/vr/ - Retro Games

>>8544295
huh

>>8544295
It was done purposefully to simulate the way Dexter feels after spending copious amounts of time on something, only to have DeeDee undo it all in the blink of an eye. It's rather ingenious really.

That was in the NES days when they were still paranoid about the video game crash. By 2002 they had no reason to gaf anymore especially for low quality GBA shovelware.

Space station silicon valley can't be 100% because of a bug. Also having an expansion pak fucks it up too.

What else is there that shipped with game breaking bugs making things un-completable? DS bubble bobble with a missing boss and jet set willy corrupting its own memory after visiting a certain room are the only ones I know.

>>8545068
Not retro but pic related is infamous for its game breaking bug. If you create a save file with a name of three characters or less the game will just brick the game entirely. They tried fixing it for later printings but ultimately had to end up just packaging the game with a warning about it.

you can never get 100% in the best yugioh game ever made because one of the challenge duels is glitched to be impossible to clear
all this does is bar you from getting access to the 'all cards' pack

US bros...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmwzMEu1N3k

>>8545068
I heard that Rayman Raving Rabbids originally couldn't be 100% because there was one note in one of the rhythm games that couldn't be hit. But I have since not been able to find reference to that online.

>>8545129
>>8544295
there's probably patched ROMs of these somewhere

>>8545068
You can't get one of the deku nut expansions in OoT if you get the Biggoron sword first.

>>8544295
All the cartoon network gba games are old school cartoon network. Com tier games. That somehow got releases.

surprising number of GBA and DS games here.

Akira on me amiger has an impossible jump on one of the levels, meaning you can’t finish it. Game is atrocious anyway though, so you’re not missing anything

>>8545246
There was no quality control standards on the Amiga anyway so that's expected. Nintendo at one time at least did require devs to provide proof that the game was finished and could be completed.

>>8545256
True. Being eurojank certainly didn’t help matters

>>8545068
TMNT on Dos has a jump in one of the sewers that is impossible to make because the ceiling is too low.

Grand Master on the Famicom crashes if you fall into the pits in the last palace.

I recall some kind of glitch with the elevators in metroid prime? Doesn't happen on the wii though

>>8545272
There was a cheat code to skip this section and it was fixed in the European release.

While not retro it's a pretty old game. Lord of the Rings War in the North was a fantastic game but there is a game breaking glitch at the end where trolls are supposed to come out, the game saves and then trolls never show up. You can't progress because the enemies never come even after quitting/loading. I'm not sure what triggers it though as I have friends who say they've beaten it and I have friends who say they ran into the same issue I did.

>>8545128
How the fuck did they miss that? I'd imagine a lot of people would just name themselves "A" or something

I forgot what triggers it but there's a glitch on Def Jam Vendetta's story mode where the tag team match will never end

>>8544295
Battletoads is impossible to complete in 2 player mode due to one player not colliding with the ground in one stage
Fixed in the japanese version.

I assume that this slipped past quality control because the game was too fucking hard to complete anyway.

>>8545068
Two player mode is unbeatable since it will never let you win past tag the monkey. If you contacted Acclaim back in the day you could trade in the black cartridge with the bug for a grey cart with the bug fix. Very few people did this and the grey cart version is rare and worth hundreds. I was lucky enough to swap my game with Acclaim for the grey one and held onto it.

>>8545068
The Atari 7800 port of Impossible Mission was literally impossible due to a game-breaking bug.

>>8545129
>GX era
>best yugioh game ever made
If it was the best yugioh game ever made that flaming homo wouldn't be anywhere near it

>>8544575
>That was in the NES days when they were still paranoid about the video game crash. By 2002 they had no reason to gaf anymore especially for low quality GBA shovelware.
this is accurate

the GBA is one the most "who fucking cares" video game platforms of all time

>>8544295
when i was a lad i used to waifu deedee so hard, i dunno why

>>8545668
Yeah, soulless casuals.

Doesn't that one silicon valley N64 game crash if the expansion pak is used? I think it only works with the jumper pak. I'm not sure though.

>>8549996
gba was great what do you mean? it's like an extension of the snes's life, albeit with worse music.

>>8550217
He means gba was fu'll of shovelware

>>8544295
Did somebody say "unbeatable"?

>>8545068
>Jet set willy corrupting its own memory after visiting a certain room
DELETE THIS RIGHT NOW

>>8552209
>filename
You're supposed to fuck up the TV

Apparently there was a major bug in which you couldn't access a certain room, therefore preventing you from winning the game.

>>8545068
Its not strictly impossible but Ar Tonelico 2 has a boss that will fuck up the game if you don't win fast enough so you have to be very very strong.

