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[ponpo]

I'm pretty sure there have been threads like this before but can't find one. I was reading about that Pokemon Yellow level 100 Nidoking glitch which sounds like "that guy" nonsense, but is actually real

• Try to leave Pewter city and get brought to Brock's gym
• Walk to Viridian forest
• Get seen by trainer, press start and use escape rope
• Go back to Viridian forest, fight a level 3-4 Caterpie
  [*]Use Growl 6 times then run
  
• Get brought back to gym
• Go back to forest and find a Lv1 Nidoking which turns into a Lv100 after gaining exp

That "use growl 6 times" part in particular sounds like garbage but it's real.

Tell me more.

 

[Hours Left]

Both the Mew (not the truck thing) and Missingno tricks in the original Red/Blue sound like a complete hoax, but they actually work.

 

[Toki767]

Probably playing as Master Hand in Melee.

 

[Ahnez]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=977138

The credits glitch in SMW

 

[DNAbro]

Use master hand in melee.

EDITAMNIT

 

[BossRush]

The bottle trick in Ocarina of time always sounded like nonsense to me.

 

[georly]

Not a glitch, but the hadouken in mega man X.

Beat armored armadillo's stage, get to a certain point with full health, exit stage, repeat 5+ times.

 

[Danlord]

You can complete Far Cry 4 by doing literally nothing.

 

[ponpo]

Probably playing as Master Hand in Melee.

Oh yeah I forgot Gametrailers has that myth series that deals with this stuff. Well, more are welcome anyway ~

 

[Soulflarz]

Storage and its uses in Wind Waker sounds fake via the old or new method. Old even moreso (wet method) but I'll say dry.

Youre going to want to stand on an edge that instantly drops you, pull out your wind waker, then put it away at the right frame. You can now swim faster than your boat by holding a direction which makes your chacter move back and forth, alternating every frame, which makes you travel very fast.

 

[ViciousDS]

You can complete Far Cry 4 by doing literally nothing.

Hahaha yes 15 minutes of just standing there....sadly no trophy or achievement that I remember

 

[jem0208]

Super jumps in Halo 2.

"Crouch here and walk into this corner of this wall facing this exact direction for a few seconds then jump onto that exact crack in the flagstones and you'll shoot into the air." Sounds ridiculous but it works.

 

[fhqwhgads]

Probably playing as Master Hand in Melee.

This for sure. As difficult and "How would you find this out " as it sounds, but it turned out to be real.

The Mortal Kombat games have some pretty crazy stuff in them, biggest to me is the hidden horde mode in Shaolin Monks.

 

[Wensih]

Both the Mew (not the truck thing) and Missingno tricks in the original Red/Blue sound like a complete hoax, but they actually work.

I came in here to say this.

 

[Ahnez]

Not a glitch, but the hadouken in mega man X.

Beat armored armadillo's stage, get to a certain point with full health, exit stage, repeat 5+ times.

4 times actually

You must have all four Dr. Light upgrades, max health and all bosses defeated.

 

[georly]

4 times actually

You must have all four Dr. Light upgrades, max health and all bosses defeated.

I never count

But seriously, when my buddy told me about this at recess, I didn't believe him at all. It sounded super fake, like a ton of video game rumors back then. He had to bring in some magazine the next day with pics to prove it to me.

 

[bsod]

Both the Mew (not the truck thing) and Missingno tricks in the original Red/Blue sound like a complete hoax, but they actually work.

At the time I didn't know the candies get you less attribute points than leveling up normally. I could've mopped the floor with friends had I not cheated.

Also, a lot of NES games gave you extra lives if you pressed A+B. It was the only way I beat Guerilla Wars.

 

[Soulflarz]

Soo, do most people know about the master hand glitch? I rarely hear about it anymore- hell- i dont remember hearing about it often at any point?

