Tonberry
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Posted: Sat Oct 29, 2016 9:30 pm Post subject: 2 Golden Hammers! |
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I know this forum hasn't seen much use lately, but I had to record this glitch. I'm not sure if it's been discovered before, and I have to record it somewhere just in case!
I'm currently doing a Suikoden III playthrough, doing a "No Armor Challenge" (not as hard as it might seem), and I just got to Chapter 5, and I discovered something very interesting that has never happened to me before.
I went to Iksay's item shop, looking for the Golden Hammer, and I was delighted to find it there. I bought it, and after I bought it, it was still there! That seemed ridiculous to me, and I knew it had to be a glitch. There's no functional need for a second Golden Hammer, but, curious, I bought it anyway, and sure enough, it was in my inventory--twice. After the second purchase, I had no ability to buy a third.
Why did this happen? I'm not sure, but I see two possibilities. The first is that it's possible that the rare finds randomizer at Iksay's item shop doesn't stop checking for a Golden Hammer until it comes up negative. I don't know the probability of a Golden Hammer showing up, but assuming it's ~10%, maybe it only stops checking for the hammer when the 90% odds come up. Thus, it could have been possible that the 10% odds came up, and then the randomizer looked again, and the 10% odds came up a second time (a 1% chance overall). When you buy other things at the rare finds section of a shop, similarly it only shows one "entry" of the item, and you have to buy it to see if there's a second one there. Perhaps something similar happened here?
The other possibility seems less likely to me, but I figure I should report the circumstances of the buy, just in case. I had a completely full inventory when I bought the Golden Hammer, and I had to sell some medicine to accept it into my inventory. Perhaps something about this procedure made the hammer pop up again. That said, it didn't pop up a third time even though my inventory was still full. That's why I think this isn't what happened.
Has anyone seen this glitch before? Can you think of any other reasons why this might have happened? I'd love to know!
Edit: Forgot to mention something. Nothing interesting happened when I took the hammers to Peggi. Peggi took both. I suppose it might have been interesting to put one in the warehouse and give up another. I suppose this would be a new requirement for someone wanting a "Perfect Game" complete with a full inventory of unique items. ;) |
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Kikito
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Posted: Wed Mar 08, 2017 10:08 am Post subject: |
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Hah! Cool that there are new things to find!
In the second case, it could be a matter of when (holy moley I still remember the formatting tags) the game checks for the hammer in your inventory. Perhaps purchasing the hammer with a full inventory somehow disrupts the check, producing a new one. It wouldn't happen again, because you already had it there.
By the way, I was also doing a Suikoden 3 around that time! No cool bugs to report on my end, tragically. |
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