Controller and Boss Glitch: Difference between revisions

Controller and Boss Glitch (edit)

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→‎Cause: from pieguy on the topic in the CCBBC Discord https://discordapp.com/channels/343036755999457281/350042613254062091/599384136653864977

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 == Cause ==
-The root cause of the glitch is uninitialized variables in the game{{fact}}. That is, some part of the program attempts to read some place in memory without ever writing to it first (or the programmer forgets to write to it first), causing the read data to be something unrelated that was coincidentally written in that place earlier by a different, unrelated part of the program.
+The root cause of the glitch is uninitialized variables in the game. That is, some part of the program attempts to read some place in memory without ever writing to it first (or the programmer forgets to write to it first), causing the read data to be something unrelated that was coincidentally written in that place earlier by a different, unrelated part of the program.
 == Traps ==
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 * [[Trust Me]]: The boss for the bug clone machines, but in particular the one just to the right of the exit, is a paramecium in the lower left corner, which doesn't move west for a sum total of [31] after the red button is pressed in the [[busted]] solution.
-=== '''[[CCLP2]]''' ===
+=== '''[[Chip's Challenge Level Pack 2|CCLP2]]''' ===
 Occurrences of the C/B Glitch in CCLP2 are far more rare, since its mechanics had been well-documented by the time of release (2002); only two levels include it.