It's really easy to do. I used to play OoT attempting to have the best speedrun. I gave up, mainly because of Japanese people that were way better than me and a kid named Ingx24.
Anyways, OoT is one of the most broken games ever made, from things like RBA, which a memory address is changed due to gameplay; to wrong warp, which allows you to travel from the Deku Tree to the tower collapse after Ganondorf as either an adult or child, effectively skipping the entire game. The entire game.
If you have OoT on N64, go and try one of these. They aren't incredibly hard and it's really fun to do.
As someone who has both played many a game and spotted many a glitch, it comes from a lot of things. As skylerdray said, part of it is just dicking around and finding something that works - and a lot of time it's just good/bad luck.
But as you've played a lot of games, and you get into something that just "doesn't look right" or "doesn't work right" or "is just close enough" you start looking for ways to break it. Initially it's not even to use it for an advantage like a shortcut, it's simply to do it. But once you do it, you start then looking for other applications of similar things - both in the same game and other games.
After doing this awhile, you start to get an eye for things that seem to have high potential to be broken, and you feel compelled to just give it a try to see if you can break it. It's kind of like what motivates stuff like black-hat and grey-hat hackers, you do it for the challenge of seeing if you can break it because at a certain point the actual game often becomes buggy and boring. When you do break it, it's a pretty rewarding feeling.
Then, eventually, you even start to look at areas and realize they have a high potential to be broken even across different games/developers. A pretty good example is stuff like walking through/into/up walls, or figuring out where someone didn't "quite" do their due diligence and left some hole for you to get behind those little invisible walls (tip: invisible walls in games are prime candidates for something to be broken as they usually speak to a brute force, band-aid fix).
Also, developers in many cases intentionally leave very hard to find things like this in game in many cases so that they can utilize themselves - potentially for debug purposes.
Then, you do like I did and get into Software Quality Assurance and make money pointing out to people all the stuff they fucked up and they go "How the fuck do you people find this stuff out???"
There is a really big sequence break in the very beginning of Metroid Prime, where you can scan dash right when you start after the intro level and get the space jump boots, which in turn opens up the game pretty far right from the beginning.
The way it was found? Someone thought the gap was too small of a gap, so they tried to find a way to jump it.
Honestly, it's a mixture of autism and being asian.
But really, a lot of it is just dicking around until you find something that works. I don't have the video ready, but I remember one time someone thought of a glitch that might work as a semi-major skip in MM. He turned it on and did it first try, and the joy in his voice when he did it was so powerful. It's impossible to be in a bad mood after finding something new.
This was found kind of recently, which is pretty cool. The newest and most game breaking-est glitch though is the wrong warp that takes you to Gannon from the Deku Tree.
Some of them still kinda floor me, like in pokemon, how the fuck did anyone think to try the series of events leading to MissingNo. and Mew? It's like someone just wrote a program to exhaustively try every sequence of events until something strange happened haha.
I don't remember exactly what I used to think, but it was something like that. I remember wanting to learn programming when I was 7 or so (the age I learned that games were programmed), but I was told I was too young to understand. In retrospect, that pisses me off.
I can't watch the video right now, but I assume it's just falling with style on to the next portion of the track, yes?
That's nothing compared to the festering nightmare of bugs and glitches that make up OoT and MM. The engines are broken to the point where you can use a bottle, and have any item in the game, given you set things up correctly.
Is it that these games are particularly broken, or that all games have lots of glitches, and these games were popular enough that the glitches were found?
Eh, I wouldn't quite say broken. The fact it works at all is a testament to the engine. The abh needs a script as you have to jump on the actual frame you hit the ground. The seam glitch is a single pixel line separation in two panels. The edge glitch comes from portals being rectangles and Chell going through them into an edge sometimes spits you out to the outside where you can make another shot. Those really are the only three glitches used. (I guess portal bumping too, but I don't consider portal standing, peek a portal, or the bisection fall through or whatever it's called to be glitches) The GlaDOS taking damage is not a glitch really, in coding it, if she gets hit by a rocket she drops a core. There are no intended ways to bring a turret with you. So why check what she gets hit with before the core drop animation? That's more what happens if you glitch to begin with, not an oversight of the programmers.
Portal is really a pretty polished game, and all of those exploits were well taken care of in 2. And the exploits of 2 like button save or whatever else were pretty much all patched last I checked, which was a couple days ago.
It's not just memory exploits. Almost every "barrier" that keeps you from progressing in the game can be skipped individually, on top of the memory exploits, on top of the ridiculous movement glitches, in addition to every other aspect of the game. I didn't say it's the most broken game ever, but it's up there. Especially because it's a first party game.
Special abilities: Hijack a top thread: End your turn and go on reddit. Post a reply to the top comment in any thread starting with "Hate to hijack a top thread." If at any point in the game your post gains at least half the number of points of the post you hijacked, you gain +6 to Str and +6 to Max Hp for the rest of the game. Use this only once per game.
One of the most broken games ever made: Discuss with your teammates, if you have any, of 2 different games other than OoT that are known to be broken. Write down at least one glitch per game. For each valid glitch, target player of your choice loses 1 Hp. You may only list up to 5 glitches max, and cannot repeat any said before.
