Glitch found by namesnipes
8 years ago
France

Hello, namesnipes found a glitch and posted about it in the guides: http://www.speedrun.com/st/guide/afj1z

@namesnipes : Can you still crouch once you are in this weird state? What happens if you crouch bellow a pipe or an enemy or if get hit while crouched/crouching?

Not sure in which level this glitch could save time anyway because it implies to first take an egg. But it’s still the first glitch I see in supertux :-)

Canada

When I try to crouch like that I get pushed up to the surface, but you can get a fire flower and still stay like that.

So I don't think you can save time but its still a cool find :P

France

Yeah, and it means glitches in supertux are not impossible, there maybe someway to like get out of bounds to skip part of levels or something.

Australia

I don't know what you guys are thinking, but to clear it up, I'm giving my thoughts on this.

This is by no means an exploit, in fact it may actually hinder the runner.

As I see it, what is happening is when tux jumps on the spike or whatever, for whatever reason, the physical level and art level split, specifically, the physical level goes down one. This has no effect on gameplay besides aesthetics.

Neat trick.

France

@Dugglez No, not the whole level is down one block, you can see he hit a coin block and it works, and ennemies are still walking on the floor. For me it’s the hit box of the small tux which is used but the big one which is displayed after the glitch.

Australia

Well, I didn't see any coin block, but the enemys were not in the same spot, as I said, their hit boxes were lowered

Antarctica

It does help slightly, if the hit was accidental, as you keep another life.