Zelda: Link's Awakening: Kennel Glitch

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by Ivoah • 9 years ago

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gdk• 9 years ago

This glitch can permanently ruin a game file and, in the extreme case, possibly even erase or damage your cartridge.

How can this glitch erase the ROM in a cartridge?

stormbrew2• 9 years ago

I doubt it's implying that. It's maybe possible that you could glitch the save data in a way that the game would crash or misbehave just from trying to read it, though, with no way to fix it short of discharging the save data somehow (I don't recall if gameboy games used battery backup or some kind of flash).

MrFoof• 9 years ago

Game Boy games used a CR2016 or (later on) a CR2025 battery to maintain save data.

These are soldered in place, which makes replacing batteries rather annoying, though they're replaceable if you put in the effort.

fenwick67• 9 years ago

It's actually really easy to accidentally erase Link's Awakening save data by just flipping the power switch off and on too quickly (I have done this a few times). So I presume this would fix a glitched save.

JoshTriplett• 9 years ago

It's maybe possible that you could glitch the save data in a way that the game would crash or misbehave just from trying to read it, though

Exactly. Most console games tend to treat saved game data as non-hostile, because they assume that only their own code will write it; buggy loaders that crash on corrupted data are not uncommon. (This has changed with more recent consoles, after multiple cases of saved game exploits used for jailbreaking; see, for instance, http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Category:Homebrew_exploits .) Memory-corruption bugs in games can overwrite saved games in ways that lead to such issues.

dec0dedab0de• 9 years ago

I played links awakening last year, and I hit this glitch by accident. I just turned my gameboy off though.

AdmiralAsshat• 9 years ago

Am I the only one who read the title as "Kernel Glitch"?

tastythrowaway2• 9 years ago

No, you are not. I also stumbled into Kennel Gulch before I actually figured out how to read again.

oneshoe• 9 years ago

That is exactly what I thought it said until I just read your post -=o|

ryao• 9 years ago

No. I did too.

planteen• 9 years ago

No, and I took it a step further by thinking "There's no operating system kernel on original Game Boy games - they are bare metal with an executive loop!"

muterad_murilax• 9 years ago

Video showing "worlds" 0-2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjOO2pkN9KU

stormbrew2• 9 years ago

You can actually use this glitch for an ending warp to finish it in minutes: http://www.speedrun.com/run/9me9l88z

Bahamut• 9 years ago

I was wondering whether that would be brought up - that link is actually to a friend's run, as far as I know he still holds the record for fastest finish of that game, although I don't think he actively tries to defend it anymore.

pikzen• 9 years ago

It still is the world record for Any%, yes. I'm surprised that a speedrun on an emulator is accepted though, but it seems most of the GBC runs are ran on an emulator.

Lawtonfogle• 9 years ago

Is there any similar writeups of the fishing glitch where you get the fisherman to sit on the tree and then go fishing? That's one of the two I found as a kid. The other gave me some super item but I never could recreate it.

ZenoArrow3• 9 years ago

Didn't know about the fishing glitch, take it you mean this one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocEh8PzoUOg

bananicorn• 9 years ago

Does anyone know if this works on virtual console?

alex_duf2• 9 years ago

I think most emulators have to simulate all the hardware, including the glitches as some game rely on them in order to work.

I wouldn't be surprise if most glitches discovered were also working on an emulator.

jfktrey• 9 years ago

The useful features of hardware are emulated. The quirky edge cases, unused opcodes, and more esoteric features are often left out.

The programming oversights in the game logic will remain, but the behavior can sometimes vary when you get to the glitches that play around with memory in a way that they normally wouldn't.

DSMan1952762• 9 years ago

I would assume so. I've written a simple GB emulator and this glitch worked on it, and mine isn't nearly as true to the hardware as Nintendo's VC emulator is.

mcphilip• 9 years ago

Back in 1993 when this was released, in the pre gamefaqs era, I found a glitch where pausing the game while transitioning to then next screen would warp you all the way to the same position on the next screen. E.g. Leave screen on the left side, appear on next screen all the way to the left instead of the right side of the screen. This allowed you to break the game in all sorts of fun ways :)

I assume the internets have known about that glitch for a long time but it was really fun to feel like I had some secret trick as a kid that no one else had found.

1wd• 9 years ago

Same here! :)

I first assumed this article was about that glitch, but apparently that one is known as "the Select Glitch" (because you press the select button to pause / open the map).

ZenoArrow3• 9 years ago

Yeah, I remember discovering the select glitch too.

One other thing, that wasn't a glitch but was a hidden feature, if you equipped the bow and arrow and bombs at the same time you could make arrows that exploded on impact. Oh and the thing where you could steal from the shop, I don't remember how I found out about that, probably from a friend showing me.

Kapow• 9 years ago

That was actually mentioned in Nintendo Power volume 50, it's one of the most well-known and easy-to-perform video game glitches.

They also mentioned the Zelda 2 glitch where you could wrong-warp by jumping off the top of the screen and using the Fairy spell. You could get into a weird town that didn't exist, and if you left you were stuck in the middle of the ocean.

mwpmaybe• 9 years ago

Oh good grief, that happened to me by accident once and I had no idea what was going on. I think I had to restart the game! Thank you for clearing up this mystery for eight-year-old me.

bredren• 9 years ago

NBD, but I had Nintendo Power issue #1. It came because we registered the original NES super system bought from Sears. We were some lucky kids.

chairmankaga• 9 years ago

Reminded me of "Glitch City" in the original pokemon games.

https://youtu.be/86VvAY-Rhzo

baddox• 9 years ago

I remember having so much trouble replicating that glitch when I was a kid.

Cpoll• 9 years ago

It's possible you had the DX (GBC) version, which patched the glitch.

georgemcbay• 9 years ago

On a similar note...

I remember discovering the Super Mario Bros 1 up glitch (just rather randomly, wasn't glitch-hunting) a few weeks after getting my NES/SMB and teaching everyone I knew how to do it.

I'm sure many, many people discovered it independently back in the days before the Internet spread this knowledge out nearly instantaneously.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUx66ZEDjnQ

cafebabbe• 9 years ago

Found accidentally another glitch near the end of game, in the dungeon where you carry a big heavy metal ball you can throw around.

It ended up stuck on a wall, completely glitching the game. Reloading didn't help. My save was dead. I was devastated at the time :)

freehunter• 9 years ago

I got all the way to the end where you are supposed to open the egg, did the thing to open the egg, and it didn't open. I spent days going back through every dungeon to try to trigger it but never could. I couldn't bring myself to replay the game and hope it worked this time.

I got the game the same year it came out and still have never beaten it because of that. Sounds like it was just a super glitchy game.

notadoc• 9 years ago

Vaguely related, I'm surprised Nintendo doesn't update the graphics on these games and re-release them for iOS, Switch, etc

Zelda: Link's Awakening: Kennel Glitch

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