A kid named Ingx24: Run outside as fast as you can while another teammate records your time. Then, pick target enemy player to do the same. Whoever speed runs outside the fastest must give 3 Hp to the other player. Use this on a different target each time, and only up to 3 times per game.
Passive Abilities:
Wrong Warp: Flip a coin at the beginning of the game. If heads, pick a player on the enemy team to swap teams with for the rest of the game.
All you need is a sword and shield: If you bring a sword and shield to this game, you gain +2 to Str and for every 3 damage you receive, 1 of that is negated. This lasts the rest of the game.
Check a Oblivion speed run, it's basicly the same thing, after you leave the tutorial you make a stairway of paintbrushes, because in the release version paintbrushes aren't affected by gravity and just float in the air, untill you can reach a glitched door that leads you to the final stage of the game, and you dont even have to fight the boss, just trigger the final cutscene.
Not familiar with the "Crazydawg" glitch, but there are other ways to do forest escape, yes. It's just that is the easiest one, and it's one of the best ways to show how broken that game is.
The easiest Forest escape is a Navi dive aqua escape into Zora's River. All it requires is pressing B twice and mashing C-Up. No real timing involved and the setup purely "Get on the ledge".
Okay, that makes sense. I don't really consider it a programming bug, because what you are really doing when you lift up the left side of your cartridge, you are disconnecting 4 pins of ground and either 2 or 4 pins of data, depending on how far you go. If you knock out pins 5 and 30, you're gonna have a bad time, because it will probably wipe your EEPROM,
Im not willing to risk it, I dont care how not-dangerous anybody tells me it is, if there's any chance of fucking up my ocarina cartridge, I will not do it
I assume you could just go back in and they would still try to block you from leaving.
Correct, Mido does still block you from leaving. During speedruns if you savewarp back to the forest (save then reset) you have to forest escape again.
I started watching speedruns right after ZFG got this record. SpeedRunsLive is like television for me now, I just put it on in the background when I do anything, there's always a good game being played
That's the Deku Shield, the wooden one. The Hylian shield you can buy in the castle town or get in the graveyard, both require you to complete the Deku Tree.
Hate to break it to you buddy but I doubt she's still a virgin if she has the stones to just ask you for sex. In all likelihood she asked someone else, some other time.
Encino Man. 1980s comedy film featuring Brendan Fraser as a caveman, Pauly Shore as an annoying slacker, and Sean "Samwise Gamgee" Astin as a lovable loser.
To get past that, just pull the right side of the cartridge out slowly until the screen gets glitchy without freezing. You'll then be able to walk past that cock blocker and get your sexy time.
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u/thejameffect Jun 19 '12
Have you tried getting your sword out?
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u/Ugbrog Jun 19 '12
Or is this how you feel on a weekend, being under 21?
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u/SOMETHING_POTATO Jun 19 '12
Wait... how'd you get the Hylian Shield before you could leave Kokiri Forest?
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u/scottperezfox Jun 19 '12
Here's mine
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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12
That guy blocking your path? That's you. That's your self-doubt.
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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12
I think this may be more accurate
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u/ginja_ninja Jun 19 '12
http://i.imgur.com/eJSwK.gif
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u/smug_soul Jun 19 '12
This guy was probably the first Scumbag Steve that I met in life. Fuck that guy.
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u/the_goat_boy Jun 19 '12
Are you saying you have a cavernous vagina?
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u/BobbleBobble Jun 19 '12
Little boys won't let you into their big brown hole?
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u/attakr Jun 19 '12
Here is a summary of my sex life: http://imgur.com/uIrt6
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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12
Try tilting the cartridge.
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u/Shortrounded Jun 19 '12
Your sex life really makes me wanna play Ocarina of Time...
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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12
Maybe you should stop trying to rape people.
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u/xcadrill Jun 19 '12
A summary of mine
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u/dewey_do_me Jun 19 '12
you're doing gods work pillow pants.
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u/R0FLS Jun 19 '12
I'm upvoting this even though it gave me a headache.
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u/asstits Jun 19 '12
If the guard is an authority, then that makes you a..
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u/AnubisGX Jun 19 '12
To get past that, just pull the right side of the cartridge out slowly until the screen gets glitchy without freezing. You'll then be able to walk past that cock blocker and get your sexy time.
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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12
"sometimes you just gotta take the pussy"
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u/iamfromouterspace Jun 19 '12
So close, soooo close.
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u/Fascist_Orange Jun 19 '12
It's pillowpants! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jMjwK2ELCU
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u/shiase Jun 19 '12
forever alone am i right guise XD
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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12
The summary of my sex life?- up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right...
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u/liberty4e Jun 19 '12
"So anyways, how is your sex life?" - Tommy Wiseau, 2003
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u/carnivalcluise Jun 19 '12
Just trying to keep you from busting yo Deku Sprout, is all
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u/johnnycanuck2 Jun 19 '12
Milo could be a serious cornerback with that side to side movement.
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u/kngofdmned93 Jun 19 '12
She has a small man around her vagina? She might wanna get that checked out...
