#glitch hunting

[sibyl-of-space]

I have officially (and singlehandedly <3) broken both slider puzzles in Tales of Symphonia.

...well that has been true for like a year but now someone's actually done both skips I found in an actual speedrun.

As some of you may know, I used to speedrun Tales of Symphonia (mostly NG+, exclusively GC), and was sort of good at it (2nd and 3rd place respectively), but had to stop because my wrists are fucked up.

As perhaps fewer of you know, I also have done a lot of glitch hunting. I've found significant skips in 3 different games. I enjoy the process of figuring out how things work and exploiting brokenness.

Several years ago I found a way to break the Welgaia slider puzzle section and save like a whole minute, and I made a really stuffy-sounding tutorial video showcasing it:

...but, crucially, the skip is also implemented in my own runs and the world record runs, which means people will find out about it if they try to learn the game by watching other runs. It is out there fulfilling its purpose.

A year ago, I also found a way to break the ice temple slider puzzle, making it so you never have to do either one as-intended. This one is much shorter which means it only saves about 7 seconds but it still felt great to find:

But unfortunately, the community has been pretty dead for the past ~3 years for reasons I don't care to get into here and nobody was actually running the game. I was pretty sure this cool thing I spent hours finding would never see the light of day.

BUT I WAS WRONG!

TatsuyaAct has been running the JP version, and actually did the trick in a run:

...which means now people will like, actually see it! It exists beyond just me saying "hey I found this" and it disappearing forever. It's in a complete run of the game. It has fulfilled its purpose.

This doesn't quite feel as awesome as when a Japanese Tales of the Abyss runner implemented a skip I found in the world record run, but it's still nice.

[elrohirtheneurodivergent]

Why when I search for tears of the kingdom glitches, the only thing i can find is item duplication?

Like, I get it, item duplication is great and all and it can be fun but I don't want to dupe items when I try out glitches. I want out of bounds glitches and something like the windbomb from breath of the wild or the bow lift smuggle slide or the bullet time bounce.

Why does the glitch hunting community focus so much on duplication glitches and not movement glitches?

[regallibellbright]

Arbitrary code execution has been found in Fire Red/Leaf Green.

The first person to incorporate it into a speedrun beat the current TAS by eleven minutes. Not the world record - though it did that, too, obviously - but the tool-assisted run with every trick executed perfectly. They’re looking at it saving maybe half an hour over glitchless. And while Emerald already had ACE for a decade (and you could transfer a Pokemon who’d set up for it into FRLG and do it there,) this might end up being doable there as well. We’ll have to see - and even if it is, who knows yet if it’ll be faster given you need Knock Off and Recycle - but this is likely to be pretty big. It certainly looks at first glance like it might well be easier to set up than Emerald’s existing method.

And that’s just the implications for the speedrun, if it really is easier than Glitzer Popping then people are probably going to get a lot of use out of it.

[valduin111]

found a cool out of bounds glitch in the stanley parable today (minor flashing warning)

[dragonthefolfbugs]

Pokemon Scarlet (2022, Game Freak)

Tera Raid Battles just, in general ive seen a lot of bugs with them in my 200+ hours of pokemon scarlet playtime, such as:

pokemon yelling their name at you

being unable to terastalize due to the game being unable to count

oh yeah, i almost forgot this one a while ago they did an event where you could catch great tusk/iron treads (depending on which version of the game you have) in tera raid battles

but due to a glitch, the game would give you an item labeled none and then crash once you got out of the den, assuming you didnt get stuck in the den listening to the same 5 seconds of audio until you close the game

[8bitskey]

this is my glitch girl, White Noise. you can call her Wyn. her life is spinning wildly out of control.

[headspace-hotel]

Found another Minecraft seed that has something wrong with it! (This will probably only work on Bedrock)

-4595051069565845803

What's wrong with this picture?

Hmm...

If you look carefully, you will notice that about 500 blocks below the spawn point, the map shows a woodland mansion...in a bamboo jungle biome.

This is not supposed to happen, period. Woodland mansions are only supposed to generate in dark forest biomes. There's not even a pixel of dark forest in that spot on the map.

But sure enough...

There's even a random podzol with a bamboo on it inside the mansion!

[hychlorions]

good news guys they sell klapollo at ikea now 👍

[phoenixcatch7]

So there's an actual in game reason you can't get lynel weapons anymore??

So I was looking over the monster statues, just examining the design, when I notice something I'd seen but never really twigged:

Those are nuts and bolts. Huh. That's not natural, that's been added on. In fact, you can still see part of the original scratchy lynel horn from botw underneath, even if it has mutated a bit like all the other horned monsters.

