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elentar: Aug 26, 2002; Every single year the Ivy League takes a break from fucking up the world through its various alumni to fuck up everyone's bracket instead.

Zorglorfian posted:

Now onto Earthbound! Never played it (tried it and got bored), but willing to learn.

Earthbound is wonderful bizarre magic, but it may be one of those things you have to encounter at the right age to totally fall in love with.

The run should be good though, it's glitched and sequence broken to hell and back.

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Zorglorfian posted:

Now onto Earthbound! Never played it (tried it and got bored), but willing to learn.

If you didn't at least get to Threed you didn't give it enough of a chance. Earthbound's strength is its dialogue though and I doubt this run is really gonna be a good showcase of that.

# ? Jul 30, 2015 03:02

Brother Entropy: Dec 27, 2009

Internet Kraken posted:

If you didn't at least get to Threed you didn't give it enough of a chance. Earthbound's strength is its dialogue though and I doubt this run is really gonna be a good showcase of that.

also yeah, as much as earthbound is probably my favorite game ever the combat's kind of a chore until you get your second party member (especially peaceful rest valley)

everyone play earthbound

# ? Jul 30, 2015 03:05

Moatman: Mar 21, 2014; Because the goof is all mine.

UV_Catastrophe posted:

I guess this was an impromptu thing

didn't see it on the schedule

It was a donation incentive that barely beat its 2k goal.

# ? Jul 30, 2015 03:05

itskage: Aug 26, 2003

Internet Kraken posted:

If you didn't at least get to Threed you didn't give it enough of a chance. Earthbound's strength is its dialogue though and I doubt this run is really gonna be a good showcase of that.

Yeah it's all of the dialog and funny cut scenes and without that it's pretty boring.

Best I think we'll see is some enemy evasion and some combat tricks? I don't know what the speed run looks like.

# ? Jul 30, 2015 03:05

Crotch Bat: Dec 6, 2003; Much like with everything else in life, the Euros seem to have more sense on how to do things in a fun atmosphere without sucking the soul out of the event.

itskage posted:

This is actually why I never beat that. Disk read error followed by the loss of hours of sailing collecting triforce pieces.

I had just finished that and my save got corrupted. Never beaten that game. Kinda sad, would like to have another go at it some day.

# ? Jul 30, 2015 03:06

Incoherence: May 22, 2004; POYO AND TEAR

raditts posted:

You can beat him without the Master Sword in OOT? I remember the first time I played I skipped the master sword because I had the Goron sword and I wailed on him for like 10 solid minutes to no effect.

The Master Sword in OoT is required to progress through the game "normally", but I think the only time you actually have to hit Ganon with it is for the final blow (and the game telegraphs the fact that you should do this). During the "hit the tail" portion of the fight, several weapons work against him (I used the hammer as a kid).

The any% OoT route involves warping to the ending tower collapse scene as Young Link, which causes two interesting effects: one, they set every weapon to 1 damage against Ganon except the Deku Stick (because Adult Link can't use it so why would it matter?), and two, at the appropriate time Young Link automatically equips the Master Sword (which you never technically obtained).

# ? Jul 30, 2015 03:06

Random Stranger: Nov 27, 2009

A disk system? There is a Japanese cart that I would expect to be faster.

Fake edit: Ah, that bug may be why they're doing it with this version.

# ? Jul 30, 2015 03:07

SWMadness: Jul 16, 2011; Excellent.

"Arbitrary Code Execution" is the most magical phrase when it comes to speed-running. :allears:

# ? Jul 30, 2015 03:07

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Brother Entropy posted:

a speedrun is basically the worst way to experience earthbound for your first time, it skips all the entertaining dialog and unique character of the world

I actually plan on playing it (it's on my Wii U) sometime soon (especially with the death of Iwata guilting me into playing it.)

It's weird because I LOVE the heck out of Mother 3 and yes, I cried at the ending.

# ? Jul 30, 2015 03:07

elentar: Aug 26, 2002; Every single year the Ivy League takes a break from fucking up the world through its various alumni to fuck up everyone's bracket instead.

Such a sucker for real-time arbitrary code execution.

# ? Jul 30, 2015 03:08

Sentient Data: Aug 31, 2011; My molecule scrambler ray will disintegrate your armor with one blow!

Huh, I didn't know the logo originally used a rapier or whatever that kind of sword is called

# ? Jul 30, 2015 03:08

raditts: Feb 21, 2001; The Kwanzaa Bot is here to protect me.

