Top 10 Game-Crashing Glitches in Paper Mario 64 

It's too fast though.

*GoTtA gO fAsT*

idk whats wrong with that. thats like me in minesweeper

That’s slow? That’s how long it takes me to right one letter on an essay!

“Dont you mean frames per s-“ No, no I do not

+nin10doadict Yeah strangely enough I ended up testing Double Dip Egg Bomb on Prologue Jr. Troopa (see Zombie Jr. Troopa glitch video) and that crashes too lol

I like how the corrupted music sound like diarrhea

***** True... Maybe there's something more to it then

So true...

does the egg bomb char whatever it hits without double dipping it?

Connor McClory but you have to say get to that point with out saving so that there time is wasted

I love your profile picture. Reminds me of my own Pokémon drawings.

@@weirdinternetperson4342 thanks. I made it in 2 minutes on a phone app.

And here we have a god.

What has society become

"Welcome to my special hell."

+KennyT06 WARNING! WARNING! SECRET ALMAGAMATE FROM UNDERTALE ALERT!

Welcome to Paper Hell

stride99 but paper Mario is the best.

More like welcome to volcanic diarrhea. -I can't be the only person who heard this-

Basically every glitch hunter ever: ...What have we done

raging (INFINITELY)

dogshrapnel Your profile picture. I know I'm late

dogshrapnel all games will have some type of glitch. It's just the reality developers have to deal with.

Tetris? Pong?

dogshrapnel The only way to make a 100% glitch free game would involve thousands or even millions or billions, or even more than trillions of pre-generated images, assigned values and extremely precise transitions. And that amount of memory would crash Paper Mario.

Link the Pringles Man (late comment) ...Tetris has a glitch where if you clear 5 or more blocks (by clearing 4, then having an above block drop on on the new top row, finishing the line) then the line doesn't clear until you place the next piece. Pong has a softlock glitch (although people don't know how to replicate it) where the ball goes missing. The paddles are still there, and you can still move them, but no ball.

Making this many valid points crashes Paper Mario.

Time for the late response!! Yaaaaaay 1. People find these glitches out by performing certain tasks, then putting them in emulators to see what memory addresses they manipulate. They then manipulate those memory addresses perfectly to find glitches 2. Cuz y not 3. Ask stryder 4. IDK what to write here Yw for all the answers

2. because you can definitely tell the difference between huge amounts of lag and a crash when you have an fps counter 4. what

BUT THE MUSIC>

@Illuminati_LOL XxX no it wouldn't. The game, in the emulator would crash, but the emulator would be fine.

LOL

I also subbed when I heard that. It also solidified upgrade menu storage as my favorite video game glitch ever.

farter mario

Taking a bathroom break crashes Paper Mario.

Kirby Go back to eating your enemies And I'll go back to saving Zelda.

Hahahahhaha Bwahhh!!! Dx -Hank Hill

being totally insane on Minecraft Java crashes Paper Mario

@@LinksYTLink Go back to saving Zelda And Mario will go back to crashing Paper Mario.

+Jparodyy Pretty sure that's why too

Actually, in this video here. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-t3JlElGdEaA.html It turns out when Bowser hits peach (5:03) She does have a hit animation for some reason.

Why would she need to? She wasn't meant to do that, after all.

C59 Gaming I think that's because Bowser's jump attack is a special kind of attack that simply shrinks the player's sprite when hit, because Peach still appears to be in her usual "idle" sprite. Just like when Bowser scratches her & poisons her, she simply spins around a few times & changes colors (due to the glitch), but she's still in her normal "idle" sprite. Then the game soft-freezes because Peach has no *real* "hurt" animation from the poison. I could be wrong though lol.

If you could hack the game go give her a hurt sprite, what would happen?

Rogue Packets That may explain some other game crashes - occasionally on the N64 version, when just falling out of bounds in certain areas, the Floating Point Exception happens there as well. Interesting stuff!

