldn't hit otherwise.
Indian Roping
To do this, you aim a grenade, or bazooka, or
something straight down, hit backspace, F8, and then fire your rope, and
extend straight up. This has to be done very quickly, and is good to get
out of tight spots. This can also be used to "aim" the rope any angle that
you normally can't fire at, not just straight down :).
Girder on Rope
If you fire a rope up, and then select the girder,
you can place the girder over the rope! This effectively "anchors" the
rope in place - the rope won't move at all in between the roof, and the
girder. This could come in useful, but just be warned - after placing the
girder you have limited retreat time to get off the rope, and it it harder
to swing with a shortened rope.
Corrections
1. You can do the low backflip by pressing enter twice instead of backspaceX2 and enter
2. The super sheep to the rescue glitch works in every version... EXCEPT in the US version Pong
(Radio Shack)
Extra Paddle Glitch!
With this nifty glitch, you can get the extra
edge on your opponent, or offer a handicap to a less skilled player. The
Radio Shack version of Pong was designed to play 4 types of games with
a selector switch, but if you move the switch in between any two games,
you'll be playing Hockey but one side will have an extra paddle!
Moving Line glitch
If you quickly power the game off and back on,
you can often see some weird effects. If you're lucky, you might see a
moving line going up and down instead of a ball, and the game will make
a continuous high-pitched noise. Just press the Reset button on the right
controller to fix it. Flipping the power switch off and on can produce
other effects including random starting scores or even cause the ball to
vanish. As always, the Reset button fixes everything.
Pong
(Telestar)
Extreme Paddle
If you're playing pong with a friend on this classic,
and are on either 'hockey' or 'tennis' mode, and are playing on the left,
you can quickly switch to 'handball mode', to save yourself if the ball
falls short of your paddle. Doing this will change the field so there's
a solid wall on the left. This works since they made the game so it only
restarts when pushing the restart button, switching fields won't affect
the game, except of course wether or not the ball goes through.
Extra paddle
If you set the game select switch halfway
between Tennis and Hockey (I think, it's been decades since I played that)
you'll play tennis with the extra paddles.
Castlevania: Symphony Of The Night
(Playstation)
Go to the outside in the Royal Chapel!
Go to the royal chapel area in the normal castle. At
the bottom of the tallest tower, there is a hallway to
the left (leading to the church) and a small
confession room to the right. Stand by the left door
of this area (but don't go in yet). Then do a
half-circle down-forward-up, holding up for 2 seconds,
then press down and square or circle simultaneously.
If you've done it right, the sword will start doing
sword brother. Once this starts, wait until the sword
starts turning in a circle, then change into the bat
and fly through the [left] doorway. If your timing is
right, the screen won't change as it usually does. You
can then fly all around the outside of the castle as
the bat! (If you miss the timing, you can just go back
and forth rapidly between the screens until you get
the glitch working.)if you fly into a spot where a
passage should be, then you'll be magically
transported inside the passage, and you'll have to do
the trick all over again. You can avoid running into
some passageways by flying on the very edge of the
screen (you have to do this to get all 210%). You
should be able to explore the outside of the whole
chapel area, starting from the huge stairway on the
far left of the map, going past the church and around
both sides of each tower. then you can do it in the
inverted castle...
Note: The Sword Familiar MUST be at level 99 for this
to work. Death doesn't steal your stuff!
Do a lucky game (name your char X-X!V''Q ) then remove
all your equip except the shield and the cape in the
room before death. Jump over the first wolf (don't kill
it) and get hit by the wolf..the game will glitch and
you'll fly past death' s room...then save at the first
save point (cuz the game will glitch hard)
Fight Slogra and Gaibon where you first saw Death
Go into the first room of the Alchemy Labratory, then
exit and go back to where you met Death. Slogra and
Gaibon will be there and will fight you. After a time,
the two will fly off into the Alchemy Labratory room
where you originally meet them.
Go outside the Castle Gates with Richter!
Put on the code to play as Richter, and start a new
game. When the game starts, dash to the left, and
jump. If all goes well, you should make it past the
door. You should be back at the gates!
Final Fantasy 7
(Playstation)
Get stuck in the Northern Crater
First, make sure you get the Save Crystal item found on
the first screen of the Northern Crater. Now, continue
on until you get to the point where Cloud spilts up
the party into different areas of the Northern
Crater. When you finish splitting up your people, DON'T
MOVE. Use your Save Crystal exactly at the point where
you're standing. Now leave the Northern Crater dungeon
and return to the point where you split your party
members up, the game will glitch out a little bit, and
you'll see that you can't climb back up! You're stck in
the Northern Crater!
