Line #11 GoodBadBugs/FightingGame


1	* The BeatEmUp ''VideoGame/AlienVsPredatorCapcom'' has its own cadre of exploitable bugs. No, [[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant we don't mean]] [[EvilIsNotAToy exploiting]] [[Franchise/{{Alien}} the titular bugs]]:
2	** Normally, overheating your gun will result in the character being unable to fire his/her weapon and standing in place while an ''"Overheat!"'' message is displayed. What isn't widely known is that this overheat animation can be used as a LagCancel, allowing things like Predator Hunter stunlocking opponents by overheat-canceling his {{Shoryuken}} before he leaves the ground. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GgZTIqr4OA See here.]]
3	** The [[PipePain Pipe]] is one of the best throwing weapons, if a bit rare and easily lost, due to its ability to pierce right through its target and deal multiple hits. However, a skilled player can make a thrown pipe deal even more damage by trapping an opponent against a wall, throwing the pipe and taking advantage of the lengthy HitStop some moves possess (usually the rising attack) by striking the opponent while the pipe connects, causing it to rack up an absurd number of hits. Using this technique, it is possible to kill the first two bosses in a few seconds each; a similar technique can be used on Power Loaders using ''grenades''. This bug works on the same principle as the PauseScumming glitch in ''VideoGame/MegaMan1''.
4	* ''Franchise/BlazBlue'':
5	** In ''VideoGame/BlazBlueChronophantasma'', Noel's win animation against [[ChivalrousPervert Kagura]] has her run off-screen nervously. However, if Noel wins with an [[DeathOrGloryAttack Astral Finish]], the camera will continue to follow her as she runs away outside the playable areas of the stage. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg1GJS1VtR8 In some cases, it actually reveals stage details that are extremely hard or even impossible to see during normal gameplay]].
6	** ''VideoGame/BlazBlueCrossTagBattle'':
7	*** Using Carmine's No Escape! super on an enemy just as they're knocked out by Ragna's Hell's Fang assist will cause that character to get stuck on-screen in their hitstun pose as the fight continues around them. Amusingly, they'll remain pinned on-screen in some cases even if the fight transitions to a cinematic Astral.
8	*** One glitch concerns Rachel's Baden-Baden Lily super. Some sort of funny interaction occurs with the Active Tagging system, because if someone calls an assist, begins to attack Rachel and then Active Tags (so that they switch to controlling the assist character instead) between the superflash and the actual damage itself, the super will last for much longer and deal a total of 12,000 damage to the affected character. That's two-thirds of the average health bar.
9	* ''Blockofighter'' isn't supposed to have any special attacks. It has. Did you lose your leg? Now you can jump higher! Did you lose your arm? Now you can spin on the ground faster and deadlier! Did you lose both arms? Beyblade time! Also, you can walk on air, [[GravityIsAHarshMistress as long as you don't stop for more than 0.5 second]].
10	* ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'' gives us the Link Glitch. The trick is to use a projectile attack of some sort, then use a second attack; if the projectile hits the opponent at ''just'' the right moment as you do the second attack, the game will read it as the second attack hitting instead. Notable combos made possible by this glitch include [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX Yuna]] chaining Impulse into Heavenly Strike, [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI Terra]] chaining Meteor and Meltdown into Holy Combo, and [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV Cecil]] chaining Searchlight into Paladin Force. The latter example is particularly amusing as Searchlight has much greater range than Paladin Force, resulting in Cecil swooping halfway across the arena in a split second to attack if the glitch is pulled off successfully. Some more amusing but less useful (due to being too circumstantial) instances include [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Cloud]] chaining Fire into Braver, [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyI Warrior of Light]] in EX Mode chaining White Fang into any melee attack, and [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV Golbez]] chaining Attack System into another one of his Bravery attacks that includes its own link to Cosmic Ray. The glitch is not minded at all by the playerbase, as most of the characters who can employ the glitch either could use the advantage, or they can't do the glitch reliably and in a way that makes them overpowered.
