I just don't understand what the Programmers were thinking with the other versions! Like, I get that the Celestial Weapons should be harder to get, but some of these mini games are downright sadistic! This one and the 200 Lightning Bolts for Lulu are a good example!
At least the lightning dodging has the crater trick which offers some level of mercy, without it I would have struggled heavily on it too, I dont think I ever did it without the trick
@@Dansg08 Omg! I never thought I'd get a response from the uploader! Well, I just wanted to say I love your content man! And your commentary! Keep up the good work, mate!
@@jeremywithacamera235 Yeah, I think what happened is they all kept getting better and better and then applied their best to us casual players. It wasn't fair. The way they stacked blitzball against us is moronic too. And I don't just mean the first game. Al Bhed have overpowered Nimrook and you really need to fire all the Aurochs which is kind of cruel imo lmao
@@BlackWingedSeraphX At least with that you can hire a good team and keep it at low levels which gives you a good chance to win. This and the thunder dodging are downright sadistic.
I got tired of this mini game, and when i repay it, i download a cheat that pauses the timer. It's just not worth my getting upset. I play games to have fun, and it's not fun.
@@K24B honestly, I just googled something like, "ffx chocobo timer cheat". It's a program that runs, and when you are about to do the game, you alt tab, press the button, and run the race. Easy
I remember when I actually got 0.0 seconds exactly!!! Was so happy at first as I was grinding for like an hour, to then have it ripped from underneath me, was a harsh reality!!
Tidus is the only party member I finish the game without his celestial weapon because of this damn mini game. I even tolerate dodging 200 lightning bolt compared to this torture.
@workliferecognition7002 I got your point. Even so, what is the point of using a celestial weapon if you couldn't upgrade it to full capability because of this dumb af minigame?
They put the remastered version on Xbox so I had to complete this minigame for like the 5th time. I remember how aggravating it was back when I played it on ps2. It’s almost entirely based on whether the balloons spawn on the right side at the beginning.
Pretty much, I think if only they had a quick reset function the entire experience would be way less punishing, being forced to still complete the race when you already know the RNG is terrible is one reason it's so frustrating I think
As a kid, I remember a walkthrough for the US PS2 version that claimed such a glitch existed for the US release. Something about holding all the trigger buttons or something... Amazing to know the glitch exists though, because I do remember it being phrased like the birds "phase through you" or something like that.
This is an amazing glitch find! Sad that they had it patched. It sounds like the set up to get this done is tricky enough to be a minigame for FFX’s standards, but i guess we cant have it all. Anyway, back to sacrificing birds for the RNG gods :P
It's probably because you're flagged as 'being hit' when the bird hits you and then that flag is turned off by the hit message, but it gets interrupted by the time over message. So the birds can't hit you because the game thinks you're already being hit. That's my programmer speculation anyway
A shame this was patched out when the lightning crater trick continues to work for all versions of the game. I guess the devs had mercy on us for that one, but were insistent on causing people suffering with this minigame :P
I used to think this mini-game was the hardest to do (then the 200 lightning bolts in second place) but I actually think getting Wakka's fully activated celestial is even worse. I had to play Blitzball for days. You have to be constantly reseting the data, re-entering to check the league and tournament prizes, manage to get the 3 different Reels, then the Sigil. It's a freaking nightmare. I'd rather do this chocobo race three times or dodge 400 lightning bolts than have to play all those blitzball games. (And the Al-Bhed Psyches are a pain in the ass thanks to Nimrook, their goalkeeper.)
Blitzball is a breeze. Easiest was to get through the tournaments and get Wakka's part is to be sure to learn the Jecht shot. Get Tidus close enough to make one point. After that, get the ball and swim behind your goalie. The others will just spin around in circles because they don't know what to do. Basically you need to be sure you can make at least one point and then just sit still without touching the controller. Not the most graceful of tactics, but it make farming much easier.
Yeah there isn't that much glitch in FFX, I think the most mindblowing Glitch was a Glitch only existing in the PS2 International Version, where you could bypass the 2 guys that block the way on Home, if you trigger this it was litteraly reseting the story at that point, allowing you to basically do an impovised New Game +, to bad this was patch.
