Soft Lock Picking: Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin 

You see Maria was the one invited to smash but Richter said "Sorry Maria you're to young for this just let the big vampire hunter take care of this." Stole her invitation and left. XD

you monster

richter's a dick

@@j3.199 Dickter

Now it makes sense that when a friend of mine told me years ago that Richter was a dick...

What the heck kind of percentage system is this game using

@@NoriMori1992 It adds together main map (100%) and all of the extra maps you go into (for a total of 900%).

Yo! I hope this will be featured in a video!

couldn't you just grind bidoof up a few levels?

You can’t. The way Barry is placed means you literally cannot exit to any routes until you beat him. And in Diamond/Pearl, the gym doesn’t open until you already beat Wake and Maylene (not that you could do much with just Rock Smash and Cut anyways.)

this is not a true softlock, it might be possible if you got extremely lucky

@PongoThomas I was about to say "If every pokemon has a non-attacking move, you can just wait for the AI to choose that enough times) then forgot taht you'd struggle yourself to death with a level 3 bidoof before the third pokemon, and most likely the second. Even if every move crit, and every Rock Smash lowered defense, and no Cuts missed, you just can't get through an entire team when you're that much lower of a level.

If you were really desperate you could proably modify the necessary variables with a cheating device to "fix" your save into considering the boss defeated or resetting it entirely.

There's a starman waiting in the sky Yeah

Only if you do it for 4 years

Not if you are making a cake

What doesn't crash Paper Mario?

@@Atmapalazzo Nothing.

I have no idea what you just typed but I'm amazed that you know all of this nonetheless

Basically, he's saying that, because of how the DS games are developed, the modes most likely have to have two characters, so they threw Maria in as a second character and overwrote the character swapping function for the mode. And, since the game doesn't check the current character (because they didn't think the second character could be selected), you can play as Maria only, because of Maria being the second character and you setting up the earlier save to select the second character.

The armor being replaced by Maria definitely explains how the axe armor isn't affected by Ashtarte's "TEMPTATION".

I think I recall something about how in the boss rush mode or something, if u beat it as old axe armor, it displays Maria as partner, so i think we can safely assume this is correct.

A few more things: First, character switching was already something the devs could control, since you actually have to unlock that ability in Jonathan/Charlotte mode. It only takes like 20 seconds from when you gain control of Jonathan at the start, but you can also turn off the ability from the menu, like you can with all relic abilities. Just another point in favor of this theory. Second, the reason the new game remembers that you were playing as the second character. The bat icon is how you activate new game+, and under normal circumstances, you’re forced to restart in the same mode. NG+ing in J/C mode should result in a J/C file. I think that the problem is that when you select the bat icon, it tells the game to “start an NG+ for that file when you load the game”, and doesn’t cancel that instruction when you back out from the difficulty select. So now you can select any file and it’ll take the NG+ carry-over data from the original file. The last thing that causes the issue is that selecting an empty file with the NG+ data “stored” will still bring you to the mode select screen, so all of a sudden you can carry NG+ data between game modes, which isn’t supposed to be possible, and causes the issue. Doing this glitch will copy over the map data and subweapon EXP, which is how we know that it’s actually NG+ing, and not doing something else entirely. You can also use the glitch on Richter mode to give him Jonathan’s powered-up subweapons, since Richter can’t level them up himself. TL;DR you’re not supposed to be able to switch character modes when you new game+, but you can get around that.

well maybe they wont be the struggle glitch where it has no more points left so you cant use it anymore.

I'm pumped as well!

It will pretty much boil down to "can you beat red only with a level 100 Ditto?". I'm guessing no, since red starts with his shitty pikachu.

Does X attack work with struggle? Or X special maybe considering all his Pokemon aren't immune to electric attacks. Just a thought

Snorlax and venusaur would be crazy though lol

How I remember it. "CHARUTTO! JONASAN!" *repeat*

It's just super useful to get a faster attack rate! So Charutto-Jonasan the enemy to death!

THOUSAND BLADES!!

@@HyperVanilo hooly.... *LIGHTNIIING*

And thanks to speed runners, we can relive it every time we watch one of PoR.

EchoLunar - that makes for opportunities for some references to a mid-noughties meme, don’t you think?

Kieran Of course! I subbed to you by the way

Pika Pika

"Asprey" is his surname, if you weren't aware.

Same

Dante Disbrow lol

if you could reach death as a kid i feel like you have to be some legendary speedrunner/competitive game master now

abcdefghdumbo 90s kids were tougher than todays kids

abcdefghdumbo if you could complete ninja gaiden on nes as a kid you had to be a god lol

HA!

YEEEESSSSS

Me too. I have to avoid mashing the button. (I changed my buttons around and don't know if x or y is the right button anymore)

Changing between them for fun? Ah, I see you're a nan of culture as well.

I absolutely would if I had the game, but unfortunately I've only seen it on RU-vid and such. This in particular is what I was referencing: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Y7c1Sb0eb8k.html

@@GibusWearingMann That is freaking hilarious, thank you!

AmazingPad I was always creeped out when I'd soft lock or fall out of maps in games. Any time I'd glitch out of a map on Halo or GTA as a kid, you just feel the immersion break, and there's just a weird, unsettling void like feeling in the game. Lol

**turns on flashlight and points upward under chin** That's the energy the game's soul is radiating. It's trapped in media for your enjoyment but little did you know it even had awareness. Like trapping someone in a soul gem, you might think they're in suspended animation or in an unaware death-like state, but ohhh no, they are fully aware and helpless! Story goes the only chance of escape is when the player glitches the game and even then only by switching places with the player can it escape MUAHAHAHAHAHA!! >:3

Glitches are scary in general. People feel safe with what's intended.

0223x People are afraid of holes. Being afraid of softlocks is not strange.

I don't blame you. It's a sort of limbo or purgatory, and it's probably the closest we'll ever be able to experience that. So in a way, it is indeed creepy.

He has a second channel with let's plays (Pikasprey Blue), in case you need more of him :)

You made 9/11 a good day for him Pikasprey!

LeCoolFace my sentence?

DanteTheBulldog plays 03 A GAAAAME THEORY

Thanks for FNAFing.

A GAY THEORY. thanks for watching

.....A GAME THEORY!!!

@Matteo Leonardi Yes. For some reason, it felt right.

It seems like you could have just gone with dead because it’s literally death that does it

>Calls people who want exclusive Pokemon content kids >Has young anime girls as profile pic I mean, I'm glad he is branching out and doing non-Pokemon videos too, but it's rich of you to act like you're better than those that prefer Pokemon videos.

Actually he only took Alucard's OP equipment. If you farmed the zombies for a Cloth Tunic or whatever it was before getting to him, you would get to keep it