Super Mario Galaxy glitch forces you to reload game

by David Hinkle { Nov 15th 2007 at 11:15AM }

Turns out, there might be a glitch in that copy of Super Mario Galaxy you've been playing. During an encounter with Bowser in the game, one person found that they could knock Bowser off of the planet they were engaging him on, freaking out the camera and causing the game to halt all progress. Hopefully, this won't happen to us, because reloading the game during a fight with Bowser would be all kinds of annoying.

Has anyone else encountered this problem?

[Thanks, Martin B!]

Tags: bowser, glitch, mario, supermariogalaxy

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Valien @ Nov 15th 2007 11:32AM

Only problem I had was the initial Bowser intro moview when he was attacking the castle. It was all jittery and stop framed. I had to reload the game and then it ran smoothly after that.

Jonathan Tran @ Nov 15th 2007 11:41AM

WTF NWF? No Spoiler Alert? I did not want to know I would fight Bowser.

DO NOT WANT.

No point in buying this game now.

WaffleTehNut @ Nov 15th 2007 11:45AM

It happened to me :( at first I laughed but then I got upset because I was so close in beating him! Bowser is such a party pooper! I really thought he would come back up likei n mario 64 but he didn't :/

-Annie

David Hinkle @ Nov 15th 2007 11:47AM

Jonathon Tran, you win today's "funniest comment" award.
:)

Mann @ Nov 15th 2007 12:21PM

on the Luigi ghost galaxy if you get the ghost to hit the light while up and out of the reach of Mario, the Key will float in the air. I had to restart the level. The key was off screen, you could only see it up there if you made the camera drift to show the ceiling.

J rod @ Nov 15th 2007 1:17PM

What Mario game DOESN'T have a Bowser fight, Jonathan Tran?

JDavis @ Nov 15th 2007 1:44PM

@ J rod: SMB2 (US), SML, and SML2, just off the top of my head (and only counting platformers)

Saxon @ Nov 15th 2007 1:45PM

Mario 2?

Joe O. @ Nov 15th 2007 2:02PM

I had no problem with that battle. Beat Bowser...got the Grande Star...and continued on...

Shadow31 @ Nov 15th 2007 2:16PM

I can say I've successfully completed the game and haven't experienced a single glitch, unless you count that fact that (IMO) Boo Mario controls like a drunkard with airbags strapped to him.

Still, that was sorta hilarious, maybe not in the situation, but thinking about it... Bowser bounced off the planet and drifted off into outer space, for crying out loud! I can just see him slowly floating away, growling, clawing at the vaccuum of space, unable to stop himself because an object in motion will stay in motion... :) Maybe spinning at a nice pace, too... I'm having fun with this thought! Oh, and being Mario, just watching him float away... that'd just be amazing!

Manny @ Nov 15th 2007 2:23PM

well no problems in game for me but maybe for my wiimote, when i point to get the star bits on upper part of the screen it just loses connection .. might just be the mote , dunno.

vidGuy @ Nov 15th 2007 2:29PM

I'm not that far yet but I have had some weird results with the gravity factor. I love to jump around planets and watch the gravity pull me back, but once I long jumped 'past' the gravitation pull and Mario just kind of hung in the air for a minute, then died. Didn't fall into a black hole or anything.

vidGuy @ Nov 15th 2007 2:30PM

@ Manny, sounds like you need to recalibrate the sensor bar, or sit in a different spot closer or farther from the TV. Play around with your position a little bit and there shouldn't be a problem.

Jay @ Nov 15th 2007 2:59PM

This didn't happen to me, and I'm like 45 stars in, but you better believe I'm gonna try to make it happen! BOWSER FALLS OFF HIS OWN PLANET!!! BAAHHHHHHHAAAAHHHAAA

Freakin hilarious. Reminds me of the "comedic" elements to bowser in Paper Mario 1000 Year Door. I have to see this happen now.

Larz @ Nov 15th 2007 4:55PM

@Manny & vidGuy:
The 'motes seem to break down a lot. They do take a lot of abuse with people shaking them like mad, dropping them, or whatever. One of mine will shut off a lot when moving it. Another will shut off when it's tilted a certain way. Gotta keep dropping cash on them... where's MadCatz when you need em? I don't like my Wii costing me more than my PS3.

Kewlcube @ Nov 15th 2007 10:54PM

That's really crazy, I should tell my friend... he'll do it, he's crazy.

http://www.kewlcube.blogspot.com/ "Not just Wii, DS too!"

Karmakin @ Nov 15th 2007 11:04PM

Actually, I had a similar problem on the first boss...kinda. The last part of the first boss, you need to guide Bullet Bills who are chasing you first through a fence by destroying it, then quickly guide another one to hit the target in the middle.

In any case, I was having a difficult time with it. Wait to the bill comes close, backflip over it, destroy the fence. But you had to be fast. (And the fence rotates...). In any case, on the 6th try or so, I was leading a bill, and I jumped OVER the fence. I Actually landed on the fence then jumped again, and went flying. The Bill went OVER the fence, and right down on top of the target. Boom. End of boss.

I've noticed a lot of physics effects in Galaxy more than just the gravity. This is probably the unintended result of one of them.

cracktyjones @ Nov 16th 2007 1:15AM

I've beaten the game and gotten all 120 stars and haven't encountered this problem.

MidnightScott @ Nov 18th 2007 2:54AM

Hmm I didn't encounter this problem and I have 90 stars :o

emily @ Dec 11th 2007 3:34PM

It has happened to me twice now and it is so weird! The first time I was sitting there waiting for Bowser to come back... and he never did. I tried about a million things before I realized it was a glitch... i just didn't want it to be true! Then when it happened again... i got really annoyed.

Oh well, back to trying to beat it without kicking Bowser off the planet!

CarinArr @ Dec 15th 2007 1:26PM

Yep, got this bug just now.. Bowser bounced on a green thing and then flew off into outer space.. It's a good job this game isn't too hard to simply reload the level and hope it doesn't happen again!

CarinArr @ Dec 15th 2007 1:30PM

As an update, I replayed the level and didn't have the problem this time. It's quite obviously a bug though, Bowser's obviously not supposed to be able to get far enough away from the planet to not be affected by gravity, but manages to when he bounces on the green blocks. Tut tut:)