Hello, and welcome to the super-sekrit bonus part of my web page! Well ok, it shouldn't have been all that difficult to find, but still... this section details a few of the glitches that can be found in Duck Tales for NES. As far as I know, these glitches can be accessed in both prototype and final released versions.

SECTION 1 - "Scary Graphic Glitches!"

There are at least two occasions in this game where you can trigger these weird graphic glitch thingies. I found both of these by pure accident about ten years ago, and at the time, they freaked me out. I wrote to Nintendo Power ranting about this, but they probably figured me for a nut. Can't blame 'em, really.

The Amazon Glitch

STEP 1: Get to this screen, which, if you've played through the Amazon stage more than, you know, twice, you'll recognize as the hidden shortcut path to reach the boss.

STEP 2: Next, destroy all of the blocks except the center block on the bottom row.

STEP 3: Smack that thing with your cane, and out hatches a... roller- skating penguin with an arrow in the back of its head.

STEP 4: The penguin thing quickly falls to earth, where it then transforms into a white circle thing. You can walk through the circle as if nothing's there. Ta-daa!

The African Mines Glitch

STEP 1: Same story as before, folks.

STEP 2: This time the block we want to isolate is the second from the right, on the bottom row.

STEP 3: Thwack! OMIGOD! WHAT THE HELL IS THAT THING?!?

STEP 4: Unlike the Amazon Penguin, this thing just shoots skyward. If you hit it from the right side, it will eventually hit the ceiling and once again, turn into the white circle of mystery. Hit it from the left and it'll fly off screen and presumably, onward to heaven. Maybe it's for the best.

SECTION 2 - "The Alternate Bonus Stage"

Well! And people said I was nuts when I claimed to have found a bonus stage years ago with different cloud graphics. So without further ado... Looking at it now, it appears to be an unintentional glitch, as I'd hardly call those clouds a smooth transition (note that you can indeed still walk on them, however). There also may be more than one variation to this glitch, as my memory says the bonus stage was much longer than the regular stage, but the version from  the above screenshot is actually much shorter. First of all, I owe my thanks to my fellow FeFeA Brother Smeg, for rediscovering this glitch for me. Although we're not 100% sure how this glitch is triggered, Smeg was able to do it on two different occasions by taking a ride to the bonus stage with Launchpad from the Amazon after beating the Himalayas, Transylvania, and the African Mines (in that order). To save you, the viewer at home, the trouble of doing this, Smeg created an NES savestate that accesses the glitch. Note that the savestate was made for the FCE Ultra emulator. Download it here.

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