@@Stryder7xso I’m late but with my understanding I think I know why the floating point exception crash occurs Mario got hurt on the overworks so the game sees this and runs the script to briefly lock inputs, display the animations, respawn Mario where they got hurt, and give control back to the player. When you do the crash and leave the room in time before control gets lock the game locked inputs to slow and plays the sequence out where Mario got hurt and Mario got hurt in the last room but left so the game stores the last Mario position somewhere random it shouldn’t be. The game switches rooms and plays the sequence out. The game sees to send Mario back to their last position before handing the player control back but whoops that value isn’t somewhere in bounds so Mario hit out of bounds. Unlike SM64 where the failsafe is to kill Mario there’s no failsafe so the floating point to say where Mario is was an exception to what should happened. The game gets confused and quits with the N64 crash handler showing the reason the game quit was this floating point exception for Mario’s position. Long winded but this made sense to me to understand with how little of the code I understand.

tru

GlitchShark Thank you!

Is that an ori profile picture

@@laggianput yes.

GlitchShark noice

@@GlitchShark the madlad actually replied

it's not just you

Geoffy FrailDog mkay thanks

me

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Yep

I enjoyed doing that as a kid. M&L:SS gave the best results. Now that I'm older and know that does damage the cart, I hate doing that.

+Gregory Downes sadly that only rarely happens on GBC

i found a cartridge tilt in pokemon yellow that causes you to immediatly refight a trainer you just fought(without exiting to the overworld), except you keep the money and EXP you got from both fights after you win each, i have only done it a few times, and i have no idea how to purposely replicate it, as it was always an accident the music becomes a glitchy mess as well, sounds awesome sometimes though... the best part is, you can do it without crashing the game, it may crash a few minutes after, but if you save before then, you're good. if only i could replicate it...who knows, maybe someone has...

Or intense diharea

I remember doing this, superstar saga could cause the most satisfying noise ever

+ZuperNation Glad someone caught it haha

Bill Smith how?

Ronny H. Uh......... It's a secret. ._.

Bill SmithWhy tell us if they scare you if it's a secret *why* they scare you

Bill Smith I under stand #5 and #1 but why 2???

Lucky Hamburger Maybe the thought of nothing working, no footprints are left, no one is talking to Mario because he ate the last slice of pizza.

ZeKRyUem Same

gypsum555 || Now it's called "This Playlist Crashes Paper Mario"

Liking this reply crashes Paper Mario *everything crashes Paper Mario*

At this point, what does not crash Paper Mario?

Well there's lots more like touching a flower for example

where were you!?

And the audio crashes. Why do these sounds scare me?

+The mario fan (also a regular guy) cuz ur a puh

Dude I feel you it is so creepy

It scares you because there's a certain "awareness" while playing a video game that only comes around when discovering that a game is simply code. Not feelings. Not emotions. Just figments of numbers and letters. *It's like reaching into the unknown and pulling back a nub.*

all crashes scare me tbh

looking in the games code and combining glitches to store certain values.

+NextLevelGamer or luck

Scoota Hoo i highly doubt something like that was luck

+NextLevelGamer most of these glitches involve luck and looking at what others have done. Looking at the code will do almost to nothing since relating code to glitching isn't as easy as you think

Never really understood where the rumor that glitch hunters "look into the game's code" started. Most game developers take special care to ensure the actual game's code isn't leaked online or available to the public. The closest thing we have to that are programs like Cheat Engine, Memory Hacking Software (MHS), or emulator debugging tools to track the game's RAM. That&'s just looking at the memory though; there's no code sitting there to interpret. We can learn about the game through hacking memory addresses or trial and error. While I know a handful of glitch hunters who prefer viewing the game's memory while they work on things, I prefer just playing the game on console. Just from understanding this game's mechanics in-depth, I've been able to theorize new glitches and come up with new ways of breaking the game. Also, when my friends find glitches, we talk of other areas they can be applied given the setup we already have. The #2 glitch basically started due to my curiosity as to why the Sushie Glitch softlocked after 3 encounters in the same room. Turned out it had to do with the game thinking that Mario was in a cutscene when he really wasn't, which gave me the idea to combine the glitch with a cutscene. When I tried it on the upgrade block, I ended up moving around during the cutscene. From there, it was trial and error based on my understanding of the game. For example, I knew we were never supposed to encounter an enemy while invisible with Bow, so I tried that during a cutscene which forced us into a battle. I just kept experimenting from there, and after a number of oddly-specific steps, I managed to find Footprint Storage. Hopefully that clears up any confusion.

