Earthbound's 1/128 Challenge Is The Ultimate Grind
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
- For Mother 2's 30th Anniversary, I decided to attempt the 1/128 challenge. This is the ultimate test of patience, getting every single rare item drop in Earthbound. Join me as I go through the process and break down how I beat this challenge.
1/128 Challenge Guide
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the gutsy bat being stuck in the cave of the past is so cruel
Not to mention the strategy guide got the enemy that drops the gutsy bat wrong i feel so bad for the kids who tried doing that
@@amandaletcher1320I was one of those kids, God damn it. HOURS spent traveling from Magicant to the Sea of Eden repeatedly to fight, I think, only three Krakens? And then having to start over again when they were all dead. Burn in Hell, Nintendo.
@@amandaletcher1320 And we never learned otherwise for YEARS!
While true, I think it's a good weapon to be stuck there.
Having so much in the way of Guts turns Ness into what is practically 300% chance to crit and 110% chance to live every hit
H@@kirbyfreakyt4695
One tip that many people forget is that Jeff's Spy command can also find items from enemies. It works the same way as items dropping, though, so you can't Spy an enemy for the item and then kill them for a second chance: if that enemy wasn't going to drop the item, you won't get it by Spying, either. However, Spying does allow you a chance to get the item without actually fighting the enemy. So annoying enemies like Chompasaur or Bionic Kraken can be made a little faster by just Spying.
Important note: Jeff has to have atleast one free inventory slot, otherwise Spy command will not show you an item
So... If you use Spy and it doesn't show, then it's no good and you can run away? Or does it have a set chance to fail? I haven't played Earthbound for a couple years and even then I never used Spy, so sorry lol 😆
@@ryanhernandez8324 It never fails (except situation I described), so if item doesn't show up, it doesn't worth it
I remember grinding starmen for at least 8 hours and still no dice. I respect this so much.
I got insanely lucky on my first complete playthrough and got it in around 50 minutes.
18:27 You can use the Escargo Express in the epilogue by talking to Ness's sister in her bedroom
I don't think you can but I can verify this pretty quickly because I have a save state right near the end. I'll be back
@@noti7510 You have to talk to her twice, the first time she'll talk about Ness's homework- and then she'll have the Escargo Express menu.
@@milesfernando oh yeah you're right. I just got round to checking. in fact, you only need to talk to her once
So I’m confused. I hunted for the sword of kings, got it in less than 40 encounters, then I got a SECOND one unintentionally. But when I tried to hunt for the goddess ribbon, it took over 900 encounters just to get the WRONG DROP.
I'm so sorry
This is absolutely insane. Props for seeing this through!
You cannot grasp the true form of Earthbound's RNG!
158 points of brain damage to Ness.
Paula felt dizzy.
Jeff got hurt and collapsed...
Poo felt a little strange.
The Mother 2 Deluxe rom hack makes every enemy's sprite on the map resemble them.
I would have lost my mind doing this. Your patience is inhuman.
Earthbound being Earthbound, I was halfway expecting there to be secret code in the game that made it impossible to get all the 1/128 items in the same playthrough.
17:00 I love the leaf transition! It reminds me of Alpharad Gold
8:16 is so sad :( i can hear the tears in your voice... Dont be sad because they are gone, be happy that you knew them while they were
Ness getting to level 69 after getting an 1/128 item in the first encounter is one of the funniest things I've ever seen
you were forgiven for your stupidity at the mall and preceded to get good luck for the rest of the run
I truly believe that the switch is by far the best way to play this challenge, because the rewind feature can put you after an rng scramble meaning you don't have to make sure your button combinations are unique for every encounter.
I did it once, I streamed it. I will never ever do it again...
holy crap i used to watch your old theories you did a decade ago & if i remember correctly you would occasionally use a sarcastic voice to say BUUUUUUUUUUT PROTO
Hey Proto! Fancy seeing you here. Cheers for your encouragement to get me to complete my first Jeff cookie challenge back in the day!
