Worst bug in a Turbo game?

[DragonmasterDan]

Worst bug? Spending all that time in Exile 2 raising the last experience level (going from 30k xp to 65535xp at 20xp per kill)only to have it NOT happen ... and then calling the WD help line only to hear, "oh yeah, that's a bug in the game."

Since Vic via Gaijinworks, via Sunsoft owning telenets IPs now has the rights to that game again. I really want to see a fixed version of it.

[nodtveidt]

I thought the dumbest bug in a game is the Keith Courage "last boss is loleasy" bug.

That's not a bug, it's a debug detail that was never taken out of the game. I figure they forgot about it. We do stuff like that all the time to test certain features; I reckon they forgot about it after they finished testing the end sequence. I don't remember the ending being a part of the debug menu, so I guess that's how they tested it.

Worst bug? Spending all that time in Exile 2 raising the last experience level (going from 30k xp to 65535xp at 20xp per kill)only to have it NOT happen ... and then calling the WD help line only to hear, "oh yeah, that's a bug in the game."

This, too, isn't a bug, and it's blatantly easy to figure out that since the next level is more than 30x the number of points as the previous level required, that there is no "next level". Exile 1 made 0 the points for "Next", which would have been good to do here too, but oh well... speaking of which, Exile 1 has an experience bug as well, but it's not a huge deal.

[Keranu]

How about Riot Zone where you can keep using your special move if your life bar is low enough? At least I think that was the bug, been a long time since I've played it.

[Necromancer]

How about Riot Zone where you can keep using your special move if your life bar is low enough? At least I think that was the bug, been a long time since I've played it.

It's a fast punch if you're life is depleted.  I figure that was a feature, not a bug.

[jayamine]

No it's a bug in Exile 2. You'll be at level 15. And it says you can raise more xp to get to the next level. And you hit that xp amount (which is also the max xp cap) and nothing happens, no level increase, no nothing.

[nodtveidt]

No it's a bug in Exile 2. You'll be at level 15. And it says you can raise more xp to get to the next level. And you hit that xp amount (which is also the max xp cap) and nothing happens, no level increase, no nothing.

I know what you're talking about... it gives a value of 65535 experience points, which is more than 30 times what it took to get to the level prior. I guess they assumed that no one would be crazy enough to actually try to go that high. 65535 is the highest possible value of an unsigned 16 bit integer. They were probably like "hey, let's see how many people waste all day trying to get this high..." Could have avoided it just by setting that value to 0 like in the first Exile...

It's a fast punch if you're life is depleted.  I figure that was a feature, not a bug.

Dunno if this one is a bug or a feature, but it's certainly easily exploitable. Turbo both buttons and hold on them and you can wipe out anyone in mere seconds, even the final boss. I'm gonna err on the side of "bug" though.

[jayamine]

So you're saying Vic did on purpose? That creep!
The game was so hard that I figured raising that last level was the key to powering up enough ... and I actually did it. :-(

Oh but wait, it was the same thing in Cosmic Fantasy 2. the next to last level was 65535 xp points per character (which I did and it worked) and the final level was 99999 (which I never did). Bet it would have been a waste

[nodtveidt]

It's like that in the Japanese original as well.

[Senshi]

The music in Order of the Griffon cutting out during battles.

Here I thought it was just me

[jayamine]

Yeah, I remember Griffon doing that on mine too, specifically during the final boss fight cause it dragged on so long.

[fragmare]

The only other thing that comes to mind right now isn't what I'd call a bug but, it has always been a mystery to me.
In Blazing Lazers, level 3 there is this incredible power-up that you can get but, I've only seen it twice in 20 years and I've played it enough that if it's a result of some sort of bonus or secret target, I should have been able to uncover it by now.
It's what I can only describe as a flashing replica of your ship and once you touch it, you become the scariest thing with weapons in the game.
I don't remember if it has a set amount of time until it goes away or if you loose it upon getting other power-ups or what but, it will turn you into a force to be reckoned with.
I've done searches on this on and off over the years and nothing comes up.

Anyone have any idea what this is and exactly how to make it happen?     

Supposedly if you pick up like 50 or 100 consecutive pink orbs or something like that without touching any of the other power-ups, you get some kind of special weapon.  I've never tried it, but if it exists, I'd categorize that as more of an easter egg than a glitch.

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.  It really dumbs down the game and makes combat pretty boring imo.  No idea how that escaped playtesting.  Also, I remember the videos in Sherlock Holmes screwing up sometimes on my TG16 + TG-CD and getting all garbled and scratchy.  Did anyone else ever experience that?

[Necromancer]

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.

Is that a glitch, though, or just an unfinished feature?

[fragmare]

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.

Is that a glitch, though, or just an unfinished feature?

Who knows.  It's hard to say, I suppose.  At any rate, it's a big mark against the game.  It's still an adequate RPG, but that particular glitch or unfinished feature makes the game damn boring at times.  I remember setting the turbo switch to high on the command button and just plowing through battles by holding down the button... because after a while it became apparent that no monster in the game actually used magic/poison/curses/etc.

[fragmare]

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.

[Black Tiger]

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 believe that the game loads between each of those bosses. The laser probably got just got lost and tapping or opening the CD door would have reset it.