I remember hearing about that way back when. I recently purchased a free mcboot memory card for my ps2. I've been planning on buying FFX International and starting a new game. The perfect file I have on the NTSC version of FFX just doesn't feel perfect enough. Knowing that so much was added to the International version, it just makes my complete file feel incomplete, lol. If that makes sense?
so u wanna tell me i cant use this in remastered pc version? only in 2001 original ps2 japan version? maybe change the name of the titel. thanks for waste my time
There's a trick to that one. There's a certain crater near one of the towers that will always trigger a lighting strike when you run into it which makes the dodging way easier. Still takes a while, but better than dodging the random strikes.
@@trevorlarson3984 There's a certain crater that you can stand near to get two subsequent lighting strikes. It definitely makes the challenge easier, but it's still annoying as bawls.
@@trevorlarson3984 Thanks, I know of that one but it still is a nightmare, I just can’t keep it together then I miss one after 100 or so, just instant rage quit for me 😅
Cheesssum Chrisp, I remember spending an entire month trying to beating this mini-game for that dang Sun Sigil! When I finally did beat it… huh tell ya who was happy!!! ……it was me. I was the one who was happy 😊
I used to be able to do this on the ps2 after 10-20 tries but I spent hours on an emulator the last couple of days with no luck. Thanks for the hack, I'm so happy I chose to download the Japanese version 😊
My last playthrough i got the 0.0 in only 4 or 5 tries. i couldnt believe it at first. Every other playthrough ever has taken at least a few hours. Still never completed the 200 lightning dodges, only ever tried a handful of times. Last attempt i got to 164 and screwed up. After that i didnt even want to look at the thunderplains.
Even when the birds arent hitting me I miss several balloons. Either the hitbox of the baloons is tiny, or the crappy controls of the left analog stick affect it. Maybe its some input lag from my tv too The annoying thing is that when I completed this on ps2 in 2002 I remember feeling like I was in some control of what was going on and not just hoping for the best Plus the trainer cheats. Starts out faster and watch if you're behind him or in front of him the game pushes him really fast towards wherever you are going The game would be wasy if the left analog stick just controlled normally. The wobbly chocobo and the random pushing you back from the edge is the main thing making it hard imo. You can also lose the game on the opening hill and you can't just skip it and retry 😞 They made a remaster and this is what we got lol
Interesting video, good that it can possibly help those whom had great difficulty accomplishing the task necessary to acquire the Sun Sigil. That said, I still do not understand how it is that many people found this race hard. I actually enjoyed the race and thought it was extremely fun, lol. I found it far more annoying to obtain Lulu's and Kimahri's respective sigils. Personally felt that the Butterfly Hunt was the most difficult and annoying mini game in all of FFX.
So the reason why the butterfly trial is easier in my opinion is because the butterfly trial isn't randomly generated. The butterflies, although they move around slightly, are always in the same general location. In the chocobo race, the 🎈 show up in different places and even some of those placements are very hard, if not In to win with. I would say the same with the lightning dodging: although there is some RNG with when and where the lightning strikes (outside of the crater glitch) the flash is a dead give away as to when it's going to happen so it's just more about patience but for the most of it you never even have to move.
Do you know why it doesn't work on other versions? You never stated why, and I'm just curious. Are you unable to get the Chocobo stuck? Or is it because the birds still collide with you properly on other versions even after you do this?
In the Pbirdman Mod livestream session I did for the celestial weapons I actually got the sigil quicker than I activated the glitch but that run was an anomaly even for me
@@Dansg08 i remember trying to do this on the ps2, took many hours over a week or so, then came the remaster, first playthrough took me an hour or 2, second took me like half hour then this last time, oh baby you ready for this, first try. i did go back and try to do it again for fun but i see it was just a string of good luck, this is probably my last playthrough though, i got a couple more dark aeons and penance left. nemesis is down
You remember the breeding and racing in 7? They should have stuck with that because it worked and was loved. New maps, chocobos ect would have been the best move
Just get the sun sigil from switch, maybe because they fix the glitch or something, the chocobo will automatically go up and left if we hold right, and up right if hold left. After around 2 hour, i get it with 14 balloon and 1 bird, 38s , i remembered get the sun sigil in less than 30m playing the original FFX on PS2
Here's my guess as to what the coding may look like if([Bird model is touching player model] && isHit == false) [isHit is my hypothetical boolean variable (something that is either true or false) so this function only happens if it is set to false] { isHit = true; (this makes it so that this function does not run again while the animation is playing) hitChoco(); (A hypothetical function that plays the animation start to finish) isHit = false; (allows the birds to hit you again) } From this, my guess is that since the animation does not complete when you hit the time limit the function does not manage to get to the "isHit = false" part that allows you to get hit again. As to why only the original has this, my guess is that they rewrote the code to set all the variables to their default values at the start of the minigame instead of the start of the entire game like this initial release did.
