Hiya, I have a submission from a runner playing on emulator, but which features a glitch unknown to me since I didn't grow up with that console's version - on 2 occasions during run, rather than as usual having to kill a specific enemy for a required scroll, the scroll appears at random, and in a position incongruous to where he has been shooting at.

My inclination as the moderator for that game is to disallow the submission until the cause is established; whether it's a bad disk image, or something that happened to other players on Amiga consoles in real life too. While I have no reason to distrust the player, and he is the only player for the category currently, it feels way too important to let by until researched.

Any advice on this conclusion would be great, and more importantly, if any of you ever played Amiga Flimbo in your youth, did you ever have this happen to you? If you know anyone outside the forum who had this version I would really appreciate this being passed on, since I'm not the most technical guy and wouldn't know where to start.

How about you ask him? Instead of making a thread about it. We call it a proof check. If he can't replicate it then maybe it should be disallowed.

Honestly for an unpopular game I wouldn't sweat it too much.

But yeah ask them.

Ask the runner about the glitch and how to do it/what triggers it, and then boot up an Amiga emulator and try to reproduce it. Chances are it's probably a legit glitch, but if you're unsure that would be the best way to verify its authenticity.

My gosh, you people are hostile xD I did talk to him, it wasn't something intentional he did; and to reiterate, a large part of the reason I posted the thread was in case there are any people who played the game before casually who might be able to shed light on the subject.

No one is being hostile. We're being helpful. Your OP doesn't mention actually talking to him so we're right to assume you haven't.

If it can't be replicated then there's your answer. Having said that, the two of you should probably explore if it's possible to do it again.

One thing you could try is to display controller input when trying to replicate the bug as well as recording the video. That helped me to be able to replicate a couple glitches.

@petaQ "you people are hostile... I posted the thread was in case there are any people who played the game before casually who might be able to shed light on the subject"

Apparently not giving the exact answer you're looking for is "hostile"... okay then.

I would think playing the game yourself would be more effective than just hoping some rando here has played that particular version of the game and happens to know about this glitch, but whatever.