Back in 1993 when this was released, in the pre gamefaqs era, I found a glitch where pausing the game while transitioning to then next screen would warp you all the way to the same position on the next screen. E.g. Leave screen on the left side, appear on next screen all the way to the left instead of the right side of the screen. This allowed you to break the game in all sorts of fun ways :)<p>I assume the internets have known about that glitch for a long time but it was really fun to feel like I had some secret trick as a kid that no one else had found.
You can actually use this glitch for an ending warp to finish it in minutes: <a href="http://www.speedrun.com/run/9me9l88z" rel="nofollow">http://www.speedrun.com/run/9me9l88z</a>
> This glitch <i>can</i> permanently ruin a game file and, in the extreme case, possibly even erase or damage your cartridge.<p>How can this glitch erase the ROM in a cartridge?
Found accidentally another glitch near the end of game, in the dungeon where you carry a big heavy metal ball you can throw around.<p>It ended up stuck on a wall, completely glitching the game. Reloading didn't help. My save was dead. I was devastated at the time :)
Is there any similar writeups of the fishing glitch where you get the fisherman to sit on the tree and then go fishing? That's one of the two I found as a kid. The other gave me some super item but I never could recreate it.