I didn't find this mini game that hard ( just cheap). Those damn homing birds spawn off screen and you don't have time to react. Poor design I'd say! Most of 10s mini games are annoying though, and are hindered by controls. Like the Temple Chocobo race and butterfly hunt.
Lol. I never had any problems playing this mini game on my PAL copy of ftx, which was based on the international version. It took some attempts but I finally won and got the sun sigil. But screw dodging 200 lightning strikes though.
I got so frustrated (because just completed it), then excited (because could make it easier next time) and then frustrated (because found out HD remaster has it fixed) when saw the video name. Lol Just replaying the HD version now and did those damn birds just two days ago. I don’t understand why they had to make all the chocobo games in the series so damn bad. But also it feels like PS2 version was easier than the HD remaster, especially with the random control bugs. Last night tried Remiem Temple and got 5 chests only by the accident. In the HD version the stick tends to get stuck and not turn the chocobo there. Probably because of the camera view switches. One time I lost, because just one step before the finish, chocobo got stuck running to the right, while the opponent simply passed me and finished the race. Also can’t remember the control issues in the original PS2 version. As for the Lightning dodges - 198 on the PS2, without No-Encounter and the 199th one hit the mark, making me rage quit the game for like 5 years. Even deleted the save game from the memory card. Little did I know that kind of torture Calm Lands brings later on. Rage Lands would be much more appropriate name for it.
I’ve never really struggled with this mini game. Was kinda a pain, but I’d get it in less than 5 attempts. The thunder plains lightning dodge on the other hand can go f- itself. I’ve never gotten 200 dodges. Ever.
there is a spot that causes lightning to trigger every time you run back and forth to it, turning off ingame music and not counting the dodges helps a lot. set a timer and use that instead of counting. I did 3-5 min intervals, where i paused the game and timer and took a break. do this until the timer reach 20 min and you are guaranteed to be over 200 lightning dodges. that crater spot is well know and should be easy to find if you google it.
Damn I hate that mini game my first time took me over 3 hours wish i knew about this glitch ad had the right version of the game but i can complete the mini game with no problems great to see this thx berk
honestly, if they allowed a practice run without birds just so you can get a hang of maneuvering without also having to dodge it would make it so much easier. I did eventually get it as a kid, but needed to accept the failure in advance and focus on just getting balloons on some runs (knowing that too many birds will hit), and on others I would ignore the balloons and just focus on dodging the birds. With enough runs I got to the point where I could do both adequately enough to pass with under 0:0.0, but my god that process was not enjoyable. Minigames should be enjoyable, or at least just a little tedious, not to the point where I need to set aside several hours to pick this thing apart. whew. it's okay, it's okay. struggling again as an adult with the HD Remaster lmaoo, but i'll approach it the same way. or maybe use a different approach, I heard that you can still pass even if missing all of the balloons on the ramp down to the valley so long as you end up in front of the trainer. we'll give it a go this afternoon. pray for me, lmaoo
Multiple years of playing the ps4 version, and the only things I can't get done aret his race and the remiem temple race(so yay I can't platinum the game!)
Damn I needed this like 6 months ago when I sank 10 hours into this mini game to get 0.0 Edit: oh nvm. PS2 Japanese only. So my suffering was mandatory
Dansg08 is right this is satisfying to watch because I fucking hate this shit now for only we can find a glitch to do the 200 lightning bolts instead of that one thing with the tower in the hole 🕳 I would be greatly happy
@@Dansg08 True but still I still have yet to complete it and I’ve been playing Final Fantasy 10 for a long time as well it’s still kind of heartbreaking.
