History Main / AscendedGlitch

** The Sheer Force ability is supposed to raise the base power of all damaging moves that have any additional effects by 30%, and ignore their additional effects as a drawback. However, if (and ''only'' if) a move is boosted by the effect of Sheer Force, several other effects that normally happen after attacking are unexpectedly skipped as well. [[note]]This includes the effects of Eject Button, Red Card, Shell Bell, Kee Berry, and Maranga Berry; the recoil damage from Life Orb; the Abilities Color Change, Pickpocket, Wimp Out, Emergency Exit, and Berserk; as well as Meloetta's opportunity to switch forms if it acquires Sheer Force and uses Relic Song.[[/note]] Most likely, its programming doesn't just eliminate secondary effects, but all other effects besides dealing damage on the affected moves, as the same programming that cancels the secondary effects also removes the hidden effects every other move and ability has. After it was discovered, competitive players started to abuse the glitch by filling many of the Pokémons with Sheer Force's movesets with as many attacks as possible with secondary effects, and giving them a Life Orb. Gamefreak, either due to how widespread the glitch is among competitive players, or due to the franchise being infamously programmed in "spaguetti code", has never patched this glitch, and has even added some in-game trainers that abuse the glitch as well.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'': Tifa's famously huge breasts are a result of the [=PS1's=] rendering limitations; her concept art depicted her with a modest B- or C-cup at most and this was supposed to be reflected by her character model, but such detail simply didn't work with the technology of the time and the creators were forced to choose between modeling Tifa completely flat-chested (like they did with Aerith and most other female characters), or with [[MostCommonSuperpower an exaggerated chest to signify breasts]]. They chose the latter, and the results ended up becoming [[AmazonianBeauty such an iconic aspect of the character]] that nearly all subsequent works set in the ''VII'' world very deliberately portray Tifa with a large bust, long after technology advanced enough to easily depict the originally intended size. ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake'' would finally tone down her bust size to focus more on her legs - but only because she's very clearly now wearing a sports bra as part of her outfit so they don't get in the way, when she's seen in her dress while infiltrating Don Corneo's manor, it's clear her bust, while shrunken, has only been very slightly so.

** Similarly, the common PlayerTic of trying to catch the post-boss Red Orb while using an attack to strike a cool pose was attached to an EasterEgg in ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaHarmonyOfDissonance''. Catch the Orb while jumping into it with Juste/Maxim/[[spoiler:Simon in the boss rush]] while you're at the final frame of the attack animation and the game pauses with a "Perfect!" popping up over their head.

** Similarly, the common PlayerTic of trying to catch the post-boss Red Orb while using an attack to strike a cool pose was attached to an EasterEgg in ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaHarmoyOfDissonance''. Catch the Orb while jumping into it with Juste/Maxim/[[spoiler:Simon in the boss rush]] while you're at the final frame of the attack animation and the game pauses with a "Perfect!" popping up over their head.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'': Tifa's famously huge breasts are a result of the [=PS1's=] rendering limitations; her concept art depicted her with a modest B- or C-cup at most and this was supposed to be reflected by her character model, but such detail simply didn't work with the technology of the time and the creators were forced to choose between modeling Tifa completely flat-chested (like they did with Aerith and most other female characters), or with [[MostCommonSuperpower an exaggerated chest to signify breasts]]. They chose the latter, and the results ended up becoming [[AmazonianBeauty such an iconic aspect of the character]] that all subsequent works set in the ''VII'' world very deliberately portray Tifa with a large bust, long after technology advanced enough to easily depict the originally intended size.

** The Arc update brought the Uncharted Isles, which had (among other things) unique skyboxes. Players quickly figured out that if you teleported away from the island, you kept the skybox. This was used for some fairly spectacular landscape photography before it was patched out... and the next update not only reintroduced the skyboxes as a supported feature, but added free camera mode and lighting filters to go with it.