Glitch out the digits for the amount of Gil
When you get enough Gil (A LOT, mind you) the number
counter will be glitched up. A minor glitch, but I
wanted to make mention of it.
Final Fantasy 8
(Playstation)
Make battles easier
Just a quick tip: In the options, set the battle speed to be as slow as
possible- not only are you giving yourself more time to think in battle,
you're getting more time to look at the spells that come up in Selphie's
limit break, making you less likely to skip over something great, like
multiple Auras or a Full Heal.
Metal Gear Solid
(Playstation)
Detonate plastic explosives without getting hurt
This method is very useful when you want to save some time, and are willing
to do so at the expense of energy. Therefore, this trick, or mishap if you
will, is preferably used primarily in the VR missions.
Synopsis
In Metal Gear Solid, stealth and scarcity of means are fundamental elements,
elements which become extra important when playing Snake's Virtual Reality
Missions. These missions, to be thought of as an extension – are more or
less organised as “capture the flag” contests, the clock being your
fictional enemy. However, not all enemies are fictional, far from. Guards
and cameras are your most obvious physical enemies, doing what they can (and
perhaps not much more) to stop you on your quest. (Oh, how sophisticated
that sounded.). If playing Sneaking Mode, “all” you have to do is sneak past
your enem/y/ies in one way or another, heading for the goal, represented by
a rotating crystal pillar. In most other modes involving enemies, the goal
will not appear until all enemies have been killed. It is somewhat delayed,
might I tell you. Depending on what mode you are playing, you are able to do
this in different ways. (Even if not being able to use two methods in the
same mode. (The main buttons’ functions var from mode to mode.)
On this disc are many sections, two allowing you to practice the purposes
and functions of C4, and do it on time. The difference between the two is
that in Special Mode your target is passive, (an obstacle) whereas you in
Advanced mode are obliged to use it on enemies (soldiers) to proceed. Due to
for the trick required circumstances, you will only be able to make use of
this in Mystery Mode.
(Technical) Information / Specifications required:
The plastic explosive C4 works in such a way that if you (Snake) or your
enemy guards are hit by the C4 explosion circle, not standing at its centre,
he /they will not completely die from the explosion, even though he/they are
considerably physically weakened. If hit not standing in its centre, two
explosions are required in order to kill yourself or your enemies.
However (this you might have figured out.;) if you stand (to a sufficient
degree) [with]in the centre of a circle, you will die instantly. The same
applies to the guards. (Which implies that Snake and the enemy soliders have
the same amount of energy / physical health.)
Therefore, if wanting a good time, or just an effective result ;) make sure
to get a clean hit on your enemy. If your enemy does not die from the
explosion while being to a sufficient degree away from you, [This includes
or being flung there, obviously, which is what it really is about; him being
flung this distance away from you, as it is the only way of hitting him in
conjunction with getting/transporting him sufficiently far away from you.]
he will act as though nothing has happened. Otherwise he will notice your
presence once again. (For any explosion would attract their indirect
attention. Knowing that someone is there, yet not being able to notice or
locate the infiltrator.)
In Advanced Mode, all guards patrolling the area are equipped with guns
(Socom model [semi-automatic].), they can also if you're unlucky, knock
you to the ground using a flashlamp, that all guards are holding in their
right (directional reference..) hand.
For the trick to be useful, you will need to make sure that you have at
least some amount of spare energy / physical health. You cannot at the point
of start check how much you have left, but if you have not suffered any
damage, you will not that you have enough left to perform the trick. Not
until you have been shot does the meter show up on screen. (Generally, if
you let the guards hit you 4 or 5 times, you are dead.)
If detected (so that an ! appears above his head) by one of the guards, he
will start shooting at you, and attract other guards within sufficient
distance to the incident. If lucky, the attracted guards will not start
shooting you directly when they see you, but will run after you and then
start shooting.
If being shot (you will bleed some if you are.) you are, surprisingly enough
even in this game, for a certain period of time after being hit, invincible
to any other amount of damage that would normally inflict you. This interval
lasts for a certain amount of time every time you are shot. (quite
sufficient a while I'd say.) During this state of invincibility, you are
also invincible to your own plastic explosive(s) or any other type of
explosion.
So whenever a guard or two is nearby, bend down and place a C4 on the ground
(or any other place suitable), and detonate it as you have been shot.
Here's how to perform the trick (that is utterly useful in the later
Advanced Mode; C4 courses.)