Bro you scared me damn don't just pop out of nowhere like this! Give us a warning next time 😂 love you ProtoMario ❤
While I never did the full challenge I did once grind for all the ultimate gear. This was at a time where the online guides were not very good and I will never forget that some stupid guide said that the Ego Orb was who dropped the Broken Antenna. The Ego Orb is a rare spawn that appears in the same area as the Chomposaur. Eventually I had multiple Magic Frying Pans but no Broken Antenna and I said "Okay something is clearly wrong here." Thank goodness I found a different guide with the correct information in it and got it quickly after.
I'm currently halfway through my 1/128 and taking a short break. Doing the run with no speeding up of the gameplay (playing on NSO) and Manly Fish's Brother is taking a while.
I love when random new channels pop up with quality content
1/128 as a RuneScape player that drop rate seems very reasonable
1/128 as a shiny Pokémon hunter is the best you can hope for most of the time
As a RougeLite player I wish I had 1/128 odds
Me hunting for a 1% Larvesta (non shiny btw) for HOURS in PKMN S&M
@@crystalwhispI'm actively hunting for a shiny larvesta in USUM, I have yet to encounter a single larvesta at all. This will be my test of true strength
@colony30sshittyproudbanner Oof, good luck, dude! May Arceus smile upon you XD
I've done the "get every enemy's drop" challenge and you don't know pain until you've tried for Captain Strong's Egg
On my last run, I went for everyone's ultimate equipment. I got my 3 Star Pendants, but I lost my sanity.
I also got three star pendants on my last run... It was painful
Watching this makes me realize I've gotten most of these drops. Just over many different playthroughs over time without trying for them except for the Sword of Kings one time, lol. Can't quite recall if I ever got the Gusty Bat though.
here before this channel hits the algorithm, great video dude! you have the most insane amount of patience for this challenge
This challenge and video reminded me that Chuggaaconroy battled 2 Choposaurus in a row and BOTH of then dropped the Magic Fry Pan.
I got the sword of Kings at exactly 128 battles. I believed until today that it wasn't actually RNG but an actual count because it was so perfect.
Still waiting for Earthbound 64 to be released.
calling a tactic SNOT is very much in the spirit of this game
I remember doing this challenge myself a few months ago. Those damn Dali's Clocks took me about 400-500 encounters (I lost count). Ness and Jeff were like, level 70 at the end of it. I have the image of Moonside permanently burned into my brain. Seeing you get it so quickly is... something. (Definitely not seething with jealousy right now)
And i thought i was insane for grinding for good cards in yugioh forbidden memories. This takes so much more time.
I haven't done the 1/128 challenge yet, but I have grinded for days on end trying to get the gutsy bat. I went half insane and was having dreams about it.
Nah bro i just grinded for a sword of Kings and i accidentally discovered PSI rockin omega
i literally never got any of these items and didn't even know this was a thing, i think I'm glad i didn't burden myself with this
Okay this video has convinced me to play Earthbound.
Only now having watched this video am I realizing my absurd luck walking out of Giant Step with two bombs. I was there for maybe half hour, just enough to level up three or so times. Fingers crossed that luck holds out when I go for the sword.
I love that because of save states, you didn't get exp, and jeff is diamond despite you fighting like 15 levles worth of alligators.
My man, how do you only have 250 subs? Well, 251 now. Excellent video, man.
love how this popped up in my reccomended after i started the challenge 💀
You can get the Xterminator spray much earlier if you get it from the taxis in Fourside. Not that it''s that much more useful there either.
On my most recent play through, I was in deepest darkness on my way to the volcano sanctuary, as I was right in front of it I got Paula's Ultimate weapon without even trying. So I equip it and walk towards the cave again and immediately get a second one on the very next enemy. lol
3:21 every release besides the SNES is Emulation.
Guys out hear talking about a challenge but using savestates and speedkey 💀
Mad respect for you dude!
I grinded out all the temporary drops like the Sharks and Department Store enemies. I typically grind out the Sword of Kings and broken antenna. Never seen the Gutsy Bat drop.