I can't prove this, but I think this game has a mercy rule. Every time that I've played the game, after ten to twenty runs, the game just decides to go easy on me.
I would KILL SOMEONE (preferably whoever designed this nightmare) for a Gameshark that worked on Xbox. Literally just to unlock the Sun Sigil, get the achievement, then turn it off. I am missing literally 1 goddamn achievement from the X remaster. I have been trying for FUCKING MONTHS and it is IMPOSSIBLE on Xbox.
I sat through a minute and a half of rambling nonsense just to be told that this doesn't exist on any of the five versions of this game that I have. Don't do that.
Oh damn, I forgot all about the insane mini-games to get everyone's Ultimate Weapons... Are they easier in the PC HD version? Because that's the one I have right now, and I was thinking about trying it out, since I have recently made my way through the Pixel Remasters of the other games.
That last bird that comes out of nowhere near the goal destroyed a lot of my runs for this mini game back in the day.
Took me 27 minutes of trying this for my first time EVER on Xbox one X and yeah that but that annoying trainer was my issue.
I just don't understand what the Programmers were thinking with the other versions!
Like, I get that the Celestial Weapons should be harder to get, but some of these mini games are downright sadistic! This one and the 200 Lightning Bolts for Lulu are a good example!
At least the lightning dodging has the crater trick which offers some level of mercy, without it I would have struggled heavily on it too, I dont think I ever did it without the trick
@@Dansg08 Omg! I never thought I'd get a response from the uploader! Well, I just wanted to say I love your content man! And your commentary! Keep up the good work, mate!
whats worse are the testers. Who tested the game and said, "yup...frustratingly difficult! I approve"
@@jeremywithacamera235 Yeah, I think what happened is they all kept getting better and better and then applied their best to us casual players. It wasn't fair. The way they stacked blitzball against us is moronic too. And I don't just mean the first game. Al Bhed have overpowered Nimrook and you really need to fire all the Aurochs which is kind of cruel imo lmao
@@BlackWingedSeraphX
At least with that you can hire a good team and keep it at low levels which gives you a good chance to win.
This and the thunder dodging are downright sadistic.
I got tired of this mini game, and when i repay it, i download a cheat that pauses the timer. It's just not worth my getting upset. I play games to have fun, and it's not fun.
Understandable, this minigame is truly annoying
Where'd you get the cheat? I might want to use it...
Where'd you get the cheat? I might want to use it...
@@K24B honestly, I just googled something like, "ffx chocobo timer cheat". It's a program that runs, and when you are about to do the game, you alt tab, press the button, and run the race. Easy
I remember when I actually got 0.0 seconds exactly!!! Was so happy at first as I was grinding for like an hour, to then have it ripped from underneath me, was a harsh reality!!
That's because the devs flat out lied. Nowhere before the race was the player informed that he or she needed to finish under 0:0.0.
Tidus is the only party member I finish the game without his celestial weapon because of this damn mini game. I even tolerate dodging 200 lightning bolt compared to this torture.
You can get the celestial weapon without all 0:00. Just not the sun sigil. I got the celestial weapon but not the sigil.
@workliferecognition7002 I got your point. Even so, what is the point of using a celestial weapon if you couldn't upgrade it to full capability because of this dumb af minigame?
@@pizzaofdarkness4041 right
Watching those birds just slide off your chocobo was incredible to see
I wish this glitch was able to be done on all versions.
They put the remastered version on Xbox so I had to complete this minigame for like the 5th time. I remember how aggravating it was back when I played it on ps2. It’s almost entirely based on whether the balloons spawn on the right side at the beginning.
Pretty much, I think if only they had a quick reset function the entire experience would be way less punishing, being forced to still complete the race when you already know the RNG is terrible is one reason it's so frustrating I think
As a kid, I remember a walkthrough for the US PS2 version that claimed such a glitch existed for the US release. Something about holding all the trigger buttons or something...
Amazing to know the glitch exists though, because I do remember it being phrased like the birds "phase through you" or something like that.
I always love seeing more FFX content!
