Author Topic: Worst bug in a Turbo game?  (Read 997 times)

TheClash603

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Re: Worst bug in a Turbo game?
« Reply #30 on: February 13, 2012, 11:17:01 AM »
One time when I was playing Alien Crush my ball got stuck in a bumper and my score infinitely went up.  Had to reset the game and I have never been able to replicate this.

Also, one time in Tale Spin, I fell into the background a-la magic whistle in Mario 3.  I was able to walk to the end of the stage, but the stage didn't end.  Again, I have never been able to replicate this.

I should've taken pictures/videos for each of these.

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Re: Worst bug in a Turbo game?
« Reply #31 on: February 13, 2012, 01:56:23 PM »
As far as game glitches go, I'd have to say the fact that NO enemies in Cosmic Fantasy 2 (US or Jp version) use any kind of magic, poison, or anything other than melee attacks against you... despite there being items in the game that protect from said special attacks.  

I actually called them up at the time and got an answer.  Supposedly the special attacks do have an effect, but the effect just adds extra damage rather than being a special attack.  The protective items protect you from the extra damage.  No idea if that's true.

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Re: Worst bug in a Turbo game?
« Reply #32 on: February 13, 2012, 04:25:08 PM »
Not in my experience. I never had a single enemy hit me with a status ailment or do extra damage. I have owned the game twice and both copies were the same in that respect.

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Re: Worst bug in a Turbo game?
« Reply #33 on: February 13, 2012, 04:36:08 PM »
As far as game glitches go, I'd have to say the fact that NO enemies in Cosmic Fantasy 2 (US or Jp version) use any kind of magic, poison, or anything other than melee attacks against you... despite there being items in the game that protect from said special attacks.  

I actually called them up at the time and got an answer.  Supposedly the special attacks do have an effect, but the effect just adds extra damage rather than being a special attack.  The protective items protect you from the extra damage.  No idea if that's true.

Yea, I called Workding Designs back in like 1993 or something about and got the same bullshit answer.  They just plain didn't put them in the game.  It's not really Working Design's fault, though.  It's Telenet's fault, since they developed the Jp version and Working Designs simply translated it.  Telenet... making half ass yet still halfway decent games since 1983!   :lol:

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Re: Worst bug in a Turbo game?
« Reply #34 on: February 15, 2012, 12:27:58 PM »
I can't think of any Turbo-glitches at the moment (gimmee time), but...

One time when I was playing Alien Crush my ball got stuck in a bumper and my score infinitely went up.  Had to reset the game and I have never been able to replicate this.

Also, one time in Tale Spin, I fell into the background a-la magic whistle in Mario 3.  I was able to walk to the end of the stage, but the stage didn't end.  Again, I have never been able to replicate this.

I should've taken pictures/videos for each of these.

...your post reminded me of a glitch in R-Types on PlayStation 1. I was playing R-Type and I blew up the first level boss, but I steered my ship into a stray bullet and blew up. This event qualified as completing the stage and I was able to play the next level, but with background graphics totally garbled and few (if any) of the enemy sprites visible. I made it pretty far...considering that my ship was invisible as well and it was easy to get stuck behind wall/barriers in the second stage.

Crazy.

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Re: Worst bug in a Turbo game?
« Reply #35 on: February 15, 2012, 01:27:04 PM »
I have a bug to mention and I am not sure if it is suppose to be a cheat code that no one has ever figured out but.... I remembered when I was a kid I had a faulty turbo tap and the player one port would glitch out from time to time. Well I used this tap a few times in the game World Class Baseball and by accident the turbo tap glitched the game making it possible to play as the Championship team. I have never found a code or cheat anywhere to do this. Makes me think it exists but I have no idea what the button combinations would have been to make it work.

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Re: Worst bug in a Turbo game?
« Reply #36 on: February 16, 2012, 05:46:29 AM »
Oh!  Speaking of glitches, did anyone else ever experience the game freezing up for a while in Dracula X during the Bat/Medusa/Frankenstein boss rush when you played it on a Duo?  That would happen almost every time when my old room mate and I played Dracula X... Right after defeating the bat when the pentagram in the background starts to move, but before Medusa appeared, iirc.  He claimed tapping on the Duo CD lid helped unfreeze it faster, but I don't know if he was right.

I had to tap my Duo to get some CD games to move on too when they'd get stuck. Not long after I got the system this started but, a technician at TTI had warned me that this came from me having the console sitting directly on the carpet while playing it.
After I took her advice and put it on a shelf, this happened a lot less often and happens less and less as time goes on. It's weird, almost as though it's healing it's self.

Sorry I wasn't around to tell you, thanks for pointing out how to get that super power-up in Blazing Lazers, I was so busy with trades and transactions that I thought this thread had died but, it's good to see it alive and kicking.
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Re: Worst bug in a Turbo game?
« Reply #37 on: February 16, 2012, 09:19:08 AM »
I know this is gonna sound like blatant butt snorkling, but i have not ran into to many turbo bugs. I just think they were alot better about ironing out their software before they released it. I

can think of numerous nes, snes, and genesis games that were buggy as hell.