Hahahaha what

# ? Jul 30, 2015 03:11

Factory Davey: Jan 9, 2010; I am aware of what the hands look like. I did my best.

WHAT JUST HAPPENED

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Migishu: Oct 22, 2005; I'll eat your fucking eyeballs if you're not careful; Grimey Drawer

Dat Zelda glitch

# ? Jul 30, 2015 03:11

YourHumbleMessiah: Oct 11, 2005

hahahahahahahaha

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Erata: May 11, 2009; Lipstick Apathy

and then you win.

# ? Jul 30, 2015 03:11

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I blinked. What happened?

# ? Jul 30, 2015 03:11

emdash: Oct 19, 2003; and?

That owned

# ? Jul 30, 2015 03:11

El Burbo: Oct 10, 2012

Lol okay

# ? Jul 30, 2015 03:12

evilalien: Jul 29, 2005; Knowledge is born from Curiosity.

Sockfolder is ridiculous at finding these ACE for various games.

# ? Jul 30, 2015 03:12

Ocatamai: Jun 18, 2004; Perfect and Elegant Maid

Great run

# ? Jul 30, 2015 03:12

SWMadness: Jul 16, 2011; Excellent.

Arbitrary code execution glitch runs are the BEST.

"do random nonsensical thing" CUE CREDITS :golfclap:

# ? Jul 30, 2015 03:12

Sage Grimm: Feb 18, 2013; Let's go explorin' little dude!

Harass some ghosts, play some music and get them to crash the game in such a way that you get whisked away to Zelda.

# ? Jul 30, 2015 03:12

itskage: Aug 26, 2003

Gotta go post in Coding Horrors :stare:

# ? Jul 30, 2015 03:12

nerdbot: Mar 16, 2012

SWMadness posted:

Arbitrary code execution glitch runs are the BEST.

"do random nonsensical thing" CUE CREDITS

I love that this also describes Sonic 06 speedruns too.

# ? Jul 30, 2015 03:12

Polio Vax Scene: Apr 5, 2009

how do people find this

# ? Jul 30, 2015 03:12

bucksmash: Mar 11, 2002

hahahahaha holy poo poo I was wondering what he was doing with the ghosts and welp

# ? Jul 30, 2015 03:13

SWMadness: Jul 16, 2011; Excellent.

Manslaughter posted:

how do people find this

The game's been out for over 25 years, that's a LOT of time to comb through code and run TAS shenanigans.

# ? Jul 30, 2015 03:13

Shadow Ninja 64: May 21, 2007; "I stood there, wondering why the puck was getting bigger...

and then it hit me."

evilalien posted:

Sockfolder is ridiculous at finding these ACE for various games.

He also streams a lot when testing glitches in various games: http://www.twitch.tv/sockfolder

# ? Jul 30, 2015 03:13

Maple Leaf: Aug 24, 2010; Let'en my post flyen true

Zelda started

Zelda's over

# ? Jul 30, 2015 03:13

Random Stranger: Nov 27, 2009

I had just tuned in again and saw Zelda starting so I thought I was sitting down for the swordless run. That was a surprise.

# ? Jul 30, 2015 03:13

Factory Davey: Jan 9, 2010; I am aware of what the hands look like. I did my best.

That was actually kind of creepy. Do weird poo poo on a graveyard with ghosts everywhere, screen cuts to black with weird machine sounds in the background, then it just ends.

# ? Jul 30, 2015 03:13

Sprecherscrow: Dec 20, 2009

nerdbot posted:

I love that this also describes Sonic 06 speedruns too.

Or playing Sonic 06 regularly for that matter.

# ? Jul 30, 2015 03:14

Skeezy: Jul 3, 2007

Earthbound time baby

# ? Jul 30, 2015 03:14

nerdbot: Mar 16, 2012

Manslaughter posted:

how do people find this

I love that it's not only an incredibly specific exploit that relies on several otherwise-unrelated variables, it only even works in a certain release of the game. That's nuts.

# ? Jul 30, 2015 03:14

Phone: Jul 30, 2005; 親子丼をほしい。

Skeezy posted:

Earthbound time baby

With Caleb Hart baby

# ? Jul 30, 2015 03:15

Sentient Data: Aug 31, 2011; My molecule scrambler ray will disintegrate your armor with one blow!

Baltazar Robotnik posted:

That was actually kind of creepy. Do weird poo poo on a graveyard with ghosts everywhere, screen cuts to black with weird machine sounds in the background, then it just ends.

Don't forget the hyperrealistic blood

# ? Jul 30, 2015 03:15