Uploaded April 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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A glitch with monster transformation that crashes the game if you switch to the Smiling Wolf, Mandora, or Mrs. Gourgon while playing as the Ridepod.

The Smiling Wolf's ranged attack crashed the game on PCSX2, so I'm pretty sure it will crash on all platforms. The Mandora's melee attack freezes the game on the PS2, but not PCSX2, not sure about the PS4 version. Mrs. Gourgon freeze the game on the PS2 as soon as you transform into her, but she'll be partially in the floor on PCSX2 and the PS4 version.

The glitch is caused by the value at memory address 20CF8300 failing to update to 0 when you transform with the Character menu, the Ridepod sets the value here to 007560F0, which results in data being written to where the Monster's data is also written to, resulting in 12 bytes being incorrect.

Since all of the monsters affected by this glitch require level 76 badges, I only tested Mrs. Gourgon on the PS4 version and it didn't crash, so hopefully that means the Mandora's melee attack won't crash the game on there either.