This is an amazing glitch find! Sad that they had it patched. It sounds like the set up to get this done is tricky enough to be a minigame for FFX’s standards, but i guess we cant have it all. Anyway, back to sacrificing birds for the RNG gods :P
Why would they patch something that is already broken.. but not fix the controls? Stupid
1:30 made me cry. I was hyped to find a method to beat this for an achievement, and its for the version I don't have. Great video nonetheless though.
This game is my mortal enemy, lol.
Freaking same!
Mine too. I just tried it for 6 hours straight! I can't get under 7 seconds
It's probably because you're flagged as 'being hit' when the bird hits you and then that flag is turned off by the hit message, but it gets interrupted by the time over message.
So the birds can't hit you because the game thinks you're already being hit.
That's my programmer speculation anyway
A shame this was patched out when the lightning crater trick continues to work for all versions of the game. I guess the devs had mercy on us for that one, but were insistent on causing people suffering with this minigame :P
Makes sense
tbh this glitch sounds harder to pull off than just getting 0 seconds legit.
I’ve been playing FFX for 22 years now and have only beat this stupid mini game just once.
1.30 to say 'you can only do this on the original game' thanks for nothing.
Git Gud lil man
Jokes on you, I'm playing it on the PS2.
I used to think this mini-game was the hardest to do (then the 200 lightning bolts in second place) but I actually think getting Wakka's fully activated celestial is even worse. I had to play Blitzball for days. You have to be constantly reseting the data, re-entering to check the league and tournament prizes, manage to get the 3 different Reels, then the Sigil. It's a freaking nightmare. I'd rather do this chocobo race three times or dodge 400 lightning bolts than have to play all those blitzball games. (And the Al-Bhed Psyches are a pain in the ass thanks to Nimrook, their goalkeeper.)
Blitzball is a breeze. Easiest was to get through the tournaments and get Wakka's part is to be sure to learn the Jecht shot. Get Tidus close enough to make one point. After that, get the ball and swim behind your goalie. The others will just spin around in circles because they don't know what to do. Basically you need to be sure you can make at least one point and then just sit still without touching the controller. Not the most graceful of tactics, but it make farming much easier.
Days? Took me 3 hours from start to finish to get all his limits and full celestial. Easy to do when you use reset stats
There needs to be one like this on PS4 too.
Yeah there isn't that much glitch in FFX, I think the most mindblowing Glitch was a Glitch only existing in the PS2 International Version, where you could bypass the 2 guys that block the way on Home, if you trigger this it was litteraly reseting the story at that point, allowing you to basically do an impovised New Game +, to bad this was patch.
I remember hearing about that way back when. I recently purchased a free mcboot memory card for my ps2. I've been planning on buying FFX International and starting a new game.
The perfect file I have on the NTSC version of FFX just doesn't feel perfect enough. Knowing that so much was added to the International version, it just makes my complete file feel incomplete, lol. If that makes sense?
Yeah that is one I will be covering too, played around with it the other day and it's pretty fun, some weird things can happen
I had more fun attempting to reproduce this glitch (knowing I was in the wrong version) than attempting the mini-game outright.🤔
appreciating your ffx content in 2022
so u wanna tell me i cant use this in remastered pc version? only in 2001 original ps2 japan version? maybe change the name of the titel. thanks for waste my time
Lol cry about it
@@fearharambe3321 go home kiddo
Love this feels like revenge so many years later. Still despise lightening dodging more 🤬🤬🤬 (so tedious).
Same here, back in my early teens when I was playing thru FFX for the first time, it was far more difficult than the Chocobo race.
Agreed, this I could do keeping my sanity relatively intact.. there damn ⚡️ though 🤬
There's a trick to that one. There's a certain crater near one of the towers that will always trigger a lighting strike when you run into it which makes the dodging way easier. Still takes a while, but better than dodging the random strikes.
@@trevorlarson3984
There's a certain crater that you can stand near to get two subsequent lighting strikes. It definitely makes the challenge easier, but it's still annoying as bawls.
@@trevorlarson3984 Thanks, I know of that one but it still is a nightmare, I just can’t keep it together then I miss one after 100 or so, just instant rage quit for me 😅
So do it applicable to Remastered version in PS4?
