In the end, the true hero, who finally slew Lavos and restored peace to earth, turned out to be missingno! What a twist! Although I guess we should have seen it coming when the item multiplication started happening.
I’ve seen some really broken games before (looking at you, OOT), but this is a whole new level. Nothing like a TAS when it comes to hilariously destroying games you love. Good job
I don't understand the people getting down on this video...I've probably beaten this game a good 50 times since 1995, so I get the whole 'play the game on your own' thing but...this is fascinating. Really, really enjoyable run.
Thanks to the efforts of Crono/Marle/Magus, there are now four Marles, three at the fair and one in the past. Marle was then framed for kidnapping herself but managed to free herself by implicating a bystander and, while in disguise as the "wicked" Magus, escaped to the future with her/him. Marle dicked around the end of time, then drank some tainted bucket water, and hallucinated a glitched Pokemon battle with a giant space flea. ... It's no wonder Chrono Cross happened.
And the winner is... MISSINGNO.! Uh... talk about tearing the game apart and running its code through a shredder! I guess time travel has some truly strange effects when abused.
The end credits made far more sense than the rest of the video. (Also note how Frog, [The character, not the one in the end credits!] makes no appearance at all!)
@kucoru16 The existance of that feature doesn't force it's usage in this TAS. The emulator can and will record any hardware reset actions as well as those button combinations. Which one the author used can be verified on his video explanation which can be found by going to the link pointed in the video. But I'm lazy to do that hehe!
The glitch is something like this: By arranging his inventory and interrupting saves part way through to leave them in an inconsistent state he can set up a save with arbitrary data written to it. Don't know anything more specific yet, but wow.
The fact that you got the Nu ending for this only accentuates the lunacy I have just witnessed. Please break my brain and cause fits of laughter with more games.
That's why it isn't called a speedrun, it's a tool assisted speedrun and such tools are throughly explained in the FAQ. It is in no way intended to be compared to a console speedrun, this video is meant to show what the game can do (not what a person can do without tools).
Please note that the game itself is NOT altered in any way. The glitches are real and are consequences of the player's actions. What is altered is the way the player controls the game, which is through the use of tools such as savestate, slowdown and ram memory monitoring.
was just reading it on tasvideos. It seems saving costs 2 frames and if you reset the first frame only the first part is saved. And by using the right tricks it gives himself everything he needed to a certain extent.
@piratebuns a game that can now be referred to as a bench mark title that brought gaming closer to art. This video is a dedication to the attention and sense of connection people have for this piece of nostalgia. You should totally play it!
I've never played this game, but I sometimes watched my brother when he played through it. I'm pretty sure, though, that I wouldn't even understand anything here even if I played through this! This is amazing and VERY confusing to me. XD Great run, inichi!
Seems the Chancellor's having a mental breakdown...he's talking to people who aren't there! LOL! Man, you seriously broke it! I'm getting a huge kick out of this! hahahahahaha
@06Cowboys07 The objective is not to break it, the objective is to discover what is the fastest possible way to beat the game without hacking or gameshark. These are in-game bugs.
Wild Lavos appeared! Go! Missingno! Seriously though, this is one such video which brings a new meaning to beating the game. It wasn't the challenge the game presented but the game itself that was overcome.
When I first saw the title, I thought you meant 21 hours, 23 minutes, and 98 seconds. I thought, "Really? I beat the game on average naturally on the SNES in about 14 hours." lol
Since the game's main plot revolves around time paradoxes and things happening that would otherwise be impossible... I really see nothing out of place. Just kidding, that run was a total mindfuck. I love runs like this.
Watching this TAS run of CT hurt my head, seeing that tool (guess thats what u call it..) do those glitches just made me wonder WTH he was actually doing to get those things to work like that. O well, very nice run and a very interesting one lol.
Incredible, I forgot to put the link on the comments. Thanks for points that! the website with the most info about videos like this is called "tasvideos". I'm updating the info now.
Chrono Trigger The Abridged Series: In this series, Magus is even more badass than ever: he can glide thru walls, teleport to wherever he wants, leave robo behind to be beat up, and tricks spekkio by pretending to run around the room. He also goes to 1999 AD by himself and single handedly defeats Lavos's Head offscreen.
indeed this is really well done this guy breaks this game it gets screwy after a short time, corrupting the save file, duping items, shit gets pretty screwed up after a short bit
This game is confused as hell. Magus showing up out of the blue was funny enough, but I fucking lost it when the Chancellor went and got the accused, "nobody." And again when Magus got to a laser blocking his path, and then one quick flash of the menu later, he just casually hops right over it. This whole run, watching wrong characters appear everywhere, is the funniest thing ever. I know it's a little late to say this, but Inichi, I anticipated your run for a long time and I love it.