11	* A possible remnant of the development, but by holding the L2 button while entering and exiting the skill shop in ''[[VideoGame/DragonBallZBudokai Dragon Ball Z: Budokai 2]]'', a random capsule will be added to your inventory. This isn't limited to what's in the shop either, characters, stages and World Tournament tiers are affected by this glitch, too. Repeat ad nauseum until you hit 99%, purchase the last capsule you need and congratulations, you just [[OneHundredPercentCompletion 100%]] ''Budokai 2'' without having to do anything in Dragon World mode.
12	* ''VideoGame/FinalFight'' had a small bug that allowed you to keep enemies in a stunlock by turning the other way just as you performed the third hit in a standard combo, thus breaking out of the sequence and allowing you to start the combo all over again while your target remained stunned. This can be done over and over again to create an infinite combo that no enemy can break out of. One of Cody's super moves in ''VideoGame/StreetFighterAlpha 3'', Final Destruction, references this bug, as he uses the trick to land an extended combo on his opponent.
13	* ''Final Fight 2'' has a similar bug to its predecessor: while playing in 2-player mode, if you attack your partner using your basic attack, you're restricted from performing a combo. If you attack both your partner and an enemy in this manner, your partner will take minimal damage while the enemy is dealt the full damage as well as the possibility of getting stunlocked if you attack fast enough. See it in action [[http://www.veoh.com/collection/sistermind3/watch/v17386846wdwMXsa4 here.]]
14	* ''[[VideoGame/GodzillaDestroyAllMonstersMelee Godzilla: Unleashed]]''
15	** There is a glitch that allows you to go outside of the arena in some levels (so far, Osaka and Seattle). This is especially fun in the Seattle level, which allows you to go to a (previously inaccessible) volcano. Unfortunately, it only works with Krystalak, Godzilla 2000, and (with great difficulty) King Ghidorah.
16	** A separate glitch allows Mothra to go outside of Monster Island.
17	* ''VideoGame/JoJosBizarreAdventureAllStarBattle'':
18	** Diavolo has a move where, if he's hit, time briefly stops for the opponent. However, someone seems to have missed a flag, because unlike any other counter-attack in the game, it counts as an attack -- [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ9xEEm2isk which means it triggers other counter-attacks.]]
19	** On that note, if you fire projectiles at a downed opponent and then taunt when the projectile is above the foe, they will get up, lose some of their HH gauge, and get hit, allowing for more combos.
20	* The entire competitive scene of ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom2'' consists of these. High-level play looks absolutely nothing like what the game was originally intended to be, and a series of glitches and bugs spawned one of the fastest and most insane competitive fighters ever made. Mostly by accident.
21	** The way health works in that game is that all characters have the same amount of HP (approximately 140), but different characters take different amounts of damage from any given attack (so the same attack will take less HP off [[ComicBook/XMen Juggernaut]] than it does off [[Franchise/StreetFighter Ryu]], for example). [[VideoGame/MegaManLegends Tron Bonne]]'s projectile assist, however, is glitched and does not scale damage, so everyone takes the same amount of damage from it. Since, if all three hits connect, it deals 48HP damage -- which is a third of a health bar -- this makes it highly abusable and the only reason Tron has any competitive use.
22	** Similar to Tron's projectile assist glitch, the [[{{Shotoclone}} Shoto characters']][[note]]Ryu, Ken, Akuma[[/note]] [[HurricaneKick Tatsumaki Senpukyaku]] specials do not possess any damage scaling, leading to their Aerial Raves usually becoming nothing more than a single midair Tatsu in the hands of savvy players.
23	** Keep mashing the kick button on VideoGame/CaptainCommando's electric shock throw and he will continue draining their life, indefinitely. You can literally empty someone's health bar in one go if you're good enough at this.
