The Greatest EarthBound World Record Just Happened 

Note: Some of the enemy names are not quite right. Also, @ 1:21 the date is supposed to say March 21st, 2023. Thanks for understanding Please check out Octopuscal's content. He's an excellent EarthBound speedrunner: www.twitch.tv/octopuscal

The fact that I used stutter stepping strats and Enemy despawning on my first playthrough just goes to show how desperate I was not to lose any health

Ah my favorite story about A, A, A and A who finally were able to defeat Giygas with the help of the player A

I just wanted to add what Doc accidentally forgot. I was the first person in world history to break the 4 hour barrier in the non manip category. Surely this was just lost to history. Now, they are serving hashbrowns in the nursing home cafeteria so I have to go back inside.

came for the urfbound, stayed for the swellman

Your editing always amazes me, you can tell you poured so many hours into this video

It's pretty entertaining how you manage to stay friendly to newcomers while little by little getting more technical as the run attempts happen. Thanks for the video Doc, keep shaving those seconds ✌🏼

Thank you for nice video! It was fun.

I'm really glad that you used Octopuscal's actual interview audio instead of reading it for him, it feels much more personal as a result. Great video!

Somebody mentioned the video editing and i gotta say the audio levels are very nice as well, not a lot of people have a good ear for it but this was easy to listen to

Peaceful Rest Valley is one of the most awful places in the game, for everyone, not just speedrunners. I hate that place so much. The worst part about it is that its layout and its colors and just its whole atmosphere is really nice. Without the enemies that place would be awesome.

The way you combine entertaining edits with clean and concise infographics makes your content so much fun to watch. And also congrats to Octo on their crazy record sweep!

It cannot be stressed how hard the department store climb is even in a casual run. Impossible to avoid encounters from enemies that one shot you and you are down a key party member. It’s very easy to power level in the desert prior to this section. I’ve seen level 40 teams go down in a single turn due to bad RNG. Hardest part of the game in my opinion if you aren’t prepared.

and it's a japanese runner too, which is rather uncommon but really cool to see intermixed in the community

Having done one full game speedrun of the game, I know how extremely painful most of the game is. Having almost no major time loss after reaching Threed is just insane. Extremely impressive to be able to have such good execution to get such a near perfect run.

Earthbound will always be one of my favorite rpgs. Great graphics, nice music, wacky and zany characters and just a great time. I watched most of his speedrun and it is just mind blowing.

I love this game so much, what a classic. Everything is so charming and odd, the fact that "Car Painter" is a boss and "slimy little piles" are scary enemies makes me so happy. Time for a replay :)

PRETTY UNIQUE GAME

Thank you so much for this analysis, I never would have known anything that was going on to make this run so special. It's really cool that you got Octopuscal's input on this run as well!

Very entertaining video, Doc! Super fun to watch a professional video a la Lowest Percent and other channels like that going through the route and strategies of our favorite game in detail. Also really convenient, since I haven't been able to find the time to sit down and watch Octo's run in full. The time he saved is just insane, but it's also a good lesson for us as a community--the glitchless manipulated record is far from dead, and it's up to anyone to step up to the task of bringing it down into time ranges that were once thought out of the question. It's not even gonna take anything special... just the hard work, hours, and dedication.

HER NAME IS LARDNA!? HOW DID I MISS THAT?

Earthbound is my favorite game. I can't wait to play it one day.

Speedrunning as a hobby has never really interested me, but everything that goes into it and all the different factors that make a run what it is are very interesting to me. Thank you for making all of this so easily digestible for us laypeople. Also +1 for Crosscode music.

"This uniqueNESS" I see what you did there.

So happy that this dude got so much screentime, I literally adore him. Thank you so much for making this, its amazing! Must've taken a while too lol. Now, time to binge watch this movie length video of my favorite silly :)

Love the content. The editing and general aesthetic of your vids just keeps getting better, too.

Hot damn... now im homesick

Very, very clean animation and production quality

Great work buddy! Editing is looking great.

Not only is the video interesting and informative, the editing is also superb. Great kudos to you, Doc.

