
Rare wants people to play games the way they remember, he added, but admitted that Battletoads is already hard enough. "To answer the question directly, yes, we're gonna fix it," Duncan said. The second player would then have to sacrifice their remaining lives in order for their co-op partner to continue.ĭuncan said Rare debated whether or not to fix the glitch at all, explaining that although it's adding new features, like rewinds and cheat modes, "we wanted to maintain the authenticity of these games."

Player two's controls would glitch when they reached that level and they'd be unable to move. The bug in question cropped up when two players reached the NES game's eleventh level, Clinger Winger. Like a good number of games on this list, Battletoads was likely too difficult to lock down for the NES Classic library, as Microsoft currently owns the rights.

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"We're aware of the bug," said Craig Duncan, studio head at Rare, at the developer's San Diego Comic-Con panel today when a fan asked about the glitch. Mod/hack adds fourth (and third) player to Battletoads (NES, U-version) to make possible to play the game with four people at the same time. Rare says it will fix that bug for the game's inclusion in Rare Replay, the developer's 30-game collection for Xbox One. The infamously difficult Battletoads for NES was made even harder thanks to a nasty glitch that anyone who played the game's two-player co-op mode will likely remember unkindly.
