Main Page Glitches
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The Main Pages can produce some odd glitches by clicking and holding down a button, and then dragging off them. This is due to the limits of the Flash software, which have since been recreated by Ruffle for the sake of emulation accuracy. Specifically, any image or animation that only appears while the cursor stays over a button will remain if you click the left mouse button and hold it down, then drag the cursor away from the Main Page button before letting go.
This is a list of oddities and inconsistencies in the Main Pages caused by this glitch. In the list below, "&" is used if it doesn't matter which is done first and "→" if they must be done in order.
Main Page 19 and Main Page 25 are glitch-free because the videos will be interrupted if the viewer hovers over another button while one is playing. Also, under older builds of Ruffle, all pages were free of click-and-drag glitches, as the link would send the viewer to another page even if the cursor was no longer on the button.
[edit] Glitches
| Main Page | Glitch | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Main Page 1 | Toons & Store | The dots connecting the Marzipan constellation appear over the top of the rocket. |
| Store → Characters | The Strong Bad constellation appears over Nebulon as he bounces by. | |
| Main Page 2 | Store → anything | The rain falls behind the objects. |
| E-mail → Toons | The eagle flies behind the yodeler's horn. | |
| Main Page 3 | Downloads → E-mail | When Homestar's head falls back, the glasses don't move with him. |
| Characters & E-mail | Two monkeys! Doesn't require click and drag. | |
| Main Page 4 | Characters → Toons | The pins on the far left turn back to white. |
| Characters → Games | The Games animation and its sound effects don't play. | |
| Toons or Games → Characters | The bowling balls disappear. Strangely, this does not work with Store or E-mail. | |
| Games → Characters | The pins reappear. | |
| Main Page 5 | Games & Store | The waffle iron quickly changes from having no batter to being covered with batter or from being covered with batter to having no batter. |
| Main Page 6 | Toons & Downloads | Homestar holds two harps. |
| Main Page 8 | Characters & Downloads | Homestar's star falls back, but there's no wind. |
| Characters → Store | Homestar's propeller isn't moving, even though he is flying upwards. When you move the mouse off Store, the propeller isn't moving, even though he is flying downwards. | |
| Downloads & Store | Homestar's star flies against the wind. | |
| Store → Games | Homestar's going upwards, but the blimp and smoke continues to stay on the normal passway. | |
| Store → Characters | When you move the mouse off Characters, the clouds on the screen get speed lines below them, even though they're moving down. The newly created clouds coming in the top of the screen are correct, though. | |
| Main Page 9 | Characters → E-mail | When the paper football goes by, the word KISS appears in front of the football, not behind it. |
| Characters & Games | The band logos always appear on top of the grades no matter which one appears first. | |
| Store → E-mail | When the paper football goes by, it flies behind the sticky note. | |
| Downloads → anything | Not really an oddity, but Homestar's head speaks properly even when elevated. | |
| Main Page 10 | Store → anything | Again, not really an oddity, but The Homestar Runner's head speaks properly backwards. |
| Store → Downloads | The Homestar Runner eats the bomb when not facing it. When the bomb blows up in The Homestar Runner, the puff of smoke comes out from the back of his head. | |
| Store → Store | The Homestar Runner's head moves back into position... a little bit behind where it should be. Moving the mouse off without clicking causes his head to face backwards, but still be disconnected. | |
| Store → Store → Downloads | Part of the bomb is missing in the last frame it appears. | |
| Store → Characters | A soup can flies out of the back of The Homestar Runner's head. | |
| Main Page 11 | Downloads → Store | Strong Bad appears in front of Homestar's landscape. |
| Downloads & E-mail | The Homestar Runner logo appears over Strong Bad's weather map. | |
| Downloads & Characters | The news stories appear over the weather map. | |
| Downloads & Toons | Homestar's name appears over Strong Bad. He will stay on screen until you place your cursor on "Downloads" again.) | |
| Everything (downloads first, games last) | All effects stay on-screen (except for weather map) | |
| Main Page 13 | Characters & E-mail | Two Strong Bads! (This doesn't require click-and-drag, though that makes it easier.) |
