(link is
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QodVlzXB84)
hi, i was playing majoras mask today and i believe i found some kind of glitch.
(i dont know if this has been found before). i will first describe the glitch briefly,
then in as much detail as possible (including what i did in oot before i switched, although
i doubt that has anything to do with it).also sorry for the video quality my vcr doesnt work,
or i would have used that.
i found the glitch (could have been a memory leak, not sure how that stuff works.)
when i turned on mm my files were gone. when i started the game link had no sword and shield,
and the c buttons were all ocarinas (that worked), if i pressed start every single item slot and mask slot on the
two c-button select screens were covered with ocarinas. also my health was gone. i just had no hearts, and it acted
as if i had no life.
this paragraph probably has no importance, its just what i did in oot before switching games, so feel free to skip this paragraph (im documenting
EVERYTHING i can remember that has the REMOTEST chance of having something to do with the glitch).
also for clarities sake i was using silver 1.1 (not sure if they had gold 1.1) i started in the temple of time because i was trying
to get the double defense early. but i had never done a superslide so after getting frustrated by that i decided to go get naryu's
love because it might help me. so i went to gerudos fortress, tried the gate skip for a while, got frustrated and rescued the carpenters.
then after trying to navigate the wastelands without lens of truth by watching a video from my phone (computer was unavailable) i turned off
and switched to mm.
also for clarities sake i've got a holographic gold cart mm. when i turned on mm i started to freak out because both of my files were deleted (one was just past the startup cycle as a deku, and the other had 3 of the dungeons beat and almost at stone temple, owl saved in ikana village). so then i started a new file with the name a. as i was going through the starting cutscene i was just pressing i and paying attention to my friend on the computer/zoning out. but i started paying attention when i saw/heard link dying, and then went, "wtf isnt it not possible for link to die there?" when i spawned i noticed a few things that got me reaching for my phones recording button. first i noticed that the hearts in the top left corner were gone. not greyed out, but completely gone. then links sword and shield were missing, although he did have his sheath on his back (this of course means that nothing was on the b button), and then of cource all three c buttons had ocarinas on them, which did work, played the notes they should have, but of course i had no songs so i couldnt test that function of it. the a button did nothing, and when i paused the game all item slots where filled with ocarinas, and the ones that should have consumables (bombs, etc) had the greyed out 0 on them (should have checked to see if those ocarinas worked).
so then i went and did the cutscene to become a deku normally and everything up to clock town was normal (except for the aforementioned effects). then when i got to clock town and went up to the dog (that attacks the deku) it attacked me and i died, so i went up to it again and ran into it and died. this is when i noticed that although the game treated it like i only had 1 quarter health i did not hear the customary zelda sound for when you have low health (So maybe it thought the min health was set to 0, or whatever so it treated it like full and no beep?)
after that i went and danced with the scarecrow in the shop to make it night. i went and caught the fairy, and that caught me off gaurd because after catching the fairy i died, although when i spawned i still had the fairy caught. so i went to the great fairy to go experiment with magic, and then thats when disaster struck. i returned the fairy and the GF appeared but then after she bestowed magic (which i could see the bar fine, and appeared right where it was supposed to) and the cutscene ended i died. then the cutscene where the great fairy healed me happened and afterwards i died, infinite loop causing me to reset. this brings me to my theory about what the game thought my health was. it thought i had at maximum 0 hearts, which is why none showed on the screen, and since im at max health it doesnt beep. then whenever it has something that checks my current health, it realizes i have 0 hearts and kills me, that would explain the dog, and why only certain cutscenes killed me(the beginning cutscene where my health gets filled by the game, not sure about getting the fairy, but when i got magic it heals me normally, then healing me is obvious.). one thing i didnt do that might have proved this theory is get 4 heart pieces to get another heart container, but i did not want to try and glitch the game
so then i restarted and tried some experimenting, first i did the same thing, name a in file 1 to see what happened at the beginning, as i thought it went through the opening cutscene then i died and restarted with the glitch. then i did file 2 with a random name to see if maybe the name had something to do with determining the item it filled the spots with (something with memory addresses), but i still got ocarinas. finally the thing that leads me to thinking it was a memory leak of some kind from the game not being in the right way, was that i turned the n64 off, blew the dust out of both n64 and majoras mask, then when i put it back in both save files were back, and they both peformed fine.
i have not been able to replicate it so far, but i thought this was a very interesting find, i had not heard of it
and if this is old i would like to learn more about it, this probably isnt practical in any kind of speedrun, but it is odd, and possibly, if it isnt old, it could lead to something. just ask any questions in the comments, or you can email them to
thundrio@yahoo.com. also the reason there is no audio is because i didnd want you do be subjected to me freaking out at my friend, and that said friend laughing and playing left 4 dead 2 right next to me.
thanks for your time.
