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Glitches (also known as "bugs") are programming errors which results in behavior not intended by the programmers. Glitching is the practice of finding and exploiting glitches in video games to achieve something that was not intended by the game designers. Gamers who engage in this practice are known as glitchers. Glitches can help or disable the player. "Glitch techniques" are glitches that can be performed no matter where the player is and normal glitches are glitches that are location specific.

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[edit] Glitch techniques in the Ratchet & Clank series

[edit] Ratchet & Clank

  • If you start swimming, then while you're underwater pause the game and go to the Goodies screen and play a video, when you continue the game Ratchet will be standing, not swimming, on the ground at the bottom of the water, with a refilled air gauge.
  • If you enter a hoverboard race while using the Hologuise, you will enter the race while still in disguise and be able to walk around the tracks, even after the Hologuise is deactivated. While you're walking around on the Rilgar Hoverboard Race, near the end the race there's a platform with a large wall of boxes on it. If you get out your Taunter, go under the platform with the wall of boxes on top of it, and fire the Taunter, a never ending wave of bolts comes right out. This techniouque is useful for earning enough bolts to buy the R.Y.N.O.. This glitch has, supposedly, has been removed in later revisions of the game.

[edit] Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando

  • You can go through walls with the Decoy Glove or the Megaturret Glove.
  • Double jumping towards a wall and then repeatedly pressing the square button while in First Person mode will make you climb the wall.
  • ((The use of these two glitches makes it possible to beat the game without Clank.))

[edit] Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal

  • You can go through walls with the Miniturret Glove. To do this, face a wall, then Strafe (hold L2 and R2) forward and backwards until you get the Aiming Circle on the floor to partially be inside the wall, then fire it. Now walk forward to the Miniturret, and try going trough the wall, your camera should now start flickering, then keep trying while rotating the camera slowly, and you'll get straight trough the wall! If this is done on Zeldrin Starport, right near the ship that would take you to the Starcruiser, you can utilize the Thrusterpack or the Helipack to glide a while forward, then the sequence where Dr. Nefarious and Lawrence teleport out of the ship, and Captain Qwark stays to "fetch something important". When the countdown begins, you will fall down and die.
  • In Holostar studios, on the part with the ambush, solve the hacker puzzle for the elevator, then get on it afterwards. Then kill all of the enemies in the room with the slot machines, and solve the hacker puzzle that was there. Go back to all the way but don't go on the elevator. Just when you get on the third red thing you see on the floor, using the same "tapping R1 twice to use your charge boots" combo twice, get off the edge, turn a little bit to the right. You will go through the wall. You can discover new areas while you are there.

[edit] Ratchet: Deadlocked

  • You can go through walls with the Hunter Mine Launcher.
  • In multiplayer mode, play any map with a Landstalker (Note: if you are unsure if the map you chose has a Landstalker, go to "vehicle options" to check). Get in one and move to flat, level ground. Hold down L2 and R2 simultaneously and tap X. It should jump straight up once, or not at all. Keep holding L2 and R2 while tapping X at a steady beat. If it doesn't jump anymore but only crouches, you did it correctly; otherwise if it keeps jumping, try again. Tap triangle at the second when the Landstalker is at its lowest point (i.e. crouches flat). The Landstalker should rise up to the right. Tap triangle again the very instant its legs leave the ground. If executed correctly, you should jump to incredible heights before falling back down. This may take some practice.

[edit] Ratchet & Clank: Going Mobile

  • You can climb walls by wall jumping a wall and turning around and wall-jump again.

[edit] Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters

  • You can go flying by high jumping and entering your ship and exiting it soon after. (doesn't work in the PS2 version)
  • You can go through walls with the Bee Mine Glove.
  • You can stand on the shock crystals created with the Shock Crystal Armor. (You need to land directly on top of the crystals in the European PSP version and in all PS2 versions or the crystals will break)

[edit] Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction

  • You can climb walls with the Razor Claws.
  • You can boost forward with the Razor Claws.
  • You can go through walls and get out of gel plants and shoot through walls with the gelenator
  • You can become invincible in the Imperial Fight Festival in the event Introducing Crushto. Get Crushto to very low health (1 shot from the Alpha Cannon/Disruptor) when he starts to suck you up allow him to suck you in but before you enter his mouth shoot the Alpha Cannon. If done correctly Crushto will be defeated but you will float around near his mouth. Then enter a different event and you should be invincible to all attacks. Tried and tested on Australian Version, works on Greatest Hits version too.--121.223.64.30 00:34, October 3, 2009 (UTC)Adam Barbosa. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLNlhU55udM

[edit] Secret Agent Clank

[edit] Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty

  • You can climb up the bats you find in Darkwater cove and in morrow caverns like stairs.

