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I think that was Myth II, where if you installed the game in a place it wasn’t expecting then uninstalling it would brick your computer: https://minimaxir.com/2013/06/working-as-intended/
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Acerbatus posted:What was the game that named its exe the same as some critical file, so uninstalling would brick your pc? One of the big EVE updates had a file named boot.ini and it wasn't particularly sane about checking if it was it's own one or uh..the one that NT-kernel Windows used.
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Acerbatus posted:What was the game that named its exe the same as some critical file, so uninstalling would brick your pc? EVE had the boot.ini issue but I don't think it was the first one to do it.
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Pools of Radiance, I think, was another one that deleted system files on uninstall
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I think Pools of Radiance went one step further than Myth 2 in it's routine to delete all folder contents. Where Myth 2 was content to delete everything in the root the main exe was, due to a mixed up reference I think PoR went one file path upward and then did the same thing. So like best case you lose all your installed games if you were well organized, or else fairly commonly you lost your entire C drive.
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Eve Online iirc. boot.ini file
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Steam on Linux did this as well. If you moved the install folder it could attempt to delete the entire system instead. https://github.com/ValveSoftware/steam-for-linux/issues/3671
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:Along similar (but not identical) lines is Wing Commander. They were nearing the end of development, and one of the things they had to deal with was a crash that would only occur when you went to quit the game. The practical upshot of this is that when you quit, your DOS prompt would show an error message. Pretty harmless, but ugly. The fix was to build the game as normal, then go into the binary and replace the error message text with "Thank you for playing Wing Commander!" IIRC the error was in EMM386, which was the main memory manager for DOS at the time, and was harmless other than the warning, but lol at hacking an essential exe for something like that. Also, again I may be wrong, but the Sonic 3D blast thing wasn't preemptive, was it? There was actually just a straight up bug that crashed at startup and they were like "gently caress, uhhhh... error handling code is now a stage select"
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Neito posted:IIRC the error was in EMM386, which was the main memory manager for DOS at the time, and was harmless other than the warning, but lol at hacking an essential exe for something like that. The Sonic 3D thing was basically a way to get it through cert. One of the requirements was "never ever crashes no matter what we do to it" and they weren't 100% confident the game was legitimately crash free so they just made it so anything that would crash the console goes to the level select screen instead (which also has the convenient property of allowing them to completely reset the game state and clear whatever problem caused the error in the first place), which is a pass as far as certification is concerned.
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Level select as a crash handler makes extra sense as the least new effort. They will have a level select utility for testing the game, and a tester who just crashed the game probably wants to use it to reproduce or move on to another step. No reason to turn that off, cert or not.
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Here's a video about that level select from one of the developers of Sonic 3D. It was, in fact, just a way to get it though certification. Not to cover any specific bugs, but more as a precaution in case something unforeseen happened. One of Sega's requirements was that a game should be able to run for days and never crash. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9bkKw32dGw
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That channel has some really fascinating videos on some old classics and how they were designed/programmed. Definitely recommend it
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Not so much a glitch per se, but  https://twitter.com/MarioBrothBlog/status/1479163425527930884
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Slickdrac posted:Not so much a glitch per se, but BE NOT AFRAID
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ahhhh, kos... grant us eyes...
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Slickdrac posted:Not so much a glitch per se, but 
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Slickdrac posted:Not so much a glitch per se, but Oh thank gently caress I thought I was a failure for loving up textures and then just covering them up.
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My Google searches are coming up with nothing - can anyone link me the video featuring a lot of Elder Scrolls: Oblivion glitches? It has the Hall of the Mountain King playing in it and I think I remember clips of Todd Howard saying "It just works," over and over.
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You're thinking of Skyrim. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7trmEmI5Js
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Thank you!!! I appreciate it.
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Slickdrac posted:Not so much a glitch per se, but Nintendo prefers their angels to be biblically accurate.
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https://i.imgur.com/tn4sPEe.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/KIgYf6o.mp4 the rarely-seen cryptid of the bayou, the Timmolator
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haveblue posted:ahhhh, kos... grant us eyes... peach, or some say pauline
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moonmazed posted:peach, or some say pauline "or some say TOADSTOOL", get your mario lore right
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This thread tends to intersect with speedrunning so I just want to remind you all that Awesome Games Done Quick 2022 Online starts today.
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KennyMan666 posted:This thread tends to intersect with speedrunning so I just want to remind you all that Awesome Gems Done Quick 2022 Online starts today. Yay! Thanks for the reminder
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No idea what game this is but lol https://twitter.com/Foekoe/status/1477397033984180229?s=20
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Seth Pecksniff posted:No idea what game this is but lol Neither rain, nor sleet, nor nearly instantaneous massive evacuation of blood
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Captain Hygiene posted:Neither rain, nor sleet, nor nearly instantaneous massive evacuation of blood Or even a zombie apocalypse. It's Dead Rising 2
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Was playing AC Odyssey and apparently this is what happens if you try to take a photo of a guy getting blown up by a brazier you rigged to explode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KyYccYW5-k
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El Jeffe posted:Was playing AC Odyssey and apparently this is what happens if you try to take a photo of a guy getting blown up by a brazier you rigged to explode: Ah I love the golden days of classic animation
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it's just an accident, stop rubbernecking
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Is this a glitch, or a feature? https://twitter.com/216doe/status/1482430023785238530?t=OSNoS7Pww2cFxyxRIb3JoQ
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Radio Paranoia posted:Is this a glitch, or a feature? When you do all the work on a project, but you share the same grade.
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Radio Paranoia posted:Is this a glitch, or a feature? Total feature, every time I start up a game I dream of something like that happening
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Radio Paranoia posted:Is this a glitch, or a feature? Everything else seems normal.
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Zereth posted:Glitch, it said they were in first right up until they crossed the finish line and were told they finished second. I'm gonna assume that the first/second place indicator is done just with the car's center of mass (which is easy to keep track of and fairly easy to compare to other centers of mass), while first place is done by seeing which car touches the finish line first. I'm willing to accept that this is a bug, but I'd hesitate to call it a "glitch"...which I recognize is making a pretty damned fine distinction  As for the actual behavior shown, it's physically implausible, but so is basically everything in games, so seems fine to me! 
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