 

[Kinsei]

I'm pretty sure there have been threads like this before but can't find one. I was reading about that Pokemon Yellow level 100 Nidoking glitch which sounds like "that guy" nonsense, but is actually real

• Try to leave Pewter city and get brought to Brock's gym
• Walk to Viridian forest
• Get seen by trainer, press start and use escape rope
• Go back to Viridian forest, fight a level 3-4 Caterpie
  [*]Use Growl 6 times then run
  
• Get brought back to gym
• Go back to forest and find a Lv1 Nidoking which turns into a Lv100 after gaining exp

That "use growl 6 times" part in particular sounds like garbage but it's real.

Tell me more.

You need to win a battle against a pokemon weak enough so that the Nidoking won't reach level 2 to jump to 100.

It doesn;t have to be a Nidoking. The Pokemon you get is depends on the special stat of the last Pokemon you fought so it's possible to get things like Arcanine, Gyarados, Mew, etc.

 

[HardRojo]

At the time I didn't know the candies get you less attribute points than leveling up normally. I could've mopped the floor with friends had I not cheated.

Also, a lot of NES games gave you extra lives if you pressed A+B. It was the only way I beat Guerilla Wars.

That's because Candy leveling does not add Effort Points you'd get from fighting Pokémon. Once your Pokémon gets maximum EVs it doesn't matter if you level it with Rare Candies.

 

[Ahnez]

I never count

But seriously, when my buddy told me about this at recess, I didn't believe him at all. It sounded super fake, like a ton of video game rumors back then. He had to bring in some magazine the next day with pics to prove it to me.

Its always shocking when those things turns out to be true

 

[Starwolf_UK]

For something a little different:

Excalibur II. Practically speedrun FFIX (reach a room in the final dungeon within 12 hours playtime) and this will be waiting for you instead of normal Excalibur.

I suppose that is nothing on what later FF games did with ultimate weapons (long convoluted sidequests that opening chests at the wrong time will lock you out, such fun).

 

[Piston Hyundai]

If you do the level select cheat for Sonic 2, remove the cart while it's still on and put Sonic 3 in, you'll have the level select for Sonic 3 unlocked after resetting the Genesis.

 

[bomblord1]

Most of Kojima's stuff in MGS.

 

[Ants]

RNG abuse to get the perfect Pokémon in recent generations. It requires a lot of setup that makes it obviously legit, but the summary of actual actions you take is to boot the game at a precise time, saved in a precise location, and to move in a precise way to receive an Egg or catch a Pokémon with the exact RNG rolls you want. On its face it's ridiculous, but it carefully abuses the nature of "randomization" that computers employ.

 

[LCGeek]

Dead serious and it works.

Ivy in soul calibur has a throw that is disgusting hard to pull if you use precision to execute the move. Shame some of the pros in SC2/SC1 taught me to make 3 circles super quick and it comes out almost every time once you call the throw. You can't do this in SC4/5 cause namco changed the buffering system.

Here's a link for the basics

This got me in so much trouble with friends they hate that move considering the damage it does and the ease of setup if you're good at that.

 

[Dahbomb]

I never believed that you could play as Akuma in ST back in my childhood years.

Here's the code to unlock him as playable:

Highlight Ryu and hold for 3 seconds then,
Highlight T.Hawk and hold for 3 seconds then,
Highlight Guile and hold for 3 seconds then,
Highlight Cammy and hold for 3 seconds Finally
Highlight Ryu again and hold for 3 seconds then
Press all 3 punches and Start at the same time at the end of you counting.


LMAO!


In Devil May Cry 3, there are two methods of playing 2 player DMC3:

*During the Arkham fight, the 2nd player can take control of Vergil by pressing Select/Start on the controller.

For the Doppelganger style, the clone can be controlled by a 2nd player. With Super Dante, DMC3 becomes a bootleg co-op game.