An integer overflow is going to behave the same way between ZSNES and the real hardware because the way overflow works is a part of the CPU. ZSNES *has* to emulate it properly or many games wouldn't work (many games overflow stuff on purpose). Of course sometimes glitches do behave differently between ZSNES and the real machine, but those will be due to other things like timing or the contents of uninitialized RAM.
lavos must have been "What the freaking hell?" with this result. A mass of pixels, moi, beat him. Holy tacos this video is pure win in its most concentrated form. You win the ultimate internet prize.
22:22 When I played the game myself far back then, me and my friends noticed the shadow of the Lavos Bit and had the theory that this was the true Lavos - after all, in battle it couldnt be hurt at all. Nice TAS btw, Lavos getting killed by garbled symbols ought to be a bit embarrasing for it.
I distinctly remember seeing the do's and don'ts with Tas. I'm also pretty sure "Make your Tas enjoyable" was highranked in the do's part. Anyway, CT just isn't meant to be presented like this. Glitching through the wooden logs at the start is one thing, saving and resetting the console another. The one thing was resulting in me thinking "Didn't know you can do that." The other was boring to watch and looked like a grinding process (Manipulate luck) recorded. Watch WoW someone grinding, same.
@jjm239 You don't get it, a TAS consists of finishing the game as fast as you can only using IN GAME FEATURES, those are the rules for a TAS that have been established for years already, AND according to the rules, you can't use in game cheats either. Also, the point of TAS's is to show the player's skills, using cheats isn't a skill in my book.
@xmane22 No, the game isn't "hacked". It's the original, unmodified game. And yes, the *game* is glitched (a TAS cannot be "glitched"; what would that even mean?) Games often contain programming errors which can be exploited, even in unassisted speedruns. In fact, many unassisted speedruns do abuse glitches whenever possible. Is that "bullshit" as well?
In today's episode, MissingNo chases Lucca across the apocalypse.
In the end, the true hero, who finally slew Lavos and restored peace to earth, turned out to be missingno! What a twist!
Although I guess we should have seen it coming when the item multiplication started happening.
Those poor jurors.
"Hey, do you see anyone on the stand?"
"No, I'm pretty sure these guys are crazy."
Even the fastest TAS for Chrono Trigger still can't skip the damn court scene.
I’ve seen some really broken games before (looking at you, OOT), but this is a whole new level. Nothing like a TAS when it comes to hilariously destroying games you love. Good job
14:40 "Oh no, my new robot ally is being attacked. Should I break-dance or have a seizure, I know, I'll do both!"
10:40 Magus: "Screw this, I'm not going with you."
I busted out laughing when he took control during the "tried to get near the princess!" reenactment. This is insane.
Nothing like making the game have a slow, painful stroke to your own benefit. Duplicating items, graphic errors. I love it.
This just proves that Missingno. Is more powerful than Lavos.
I don't understand the people getting down on this video...I've probably beaten this game a good 50 times since 1995, so I get the whole 'play the game on your own' thing but...this is fascinating. Really, really enjoyable run.
And time refused to figure out what the fuck was going on.
I must admit I got a kick out of whatever the heck you did here. Thumbs up!
Will you consider doing a Chrono Trigger playthrough Chris?
Thanks to the efforts of Crono/Marle/Magus, there are now four Marles, three at the fair and one in the past. Marle was then framed for kidnapping herself but managed to free herself by implicating a bystander and, while in disguise as the "wicked" Magus, escaped to the future with her/him. Marle dicked around the end of time, then drank some tainted bucket water, and hallucinated a glitched Pokemon battle with a giant space flea.
... It's no wonder Chrono Cross happened.
Speedrunners are the undisputed masters of planning.
This is the most fucked up TAS run I've seen yet. Major props to the creator for breaking the game so effectively.
9:15
Marle: This is my friend! Show him your respect!
Lucca: Excuse me wtf
Imagine Lavos looking upon this madness from how lair below, thinking to himself "Whaaaa~? Humans be crazy."
And then he died.
Crono used Transform!
Crono transformed into Missingno!
Missingno used ASDGAHAWTHJA!
Wild LAVOS CORE died!
Missingo Wins!
And the winner is...
MISSINGNO.! Uh... talk about tearing the game apart and running its code through a shredder! I guess time travel has some truly strange effects when abused.
