User:Raphi/Bugs

Known bugs, glitches, exploits, whatever you want to call it in the Boktai games. These should eventually be documented somewhere

Boktai 1

• Muspell can become tripped out and endlessly cycle between rolling into a ball/unrolling (Raphi)
• Softlock in Sabata's arena in Dark Castle: Defeat sabata, reenter the arena using the north exit, save & quit ("We have retreat glitch at home") (beige)
• AST key duplication
• indexed-ptr u16 (Raphi)
• Cutscene skips (e.g. Sol City, that other dungeon)
• Diagonal movement tech (e.g. Sol City)
• Water Demon's Cage skip
• Stopping on ice (shenef)
• Footsteps can become inaudible when consuming a speed nut while walking into lava (Raphi)

Boktai 2

• Clocktower check is bugged in the Japanese version (Raphi)
• Softlock when trying to start a purification if you got the punish room when loading into the piledriver map (mttkm)
• Puddle knockback storage (beige)
• Dream Avenue loading zone glitch with Solar Gun knockback
  • Also works in the Remains desert
• Garbage text in Treasury sign (aishituzi)

Boktai 3

• STR from equipment doesn't work (beige)
• Footnotes in Inventory (Boktai 3)
• White Forest: After purifying Sabata, his shadow is visible on top of the coffin sprite even before he emerges from it
• Purification can be completed instantly by summoning the piledriver, clearing the silver rank of the Arena and starting the purification (NG+ only due to Arena only being available after clearing the game once) (found by 苓燐, reproduced by beige) (link)
• Being hit by Ratatosk's bind attack during the TRC change animation allows using TRC without consuming the TRC gauge (beige) (link)
• Solar Trap magic can sometimes stop working after a block has passed over it (beige) (link)

Boktai DS

• Command swap glitch
  • Terennial swap glitch
  • Data abort when failing terennial swap glitch
  • Trance swap glitch (can either stop time or softlock) (Raphi)