Here’s a tip: When hunting for the Sword of Kings, use the times you get into a double Starmen battle as a PP farm. By that I mean set up a shield and PSI Magnet away to restore tons of PP. I recommend having Poo as your main healer because he can restore PP with Magnet unlike Ness.
this is a glitch but i recommend just using a equip any item glitch and make poo equip the magic truffle. To do the glitch you have a teddy bear in your inventory then in the slot right after it have any item that you can equip (but sense this is for poo just put a holmes hat or cheap bracelet etc) then in the slot right after that have the item you want to equip (in this case the magic truffle) then encounter an enemy and have the enemy destroy the teddy bear and make poo equip the holmes hat during the same turn. Poo should have the magic truffle equipped which increases his offense by i think 80-100 and his guts by 88. If your confused about the glitch watch this video ruclips.net/video/NQcIZSyjtx0/видео.html
Fun fact: Winters is located in a country called Foggyland; it's a pretty clear reference to England, or any place in the UK. Hence, Jeff more than likely would have some type of British accent!
@@-FLETCH- That’s funny. Like a fruit loop of course. Jeff don’t leave Jeff take these socks to keep your feet warm. Jeff make sure you call me when you land in Twosom. Jeff don’t drop the soap when you are partying with that band that is always in debt.
I once got sword of kings, broken antenna, and goddess ribbon on accident in one play through. Using up all that luck has dire consequences, however. I can never get a character I know how to play when doing randoms in smash bros.
I remember I was just doing a normal play through, choosing for the sword of kings to be my only item drop to try and get. Right after I got it I unintentionally encountered a star man super and got the sword of kings immediately after my first sword of kings drop. Then I got the gutsy bat without even knowing anything about its rarity or existence, and after watching this I feel like the luckiest person alive.
I spent literal hours trying to get the sword of kings. But then later, I got the goddess ribbon on my first try when I wasn’t even going for it. Sometimes rng just likes to troll with you
The sad thing about the player's guide saying it came from the Sea of Eden was the fact that one of the screenshots show Ness IN the sea and having the bat in the inventory.
Probably could be found in the Sea of Eden in an earlier beta of the game, it makes no sense to give Ness his most powerful weapon right before Giygas.
@@sontobonto I think it was a joke : the way you wrote your comment, the syllabes could be separated in many different ways with many different interpretations.
I specifically remember hunting krakens in the sea of eden looking for the Gutsy bat, and never knew that they were dropped by that Bionic Kraken. I've seriously played through Earthbound about 7 times in my life now, and out of those 7 times, i've encountered maybe 5 total Bionic Krakens.
I had the broken antenna the rest of the game and was annoyed I couldn't throw it away. It was just taking up space. Not all of Jeff's items are that useful, but I am really glad I keep the broken bazooka that becomes the heavy bazooka and the broken trumpet that, weirdly, becomes the defense up spray. Both of those substantially increase Jeff's usefulness in general
One strategy I always enjoyed using while looking for the sword of kings was to have poo copy the recharge robots that heal each other. That way you can heal the party basically indefinitely.
My first playthrough I went out of my way to get all the max ATK/DEF equips. Hoo boy that was an experience. Turns out you farm for a gaia beam, sword of kings, goddess ribbon... and *THREE STAR PENDANTS*
It is easy to heal for free in Stonehenge, use Poo’s Mirror ability on the Nuclear Robots and wait for him to “refuel a fuel supply” for the whole party
@@SmugProductions I mean with only 8 billion people in the world and probably less than a billion who have played Earthbound odds are they don't exist.
With earthbound being on the switch you can use the rewind (or as I like to call the Divine Pulse button) to rewind before the fight starts, move or go into the item menu, and go back in the fight and you may get one without the need to over level or relocate the enemy you need to find
That guide is infamous for it's high amount of mistakes, especially those related to rare items. I believe it also claims the "Ego Orb" in the Lost Underworld drops the Magic Fry Pan. It's possible that a few little last minute changes were made to the game after the guide was already finished, but we'd need to see a late beta version of the game to confirm that theory.
One tip I have for getting the Sword of Kings is, even though the Casey bat is a terrible in-battle weapon due to its abysmal accuracy, it has very high attack power which contributes to automatic wins via green swirling Starman Supers when they're alone, which can allow for more amount of kills for that 1/128 drop.
I've been seeing people say that you can't get the gutsy bat from the original kraken in the sea of eden, but I definitely got it from that enemy on my 2nd playthrough. I saved a game there and switched files at the sea of eden every time I played through it for years.
It's different somehow than the other drops, at least in the sea. Most of the other drops in the game are determined by a random generator that produces a value up to 128 at the beginning of a fight, if the number is high enough for a particular item the enemy will have it on them. If you lock that value to 128 all of the rare (and all other) drops will appear every time in every fight, except for the gutsy bat from the krakens in the sea of eden.