[edit] Normal glitches in the Ratchet & Clank series

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  • Avoid Starship Fight in Drek's Fleet: First you must beat the game once. Then start a new game with all of your weapons, health upgrades, etc. Then input the 30 second invincibility cheat and play to the Drek's Fleet level. Go through the electrified water section first and get past with one or no hits. At the very end of this section where you get the Code Bot, make sure the cheat is turned on, get the health crate in that room and jump into the electrified water. Don't worry, you won't die. Stay in for a few seconds and jump back out. Continue with the level and you'll notice that all of the ships are now white. The cannons on the the ship with the Magneboot part doesn't fire anymore. So now you can easily get past that without getting in the starfighter. DO NOT DIE BEFORE GETTING TO THE CANNONS OR ELSE THE GLITCH WILL BE TURNED OFF!!! *PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS GLITCH DOES NOT WORK IN THE NTSC|U/C GREATEST HITS RELEASE!*
  • Infinite Bolts: (You will need the Hologuise and the Taunter for this glitch to work) After you get the hologuise, go to the hoverboard track in Blackwater City. Equip the hologuise and enter the race. You can now freely walk around the racetrack. Head towards the big jump. Stand under the platform where there is a large amount of crates. Equip the taunter. As long as you hold down the O button, bolts will rain down towards you. A good strategy is to tape down the O button and leave it on for a while. You can also position the controller underneath your PS2 so that the console's weight (either Phat or SlimLine; it does not matter)keeps the O button down.
  • Swim in the air: First go to Umbris and get to the part where you use the Hydrodisplacer. Get to the part just before the swingshot. Look behind you and there will be a wall. Jump through the corner but don't go too far or you will die. when you jump through try to land on a small platform just outside the wall. Look to your right and you should see a bit of water. This is where you want to get to. Jump and glide down into the water and then you will be swimming in the air!
  • Invincibility with Giant Clank: Go to the Robot Plant on Planet Quartu and beat all of the missions there. Then go turn into giant Clank and destroy all the enemies in and around the stadium. When you destroy all of them, fall off of the edge and die. Now you start by the stadium and no attack can hit you, but you can hit them. This is a good way to get more bolts as you will get about 1000 bolts every time.
  • One Less Racer: At the racetrack in the Gadgetron Site on Kalebo III, if you know you can't win the race save a rocket until the end and launch it just before crossing the line. Select continue and a rocket will fly towards and destroy the nearest racer at the start of the race.
  • Bolt Trick 2: Go to Blackwater city and go to the rising water place and go to the last pirate ship wheel thing, break it and go were it was equip your taunter and aim it to the left press circle and bolts will come non-stop towards you.

You start off getting on the train, you beat all the robots, but instead of getting the Eudora infobot, you stay on the train. From there you pass the Fitness Area. Then the train goes back to the station, when the train approaches the station again it will drop and go around it. Before it gets there, you get your Swingshot and go to the back of the train before it reaches the station. From there you look over to the left of the train or by looking over the edge. You'll see the Swingshot target. The Versa Target should be over a building. From there you fire your swingshot and hope that you get attached. After which you'll fall and die.

The Kerwan glitch is only found in Ratchet & Clank at the train station. It was believed that it was the "supposed" way to get the Insomniac Museum, but Insomniac never made a Museum for the First Game. But the Kerwan Glitch was just one of many Add-on glitches throughout the Ratchet and Clank Series.

