Ever found a cheat or glitch by yourself?

C SauceC Sauce
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I remember back in my Goldeneye days I discovered a trick that I couldn't find a reference to anywhere online. I don't remember how to do it now, but basically you could dual wield different weapons. For instance, I used to have a sniper rifle in my left hand and a lazer gun in my right, and it was possible to zoom in via the rifle while attacking with the lazer (wasn't as broken as it sounds, though, but awesome nonetheless). Also, if anyone knows how to do that trick please tell me how so I can have all the nostalgia feelz



Anyone have a story of their own?
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  • DariaDaria
    Ultima Exodus. Might have been a fluke, I don't know what caused it but I turned on the game one day to discover one of my characters had every item in the game (at max quantities) crammed into her inventory.



    But sadly it's not a glitch I can reproduce. Shadowrun (Genesis) on the other hand has a few cheats and exploits I've never seen posted online. Everyone knows of the cheat code to start the game with a crap to of money, but if you choose the right faction to side with mid-game you can buy combat armor for less than it sells for. So that comes in handy if you want to cheat without actually cheating. And also always start the game as a Shaman. He's the only character that can ever use magic, but you can given him the skills and abilities of the other two classes. Then you sell all his mage shit at the beginning of the game, pay off your brother's room, and skip the first couple hours of tutorial/grinding.
  • TheToxicCollectorTheToxicCollector
    One time when I was a young whipper snapper I was playing Toy Story for the Sega Genesis before I left for school. Some how I ended up with invincibility and had to quit playing and leave for school shortly after. I was so bummed out because I knew I would never figure out how I did it again.
  • Hoddy KrishnuhHoddy Krishnuh
    I found the regeneration code for the first Genesis Valis game when looking at it through a hex editor. It was a comment in english on how to replenish your life and magic. At that time, it had not been documented. I posted it to GameFAQs with an older username that I no longer use, but it was pretty nifty.
  • Ozzy_98Ozzy_98
    Found a shit ton of them, once you find one, the same basic idea works in many other games. The door glitch in Zelda on nes was one of my first I figured out. My fave is Exile 2 multi-jump. That game is bugged to be too hard to play, the OFFICAL way to beat it per working designs is to turn away from monsters, so they hit you in the back, and that way you fly through them. My way is jump, switch chars in mid air (Can be to yourself), and jump again.
  • Tim the ActuaryTim the Actuary
    I found the secret usernames other than "Help Me" in Castlevania 3. I always thought it was weird there was only 1 special name, so I opened it up in a hex editor and tracked them down. (I think it was around the time that cracking the Metroid password system was being worked on, the special passwords in which inspired me to go looking in the first place.)
  • austin532austin532
    I want to say I was the first person to find this bug in Mega Man X4 in this video. I want to say I found it around 99-2000. There was nothing about it online then again the internet was still growing into what it would eventually become today. I remember that I really wanted to record this but I didn't know how. I had no idea about the 2nd bug though.



  • bronzeshieldbronzeshield
    As a kid, I found a spot in the Fireman stage of Mega Man that reliably allowed me to skip a chunk of the stage. Other, similar glitches use the magnet beam, but I don't think I've ever seen someone else use this exact glitch.
  • VGS_captmorgandrinkerVGS_captmorgandrinker
    College roommate found a glitch in Lamborghini Challenge on the SNES. He lost a race (or crashed or something) and was supposed to have made the "Game Over" screen pop up. He almost turned the system off, but I noticed his character had an absurd amount of money all of a sudden. I insisted that he wait and see, and sure enough he had enough to buy every upgrade in the game with plenty left over.
  • batz215batz215
    I did the same thing on N64 Golden Eye 007, different guns in each hand. not sure how I did it
  • JustinParksJustinParks
    Not sure whether to call this a cheat or a glitch, but I discovered a couple funny things you could do in Perfect Dark on N64 that you were not supposed to be able to do. The first one was that you could use the farsight gun in the shooting range and shoot and kill all the NPCs around the building through the walls with it, as well as blow up computers, etc. The second was my favorite, if you stood in the doorway to the shooting range just right, you could start it with the door still open. You could then pump the NPC full of bullets, knives, explosives, etc. and he would get all bloody and never die! You could also launch fly-by-wire missiles out of the shooting range and into the main building if you were quick enough.
  • JamesRobotJamesRobot
    Found this in Battletoads. I'm not sure if it's a glitch but I do it every time.image
  • KickmeisterKickmeister
    I accidentally found the soft reset in Secret of Mana (L+R+Start+Select) while mashing buttons on the controller out of frustration. Try and imagine how bloody furious you'd be if you were having a tough time with a boss and suddenly got booted back to the intro screen. I was the first one to report it to Nintendo Power though, so I'll always have that.
  • smokinjoe24smokinjoe24
    I wouldn't call it a chest but I used to play the heck out of WWF Raw on SNES and one day I was playing with Bam Bam Bigelow and started mashing the button and all of the sudden he flew across the ring super fast knocking down everyone in his path. It was like a missile headbutt but we opted to call it the flying penis.
  • QuazeQuaze
    Originally posted by: C Sauce



