September 23, 2005 - IGN has always been on top of things; that's why we periodically gather a list of the nastiest game-stopping glitches and offer recommendations on how to avoid them. While not everyone is destined to experience the same "bugs", we know how frustrating they can be for the gamers who do face them. Here're some recently reported glitches/bugs to look out for: Burnout Legends, Close Combat First to Fight, Grand Theft Auto Vice City, Harvest Moon More Friends of Mineral Town, and Mortal Kombat Shaolin Monks.
Burnout Legends
Platform: PSP
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Bug/Glitch: I found a bug it seems in Burnout Legends after playing it for some while. I achieved the Crash Headlines to obtain the firetruck and it does not unlock it. I am playing the UK version of the game on a Japanese Firmware 2.0 PSP.
Fix/Solution: None provided.
Submitted by iceydragon
Close Combat First to Fight
Platform: Xbox
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Bug/Glitch: On the last mission of the Al' Soud (Ace Of Hearts) level you'll come to a couple sets of stairs that lead to a broken wall, if you look through the broken wall, you'll see a destroyed building with an opfor at a turret far off and a couple of other opfors that will have probably shot you by now. Anyway, you'll probably kill them and proceed onto a rubble covered path (watch out for the opfor on the hill) anyway, as soon as you hit the front door of that building, you're game will more than likely hit about five glitches, not major ones, but stuff like your game will stick, your sound will jump, opfors will keep shoting you after they're dead and the worst one that I've encountered there is that my ammo got stuck at zero and I couldn't reload, so a single shot down me and my team.
Fix/Solution: None provided.
Submitted by techi_2564
Grand Theft Auto Vice City
Platform: Xbox
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Bug/Glitch: Start at the North Point Mall. Walk out the northeast exit. Once outside waslk straight across the street and up the grass hill until you get to the path with the railing. Take a left on this path and walk west until you get to the wall. When you get to the walk down the concrete slope. In the grass in front of the bottom left corner (looking down the slope) of the concrete slope there is a long, darker, triangular crack. Step on it and you will find yourself falling throught the floor. You can also do it with a motorcycle.
Fix/Solution: None provided.
Submitted by MAXANDERSON
Harvest Moon More Friends From Mineral Town
Platform: Game Boy Advance
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Bug/Glitch: When player enters the store, no items are offered for sale in the shop window and no items are available for purchase. This readily affects all other shops in the game (meaning no tools, medicine, et al.). The bug occurs between 17 - 19 Spring in second year or later but ends on 19 Winter. The bug can occur again 17-19 Spring, ending again on 19 Winter. So far only in games where the character is unmarried and very few events have been experienced at all. Furthermore, "The situation appears to occur in the second year or later, most often in the third or fourth. It occurs either before or after the Spring Races on 18 Spring. When it occurs, even though shops are open for business, pressing 'A' will result in no option to buy or order items or upgrades. If the player continues in the game, however, the 'freeze' on the ability to buy or order items should end on 19 Winter or thereabouts. It may reoccur at the same time the next Spring as well, but when it does, it should end again on 19 Winter," (from Beginners FAQ by Freyashawk).
Fix/Solution: My suggestion to players is to stock up on all items and seeds at the Supermarket and Won's stall as well as 2-3 bottles of animal medicine in case the bug occurs. Flour in particular is a critical item. If the option to buy is frozen, having 99 of each item certainly will see a player through a couple of seasons without any inconvenience or hardship.
Submitted by Freyashawk
Mortal Kombat Shaolin Monks
Platform: PS2, Xbox
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Bug/Glitch: In Reptile's Lair, break the first pillar. At the SECOND pillar, if you push into the rail, there is a weak spot where you can go through it and drop to the floor. If you time a jump perfectly, you can actually jump AROUND the second pillar you are supposed to break, and reach the third pillar early. The snake will not follow you, but he will continue to guard the second pillar. There is a good reason for this - the third pillar is unbreakable!
Fix/Solution: None provided. Non-fatal.
Submitted by zirtoc
Bug/Glitch: In The Living Forest I was in the first area with the clay soldiers, with the waterfall. I was in the water with the snakes. I did a slide attack at the snake and Kung Lao slipped under the land(he disappeared in between the water and the land). He fell into darkness for a minute and then finally a tree came outta nowhere and ate him. I can't repeat this glitch.
Fix/Solution: None provided. Clipping issue.
Submitted by Nitz8AF
Bug/Glitch: I just gave an offering to the statue outside of the warrior shrine, I ran back to the left to get off the cliff and jumped, the camera went crazy. I could hear my guy swinging from a pole, but the camera wasn't on him, I jumped off and landed somewhere else out of sight. I ran and jumped around trying to get in the camera view and then It sounded like I fell off a cliff, my life hit danger, and a few seconds later I died.
Fix/Solution: None provided. Clipping/camera view change issue.
Submitted by Hayashizaki
Bug/Glitch: Has anyone else encountered the Mileena loop glitch as of yet? The fight with her is over pretty quick, but one the fight has ended, she contines to taunt you and the game locks....no way forward or back...you're just kinda stuck there listening to her go off. Apart from resetting the game, is there any way to finish off the fight without this happening ? I'd love to get 100% completion, but this seems to be a sticking point for either the game ,or my Xbox. Any and all replies are welcome.
Fix/Solution: None provided. Possible old or shaky Xbox disc drive/reader. Cutting movies or cut-scenes is an option (press START).
Submitted by mortalkombatguy1
Bug/Glitch: My fatality meter was sideways (it was filling up right to left instead of from the bottom up). I also had the cutscene in Wu-Shi Academy with no sound effects (the dumping of the hot oil or whatever). I somehow managed to attack my brother. Truly and honestly, Liu Kang bicycle-kicked Kung Lao. I did a fatality to a Masked Guard, but when the actual fatality played, it showed me killing an Oni instead.
Fix/Solution: None provided. Various glitch effects which are hilarious to some, concerning for others. IGN has no official position on these minor issues.
Submitted by Rod_Pole
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