  • Pokitaru Swim: Go to Pokitaru with the Hydro-Pack and the O2 Mask Then look for a gold bolt by a waterfall (should be near your mainpath) or in the upper left corner of the map. Swim down and go to the outer edge of the map still going north. Find a 'void' (the blue stuff between the hill in the distance) and swim in it. You should now be underneath the facility and you can even swim outside the sewer area!
  • Complete Kalebo III in no time: There is a glitch to complete Kalebo III without following the original path. You must have the Visibomb Gun for this glitch to work. Stand a few metres away from the forcefield blocking the easy way to the Hoverboard Guy a.k.a. Gadgetron CEO, aim the weapon at the top of the forcefield and try to hit the button behind it and you have completed the Get past the Blarg mission.
  • Fun on Planet Rilgar: (You must have at least reached the hoverboard race in order to use this glitch.) Go back to through the tunnels you used to reach the hoverbike race (where you used the Hydrodisplacer) and get to the slippery tunnel you slid down. It should be filled with water now. Go forward to where you begin to float in the water instead of standing up and swim to the right through the brown rock wall (you can also go through the left). You should now be able to see the outside of the slippery tunnel as well as the room you were just in (with the pool in the middle). You can do a number of things after you go outside the wall.
  • You can go underwater, swim under to the room you were just in, resurface, and be infinitely falling. Jump to return to normal. An alternative: you may walk in mid air and the screen will bounce if you stop walking (you’re still somehow floating anyway).
  • You can also swim down to the bottom room (where the switch to open the doors is) and all the water will be clear instead of the bluish tint. Just make sure the water is clear before you enter through the roof of the room. Resurface to return to normal.
  • When you are just floating, swim through the room’s wall and you will be swimming in the floor. Jump to return to normal.
  • This one is probably one of the harder ones to achieve because once you are outside the level and dive underwater, the water must be blue and not clear. When you go outside and dive underwater, you see the layer of water you just dove under and another lower layer for the pool in the room. Swim between the layers and into the pool in the middle of the room. The room will then have the bluish tint of when you are underwater even though you are not. Dive underwater and resurface to return to normal.
  • You must have Hologuise in order to use this glitch. Use the taxi that gets you to the raceway plaza. Once the taxi begins to move, equip the Hologuise. When the taxi stops, walk off the edge that is facing the woman, with the Hologuise on. With luck, you will fall into the water below, and your O2 mask and hydro-pack will be automatically equipped. You may swim freely in the water and the piranhas won't even be there. When you get to the surface, though, you will not be able to go underwater again (unless you repeat it the way above) and you will be eaten by a piranha in a matter of seconds.
  • Walk underwater:To walk underwater,when you are on the bottom area,pause the game and go to GOODIES.In the Goodies menu,select IN-GAME MOVIES.Play any movie and go back to playing.You should be walking underwater but sometimes you will go back to swimming.If you fire a Visibomb in the water,the water will go away.
  • Unlimited time in electrified water: This only works for the water cooler on Planet Quartu. Deactivate the electricity, and hop into the water. Now swim to the first slightly elevated area after the 3-ring door opener. Now perform the "walk underwater" glitch. If you are successful, just wait until the timer runs out. You will not be electrocuted, and can now walk around freely for as long as you like. Watch your step, though. If you try to leave the water area, you will go back to swimming, and be immediately electrocuted.
  • Firstly, go to Planet Umbris. Next, get up to the part where there are three Versa-Targets and a Turret. While their look at the second Versa target (in the middle of the three Versa-Targets.) Then jump off in the direction of the second Versa-Target just before your about to hit the mud use the SwingShot to pull yourself out of the mud and land safely near the second Versa-Target. Try testing it by jumping into the wall on your left. If it worked you should of passed through the wall. Warning:Unknown glitch doesn't work on all versions of this game.

[edit] Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando

  • Go to any planet that has a teleporter, do a comet-strike, and when your Omniwrench is flying, use a teleporter. After the teleport, you will have a very big wrench on your hand. If you change the weapon, the big wrench will disappear. The big wrench works like a normal wrench.
  • Find a teleporter and put a Decoy on it. Then get to the other teleporter and try to use it. The screen will shake and you will stay there. Note: If you die you will have to start over.
  • Find a moving bridge and place a decoy. It will keep going forever in the same line.
  • Place a decoy on the wing of the ship and blast off they somtimes will stay there in the air or they will go with you until you're out of the atmosphere.

