It's logical to think that remakes not only improve in both visual and playability departments, but also on the removal of glitches that once existed in the original cartridge's confines. Take the first generation of Pokemon games for instance - a great set of games, but packed with game-breaking glitches. Remakes of these (FireRed and LeafGreen) had these bugs removed, stopping level 100 Rare Candy-stuffed Pokemon forever (you know who you are).
However, YouTube account GameChap has uploaded the unthinkable on YouTube, an amazing glitch (as well as other nifty ones) that can be completed effortlessly in Majora's Mask's 3DS port. The first glitch (found by Twitch streamer Fullgrowngaming) these two chaps introduce allows the player to play as the almighty Fierce Deity Link anywhere in the game - something that has been craved by many as he can usually only be used in the game's boss finales (assuming the player has collected every mask). It should be noted however, that you should not save your game when doing this, as not only are you more or less restricted to the area you choose to activate the glitch, but you must completely replace a mask with an extra Empty Bottle to achieve the feat. You'll see that the game can even malfunction, causing the 3DS to automatically restart.
The next few glitches allow early access to Snowhead Mountain, Great Bay and Ikana Canyon without the need of the Hero's Bow / Epona / Garo's Mask respectively. It's awesome to witness how they achieve each feat, showcasing great levels of precision and focus. The final glitch allows the player to exit a Fishing Pond with the Fishing Rod equipped - something that's been done before - but hey, it's always nice to see it make a return in any Zelda game.
What do you make of the glitches shown in the video below? Are you a fan of controlling Fierce Deity Link anywhere, or are you happy that this overly-powered phenomenon is only 'legally' available during the game's climax?
Image Credit - DakidGaming
[source youtube.com, via zeldainformer.com]
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Saw this a few days ago. With the mask and fishing rod glitches, they crash if you try and enter somewhere or try and use the fishing rod. However, i am tempted to try that one glitch as i'm finding the horse race neigh on (sorry!) impossible to win!
Have you seen the one they do discovering little easter eggs too? Some really nice touches. Just goes to show how much care has gone into this remake.
I havent watched the video yet but I know in the N64 version, there was a glitch to play as Fierce Diety anywhere in Termina as well. Not sure if they use the same method but this isn't a new thing to Majora's Mask.
Let's hope nintendo doesn't patch this.
The video was ok but those guys were driving me mad! With all their posh ooh rather and pip pip cheerio talking
@bouncer0304 Stick to the right as much as possible and don't let your carrots drop to 0. Keep at least one in reserve so they refill more quickly. Make sure you're going full speed before each of the fences so you can leap them instead of going around. Gives you a good boost.
Is this the bottle-dupe over Kafei's Mask / Bremen Mask method? This is a method that works pretty well if you don't have the Fierce Deity's mask already, but you lose your Kafei's Mask or Bremen Mask permanently in the process, since it becomes a bottle.
If you do in fact own the actual Fierce Deity's mask there's another, much simpler way to achieve FD-anywhere:
My memories of Majora's Mask are a bit fuzzy. Is there any reason one would want early access to Snowhead Mountain, Great Bay, or Ikana Canyon?
@ueI of course not
I would just like to point out that fierce deity early was not discovered by GameChap, only put in his video. It was discovered by Fullgrowngaming on twitch.tv during his 24 hour marathon stream of MM3D.
I present ye https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJKCxQ4Xi1M EnNopps world record attempt at the n64 version of MM. These my good people are the reasons people would want early access to those locations
@EarthboundBenjy Thanks for that. I almost have all the masks so I can't wait to play around with that!
Aren't those almost the same glitches as in the N64 version?
And here I was hoping Nintendo wouldn't artificially keep nostalgia glitches in (which is exactly what they did in OoT3D). Can't get much lousier than that.
I just want to mention... In your article it says that you can use the mask for the finale... But you can also use it for main boss battles(like gyorg). Just mentionning...
@TeeJay
It works with any greyed-out item. For example, it allows you to pull out a bonb in Deku form. Trying this with the Giant's Mask will crash the game though.