24	** The double [[SwitchOutMove snapback]] glitch is an extremely common way for top level players to punish assist calls, as demonstrated nicely in [[https://youtu.be/sZZUMjoxfZA?t=8s the 0:08 mark from this legendary video.]] What happens is that when you hit both the point character[[note]]The term for the character the player is actually controlling[[/note]] and the assist character simultaneously with a snapback, the assist character remains on the screen while the point character is knocked away. If you can pick up the assist character in a juggle before they hop away, you can infinitely juggle the assist character until they die, often by simply hitting them with a LauncherMove repeatedly. The only requirements are one bar of meter to perform the snapback and to be close enough to the corner that you can get to the assist character in time to juggle them, which are well worth it if it means being able to punish particularly oppressive assists.
25	* ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3'':
26	** The game uses a damage scaling system so that the more hits a combo has, the less damage each hit does, and the harder it is to keep on doing it. The DHC Glitch allows players to reset the damage scaling by switching characters using certain hyper combos, allowing much bigger combos than would otherwise be possible.
27	** Dante can supposedly perform his Quicksilver from ''[[VideoGame/DevilMayCry3DantesAwakening DMC3]]'', and freeze the opponent for the rest of the match.
28	** ''[[UpdatedRerelease Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3]]'' featured a glitch that allowed players to ''select alternate costumes they haven't bought yet''. It still involves owning a costume pack already but the upside of it is that it allows you to choose ComicBook/{{Magneto}}'s alternate costume which is still not officially available.
29	** Another one introduced in ''Ultimate'', known as the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFiut3wpsvI Kubota Escape,]] allows you to leave the screen for about three seconds during a random Hyper Combo, then come back in and punish if the character is still in recovery frames. This is done by what can only be described as tagging in a dead character, and then tagging the original character in.
30	** It was possible to turn the camera angle sideways, making it face one of the fighters head-on. It allowed you to see what certain attacks looked like at that angle, which revealed interesting properties of their animations, like the X-Wave in ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}'s Fatal Claw being so 2D it's invisible from that angle, same with the "Objection!"/"Hold it!" phrases [[Franchise/AceAttorney Phoenix Wright]] uses, and [[VideoGame/MegaManX Zero]]'s Genmu-Zero, which ''isn't'' 2D and is actually slanted, something impossible to see from the normal angle. Unfortunately, it's now patched.
31	** There's a glitch that happens when you chip a character to death with certain supers and combo off of them on the dead character. If you perform a [[SwitchOutMove Snapback]] at just the right moment before the next character comes in, you can cause both characters to come in and be used at the same time. While this does give a sort of advantage to the person performing the Snapback in that it offers an easy double KO, the fun comes in how much the person who's using two characters can do, like [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOZJb26Srno this Haggar trick]] or [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_sHRVpQh3g double Level 3 Hypers.]]
32	** [[VideoGame/StreetFighterIV C. Viper's]] throw has her jump on the opponent's shoulders and shock their head with the electric gadgets in her gloves. When used on M.O.D.O.K. (effectively a giant floating head in a cyborg rocket chair), though, the positioning goes a bit weird - and Viper appears to jump into his skull cavity.
33	* The 3D ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' games are no strangers to hilarious bugs. Particularly in ''[[VideoGame/MortalKombatDeception Deception]]'', if you perform a fatality motion while the victim performs the Hara-Kiri motion at the same time, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-egksufiao this happens.]] At 1:12, a guy punches his head off. ''After [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments punching his own arms off]].''
34	** At 0:58, a guy attempts to pull another guy apart, but then breaks his back, ''his entire upper torso exploding right off the rest of his body.'' Then, what's left of his body [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments does a little victory dance]].
35	** The SNES version of ''Ultimate VideoGame/MortalKombat3'' is one of the buggiest fighting games ever, but the most notable bug is Ghost Sheeva. Sometimes, the random character select in Tournament mode will land on the default icon. This produces a small blob of pixels (sometimes blood) given the name Sheeva (the actual Sheeva was DummiedOut of the game). Certain characters can't hurt her at all, she can perform 100% sweeping combos, and while she can be defeated (and even hit with Fatalities if she's the last opponent, though most cause the game to glitch), it's very hard to do so without making the game lock up.