 

[ghibli99]

RNG abuse to get the perfect Pokémon in recent generations. It requires a lot of setup that makes it obviously legit, but the summary of actual actions you take is to boot the game at a precise time, saved in a precise look action, and to move in a precise way to receive an Egg or catch a Pokémon with the exact RNG rolls you want. On its face it's ridiculous, but it carefully abuses the nature of "randomization" that computers employ.

Sounds a lot like the RNG abuse in Dragon Quest IX. I didn't see it as abuse so much as it was a time-saver for rare drops and getting the right items from chests. Otherwise, there's no effing way I would have done much of it at all. In a way, it felt like magic.

 

[SolidSnakex]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=977138

The credits glitch in SMW

This is a great one. If you were explaining it to someone they'd start calling bullshit the second that you said that you need to grab the P switch and block together.

 

[Dahbomb]

Most of Kojima's stuff in MGS.

Also this.

LMAO @ being able to kill The End by changing the clock on your PS2.

 

[Metfanant]

GAF Gold?

 

[Jawmuncher]

Super jumps in Halo 2.

"Crouch here and walk into this corner of this wall facing this exact direction for a few seconds then jump onto that exact crack in the flagstones and you'll shoot into the air." Sounds ridiculous but it works.

Yeah a lot of halo 2 glitches sounded dumb as hell but we're real. Also the scarab gun fits perfectly as well. Oh if you bait a banshe shoot it's wings of get in at a checkpoint and fly away you can get a scarab gun on top of a building.

 

[Ahnez]

For something a little different:

Excalibur II. Practically speedrun FFIX (reach a room in the final dungeon within 12 hours playtime) and this will be waiting for you instead of normal Excalibur.

I suppose that is nothing on what later FF games did with ultimate weapons (long convoluted sidequests that opening chests at the wrong time will lock you out, such fun).

FFXII IZJS

Get on one of the skyferries.

Keep going out to the deck (and back in if not) until your PS2 makes a specific noise pattern (clack clack .. clackclackclack)

Search for an invisible chest

Open it and pray, you will get an awesome bow called Seitengrat, it has 224 atk power (The Zodiac Spear has only 150 or 141 in IZJS)

But I cannot show you, it has no ingame model

Yeah..

 

[Piers]

This for sure. As difficult and "How would you find this out " as it sounds, but it turned out to be real.

The Mortal Kombat games have some pretty crazy stuff in them, biggest to me is the hidden horde mode in Shaolin Monks.

Expected Shaolin Monk's horde mode within a few posts, not dissapointed.
Still remember my friend telling me about it and thinking it's some C-list cheat site crap.

 

[Novocaine]

Playing Demon's Souls after Dark Souls 1 and 2, sprinting into a waist height wall will let you jump up on top of it. Blew my fucking mind.

 

[nOoblet16]

Hahaha yes 15 minutes of just standing there....sadly no trophy or achievement that I remember

There is one.

 

[themadcowtipper]

Negative world in mario which is a glitch.

I was oh shit when I first saw some get some many lives they had an Ice cube in Super Mario Brothers, by jumping on a koopa. I guess that is a glitch as well????

 

[Dryk]

That's because Candy leveling does not add Effort Points you'd get from fighting Pokémon. Once your Pokémon gets maximum EVs it doesn't matter if you level it with Rare Candies.

You can also just grind out the stat EXP once they reach level 100, deposit them in the box and the stats are recalculated when you pull them out.

Also in general Stat EXP was all kinds of messed up compared to EVs

 

[DannyDanger]

Playing Demon's Souls after Dark Souls 1 and 2, sprinting into a waist height wall will let you jump up on top of it. Blew my fucking mind.

I never realized....

guess cuz i played Demon's first

 

[Stopdoor]

I was playing some local multiplayer Spelunky with some guys and one who'd played the game a bit, I told him you could unlock a Sloth as a damsel and when I told them you had to click the dog 100 times to do it they just burst out laughing - then disbelief when it actually worked.