I was watching this while grinding for a third star pendant. Also, ghost of starman is extremely easy if you use psi shield omega. It reflects starstorm right back at them without damaging you. I got it within an hour. I also got broken antenna on my 8th try, so that was a nice five minutes of "grinding."
I was trying to obtain the magic fry pan, and after 2 days, I got it; then, 2 minutes after that, I found my first major psychic psycho, and he gave me the star pendant.
1:36 these rules are really redundant 1. not buyable from stores 2. not findable as present 3. only dropped by enemies you.. only really need the third rule, it essentially acts as all 3 other rules, because if something follows rule 3, it by definition cant be buyable/findable so rule 1/2 are not needed
Surprisingly enough, on my second playthrough of Earthbound, I actually called that I would obtain the Gutsy Bat from the Bionic Kraken! Another note is that I ignorantly obtained the Sword of Kings from a random Starman Super at Stonehenge.
So… all that time trying to get the gutsy bat from Magicant was for nothing. So much of my childhood was restarting my game over and over trying to get it.
You're gonna shit a brick when you find out the speedrun simply manipulates it to be received using spy then is then hastily followed by running the hell away after getting the Gutsy Bat.
I did the 1/128 challenge. From skate punk to bionic kraken, this shit was tedious. Luckily I got 2 star pendants in a row when it’s 1/256 because the game flips a coin on which enemy will drop something. Wasn’t worth it but it was rewarding
Yo I just got the Sword of Kings on Switch! 5 hours of grinding in that Stonehenge base & reaching level 81 with 12 multi bottle rockets, 5 large pizzas & 10 magic tarts really paid off!!
@RoadhogTime13 Yes, but it doesn't raise its stats as good compared to Ness and his friends. I just need the satisfication of getting one of each character (those cyclops in Onet can fuck off, thanks to star pendants). Instead Poo defense stat decreases if it's not a king item. Heck, having no item is higher than giving him a non king item.
I got all of these in one run recently, it took about 50 hours of grinding by but at the end every party member was at level 99, ridiculously overpowered and I could breeze through the Giygas fight like it was nothing
I'm one of the kids who spent weeks farming for the Gutsy Bat in the wrong location, thanks to that lousy guide...I still cringe every time I think about it. T.T
On my 3ds I maxed out all my equipment, getting the best and rarest drops for all items. Funnily enough, the 3 star pendants were one of the easier grinds for me, but that's just due to general terrible rng except in that one place. It took me about 2 years of casual grinding.
When farming for the goddess ribbon have Paula equip the rabbits foot and use the PSI shield so that way you get first move and the ghost of starman gets his attack reflected back to him and eventually destroys him self
I remember one time hunting for the Sword of Kings for so long, I leveled everyone up so high that by the time I got it, it wasn't even worth it. I decided then to always drop a State Save before a fight if I'm item hunting and that's how I've been doing it ever since.
I still find it funny how I got a goddess ribbon drop by complete chance during one of my playthroughs of the game, that was cool, I think if you scroll far enough on my twitter you'll find a screencap of it lol
I honestly thought the sword of kings was dropped from the starmans in the cave of past. But I did accidentally get the goddess ribbon and was surprised. What I did know is that it had goddess in the name so it had to be good
I think in just one of my playthroughs (and I've played through this game more times then I can count) I managed to get most of those items. It was from my legit copy and played on a real SNES, and it required a whole lot of grinding and patience. Most of the time I only bother to get 4 Star Pendants. Yes, you read that right, I get 1 for each character. The weird thing is that although it usually takes awhile to get one, once you do get one they drop a lot more often. It's always like that for me, so I suspect that perhaps the odds of a rare drop get better after you get that drop. It could be just coincidence, but I've seen comments from people saying the same thing about the Sword of Kings. After they get it once, they end up getting a few more. Has anyone looked into the code to see if this is a thing?
8:19 I'm that lucky one, I swear I didn't know that weapon was so rare and I got it in my first battle with the bionic kraken or whatever it is called, in any case it was almost reaching the confrontation against gyigas, As an emulator game I did a save post gyigas so now that I know that information I will take a screenshot. PD: I also got the goddess ribbon but it was in my Tenth fight Approximately against the ghost starman, I didn't try to get it on purpose either.
I beat this game yesterday and I didn’t know the goddess bow was rare. I actually got it unknowingly and didn’t realize I had it till I had to switch my inventory around. The only rare item I got in the game. I actually do feel bad for people grinded for the gutsy bat in magicant. I actually thought it was in magicant too. I wonder how people figured out that the strategy guide was wrong. Like ik if you got lucky in cave of the past and got it on your first try you’d know then. But did Nintendo ever say anything about it I like a Nintendo power or did people just have to wait for the internet. I heard the kraken dropped it but I didn’t know there was two krakens in the game. Luckily I didn’t try to grind for it in magic ant because I saw the spawn rate for kraken was low so I said nope.