I missed all the birds and hit 12 balloons... got 36 seconds for 0.0. Not good enough. I'm so fucking irritated right now lol
I won't be using the Japanese version but this is very interesting.
Hey there fellow Auron 😄
Pretty sure this mini game shaved a solid 5 years off my life but i got the pattern down, fortunately
Oh man, it’s too bad they got rid of this glitch, it would have saved me so many hours haha
It would've saved me several PlayStation! Stupidest minigame ever imo.
how do people find these things
I’ve only ever done this once on the ps2. Never been able to do it again on the Switch version
My crests and sigils are messed up. My mercury sigil vanished from the inventory after opening the Luca locker twice.
Yesss a glitch I've been waiting for haha
Cheesssum Chrisp, I remember spending an entire month trying to beating this mini-game for that dang Sun Sigil! When I finally did beat it… huh tell ya who was happy!!!
……it was me. I was the one who was happy 😊
It’s so weird not seeing higher detail and no shadows now here
I used to be able to do this on the ps2 after 10-20 tries but I spent hours on an emulator the last couple of days with no luck.
Thanks for the hack, I'm so happy I chose to download the Japanese version 😊
My last playthrough i got the 0.0 in only 4 or 5 tries. i couldnt believe it at first. Every other playthrough ever has taken at least a few hours. Still never completed the 200 lightning dodges, only ever tried a handful of times. Last attempt i got to 164 and screwed up. After that i didnt even want to look at the thunderplains.
Have you tried this on the HD rematered
Beautiful glitch
Even when the birds arent hitting me I miss several balloons. Either the hitbox of the baloons is tiny, or the crappy controls of the left analog stick affect it. Maybe its some input lag from my tv too
The annoying thing is that when I completed this on ps2 in 2002 I remember feeling like I was in some control of what was going on and not just hoping for the best
Plus the trainer cheats. Starts out faster and watch if you're behind him or in front of him the game pushes him really fast towards wherever you are going
The game would be wasy if the left analog stick just controlled normally. The wobbly chocobo and the random pushing you back from the edge is the main thing making it hard imo. You can also lose the game on the opening hill and you can't just skip it and retry 😞 They made a remaster and this is what we got lol
Why am I torturing myself watching this? I caaaan’t doooo iiit😢
In ps4 not working also
Interesting video, good that it can possibly help those whom had great difficulty accomplishing the task necessary to acquire the Sun Sigil.
That said, I still do not understand how it is that many people found this race hard. I actually enjoyed the race and thought it was extremely fun, lol. I found it far more annoying to obtain Lulu's and Kimahri's respective sigils. Personally felt that the Butterfly Hunt was the most difficult and annoying mini game in all of FFX.
So the reason why the butterfly trial is easier in my opinion is because the butterfly trial isn't randomly generated. The butterflies, although they move around slightly, are always in the same general location. In the chocobo race, the 🎈 show up in different places and even some of those placements are very hard, if not In to win with. I would say the same with the lightning dodging: although there is some RNG with when and where the lightning strikes (outside of the crater glitch) the flash is a dead give away as to when it's going to happen so it's just more about patience but for the most of it you never even have to move.
"Only works in the OG JP ver."
Welp there goes all my hopes of ever getting that Platinum trophy :(
You've never completed this race...?
@@Josh-cn5yp Nope only trophy I'm missing
TT-TT
@@Arcynite it's hard but it's not THAT hard.. Just keep practising I guess bro
Does it work on ps4?
Do you know why it doesn't work on other versions? You never stated why, and I'm just curious. Are you unable to get the Chocobo stuck? Or is it because the birds still collide with you properly on other versions even after you do this?
It would be funny if the time taken to trigger the glitch took longer than actually winning the race
In the Pbirdman Mod livestream session I did for the celestial weapons I actually got the sigil quicker than I activated the glitch but that run was an anomaly even for me
@@Dansg08 i remember trying to do this on the ps2, took many hours over a week or so, then came the remaster, first playthrough took me an hour or 2, second took me like half hour then this last time, oh baby you ready for this, first try. i did go back and try to do it again for fun but i see it was just a string of good luck, this is probably my last playthrough though, i got a couple more dark aeons and penance left. nemesis is down
This minigame killed a PS2 controller or two.
