alt Hacker NewsThe strangest pause bug I know is in Mario Sunshine: pausing will misalign the collision logic (which runs 4 times per frame) and the main game loop. So certain specific physics interactions will behave differently depending on how many times the game has been paused modulo 4.
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butvacuum • yesterday at 8:56 AM
really? is one state the one where you fall through bridges? I can't play Sunshine because of that.
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There is another great one in one of the Legend of Zelda games.
The game world is paused whenever Link pulls an item from a chest, but because his animation does not loop perfectly, because of a missing frame, he slowly slides across the ground and even through walls.
One of the minimum % speedrun abuses this by looping the animation for many hours in order to glitch through a wall, and not collect a progression item, which would count towards the collection percentages.