>>8549995
fucking retard lol

>>8554587
Stop apologizing for Jaden

>>8554594
jaden unironically doesn't appear in the game itself once

If we're counting not being able to 100% a game, Whiplash's completion counter stops at like 95% or something because they just straight up calculated it wrong. You can do everything in the game, but your save file will never actually say 100%.

>>8550038
yeah, I remember reading about it. There is a patch out there somewhere to fix it but I don't know who made it or where it is anymore

>>8544295
Megaman Soccer had a glitch where it wouldn't play the ending, you just get booted out to the menu after beating Wily.

>>8545128
Oh shit, I dodged a bullet. I played that game and almost just entered my initials out of laziness, but then went, "Nah, that's lame." and just put my first name in. That game sucked dick btw. I did the Joan of Arc and Yoshitsune campaigns and dropped it after the difficulty spike. Or maybe I was just retarded. Who knows.

>>8552448
In the PAL version. I forgot to detail.

>>8545128
Doesn't this use the DS's name for saving by default anyway?

>game has a bug that will prevent you from clearing the game
>there is no way to tell whether your copy of the game is affected by it until you're 2/3 of the way in

>>8544295
There's a bug in Metroid Prime 2, near the end of the game right up in that neat techno area, that if you save the game with the bug triggered you lock yourself out the area and you need to AR the game to get by it.
I know about it because it happened to me.

*deletes your save in your path*

>>8545272
What the actual fuck were they thinking with this?

Everyone talks about GT2's max speed garage bug, but a lesser known bug exists in GT4 in which you can be locked out of 100% completion if you do not do the first driving mission before any other driving missions.

For the German release of I Have No Mouth Annd I Must Scream Nimdok, his entire scenario, and anything related to him was removed due to the large role Nazis play in it. Beyonf being censorship this unfortunately resulted in the game not being beatable, it was never properly tested and still requires you to complete his scenario despite it not existing in this version.

>>8550217
Wasn't the GBA as a piece of hardware just a DS stopgap? Due to the sound, two face buttons and small screen resolution.

>>8558238
DS was an experiment, they did not intend for it to take over the way it did until it proved itself a huge success. GBA had been in the works since 1996 and the GBC was released to tide developers and players over until it was done, it was meant to be a big deal.

>>8558576
GBA should have released instead of GBC.

>>8558582
Granted, one of the things that prompted Nintendo to release the GBA was the WonderSwan of all things.

>>8545128
Settlers 2 DS is completely busted as well, just bricks after a certain point in the campaign

>>8555935
There's a theory that they accidentally released a beta. Not only do you not see the ending, Wily as a selectable character is forever locked and three/four player options aren't available despite sort of existing in the code.

>>8558576
>DS was an experiment, they did not intend for it to take over the way it did until it proved itself a huge success.
that's the official nintendo stance, yes. do you take all your information from official press releases or just this?
>>8558582
>GBA should have released instead of GBC.
they literally didn't need to because there was no competition and they had pokemon
the only reason they even released the ds in 2004 is because of the psp. if sony never went for it they probably wouldn't have bothered releasing the ds until like 2007

>>8545128
The easiest way to fix that would be to prohibit names shorter than 4 characters. It's faster and cheaper than trying to hunt down the obscure typo in the code, and it has the same general function.

Not as game breaking as a lot of the other games posted here. But I've got a serious vendetta towards pic related for absolutely cucking my younger self by freezing every time after you beat the final boss for disc 2. I couldn't figure out what was going on and just assumed my disc was busted and ended up putting it down despite getting into it. Years later I decide to try again from the top and bought another disc from online only for the same thing to happen. I finally wised up and looked into it, and this whole time it turns out for whatever reason the game shits the bed if you use the dragoon transformations here, and beating it without relying on those keeps the freeze from happening. I was pretty annoyed to discover this whole time I could have kept playing if I had only known about this retarded fact. From what I saw nobody really knows why it happens. The most that could be said is that its apparently not any issue when played on a ps1, which I had long ago dumped in favor of just using a ps2.

I don't know if someone suffered this, but during my playthrough of Gun on PS2 years ago, I decided to save and continue later on some part of this mission:
https://youtu.be/_hRmMf5bDQY?t=8173

On it you're weaponless for a while and then you recover your weapons. I think I've saved after that, and when I reloaded my save, I lost all my weapons and only could kill enemies with the tomahawk (weapons are obtained while advancing the story and aren't like dropped from enemies). Since you have to shoot the boss to kill him, it rendered my game unwinnable and lost a lot of progress. Got really mad at that since it was a fun game and didn't play it again until last month.

>not retro, but

>>8558192
damn that sucks. Good thing people in europe usually know more than one language