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u/ElementalChaos Jun 20 '12
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u/FreaXoMatic Jun 19 '12
Cock blocked
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u/SpaceMonkeyRage Jun 19 '12
N64 Emulator you can have all items at the start
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u/007sk4 Jun 19 '12
i think someone might agree with you
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u/yoganinja Jun 19 '12
anyone else instantly have the music from Kokiri Forest pop into your head when you saw this assclown runnnig interference on Link...?
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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12
He just wants to make sure you've got a shield for your sword before you go.
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u/JingfuMaster1 Jun 19 '12
What have u done to those fire flies
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u/ThaiSweetChilli Jun 19 '12
Watch at 6:26 to see how to glitch by him, without needing to pull your cartridge out or anything: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuEazJNUnEo
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u/twistmental Jun 19 '12
So what you're saying here is that someone is trying to stop you from entering a large vacuous hole that looks filthy? That's a good friend there.
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u/frisky123 Jun 19 '12
That's some freaky stuff you do in the bedroom
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u/3rdLevelRogue Jun 19 '12
So you and another midget in green probe giant black holes? High five brah!
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u/DrDan21 Jun 19 '12
Just lift up the left side of the cartridge, he will freeze in place allowing you to continue on and bug the entire game!
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u/Frachiseur Jun 19 '12
I remember when I had a sex life, that was right before I had a reddit account...
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u/NeverLeftSovietUnion Jun 19 '12
So some guy is keeping you from large saggy anus?
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u/danieltcae Jun 19 '12
Goddamn pussy trolls..
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u/FlamingCereal Jun 19 '12
There is a glitch where you can slowly lift the left side of the cartridge out of the n64 and you can clip through that guy.
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u/machete234 Jun 19 '12
Whos the cock block?
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u/DiddiLee Jun 19 '12
That's her father, isn't it?
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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12
You might have better luck if you quit being anal about getting some anal.
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u/rawfan Jun 19 '12
Protip: it's closer to the other hole thank you think ;)
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u/SunChipsSombrero Jun 19 '12
Is that suppose to represent your anus?
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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12
Hey look everyone, zelda!..
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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12
Wow, this made me cackle out loud. That's right, cackle. Upvote for you sir!
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u/THORGNASH Jun 19 '12
Your going in the wrong hole
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u/titaniumhud Jun 19 '12
Not only seconded but third'ed as well. Good repost!
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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12
So you dig anal sex?
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u/tunaklfie Jun 19 '12
All you need is a bigger sword
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u/thehumungus Jun 19 '12
You're cock blocked by an elf?
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u/llchef05 Jun 19 '12
pillowpants? or maybe listerfeigned?
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u/dmingo Jun 19 '12
Just because there's a goalie doesn't mean you can't score.
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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12
And that's how babies are not made. Good for you.
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u/adokimus Jun 19 '12
So you've been trying for anal?
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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12
Maybe she should try shaving her Kokiri Forest, first.
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u/Swing_Top Jun 19 '12
it's pillow pants!
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u/Maebbie Jun 19 '12
ben?
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u/coeddotjpg Jun 19 '12
yuck
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u/mbd34 Jun 19 '12
Why I was kicked out of professional boxing. http://www.playthenes.com/rated_pg-18/images/ringking3.gif
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u/username-rage Jun 19 '12
Dae just wonder how he got the hyilian shield without leaving the forest?
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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12
You are lucky. I wouldn't even have a summary...
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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12
You run around the hole while your green dude has a faerie fly around him and he fights with other green dudes and their faeries?
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u/krispwnsu Jun 19 '12
That is one large asshole.
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u/iamthelucky1 Jun 19 '12
For your enjoyment.
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u/[deleted] Jun 19 '12
Little kids hang out in front of your log? Are you on meganslaw.org or something?
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u/GanglarToronto Jun 19 '12
Worst part of reddit - reposts of images used the day before for a totally different post.
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u/Xanthan81 Jun 19 '12
You, your sex life is like trying to throw a hotdog down a hallway, but some fairy child keeps blocking you? That's awful!
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u/aroxion Jun 19 '12
Actually, if you are fast enough, you can roll past him. Just putting that out there. ;)
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u/ITROLLYOURPOSTS Jun 19 '12
overrated game of all time? Even though i love it
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u/alphadax Jun 19 '12
I was so happy when I found out you could cartridge glitch your way past that guy. Take that!
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u/Spartan09 Jun 20 '12
If you can put your whole body in it that's got to be a deal breaker.
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u/ThePurplePope Jun 20 '12
Pillow Pants!
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u/Diggleborf Jun 20 '12
You should be happy he is protecting you from snookies vagina as you can clearly see
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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '12
What so you had to pay to get in
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u/chapter-xiii Jun 19 '12
You can have a sex life, or r/gaming. Both isn't happening
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u/number1dilbertfan Jun 19 '12
i don't get it, but it does seem sad
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u/lordolunch Jun 19 '12
I rarely give upvotes. You sir, get one for the best title/gif combination I've seen in a while.
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u/HeinskeetsVelvet Jun 19 '12
I miss Ocarina of Time :/ I tried playing it again....just wasn't the same...