Bugged/Defective Games List

Re: Patched Games

The problem with GT2 is that they scrapped the Drag Racing mode, so you could only complete 98.2 % of the game. They updated it later.

The most serious bug in GT2 is one that would erase all your car garage, leaving only the car you had selected. It happens when you go test too much on machine test.

The Greatest Hits version is bug-free, people told me.

 

I found a great one yesterday while filming Retro Core 5. Tokyo Bus Guide on the Dreamcast has a funny bug in the first release were the bus keeps crashing on the demo. To make it happen just play the game and crash the bus in to a wall or something. Now exit back to the title screen and watch the demo. The bus will drive all over the place crashing in to cars and so on. The second release with the guide disc doesn't do this I've been told. You'll be able to see this cock up on Retro Core 5 :-D

Yakumo

 

Wasn't ET on the old atari also unplayable ?

 

That's weird, I've got the US boxed version (with the pad) and it wouldn't play on my unmodded PAL UK saturn.

 

Re: Patched Games

There were still a few dodgy bugs left on the PAL version, come to think of it. Nothing game-ruining, but I remember if you crash into another car in a certain way, your car would actually go entirely into the other car.

The instruction manual for the PAL version was also a total piss-up - most of it was a carbon copy of the GT1 manual (even with screenshots from GT1 in some places!) in a different font, and there were references to features that didn't even exist in the game, like being able to change the speedo between km/h and mph, and possibly saying how you can import your garage from GT1 (not sure if said that exactly, though).

Yeah, I think I've seen this happen to me too. That game's a bit screwy in some other places. I was once at the traffic lights for about 2 minutes waiting for them to go green! And there's that weird way the other vehicles occasionally jump a bit when waiting at the lights. The cars seem to crash into each other quite regularly, too.

There's also loads of old games that have had revisions - if you look at any of Cowering's GoodXXXX ROMsets revisions are listed in the names either by version number or with [a1], [a2], etc. Though sometimes there's no noticeable difference in the games.

I remember one though - the MSX game F1-Spirit. In the first revision it says "Mission" above the gear display, but in what's [a1] in the GoodMSX1 set it says "Gear" in a different style to all the other writing.

 

It was playable and you could finish it, provided you had the patience to slog through such a terrible game! ;-)
I've beaten it on all the difficulty levels.

 

Hmm, it does play on my white Saturn... perhaps it has both US and JPN country codes but not EU?

Also, Minestorms or what's its name on the Vectrex stops after a certain wave, according to Edge.

 

Newer versions of MechAssault have had it patched too. It's also multiregion (although it was meant to be multiregion, so it's not a bug)