And I'm guessing that there was a built in patch to not sootify the pirhana plant boss, but double dip actually uses a different and outdated egg bomb script than the original, which is why it only crashes with double dip.

xX_Blueberry256_Xx i didnt even notice it lol

Sweet mother of flak, how has it been four years? I barely remember even making this comment

Six years now, incredible

Yeah, lol. The game's perfectly cool with you suspending nearly all the animations and processes, but walking around too much? That's a hell no, fam, enjoy a crash with four different things stacked on top of one another. Also, as a fun fact, 11:17 has been my tablet's lockscreen for a few years now

@@JetFalcon710I’m setting that as my lock screen now too. That is great.

thank you for ths like

Now that is some great music xD

Tv Tracker Videos lol

+Megadoomable LOL

+glitchman161 ROFL

LMAO

+Based King Potato We've looked into it, and I agree the potential is there. Problem is, those of us who care enough to figure it out don't have the technical knowledge required to do so :/

I might be able to help! I'm familiar with debugging N64 games, but I've never tried to find a total control method in any game before. Consider this my next project!

+Based King Potato Dude, that'd be awesome if you looked into it. If you get around to it, shoot me a message here or on twitter or something, I'd be glad to introduce you to some of the community members. We may not know all the super complex technical knowledge, but we know this game like the back of our hands & about all the tiniest glitches. By the way, this is a pretty big project. Unless there was a recently-discovered ACE, I don't believe it's ever been done in a 3D game before...

+Stryder7x Well, the homebrew entry points from Smash Bros Brawl for the Wii is ACE

+ASSympt0te Yeah, Brawlbomb, Bannerbomb and the Twilight Princess homebrew exploit are all ACE.

Saving Peach as Peach%. Seems legit

Ze Memerr xD

paper Mario brought some XO

I think he ate chilly and beans instead XD

Buying taco bell crashes paper mario

"Toilet Paper Mario"

Hahahahahaha funny poop Taco Bell meme xD see it's funny because poop xDDDD

Though it was the Wii VC version.

Accj21 Pretty sure Wii VC doesn't crash there, so that's "normal" I guess haha

#10 on the Wii VC is a softlock.

@@legendgames128the fact that no matter what version you do it on, you are screwed, just makes it even better.

Apparently all other fire-related attacks simply clink off of the Lava Piranha. I think what's happening is that the game is trying to retrieve a charred sprite for the Lava Piranha, but the problem is, that sprite doesn't exist

@@JetFalcon710That would make a lot of sense considering some crashes and bugs happen in this game due to a character not having a sprite/loading an incorrect sprite. I don’t think of another reason for this glitch to happen other than the boss not having a charred sprite and the game crashing due to that.

***** Haven't heard of this crash, but it's entirely possible that the Nintendo 64 cartridge was "tilted" when it was put into the console. This can cause the game to do many things, from corrupting music to game crashes.

you're probably right actually. cant think of how he might have accidentally glitched the game to do that when he was playing casually. it must have been just the cartridge. thanks for responding!

***** No problem, and thank you for watching!

Oh, and I just saw the rainbow crash glitch. Ha ha, that was magical! Too bad it can't be replicated.

Yea

Jigglypuff Puffles Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed :)

I agree! 😃

+Fozsie thats why he said updated

It is not possible to modify an uploaded video. The related text data, subtitles and annotations - yes, but not the video. And the "vulgar error handler" (Paper Mario says a bad word) video, which I loved, got taken down from the secondary channel. Stryder, please reupload or confirm on other platforms.

Maciej Mućka || Oh crap I seriously would have loved to see it. Too bad it has been taken down.

brownlikepoop Thank you!

I agree! This Comment is.....Well,Idk.