I did a 100 percent run on my 3ds through my whole senior year of high school and got every item on the list . I took brakes and stuff but it’s did take a while.
When I play Earthbound, I only ever go for the Sword of Kings and I have built up a strategy to keep the party alive while conserving pp. Every now and then, when you get into a battle with a Sharman Super, one of the reactor robots will also join occasionally. When that happens, I have Poo use his mirror ability on the reactor robot and he will keep the party healed without having to use pp or items.
What’s funny is that I did hunt for the sword of kings and that took me over 100 attempts, but I didn’t even know the goddess ribbon was a thing and I got it on my 3rd attempt without even trying
I was psycho enough to go for a perfect game file. 3 Star Pendants, Goddess Ribbon, Sword of Kings, Magic Fry Pan, Gaia Beam AND Gutsy Bat. Just because I wanted to.
I remember getting a used cartridge of this game for $10 in 1995 but... now I didn't sell it myself but someone stole it... but ah, I've recently replayed it on the SD2SNES cartridge loaded with nearly the entire Snes roms library - what a glorious technology today of re-exploring childhood games and many I never got to try! Wow I wasn't aware the Gutsy bat was rare, I've gotten it a few plays!!
I have beaten EarthBound once, and when I did, I went for the Xterminator Spray, Sword of Kings, Broken Antenna, Magic Fry Pan, three Star Pendants, Goddess Ribbon, and Gutsy Bat. The Star Pendants were the worst.
On my first play through, I got two star pendants when going through the 8th sanctuary location. I didn’t even know how rare they were until I saw this video! Unfortunately, I used up all of my luck there because I could not get the sword of kings drop for the life of me, to the point where I gave up after a few hours.
I’m doing the earthbound 1/128 challenge I’ve so far got the pizza bomb both psi caramels and the secret herb I’m try to get the metoturiom from the plain crocodile Here’s what I have 2 weeks later Pizza check Bomb check Psi caramel check Psi caramel check Secret herb check Metoturnioum Metoturnioum check Xterminator spray check Sudden guts pill check Psi caramel check Sudden guts pill check Super plush bear Horn of life Metotite check Brain food lunch check Sword of kings check Metotite check Brain food lunch Broken antenna/ Gaia beam Brain food lunch Magic fry pan Star pendant Metotite Goddess ribbon Gutsy bat
No wonder I could never get the Bat!! OMG that guide made me waste hours. I even tried with my emulator, speeding up the game and fighting the krakens over and over and over. That really kills me. I wish I would not of even heard you say that.
I wouldn't say too many bad things about Paula. Every time I played this game, around the back half of the game, she becomes a SMAAAASH!! hitting freak. It's a good back up if your trying to save your PP for more annoying monsters. Especially with how limited you inventory is.
I did the 1/128 challenge in summer of 2018, and boy, it was a tough journey! The item that took me the longest was the Military Octobot in Stonehenge Base, and the item that took me the shortest was horn of life from MFB. I wasn’t even trying to get it at the time! I don’t recall if I got it on my first or second try, but dang. I was pacing around my room freaking out for 5 minutes. I don’t know how I could be so lucky! Edit: When I did that challenge, I literally got 4 swords of kings by the time I got the meteotite. That’s how long it took me lol. What’s funny is that SoK is one of those items that can’t be sold, meaning it can’t be stolen. I had 3 Swords of Kings in escargo express Me: tries to sell swords of kings I don’t need, Shopkeeper: “Forget it! I don’t want to buy that junk!” 😂
I know it's a bit of a moot point, but I kinda don't really like these incredibly rare items in a game like this. To my mind it will pretty much always result in you being extremely overlevelled and having the rest of the game be a bit of a breeze, therefore making the actual utility of the item itself somewhat meaningless. It can be kinda fun, and ofc extremely hype if you just randomly get it unintentionally, but yeah.
The first time I did a playthrough of this game, I accidentally got the sword of kings, and I legitimately thought it was just another boring weapon for poo.
Bruh! i'm playing earthbound again and... i overlevel almost all bosses, because i kept myself grinding a lot to get rare items. First time ever i got a sword of kings, almost 2 hours grinding, still lucky. I was like level 89 when i fought the statue at the sea of eden location, since i never overleveled in this game it was fun, tedious to grind for hours but fun at the end. I even saw that green rare enemy in the desert 🗿 nice xp boost
The Gutsy Bat: Has anyone gotten this item without using cheats? It makes the rounds of the top five hardest items lists. I battled the Kraken once maybe, he comes up so infrequently and toward the end. I beat Giygas the second time I got toward the end, since my cart did that infamous freeze.