| Characters & Games | The plane flies in front of Strong Bad's head, and looks smaller as a result. (Again, this doesn't require click and drag, but it makes it easier.) | |
| Downloads → anything | Objects and characters go through the street lamps and also appear to be moving at the same speed as the road. | |
| Main Page 14 | Store → Games (move the cursor off Games without the click-and-drag method) | The water turns off, but it's still foggy. |
| Games → Characters → Store (move the cursor off Store without the click-and-drag method) | One stream of water automatically disappears. | |
| Characters → Games, Games → Characters or Characters → Store (Click and drag first button, hover on and off second button) | The shower will still be on, but it will also be dripping. | |
| Characters & Games or Store (Click and Drag both buttons) | Two streams of water. | |
| Downloads & Store | Homestar apparently writes "Lemke" through the shower curtain. | |
| E-mail → Downloads (move the cursor off Downloads without the click-and-drag method) | The towel is on, but the pixels are visible around the edges. | |
| Main Page 15 | Downloads → E-mail | PbtC Strong Bad can be heard over The Cheat and Strong Bad's conversation. |
| Main Page 16 | E-mail → anything | Homestar's voice is full and clear, even under the snow. |
| Store → Toons | The effect of Toons doesn't happen. | |
| Store & E-mail | The snow that falls on Homestar is still bright, though the snow in the background is dimmed. | |
| E-mail → Games | You can see Homestar knocked back by the snowball behind the pile of snow. His eyes, however, don't move. | |
| Over and off E-mail quickly | Homestar says "Email" quietly without the snow covering him. | |
| Main Page 17 | Store → E-mail | 1-Up's hair disappears as the screen turns to black-and-white, and then reappears. |
| Store → anything except E-mail | Part of 1-Up's hat is briefly visible through his hair. | |
| Games → Toons | If you hover the cursor over Toons at just the right time, Stinkoman will appear behind the spaceship. | |
| Main Page 18 | Toons → E-mail | The floor continues to flash, but the music stops. Does not occur in the post-April Fools' 2006 version. |
| Main Page 22 | Downloads → anything | You might not be able to see the buttons or their effects after the screen blanks, but you can still hear them. |
| Downloads → Store | You can still see Homestar's head near the "Edgar" pop-up. Additionally, if the store button is wide enough, its edge will still be visible. | |
| Downloads & E-mail | You can see the HTML hole and virus'd Strong Bad near the Edgar popup as well. | |
| Main Page 23 | Store & Downloads | The Cheat is behind the second Homestar despite being much closer, causing him to appear very large. (Also doesn't require click and drag.) |
| Main Page 24 | Store → anything | The glasses stay on, allowing the rest of the actions to be seen in greater clarity. |
| Main Page 27 | Store → anything | The text box remains on-screen, covering up the other actions. |
| Main Page 28 | Characters & Games or Downloads | Character 3 is behind the others despite being in the foreground. |
| Store & E-mail | A white box under Character 2's spiral eyes overlaps his eye expressions from the Store effect. If his mouth is taped over, his round mouth from the E-mail effect overlaps it in a similar fashion. | |
| Homsar Main Page | E-mail → Characters or Downloads | The dinosaur/boat never appears. If you hover the cursor over Characters again, the mustache appears and stays until you hover the cursor over another button. |
| Games → anything except Downloads | The top of Homsar's head and his hat appear from behind the Heavy Lourde he's supposedly crushed underneath. The Heavy Lourde doesn't disappear. | |
| Games | Not really an oddity, but if you roll on games and roll off before the Heavy Lourde falls, the sound can be heard but Homsar won't be crushed. Also, his hat jumps up and then momentarily disappears. | |
| Strong Bad Main Page | E-mail → Characters | The poster immediately flips back down - only really notable because it still curls up if you go the other way. |
| Characters → E-mail | The poster turns dark for a moment before curling up. | |
| Luau Main Page | Characters → anything | Homestar's flame remains, but his head turns pale. |
| Characters → Characters | The flame disappears, but Homestar's head turns dark anyway. | |
| Characters → Downloads | Homestar's Head falls off, but the flame stays. | |
| King of Town Main Page | Toon & Game & Download | You are able to see all three dragons appear, stacked on top of each other. |
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The Moon | Mountains | Island | Bowling | Waffles | Heaven | Graveyard | Falling | Notebook | Old-Timey |