They should add this feature on remastered versions
You remember the breeding and racing in 7? They should have stuck with that because it worked and was loved. New maps, chocobos ect would have been the best move
Just get the sun sigil from switch, maybe because they fix the glitch or something, the chocobo will automatically go up and left if we hold right, and up right if hold left. After around 2 hour, i get it with 14 balloon and 1 bird, 38s , i remembered get the sun sigil in less than 30m playing the original FFX on PS2
So there is no way to to it on nintendo switch? :(
Unfortunately not
Here's my guess as to what the coding may look like
if([Bird model is touching player model] && isHit == false) [isHit is my hypothetical boolean variable (something that is either true or false) so this function only happens if it is set to false]
{
isHit = true; (this makes it so that this function does not run again while the animation is playing)
hitChoco(); (A hypothetical function that plays the animation start to finish)
isHit = false; (allows the birds to hit you again)
}
From this, my guess is that since the animation does not complete when you hit the time limit the function does not manage to get to the "isHit = false" part that allows you to get hit again.
As to why only the original has this, my guess is that they rewrote the code to set all the variables to their default values at the start of the minigame instead of the start of the entire game like this initial release did.
I didn't find this mini game that hard ( just cheap). Those damn homing birds spawn off screen and you don't have time to react. Poor design I'd say!
Most of 10s mini games are annoying though, and are hindered by controls. Like the Temple Chocobo race and butterfly hunt.
Lol.
I never had any problems playing this mini game on my PAL copy of ftx, which was based on the international version. It took some attempts but I finally won and got the sun sigil.
But screw dodging 200 lightning strikes though.
I still remember how furious i was doing this...
This mini game stresses me out honsetly, i remember i don't want to sleep if i cannot win this game, and i finally win....at 5am :)
I got so frustrated (because just completed it), then excited (because could make it easier next time) and then frustrated (because found out HD remaster has it fixed) when saw the video name. Lol
Just replaying the HD version now and did those damn birds just two days ago. I don’t understand why they had to make all the chocobo games in the series so damn bad.
But also it feels like PS2 version was easier than the HD remaster, especially with the random control bugs. Last night tried Remiem Temple and got 5 chests only by the accident. In the HD version the stick tends to get stuck and not turn the chocobo there. Probably because of the camera view switches.
One time I lost, because just one step before the finish, chocobo got stuck running to the right, while the opponent simply passed me and finished the race. Also can’t remember the control issues in the original PS2 version.
As for the Lightning dodges - 198 on the PS2, without No-Encounter and the 199th one hit the mark, making me rage quit the game for like 5 years. Even deleted the save game from the memory card. Little did I know that kind of torture Calm Lands brings later on. Rage Lands would be much more appropriate name for it.
I'm stuck doing this again.
I’ve never really struggled with this mini game. Was kinda a pain, but I’d get it in less than 5 attempts. The thunder plains lightning dodge on the other hand can go f- itself. I’ve never gotten 200 dodges. Ever.
there is a spot that causes lightning to trigger every time you run back and forth to it, turning off ingame music and not counting the dodges helps a lot. set a timer and use that instead of counting. I did 3-5 min intervals, where i paused the game and timer and took a break. do this until the timer reach 20 min and you are guaranteed to be over 200 lightning dodges.
that crater spot is well know and should be easy to find if you google it.
Damn I hate that mini game my first time took me over 3 hours wish i knew about this glitch ad had the right version of the game but i can complete the mini game with no problems great to see this thx berk
Seen someone playing FFX for the 1st time and they got 17 ballons and 0 birds on there 2nd attempt.... and they asked what was so hard about that
Glitch please! Great video Berk!
honestly, if they allowed a practice run without birds just so you can get a hang of maneuvering without also having to dodge it would make it so much easier. I did eventually get it as a kid, but needed to accept the failure in advance and focus on just getting balloons on some runs (knowing that too many birds will hit), and on others I would ignore the balloons and just focus on dodging the birds. With enough runs I got to the point where I could do both adequately enough to pass with under 0:0.0, but my god that process was not enjoyable. Minigames should be enjoyable, or at least just a little tedious, not to the point where I need to set aside several hours to pick this thing apart.
whew. it's okay, it's okay. struggling again as an adult with the HD Remaster lmaoo, but i'll approach it the same way. or maybe use a different approach, I heard that you can still pass even if missing all of the balloons on the ramp down to the valley so long as you end up in front of the trainer. we'll give it a go this afternoon. pray for me, lmaoo
Must have lost at least 2 controllers to this mini game
Multiple years of playing the ps4 version, and the only things I can't get done aret his race and the remiem temple race(so yay I can't platinum the game!)
