Ratchet & Clank 3 Glitch Reduces Speedrun to 1 Second

Speedrunner Joaof discovered a new exploit for the HD port of Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal, knocking the record down to less than a second.

As YouTuber Xem explains, the “bad warp to credits” flaw works by exploiting a termination bug. If you reach a certain address at the end of the game, you can set a new state on reload. “Game state 9 is credit.” So, if you split correctly, the game immediately moves to the final sequence where the second ratchet exits the ship.

The Up Your Arsenal speedrun begins when you take control of Ratchet from Veldin.

Some in the community have condemned this exploit as a cheat, but it's worth noting that speedrun world records are already divided into two categories: Any% and No FC.

The currently confirmed Any% world record of 3 minutes 24 seconds was achieved using an exploit, while the No FC record is currently 38m 37s. Therefore, using the new “Wrong Warp to Credits” does not invalidate existing runs as it will be clearly visible on the leaderboard when the exploit is used.

Bad warp to working credits

There's a reason why Ratchet & Clank fans are telling you to play the original PS2 games instead of your PS3 collection. that infamously 3 buggy ports with certain sound effects being out of sync, stretched HUD elements, missing textures, frequent crashes, broken special effects, and strange colors in cutscenes. But there are advantages to having ports so janky. That said, it has the glitch of being slow.

Mike Tyson boxing match punching out over green background.

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Speedrunner knocks out Mike Tyson in 2 minutes.

After four and a half years and 75,000 attempts, Summoning Salt finally broke the existing punch-out record.

Thanks to these flaws, the community achieved the impossible and brought the record down to sub-second. It's going to be an extremely tough time to win. But now it's all about optimization and shaving off milliseconds since we've got the bad warp to credits glitch.