36	*** [[http://tasvideos.org/1955M.html Wanna see some glitches? Enjoy this TAS.]]
37	** In the [=PlayStation=] version of ''Mortal Kombat Trilogy'', turn the timer off and play a two-player match. Then set the controllers down. Someone forgot to code the music to loop, because after a few minutes, it fades out and moves on to the next theme. This doesn't just include stage themes - ''everything'' in the music select will play. After the Acid Pool theme, for example, it plays the Animality, Babality, and Continue music.
38	** The Genesis port of the original lets you fight Reptile twice in a row if you trigger his appearance during an endurance match. The first Reptile will be his normal ninja self, but the second will be a glitched-up character struggling to make sense of Scorpion/Sub-Zero's combined moveset with their available sprites, leading to sights such as a green Johnny Cage sending a rapidly-splitting[[note]]as in doing the splits over and over[[/note]] clone of himself out to snag you, green Raiden curling into a ball to launch you up in the air, and green Sonya already in the laid-out position when you uppercut her.
39	* ''Franchise/OnePiece'' has a Power Stone-styled fighting game, ''One Piece: Grand Adventure'', and it has a rather nasty glitch with Ohm. His Shield-Sword super has several super-armor frames, however, if you manage to interrupt the attack (any fighter can do it with a grab attack), Ohm's super armor will remain active for a good chunk of time, or until he takes damage from outside sources. Due to this, it's not uncommon to see him on the God/Unusable tier.
40	* ''Rocky'' for the [=PS2=] has a lot of glitches. Ugly zombie-like fighters, fighters that fall through the floor, invisible fighters and a spectacularly messed-up Clubber Lang await you. OK, it makes it impossible to play, but it's almost guaranteed to make people laugh when they see it.
41	* [[AIBreaker Anti-A.I. moves]] in ''[[VideoGame/SoulSeries Soulcalibur III]]'' are moves that while easy for a human to dodge and punish, stupefy the A.I. and are easily spammed, the enemy only dodging coincidentally (such as dodging to the side when up against the wall, something they are doing because of the wall, not the attack). Why is this a good bug? [[TheComputerIsACheatingBastard The A.I. blatantly cheats]], so it's nice to finally be able to turn that around for once.
42	** And for some reason, the final boss of Chronicles of the Sword Mode is completely weak to the basic horizontal swipe of one of the sword styles.
43	** The money glitch, in which you buy everything you can from the shop, leave the shop ''without saving'', and then start up Chronicles of the Sword. Intentionally lose the fight/mission and, somehow, you get all your money back. Result: infinite gold.
44	* Similarly, in ''[[VideoGame/SoulSeries Soulcalibur IV]]'', Yoshimitsu's Bullet Cutter attack. The Bullet Cutter can be held, which will turn it from a normal attack into an unblockable attack. The response of the A.I. will be to block until it reaches its unblockable state, then try to attack. By releasing it shortly after it becomes unblockable and then quickly starting it up again, it's possible (and usually quite easy) to beat even the hardest A.I. without them landing a scratch on you. Take that, Tower of Lost Souls.
45	* ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'':
46	** The Guile Handcuffs glitch, which was turned into an actual attack in the video game version of the movie. There's also invisible Dhalsim, which later got turned into his Yoga Teleport.
47	** And the glitch that turned Ryu and Ken's Hadouken red instead of blue, which was [[AscendedGlitch deliberately incorporated]] into console versions and later spawned a separate move for Ryu.
48	** And possibly the granddaddy of good bad bugs -- the ability to 'buffer' the end of a normal attack's animation into a special move -- was originally due to a programming oversight. They decided to keep it during development, and retooled the game to make use of it.
49	** The buffering, also known as canceling, was an official feature known as 2-in-1 and by itself was nothing spectacular. But then, high-level players began to find unintentional ways to make combos longer than standard 2-hit combos:
50	*** Link Combos: when one move ends fast enough to quickly combo another move without buffering. This is the reason Guile was top-tier in early days.
