Bippo Ernesti | Wizards & Warriors III - Vanishing Malkil Bug @BippoErnesti | Uploaded 2 years ago | Updated December 09 2022
A rather devastating bug present in the final battle. When Malkil enters the third phase of his attack pattern, he starts vanishing and appearing at random intervals, shooting his wicked pinwheels as he appears.

If you press Select to enter the character change menu right as Malkil is about to reappear, he will get stuck and never reappear again. As far as I'm aware, the only way to fix this on actual hardware is to reset the system.

Using the Purple Wizard's levitation ability, you can "bump" into Malkil sometimes and it can cause a variety of different effects, from what happens in this video to instantly crashing the game. Other times nothing happens when levitating up to where he was, or levitation is almost impossible because you keep hitting an invisible obstacle as you're trying to rise up. The result shown in the video was the most interesting one I got.

The window on triggering the bug is pretty small, either requiring quick reflexes or trying to predict when he appears. You have to press Select as soon as the puff of smoke appears.

Chapters
0:00 Malkil enters the third phase
0:15 Bug activated
0:36 Levitating into Malkil