Damn I needed this like 6 months ago when I sank 10 hours into this mini game to get 0.0
Edit: oh nvm. PS2 Japanese only. So my suffering was mandatory
this was easier on ps2 than on ps4, I gave up on Tidus ultima weapon because of this minigame (the jumping minigame in FFIX is also very annoying).
i have to correct u. this tricks works on the remakes for me ps5 too
@phonixzocker6294 How long did it take you to do this?
@@hellraser88 like 10min maybe less. its a bit tricky cause its a bit diffrent time window
@@phonixzocker6294 Thanks for the quick response. How is it different? When do I have to get hit?
Dansg08 is right this is satisfying to watch because I fucking hate this shit now for only we can find a glitch to do the 200 lightning bolts instead of that one thing with the tower in the hole 🕳 I would be greatly happy
I have yet to discover one for that unfortunately, we're lucky we even have the hole trick/glitch, I can't imagine trying to do it without that
@@Dansg08 True but still I still have yet to complete it and I’ve been playing Final Fantasy 10 for a long time as well it’s still kind of heartbreaking.
The nerd rage is real
Easily got it on my ps3 but rn on my ps4 it’s giving me HELL
The butterfly 🦋 mini game was the 1 I dreaded most but didn’t matter so much because I would neglect khimari
I've gotten all of the celestial weapons except for this one.
I finally, FINALLY get 0.0 and as soon as the achievemnt popped the game crashed.
Only for Japanese version....
To me this minigame and the jumping jack in ff9 are the most frustrating in the whole series
I can't prove this, but I think this game has a mercy rule. Every time that I've played the game, after ten to twenty runs, the game just decides to go easy on me.
Tidus is not hard for me what I hate most is Lulu Weapon.
Too bad it doesn't work on all versions
Maybe you could start streaming challenge runs on twitch/RUclips of FFX!
I kinda did that twice already :P
Ground my teeth against the sidewalk for a few minutes, about the same content.
Switch version is the hardest one
Mhm. damn Race.. i was on 0.2 sec haha. but i beat it 2 times in my FFX history. but i never did manage the 200 lightnings
This is just as difficult and time consuming as just doing it the right way. Also maybe Japanese only version ? Haha
Is ps3 or ps4?
Still hate this mini game to this day urgh I've not raged so hard on this
On god I just done it after 10th attempt got 19 balloons 🎈
I did this on the switch in a half hour 13 balloons 0 birds legit lol I was shocked
I still find it hilarious that I got the Sigil on my first ever attempt of this mini game. Ever since, I've taken 5+ attempts minimum
I just said forget this mini game lol
I remember the best time I ever got on PS2 was 0:0:1 I was so mad I almost broke my disc lmao
Idk i ran a -3 second time in just a few tries
Absolutely impossible on switch.
The only way I could complete this was to get my son to do it. Then he moved to the other side of the country.....
That mini game is such a bastard even glitching it you still can get efffed by RNG.
I would KILL SOMEONE (preferably whoever designed this nightmare) for a Gameshark that worked on Xbox. Literally just to unlock the Sun Sigil, get the achievement, then turn it off.
I am missing literally 1 goddamn achievement from the X remaster. I have been trying for FUCKING MONTHS and it is IMPOSSIBLE on Xbox.
If you're good at math you're okay
I sat through a minute and a half of rambling nonsense just to be told that this doesn't exist on any of the five versions of this game that I have. Don't do that.
Oh damn, I forgot all about the insane mini-games to get everyone's Ultimate Weapons...
Are they easier in the PC HD version? Because that's the one I have right now, and I was thinking about trying it out, since I have recently made my way through the Pixel Remasters of the other games.
I dont think they're easier in the PC version unfortunately
@@Dansg08 Thanks for the info and the content!