 

[Ants]

Sounds a lot like the RNG abuse in Dragon Quest IX. I didn't see it as abuse so much as it was a time-saver for rare drops and getting the right items from chests. Otherwise, there's no effing way I would have done much of it at all. In a way, it felt like magic.

Many games are similar. There is a kinda famous one in Fire Emblem that allows you to get Boots, an item normally limited in quantity that raises what is arguably the most broken stat to raise, every time you play a map.

All computers are "random" in essentially identical ways. It's only when using tool-assistance or when the game is predictable by a human that you run into a noteworthy example.

 

[ShinMaruku]

I never believed that you could play as Akuma in ST back in my childhood years.

Here's the code to unlock him as playable:

Highlight Ryu and hold for 3 seconds then,
Highlight T.Hawk and hold for 3 seconds then,
Highlight Guile and hold for 3 seconds then,
Highlight Cammy and hold for 3 seconds Finally
Highlight Ryu again and hold for 3 seconds then
Press all 3 punches and Start at the same time at the end of you counting.


LMAO!


In Devil May Cry 3, there are two methods of playing 2 player DMC3:

*During the Arkham fight, the 2nd player can take control of Vergil by pressing Select/Start on the controller.

For the Doppelganger style, the clone can be controlled by a 2nd player. With Super Dante, DMC3 becomes a bootleg co-op game.

I always did the DMC3 thing.

 

[MikeDip]

Both the Mew (not the truck thing) and Missingno tricks in the original Red/Blue sound like a complete hoax, but they actually work.

This, as well as the play as master hand one also posted. Both so ridiculous. Both work. So amazong.

 

[Jawmuncher]

I never believed that you could play as Akuma in ST back in my childhood years.

Here's the code to unlock him as playable:

Highlight Ryu and hold for 3 seconds then,
Highlight T.Hawk and hold for 3 seconds then,
Highlight Guile and hold for 3 seconds then,
Highlight Cammy and hold for 3 seconds Finally
Highlight Ryu again and hold for 3 seconds then
Press all 3 punches and Start at the same time at the end of you counting.


LMAO!


In Devil May Cry 3, there are two methods of playing 2 player DMC3:

*During the Arkham fight, the 2nd player can take control of Vergil by pressing Select/Start on the controller.

For the Doppelganger style, the clone can be controlled by a 2nd player. With Super Dante, DMC3 becomes a bootleg co-op game.

WUT.
I never knew you could bootleg coop DMC.
Holy shit I gotta try that some day.

 

[Cream]

Every single hidden thing in Halo

 

[Cutter Jones]

Genesis X-Men making you reset the console to get to the last level.

 

[SeanTSC]

You can complete Far Cry 4 by doing literally nothing.

It also gives you the only Good ending in the game.

Man, I'd much rather have played the storyline from that point of view than the garbage the game puts you through, especially the endings to it.

 

[B.K.]

FFXII IZJS

Get on one of the skyferries.

Keep going out to the deck (and back in if not) until your PS2 makes a specific noise pattern (clack clack .. clackclackclack)

Search for an invisible chest

Open it and pray, you will get an awesome bow called Seitengrat, it has 224 atk power (The Zodiac Spear has only 150 or 141 in IZJS)

But I cannot show you, it has no ingame model

Yeah..

If there's ever a Final Fantasy XII HD, I hope Square Enix adds models for the invisible weapons.

 

[RoboPlato]

Both the Mew (not the truck thing) and Missingno tricks in the original Red/Blue sound like a complete hoax, but they actually work.

What's the Mew one? I can't believe I haven't heard that yet.

 

[Seven Force]

In Devil May Cry 3, there are two methods of playing 2 player DMC3:

*During the Arkham fight, the 2nd player can take control of Vergil by pressing Select/Start on the controller.

For the Doppelganger style, the clone can be controlled by a 2nd player. With Super Dante, DMC3 becomes a bootleg co-op game.

I knew about the Arkham thing, but a co-worker only recently told me about the Doppleganger thing. Just when DMC3 couldn't get any more godlike...