GoldenEye 007 Nintendo 64 Community, GoldenEye X, Nintendo 64 Games Discussion

[Kode-Z]

Does anyone remember the Surface 1 guard glitch, where if you set the alarm off, the spawned guards would have messed up faces? I've seen tons of pics on the net, but strangely enough, I could never get it to work, no matter how many times I tried.

I don't know if it was removed from the PAL version...

[Dragonsbrethren]

I've never gotten it to work either, I've got the US version.

[GERage]

I've had it happen a few times on the NTSC version, but I think it's random.

[Wreck]

You know, I used to be able to pull this off all the time, but haven't done it successfully in any of my more recent attempts. I remember having Tiny Bond, All Guns and Infinite Ammo on. I'd basically blow up as much stuff as I could, and fire at the satellite building from a fair distance. Once you set the alarm at the helipad off, the spawned-in guards would have really messed up heads. Sometimes they'd be a "Circus Freak" type thing, with multiple faces, while other times they'd look like aliens. It was very cool.

But the best part, was that your mines would camouflage into their surroundings. Fuel barrels were sick. The mine would have the skull and crossbones symbol on it.
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[GERage]

Whenever I do the glitch, I just complete all the objectives and hit the alarm w/ All Guns and Infinite Ammo on. I rarely ever get the 4-faced guards doing that though, instead I get the blue band-faced guards, white lasers, messed-up mines/grenades/rockets, and screwed up bullet holes.

[steelman16]

When I was young around 9 or 10 years old I used to pull that glitch all the time (which I did not have the expansion pack for the N64) but after I put the expansion pack in my N64 all the basic glitchs in Goldeneye began to stop and I was not able to do that glitch anymore. Does the expansion pack have any affect on game glitching?

[GERage]

It seems to, but I'm assuming only for the graphical glitches.

[zoinkity]

Ahh... Never had that happen in Surface, but it does happen in Runway rather easily. If you don't mind getting the editor involved or using codes, set the spawned guards to have many different kinds of weapons or use the more detailed characters like Jaws, Mayday, etc. It shouldn't take long for the weapons, faces, and other textures to start going schitz.

Another sure-fire way is to use the all weapons button code in-game and start throwing as many different throwable weapons as possible. Switch weapons quickly. Then blow a couple things up. Should do it.

The reason has to do with memory allocation. We've already seen that some stages have more memory allocated than others. Runway happens to have less texture memory than many other stages. Surfaces use one of the more complex guards, the snowsuit guy with the fused head, as well as snowsuit bond and a few other random guards. Characters eat more out of the texture bank than anything else, with good reason, and there's very little shared between these bozos.
An interesting thing has to do with usig all-weapons during play instead of the cheat. The amount of memory dedicated to bond's inventory stuff - models, textures, etc - is allocated seperately from everything else. When all-weapons is used as a selectable cheat, it allocates a larger portion than normal. However, when you use the button codes you now have the whole index but the same smaller amount of memory. The result is usually odd textures on the hands after flipping weapons rapidly.
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[Kode-Z]

Very interesting... I think i'll try it out!

[SubDrag]

Games just aren't programmed this way anymore Hehe, fun times, this N64 era. The perfect mix of hack-programming / talent.