Nintendo Explains 'Game-Breaking' Metroid: Other M Glitch, Offers Impractical Support

To avoid the issue, Nintendo recommends going through the door immediately after defeating the enemies and do any desired backtracking at a later time.

So now they are literally telling players not to backtrack or their game files will become unwinnable.

In a Metroid game.

Goddamn it, Team Ninja, why are you so incompetent that you couldn't even do a bad Metroid Fusion correctly?

More reason to ignore this entry to the series and treat it like it never existed.

Bring back the old Samus (and Metroid), Nintendo.

An unacceptable failure of QA.

What if everyone affected by this bug took the game back and demanded refunds? Perhaps a sufficient loss of revenue would actually inspire developers to do their jobs correctly in the future.

I love me some wii, but nintendo needs to catch up with the times and
offer a watch to patch their stuff online.

I haven't played Other M yet; but it looks like this is a bug that is quite obvious, and I don't really understand how it can have gone unnoticed in QA.. Especially considering it's a Metroid game based on exploration and backtracking..

"Nintendo Wii does not have the necessary online software framework in place to patch the glitch. "

The more i see this , the more i think this is a must for nintendo to bring this finally , it's about time.

But , you know what , ... OTHER M is really the first main game to be done such ... disappointing and then a big glitch , that's why metroid prime were masterful , you never get the kind of crappy feel something's not working right. it always WORKED in primes' , not to spoil the icon , but Hail to the Retro, man!

So as far as im concerend they didn't add that to wii , because their games , be it childware or any game , it's not a crap game , it works for what it offers and does , so ... nintendo is actually very smart despite a little bit of negativity some people see on the wii , i do realize it's maybe too childish ... but .. wait for the next wii or next console , now that nintendo did a huge name and huge visibility on the market and WORLDWIDE , when it's gonna do it's hardcore thing again , ... be aware!

I really don't give a crap about HD , Metroid looks better than most xbox games , again , nintendo is smart , HD penetration is still very low.

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It's begining to be clear , Team Ninja did a poor job , .... and my friend was ah praising it for the other game, well this is metroid , it's not ninja gaiden

Retro Studios never made a single gamebreaking glitch , all it was was a elevator freeze on only early NA revision of the GCN disk, so it was already quickly fixed as they detected the problem when some copies were already made.

The funny thing is , freeze didn't happen always , if it didn't at the elevator scene , it didn't later either.

Can we please go back to calling bugs bugs and stop using "glitch." I don't even know where that word came from, but it annoys the crap out of me.

:( Don't have it yet, but it makes me sad to see such a glitch. Nintendo needs patch-ability damnit.

Sad, sad, sad.

1) Sad that Nintendo lacked the foresight to add the capability of SD modification to the Wii

2) Sad that their "quality control" failed so miserably

3) Sad that Nintendo is so out of touch that they don't even make a little program for people to run on their PC that would patch the file on the SD card. This is easily the easiest and most effective that they could offer.

Pathetic!!!!!!!!

I'm sure the saved game could be edited with a hex editor to change a value. If the fix is with the SD card - the save game file / folder than it can be changed.

I'm sure the homebrew community could create the fix (like they fixed the boot2 issues).

Surely you would just start the game over?

"Stamps can be found at your local post office."

Made my day, and it's only 3am :D