Oddities and Glitches in Legacy Versions

[NonExistant]

!This is NOT a troubleshooting thread, nor am I asking STJr to fix anything shown, I just want to make a thread where people can talk about and show off bugs and oddities in legacy versions!

With that out of the way, I'll start with one I just encountered:

I was recording a Cinossu playthrough of Demo 3 and I got the Egg Mobile in a spindash stun lock, but he didn't die, once I stopped spindashing he became intangible. I couldn't damage him and he could only damage me by charging at me.

 

[NonExistant]

If you set the resolution to 640x480 in the DOS version of Demo 2 this happens:

 

[Avalice]

If you set the resolution to 640x480 in the DOS version of Demo 2 this happens:

this is because the original title screen was actually a level so it’s just the textures repeating due to the higher resolution. I think.

 

[NonExistant]

this is because the original title screen was actually a level so it’s just the textures repeating due to the higher resolution. I think.

Yeah.

 

[NonExistant]

Halloween Test is quite infamous for weird enemy collision, here's one I got on both video and demo.

 

[Red2010]

I don't know if I should classify this as a rarity of the Legacy versions, but here it goes:

The screen resolution of these versions is quite a rarity. Depending on the computer, you can have more or less resolution.

I don't know if it's something related to the Doom engine (I still remember when I played XMAS 0.96 at 820x640 resolution).

 

[KrazeeTobi]

I don't know if I should classify this as a rarity of the Legacy versions, but here it goes:

The screen resolution of these versions is quite a rarity. Depending on the computer, you can have more or less resolution.

I don't know if it's something related to the Doom engine (I still remember when I played XMAS 0.96 at 820x640 resolution).

That is mainly down to the video hardware and the CPU being used. Some versions of SRB2 which don't have a full screen mode by default do go in fullscreen by default... for some reason???

 

[Mr Beagle]

I am honestly not surprised at early SRB2 being somewhat buggy in multiple ways, considering that the aim was to modify an engine designed for first person shooters so it can handle a 3D platformer, and a faster-paced one at that. Those looking for open-source solutions had to take what they could get though since the ecosystem was rather limited back then (ie. nothing even remotely close to Godot 20 years ago).

Now what I imagine considering the title of this thread, oddities and glitches that are only found in a single release build or over a very short period and never seen again. Interested to see how many you will find.

 

[NonExistant]

That is mainly down to the video hardware and the CPU being used. Some versions of SRB2 which don't have a full screen mode by default do go in fullscreen by default... for some reason???

One of my favourite examples of this is Demos 2-4.1 only opening in windowed mode at the lowest possible resolution (320x200) and Demo 4.32-4.35 forcing the resolution of 1280x800 in fullscreen even if the resolution of your screen is less than that (1024x768), this is why I use DOSbox and the DOS versions of the Demo series.

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Now what I imagine considering the title of this thread, oddities and glitches that are only found in a single release build or over a very short period and never seen again. Interested to see how many you will find.

This thread covers glitches and oddities in every non-current version(Anything before 2.2 right now) and is not limited to a specific version if that's what you mean.

 

[Red2010]

In Halloween Test there is a strange bug with the water (or the liquid that I'm sure is not water) in the second level of this one:

if we reduce the screen size:

The game will strangely start rendering two screens which gives a rather strange finish.

 

[NonExistant]

In Halloween Test there is a strange bug with the water (or the liquid that I'm sure is not water) in the second level of this one:
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if we reduce the screen size:
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The game will strangely start rendering two screens which gives a rather strange finish.

(Why are your screenshots so stretched?)

Halloween Test really doesn't do to well with water and screen sizes:

Spoiler: Screenshots

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I got more footage of the Demo Egg Mobile invulnerability glitch:

Fun thing I found was that if you stand still Eggman can't damage you by charging, but then again you can't damage him at all so-

 

[Red2010]

Halloween test tiles have strange properties..

When walking in a certain way on these the camera (or Sonic...I really don't know what's wrong here) will start to break a little and give the sensation of gaining more speed:

(I guess I'll stop here with Halloween Test because there's nothing more interesting than that)

 

[NonExistant]

A sigsegv from trying to beat GFZ1*
(Ignore the horrible quality I recorded and edited this on XP with Windows Movie Maker 1.1)

*In Demo 2 forgot to add that

 

[NonExistant]

This happened while I was trying to record an Xmas v0.96 playthrough on very hard, the game itself was fine and looked normal but this happened to the recording, I assume it had something to do with the different colour depths in fullscreen.

(If it matters I was recording this on a Windows XP VM)