Impossible Dizzy Screenshots!

I like this - is a thread about buggy things in Dizzy or things the game allows that it shouldn't - :smile:

I dont have a screenshot to hand - but i can describe a shot i remember - it went something like this:
On the ST version of Fantasy World, in the screen below the hut with the 4 lift control machines - there's another lift down to a dragon. Its possible to stand in the lift, as far right as possible, and as the lift moves up/down, Dizzy can move through the rock to the right of the lift (and grab the carpet) without having to solve the rocks and pickaxe puzzle in the next screen to the right.

Oh that's nice. I don't think I'd have ever tried that; I would be too worried about crush kills in that game.

I was rooting around in my Commodore 64 folder the other day, and I spotted some old screenshots of interesting things that happened to me in Dizzy games.


I found the 105th room in Spellbound Dizzy, and without cheating! I think it's a glitch though. The spare crusher seems to work differently, in that instead of detecting that you've walked too far to the left, it detects that you're walking on it at all, so the trick is that you need to jump directly to the star and jump straight back out without taking any steps. But this means that it's possible to jump out to the left, which caused Dizzy to fall through space into the ceiling of that room.


Now I've forgotten exactly what I did to end up here, but I know it involves getting Dizzy embedded in the wall so that he floats upwards, then stops inside the pipe because it counts as empty space. It's not tall enough for Dizzy to walk anywhere at this point, however!


This must be where all the hidden objects start out in Treasure Island Dizzy: coins, boat, bubble, placed dynamite, and curse lightning. I believe it came from messing around with this glitch where Dizzy can jump over the blasting area and land in the title screen. Instead of jumping completely over, I got Dizzy to do that thing where he just barely slips off and falls straight down in his walking animation, eventually passing through this screen.

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Heres one from Magicland Dizzy

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Hey, that happened to me once, only I did it in front of the Devil so Dizzy ended up on the right side of the swamp. I guess it's a consequence of dropped objects "eating" into sloped terrain and that floor being so low.

I just remembered another cool thing I did in MagicLand. It turns out that on ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC, it's just barely possible to jump onto the roof of Prince Charming's castle.


Did you notice the subtle changes to the graphics beside the status bar between these versions? "Hey, Dizzy, your hands grew five sizes since I last saw you!"