Tricks/Glitches/Timesavers topic

[Anwonu]

It's a possibility, though we haven't found a place to do the glitch in thieves town yet. I tried in a few random places and didn't find anything.
But first we need to be sure that we can really enter a house while merging. While it's true that you move around fast, Link may very well ignore every screen transition while doing so.

[Weegeechan]

Like Anwonu said, it doesn't seem to work in Theives' Town at all. So it looks like the merge warp glitch only will work in certain locations. I still wonder what causes this glitch to work in only these specific locations?

[KingOfHeart]

Maybe there are screen borders, and certain objects have to be located at these borders.
Closest theory I can come up with.

[FriiedPorkchop]

So it turns out you can talk to people and watch certain cutscenes without this glitch being disabled. I tried to see if there was a faster way to do the smooth gem/pegasus boots visit to kakariko (walk to where shady guy is, store merge, walk to store, buy smooth gem, merge glitch back to shady guy, get pegasus boots) but it turns out buying from the store does cancel the glitch. Theres a possiblility there might be some use for it in 100% but unless someone finds out this is possible in another area, it doesnt seem like this is useful yet.

[KingOfHeart]

Store = Chest script? If not, maybe try opening a chest next.

How do you talk to people? So far anyone I talked to disabled the glitch

[FriiedPorkchop]

All I did was store the merge and as long as they were within the magic rectangles I could talk to people and the merge would still appear on the borders. I tried it with the shopkeeper and the shady guy and both worked.

As far as testing it on a chest, I'm not sure where the best place to test it would be given  the options. The only place i can think of is the boss key chest in theives hideout.

[KingOfHeart]

Well, I did manage to talk to someone and still get the merge icon.
After merging all over town, I learned there's a lot of borders in town.

I'll update anwou image.

[RheaultWnage]

Well, I did manage to talk to someone and still get the merge icon.
After merging all over town, I learned there's a lot of borders in town.

I'll update anwou image.

This is what we've come up with as of now.

[KingOfHeart]

Yep, that's what I came up with you.

I wonder what all these areas have in common.

edit: Useless glitch I found.
Anyone see that glitch where you merge with a fall and fall off a cliff and it takes you to the last X/Y?
Well I noticed if you walk against a mergable wall and then fall off a cliff, it will place you further back.
Try it in the ghost town and see for yourself.

[Weegeechan]

Well, I basically want to confirm that it's not possible to use a merge warp to clip through things



Testing in Lorule Castle on the walls around the boss door, I found out that Link may not be moving super fast and clipping through things. He might just be teleporting to where the merge was stored. Either that or his body won't react to loading zones while clipping as he is currently in the merging animation.

Standing at the red dot to store a merge and using an item to walk near the black dot and then merging at the black dot, Link teleports to the wall or does not enter the loading zone if he is clipping. The loading zone for that door is really close to the entrance, meaning you don't have to walk far in to the doorway to go to the next area so this basically confirms that no matter what, something won't allow him to clip or enter loading zones if he is.

[KingOfHeart]

In a sense, I wish you didn't confirm it.
Was fun to imagine.

Also, there hasn't been any warping that I know of other then portals where link is sideways.

Another thing we could try testing.
Merge on one side of a building directly across from a portal, and try warping then. See if you end up getting transported to the dark/light world.

[Roadagain]

So, using a Vulture, bomb-boosting and move+T-Rod, I got up this portal in desert.


Couldn't find a way to do anything  useful with it though (I originally recalled you could've reached the Boss Portal with this, but nope). You can walk around the place pretty freely though, and even falling OoB puts you back on top.

[Weegeechan]

Wow, that's sweet!

I tried this before but could never get inside the portal. How did you get the vulture to clip you inside?

Can you also walk to the desert palace from there and drop down near the portal?

EDIT: Got in and noticed that it's not possible to walk to the Desert Palace lol

[Powerstar9]

Well, here's two more probably useless glitches I found:
Crash the Game: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyIBkNmyZ-Q
Merge Sideways into a Wall: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmNIKC_z8AI
The latter I have only tested in Yuganon boss room. Probably works in Yuga 2 boss room, but not sure.

[Tr621]

The crashing by soft resetting on a screen transition was known. I don't remember who discovered it though.