Glitches in Pikmin 2: Difference between revisions

This is a collection of [[glitch]]es possible in ''[[Pikmin 2]]'' and the [[New Play Control! Pikmin 2|''New Play Control!'' remake]].

| howto = Find a droplet of spray, the color is irrelevant for the glitch. [[Dismiss]] all your Pikmin. Now you have to make it so that the captain you're not controlling starts absorbing the spray, and you absorb it as well before it's fully gone. The easiest way is to place one of your captains close to the spray drop, then switch to the other captain and place him on the other side of the drop, so that both captains and the drop are aligned. Call the idle captain, and just as he crosses the drop, dismiss. That captain should start absorbing, and before he finishes, touch the spray with your current captain. Alternate methods include pushing the idle captain into the drop, or running towards the drop at full speed with one captain, and just before he touches it, switch captains; the momentum of the run should make him touch it.

| notes = It is not possible to perform this glitch if the other captain is in your party, so dismissing is necessary.

| explanation = The game is programmed to ignore all input from a captain that's absorbing a spray. That's why it's not normally possible to switch to another captain while absorbing. However, if a captain touches a drop without being the current captain, he'll still absorb it (but only if he's not on the other captain's group). The game increases the number of sprays whenever a captain finishes his absorbing animation. So if both captains do it, the game increases it two times.

| howto = Have Pikmin carry something from far away, through a path that has several fatal dangers. When they start carrying, quickly switch to the other captain, who should be far away, or just walk away from the Pikmin. Basically, you need to place the Pikmin and their path off-[[camera]]. You should notice the Pikmin will deliver the object safe and sound, whereas if you were to see them on their journey, they would likely get killed. You can help by zooming in and making the camera face the opposite way. One way to notice that certain activity doesn't happen off-camera is by killing an enemy and moving the camera away before the [[spirit]] vanishes. The spirit will only continue rising when the camera shows it again.

| effects = Makes a captain able to go out of bounds, and teleport into a helpful spot, allowing shortcuts.

| howto = Send Pikmin to carry a treasure to the ship. While they're going, head for a [[seesaw block]]. The timing is very hard, but you have to try to make it so that the seesaw block your captain is on raises at the same time the treasure collection cutscene begins. After the cutscene is over, you will be inside the block. You can now go out of bounds or fall through the terrain, at which point you'll respawn somewhere near the ship.

| explanation = During the treasure collection cutscene, captains and non-treasure-related Pikmin are frozen in place (enemies are not). This is to prevent disasters from happening while the player is unable to take action. Some objects continue to move though, such as the seesaw blocks. Because the captain's position doesn't move, but the block does, it engulfs the captain, and when the player takes control, they can fall out of bounds, as there are no walls in the small area in which the captain was left in. Captains that fall out of bounds respawn in hardcoded places, specifically added for the scenario of a captain somehow falling off. Maybe the places weren't assigned with much attention, or maybe they made sense in earlier versions of the maps, as it's unlikely that Nintendo would want the default respawn places to be set up in such a way that players can easily take shortcuts.

| effects = Makes a captain [[punch]] twice as fast.

| notes = It's possible to walk out of the hole or geyser, but it's not possible to go back in. You can also place objects and Pikmin on the spot where the hole will spawn. [[Treasure]]s and [[Enemy|enemies]] disappear and fall back down to the sublevel on top of the structure, and [[Pikmin family|Pikmin]] are pushed out of the way. If the captain [[lie down|lies down]] where the hole will appear, he will fall from the sky above the hole after the Key's cutscene is over.

| howto = Have a leader and some Pikmin near a Glowstem, and another leader a bit far away, facing away from the Glowstem. Make the Pikmin on the first leader's party bump against the Glowstem. After they touch it, quickly take them away from it and switch leaders. If the other leader was positioned sufficiently far, the Glowstem will be off-[[camera]] once the focus shifts onto the other captain. Then, walk with this captain towards the Glowstem. If the timing was right, it should remain disabled until it's touched once more.

