Just curious if anyone knows who originally found this bug where you can exploit the engine to get a ton of money using the Kustera switch glitch?

Seems like a fun exploit that might have some potential for further exploiting if it touches any other part of the code in the game, or if it can effect other death warp/hardware reset exploits.

Not sure myself, just throwing it out there.

This glitch has been known since the game came out, me and countless runners of this game experienced this unintentionally during our first playthroughs (mine being around 1999). It's just a very common accidental exploit, and based on our research the majority of glitches this game has is due to the localization.

I've written in the guides section about the current glitches known, only 1 of the glitches can be performed on the Japanese version so we strongly believe there was some mistake when translation this game to English

I see some references made to this glitch "may or may not work on your playthrough"- is that because of this same translation bug/issue? Or is it due to the hardware emulation maybe not being accurate enough to the original hardware? Or is it just because it's based on a random seed and will happen both on normal SNES hardware and emulators?

Not sure, the only thing we know is that the last instance of you receiving gold glitches out the gold requirement to bribe the guard, this should work on emulator as well since the first records for this game were done via snes9x.

If you save your game and reload, and then do the guard bribe, it should work as intended

Thanks. I appreciate the info. I'm not a programmer nor hacker, but just toying around with the idea of further exploring this glitch to see if it could result in something more than the gold variable being touched when it occurs.