If there are a collection of guards, of which at least one is shooting at
you, simply detonate the mine during the appropriate interval, and you will
escape damage (and be able move to the goal as the guards are dying.)
This trick naturally works in any course with any implement/object granting
explosions, whether cubes or mines, etc.
However, it might be quite a lot easier to perform when handling C4, as you
yourself are able to determine at time which time the explosion will occur.
This trick should also work in the “regular adventure mode”, even if I
haven't tried it yet. Resident Evil 2
(Playstation)
Free Ammo
When ever you add a part to a gun (Leon or Hunk's quests only) it will
automatically refill to it's maximum ammo holding with ammo from thin air.
So be sure to always empty that clip to zero before adding that part to take
full benefit of this little mishap.
R-Type
(Playstation)
Sacrifice a life glitch
I found a glitch in the Playstation version of
R-Type, which is on the R-Types collection. The instruction book
says that they're the exact translation of the arcade games, "bugs included,"
so maybe this would even work on the arcade version!
The trick is to die right before the boss of stage
1 (the huge red boss that looks like something H. R. Giger did for Aliens)
dies. There are a few ways to do this, but this is the method I find easiest
to time. It takes two powered-up hits directly to the head coming out of
the boss's stomach to kill the boss. This is slightly harder to do than
the usual method of killing it (sending the pod towards the head and then
get out of the way) because you need to get close, past the tail, and fire
right after the mouth fires. After the first shot, time the second so you'll
be hit, say by the tail, immediately after you fire. You'll die, and a
moment later your shot will hit the boss, killing it.
Here's the glitchy results of doing that. When
you get your next ship you'll begin at the last continue point as you normally
would. However, the music that signifies clearing a stage will play
and you won't be able to control your ship, just like the first few seconds
after finishing a stage. However, enemies will still be attacking you and
you'll inevitably die.
Then when you get your next ship it'll seem like
you're about to fight the boss of stage 2! In fact, the background will
be that of stage 2, except it looks sort of like the negative of it. Sometimes
the graphics are even more glitched up, and some tiles will flash or do
other things - it's like the result of putting a dirty game into an NES.
The enemy sprites are glitched up as well, and most don't look like anything.
However, despite the graphics, this is STILL stage one. The enemy patterns
are the same, and so are the positions of the walls - which means you'll
need to be careful, as you can't see the walls! If your R-9's fire is stopped
by something invisible, that means a wall is there. This glitch leads me
to believe that hit detection in R-Type is based on tile boundaries rather
than actual collision of pixels. The graphics remain glitched up even if
you die or continue, but will go back to normal for stage 2 if you beat
the stage one boss as usual (at which time the tiles of the boss become
black on the screen rather than exploding as they're supposed to. It looks
like what happens if Ryu loses his last life on the final boss - the demon
- of Ninja Gaiden and the screen flashes).
Tenchu
(Playstation)
Debug glitches
Some of these glitches require the debug code
(pause the game, hold L1+R2, press Up, Triangle, Down, X, Left, Square,
Right, Circle, release L1 and R2 and press L1, R1, L2, R2.
Then unpause (the pause sign will disappear if you did the code correctly)
and any time after this on the current level, press L2 and R2 together to
access the debug menu) to be used, although the results could most likely
defined as glitches. Anyways, here's the list.
Zombie Ninja (This can be done only in stages with instant-kill pits, ie.
stages 3, 6, 8 and 10):
Activate the debug code and drop down into a pit. When you see your energy
meter hit 0, open up the debug menu and select Player->Reset position.
You'll drop to the stage's starting point and be completely invincible to
everything, ie. all enemy attacks go right through you without harming you.
The bad thing is that you can't trigger cutscenes, pick up items or enter
deep water, because you drown if you do. To remedy that, select
Player->Raise Dead from the debug menu or use a Healing Potion.
No lower body (only in stages with water):
Floating Katana Of Death (only in level 10 and only with Rikimaru, since it
doesn't seem to work with Ayame):
This is a bit more complicated. Do the Zombie Ninja bug and drop into deep
water. You'll start drowning.
Use Player->Reset Positon and you'll drop down at the stage's starting point
and continue to drown on dry land. Wait until you're almost completely drown
and select Player->Raise Dead from the debug menu.
If you did it right, the only thing visible will be your sword, that
seemingly floats in thin air. Unfortunately, you can only access the first
half of the stage like this, since an invisble barrier prevents you from
re-entering the hole you jumped through in the cutscene. Space jump
Okay, this one doesn't require the use of debug menu, and it's a pretty neat
trick to do.