See, lynels, with lizalfos in a lesser way, are the only enemies in the game with the intelligence and cunning to forge weapons. A lizal can only manage one boomerang, shield or bow with varying spikes and occasionally repurpose some hylian armour (and often loot anyway), but lynels are capable of creating their own unique metals and using it to completely outfit themselves. Armour, bows, shields, spears, clubs, and swords, complete with sheaths and harnesses and decoration!

But in totk the particularly pointy ones are missing, leaving only shields, armour, and bows. Their weapons were subject to the Decay as well, but instead of trying to use them anyway, what did they do? They broke down their own weapons and repurposed them as enhancements to their own horns! Extra defence and a new devastating attack!

But... For what reason? They could have kept using those weapons just fine, everyone else is! It probably would have been more practical to start attaching things to the end, like the goblins have all started doing (albeit with mixed results, they seem to inordinately favour mushrooms). Why would the most feared enemy in the game feel the need to put more points into defence and intimidation, even sometimes utilising the rock armour?

What would they be feeling the need to so strongly defend from, even to the point of sacrificing huge attack power over it?

...

Link. It's Link.

The 5 nothing hero of hyrule, who built a whole community of speed running, styling on, brutally murdering lynels almost exclusively again and again and again. Moldugas, hinox, talus, they haven't changed a bit! They weren't at the center of every flashy slow mo clip since the first game came out!

But lynels in totk are running scared, they're building bigger horns to look scarier and armour to hide in, because once they need to get their short range weapons out its already over, or maybe link will just stop farming them for top tear weapons XD.

Tldr: unlike other monsters, which have branched out to kidnapping, riding flying monsters and rolling big spiky balls, lynels have gone entirely the other direction in order to try and scare the hero off after the last round of stylish massacres, and attached their old decayed gear to their horns.

Tldr tldr: botw link is the reason you can't get lynel weapons in totk because he scared them too much.

[spoiledmilks]

AU TIME

fair warning this is just a silly au and tbh its an excuse to draw william with an axe

Basically ucn is literally just a game made to torture william

Except in this universe william has enough of goldie’s bs and thinks if he destroys all 50 animatronics he can be free

With each destroyed animatronic he gets himself some remnant

He hopes the remnant will “glitch him out” and he’ll be able to come back (BCUZ YKNOW HE ALWAYS DOES) (also this could tie into glitchtrap but im not sure if glitchtrap is actually afton or the mimic lmao)

Also i like to imagine if he hurts himself or dies he just kinda..

I’d LOVEEE to read some feedback and maybe expand on this AU

I’ll 100% be making more art with this

And lastly… chibi glitchy william

[elrohirtheneurodivergent]

Do Totk glitches involving features that also exist in botw, also work there?

[absoluteinsanity-mdashton]

Just a reminder to everyone to please be nice to Glitch and Gooseworx when The Amazing Digital Cirus comes out on October 13th.

I promise y'all we will get Murder Drones episode 7 soon after. Remember that Glitch is allowed to work on other projects than just one!! 👍👍

[headspace-hotel]

2day's normal minecraft seed is -3270987227654120611

Featuring such hits as

gigantic death mountains that are 2 big to fit in the screenshot on my crappy little phone...trust me they're fucken huge

huge shattered sea cave that flows into two subterranean seas.

THE MEGACAVE that the screenshots do NOT do justice to

And lastly, and perhaps most weirdly,

these two ancient cities that fully just merged with each other to form one chaotic mega city. the hallways and buildings are overlapping and it's a MESS

[kafus]

he has arrived

[istwisted]

I think Roach learnt how to fly

[jounosparticles]

I'm curious....... what do you think the hunting dogs's backgrounds are?

I mean, we know fukuchi's and tachihara's and jouno was in a crime ring but i mean like specific details. does that make sense?

like what was their education or did they ever have to do like a mini basic training? did tachihara create a milk locker?

idk they've been taking up my brain since like October and what I do is that since they don't have specific backgrounds my brain just fills in the spaces for me. just little backstory hcs djdebd

hi!!

okay so….sorry in advance i got really rambly but here are some of my ideas for everyone

the whole team

- tachi joined likely after the others

- i assume fukuchi was there from the start

- but you don’t start a one person team so i’d assume teruko and tecchou were there as well!

- fukuchi specifically picked out jouno for the team. maybe he chose all the members? maybe not im not sure really.

- personally i think they started the team with tecchou, teruko, and fukuchi. then shortly after jouno joined then tachi after

- fukuchi wore the hunting dogs uniform during untold origins. this means either they never got new uniforms or the team has existed for at least 12 years.

- that makes me wonder if there are former hunting dogs that have retired or been killed? or maybe it was just fukuchi and teruko at the start.