===Invisible captain===

| effects = Makes interaction with a dead captain possible.

| prerequisites = Be in a cave with a [[Wollywog]], and have both captains alive.

| howto = If one of your captains dies in any sublevel in a cave, he will be taken into the [[Research Pod]]. His body will still be in the same spot, though, except invisible and uninteractable with most things. Lure a Wollywog to its death place, and make it jump onto the same spot. When it lands, it won't do anything, but every time it jumps up, you'll see sparks coming out from the floor, and you'll hear the dead captain grunt.

| notes = The original editor who added this glitch, currently unreachable, pointed out that strange things can happen to the game. Attempts to recreate the glitch have yielded no adverse side effects, bar the death of the captain necessary to trigger the glitch, but Pikipedia urges you to be careful when attempting it, regardless.

| explanation = When a captain is taken away by the Research Pod, its object still exists in the same spot, but is rendered invisible, untouchable, and paused. This is a lot easier than removing the object from the area entirely. However, for some unknown reason, when a Wollywog jumps up, it actually manages to interact with the "ghost" captain.

| effects = Makes a captain jump down a hole whilst lying down.

| howto = If one of your captains is knocked over by an enemy just as you are going in a hole, he will jump while lying down. This will not work if he lies down by himself.

| explanation = When falling down the hole, the game sets the captains' animation to be the "jump down hole" animation. However, if they're knocked down by an enemy after the animation's been set, the animation will be overwritten with the "fall down" animation. The jumping movement will still be correct, but the animation will not.

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| howto = After destroying the [[Waterwraith]]'s rollers, separate your captains so that they're far apart from another. One of them should be close to the running Waterwraith, while the other should be so far away that it cannot see the boss. Then, switch to the captain farther away and switch back to the captain closest to the Waterwraith. It should work right the first time.

| notes = It's also possible to do the glitch with both captains close to one another, but other, harder to find circumstances must be met. There have been reports of the creature becoming invulnerable and sliding permanently. It's stated that this likely happens if the Waterwraith's head collides with the Research Pod, and the amount of [[HP|health]] it has decides whether or not it can be damaged.

| howto = Start a new [[Saved game|save file]] and work your way until you have enough Pikmin to put down the first [[paper bag]]. Throw the required number of Pikmin but one onto the bag. When you throw the last one, call the Pikmin to either captain's side just as the Pikmin lands on the bag. Until you get the exact timing, it's better to whistle too early rather than too late, because if you whistle too late, the cutscene will start and the glitch won't be reproducible, whereas whistling too early makes the Pikmin come to you, and you can try again right away. If you timed it right, there's a chance the Pikmin will move out of the bag, and it'll stay in place, but the reunion cutscene will still occur. Olimar and Louie will pass through the paper bag, and it'll be stuck in this state until the day ends.

| explanation = The model for a Pikmin sprout doesn't need to be the same as a full Pikmin, as its lower half is never shown. To make sure that a captain can stretch out a Pikmin's stem without showing the Pikmin, for aesthetic purposes, a Pikmin's stem while underground is modeled as being much taller than normal.

| notes = To release the stuck Pikmin, you should push them with your Captain, as they cannot be whistled. [[Wollywog]]s and Yellow Wollywogs can also get stuck under bridges in the same way; this too is rare.

| effects = Causes the active captain to be stuck on a pipe and makes the player unable to switch captains or move, until the [[Bumbling Snitchbug]] frees them.

|notes = The glitch cannot be undone unless the Bumbling Snitchbug picks up the captain again.

| explanation = The small bounce a captain makes must be programmed as an actual, physics-abiding jump, instead of a simple animation. This would explain why when something that's meant to cause knockback interferes with a jump makes a glitchy jump happen, as the game wasn't ready to handle that particular scenario. Alternately, it has to do with how the captain should've been knocked back, but the Napsack partially stops that, and blocks all damage, again, causing confusion in the physics engine.

| effects = Makes Pikmin or a captain go through a bridge, and occasionally, through the ground surrounding the bridge. Captains that fall off the level can teleport to helpful locations, but Pikmin die.

| howto = In the corners of some bridges, like the South corner of the bridge at the West of the landing site, in the [[Awakening Wood]], if you or a Pikmin goes under the bridge and tries to press against the wall on the corner, they might pass through the bridge and be placed on top of it. In addition, throwing Pikmin while below the bridge, while near the glitchy wall, will instantly place them on top of it. Finally, there are reports of captains and Pikmin falling through the floor when attempting to pass through the corner; this seems to be a lot rarer.