I completed this last year for A Retroachievements subset. It was a pretty crazy grind. Almost as bad as the GBC Dragon Warrior III gold monster medal challenge.
This tip doesn't help you out too much, but when you have multiple enemies that perhaps could drop the same item you could use Jeff to Spy on the enemy and he'll see a present behind the enemy. Hope this tip could help out someone.
The odds of this save file are crazy!!
Fun fact: i actually got the jackpot first try on the desert gambling
You deserve way more views for this video
I got psi caramel from my first lunatic cultist in the fight after talking to pokey
I’m even prouder because the crow would’ve dropped a cookie but they decided to roll for the lunatic cultist with the caramel
I got a bomb from an attack slug TWICE in a row, and the second one had doubled odds cause it was with a black antoid
I skipped the second sound stone place in my playthrough too 😂 you caught it much earlier than I did though
I didn't know brain food lunch was that rare, but I got one with like 70 ecounter when i was sword hunting
Me getting only the sword of kings and the broken antenna. I wanted to attempt to finally get the star pendant and the gutzy bat, but it's just too much man.
Great vid!
You did more encounters on the first one then I did on my whole first play-through prob lol
I’ve been at the Stonehenge Base with Ness since at level 30 and I’ve spent hours trying to get the Sword of Kings and still no luck. I just kept fighting until I gave up and I came out with Ness being at level 85 and the rest in the low 80’s.
its insane that a "1/128 chance" still might not happen, even after twice as many attempts (or even up to 350+, apparently)...but i wonder what the Average would be, given that there were a lot of Lower numbers (like ~50 attempts) to balance it back down...
15:03 I got it at 2 ecounters, without even knowing of its existance
you *_do_* know that jeff's spy ability can not only detect if enemies have items but also get the item before ending the battle... right?
0:55 it's more worst it's a coin flip per enemy if they get a chance to be chosen as the drop and it could roll no's many times
I got psi caramel twice in a row.... W H A. AA A A AA.
Both in the first time I reached happy happyisim....
when I was grinding for the sword of kings I used the tower with the long ladder like right before the maze next to the boss room. this let me quickly get enemies off screen because I wanted to do it legit without savestates and it only took like 50 or so tries
I'm confused by the Moonside enemies being considered permanent. Surely they're temporary because once you finish Moonside, you can't go back? Or am I just missing something lmao
There's a low chance for them to spawn in Dungeon Man
This is what you call dedication.
I once got a meteotite on my 2 encounter
4:50 i assume you meant to put "you should NOT try winning", right?
also personally i think the only item that's worth grinding for is the sword of kings, since it's poos ONLY weapon
One has to ask, does fast-forwarding the gameplay ruin the challenge? Or is it its own challenge.
YOU CAN WIN THE DESERT SLOTS??? smh my head
so that's how yub got that bomb
I didn't realize there were so many 1/128 drops, a lot of them don't really seem worth it LMAO. The only one I've ever tried going for is the Sword of Kings, and the last time I played it took me five days of off and on grinding. Miserable.
10:50 first try and Ness level up to lv69
Nice
What the heck, I’m doing this currently it’s probably my 13th play through
Stuck on Musica currently in the Fourside dept store, and I’m roughly 25 hours in. I was repeating the same method, so glad you posted this today, wow the luck haha.
Great run!!
Now do 1/128 challenge on Oldschool Runescape. Most of the 1/128 items are drops from entire raids lmao
Shiny hunting but with Earthbound items
I got the sword of kings on the first try accidentally
Of course the first try one you get level 69 ✋😭
Oooh where did this hermes come from.
11:01
Nice level.
did you at any point accidentally load a state after getting an item you wanted
because that'd be rough
*Laughs in Ragnarok Online*
Beast
Erfbound good!
This is flipping legendary.
Time to play runescape for its droprates :)
W Video bro, You earned a Sub
RNGesus gave you a break with those adds after what you did with musica
Think I'll stick to RuneScape honestly
ROM tocada.
Nope, definitely looked better with the soft filter.
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Wow it's almost like it's unfun and not worth it
nice leaf transition