The worst glitch in Nintendo history

When Nintendo released The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, they soon had a problem. The game featured a MAJOR, game-breaking glitch. This bug is one of the worst in Nintendo's entire history - here's what the glitch is, how it's caused, and how Nintendo fixed what had to potential to become a HUGE problem!

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[ODISeth]

Oh so THIS is the timeline that BOTW and TOTK are in. Link softlocks, Faron never floods, the Eldon volcano never erupts, a whole new Hyrulian history is written

[SemiHypercube]

It's interesting how they decided to fix that issue, if this happened today it'd probably just be a patch that would come out in a few days or less and no one would think much about it

[MrSantarex]

If Miyamoto knew back then that nowadays releasing video games with game breaking bugs is a normal thing he would have a heart attack instead of just a nightmare lmao smh

[Disgustedorite]

Fun fact: Pokemon once had an issue like Twilight Princess, too, in X and Y, where saving in a specific location would leave you unable to progress! Fortunately patches were a thing by then, but I remember it took quite a while for patches to be sent out and since it was on the 3DS they weren't downloaded automatically back then so players would keep running into it for quite some time.

[cubicflan]

I actually fell victim to Skyward Sword's bug despite doing the dragon quests in the "intended" order. That goron was an absolute menace, and would halt your progress no matter when you spoke to him after completing the thunder dragon quest. XD

[finestcustard]

The worst glitch they had was that one glitch in twilight princess where your younger sibling deletes your save file as you’re on the second last dungeon…

[stungunnotapplicable]

If I recall correctly, there WAS a way to actually softlock Link's Awakening in one of the dungeons, by carefully using the pegasus boots to dash jump over water in JUST the right way you could gain access to a locked door you're not supposed to get to until you get the flippers, using up a key that you'd need for elsewhere. It's just really hard to do and most players aren't gonna stumble across it in casual gameplay.

[tonycrimes]

what a coincidence, pokemon legends arceus had an issue just like this. you could catch cresselia before hitting the right flag, and you were softlocked on that quest until the next patch update

[BK-CasualGaming]

Considering Nintendo had given the freedom to choose where to go in the first place, I'm surprised they hadn't found out about this bug while testing this game

[CaptainCat]

I thought the worst glitch was Super Smash Bros Brawl completely crashing old Wiis

[mrcombustiblelemon]

Another infamous bug in Twilight Princess is the fact that they didn't implement input sanitation when naming Epona, which was used to hack the Wii and allow piracy on the console 😮

[asimpleuser]

I remember that I wanted to say hi to that Goron before progressing with the story but my little brother was so excited to see what would happen next in the quest that he forcefully made us avoid any distractions, Goron included. He basically saved our game from that glitch without knowing it. We still laughs about it today.

[Heymrk]

The Metroid Other M door bug made me cry. It's the only Metroid game I never finished. Never went back to it, either.

[CwapPlatinum]

This bug HAD to be at the best region in the game lmao

[chypredust]

It should be noted the Skyward Sword patching channel has remained available on the Wii eshop, even after its shutdown. The only other thing available there is the Wii manual.

[Jelly_shy_guy_man]

As a kid when this happened to me that made me so mad I threw my Wii remote

[MysticNinTorres]

I never fully understood the purpose of the Save Data Update channel years ago, but it’s now easy to know that it patches a small, yet massive game-breaking bug in the process.

[mostlyghostey]

This happened to my sister. Fortunately she played slowly and ran into the glitch after there was already a patch released but boy was it scary!

[DeadmanDave]

When playing through Skyward Sword, I did the Song of the Hero quest in the Faron, Eldin, and Lanayru order, therefore avoiding the bug without even knowing of its existence.
When I first played through Twilight Princess, the walkthrough I used alerted me of its bridge bug and cannon bug. My Twilight Princess is on Gamecube, but I still took precautions to avoid any chances of triggering the bugs.