Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom New Item Duplication Glitches Discovered In Version 1.1.2

Nintendo appreciates the QA testing. Welp we know what the next patch will be.

Up, up down, down, left, right, left, right,B, A.

Ahh, the good old days when even the cheat codes were easier.😁

Why are people so obsessed with getting rich in this game? It’s all about exploration.

Patch 1.1.3 incoming in 3.... 2...

Seems dumb to patch out something like that. If people buy the game, and there isn't an online competition, why does it matter if people want to duplicate items and not be forced to grind for stuff?

@Freek It even gave me access to retrieve a medal from Hero's Duty.

@Classic603 It's possible that such a cheat is linked to something else that may be unstable, even if no one had experienced it. We don't know, only that the result involves patching this.

And here I am scanning 26 amiibos daily like a sucker.

Nintendo can’t be too upset because for sure the first game benefited from some viral marketing due to players exploiting the game’s systems. Which exploits also clearly set some direction for this sequel. Considering the sales of this game, I look forward to themes of duplication in the future Zelda release

@Freek

Like the "Ikari Warriors" level skip. Simply enter UP, DOWN, A, A, B, LEFT, RIGHT, A, B, UP, A, DOWN, RIGHT, RIGHT, LEFT, B, UP, LEFT, A, RIGHT, B, LEFT, RIGHT, A, LEFT, UP, A, DOWN, A, RIGHT, LEFT, B, START in a 20 second window between the title screen and the demo!

Even more messed up, the book it was first published in (one of the Nintendo tip books) had it wrong, telling you to input it before the title screen instead of during it. 1000s of kids lost their whole weekend trying to get that one to work back in the day.

I'll take modern cheats over that any day.

What I wanna know is how the hell do people come with finding these glitches. The steps are so specific that it doesn't even make sense for somebody to just try them randomly

No thank you. I'll stick with my lovely 1.1.1 glitches. Hasn't ruined my experience in the slightest.

My favourite part of the glitches is just how worked up some people get that other people are exploiting glitches in a single player game that affects them in no way at all.

@dojmin @Vriess

Most of them are found by watching the registry, accumulator and memory values on the Switch with a debugger, looking for situations where you can manipulate their values and matching that to ways in witch you can exploit the values. It's not trail and error.

For the weapon dupe and the first item dupe it's relatively simple and easy to spot actually. There are (or were) a few cycles between dropping the item you wanted to dupe and the memory values that corresponding to what item you are holding updated. It's pretty obvious watching it in a debugger.

From there, if you can do something that creates a new item based on that value in the short window before it updates, you'll dupe the item. Here, it's enough time to attach the weapon to a display. The game updates what item is on the display by reading the value for the weapon you are holding, and that value hasn't updated yet to reflect the fact that you dropped it. POOF, new weapon.

The save state ones are generally WAY more complicated, and count as full on "hacks" seeing you're generally manipulating overflow (when the programs writes a value to big for the allocated memory holding it, so it "overflows" into another area of memory) to change the save value, or sometimes casing the save data to overflow and change the active memory values. Even knowing what's going on and having a strong understanding of the methodology, the tenacity, insight and ability required to pulls these off amazes me.

@Liam_Doolan wow you seem to have found the most complicated one, there's a very simple way. Just ignore steps 4 to 9 and throw the weapon, immediately pause and load your save and you'll still be holding the weapon with another on the floor

How do people even discover this kind of stuff ?....

@Vriess They get stuck very easily lol.

Zelda games have a sublime sense of progression. It just feels so natural. The number of times I'm not sure what to do but keep going anyway and something presents itself is just magical. I never think to myself 'I wish I had 1000 rupees.' Still...would be nice if I did...

PLAYING the game without glitches is a better challenge and more rewarding.

@Max_the_German
Various reasons, one of the bigger ones is that people don't have time to grind for hours upon hours to upgrade armour.

Or, given the games sandbox nature, people just want to have fun with building and exploring, not grinding hours upon hours...

Since it's a SP game then who cares, let people play it how they want. Honestly Nintendo should add a proper sandbox mode where you can freely spawn whatever you want. And they should adjust prices in the game for people that don't have as much time as others.

Repeated grinding is not about skill, it's just a time sink. A way to artificially bloat the "play time" for a game.
Why yes, Zelda is such a huge game, I spent 200 hours in it! Amazing! Except 190 of those was killing the same mobs over and over again for enough items to upgrade armour....