51	*** Negative Edge: a bug which allows, among other things, the player to throw a special projectile immediately after a normal projectile, became so popular that it was coded on purpose in many Capcom fighting games.
52	*** Kara Cancel: the ability to cancel a move without hitting your opponent. While it didn't quite play any large role in ''SFII'', it would become an important gaming mechanic in later games, such as the Kara Throws in ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIII'' and the Roll Cancels in ''[[VideoGame/CapcomVsSNK2MarkOfTheMillennium Capcom vs. SNK 2]]'', for example.
53	** {{Combos}} themselves were essentially a glitch discovered while playtesting the game and left in, now a term and concept expanded such that it is about as ubiquitous to combat in video gaming as HitPoints.
54	** Some bootlegged versions of the game, popularly known in Brazil as "Street-Fighter de Rodoviária" (literally, "Bus Station Street-Fighter", due to the dubious arcade machines in those places) are notorious to have had several amusing glitches, such as Zangief's kick burning the opponent like Dhalsin's yoga fire or a button making you able to switch fighters in the middle of the fight.
55	* ''VideoGame/StreetFighterIII'':
56	** Both ''New Generation'' and ''2nd Impact'' had moves that reset the internal juggle counter if they hit the opponent in a specific way, allowing for incredibly long combos. Notable examples include Ibuki's standing Roundhouse in the former, and Hugo's EX Palm Bomber in the latter.
57	** In ''3rd Strike'', Q's throw hurtbox shifts upwards for a few frames when transitioning from crouching to standing, allowing him to NoSell grounded throws. This does mean that he can be air-thrown, but most of the cast doesn't have air throws, and also, [[ViolationOfCommonSense who would actually know to do that]]?
58	* ''VideoGame/StreetFighterV'': Super moves have a 'superflash' before use where the action freezes and your character poses for two seconds before doing the move. Blanka, however, can cancel his superflash animation in this game into his Surprise Forward dash. The problem is that the action still freezes, so you get two seconds of your opponent standing there completely open. That's enough time to do whatever move you feel like doing, and the meter you used for the superflash isn't actually consumed. If you're good enough, this even turns into a free infinite.
59	* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosBrawl'':
60	** Activating Jigglypuff's Final Smash between the two halves of the bridge in the [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Bridge of Eldin]] level with the right timing can cause Jigglypuff to be knocked down without completing the Final Smash, letting you play with Giga-Jiggly.
61	** In addition, if there is an enemy Yoshi playing on the same stage, have him use his standard B on Giga-Jiggly. It'll end up in a giant egg and pop out bigger than before. You can keep doing this until Jigglypuff gets so big that it touches the 'death' areas of the map and automatically dies.
62	** When certain characters activate their Final Smash in that same spot right before the bridge comes back, the Final Smash will be cancelled, but the character is still zoomed in on the character just as it is when the Final Smash gets activated, and never stops being zoomed in until the match is over.
63	** ''Brawl'' also has a glitch with the up-and-down moving platforms in the Stage Creator, which allows one to 'teleport' from the edge of the platform up to a sloped section of ground adjacent to that platform at the top of its movement. You can even land Smash Attacks on opponents that are ''several feet above you''! See [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7pnbF-LRAc this video]] for a demonstration.
64	** There is also another glitch involving Sonic's side-B Spin Dash. If he does it in a Stage Builder Stage at the beginning of a slope that leads to nothing, he'll just continue spin-dashing straight to the air, presumably having something to do with the fact that the side-B variation of the move has a little hop in the beginning, which, if done close enough to a slope, won't activate. Instead, he'll just roll upwards, and then the floating begins. If a character gets hit by Sonic as he rolls through the air, he'll teleport above the screen and take a really long time to get down.