I’ve gotten the sword of kings and the magic frying pan. I farmed for the star pendent and the gutsy bat in the sea of eden. (Followed the players guy back in the day). I didn’t find out it was in the wrong place until years later.
I got a cookie from a Spiteful Crow. I am the luckiest man in existence
I got at least ten im luckier than you
it has 100% drop rate kek
@@tarragon112 thats the joke
@@tarragon112 u dumb
Paula has a bomb
Here’s a tip:
When hunting for the Sword of Kings, use the times you get into a double Starmen battle as a PP farm. By that I mean set up a shield and PSI Magnet away to restore tons of PP. I recommend having Poo as your main healer because he can restore PP with Magnet unlike Ness.
i always was overpowered that i just walk into them and instant win it was very fast getting the sword of kings
Tons of pp
@@miufke_ YOU NEED TO BE STOPPED
this is a glitch but i recommend just using a equip any item glitch and make poo equip the magic truffle.
To do the glitch you have a teddy bear in your inventory then in the slot right after it have any item that you can equip (but sense this is for poo just put a holmes hat or cheap bracelet etc) then in the slot right after that have the item you want to equip (in this case the magic truffle) then encounter an enemy and have the enemy destroy the teddy bear and make poo equip the holmes hat during the same turn. Poo should have the magic truffle equipped which increases his offense by i think 80-100 and his guts by 88. If your confused about the glitch watch this video ruclips.net/video/NQcIZSyjtx0/видео.html
I got it at 2nd try lmao
Honestly, the Gutsy Bat should have been found in the Sea of Eden, its basically worthless at the point you get it in the game.
Would have definitely fit more too, right in ness's subconscious lies a manifestation of his courage his guts.
your voice is the way I’d expect Jeff’s to sound. Not a bad thing tho
Fun fact: Winters is located in a country called Foggyland; it's a pretty clear reference to England, or any place in the UK. Hence, Jeff more than likely would have some type of British accent!
I was thinking Steve Urkel
i imagine lloyd to sound like lucas's smash bros voice
I wonder what Tony would sound like?
@@-FLETCH- That’s funny. Like a fruit loop of course. Jeff don’t leave Jeff take these socks to keep your feet warm. Jeff make sure you call me when you land in Twosom. Jeff don’t drop the soap when you are partying with that band that is always in debt.
You missed an opportunity to call each of these the 3rd rarest item drop
lol
Reupload on April 1st. 😂
This is the 3rd best comment on this video
this is the third best reply to your comment
This reference is greater than the 4th best reference but not as good as the send best reference.
How to get all these rare items with no time or effort:
*C H E A T S*
Or use restore points on Virtual Console/Plug and Play SNES
I once got sword of kings, broken antenna, and goddess ribbon on accident in one play through. Using up all that luck has dire consequences, however. I can never get a character I know how to play when doing randoms in smash bros.
@@tdmage2092 it's a joke...
Or you can be Chuggaconroy.
Skepsi jjjj
I remember I was just doing a normal play through, choosing for the sword of kings to be my only item drop to try and get. Right after I got it I unintentionally encountered a star man super and got the sword of kings immediately after my first sword of kings drop. Then I got the gutsy bat without even knowing anything about its rarity or existence, and after watching this I feel like the luckiest person alive.
Happened to me too, when he said the gutsy bat, I was like oh shit, that's rare?
I spent literal hours trying to get the sword of kings. But then later, I got the goddess ribbon on my first try when I wasn’t even going for it. Sometimes rng just likes to troll with you
...I'd love to see more stuff like this
The sad thing about the player's guide saying it came from the Sea of Eden was the fact that one of the screenshots show Ness IN the sea and having the bat in the inventory.
Oof, they didn't even TRY
I thought that's how u got the homerun bat
Bruh
@@masonkyplain2582 the homerun bat isn't a weapon in the game... it's a smash bros. item.
Probably could be found in the Sea of Eden in an earlier beta of the game, it makes no sense to give Ness his most powerful weapon right before Giygas.
*Y O U W O N A L I K E*
@HORSE馬 im pretty sure i was saying "you won a like", i know its hard to understand but jeez you dont have to be a douche about it
@James D, writer of Fahrenheit 1984 its "you won a like",are u blind?
@@sontobonto I think it was a joke : the way you wrote your comment, the syllabes could be separated in many different ways with many different interpretations.
Just yesterday I was playing and got the Gutsy Bat not knowing it is that rare 😆
I got the Magic Frying pan and I sold it not knowing Its rare Until i Watched this video.....
I stopped playing Earthbound after that
@@CrinFelks i wouldn't mind the holy fry pan.
you... got a gutsy bat... you... It took me days to find that and you found it that quickly?