@Gelantious Why are you guys trying so hard to justify the way you play the game? No one's calling you out. Do you feel guilty about it by chance? I certainly wouldn't "dupe". I'm not particular for degrading my experience with the game. If doing stupid glitches and exploiting the game is what fulfills(?) you then sure. I'll be just fine and happy that I conquered the game naturally, because I'll be better than you all. Lol

@Gelantious Repeatedly killing mobs is a grind for you? Yikes. I call it enjoyment out of spending time in a world where you don't have to kill the same mob in the same spot over and over and over. Do different things, go to different places- just play. It's not a job, though some of yall might need one.

If Nintendo wants to patch your exploits of their game they've carefully crafted, then no one can argue. We shouldn't care that people like to cheat? We shouldn't also care that Nintendo doesn't want you to do that. I couldn't imagine playing the game any other way than it was intended, but then again I belong to that old school class of gamers who play for fun, when just simply playing grants you all the rewards without the "grind". Tears of the kingdom isn't a "grind" nor is it supposed to be. Play the game naturally and you will accrue all your resources naturally. But also then again people can't function if they cant min/max effort and time spent with rewards and achievements given because they spent hours upon countless hours doing the same thing over and over and over and over and over and over again. No wonder y'all get burnt out.

@Vivianeat

For you.

Some people don't find challenge enjoyable.

Some people don't find the game challenging. When you can beat it with a Guitar Hero controller with Link in his boxers, a duplication glitch isn't making things any easier for you.

Some people beat the game and accomplished every possible "achievement" in a few days, and glitches allow them to continue to enjoy the game in creative ways.

Some people don't see any "challenge" or meaningful "reward" for shooting a dragon with an arrow, then having to wait a few hours to find it again, to shoot it with another arrow, only to repeat that process a dozen times.

Some people track down these glitches because finding the exploits in a debugger and then finding ways to use them is extremely challenging and rewarding.

Some people ....

Hey, if you get some sort of feeling of superiority for standing up and saying "I play the game the RIGHT way", power to you buddy.

I get my smug sense of superiority by pointing out there is never a right way to play a single player game, other then to make sure you have fun.

@dojmin Because they search for them. half of what speed runners do is glitch hunting. Many runners are staying on 1.1.1 for now though but some do continue to look for ways to break 1.1.2 (and will continue doing so for later patches too) because that's what speed running is all about outside of glitchless category (which pretty much didn't exist for botw so doubt it will for totk either).

@Classic603

You should read my post on how these glitches work a few down from yours.

You kinda have to patch things like this. They work by exploiting things like overflow, out-of-bounds write, deallocating memory without sanitizing it, or null pointers. These are the exact same vulnerabilities you can use to gain access to the root OS and jailbreak the system.

You're patching the vulnerability, not the play style.

Can articles about this stop. That are way more cool things that are legitimate in the game, like launching drones, that are not covered. Like share the actual cool things. Cause people play in different ways and miss things. And those are the things I want to see. Save this for when the news is slow on this game.

@HeadPirate thanks for the detailed reply!

Can we not just leave alone for a bit? Nintendo stopped patching BOTW ages ago so we have lots of cool glitches we can still do. We’ll end up with none left if we keep it up.

Just wanted you to know I’m doing my best not to click and comment on these TOTK posts but hey temptation gets the best of us. Anyways since I’ve already showed my allegiance by clicking and commenting I’ll just point out how many “news” articles there has been on this site in the last month. 221!!!!! Two hundred and twenty one. What the fork. Based on how many articles this site has pumped out you would think the Nintendo switch is going to fall off a cliff with no news once zelda is done being talked about. How about IGN NVC. They have a weekly Nintendo podcast which has for 7 consecutive weeks somehow managed to make tears of the kingdom their exclusive talking point. I’m almost about to sell my soul for any new content. Call me up and we can make a deal.

I double posted this to any other tears thread. But damn it I shouldn’t feel guilty. This site has had no problem reposting Zelda over and over for a month now.

@Gumdrop Yeah, it seems like a similar mentality to the "how dare play your game on easy mode" crowd.

@Ploppy. Yea I'll never understand why people get so offended by this stuff. If someone wants to play on the easiest difficulty and glitch the game to kingdom come then who cares. Let people enjoy things their way. I mean I get if it affected others in a multiplayer game but if it's single payer then let people be.

How exactly are there so many of these duplication glitches? I just don't get it.

Still don't understand why people are doing this glitching stuff. Just play the same. If you don't have enough Rupees after 10+ hours to buy pretty much anything you're doing something wrong.