- i suppose if tecchou joined while a teenager still (16-19ish) during untold origins it would make sense still. i assume he’s in his late 20s if not older (please i need canon ages asagiri please make them at least 28 please im so sick of everyone being in their early 20s sob. anyways). it would still make sense for them to form then

- however i don’t believe fukuchi makes an appearance in the untold origins book? so it may just be a lore mistake and the team may be newer. who knows.

now onto individual characters

fukuchi

- was in the military prior to the hunting dogs. we know this

- his power probably was the core reason the hunting dogs were founded

- i assume he started training and set this goal in his childhood after getting the signal from amenogozen

- he likely helped form the idea of the group

- i like to imagine he knew teruko beforehand

- i assume fukuchi’s ability manifested out of pure desire to save the world. likely around when he got drafted. since fukuzawa and him fought evenly as children i assume he didn’t have the ability then

- i feel the other hunting dogs likely warmed up to him quickly. he just has the personality of that

- he’s probably always felt immense pressure and stress throughout his entire life due to him knowing the worlds outcome results in his actions

- he likely started out with a strong fighting spirit (like when he met fukuzawa) but he was likely drained and very stressed over time

- as for education, hmmmmm. i actually am not sure. we really don’t get much of any mention of school in bsd in general (other than tanizaki and naomi being students and kunikida being a former teacher). i assume fukuchi got some schooling but enlisted while young

i don’t have too much to say about him since we seen a lot of his backstory.

teruko

- i want to say she was also likely military or a public service worker of sorts

- we really don’t know much about teruko. but she has the personality of someone who is very used to her work and likely has been here a long time

- i feel she probably completed school and went to further school in law enforcement

- she is very tough and good at interrogation. it likely made her one of the most noticeable candidates for the job

- i assume her ability manifested likely out of a time where she desperately wanted to change people, hence the way it is. i’m not really sure how exactly ill have to think more on this!

- i feel she was likely quick to adjust to the job. she doesn’t seem to have an issue talking to people and would likely be a good coworker from the start

- a lot of her background is hard to tell when we don’t quite know how old she is. if i could hazard to guess even roughly how long she’s been around i could come up with some better ideas i think

- i like to imagine she uses her ability to mess with people before they find out what her ability is. imagine going to get a coffee and coming back and seeing a random baby at ur coworkers desk. that would be so funny

- she also probably could use her ability to get those "kids eat free” meals and stuff. not really a backstory headcanon it’s just what i would do

- i bet she always had her sense of justice. i don’t think she ever swayed far from the way she is now. her job likely toughened her a bit and made interrogation easier that way but her heart was always the same intent

- i assume she knew who fukuchi was before they started working together (guessing his reputation was already good or maybe they knew each other).

- she’s probably the brains behind a lot of their work. despite fukuchi being the captain usually it’s her and jouno strategizing the most out of them all. i assume she’s super smart

- i feel she was probably very willing to do the surgeries. she already likely was very strong and skilled in her work. she’s dutiful and i think everything about her screams willing

tachihara

- i assume he’s somewhat new to the squad. remembering he’s only 19

- that makes me wonder if he had went to highschool? if so he was part time hunting dog part time student. must have been one hell of a week. i’m saying he probably dropped out after getting recruited OR idk had a lesser workload until he graduated

- i wish i knew how long he has been in the mafia, that could help me figure out a timeline a lot easier for him.

- i assume he hasn’t been in the mafia much longer than the manga has been going on, however he must have very quickly moved up the ranks somehow without outing his ability. possibly his enhanced strength helped here

- he was found and recruited by the hunting dogs but we don’t know when. somehow long enough to gain their trust to infiltrate the mafia, but not long enough to make a name for himself as a hunting dog.

- guessing, he got found at 17, started infiltrating the mafia at 18, and has been since (at 19). best timeline i can think of that’s reasonable. of course he Could have been much younger but i just don’t see that

- anyway, prior to any of this. we know he wanted to be different than his brother which caused him to act out in rebellion

- regardless of that i think the people around him (including his brother) taught him a lot of who he is

- tachihara is loyal and caring, much like his brother seemed to be. they felt very similar in personality there it really shows

- i’ll also note that his eyes stay bright white most of the time in the manga. despite most of the mafia having black eyes

- but i think being in the mafia taught tachihara that good people can do horrible things, which likely influenced his decision in sparing yosano

- i’d guess his ability manifested out of grief for his brother. he formed a much more dangerous ability that would help him get revenge

- as for joining the hunting dogs, i assume he fit in well from the start

- i think he seems like the type to be very easy to get along with which probably made him an optimal choice for infiltrating but also being part of the job.