@@thedesyncedcontroller7404 maybe he has better luck than you and me.
me who’s gotten the magic fry pan, sword of kings, and gutsy bat 😅
Here is my favorite part of magicant: flying man getting one shot from the first enemy I fight because it throws a super bomb at him
I specifically remember hunting krakens in the sea of eden looking for the Gutsy bat, and never knew that they were dropped by that Bionic Kraken.
I've seriously played through Earthbound about 7 times in my life now, and out of those 7 times, i've encountered maybe 5 total Bionic Krakens.
I had the broken antenna the rest of the game and was annoyed I couldn't throw it away. It was just taking up space. Not all of Jeff's items are that useful, but I am really glad I keep the broken bazooka that becomes the heavy bazooka and the broken trumpet that, weirdly, becomes the defense up spray. Both of those substantially increase Jeff's usefulness in general
I was a big HP Sucker fan, saves so much Ness healing PP in the midgame before it becomes all about party heals near the end.
The major psychic psycho also spawns with the soul consuming flame
That's true I keep going back into this tunnel hoping it drops but keep getting the dang meteoite from the flame :l
One strategy I always enjoyed using while looking for the sword of kings was to have poo copy the recharge robots that heal each other. That way you can heal the party basically indefinitely.
psi lifeup B or psi lifeup Omega can do the job good too but that way is better cuz no need to waste pp
My first playthrough I went out of my way to get all the max ATK/DEF equips. Hoo boy that was an experience.
Turns out you farm for a gaia beam, sword of kings, goddess ribbon...
and *THREE STAR PENDANTS*
I actually got the magic fry pan after over 10 attempts. (Literally. I actually got it.)
Gianni Scardino 3 in a row baby
I got it on the first chompasaur.
I’m currently grinding star pendants before I go to the cave of the past, two left.
I got that also.
It is easy to heal for free in Stonehenge, use Poo’s Mirror ability on the Nuclear Robots and wait for him to “refuel a fuel supply” for the whole party
6:33 Splatoon Boss And Mike Wasawaski XD
I envy the person that managed to get all these items on their first try!
The probability of getting all 5 on the first try is roughly 1/34,359,738,368
@@terpsidance. which is exactly why I envy them
@@SmugProductions I mean with only 8 billion people in the world and probably less than a billion who have played Earthbound odds are they don't exist.
With earthbound being on the switch you can use the rewind (or as I like to call the Divine Pulse button) to rewind before the fight starts, move or go into the item menu, and go back in the fight and you may get one without the need to over level or relocate the enemy you need to find
I had the Earthbound players guide. I was trying to get the Gutsy Bat for 25 years in the Sea of Eden.
I found out the guide was wrong last week.
That guide is infamous for it's high amount of mistakes, especially those related to rare items. I believe it also claims the "Ego Orb" in the Lost Underworld drops the Magic Fry Pan. It's possible that a few little last minute changes were made to the game after the guide was already finished, but we'd need to see a late beta version of the game to confirm that theory.
One tip I have for getting the Sword of Kings is, even though the Casey bat is a terrible in-battle weapon due to its abysmal accuracy, it has very high attack power which contributes to automatic wins via green swirling Starman Supers when they're alone, which can allow for more amount of kills for that 1/128 drop.
Chungaconroy got the sword of king and 2 magic fry pan
Thats one lucky guy
He has really good luck when he doesn't need it
@@BiyikFrostDiaz
When he does need it, he still does.
His luck was not in point in Mario Party 4 though.
I've been seeing people say that you can't get the gutsy bat from the original kraken in the sea of eden, but I definitely got it from that enemy on my 2nd playthrough. I saved a game there and switched files at the sea of eden every time I played through it for years.
It's different somehow than the other drops, at least in the sea. Most of the other drops in the game are determined by a random generator that produces a value up to 128 at the beginning of a fight, if the number is high enough for a particular item the enemy will have it on them. If you lock that value to 128 all of the rare (and all other) drops will appear every time in every fight, except for the gutsy bat from the krakens in the sea of eden.
I was watching this while grinding for a third star pendant.
Also, ghost of starman is extremely easy if you use psi shield omega. It reflects starstorm right back at them without damaging you. I got it within an hour. I also got broken antenna on my 8th try, so that was a nice five minutes of "grinding."
I got the goddess ribbon accidently when Jeff spied on a ghost of starman
I was trying to obtain the magic fry pan, and after 2 days, I got it; then, 2 minutes after that, I found my first major psychic psycho, and he gave me the star pendant.