[edit] Ratchet & Clank: Up Your Arsenal

  • If you complete a challenge on Annihilation Nation, equip the Rift Inducer (or equivelant weapon) just before a victory screen appears, then keep it equipped. Now enter an arena challenge that is a weapon exclusive challenge, or a weapon cycling challenge. When a mini clip appears just before it zooms in on Ratchet to start the challenge, fire the weapon - when the round starts the black hole that is launched will stay in the arena and will destroy enemies for a while, despite you not being allowed to use that weapon.
  • In Holostar studios, on the part with the ambush, solve the hacker puzzle for the elevator, then get on it afterwards. Then kill all of the enemies in the room with the slot machines, and solve the hacker puzzle that was there. Go back to all the way but don't go on the elevator. Just when you get on the third red thing you see on the floor tap R1 twice to use your charge boots. When you get off the edge, turn a little bit to the right. You will go through the wall. You can discover new areas while you are there
  • Easy Titanium Bolt on planet Daxx: When you first land on Daxx, swing across the water with the Hypershot and continue forward to use the elevator to get to the higher platform. Dispatch of any enemies you encounter (trust me, you will) and before you go up the stairs to the right, see the Titanium Bolt over to the left? (The area looks like three connected circles and is colored green on your map, signifying it is a secret area.)
Continue destroying anything that stands in your path and eventually you will reach a button on the ground. Stand on the button and the door in front of you will come down, allowing you to go through. (You may want to take care of the enemies in this room before you proceed.) Right after you cross the threshold of the door, take an immediate left. There will be a corner where the walls are close enough to where you can wall jump off of them. Be aware that you can only wall jump twice before Ratchet falls, so double jump towards the right wall and wall jump until you hang from the top of right wall. Jump and press up to hang from the adjacent wall and climb up.
Next, jump up onto the giant green structure to your right and turn around to face the secret area. Then run forward, double jump off, and glide down to the secret area to your Titanium Bolt!
FYI, you can also use this glitch to get into the inside the room of the next area without having to use the Hacker. Be aware, if you get into the room this way, you cannot get out through the front door because it was never opened.
  • When you break an Inferno crate, (the one that turns Ratchet invincible and gives him Infernox armor) pause the game and go to 'Special', then 'Skins' and select 'Current Armor'. You will notice that you still have the Infernox armor after the crate's effect is over, but if you change your equipped skin, you then lose the armor.
  • When you have 10000000+ bolts, on the save menu screen your bolt count appears as 99999999.
  • Go to the Starship Phoenix and head to the control room past the bridge. Head over to the computers and find a corner. Jump and glide there. Notice you will glide forever, and in a few seconds you will be restarted back in the beginning of the Starship.
  • Similar to the glitch above, go to planet Daxx and head to the path with the Charge Boots. Go on top of the small building with the computers inside and a glass dome on top. You should see two large rocks near and beneath is water. Do not go in the water but instead, double jump and glide towards the middle of the rocks. You will glide forever and eventually end up back in the beginning of Daxx.

[edit] Ratchet: Deadlocked

  • Go to the Catacrom Four burial ground in multiplayer mode (online or local) and visit the Hoverbikes. You will see a rock wall that you can jump on. Get on a Hoverbike and very carefully, jump on it. There are two ways to do this:
Closest to the fence is a low rock wall. Drive up to it and turn around so that your back is to the fence. Now jump sideways onto the rock wall (but not over it!). This is easier at first, but is actually more difficult in the long run. Now jump along the wall (carefully) until you can't go further, even though you should. This is because of an invisible barrier.
The fastest way to the barrier is to go to your right from the Hoverbike pad. There should be a hill next to the wall. Jump from the hill to the wall with caution.

Now this part is crucial and can be very tricky without experience. You must turn your bike so it is parallel with the invisible wall. It doesn't matter which way you face but it is easiest if your bike is halfway on the lighter colored rock while the other half is on the darker colored rock, making Ratchet right on the crack in between. Drive your bike against the wall, and press triangle to get out. Hopefully you will have reappeared on top of the wall, past the barrier. Now you can walk along the 'wall' and have fun.