    I remember back in my Goldeneye days I discovered a trick that I couldn't find a reference to anywhere online. I don't remember how to do it now, but basically you could dual wield different weapons. For instance, I used to have a sniper rifle in my left hand and a lazer gun in my right, and it was possible to zoom in via the rifle while attacking with the lazer (wasn't as broken as it sounds, though, but awesome nonetheless). Also, if anyone knows how to do that trick please tell me how so I can have all the nostalgia feelz



    Anyone have a story of their own?





    While dual-wielding any set of matching guns, fire the left gun and reload. Then press A for your right hand to cycle to the next gun and hold Z until both fire. This will switch the right hand gun to another gun while the left gun remains the same. Nostalgia feelz!
  • C SauceC Sauce
    Originally posted by: Quazonk

     
    Originally posted by: C Sauce



    I remember back in my Goldeneye days I discovered a trick that I couldn't find a reference to anywhere online. I don't remember how to do it now, but basically you could dual wield different weapons. For instance, I used to have a sniper rifle in my left hand and a lazer gun in my right, and it was possible to zoom in via the rifle while attacking with the lazer (wasn't as broken as it sounds, though, but awesome nonetheless). Also, if anyone knows how to do that trick please tell me how so I can have all the nostalgia feelz



    Anyone have a story of their own?





    While dual-wielding any set of matching guns, fire the left gun and reload. Then press A for your right hand to cycle to the next gun and hold Z until both fire. This will switch the right hand gun to another gun while the left gun remains the same. Nostalgia feelz!

    WOOHOO



     
  • JandremJandrem
    I've found two notably, but one of them I can't replicate, so it's lost to memory. I may just be mis-remembering.



    In GI Joe: The Atlantis Factor(NES), rapidly press down on the d-pad while doing melee attacks. Every time you press down, the computer attacks again. Get a guy like Storm Shadow or Snake Eyes with the energy wave melee attack, and you can rip through most bosses in seconds. Works fine with every Joe.



    In Godzilla Monster of Monsters, I found a glitched stage. I was messing around with the "ghidora" code, but I found a real stage that had a visible red hex grid, and glitched all over the place. Monsters would be invisible on the map, and reappear randomly during their turns. It sounds like the stuff of schoolyard legend, but I swear on my honor I found it as a kid. Haven't been able to find it again since then.
  • NostalgicMachineNostalgicMachine
    Originally posted by: JamesRobot



    Found this in Battletoads. I'm not sure if it's a glitch but I do it every time.image

    Lol yes! I've done this once or twice, myself.



    I'm pretty sure I accidentally figured out the level select/skip code in Sonic 3D Blast on the Saturn back in the day.
  • alekxalekx
    In super mario kart me and my friend discovered a way to get red shells to circle your oponent, we would have up to 5 circling them and if they tried to drive out of the circle they would die. You could get more red shells but it was difficult to add shells to the circle without getting hit yourself or having the shells collide
  • MAIL_BAGMAIL_BAG
    The "wall walking" in Double Dragon that was later revealed in a video game tips vhs.
  • arnpolyarnpoly
    I triggered a glitch with the Magnet beam in Mega Man. If you put one in the right position below a ceiling and jump into it Mega Man gets pinched in between the beam he's standing on and the ceiling and he zips forward really fast. I am positive I was not the first to discover this trick but I had it happen to me without knowing about it so it counts I think!
  • SoleGooseProductionsSoleGooseProductions

    Originally posted by: Daria



    Ultima Exodus. Might have been a fluke, I don't know what caused it but I turned on the game one day to discover one of my characters had every item in the game (at max quantities) crammed into her inventory.



    But sadly it's not a glitch I can reproduce.