7:01 Why does that sync so well
I got the magic frying pan twice in my first run without realizing it was actually rare. Wish i had the same luck with the sword of kings
1:36 these rules are really redundant
1. not buyable from stores
2. not findable as present
3. only dropped by enemies
you.. only really need the third rule, it essentially acts as all 3 other rules, because if something follows rule 3, it by definition cant be buyable/findable so rule 1/2 are not needed
Sometimes your brain just goes on autopilot when you write a script
@@ReeseyPuffy heh, i can imagine
i remember the first time i played earthbound i had defeated the first starman super and got the sword of kings i was freaking out
Surprisingly enough, on my second playthrough of Earthbound, I actually called that I would obtain the Gutsy Bat from the Bionic Kraken!
Another note is that I ignorantly obtained the Sword of Kings from a random Starman Super at Stonehenge.
Bros got luck more legendary than the legendary bat
I remember actually getting the Gutsy Bat on my first Bionic Kraken. I wasn’t planning on grinding for it so I was super happy.
I like to make up stories too
So… all that time trying to get the gutsy bat from Magicant was for nothing. So much of my childhood was restarting my game over and over trying to get it.
Wait the Gutsy bat is THAT rare? I got it on the first bionic kraken I ran into there and I was like “The hell is this thing?”
I remember playing earthbound for the first time and getting the goddess ribbon while im not even farming for it because i didnt know it exists.
The gutsy bat's method of acquisition is just mean. It almost might as well just not even be in the game.
The one item I use the debug menu and other is bag of snakes.
You're gonna shit a brick when you find out the speedrun simply manipulates it to be received using spy then is then hastily followed by running the hell away after getting the Gutsy Bat.
Sorry I was constipated when you commented this
@@ReeseyPuffy come back in a week or so then
Sorry I'll be busy making out with my girlfriend next week can we wait another time
@@ReeseyPuffy Yeah man, take your time; all 30 seconds.
Even that's too generous
I got two gutsy bats in a span of an hour
Oh, and I got a Meteotite from a Whirling Robo without TRYING.
How?
@@slimballs9650 no fucking idea
If it was for items you can find or buy, the rarest thing would be anything from the slots in the desert
imma be a hunnid with you chief, i had no idea the sword of kings even existed when i first played
I did the 1/128 challenge. From skate punk to bionic kraken, this shit was tedious. Luckily I got 2 star pendants in a row when it’s 1/256 because the game flips a coin on which enemy will drop something. Wasn’t worth it but it was rewarding
Yo I just got the Sword of Kings on Switch! 5 hours of grinding in that Stonehenge base & reaching level 81 with 12 multi bottle rockets, 5 large pizzas & 10 magic tarts really paid off!!
This is what made Earthbound great. When an enemy FINALLY dropped that rare item you've been grinding for... Day=MADE.
it is suprisingly rare to hear chuggaaconroy mentioned, but always happy when he is.
“Unless you’re as lucky as chuggaaconroy was.” You mean the tule in his second LP where he got two in a row right? Dang, that brings back memories.
4:38 call me insane but I alway's hunt for these, yes four star pendants.
Holy hell, you're insane
@@acamera367 To add more salt to the wound, I use save states to prevent me from overleveling.
@@ShiftyGuy777 Okay I can respect that actually, being overleveled sucks
@@acamera367 I dislike it as well, being overleveled in games makes it boring.
@RoadhogTime13 Yes, but it doesn't raise its stats as good compared to Ness and his friends. I just need the satisfication of getting one of each character (those cyclops in Onet can fuck off, thanks to star pendants). Instead Poo defense stat decreases if it's not a king item. Heck, having no item is higher than giving him a non king item.
I got all of these in one run recently, it took about 50 hours of grinding by but at the end every party member was at level 99, ridiculously overpowered and I could breeze through the Giygas fight like it was nothing
I got the gutsy bat in my first run of the game and I threw it away hahahaha
R.I.P you should always check your status afterwards
Chuggaaconroy would get these all on his first tries.
I'm one of the kids who spent weeks farming for the Gutsy Bat in the wrong location, thanks to that lousy guide...I still cringe every time I think about it. T.T
I give you my condolences
On my 3ds I maxed out all my equipment, getting the best and rarest drops for all items. Funnily enough, the 3 star pendants were one of the easier grinds for me, but that's just due to general terrible rng except in that one place. It took me about 2 years of casual grinding.
When farming for the goddess ribbon have Paula equip the rabbits foot and use the PSI shield so that way you get first move and the ghost of starman gets his attack reflected back to him and eventually destroys him self
Offense capping at 255 essentially makes the Gutsy Bat useless. I've never had a playthrough where the Legendary Bat doesn't cap Ness's offense out.
I remember one time hunting for the Sword of Kings for so long, I leveled everyone up so high that by the time I got it, it wasn't even worth it. I decided then to always drop a State Save before a fight if I'm item hunting and that's how I've been doing it ever since.