Haven't heard of this, was it on the N64 version? Sometimes cartridges can get dusty, or could be inserted incorrectly, which causes a handful of random crashes.

+Stryder7x Hey, Stryder, some guy called Pepsi man further down in the comments has found a possible explanation for Lava Pirhana causing the game to crash when hit by an egg bomb! The player isn't supposed to be able to successfully perform a fire-based attack on him, so the game crashes because Lava Pirhana doesn't have an animation for getting hit by a fire attack, sounds logical enough right?

I think I missed that comment, but yeah, I agree with that theory

+Stryder7x Well probably because it was a reply.

+Stryder7x how did ANYONE find out the second one!?!??!

When all you do I play a single game for over 10 years you find shit

Yup

people who know the inner coding of a game can easily find possible glitches if looking out for them. It takes a lot of background in computer science and programming.

Oh and when I mean inner coding, I don't mean actually reading all of the code. It would be great if we could do that but we can't, so I mean guessing whats happening in the code by the behavior of the game. Eample being with the first glitch the crash handler calls a Floating Point Exception, idk very much about Paper Mario but with my little knowledge I would figure it would be a float (which is a data type) pointer, pointing to an invalid memory address. That's probably wrong, idk.

I'm sure it's the they discover around the game like normnal

+Jacob McMillin Thank you! To answer your question, not really, I speedrun this game so I've made friends with many glitch hunters and was eventually inspired to look for glitches myself, too. So basically, my friends and I found most of these!

I used to think a pixel perfect jump is necessary to enter without Lakilester. Guess I thought wrong then

More Curious about how common number 9 was

i wonder how many people got a game crash because of cartridge tilting

mrperson132 person Yeah man lol if we can work around Upgrade Menu Storage crashes, it might do some crazy stuff for speedruns.

Stryder7x GetToBoosMansionWithUMS%

Also, if the N64 version has a built-in crash handler, why not use that to see what's up with the whole egg bomb double dip thing?

Michael Pitts but Bombette has Mega Bomb, which attacks all enemies.

Does that damage Lava Piranha? If so, does it also crash the game? If so, that might explain why the game crashes from the egg bomb glitch, because the game doesn't expect Lava Piranha to take damage from THAT. Or if it doesn't crash then Mega Bomb is probably just some completely non-bomb related move in itself, according to the game.

Michael Pitts I don't know if it crashes. I imagine it does damage. I'm just wondering what the Double Dip effect has to do with the crash.

Probably nothing at all. The egg bomb probably crashes when used on Lava Piranha regardless of whether it's double dipped or not. But if it does crash only when double dipped, then it's possible that the egg bomb doesn't initially count as an explosion when it hits prior to being double dipped. Which would explain why it crashes when used on Lava Piranha. Or Lava Piranha could have simply been programmed so that it only had a response to standard egg bombs, and not double dipped egg bombs, hence the crash. It probably makes the game use an invalid animation.

10/10 would fart messily

hi

+Evvz Thank you!

Good thinking but i tryed to hit him with fire flower and with an egg bomb but it had a burnt animation

People find these glitches by manipulating game code to do specific tasks.

I believe for the first one, it either doesn't crash at all, or it just freezes or somethin'.

It doesn't crash on virtual console (or other emulators) because other emulators aren't 100% accurate representations of the N64. They allow some things to happen (some math-related) that aren't legal on the regular console.

Kratos Aurion Plays when I tried #10 on the Wii U VC, I kinda teleported somewhere far out of bounds. The Lava and red shading seemed to vanish. I could walk around a tiny bit, but I couldn't do much other than reset

For the first one, there are actually many videos online that shows what happens on Virtual Console or an emulator. Just search up "Paper Mario Floating Point Exception". It basically spawns Mario above the loading zone. It turns into a softlock of him falling into the loading zone, then spawning and falling above the next loading zone, and spawning and falling again, and so on, until he dies from the lava.

***** That was done on emulator, which isn't an official release of the game. For these top 10 videos I stick with console.

oh ok. but that was pretty awesome.

***** lol agreed