_RU-vid Recommended knows when I'm high._ _Earthbound Speedrun? _*_My guy!_*

Your game analysis videos are so awesome. Especially when theyre on games like Earthbound and Super Mario RPG that I love and you explain the inner workings of them that even I didn't know. Thanks for the great content and good luck with your channel.

What an incredible video. So in-depth for such an incredible run. Crazy to see how much the RNG favored him, it was like winning the lotto for Earthbound speedruns. Great stuff

ANOTHER BANGER LETS GOOOOOOOOOO!

Thank you for enriching our lives with the world of speedrunning.

Heck yeah, the Doc is on call and dropping great video 😎

Before now Ness merely occupied a very specific space in my memory to trigger the words "PK Fire" and "PK Thunder" every time I see him. Lots of smash 64 growing up.

Is it odd that i just realized carbon dog becomes diamond dog through the pressure of the fight?

Awesome video!!! The editing is beautifully simplistic

Better than an episode from a Netflix original series. Great run, fantastic and approachable breakdown.

This video was so good. Well done! And congrats to Octopuscal!

gotta have popcorn for the new swelly!

Idk if you intended this (you may have), but this video doubles as a great overview of the EB speedrun for someone who has never seen it. Best overview explanation since Andy's

JRPG speedruns always baffle me. Whether or not they use tons of skips.

This editing is so dynamic and high quality

Man I'm so out of the loop on this. great video My dude, And grats to the guy with the world record on it that's impressive.

i remember my first time dealing with the boss magicant fight. at first i was just decimated and had no idea what else to do other than go back and literally farm. My second attempt i used the dragonite and the fight went for a while until i was defeated. Then without changing anything i decided to just let the auto fight thing do it. After about five turns of just "swing bat" i won.

I really appreciated the use of the Final Fantasy X soundtrack. It gave me a BUNCH of nostalgia and surprisingly fit right in with your editing.

the presentation in this video is top notch. amazing work

Such a good video! You taught my friend a lot about how to run this game, so I've learned a lot just by proxy over the years. Mad respect for anyone who runs this game😊

I just finished the game on the switch emulator Apperantly based on the video in the ness dream I maybe got a semi perfect run of the place I went through everything pretty fast by manipulating the game to despawn enemies since it worked so well for me in all the cave stuff at the start of the game I fought one kraken killing it with 1 lucky ahh critical damage hit losing half of my life in the process Avoided the two others (I didn't even know they existed) And then threw every bag of Dragonite on the nightmare statue surviving with 1hp because the game text was faster than my health I didn't realize the statue was actually hard I thought I wasted my good items on it since it died so fast and since the game had no saves all that time Probably the luckiest I've ever been in a game that whole section I was saying to myself there is no way I'm beating this and I was just spamming stuff in fights in order to save my health with the "you win" text Also i respect earthbound for somehow making future emulator save states useless The only time I used them was to leave the game whenever and before the last fight with gyigas since I got really good luck with the "run away" option in the past grey world Ness was lvl 71 and Paula lvl 69 before the battle with gyigas idk about the others

Octopuscal hold so many records for both Earthbound and Mother 2. Impressive.

Great video and explanation for the layman. Thanks for sharing!