Unfortunately, first-person camera is disabled as Fierce Deity, so you can't use this trick as him, meaning that the only items he can use are bottles and other masks.
Also, Fierce Deity cannot climb ladders (though he can climb vines), and if he tries to open a door, the game will crash.
I don't glitch hunt, but I've already found a few bad ones. (I never seem to find the good ones!) It's majorly improved from the N64 original, which was a buggy mess, but it's still kind of annoying to have to redo all of your progress.
The first glitch was during the second beaver race. As far as I can tell, I swam just over a ring, and it bugged me out of the water, which for some reason counted as a death. (I think it registered me as being crushed somehow.) The area reloaded and I had to start again from the beginning of the first race.
Much more annoying was the Great Bay temple. I was about halfway done (going by number of fairies collected, anyway) and couldn't figure out what to do in a room. I jumped off a ledge figuring I'd explore the water again and...the game froze. When all I did was jump off the ledge. The music kept going, but I had to hard reset the system.
bah
That commentary was painful.....and I'm pretty tolerant of annoying YouTube commentators.
@Philip_J_Reed I had the same glitch during the second beaver race, and a couple other times where, for no reason, the game acted like I died and started the room over.
Also, one time I played the Song of Time with 2 in game minutes left and the "the world is going to end" music continued to play. The normal game music would still play (like Clock Town or Termina Field music) but that impending doom was always there in the background. It was pretty eerie. It kept playing till I restarted the game.
@hypercoyote I hate fake British accents. I REALLY hate them. We don't sound like that -_-
I just finished MM last night, the Fierce Deity mask made the final fight against Majora quite, well, brief. It was nice to just beat the crap out of him given all the grief he caused Link since the beginning.
How the divine ?$&% do people find out about these things? Jobs, life, anyone?
Fierce Deity anywhere glitch?
Again?
It's important to note, that if you already have the Fierce Deity's mask in your inventory, the glitch won't work. You will turn into fierce deity Link, however you will remove the mask automatically if you already have the mask in your inventory.
I tried it, and this seemed like the most logical explanation.
@hypercoyote
I hate fake British accents, just about as much as I hate really thick Cockney accents and Canadian accents. (No offense to any Brits or Canadians, I'm just very picky when it comes to accents, lol!).
@Tazcat2011
I've never beaten him without the Fierce Deity mask! It's definitely the Easies Zelda boss in the series with the mask.
@Bryon15 they will
@JellySplat
If you do this glitch and already have the mask, just have it on one of your buttons before trying, and it will stay on Link's face. He takes it off because the game notices it's not equipped. I don't know why it stays on when you don't have it at all, though.
I just went to Great Bay using this method (I don't have Epona yet).
@ueI To go fast.
@erv These glitches worked in other Zelda games, the new effects were causes of the newer item values and memory addresses.
@EarthboundBenjy
Probably because there is no way to take it off, I'd guess. I have found that doing the glitch that you mentioned earlier works best. Y'know the one where you go in to first person and switch out the mask for a non grayed out item set to x or y. It works very well for me.
Did you know that FD Link can walk right through the icebergs blocking the way to snowhead? I figured that out last night, kinda neat.
I made a walkthrough for this specifically. Unsure if it was before or after this article. The video isn't very clear and requires a lot of estimation when doing it yourself. Walkthrough below:
http://www.reddit.com/r/nintendo/comments/2wqmd7/majoras_mask_3d_4th_day_glitch_walkthrough/
Note: Postman's Mask and Kafei's have similar effects as the Bremens Mask, but have slightly more use than the latter.
Wow their commentary was obnoxious--I couldn't even handle the video after a minute thirty...just wow. But yeah, I remember the "Fierce Diety Link anywhere" glitch in the N64 version...
@wolvesboy IKR
Their Accent Wasn't THAT Annoying, Anyway Awesome Glitch!
@EarthboundBenjy Yup, I did that trick and it worked. Nintendo patched the bottle glitch but not this. Plus, you can climb out of bounds with Fierce Deity in the Laundry Pool.
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