New Game-Breaker Glitch Found (NO EXAGGERATION)

[Steiger]

edit: I'm having some trouble figuring out the "youtube" code, but the links are still valid.
edit2: ...still doesn't seem to be working for me, so I went ahead and embedded url tags, instead.

(Edit #3:
YT Vids should now be showing.

Those with 'secure' browsers should make sure Flash is allowed in order to see the vids.

- Swalchy, SFC Mod Team)

[MXC]

I believe you take out everything before, and including the = sign.

[Wiz]

No exaggeration indeed, DegreeZ's discoveries bring huge skip potential and speedrunner tskisoccer/NoWorries has started mastering the technique.

I'm really curious to see where this will lead the small SF2 speedrunning community.

But I'm also really curious to see how these glitches could be fixed in SF2DISASM at some point.

In any case, many thanks to Degree Z for his exciting discoveries !

[Jonesy_Pants]

i dont have sound at work but watched the first Vid, looks crazy!

how does it work?

[stefanos2k10]

no vid for me can somone pm me the link?

[PlayerLin]

no vid for me can somone pm me the link?

wM0YMLv9Hcs
q24E-XpC6mI
jDPecdpMiX8

Search these video IDs on youtube search function, and it'll show the video to you.

[SirHedge]

Whoa. Those are sweet. Amazing what can still be found in a game this old too.

[stefanos2k10]

no vid for me can somone pm me the link?

wM0YMLv9Hcs
q24E-XpC6mI
jDPecdpMiX8

Search these video IDs on youtube search function, and it'll show the video to you.

ill try that out thanks

[Devonathan]

https://youtu.be/wM0YMLv9Hcs
https://youtu.be/q24E-XpC6mI
https://youtu.be/jDPecdpMiX8

I’ve gotten my guys stuck in that weird in between spot before on accident, but I never knew you could glitch across the map because of it. Very cool and weird.

[stefanos2k10]

cool thanks for the links devon will make things easier going forwards for me

[Kilieni]

Yeah Degree's discoveries are certainly interesting. The speedrunning community isn't sure what to make of it yet. There's also some resistance to out of bounds in general, as well as some resistance to the idea of separating the category to OoB and No OoB since the community is pretty small.

Early Roft was already doable, and briefly used to get a Great Sword for when Bowie's promoted, but the Peter grinding in the Elven Town battle makes Bowie's damage contribution far less significant. Now it's considered something to do if you want to do something cool or surprise people less familiar with the game. https://youtu.be/PcNbpzQ-ei0 (yes, I know the video is bad and I should redo it)

Early Polca skips an absolute ton of exp, and the battle just after Ribble is still needed to get the Power Ring, which is a huge requirement for several of Peter's snipes. Also needed if you want to skip the first Desert battle, where you go to pick up Petro's Grandfather. https://youtu.be/JkOpcMoW1Us

Early North Parmecia is (obviously) suicidal that early, and crashes with additional followers so it must be done before bringing Oddler with you, which is way too early to deal with North Parmecia. And after he leaves, you have the Caravan.

I'm sure it'll be used for some snipes though. Odd-Eye especially.

[MXC]

Is there a way to skip the battle between the Dojo and Roft? If so, you could at least navigate over there and pick up Sheela.

[Kilieni]

Nope, Prism Flowers won't trigger, but the "welcoming party" as we call it still does. Also, if you start a scene that involves a character you bypassed because of sequence breaking in the game, Bowie usually gets the lines. Zynk's scene after Petro's death is the only exception I can think of (it won't trigger). So you cannot even get Zynk in the Force early.

[MXC]

I played around a little bit and understand what you're saying above, but that doesn't answer my question about going east from the first battle back on Grans. Yes, the battle will start, but is there a way to move into the mountains next to you, or possibly into the ocean at the bottom of the screen so that you can get out of the battle and over to the Dojo?

And as you mentioned in the video, you can buy the weapons in Roft after selling some mithril. Not sure how much that helps, but getting a Buster Sword that early could be worth looking into.

[Kilieni]

Getting a Great Sword early was in the route briefly, but with the Peter grind in the Fairy Woods battle the damage output of anyone who isn't Peter isn't very important after that point.

As for getting out of Welcoming Party, you could put Bowie in the mountains but you'd still have to win the battle. Egress would take you back to Galam, unless you saved in Roft for some reason.

The Nazca Ship flight is the event that sets your Egress point to Sheela's Dojo.