    We had this happen with FF3/6! My brother and I have two different accounts of what caused it, but I swear it was due to dropping it on the way to the neighbors house (still no scratch on the label, the smoking gun on the grassy knolle?). We didn't want to cheat, though, so we didn't save it; which means that no one ever believed us... but it happened, really!




  • NintendoAge ModeratorNintendoAge Moderator
    Originally posted by: SoleGooseProductions

     
    Originally posted by: Daria



    Ultima Exodus. Might have been a fluke, I don't know what caused it but I turned on the game one day to discover one of my characters had every item in the game (at max quantities) crammed into her inventory.



    But sadly it's not a glitch I can reproduce.



    We had this happen with FF3/6! My brother and I have two different accounts of what caused it, but I swear it was due to dropping it on the way to the neighbors house (still no scratch on the label, the smoking gun on the grassy knolle?). We didn't want to cheat, though, so we didn't save it; which means that no one ever believed us... but it happened, really!



     



    I ended up with a crapload of Palladin shields in FF6, enough to fully equip the entire party all over. Never knew about the mime / replication tricks at the time. Suffice it to say the final battle was a joke

     
  • DariaDaria

    Originally posted by: barrelsAndRivets




    Originally posted by: SoleGooseProductions

     

    Originally posted by: Daria



    Ultima Exodus. Might have been a fluke, I don't know what caused it but I turned on the game one day to discover one of my characters had every item in the game (at max quantities) crammed into her inventory.



    But sadly it's not a glitch I can reproduce.



    We had this happen with FF3/6! My brother and I have two different accounts of what caused it, but I swear it was due to dropping it on the way to the neighbors house (still no scratch on the label, the smoking gun on the grassy knolle?). We didn't want to cheat, though, so we didn't save it; which means that no one ever believed us... but it happened, really!



     



    I ended up with a crapload of Palladin shields in FF6, enough to fully equip the entire party all over. Never knew about the mime / replication tricks at the time. Suffice it to say the final battle was a joke

     



    That reminds me of the first time I played Tales of Phantasia. I didn't realize it at the time but I downloaded a bad version of the ROM and I pciked up an epic level sword off a random drop just outside the beginning town. I figured it was a rare drop because the weapon was good, but I didn't realize something was up until I getting weapons from mid-game bosses that still sucked compared to this sword. So I pretty much nerfed my way through the game. I figured out the rom was corrupted when I ran into a chest that threw up gardbled text and crashed my game. But I was able to transfer the save to a clean ROM and keep going. 




  • ne$_pimpne$_pimp
    I did this weird thang in NWC

  • Brock LandersBrock Landers
    This is the best I can come up with



    Battletoads Double Dragon - you can repeatedly double dash against the slopes near Abobbo, which take you off screen.



    Super Mario World - whatever the hardest level is on the special world. I used to cheat this level all the time by (I think) floating underneath everything. You'd be off screen, but not dead. Trivialized the level, and I don't see much or any chatter about this online.
  • Brock LandersBrock Landers
    Also, not really really something you discover, but, did anyone ever have an F-Zero X X-Cup track generate, which would cause all 30 opponents to suicide on the first lap? Usually a combination of sharp turn and sharp drop? That was the greatest.
  • NintenDarrNintenDarr
    The first Mercenaries game for PS2. I was like 14 and had the invincibility cheat on. I walked into a body of water (you normally drown and cannot swim) and just kept walking to the edge of the map. Eventually I fell through a hill at the bottom of the lake or whatever it was and there was a picture of a face textured in one of the hill textures. I looked at it from every angle and it was a face. I left my game paused for a few days and had a friend check it out too. Unfortunately I didnt have any means to record back then. I have always meant to do it again though. I can probably find it again pretty quick.
  • DarkToneDarkTone
    Boss from double dragon II. My jaw dropped.



    Also mega man x.
  • Uncle MeatUncle Meat
    I remember a glitch in Jurassic Park for Genesis while playing as Grant I was stepping off a ledge and he didn't fall I could just float around it was pretty cool but didn't last very long.
  • shortstop444shortstop444
    One of the Castlevania games for PS2 I kept playing past the last save before Dracula and beat him with only 3 hits. Pretty much just walked up to him and started hacking. When I went back starting from the last save point and fought Dracula the glitch was definitely gone.



    Another was Guantlet Legends PS2. On the last Boss I found a spot right next to him where I never got hit just stood there swinging away.
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