No matter how hard developers and quality assurance staff try, glitches are a normal part of gaming. They're unavoidable, but also potentially entertaining - after all, finding quirky moments and areas in game worlds can be highlights of a gaming experience.
It can be fun learning about the range of glitches in classic games, which is why we've shared various videos from A+Start - the YouTube channel picks apart classic games to find unexpected moments and code slip-ups that add a new perspective on games. Now the channel's tackled the much loved Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door and picked out 20 coding snafus - there's the usual mix of weird instances, many of which involve characters clipping through objects or falling through the world.
A wonderful game but, like every title, not absolutely perfect.
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What about the glitch that takes 416 years?
Just gotta say I like paper jam but cool video
@TobiasAmaranth
That's in the ORIGINAL Paper Mario...
I AM ERROR!
Brilliant video! Brought back a lot of good memories.
Man, I love this game. Wish it was on virtual console.
I just know Sticker Star fans are going to look at this, point and laugh, and say "See? We TOLD you your precious game is terrible!"
Well it's obvious why I've never found any of these, ha ha.
Glitches that people won't ever find on their own playing the game normally are the best kind. They help sequence breakers and people looking to spice up replaying the game but do not hurt the game if you're just playing as the devs intended.
@BaffleBlend See? We TOLD you your precious game is terrible! points and laughs Just kidding, TTYD is one of my favorite games of all-time, if not #1.
"A wonderful game but, like every title, not absolutely perfect." Enough with the lies, Nintendo Life! Thousand-Year Door is pure and unadulterated perfection!
Who wants to hear a scary fictional story?
Imagine this: The year is 2003, and development of Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is well underway. "This is shaping up to be a wonderful game, I can't wait until we release it to the public!" says the lead developer. One night, he is visited by a magical genie who will grant him any one wish. He asks to be taken to the future to see how his game will be received by critics and Nintendo fans 13 years later. The genie shows him this very YouTube video. Disheartened, the lead developer, believing his latest ambition to be nothing but a broken and buggy game, pulls the plug on the project. Now 13 years later, Did You Know Gaming is doing a video about the cancelled "Paper Mario 2" that never saw the light of day.
I hope you liked my horrifying story. Sleep well, guys, and try not to have any nightmares...
It hurts to see a masterpiece like this having bugs that no one cares.....
This game is AMAZINGLY good, and I really wish for a proper sequel to this bring back the X-Nauts and EVERYTHING that made the ORIGINAL PAPER MARIO good!
@Not_Soos
Well, I'm not getting any sleep tonight, you evil human being.
LOL I wonder why the testers didn't find these obscure glitches. You would have to love speed runs to bother finding the first step of most of those glitches.
@Korokun
And, unfortunately, Color Splash doesn't seem to be it.
If you think this is nuts, the original one is FAR more broken... skipping entire chapters, softlocks, making goompa a permanent party member, activating a "new game +"... the list goes on and on and on.
22:20 in the video: F-Flavio! You scoundrel! XD
@Giygas_95
It's funny how I haven't even seen this video, yet I know exactly which glitch this is referring to.
Flavio for best glitch.
The worst glitch is how every game after it was a huge let down.
You're late. lol
Anyways I loved the Flavio part. xp
I got this game about 9 years ago (it came with my GameCube lol) and yet I still haven't finished it.
I believe there's something wrong with me
I wish they would release it on Wii u as an HD remaster, the game cube version holds up well but to play it u need a GC or a Wii, or u know what just release it under the VC, that's more than enough for me.
@xHHHx Completely agree, come on nintendo
@BaffleBlend What is this thing called a Sticker Star fan you speak of?
Why its not on VC yet? Such a great title.
And it also has a surprising number of people at Nintendo who don't understand why it's a good game - or that people would like more of it.
I'm guessing these guys have already done a Pokemon Red/Blue/Green video?
@FierceRagnar You're right. It IS hilarious. What was I thinking with all that character development, deep engaging narrative, expansion of the Mario universe via new characters, a simple yet deep real-time battle system, tactical RPG play through the use of partners and new villians/bosses?
Gee, I almost made a horrible mistake!
this and eternal darkness deserve hd remakes. i'd even buy and play 4 swords adventures again!
too bad they seem to be taking out all of the rpg elements from the paper mario games, i suppose they want the mario and luigi series to be the rpgs now
Flavio is the third wheel that third wheels around the world aspire to!
This video is pure blasphemy!!
Why oh why would anyone wanna skip a single second of this amazing game????? Especially the Glitz Pitz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (as you can tell by my username I have a massive fondness for that area )
But that flavio glitch is so funny
must pull off flavio glitch.....
@CB85 They're on Miiverse. Post-millennials hate anything that we millennials enjoyed.
One post I saw after Color Splash was announced went something like this:
"Blue is for the tears of TTYD fans. Red is for the blood of their crushed dreams. Yellow is for their wetting themselves like the big babies they are."
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