Im not certain why this happens but on certain textboxes in the game that are only 1 textbox long (as in there's only 1 textbox worth of dialog assigned to the npc) and if you mash it fast enough, you can get the action commands to be glitched, talking to someone again ( 2 /🧵)

Will cause you to softlock the game being unable to move, if you have the glitched action commands but walk through a loading zone, they will become fixed Bomb Softlocks explanation in next comment ( 3 /🧵)

Preface this by saying I don't know how many of these work, however if you do a dash punch in any direction on a specific frame as the camera is panning back towards bowser, you will softlock the game again, not too much to it ( 4 /🧵)

This one if I remember correctly hasn't been shown publicly despite being known about for nearly 5 years or something lol Glitch found by @solifiedgaming in a call just fucking around using mini mario you can jump over the trigger which has Starlow redirect you ( 5 /🧵)

Luigi can still activate the trigger by himself so you need to jump over it with him using a frame perfect (or 2 frame window im not sure) jump to bypass the trigger and touching the loading zone behind it allowing you to electricute bowser an infinite amount of times ( 6 /🧵)

Found by bobbybob4271 on discord This npc clip allows you to skip the cutscene in the room above showing the way to peach's castle getting blocked off. Useful in speedruns however going back the way you came without being stacked in a spin jump will softlock the game ( 7 /🧵)

Ledge clip in Toad Town Sewers positioning Mario slightly below a wall of a doorframe as seen in the video on certain doors can let you clip upwards above the door, not useful here but is used later in the game for a cutscene skip ( 8 /🧵)

Toad Town OOB Using another NPC clip in the Shine Sprite Shop will let you go out of bounds, I used it here to talk to the Toad Kid from behind in the changing room. However it can be used to unload the map by walking either up or down ( 9 /🧵)

Walking either up or down for around 7 minutes allows you to reload the map without the bros actually being in the area, walking another 3 minutes will unload the map once more. Strangely there are areas out of bounds which mute the bros' sound effects entirely ( 10 /🧵)

Textbox softlock exact same situation as before but with Toadbert in the pipeyard I forgot to switch the screens so the bottom screen is small here, sorry ( 11 /🧵)

This is the end of the current thread, until I record more footage lol To anyone who knows what they're talking about and knows the credits for these glitches, please lmk

The thread continues!! Very sorry I don't remember who original found this on either but its essentially the same concept as the other textbox softlocks previously shown except the screen just stays black

Here's a classic! Clinic Skip found by @/solidifiedgaming same upward skip shown previously in the thread allowing you to skip the tutorial showing you how to use the air vents

I'm also unsure who found this as well, can be preformed on the other side of the castle entrance as well, it seems this little mushroom decoration can split up the bros, and it's hitbox extends far upwards, allowing them to clip on top of it using spin jump in certain angles

Lastly for now another bomb softlock, this time using the bomb dispensers in Peach's Castle!

actually totally not lastly I got like two more things woops

Sry for the bad quality This is a BIS text glitch that has only ever been documented by me multiple times online with no other accounts of it happening There have been similar glitches such as the Bowser X glitched sprites in the German PAL version but this is a unique case

This glitch is not very understood at all but the leading theory is memory leaking from having the game running for too long

ok ACTUALLY lastly (for now) not sure who found this "Flickering" and in extension "Pman Cage" Flickering is a tech you can do as Bowser when ducking if you press the Y button for 1 frame, Bowser will perform like 3 or 4 ducks in the span of a few frames (cont.)

pairing this with the cage attack dark bowser does, you can get through this attack in 4, 3, or 2 swings which is the fastest you can possibly do it

randomly adding to this glitch thread lol, idk why it happens but mashing the in this Toadsworth cutscene causes Mario to walk inside Luigi instead of in front of him, I also do not know for sure who originally found it but likely was found by multiple people over time