To do it, jump from any place that's on a higher ground you're going to land
to and just keep mashing X like there's no tomorrow. If you do it right,
your character will jump again from mid-air with the same jump animation
they used, without any leverage.
You can also keep doing it as long as you can, but it's hard to pull it off
more than once in a single jump. Also, any kinds of jumps work, be they
normal jumps, sideways jumps, double flips, backward flips or moonsaults.
The only problem is that it's really hard to pull it off in practice.
Actually, there's no need mash the button, if you have the timing down pat,
you can just press jump again at the exact moment your character's jump
animation ends, but I find that mashing still works the best.
If you want to practice this, I've found that the long set of stairs in the
beginning of stage 10 is the best place. Mess around with cutscenes
Since all the cutscenes take place in real time, and if there's something
that interacts with enemies/player where the cutscene takes place, it will
happen in that cutscene as if it were to happen in the game itself. For
example, if you know that a character is going to walk in a specific place
in a cutscene and you put a mine there, they'll trigger the mine when they
walk over it but continue their actions as nothing ever happened, even
though their clothes are on fire:)
After Burner
(Sega Master System)
Easy route to level 12
You can make it all the way to level 12 with out
taking a single hit. Just bank your aircraft as far as it will go to the
left. If you keep it there, you can't be hit, until level 12.
Continue Glitch
Press the PAUSE button exactly 100 times at the
title screen. From then on, you can continue by pressing, "UP, BUTTON 1,
and BUTTON 2", simultaneously when the words GAME OVER appear until level
18.
Ghostbusters
(Sega Master System)
100,000+ Account
If you enter the initials C D and the account
password of 4458008775 you will start with enough money to buy all the
ghost bustin' equipment you'll ever need, and then some.
Zillion
(Sega Master System)
Invincibility
Start the game, when you go down the first elevator from the surface, go to the
first room on the right. Access the computer in the room while an enemy robot
is standing right in front of it. While you're in the computer, enter the
'suicide code' (0 0 0 0) and exit the computer. If this was done correctly, you
don't commit suicide, but instead you are invincible! Bullets go through you! If
memory serves, you cannot pause the game anymore - so you cannot switch
characters. The game can be beaten without switching characters.
Mega Man ASM
(TI-85)
Cut to the Chase
Does Titanic Iniquity's lack luster lackeys have
you sucesfully barricaded from victory? Fret no more! This password will
take you directly to the big TI's level. Just fill in the spaces at:
A2 A3 B2 B4 C2 C3 D1 D3 E1 and E5!
Pac-Man '99
(TI-85)
Endless Lives
While at the title screen press the 7 key to access the beta tester mode.
Normally only people who were beta testing this before the official release
know about this. It makes it so that you can't run out of lives (which also
makes it impossible to save a score you get this way). It's original purpose
was to let the beta testers look at the later levels to make sure they
weren't buggy without having to survive the earlier levels to get to them.
For reasons unknown to me it's in the general release version as well.
Quest III
(TI-85)
Unlimited Heal Berries
When ever you need to heal, don't waste your money,
just go to the chest in the castle of Lekim, and it'll give you a heal
berry every time you open it. Still, it won't give you heal berries when
you have 3 or more, only when you have less than 3.
Dracula X
(Turbo Duo)
Get stuck
Choose Maria, and play in Stage 3. Keep the bird special weapon, and make sure
you have enough hearts to use its item crash at least once. Part way through
the stage are two platforms, connected by chains and pulleys. Normally, if you
wanted to go to the path to stage 4', you would stand on the left platform, and
hit the boulder above the right platform, and the left platform will be raised
upwards, with you on it. Instead, stand on the left platform and use the bird
item crash. The boulder will be knocked loose, and the platform you were standing
on will be launched upwards to the path to 4', but the item crash animation
lasts long enough that you will not be on the platform as it rises. You will be
left behind!! So, after you've done this, the game is basically stuck; you'll
have to turn the power off to play again.
Many more tricks will come so stay
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During Gameplay, press...
Ctrl + F1 = Normal Paddle
Ctrl + F2 = Grab Paddle
Ctrl + F3 = Laser Paddle
Ctrl + F4 = Longer Paddle
Ctrl + F5 = Change Music
Ctrl + F6 = Change Music
Ctrl + F7 = Move a stuck ball
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Left Back one board
Down Skip to last board in set
Up Back to first board in set
P Pause game play
[F5] Toggle MIDI music
[F6] Disable music
Space Bar Random power-up
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