{"id":101663,"date":"2019-10-11T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/10\/feature_pokemon_zelda_mario_metroid_nintendors_biggest_bugs_glitches_and_errors"},"modified":"2019-10-11T17:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T17:30:00","slug":"feature-pokemon-zelda-mario-metroid-nintendos-biggest-bugs-glitches-and-errors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/10\/11\/feature-pokemon-zelda-mario-metroid-nintendos-biggest-bugs-glitches-and-errors\/","title":{"rendered":"Feature: Pok\u00e9mon, Zelda, Mario, Metroid… Nintendo\u2019s Biggest Bugs, Glitches And Errors"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Of all the developers putting out games today, Nintendo has possibly the best reputation for delivering rock-solid, glitch-free and glorious gaming experiences. The patented \u2018Nintendo polish\u2019 is something of a given when you fire up a first-party game – we expect an assuredly smooth, jank-less time where in games from ‘lesser’ developers you might expect the odd freeze or hard crash. Hey, that\u2019s the Nintendo difference!<\/p>\n

The thing is, though, Nintendo-published games have had their fair share of game-breaking (if not game-ending) bugs over the years. We\u2019re not only talking about fun glitches people discover while poking around where they shouldn’t, or hardcore speedrun exploits mined through many hours of work picking at the seams of the game world and actively trying to \u2018break\u2019 the game. There are also plenty of bugs that can cause the average player serious problems if they stumble into them.<\/p>\n

In the grand scheme of the company\u2019s entire library, the examples below are a drop in the ocean, and game-ending issues are much less of an issue nowadays when things can simply be patched up the wazoo even once they\u2019re in the wild. In general Nintendo has the resources to plug a leak relatively rapidly once they\u2019re it\u2019s been identified, so you\u2019re rarely more than a few days from an update that will fix your issue.<\/p>\n

We took a look at comical localisation errors many moons ago<\/a>, but here we’re concentrating (in the main) on technical hiccups that run the gamut from gleeful and fun to potentially game-ruining. Nintendo has done well to avoid the latter for the most part, but that\u2019s not to say it has a spotless record.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s take a look at some of the whoopsies that have slipped through Nintendo\u2019s QA net over the years…<\/p>\n

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Let\u2019s start off with one of the most famous. While you\u2019re not likely to stumble on this, anyone can do it in most versions of Super Mario Bros.<\/a><\/strong> – even we managed it, as you can see below. Jumping while ducking and hitting the pipe just so<\/em> at the end of World 1-2 will see you clip through the wall to the \u2018secret\u2019 warp pipe area you normally access by jumping on top of the ceiling a bit earlier on. Heading through the pipe will take you to a whole new world<\/em> (cue the Aladdin<\/strong> music):<\/p>\n