I still find it funny how I got a goddess ribbon drop by complete chance during one of my playthroughs of the game, that was cool, I think if you scroll far enough on my twitter you'll find a screencap of it lol
you liked my comment before I even finished the video wow that's fast
No matter how lucky you are chuggaaconroy is luckier
I grinded for the sword my last play through. I turned out at level 90 by the time i dropped it 😅. Made everything afterwards pretty easy.
I honestly thought the sword of kings was dropped from the starmans in the cave of past. But I did accidentally get the goddess ribbon and was surprised. What I did know is that it had goddess in the name so it had to be good
I think in just one of my playthroughs (and I've played through this game more times then I can count) I managed to get most of those items. It was from my legit copy and played on a real SNES, and it required a whole lot of grinding and patience. Most of the time I only bother to get 4 Star Pendants. Yes, you read that right, I get 1 for each character. The weird thing is that although it usually takes awhile to get one, once you do get one they drop a lot more often. It's always like that for me, so I suspect that perhaps the odds of a rare drop get better after you get that drop. It could be just coincidence, but I've seen comments from people saying the same thing about the Sword of Kings. After they get it once, they end up getting a few more. Has anyone looked into the code to see if this is a thing?
8:19 I'm that lucky one, I swear I didn't know that weapon was so rare and I got it in my first battle with the bionic kraken or whatever it is called, in any case it was almost reaching the confrontation against gyigas, As an emulator game I did a save post gyigas so now that I know that information I will take a screenshot.
PD: I also got the goddess ribbon but it was in my Tenth fight Approximately against the ghost starman, I didn't try to get it on purpose either.
I beat this game yesterday and I didn’t know the goddess bow was rare. I actually got it unknowingly and didn’t realize I had it till I had to switch my inventory around. The only rare item I got in the game. I actually do feel bad for people grinded for the gutsy bat in magicant. I actually thought it was in magicant too. I wonder how people figured out that the strategy guide was wrong. Like ik if you got lucky in cave of the past and got it on your first try you’d know then. But did Nintendo ever say anything about it I like a Nintendo power or did people just have to wait for the internet. I heard the kraken dropped it but I didn’t know there was two krakens in the game. Luckily I didn’t try to grind for it in magic ant because I saw the spawn rate for kraken was low so I said nope.
I did a 100 percent run on my 3ds through my whole senior year of high school and got every item on the list . I took brakes and stuff but it’s did take a while.
You know what makes the Star Pendant less useful? The Travel Charm also prevents paralysis.
When I play Earthbound, I only ever go for the Sword of Kings and I have built up a strategy to keep the party alive while conserving pp. Every now and then, when you get into a battle with a Sharman Super, one of the reactor robots will also join occasionally. When that happens, I have Poo use his mirror ability on the reactor robot and he will keep the party healed without having to use pp or items.
What’s funny is that I did hunt for the sword of kings and that took me over 100 attempts, but I didn’t even know the goddess ribbon was a thing and I got it on my 3rd attempt without even trying
I was psycho enough to go for a perfect game file. 3 Star Pendants, Goddess Ribbon, Sword of Kings, Magic Fry Pan, Gaia Beam AND Gutsy Bat. Just because I wanted to.
I remember getting a used cartridge of this game for $10 in 1995 but... now I didn't sell it myself but someone stole it... but ah, I've recently replayed it on the SD2SNES cartridge loaded with nearly the entire Snes roms library - what a glorious technology today of re-exploring childhood games and many I never got to try!
Wow I wasn't aware the Gutsy bat was rare, I've gotten it a few plays!!
I got 2 meteorites in a row
without the evil eye.
I remember getting the sword of kings without even searching it, then I saw it was an item pretty hard to get
Ahh, my favorite game as kid.
I have beaten EarthBound once, and when I did, I went for the Xterminator Spray, Sword of Kings, Broken Antenna, Magic Fry Pan, three Star Pendants, Goddess Ribbon, and Gutsy Bat. The Star Pendants were the worst.
I've hunted for the Gutsy Bat for like a week and I now hate "Battle Against a Machine".
I remember back in 7th grade finding the sword of kings on my first Starman Deluxe. Felt like a boss for the rest of the playthrough
Excellent video. I hope the algorithm pushes it out to more peeps!
On my first play through, I got two star pendants when going through the 8th sanctuary location. I didn’t even know how rare they were until I saw this video! Unfortunately, I used up all of my luck there because I could not get the sword of kings drop for the life of me, to the point where I gave up after a few hours.
