Nintendo Aware Of Super Mario RPG "Paratroopa" Bug Preventing Progress

Guess they flew away too early.

Well, at least the bug is easily fixable!

a patch in December?
good job millions of people aren't voraciously playing through it right now then.

@Uncle_Franklin Maybe it's being rolled into a bigger patch of some sort for December (perhaps to fix the odd performance hiccups in the game) since there is already a workaround.

My game is currently lost in my house for the holidays so, ya there is that...

scarcely believable that this was missed during playtesting.

@Uncle_Franklin "In some cases" may be the key word. Bugs that trigger only under a very specific set of circumstances are the hardest to catch

@Kochambra I, being a programmer, agree with that notion.

god forbid paratroopas do anything

And how are you supposed to know when or where exactly they're supposed to appear? I happen to be at Land's End right now and feel like I'm stuck and dunno if it's because of the glitch or not. I don't remember the original enough to remember where the Paratroopas would appear. Could've been a little more specific.

I play exactly like how I did the original so I never encounter the bug. Good job for finding this for us Nintendo and thanks for the quick fix.

@Yosher They appear at a very conspicuous rock cliff one room over from the desert after a cutscene where they are introduced in Monstro Town. It's all well communicated in game so if you don't know, you probably haven't gotten there yet.

@Stuffgamer1 Alright, thank you!

Still sad to see games releasing with insufficient testing, especially a remake (who worked fine on snes.) , and Nintendo First Party

@Kochambra

it's already happened to me,
but maybe I just got unlucky.

I haven’t run into this bug. So it probably isn’t too wide spread.

Some people apparently need to hear this: all games have bugs. If you've ever programmed ANYTHING, you know it's unavoidable. Even perfectly crafted code will have issues for no conceivable reason that is fixed by arbitrary changes.

The fact I've never even heard of this until now, despite everyone I know playing it, suggests it's quite rare and requires some specific circumstances.

@John_Deacon Well they aren't as bad as Link's Awakening (thought I don't remember having a bad experience there with framerate) - they just crop up in odd places. I have yet to play it, I am just going by DF analysis of the game.

What makes these odd dips more noticeable is that the camera movement gets weird when they happen. From what I have seen, the dips only get into the 50's - so they aren't even huge dips - just "feel" worse because of the camera movement suddenly getting jerky.

Given that the game is pretty much a locked 60fps makes me think it's fixable since the instances are random.

Also, as a programmer, I agree with the sentiment that sometimes bugs happen. There is a huge difference between having hundreds of thousands to millions of people playing a game vs the handful to double-digit of testers a company has - something will get found in some odd situation no one ever thought of or showed up by chance because the game is now being played under N more conditions than what can be replicated in a contained environment.

If people were as picky about random bugs cropping up in games today as they were back in the 80's and 90's, I don't think the game industry would have ever taken off. Much of the speedrun community for classic games are about exploiting bugs!

Thank god I read this before reaching that point in the game.

Guess Im gonna finish up boosters tower and put the game away until the patch

@Moonlessky Why? It's not exactly a common problem to occur, as this article was the first I ever heard about it when everyone I know is playing this and most have beaten it already. And even if you do encounter the bug it's hardly game breaking as it's easily fixed in a matter of seconds. Unless you're just using the bug as an excuse to take a break from the game, you'd just be making a mountain out of a mole hill.

@Thanatos1320 because Nintendo was aware of this before the game shipped, if they’re making a patch a whole month after release they’re probably working on more fixes and Im gonna wait and see if the menu lag gets patched. Mario rpg is one of my favorite games and I want the best experience posible in playing this remake.

@John_Deacon links awakening had its framerate drop in half whenever you exit houses or dungeons and it is very noticeable. If you installed the game on the system memory it helped somewhat but they never bothered to fix it.

i thought they were called "Koopa Paratroopas." 🤔