I can provide further information why manipulation is impossible after mondo mole (to be exact, after paula calling jeff cutscene) as current RNG manipulation router. Not only anyone hasn't routed yet but also frame level precise movement is required because of bubble monkey. As doc mentioned in the video, walking NPCs change RNG. As long as just one NPC appears on screen at a time (or multiple but you can just walk without turning at all) and you can despawn by walking, manipulation can still be consistent enough human can manage and that's why current manipulation lasts over 30 minutes. Monkey changes RNG like walking NPC but more aggressively. Even worse part is he chases you for quite long. If you lose some frames by bad movement like stuck in geometry, it can end manipulation instantly. Winters manipulation will be really inconsistent (or not practically feasible to execute) for human speedrun even if the route exists. I won't bother to try routing either. New manipulation has been slowly routed by octo (+ I'm occasionally helping him). Hopefully new route will complete until mondo in the future. We are at whole onett done so far (subject to change since routing takes account of countless inputs combinations). We've been routing in variety of other categories for nearly 3 years but I personally feel none of manipulations are fully optimized. I'm gonna mention a few outside of manipulation part. (I'm saying SNES classic as classic, SNES console as console to avoid confusion because they both have "SNES" in their names) Octo used classic for the run while console is most common platform for top players because classic is seemingly fastest in glitchless. He uploaded console timings comparison video if anyone is curious (Sorry if linking is banned but no malicious content included) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Ks0qhka5rf0.html Console will still be fastest in categories where save and reset is allowed for having fastest reset among other consoles. But no one has tested thoroughly yet. I could be wrong but he first started buying Skip Sandwich in Twoson for EarthBound (that's been a thing way before in Mother 2 speedruns) for enemy dodging and green swirl strat in threed tunnel (He used once in his 3:45 run too). I'm thinking to make a guide of swirl strat because I don't think it's shared in english and I'm sure it'll save more runs. I'll do it when motivated for sure. Stutter step is more lenient than 4 frames usually. This post has more detailed info. www.speedrun.com/earthbound/thread/vzhza Actual elemental PSI damage modifiers are 100%, 70%, 40% and 5% respectively so Ness's nightmare has 70% resistance not 75%. Great video btw. I was sidetracked by other games right after getting my first WR in this game until recently so I didn't know what's going on glitchless much. You summed up very well and it's really interesting watch! (I'm 0xwas doc mentioned around 6:30, I have so many aliases lol)

41:40 Isn't still a tradition to name the player BUTTSBUTTSBUTTSBUTTSBUTT if you're on a PB pace tho? haha

I felt like I watch a collaboration between Summoning Salt and Doc, it was just amazing!

Yooo hour of Swellman content

46:25 shoutouts to the silliest typo in earthbound

Mom: last video and you are going to sleep after Me: (open this 57mins video) alright!

9 minute gap between octo and 2nd holy fuck on another note this editing is really good gj

Gets recommended video, "This may stand for a **very** long time" Checks... Huh, he beat himself by another 8 minutes a month ago. Cool story.

I miss my homie Ceriam. He was the EB GOAT.

let's go! Love earthbound

Woah. This video was fantastic. Thanks to the algorithm

amazing video! so well edited

A very well put together video

Dude, it's been ages since I saw you stream and now you put out a SS-level video for EB? Thank you.

Excellent video, and incredible run!

thx for this vid was wondering what has been going in eb speedrun community for a minute. Shoutout Andy Perfect love that dude

Great video! I always enjoy your content.

Amazing breakdown

Another certified Swelly BANGER

Your patreon sponsors are obscured by the "next video suggestion" thumbnail at the end , I would suggest you try to rework the patreon screen around it (or remove the video suggestion ) just to be nice to the people whose names are covered up lol great video btw, was good to eat to for a few nights in a row

Mass dubs for using Lufia 2 music in this video. Hell yes.

YEAAAAAH NEW EARTHBOUND CONTENT

i used enemy despawning all the time cus those zombies were tough as heck.

dude big pog

I tried using the teleport for faster running speed once. It didn't go as planned.

I wanted to watch this video but I just started playing Earth Bound and I don’t want to ruin it for myself. I’ll be back in a day or two.

Using the melee trophy models is smart

Loved octos comments.

YESS I LOVE CROSSCODE'S OST TY

Great video, very informative

God I miss watching the EB speedrum community. I feel stupid for not realizing who made this video until 10 minutes in 😅

Nice Digimon World 3 music, mate

Amazing video!

Swellman = Legend

great video!

Love the video!

E stands for earthbound

What amazing news!

All these nerds are right; the production value is amazing on this channel.

Great video! Earthbound speedruns are always a good watch. A silly question maybe, but has anyone ever actually figured out which mole is the third strongest?

first omfg I cannot believe it's finally here 🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉❤🎉

I remember when I first played Earthbound I got lucky didn’t get any enemy spawns in the departure store until the very top and I only had to fight one encounter before the boss. I didn’t understand why people found it so difficult

He got sooo many good rng i lost track!

I think you mean March 21, 2023, not 2022.

That’s crazy!!!!

the editing in this is so bazar

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