[edit] Ratchet & Clank: Size Matters

  • There is a way to get to the Hangar Exterior (Boss area in Challax) by freezing the game. Set your PSP's time to 3:08 AM ( it shows up around 3:10/3:11 AM but this makes sure that you won't miss it) First off... SAVE YOUR GAME BEFORE YOU DO THIS! Read this whole thing and you will know why. Take your ship to Challax, it's probably better if you plan ahead, and go near the Giant Clank Transform Pad. A new teleporter that says "Return to the hangar exterior" should be there. (If it's not then press "HOME" on the bottom of the PSP and check the time. Make sure that it is 3:10 or 3:11 AM) When you teleport to the Hangar Exterior it comes out in a boss battle area and the game will freeze. That's why the game should be SAVED at the beginning!
  • In the High Impact Games Treehouse, if Ratchet acquires the Miniturret Glove (CUT), then performs a Hyper-Strike from the second floor down to the first, Ratchet will still have the Miniturret Glove, but the weapon will spawn again.
  • Also in the High Impact Games Treehouse, if you use the Sprout-O-Matic here, the game will freeze.
  • Once Ratchet enters the Technomite City by the Mini-Hover Car, he can go down the elevator. Once he goes down the elevator, he must walk to the left of the entrance leading out of the elevator. He will see a uneven path that will look like it can be walked up by his Gravity Boots. If he walks up it for a while, his armor will slowly start to fly off. If you immediately put the game on PAUSE, then select ARMOR, you will see Ratchet, but with his tail flying in the air where it is suppose to be, but his head, armor pieces, helmet, and arms in the wrong place. If you take it off PAUSE, his armor will slide back on the proper way.

[edit] Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction

A selection of glitches from Ratchet & Clank Future: Tools of Destruction.
  • Ratchet can reach the space station without paying the Smuggler any souls. You need to go to the teleport next to the Smuggler, then jump off and glide. You will not fall into space if you glide. Then Ratchet will see the Sigma-3 Maintenance Hub (The Grav-ramp section), he will need to land on the hovering circle - where Ratchet starts the grav-ramp section if he uses the Shuttle. You will get shot by turrets (Put there by Insomniac so you cannot execute this glitch), but if you at least go near the hovering circle (High health is needed to reach there without dying via turrets), Ratchet will respawn on the circle, free of turrets. Now he can continue with the level. However, it is extremely unlikely to succesfully execute this glitch unless you have a high nanotech level, e.g Challenge Mode. Even if you manage to survive the turrets though, they will continue to shoot at you even on the cube until you are dead.
  • You go to Fastoon and battle the Cragmites eventully you come to the point where you have to turn the screw you will sometimes fall through the air vents between the buttons that you press to activate the screw when you do a Hyper-strike. People notice that as you fall though the area you see where the boss battle is going to happen.
A video showing how to climb the Planetary Defense Center in Metropolis, Kerwan. Note: You must be in Challenge Mode.
  • Ratchet can reach the Court of Azimuth on Fastoon on the first visit(Challenge Mode Only). First, go up the gear/cog tower in the middle of the area. Go down the zipline at the top and equip the Thruster/Hydro Pack or Robo Wings. Equip the Razor/Shredder Claws and look to your left towards the wall. Now here's the hard part:Jump and attack the wall and straight after attacking, do a High Jump. Do this continously until you are about 2 metres above the wall, then you should automatically Shred down to the place that you could only get to by bridge in the second visit. Now go up a little bit and the Court of Azimuth should be rising over you. Go the way that Talwyn, Cronk and Zephyr went in the second visit. Keep going and you should be inside the Court of Azimuth, but no roof or walls. Go to the east side of the Court using the Shredder technique above, and glide down. You should see a giant purple ball-The place where you defeat Emperor Tachyon.

[edit] Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty

A selection of glitches from Ratchet & Clank Future: Quest for Booty.
  • You can flood Hoolefar Island by moving the camera in the water. You must put the camera in the water a little bit and you must be on the surface.
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