* ''VideoGame/{{Roblox}}'' had a glitch in 2008 where you can wear 2 or 3 hats at once. It was eventually made a feature.

** In the original UsefulNotes/{{Wii}} version of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'', it was possible to get Green Chu Jelly if a Blue and Yellow Chu combined. Green Chu Jelly was (supposed to be) a DummiedOut leftover from earlier builds where the game still had a magic meter, but the developers forgot the possibility of a Blue and Yellow Chu combining and providing the item, which has no text when obtained and no effect when drunk. This was fixed for the UsefulNotes/GameCube version (Blue and Yellow Chus combine to make a Purple Chu instead), but in the UsefulNotes/WiiU HD edition the glitch was embraced instead: Green Chus are encounterable and the jelly's flavor text points out "it doesn't look all that tasty" and "doesn't look like it will do much."

** Not particularly something added into other games per se, but the Small Fire Mario glitch from the original game is the focus of one of the later challenges in the UsefulNotes/WiiU game ''VideoGame/NESRemix''.

* The song "GAMBOL" in ''VideoGame/BeatmaniaIIDX'' has one of the easiest charts in the game; however a bizarre bug caused it to have much tighter timing windows than any other song in earlier versions of the game, making it easy to clear but extremely hard to score well on it. On Happy Sky, the bug was finally fixed: the glitched version was moved up to the Hyper difficulty, while Normal now contained a fixed version. But then on the UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 version of IIDX 11, the developers decided to troll players further by adding an Another chart; it's exactly the same as the other difficulties, except the timing windows were shrunk to the point where it's almost impossible to score well on it ''at all.'' Even worse, DJ Troopers' home version introduced EasterEgg codes that let players [[SelfImposedChallenge use the Gambol Hyper and Another timing windows on any song.]]

* ''Makai Toushi [=SaGa=]'' AKA ''VideoGame/TheFinalFantasyLegend'' has the infamous Saw Glitch. This weapon was supposed to instant kill any enemy whose defense was lower than the user's strength but instead it does the opposite: it instants kill enemies whose defense is ''higher'' than the user strength. And it works on the ''Final Boss''. Not only the UsefulNotes/WonderSwan Color remake kept the glitch but it's been referenced in other ''[[VideoGame/SagaRPG [=SaGa=]]]'' games such as ''Romancing [=SaGa=]: Minstrel Song'' (the tale of the Axe that Slew a God), ''[[VideoGame/SagaScarletGrace [=SaGa=] Scarlet Grace]]'', (the legendary Emperor's Saw, capable of slaying a God) and ''Romancing [=SaGa=] [=Re;Universe=]'' (The "Black and White Towers" event where Aishe attempts to kill the final boss of ''Makai Toushi [=SaGa=]'' with her chainsaw. He survives, but his life flashes before his eyes, complete with death by chainsaw.) and other Creator/SquareEnix games (''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'' [[spoiler:where the final boss Orphan is vulnerable to Vanille's Death spell once staggered]]).

* Lilith in ''VideoGame/TalesOfDestiny'' was originally supposed to be a DummiedOut character, but a party glitch in the Japanese version allowed her to join the party at a very low level. She was immensely popular, and in the [[UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 PS2]] remake is an optional but official party member with a revamped moveset.

* The egregiously NintendoHard ''VideoGame/{{Gradius}} III AC'' had significant slowdown when there was a lot of enemies/bullets on the screen, which was practically required to navigate these bullet storms. The [[UsefulNotes/PlayStation2 PS2]] CompilationRerelease subsequently included an option to emulate the lag/slowdown. This would influence other games, as intentional, hardcoded slowdown when bullet density reaches a certain point has become a widespread feature in BulletHell games.