Please don’t report on these anymore. People who don’t like duplication don’t want to see it. People who do like duplication don’t want to see it either (and increase likelihood of a patch)

@sixrings because apart from this game, Nintendo has nothing else going on at the moment and no big AAA games/news in the pipeline.
News sites have to flog TotK or they wouldn't have anything else to talk about.

Is naruto cheating as well😂

This is one of those not worth it, but those that want to will no matter how convoluted

@Max_the_German don't tell me what to do. 😜

No surprise there. Nintendo will probably be battling duplication glitches until the end of time.

Only way I’ll update is if nintendo announces a master mode dlc

And will get nuked since Nintendo intends to give post release support for Tears for quite awhile [the inevitable dlc isn’t even announced yet]. YTs really are acting like free bug testers right now publishing all the exploits ASAP for the world to see.

I had to find Hinox guts for my armor. I fought like 10 Hinox and only got like 1 guts... and I said... man this isn't fun anymore... there's plenty to do in the game. But grinding for rare parts that are needed in large quantities ain't it for me.

@Max_the_German Cause some mats and items are just too good not to have and so rare that using them is like saving Elixirs in a FF game.

@Classic603 because it's their art. These devs go through painstaking time (7 years almost) to make sure everything you do is specific for the way they want you to experience the game. I understand and I don't care if you want to use the glitches but I also understand nintendo patching them out.

@HeadPirate thats was good old times a miss it alot

Said it the other day but I feel like the people who insist that you "can't enjoy" the game without grinding rupees or duplicating stuff to sell have to be missing something about the gameplay loop.

Yeah, the prices are steep compared to BotW. But you also get a buttload more money from quests and random activities now on top of items generally seeming like they sell for more in general. Just stop hoarding every red bokoblin horn and sell stuff if you need a couple hundred rupees.

@Max_the_German money buys happiness. And to be fair Nintendo is treating this like Animal Crossing. I get it they want us to spend the whole year playing it but that’s just not realistic. Some of the grind just simply isn’t fun especially when you consider some people did all these armour sets etc last time. Personally I duped for the Wind Waker tunic and the climbing gear because I didn’t want to find Swift Violets for hours and thought the ask for Opals and star fragments on the other armour just plain silly.

@RubyCarbuncle So many dictatorial people in the gaming Community sometimes.
So true, it's a single no-online player game and yet some obese just cause someone plays different - they are so dead judgmental that they forget that how others well see their true colors as well. I tell those stop playing the game - sell it off then you have no complaints. Done! Still on 1.1.1 and will stay there only getting DLC when it releases.

@HeadPirate

I agree with him. It's fine if you want to glitch out a game, but I think the developers had a clear vision as to how they want people to experience the game. Then again, even Super Mario Bros. 3 had warp whistles and ways to break the game. I say do whatever you like, but I understand playing through the game fairly. Personally, I've never thought someone has truly beaten Contra using the thirty lives code or beaten Mega Man with a game genie. If that makes me sound arrogant, I'm okay with that.

This is probably an unpopular opinion, but for those like myself that already spent 300+ hours hunting items in BOTW for armor upgrades, it was very relieving to skip those massive time sinks via item duplication glitches.

If it were a completely new map that I knew nothing about, or if I never completed BOTW multiple times, I would refrain from cheating, but that simply is not the case this time and I won't be updating past 1.11 until they drop new content.

I'm just here to have a good time, not sink hundreds of hours doing what I already did in BOTW. Yes, the map is technically different but the experience is very much the same.

I would understand if anyone disagreed with this stance but I've got a backlog that could wipe out a small village and I would just rather spend what precious free time I have playing games the way I want to play.

If you plan to dupe your equipment (shield or weapon/bow), there is a significantly faster glitch (like 10 times faster and easier) that involves using a shock emitter and taking off the thunder helmet or piece of the rubber set.

If you want to dupe materials, there is a glitch that is 100x faster that involves shooting arrows in the depths. Can dupe hundreds of mats ever few minutes

@sixrings I’m sorry, but this is entirely a you problem. It’s fine to take a break from NintendoLife if the content isn’t appealing to you at the moment, but to make it your mission to try to get even with the number of comments, using the number of articles about TOTK as your justification, isn’t in good faith. You can use your time however you see fit, but I imagine it would be better spent doing something you actually enjoy.

@Laserbeak1982 Apparently I'm as bad with money in Hyrule as I am in real life.