The end credits made far more sense than the rest of the video.
(Also note how Frog, [The character, not the one in the end credits!] makes no appearance at all!)
Unbelievable. Talk about pushing a game to its limits. That was something else. Congrats Inichi, that was history in the making.
@kucoru16 The existance of that feature doesn't force it's usage in this TAS. The emulator can and will record any hardware reset actions as well as those button combinations. Which one the author used can be verified on his video explanation which can be found by going to the link pointed in the video. But I'm lazy to do that hehe!
The glitch is something like this: By arranging his inventory and interrupting saves part way through to leave them in an inconsistent state he can set up a save with arbitrary data written to it.
Don't know anything more specific yet, but wow.
The fact that you got the Nu ending for this only accentuates the lunacy I have just witnessed.
Please break my brain and cause fits of laughter with more games.
Understatement of the century.
That's why it isn't called a speedrun, it's a tool assisted speedrun and such tools are throughly explained in the FAQ. It is in no way intended to be compared to a console speedrun, this video is meant to show what the game can do (not what a person can do without tools).
My head is spinning after reading the blog about how this was done. Very technical. Impressive.
Please note that the game itself is NOT altered in any way. The glitches are real and are consequences of the player's actions. What is altered is the way the player controls the game, which is through the use of tools such as savestate, slowdown and ram memory monitoring.
was just reading it on tasvideos. It seems saving costs 2 frames and if you reset the first frame only the first part is saved. And by using the right tricks it gives himself everything he needed to a certain extent.
@piratebuns a game that can now be referred to as a bench mark title that brought gaming closer to art. This video is a dedication to the attention and sense of connection people have for this piece of nostalgia. You should totally play it!
Yes, of course I meant the emulated console. He is not reseting the emulator, he is telling the emulator to reset the console it's emulating.
if crono was left in the prison, does that mean the skeleton in the prison cell is him?
I've never played this game, but I sometimes watched my brother when he played through it. I'm pretty sure, though, that I wouldn't even understand anything here even if I played through this!
This is amazing and VERY confusing to me. XD
Great run, inichi!
i laughed really hard when the chancelor brought in nobody to the court
Seems the Chancellor's having a mental breakdown...he's talking to people who aren't there! LOL!
Man, you seriously broke it! I'm getting a huge kick out of this! hahahahahaha
Lavos killed by weird pixels and healing.... Now I have seen everything
All this glitching makes sense for a time traveling game. You're making rips in space and time with your incredibly quick shenanigans.
@06Cowboys07 The objective is not to break it, the objective is to discover what is the fastest possible way to beat the game without hacking or gameshark. These are in-game bugs.
Wild Lavos appeared!
Go! Missingno!
Seriously though, this is one such video which brings a new meaning to beating the game. It wasn't the challenge the game presented but the game itself that was overcome.
Even Lavos couldn't destroy the very fabric of time and space this much!
Well...you know what they say...fight fire with fire.
You know what REALLY disturbs the Space-Time continuum?
This speedrun!
This is one of the best storylines ever.
THIS IS OVERKILL.
When I first saw the title, I thought you meant 21 hours, 23 minutes, and 98 seconds. I thought, "Really? I beat the game on average naturally on the SNES in about 14 hours." lol
"Disturbances of the space-time continuum have increased recently. Far too many folks are just popping in here..."
"Oh...sorry about that"
Ha ha, Crono's walking backwards! This is awesome!
(2 minutes later)
What the **** am I watching? This is insane!
Since the game's main plot revolves around time paradoxes and things happening that would otherwise be impossible... I really see nothing out of place.
Just kidding, that run was a total mindfuck. I love runs like this.
apparently lavos has zombie status
absolutely amazing!
Watching this TAS run of CT hurt my head, seeing that tool (guess thats what u call it..) do those glitches just made me wonder WTH he was actually doing to get those things to work like that. O well, very nice run and a very interesting one lol.
Wow! That was really trippy!
Incredible, I forgot to put the link on the comments. Thanks for points that! the website with the most info about videos like this is called "tasvideos". I'm updating the info now.
I..there are no words. This is the most entertaining thing I've ever seen. And Magus left Robo to die! Haha!
Now this is mind blowing...!
The chancellor's face at 10:45 = me during this entire video
@Locbui1989 If you don't like TASs, why did you even watch this...?
Anyway, it's not like nobody can enjoy the game now you watched this. >_>
This video is INCONCEIVABLE !
48 people wish this was a "Tetris" ripoff.