* Dotfiles in [[{{UsefulNotes/UNIX}} Linux/Unix systems]] are hidden files that can be used to define and declare how certain programs and systems on one's machine should work. [[https://linux-audit.com/linux-history-how-dot-files-became-hidden-files/ As this article explains,]] they came from an oversight. Within Unix ([[{{UsefulNotes/UNIX}} which Linux is based on]]), two files were added to each directory, a '.' and a '..'. The former would reference the current directory, and the latter would reference the directory above. The `ls`command was then updated to ignore anything that started with a dot. While the intention was just to ignore the '.' and the '..', other programmers discovered they could create "hidden" files by prepending them with a dot.

* Trying to make Microsoft Sam say "soy" makes him say "schwa" instead, and typing "soi" instead doesn't fix it. Later versions of UsefulNotes/MicrosoftWindows come with text-to-speech voices that pronounce "soy" correctly but deliberately pronounce "soi" like "schwa."

** In ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' guns with the [[BottomlessMagazines Neverending]] legendary effect draw ammo directly from your inventory without needing to reload. [[GatlingGood Gatling]] [[BeamSpam Lasers]], however, use long-lasting fusion cores instead of individual bullets, which makes the effect glitch and causes them to have unlimited ammo. Bethesda decided this would be a GameBreaker and made Neverending Gatling Lasers impossible to acquire in the main game. However, for the Final DLC, they added one named [[InfinityPlusOneSword Aeternus]] that you can get by defeating the [[OptionalBoss Rogue Knight]].

*** A morphing animation glitch from ''[[VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles Sonic & Knuckles]]'', commonly referred to as [[https://s3unlocked.blogspot.com/2017/09/blue-knuckles.html "blue Knuckles,"]] inspired the appearance of Thrash the Tasmanian Devil. Knuckles in ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'' would paint himself blue ([[ObviousStuntDouble poorly]]) to act as Sonic's stunt double.

* In the ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series, players quickly learned that you wouldn't get blamed for killing someone if you [[GrenadeTag reverse-pickpocketed a live grenade]] onto them; in ''VideoGame/Fallout2'', this was an easy way to [[WouldHurtAChild get rid of those annoying child pickpockets in the Den]] [[LoopholeAbuse without becoming a]] [[VideoGameCrueltyPunishment childkiller]]. Future installments canonized this as a game tactic; ''VideoGame/Fallout3'' keeps a running tally of "Pants Exploded" every time you do it (along with an achievement for your first time) and the ShowWithinAShow calls it "the ol' Shady Sands Shuffle."

* Many, ''many'' features in ''VideoGame/DefenseOfTheAncients'', which were either bugs in Guinsoo and Pendragon's original game or quirks of the old ''VideoGame/WarCraftIII'' engine, were faithfully ported into ''VideoGame/Dota2'', and some of them in ''VideoGame/HeroesOfNewerth'' as well. To this day, the main diference between ''VideoGame/Dota2'' and ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' is that ''DOTA 2'' kept them whereas ''LOL'' removed or fixed them.

* The arcade version of ''[[VideoGame/DonPachi DoDonPachi Saidaioujou]]'' had a glitch where if your combo bonus exceeded [[UsefulNotes/PowersOfTwoMinusOne (2³¹
- 1)]]/100, it would turn into 999,999,999 because the programmers correctly detected the overflow but used 32-bit fixed-point signed integers instead of 64-bit ones in the intermediate calculations. This would then send your score through the roof. When the game was ported to Xbox 360, the glitch was fixed, but Arcade HD Mode contains an option to restore the original glitched behavior.

* [[Videogame/WarioWare WarioWare: Get it Together]] contains an in-universe example. The plot sees the employees of the titular company [[TrappedInTvLand getting sucked into their a videogame]] they've just created. They soon discover it's filled with bugs and promptly hunt down and eliminate them. The DiscOneFinalBoss is a particularly tough bug in Wario's level, which Wario ultimately allows to stay.

* [[Videogame/WarioWare WarioWare: Get it Together]] contains an in-universe example. The plot sees the employees of the titular company [[TrappedInTvLand getting sucked into their own videogame]], where they discover it's filled with bugs and promptly hunt down and eliminate them. The DiscOneFinalBoss is a particularly tough bug in Wario's level, which Wario ultimately allows to stay.