===Frozen captain glitch===

{{ToDo|Try using the [[#Seesaw block glitch|seesaw block glitch]] with some Pikmin, and have them carry the lying captain out of the square below the block, out of bounds, and see if the frozen captain glitch happens. Regardless of whether it works or not, add the results to the notes section.}}

| effects = Makes a captain frozen or unusable.

| howto = Lay on the ground using the Napsack and have a Dweevil carry you off the stage. This requires luck, and it works better in metallic caves, as they have very low boundaries. Alternately, in Challenge Mode, make a captain [[lie down]] where the hole to the next sublevel will appear (or the exit geyser). The captain might fall off the stage's boundaries when the hole appears.

**After falling, the [[camera]] moves to the [[Research Pod]] or [[the Ship]]; the captain's helmet beacon light can be seen above this. Sometimes, the camera stays there and nothing further happens. Pressing any button causes the captain to reappear at that spot, as normal. In this case, it is also possible to switch captains; if the player whistles the other captain's beacon light, the captain who fell appears at the Ship or Research Pod. Otherwise, if the player moves around and performs actions such as throwing Pikmin, the beacon light fades and the glitch progresses.

**If this happens, the captain reappears somewhere near the edge of the level where he fell off. He will be lying down with his beacon light gone, and he cannot be whistled or switched to, only carried by Pikmin (or Dweevils or [[Bumbling Snitchbug]]s). After having been returned to the Ship or Research Pod, he cannot be moved again.

***Trying to force the game to switch to the other captain, by letting the current one's [[health]] drop, for instance, will make the frozen captain stand up and freeze; the [[HUD]] will be gone, and only the camera can be moved. <ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zpNEphShKE#t=269 What happens when the game is forced to switch to the frozen captain (4:25 in the video)]</ref>

**On the other hand, if the beacon light fades near-instantly, the player still plays from the point of view of the now-frozen captain. Switching captains makes it impossible to switch back. Pressing {{button|gcn|A|wii|A}} makes the captain stand up and lower his head; now, no more actions can be performed, and the game must be reset, or the day ended or the cave left.  

| explanation = Whenever a captain falls off the level, it respawns in another place. When lying down, some of its attributes are a bit different, probably the fact that it's considered an object that can be carried. Treasures that fall down also respawn, but their code must be different, and most set some attributes on the treasures that once set to captains make them freeze or behave erratically.

| howto = Go to a [[sublevel]] that looks like an outside area (such as Sublevel 2 of the [[Snagret Hole]] or the [[Brawl Yard]]), and have an enemy push you close to the boundary while you push into it. If done right, you will be flung to the outside of the walls and can explore out of bounds. The easiest way to do it is to use the [[Sniper Room]], and finding the [[Orange Bulborb]] in a dead end, if it's there. Go on the boundary of the dead end, push through, and let the Bulborb bite you. It works a lot better if you time a press of {{button|gcn|X|wii|C}} so that the captain [[lie down|lies down]] just as the creature takes a bite.

===Make captains fall into the abyss===

| effects = Makes a captain fall into the abyss, outside of a cave's boundaries.

| howto = In caves like the [[Snagret Hole]], there are solid walls. Behind these walls, you see nothing but black. If a [[Bumbling Snitchbug]] grabs one of the captains, there is a chance that they will drop them into the [[Pit|void]] the walls are blocking out. If you fall in, you will magically reappear at the [[Research Pod]].

| notes = If you go out of bounds thanks to a [[Dweevil]], [[#Frozen captain glitch|another glitch]] might occur.

| explanation = Bumbling Snitchbugs fly a bit higher than the cave's walls. This allows them to fly out of bounds, and occasionally, they can drop a captain there.