Potential new glitch?
7 years ago

The other day I was setting up my file for advanced and while I was grinding on Beast Mountain something pretty bizarre happened. I'm not sure if it can be done consistently or how exactly it happened, but if it can be replicated it would be a very, very handy trick. It happened offline, so I'm unable to go back and actually watch everything that happened leading up to it, so I'll just provide all of the details and maybe we can brainstorm and see if we can't try and test it.

I was in the final area before the boss and as I entered the "door" to the boss room it played the boss fight music for a very brief moment and then started playing the victory fanfare before it even loaded the room. The screen was still black and loading. When it loaded up, the dragon and will-o-wisps did not spawn and the portal leading to Klantol was already open. I had essentially skipped the boss completely.

  • Ninja
  • Spd. Lvl 6 active
  • Battle sword equipped
  • Speed ring equipped
  • Healing water highlighted
  • Beast Mountain (No snow)
  • GBA JP (not emu)

I was not doing anything out of the ordinary. My only theory at this point in time is that I quite possibly entered the door on the exact frame that it appeared and that may for some odd reason have caused the skip. Thoughts?

Edited by the author 7 years ago

I saw this when you posted it and poked at trying to replicate it. It may be something specific to Beast Mountain since it's "Special". Though I've seen some weird stuff with boss cutscenes and music glitches, and sometimes cutscenes taking longer to start and end-- it wouldn't shock me if the game code to do cutscenes and boss loading is buggy.

No idea how to trigger any of this on purpose though.

I've also played with it a little since my initial post and I'm pretty sure it can only happen in side dungeons. It's happened a few times. Wasn't exclusive to Beast Mountain, but it has only occurred in non-story places. Still have no idea what is responsible.

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