Exploiting Glitches in Games

I remember finding one quite by accident a long time ago. It was on the original Zelda: Link's Awakening (any subsequent versions of this have the "glitch" removed unfortunately, like the color GB one).

The glitch was, anytime you were about to move to another area, if you timed it right, and pressed Select, then it would take you to the map screen, and upon coming back, you'd be in the same exact spot, except you're on the next map you were going too.

For example, let's say you were going to one map from the upper right corner. After using this glitch, you'd be in the same upper right corner of the next area, which was useful for getting past certain areas sooner than you're supposed to be there (I remember getting the fire wand right away from the last dungeon using this, even before recovering the sword from the beach lol).

There was a downside to this though. You could get stuck in an area, and then be unable to get out of there (most notably if you're on the beach, and use it to glitch onto the top area of the map, in which case you'd end up in the "sky" at the top portion of the overworld map. And if you got stuck there, you'd fall down as if you were falling down a hole endlessly, but dungeons were sometimes a pain too).

And sometimes it might save you where you were, so if you were in a really bad spot, and dying and what not wouldn't get you out of there, then you had to restart the game. With experience you could avoid some of these areas though.

The other downside was that I wore out my select button using this so much on my old gameboy lol.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by terrakazama

Also, in KOTORII, there's one part where you talk about Visas' homeworld with Kreia. I ended up getting all the influence I wanted with her and managed to get the dialogue options I hadn't been able to get my first playthrough.

KOTOR II was pretty notorious for its many bugs and glitches (and it's incredibly lame 2nd half of the game. First half kicks butt though, when you're going around planets solving problems), some of which could cause your game to freeze up (I remember talking to that merchant outside of Dantooine, and asked him something and the game froze on me, forcing a reboot).

I don't remember all of them, but one of my favorite ones was talking to Hanharr (the chewbacca lookalike, cept he seems a lot more pissed off, but if you talk to him in the game, he explains why he's so angry) and certain dialogue would cause him to respond in a certain way, which would then give him an extra 2 str at the cost of 1 intel (I think that's what it was).

Strangely enough, you could repeatedly talk to him and have that +2/-1 thing continue (whereas other characters don't really give you any more gains or faction after you speak with them at least once on that subject).

The funny thing is, after it goes past 0 intel, for some reason instead of staying there, his intel resets to 255 (I think, I'm not 100% positive, as I haven't played in a while). So not only could he be incredibly strong, but still had a lot of intellect as well (I don't think you can do this with the other characters).

There's nowhere I can't reach.