Insane Majora's Mask Glitch

Posted by tower07 on Dec. 13, 2012, 3:05 p.m.

So today me and my dad decided to play Majora's Mask on the '64.

The night before, I loaded up my old game and played for a minute.

When we turned it on today, the save files were gone.

We reset the system and used different Save Paks, (probably the basis of the glitch) but to no avail.

So we decided we'd start a new save file.

Everything was working perfectly normal until the initial cutscene ended, in which Link immediately fell over dead. (This freaked us out quite a bit. I'd post pictures of this, but I wasn't exactly expecting it.) I then opened my inventory, and as soon as I realized what was in it, I ran and got my camera.

http://www.64digits.com/users/tower07/Majora_s_Mask_Glitch/SUNP0029.jpg (The pictures are in links because they are pretty big)

The Masks screen was also filled with Ocarinas. We had no idea whatsoever as to why this happened. There is nothing wrong with the console, the Save Paks work, and we've never used a Gameshark or anything like that on it. We then sort of shrugged it off and went about the game.

Everything was normal except for the 150 kabillion Ocarinas we had. As soon as we got to the part with the Happy Mask Salesman, we realized we could skip a nice chunk of the game. (He tells you to get the Ocarina, and once you give it back you move on with the game.) We then gave him one of the Ocarinas, and bypassed the first part of the game. For some reason though, it didn't give us a sword. This caused us to not be able to save the file, because you use it to hit the owl statues.

http://www.64digits.com/users/tower07/Majora_s_Mask_Glitch/SUNP0031.jpg

We carried on with the game, out of pure curiosity. We went into the Great Fairy Cave/Shrine/Thing and everything went normal until she stopped talking, in which link fell over dead. No matter how many times we talked to her, Link would always die.

http://www.64digits.com/users/tower07/Majora_s_Mask_Glitch/SUNP0032.jpg

Aside from the dyeing and Ocarinas, everything worked relatively normal, at least, until nightfall. Right before the sun set, the Cuccos' sounds started sounding weird. I grabbed my camera to record the noise, then something white flashed on the screen. I didn't catch what it was though. But when I used the controller, all of a sudden the game froze white, with only faint silhouettes of things remaining.

http://www.64digits.com/users/tower07/Majora_s_Mask_Glitch/SUNP0035.jpg

The game just stayed there, the only thing happening was this creepy noise;

http://www.64digits.com/users/tower07/Majora_s_Mask_Glitch/SUNP0038.wav (The voice in the clip didn't come from the game, it was me talking to someone else in the room :P )

I then pressed reset, but it didn't come back on. I even turned it off and back on, but it didn't work. It took quite a few minutes to get the game working again, but when we did, our old save files were back.

http://www.64digits.com/users/tower07/Majora_s_Mask_Glitch/SUNP0039.jpg

I have no idea what in the world caused that, nor why our save files returned. :?

Anyone have this sort of thing happen to them?

Comments

Charlie Carlo 12 years ago
Kamira 12 years ago

Just for fun… Play Saria's Song. If something happens, you have an earlier copy of Majora's Mask.

tower07 12 years ago

It still works thank goodness, and Cartridge Tilting is probably what happened.

And I would have tried playing songs, but it froze before I could learn any of them aside from Song of Healing, which didn't do anything out of ordinary.

Kamira 12 years ago

You can't learn Saria's Song in Majora's Mask. Just play v > < v > < (Song of Healing backwards) and if it's the older version, something will happen.

firestormx 12 years ago

Pokemon - Lost Silver

The Legend Of Zelda - Lost Ocarina

anthonyloprimo 12 years ago

Kamira, what exactly happens? Just trying to figure out. Can't find anything on google.

Kamira 12 years ago

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTr_DWGTwsU

It doesn't show much of the Saria's Song glitch, but eventually everything starts shaking like it's the final day, the sound will cut out for a bit, and then the game freezes. Unfortunately the copy of Majora's Mask I had that did that got stolen…

tower07 12 years ago

Mine has a gold case, if that says anything.

Kamira 12 years ago

They all do :P And after looking up info on this for about 5 minutes, maybe I used to somehow have a beta MM… Though I remember trying all of the OoT songs on it and only Saria's did anything.

anthonyloprimo 12 years ago

All I see is that the game registers the song, and then does nothing…