How to Find Glitches

Hey [name removed],

A lot of people ask me this question and I don't really have any specific resource or whatever... I might try writing an article sometime and put it somewhere like pastebin or a blog or something.

Anyway, here's how I find glitches:

1. Make a playlist of all current glitches in the game and become very familiar with how they work. Use these to make a list (mental or type it out) of tech you can use in a game to do certain things (like jump farther, clip out of bounds, etc.).
2. Become friends with people who speedrun the game. I know twitch.tv/flickyish and twitch.tv/surreal_ and probably other people run Ape Escape 3 so you should talk to them and watch them whenever they do runs. Speedrunners encounter weird things all the time and also are a good source to get ideas of what to look for.
3. Make an "ideas list" or wish list of what kinds of things you want to find. For Banjo-Tooie, I made a list of the longest Jiggies so I would know what sort of things I wanted to look for.
4. Look at each idea on your list as a puzzle and the pieces you gathered in step 1 and 2 as pieces to that puzzle. In the case of the video you sent me, the person jumped over a wall out of bounds. This is a common way to get out of bounds in many games (particularly PS1/PS2 era games, but it's also possible in some places in Banjo-Tooie [see my Witchy World video]). If there is a map where getting out of bounds to get to an area in it sooner would be useful, then look for places where you can jump over the wall.

In addition to this, simply be familiar with glitches in other games. A lot of games have particular moves where backwards speed isn't capped. A lot of games allow you to swim through air if you enter water out of bounds. A lot of games have seams that you can fit through if you perform certain moves. Take what you know about other games and apply it to Ape Escape 3 (or whatever) and you might find new tech for getting out of bounds or whatever.

I suggest subscribing to other glitch hunters' YouTubes in order to become familiar with not only the game they are working on but what sort of things are possible in games:
http://youtube.com/kazooie
http://www.youtube.com/ringrush
http://www.youtube.com/glitches0and0stuff
http://www.youtube.com/sockfolder
http://www.youtube.com/Paraxade0
http://www.youtube.com/nathanisbored
and many others (check TASVideos forums for people who find glitches in games that are similar to Ape Escape)

I hope all this helped! Good luck and let me know if you need anything else (✿◠‿◠)

<3 Cronikeys