- we can see that he cares about the approval of his coworkers as well

- he looks very happy and proud of completing his job. i think this just further shows that he’s always loyal to people, even if they contradict each other

- i bet he was surprised at the start of his military job. he likely didn’t have an option to not join. the sudden change from the surgeries was probably hard. i assume he didn’t train much beforehand since it wasn’t really important

- i like to imagine they all trained him a little bit and they all grew to like him rather quickly !!

jouno

- so all we know is that he was in a crime group six years prior to the current events

- as for schooling i’m really lost here. he might have went to school. he might not have went much. who knows. not me

- i assume jouno had a rougher upbringing. assuming he is at least in his mid-late twenties he was in his crime group until he was an adult

- that is explained a lot in his actions as well. he’s maintained his sadistic personality overtime. compare that to dazai who left his crime group while still a teenager and has had a clear change in some core personality traits

- of course, we don’t know how criminal-era jouno was. but i assume he didn’t change too much since based off the way he acts now.

- we also know he was an executive in said criminal organization, so he was likely affiliated with them for a long time.

- let’s take a quick look at the only executive jouno picture:

this photo is really neat. the striped outfit could indicate that he was a prisoner that fukuchi spotted. it could also just appear that way to look ambiguous as well. jouno also is smiling in the image, this could also be him being asked by fukuchi to join the hunting dogs here. it doesn’t really explain what’s going on or where he is. i just think it’s neat and worth bringing up. had be been a prisoner though im sure it would have been an easy escape given his ability (unless he was in an ability space, of course).

- anyway. this picture also shows his eyes closed, meaning he loses his sight before joining the hunting dogs

- he mentioned that he Lost his sight when arresting dazai, which means he was not born that way. i switch between it being an injury or an illness that made him lose it. either idea is interesting to me and i hope we get an answer.

- either way, i want more criminal executive jouno information

- and i’d assume his ability formed when he felt trapped somewhere. possibly cornered or in a dangerous situation and just needed a quick way to escape and formed it out of fear maybe?

-as for joining the hunting dogs, i assume it was a rougher transition for him

- the people who were after him before are now his coworkers. he probably felt awkward over this (if the others know his past)

- i assume he had the hard time adjusting to everyone too. probably easily annoyed but not wanting to come off that way until he was confident in his job

- i also assume the surgeries wasnt something he initially wanted to do but ultimately did because that’s better than being executed or imprisoned for his crimes.

- he also seems like the type to be reluctant to work with others. possibly making adjusting harder for him

- his morality probably clashed against tecchou’s a bit at first, until jouno found the joy in helping others

- i believe the hunting dogs really helped him find joy in helping people as well. their dedication probably helped motivate him

- he also mentions in one panel after fukuchi asks him to betray "so this isn’t some kind of military test?" which (maybe a stretch) Could suggest he’s been tested by the military to see if he’s still reliable. maybe this creates some lack of trust because people don’t believe him.

- i also assume his upbringing influences the way he acts towards people. he’s cold and mean sometimes but that’s likely a defense mechanism to not b too close to others

tecchou

- once again we don’t know much about tecchou yet. there’s nothing about his past yet but that doesn’t mean i don’t have a ton of ideas floating around

- i feel like teruko he probably went to school and then law-enforcement in post secondary. i know he was a good student too

- we know he’s typically very composed. even when joking he often keeps a straight face except that one time he teases jouno but that’s just him being gay idk

- because of this i wonder if he had some communication issues growing up? maybe working in anything unprofessional didn’t work for him since he often was taken seriously

- however with that in mind i believe he was definitely raised with his just morals. it seems really driven into him and seems to be a huge part of who he is

- i like to think his sense of justice stems from being failed by the system before. maybe he lost someone close to him and never got proper justice?

- what backs that up is how he mentions "there is evil that goes unpunished, and good that goes unrewarded.” and mentions that his blade helps decide that. that is an immense amount of pressure onto himself to keep everything he possibly can just

- such ideas i guess stem from his desire to never have someone not get what they deserve. destroy all evil, protect the innocent. he wants to do what the system failed before and takes it upon himself.

- maybe his ability manifested out of his desire to protect people?

- as for adjusting into the hunting dogs, i feel it wasn’t great or badly. got along with people fine but i feel maybe his very straight-faced personality was a strong contrast to the others at first

- he was possibly military beforehand? or law enforcement and was recruited because of his ability and his strong morals

- he was probably willing to do the surgeries and was already very physically trained. anything to serve proper justice

- he seems to be the calmest-acting of them all. very straightforward when he talks. maybe this was hard to get along with initially? until you’re used to him

- i don’t think he sees the way he acts as unusual either. probably just doesn’t care and is just himself. (which i love)

- i also like to imagine his fixation on ants and stuff is just something he’s always liked. idk he’s so cute for that

- he probably excelled at working right away. i see him to be very good at staying determined to get the job done

thank you for the question!! this was super fun to look at. also please ignore the grammar issues i am super tired