The Turnip Glitch

[x1372]

I'm sure many peach players know about or have pulled off the peach turnip glitch at least once. For those who haven't, the turnip freezes in midair right where and when it is thrown. You can grab it out of the air and throw it, it'll stop right where it leaves your hand. Even if a long time has passed, your opponent can be hurt by running into it once. They can also grab it out of the air and throw it, and it'll hit you once before you can go through it if that happens. It retains the power of however it was thrown when it's in the air.

If you want an example of it happening, go on the hub and look up "turnip glitch."

Basically, I'd like to try to figure out exactly how this happens. In the video, the peach who throws the turnip drops out of a hover, throws it down, and the turnip is suddenly stuck in the air. Prior to that, she had been trapped against a wall by a fireflower. There are other instances of this happening, but none where the turnip freezes on tape.

I hadn't really though too much about this glitch, until it happened to me at the SSA2 tournament in Michigan. Except in my case, it didn't happen with a turnip. It happened with a pulled beamsword in a no-items match.

The circumstances of that pull were completely different from the video. First, I hadn't been hovering or jumping - to my recollection, it was a running throw that caused the beamsword to freeze. my opponent wasn't particularly close to me - I had just hit him off the stage and thrown the beamsword before I realized I had it. We basically halted the match and played around with the frozen sword for a while, and liptonbuddy got some of the craziness on tape... but what I would like to do is find a way to repeat the turnip glitch, and hopefully do it consistently. (that tape is not online yet, and I'm not sure it will ever be online, sorry.)

If anyone else has pulled this glitch off, accidentally or purposely, please state when and how it happened. Maybe we can figure out some common link to what causes peach's pulled items to freeze.

to summarize, my circumstances

beamsword
running throw
battlefield
opponent far away, recovering
first version of the game (0.0?)
using a nametag
standard melee, not special or training mode
no items
stock match, no timer
green peach (vs. blue peach)

if there are any other circumstancial things that might cause this glitch, mention them and I'll try to rememer what happened in my case.

The turnip glitch could open up some very new and unique things in peach play, so I think it's something worth looking into. Also, despite the bizarreness of the glitch, there is certainly nothing gamebreaking, so there would be no reason to ban it. Both players can mess with a frozen turnip, so it just alters the way that the battle is played.

[Fieari]

That's very interesting, because I play Peach more or less exclusively, have more than a thousand hours logged, but I've not seen this to my memory. I also play on a lot of different cubes, a lot of different memory cards, and a lot of different disks, so I'd think that I would have seen this happen, even if it is a version specific bug... that's very strange indeed.

I'll be sure to keep an eye out for it though.

[RyokoYaksa]

Odd, I experience frozen beam sword goodness two days ago and got a little bit of it on tape. Unfortunately, I refused to pick ip up out of the air, and it (unexpectedly) expired without me grabbing it again. x_x The video shows it is possible, but just that, unfortunately. (stupid stupid stupid)

CPU Peach partner's beamsword, dropped and I picked it up
knocked out of my hand
battlefield
3 remaining people actively fighting each other
Version 0-01
No names
5 stock, 8 minute
green peach (me), green peach vs red Doc, red Fox, lv 9's
TA On, no items

Truth be told, I have no clue what causes it. The only similarities here are the source of the beam sword and the stage.

[Yuna]

I don't know what video the original poster was talking about. I've only seen one Turnip glitch video. There were two Peaches in Pokemon Stadium. One peach trapped the other with a fireflower against a wall. The trapped Peach them pulled a turnip jumped, hovered, came out of the hover and threw it UPWARDS.

She then proceeded to slowly float down towards the opposing Peach, who upsmashed her into infinity. And that was when the turnip froze.

[Mikey Lenetia]

I actually did get another glitch, the frozen turnip glitch. I was facing computer Peach, and I remember that she threw it down into my downsmash. The next time that turnip was picked up and thrown, that sucker was stuck.

[Quetzalcoatl]

I have never encountered this glitch (after playing peach for so many matches and hours). I also have the PAL version.

[Yuna]

Apparentely, the glitch has been removed from the PAL ver. It'd be funny to glitch a grandpa turnip >:D

[Peaches]

One time I watched a 4 player computer match with 2 opposing peaches (I think that's the right way to make it plural, lol) throwing several turnips at close range. I wasn't really watching but suddenly 2 turnips were stuck midair that kept getting regrabbed because they were so close to each other. It was version 1.0 of NTSC (Or at least a very early version, I don't know the numbers).

[Yuna]

I heard it's been known to happen at tourneys, so maybe it's also in the later versions of the game XD. Imagine the funness if Mike G. pulled a grandpa turnip, had it glitched and then totally destroyed Ken XD

[BladeMarth]

hmm wierd....
im still not quite sure what u mean by this glitch thing..
in all my time playing her, i dont think ive ever seen this glitch thing....does it really affect gameplay? if not, i guess its not really important, but oh well, i guess it would be fun to see...

[Yuna]

Seeing as how you're an Aussie (BladeMarth), you probably play the PAL version, from which the turnip glitch has been removed.