MediEvil/Glitches

This page details some of the glitches found in the original MediEvil and its 2019 remake.

Inventory glitch

When SELECT is pressed, the inventory will open. This is used to select weapons and items. Pressing SELECT again then closes the inventory. If you open the inventory and then close it quickly (double tap), there is a brief window where commands can be input, allowing Sir Dan to move, jump, attack etc. When the inventory is open, Dan is invulnerable. This glitch is useful with regards to level looping, jacoghosting, soldiers despawning, and skipping Kardok.

Level looping

Main article: Level looping

This glitch is widely used by speedrunners. There are multiple uses of level looping in the game. Some are used to skip to the exit of a level. Others are used to skip an enemy encounter or an area of a level which should be completed to progress.

Void launch

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Knockback dash

Main article: Knockback Dash

The club's power-up attack (pressing with button layout 1) can be used on walls and certain objects to push Dan back and gain higher than intended jumping distance.

Super weapons

Main article: Super weapons

The super weapons glitch can be performed with the club and the throwing daggers to deal more damage faster than they are intended to.

Jacoghosting

Main article: Jacoghosting

This glitch can be performed in the Pools Of The Ancient Dead level in the original MediEvil. It is mainly used to skip the majority of the level.

Smuggling

Main article: Smuggling

Smuggling can be performed in any level in the original MediEvil, as well as its 2019 remake. It consists of collecting items (such as Rune Stones) in one level in order to use them in another. Normally, key items are not meant to be used outside the level in which they are collected.

Dragon Gate Skip

Main article: Dragon Gate Skip

The Dragon Gate Skip, or DGS, is one of the hardest glitches to perform in the original MediEvil. It is used to skip the Dragon Gate in The Gallows Gauntlet, and indirectly also other levels necessary to collect the Dragon Armour.

Soldiers despawn

Main article: Soldier despawn

This glitch is possible only using the emulator ePSXe version 2.0.0 and it is used to get a significant advantage during the Fazguls' fight in Zarok's Lair.

Kardok skip

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Weapon replenishment

It is possible to perform a glitch after your weapon is stolen that involves tricking the game into maxing out its percentage or ammo count by causing it to underflow.

To do this, you must open your inventory on the same frame that the weapon is registered as stolen. If done correctly, the item will be present but will have no percentage or ammo count. Selecting the item and killing the imp that stole it will maximize its percentage or ammo count.

Trivia

• One of the main reasons for the emulator of choice for speedrunning the original MediEvil to be ePSXe 2.0.0, is because the soldiers despawn glitch can only performed on this emulator, on this specific version.