Glitches

Glitches are unwanted effects from the programming of any video game. Glitches can range from being helpful to a player, amusing, meaningless, a nuisance, or game-wrecking. Spore itself has many glitches, but most rarely happen. The most common are programming errors - like citizens wandering out of cities and getting stuck, or vehicles 'glued' together.

Minor Glitches
how do you get rid of a glitch that makes a big black line in the middle of the screen? it cuts every thing off!

Major Glitches
Major Glitches are those which users discover and realize to happen more than once; they are probably what programmers never thought could happen.

Pictures
Occasionally if you use Galactic Adventures Adventure Creator and make a creature,as well as in space possibly Civilization stage,a giant picture of that creature will appear covering 1 quarter of the planet.

Patch 5 Glitches
The two main features that were introduced in patch 5 were the ability to make parts in all editors asymmetrical by holding down "A” and the ability to ride vehicle of all types without slipping off. These two things will obviously cause many new glitches.

Civilization Stage Crashes
Upon installing Patch 5 and GA, the game may crash when you try to start a game from Civilization stage.

Asymmetric Adventure Part Glitch
If you put an adventure part on an asymmetrical limb or another asymmetrical body part, the part will appear on that limb and not be symmetric. (This is most likely intentional, but is also logical, and yet again, a bit of a pain, depending on your intentions) When you enter the test-drive mode, sometimes that part may flip extremely fast just like masks do in the tribal editor test-drive mode.

Rotating Parts
If you place the Level 2 energy regeneration helmet on top of the Hop Gogs (the Bard part that looks like a mask and lets you dance) and use the orange morph handle to increase the Hop Gogs' power level, the helmet part will slowly rotate in place. If you let go, it will stay where it is.

This glitch also happens in the vehicle editors, as seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vcgoBQfuhg It seems to happen when many small detail parts are place upon each other, and the one at the start is manipulated.

Bugged Vehicle Editor
Sometimes if you immediately go to the Sporepedia after saving a vehicle, and then go back to the editor screen, the editor will look bizarre, as seen at the end of this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vcgoBQfuhg

Asymmetrical cell glitch
Little is known about this glitch, it is yet unknown what causes it. The only thing in it is that it causes the players cell parts to be asymmetrical, even if they are not holding A, and a cell isn't able to eat food, except using a proboscis on creatures. Once it occurs it remains in the game forever. But if you press A once it should work

Skating Glitch
Sometimes when you download patch 5, creatures and your captain don't move their bodies at all. They can still do everything normally, but their body won't move at all and they never make any sounds. So when you move they won't move their legs so it looks like they're skating. The only way to reverse this is to uninstall and reinstall Galactic Adventures. This also happens to your space games where when you talk to an empire or your empire, they don't move or talk. It doesn't affect gameplay, but it looks really annoying and boring. The player can fix this by changing their graphics settings and restarting the game.

Sporepedia Crashing Glitch
Sometimes when you download patch 5 after you download Galactic Adventures, whenever you try to view Sporepedia the game crashes. The only known way to fix this is to uninstall and reinstall Galactic Adventures.

Missing Animations Glitch
This is a known compatibility issue with Spore Galactic Adventures. If you install patch 5 right before or right after installing Galactic Adventures, every creature animation (i.e. jump, walking, attacking etc.) will be gone and when your creature moves in test drive, the creature stage, or an adventure, it will make your creature look limp and lifeless and will be moving as if it was being pushed by something. Currently, the only known workarounds for this is either to never install patch 5, or install everything in this order: Spore>Galactic Adventures>Creepy & Cute>Patch 5. This problem also occurs if you install the Bot Parts patch as it upgrades the game to version 1.6.


 * Nickandsara: Installing everything in this order: (Spore>Galactic Adventures>Creepy & Cute>Patch 5) should make it where this problem doesn't happen.

No-Leg Glitch
Legless creatures may occasionally crash the game, making the Slugger achievement difficult.

Bot Part Glitches
Glitches involving the new Spore Bot Parts.

Floating Legs
If you have a 3-jointed Bot Legs, you can raise the lowest joint of the leg, and the feet will be raised into the air as well. If you make the feet raise higher than the body, the body will sink into the ground.

Singless creature crashes game
If you use the robot mouths, they won't have a singing sound, if you try to socialize a creature with the singing tone, the game will crash.

Wrong colour glitch
This glitch is pretty interesting it happens sometimes in the place where you save your creature. But once you saved it and you go back to check it, it’s fixed. It changed back to normal.

Wrong music glitch
This is a glitch that causes the music to be different than it's supposed to be. For example, on Baysee, it may play the Arclart vs. Cricktor music. This glitch can usually be cured by progressing. Pretty much for the example above, progress to the battle scene, and it should fix itself. But sometimes this glitch may progress to completely shut off your file's sound! However it usually occurs during replay mode, so it isn't too big of a threat (except for replay-mode part hunters).

Bubleebu mouth glitch
This glitch will often occur when your gameplay creature has a Bubleebu/Ohi mouth, but the creature's body doesn't make the Bubleebu sound. For example, it will probably happen if your creature has a Supupie body and a Bubleebu mouth. This will cause either the sound to shut off like the wrong music glitch, or the backgrounds will bug out on screen. Strangely enough, the Salafend mouth will not cause this, so this glitch isn't caused by mouth type.

Sound effect shutoff
This glitch causes the same thing as the major version of the music shutoff glitch. It usually happens when your creature's mating call is soft. The main symptom is the sound effects shutting off when doing a mating call or getting near Noodlin's beach. This glitch always progresses to completely silence your file, and the only cure is to delete the file. However, the bodies that make a Supupie noise are less likely to cause this, because of their deep mating calls. But bodies that make the Broogus noise are extremely likely to do this, so don't use those! (Remember, it only happens if your gameplay creature has a Broogus, Gorgue, etc. body, so don't be discouraged by other creatures that make this sniffly noise.)

Stuck In Water
Sometimes this happens if there is a fruit in a smaller lake of water and your creature goes to eat it. Your creature will get stuck, and cannot leave the area. The fruit also cannot be eaten. To fix this you must die from starvation, sending you as a baby back to your nest.

Freezing Creatures
Although rare, sometimes if you give fruit to certain creatures, the game will pause and an empty speech bubble will appear. After a few seconds it will disappear, but the creature you gave the fruit to will be frozen, and you won't be able to interact with it. This can be fixed by exiting and then re-entering the level.

Continuous Battle Music
Sometimes, the combat music won't stop, even if you have paused the game or exited the arena! This also happens in PC Spore. The most known fix for this is save the game, and turn off your console.

No Background Music Playing
Sometimes when you enter a level, no background music will play whatsoever! It is unknown what causes this glitch, but it may occur if the Spore Hero disk is dirty or scratched.

Legless Creature
When editing a creature, drag off the legs, but don't delete them. While holding the legs click on the 'done' button, your creature will have no legs! You will still be able to kick, but you will crawl along the ground like a legless PC Spore creature. This method can be used for mouths.

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