I assume the internets have known about that glitch for a long time but it was really fun to feel like I had some secret trick as a kid that no one else had found.
I assume the internets have known about that glitch for a long time but it was really fun to feel like I had some secret trick as a kid that no one else had found.
They also mentioned the Zelda 2 glitch where you could wrong-warp by jumping off the top of the screen and using the Fairy spell. You could get into a weird town that didn't exist, and if you left you were stuck in the middle of the ocean.
I first assumed this article was about that glitch, but apparently that one is known as "the Select Glitch" (because you press the select button to pause / open the map).
One other thing, that wasn't a glitch but was a hidden feature, if you equipped the bow and arrow and bombs at the same time you could make arrows that exploded on impact. Oh and the thing where you could steal from the shop, I don't remember how I found out about that, probably from a friend showing me.
But if you do that they call you THIEF… :-( The same happens if you hit a chicken so many times its buddies come and take revenge on you.
Why the frowny face? The title of THIEF is deserved!
>"The same happens if you hit a chicken so many times its buddies come and take revenge on you."
Ah yeah, forgot about the chicken revenge thing! Does your name change after that too? IIRC the chicken revenge thing happens in other Zelda games as well, I believe I saw it in Ocarina Of Time at least.
Incidentally, they call you VOYOU after you steal something all the same. Though calling you THIEF for hen-slaughter seems a bit off…
I remember discovering the Super Mario Bros 1 up glitch (just rather randomly, wasn't glitch-hunting) a few weeks after getting my NES/SMB and teaching everyone I knew how to do it.
I'm sure many, many people discovered it independently back in the days before the Internet spread this knowledge out nearly instantaneously.