I dont know if you are a genius or a mad scientist
Chrono Trigger The Abridged Series: In this series, Magus is even more badass than ever: he can glide thru walls, teleport to wherever he wants, leave robo behind to be beat up, and tricks spekkio by pretending to run around the room. He also goes to 1999 AD by himself and single handedly defeats Lavos's Head offscreen.
indeed this is really well done
this guy breaks this game
it gets screwy after a short time, corrupting the save file, duping items, shit gets pretty screwed up after a short bit
Hot damn. Congrats!
this is pure genius.
This speed run is poetic.
That's a damn clever way to enable the Elixir use on the bosses.
Wow, if anybody played the game like this on a console, I bet the system would explode!
This game is confused as hell. Magus showing up out of the blue was funny enough, but I fucking lost it when the Chancellor went and got the accused, "nobody." And again when Magus got to a laser blocking his path, and then one quick flash of the menu later, he just casually hops right over it. This whole run, watching wrong characters appear everywhere, is the funniest thing ever. I know it's a little late to say this, but Inichi, I anticipated your run for a long time and I love it.
An integer overflow is going to behave the same way between ZSNES and the real hardware because the way overflow works is a part of the CPU. ZSNES *has* to emulate it properly or many games wouldn't work (many games overflow stuff on purpose). Of course sometimes glitches do behave differently between ZSNES and the real machine, but those will be due to other things like timing or the contents of uninitialized RAM.
This guy is... The MAN!!
the poster of the video had made an account before RUclips created the 10 minute limit.
this is art.
Its incredible that the game didn't crashed. My beloved Chrono Trigger how could him do this to you?....
YOU BROKE THE RULES! YOU BROKE- EVERYONE IS MAD! YOU - AARGH! AAAH! THE RULES! THE RUUULES!
My god.. he fucking DESTROYED this game.
I have no idea what the fuck I just witnessed.
"Abuses glitches" is an understatement.
lavos must have been "What the freaking hell?" with this result. A mass of pixels, moi, beat him. Holy tacos this video is pure win in its most concentrated form. You win the ultimate internet prize.
And I thought the OOT speedrun was broken!!!! 0_0
this is one of the most glitched out runs ive seen in a while...
I think my brain stopped processing what was happening about 30 seconds in.
By manually reseting the console, I suppose. He resets at a precise moment to corrupt the save data.
@jjm239 No, he corrupted the savegames at the beginning which allowed him to do all that glitchness later.
22:22 When I played the game myself far back then, me and my friends noticed the shadow of the Lavos Bit and had the theory that this was the true Lavos - after all, in battle it couldnt be hurt at all. Nice TAS btw, Lavos getting killed by garbled symbols ought to be a bit embarrasing for it.
Moral of the story: fuck around with time enough, and suddenly Chairs are committing high treason.
Thank you for your explanation.
Savestates and other tools were used, but no cheatcodes. As a rule, tool-assisted movies don't use cheatcodes.
@06Cowboys07 Does understanding how rain works make it any less awesome?
@MettanAtem "Sir Not Appearing In This Game"
The hell did I just watch? That floppy drive character in 11:40 looks awesome too.
I distinctly remember seeing the do's and don'ts with Tas.
I'm also pretty sure "Make your Tas enjoyable" was highranked in the do's part.
Anyway, CT just isn't meant to be presented like this.
Glitching through the wooden logs at the start is one thing, saving and resetting the console another. The one thing was resulting in me thinking "Didn't know you can do that."
The other was boring to watch and looked like a grinding process (Manipulate luck) recorded. Watch WoW someone grinding, same.
There was no sequence breaking, this is what I like to call Sequence Anilhilation.
I liked how about 4:00 of this was dedicated to the clock pendulum swinging x_x.
RUclips Poop: Lavos Deletes System 32
@jjm239 You don't get it, a TAS consists of finishing the game as fast as you can only using IN GAME FEATURES, those are the rules for a TAS that have been established for years already, AND according to the rules, you can't use in game cheats either. Also, the point of TAS's is to show the player's skills, using cheats isn't a skill in my book.
can anyone explain what was happening in the first 4 minutes? then can we thumbs that person up?
WTF?! This broke my brain! o_O
still loving that credits music
I think you can reset by pressing L+R+SELECT+START.
but I'm not sure
@xmane22 No, the game isn't "hacked". It's the original, unmodified game. And yes, the *game* is glitched (a TAS cannot be "glitched"; what would that even mean?) Games often contain programming errors which can be exploited, even in unassisted speedruns. In fact, many unassisted speedruns do abuse glitches whenever possible. Is that "bullshit" as well?