I’m doing the earthbound 1/128 challenge I’ve so far got the pizza bomb both psi caramels and the secret herb I’m try to get the metoturiom from the plain crocodile
Here’s what I have 2 weeks later
Pizza check
Bomb check
Psi caramel check
Psi caramel check
Secret herb check
Metoturnioum
Metoturnioum check
Xterminator spray check
Sudden guts pill check
Psi caramel check
Sudden guts pill check
Super plush bear
Horn of life
Metotite check
Brain food lunch check
Sword of kings check
Metotite check
Brain food lunch
Broken antenna/ Gaia beam
Brain food lunch
Magic fry pan
Star pendant
Metotite
Goddess ribbon
Gutsy bat
No wonder I could never get the Bat!! OMG that guide made me waste hours. I even tried with my emulator, speeding up the game and fighting the krakens over and over and over. That really kills me. I wish I would not of even heard you say that.
My first run of Earthbound I got the goddess ribbon not knowing that it was as rare as it was
I wouldn't say too many bad things about Paula. Every time I played this game, around the back half of the game, she becomes a SMAAAASH!! hitting freak. It's a good back up if your trying to save your PP for more annoying monsters. Especially with how limited you inventory is.
Also worth noting it boosts the usefulness of Sudden Guts Pill if anyone's going that route.
I did the 1/128 challenge in summer of 2018, and boy, it was a tough journey! The item that took me the longest was the Military Octobot in Stonehenge Base, and the item that took me the shortest was horn of life from MFB. I wasn’t even trying to get it at the time! I don’t recall if I got it on my first or second try, but dang. I was pacing around my room freaking out for 5 minutes. I don’t know how I could be so lucky!
Edit: When I did that challenge, I literally got 4 swords of kings by the time I got the meteotite. That’s how long it took me lol. What’s funny is that SoK is one of those items that can’t be sold, meaning it can’t be stolen. I had 3 Swords of Kings in escargo express
Me: tries to sell swords of kings I don’t need,
Shopkeeper: “Forget it! I don’t want to buy that junk!” 😂
Dude if I spent a whole morning trying to get the sword of kings I don't even want to begin to imagine how long I'd take for the gutsy bat
Im a year late to this, but I got the gutsy bat in magicant, and the goddess band in 1 playthrough without even knowing it was rare..
The rarest item in earthbound is earthbound
I kinda got godess ribbon on my one and only playthrough not knowing it was this rare
I remember grinding for psi rockin in stonehenge and by accident i got sword of kings.. I feel kinda lucky looking back.
I know it's a bit of a moot point, but I kinda don't really like these incredibly rare items in a game like this. To my mind it will pretty much always result in you being extremely overlevelled and having the rest of the game be a bit of a breeze, therefore making the actual utility of the item itself somewhat meaningless. It can be kinda fun, and ofc extremely hype if you just randomly get it unintentionally, but yeah.
I got a gutsy bat on an emulator save I'll never get back. I didn't even know how rare it was until seeing this video lol
I give you my condolences
Oh my God, you actually mentioned Emile's Chomposaur luck. I was gonna do that.
I spent soooooo much goddamn time fighting those kraken in the dream world to never find that bat...... fuck that guide
The first time I did a playthrough of this game, I accidentally got the sword of kings, and I legitimately thought it was just another boring weapon for poo.
even though its the only weapon for poo?
@@NewSoupWiiHii I didn't know at the time that it was the only weapon, I just assumed I would find more later on and equipped it anyways.
@@Gman_2009_ understandable, have a nice day
Bruh! i'm playing earthbound again and... i overlevel almost all bosses, because i kept myself grinding a lot to get rare items.
First time ever i got a sword of kings, almost 2 hours grinding, still lucky.
I was like level 89 when i fought the statue at the sea of eden location, since i never overleveled in this game it was fun, tedious to grind for hours but fun at the end.
I even saw that green rare enemy in the desert 🗿 nice xp boost
Current state: Grinding for a Goddess Ribbon, all the characters are 90+
ness 99
paula 98
jeff 97
poo 93
I've never grinded all this much... 🗿 crazy
believe it or not, i got the gutsy bat with the first bionic kraken i found, i was impacted
I came here after getting the goddess ribbon on my first fight with a ghost of a starman, didnt know they were other rare items
The Gutsy Bat: Has anyone gotten this item without using cheats? It makes the rounds of the top five hardest items lists. I battled the Kraken once maybe, he comes up so infrequently and toward the end. I beat Giygas the second time I got toward the end, since my cart did that infamous freeze.
pirate xd
I have no idea why I clicked on this video, I don’t even have the game!
Maybe it’ll come in use someday.
So basically:
Sword of kings (unlocked) (finally)
Magic fry pan (don’t plan on getting)
Star pendant
Goddess ribbon
Gutsy bat (don’t plan on getting)
What about the broken antenna?
Finally found the SoK! (SoK = Sword of Kings)
I’ve gotten the sword of kings and the magic frying pan. I farmed for the star pendent and the gutsy bat in the sea of eden. (Followed the players guy back in the day). I didn’t find out it was in the wrong place until years later.