The "Hedge" Arm (glitch)

[SULucina]

 *sigh* How should I start this off?

  Back in late 2017, I was practicing for a pseudo-speedrun of my treasured copy of Mega Man 64 on Easy Mode. Everything was going well and nothing unusual had happened yet. Barely over 30 minutes into the game, I got to the warehouse where Bruno resided. I went in, stopped Bonnes from consuming more pizza, pissed them off, and took on their giant bipedal mech. During the fight, about halfway through Bruno's health, I hear this strange electrical blipping noise. How strange. That was about the only weird phenomenon that occurred during the fight. After landing one last final shot on the mech's midsection, Bruno splits in half and blows up. A second later, I pushed the Start button to skip the following cutscene and this is the sight that I am greeted to next...

Do I have to go in there with THIS?!

  Oookay. It moves like MegaMan's regular arm when he's idle, running or jumping. But not only is the texture of his right arm is different but also so is the arm's physical shape. The model of the arm doesn't seem to match the form of any Special Weapon in the game. The "fist" portion of the arm is smaller and flatter than normal, and the lower arm is even chunkier than usual. Plus, the arm doesn't look completely solid; there are little holes and gaps within the textures, making these little parts of his arm transparent. It's also not a solid shade of green, either; there are bits of darker green and white in the textures.

  I fooled around for a little bit longer before snapping this picture using my phone's camera, since there is no way for me to record footage otherwise. After capturing my visual proof, I set on progressing the game and went into the Sub-city entrance. When MegaMan respawned inside, his right arm reverted back to the Special Weapon that I had set for it (the Grand Grenade) and after I left the Sub-city, his arm returned to normal.

  I'm not sure if I'm the first to discover this glitch, but I'm curious to know whether or not anybody's experienced any graphical glitches that affect character models in a similar way in MML1. It seems it would be near impossible to replicate this event and may have manifested itself due to my aging cartridge. Maybe some of the more programming-savvy members may have an idea about what's going on here. I don't know...

[Trege]

Hmm, the electrical noise very likely means the cartridge lost connection to the board temporarily could be dust or just old, I know if you tilted Mario 64 and various other games you get a lot of static noises from them and strange and wondrous glitches.

You can actually air walk in Legends by blowing up a trash can while standing on it, the best area to try it is in the woods beyond City Hall. I don't know the exact steps, but it's pretty fun to mess around with.

[SULucina]

 (sorry for the late reply, again... gotta love living in the same house as my parents and my father wanting to change the router, grr...)


I believe you meant this glitch, Trege.

Levitating MegaMan Glitch

 Yep. I've done that, found the "hole in the wall" (a not-so-solid wall) in the Kattelox Ruins, and created an army of Gorbeshus in that one area near the Lake Jyun Sub Gate.

 So, you've tilted your cartridges too? The only one time I did it was so I could beat Ocarina of Time without the Kokiri Sword... Hmm, I wonder what would happen if I... *snickers* I think you just gave me an idea... though, I will have to find a way to record footage of me mucking around with my N64 cartridge and resulting effects, dangnabbit.

 Just an educated guess, since the right arm of MegaMan changes depending on whether he's in "battle" mode or not, the game was attempting to reload the arm in its normal, not-combative state after defeating Bruno. But because of the interruption between the cart and the console in that brief moment during the fight, the game failed to reload the normal blue texture on MegaMan's arm and instead it produced that green mess (which in itself is still odd because his left arm also changes between battle zones, too..) Now that I think of it, it reminds me of the flat, pixelated texture used for the green energy balls that the Bonnes use in their boss battles. I don't remember exactly when I heard the blipping noise, but I reckon that Bruno was firing those shots when it happened. So less "hedge" and more "green energy" arm, eh?

But I still think it looks like a trimmed bush. Seriously.