** [[RocketJump Infinite bomb jumping]]. In [[VideoGame/Metroid1 the first game]], while the developers had always intended for Samus to be elevated by her bomb explosions in order to enter hidden passages, they did not expect that players would learn that proper timing and bomb placement can allow the player to chain these explosions together indefinitely, allowing for SequenceBreaking. It had become an official, mainstay part of the series' mechanics by [[VideoGame/MetroidIIReturnOfSamus the very next entry]], with almost every 2D game having its own rhythm for pulling off the maneuver and its main purpose still being purely as a sequence breaking tool.[[note]]The only game where you can't IBJ is ''VideoGame/MetroidFusion'', which is the only entry in the series that completely discourages sequence breaking.[[/note]] ''VideoGame/SuperMetroid'' would even show it off in the AttractMode.

** In a likely reference to [=MissingNo.=], when Sirfetch'd [[https://swordshield.pokemon.com/en-us/pokemon-galar-region/zbpkxr1gw8/ was initially revealed]] for ''VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield'', its appearance was a pixellated mess and its name, category and height were all censored with glitchy blocks of text, not unlike those found in the name of Missingno.'s brethren, such as 'M. According to [[https://twitter.com/Pokemon/status/1174307278553374720 the official Pokémon Twitter account]], a Rotom was the cause for the corrupted data.

* A glitch in the Paragon resolution of the [[LoonyFan Conrad Verner]] side quest in ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'' (where Shepard gently talks Verner into going home) flags ''both'' the Paragon and Renegade resolutions in the OldSaveBonus data. ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' ends up reading for the Renegade option first when importing the data, causing it to assume you went with the Renegade resolution (where Shepard threatens Verner into giving up on becoming a Spectre). In ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', you can encounter Verner on the Citadel, where he apologizes to Paragon Shepard for claiming they threatened him with a gun -- he was under a lot of stress. Also, unlike a lot of similar glitches that happened that ''Legendary Edition'' fixed such as correctly registering an assignment as saving the hostages, this one is still there.

** In Vanilla [=WoW=], the paladin talent Reckoning gave the paladin an extra melee attack every time he received a critical hit, stacking up to four times (i.e. at four stacks, the next melee attack the paladin performs would result in 5 simultaneous weapon swings). Originally, there was no upper limit to how many times this ability could stack, resulting in a famous case where a paladin dueled a rogue 'til he'd been crit 10,000 times, then attacked a World Boss and killed it in one blow (while also bringing the server to its knees for several seconds as it tried to resolve 10,001 swings in an instant). This incident became known as "the reckoning bomb." The talent was quickly nerfed, but when the Wrath of the Lich King expansion came out a few years later, it included a quest in which you fired a cannon at scourge invaders in southeast Icecrown and could occasionally shoot an enormous area-effect weapon. The name they gave the enormous area-effect weapon? "Reckoning Bomb."

** There was a glitch where Johnny Cage's uppercut fatality would decapitate the opponent twice. Developers took this a step further in ''II'', giving him his hidden ''triple'' decapitation fatality. It even got a MythologyGag in ''11'', where his Deadly Uppercut is revisited so that the head doesn't come off, causing Johnny's camera crew to call for more takes until Cage pulls off the fatality (with three onscreen takes happening, in an allusion to II).

** The "invisible Dhalsim" glitch (where occasionally, after doing a Yoga Fire move, the character's sprite would become invisible, unable to take or receive damage) was later incorporated into Dhalsim's Yoga Teleport.

** Being able to avoid the self-damage from the Blast Mask (which creates an explosion centered on your face) [[BlockingStopsAllDamage by putting your shield up]] in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'' ''probably'' wasn't intentional, but it was kept in the [=3DS=] remake because it was so iconic. The remake actually tells you how to do it upon obtaining the mask for the first time.