65	** There's also the exploit in the stage builder, called Smash Stack, that allows homebrew (including {{Game Mod}}s) to be loaded from an SD card without having to modify your console, spawning an extremely large modding community for Brawl, unprecedented for a console game, and giving an alternative to the since-patched [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Twilight]] Hack for those wanting to either install unrelated homebrew or play mods for other games (such as ''VideoGame/NewerSuperMarioBrosWii''). The biggest example of this is ''VideoGame/ProjectM'', which goes far beyond a simple mod for ''Brawl'' and is considered a separate game in its own right.
66	* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosForNintendo3DSAndWiiU'':
67	** If Wario-Man transforms back to Wario during the end of the match with just the right timing (specifically, when he is invisible), he is playable on the results screen and can harass the winners.
68	** There's also a bug involved with Wario's vectoring where, once launched, with the right button presses, he can hurtle himself back to the stage using the momentum from being launched. This was (unfortunately) removed in a patch.
69	* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosMelee'':
70	** The famous 'wavedashing', though a case could be made that it's not actually a bug but rather a logical side effect to how the game's air dodge system works when used near the ground. An interview implied that director Masahiro Sakurai doesn't necessarily consider it a bug either. Fans are divided on whether they [[StopHavingFunGuys make the game more exciting and tactical]], or [[{{Scrub}} unfair and not the way the game should be played]], though the interview with Sakurai noted that wavedashing was removed from the subsequent ''Smash Bros.'' games to [[WordOfGod make the game less hard for less skilled players]].
71	** The 'black hole' glitch can produce some neat graphical effects until too much stuff is added; then the game crashes. By firing a Super Scope in exactly the right pattern, you can glitch it so that it has infinite ammo. Then, set up one [[Franchise/StarFox Fox]] (or [[Franchise/StarFox Falco]]) that is on the same team as the one with the Super Scope, and another from a different team a certain distance apart from each other, and have them both activate their Reflectors. The character with the Super Scope then starts firing rapid-fire Super Scope shots through his ally's Reflector and into his opponent's Reflector. The shots bounce off the first, and then off the second, and off the first again, in a chain reaction. If the two Reflectors are properly spaced, the detonations of the shots will stabilize to the point that there is a constant mass of shots without any more needing to be fired. Then, someone who is playing as [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Peach]] can produce [[EdibleAmmunition vegetables]] and throw them into the blasts, causing them to get trapped and hover in a big deadly mass. Anyone that jumps into that will promptly have their damage count skyrocket to 999% from repeated hits.
72	** By performing as poorly as possible on the first level of Adventure Mode - racking up penalties for suicide, "stale moves," etc. while avoiding bonuses, it's possible to finish the level with a negative score. This counts as 999,999,999 toward your total score. However, the total-for-all-characters score is a [[UsefulNotes/PowersOfTwoMinusOne 32-bit signed value]], which means as you do this with more and more characters, the total score will loop from just over 2 billion to just under ''negative'' 2 billion, and back again; doing this trick with all characters leaves the total score at around -769,000,000, which can never be corrected except by erasing the high scores in the menu.
73	** If one manages to exploit a bug in the Name Option of the game, which registers the character selected as "0," something interesting happens. The character that goes by the number "0" is none other than ''[[FinalBoss Master Hand]]'', who is fully playable in Multi-Man Mode and Event Mode (and only mostly playable in the Vs. Mode, as Master Hand doesn't have a victory pose). If you lose, however, it doesn't matter, as Master Hand doesn't really ''need'' a losing pose. This glitch went undiscovered for ''seven years''.
74	* ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate'': Should you have two Isabelles try to reel in an Assist Trophy with their side-specials at the same time, whichever of the Isabelles ended up with it will end up stuck repeating her "Item Get/Use" animation ''and'' using the Assist Trophy over and over again, resulting in ''dozens'' of the summoned character appearing on stage. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc8rfwA9zmQ The results are amazing]] ([[HilarityEnsues not to mention hilarious]]).
75	* Due to some minor HitboxDissonance in the former's favor, picking PaletteSwap Miharu instead of Xiaoyu in ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}} 4'' gives you a slight advantage.

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