The Holy Grail of Final Fantasy VII Speedrunning Was Found 

This was fascinating to watch even as someone who won’t ever try a speedrun. I’m sure there’s more crazy things to come, amazing work by the community!

You're all here talking about a flashback skip while I'm just having my mind blown by Cloud asking a Chocobo to "stay there just a minute"

Barret taking the PHS away is such a weird coincidence.

That PHS Logic! Reminds me of OOT speedrunning. Ganon knocks your sword away in the final fight, therefor giving you access to it right at the end where it's necessary! Thanks programmers!

Petition to call all speedruns using this glitch Panic%. Because there's no Kalm.

FF 7 is the GOAT. I’ll never do a speed run on this game, love the content way too much, but I’ll keep this in my back pocket. Having my memory cards from 1997 with a save file AFTER Kalm is how I get around this long cut scene. Then again, sometimes I want to let the story be told, because I appreciate the game so much. Kudos all!

I wondered how the run played out with the PHS and forgot Barrett takes it away. Thanks for the video - great content as always death. Cna't believe another skip has been found

I have no interest in doing speedruns myself, but it's always fascinating to see these crazy glitches y'all find The fact that it just so happens to not permabreak the PHS is even crazier!

Perhaps the craziest part of this is that we'll probably wake up in a couple months to ANOTHER skip and/or exploit. Truly, FFVII is the gem that continues to shine no matter how much it fractures.

Casually, Kalm's always worth going through just for the epic moment when the Chorus chimes in. Goosebumps every time.

Great Video with a great amount of detailed facts and I am honoured to be part of it. Kuma spent a long time finding it and so many runners, routers and glitch finders did their best to contribute to it. It was overall a very supportive and wholesome process and I am really happy it worked out so well in the end

This game just refuses to be saturated, and it's amazing! I will forever love this game and more than 2 decades since its release and we're still discovering new stuff

This is the first video I've ever watched relating to speed running, and thought it was really well done. Great contextualisation of the problem, felt like I got an appreciation for who the community was too. Very interesting and enjoyable, thank you!

Almost three decades of memories and the community continually shows us she keeps on giving. ❤️

The visual of 12:08 Audio: “because this glitch involves catching a Chocobo…” Visual: Seph reaches out to Jenova

Stuff like this is why I love Final Fantasy VII more now than ever.

So glad you're still around and it looks like the channel is growing. I remember in the beginning hoping you would do well because this is hands down my favorite FF7 channel. There are plenty of fans out there but its always palpable just how much this game means to you. The game means a lot to me so its great to have a place online where I know I can go that will always have the latest and greatest when it comes to whats happening with this game. So a sub here means Im never out of the loop!

The only thing that surprises me about FF7 more, than the sheer quantity and diversity of all the exploits... Is how the game is still able to somehow hold together with all the ways people break it.

This is absolutely mind-blowing, yet incredibly simple too. What a find.

Its amazing to see a community have a breakthrough in a game they thought they found everything in already. Congrats ff7 community!

"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should"

5:43 "The amount of brainpower and pure will Kuma had to find this skip *can not be UNDERstated*." Yes, it can. How come so many people keep getting this wrong and end up stating the exact *opposite* of what they were trying to say?

The Kalm section is vital to the story of the game and is very interesting the first time you play but even putting aside speed runs it is so tedious to replay so im very happy for others that this has been found.

I thought the holy grail was Midgar Skip. This is still an epic find!

Love that the Kalm Skip meme is now a reality

Watching these exploits of beloved childhood games just shows it in an entirely different light, and I LOVE it! Thank you for this.

Nice editing death, the way the music was cued up on the last moments was a nice touch

I've watched / listened to this video four times today. It's a cool fuzzy happy thing for me today. ♥

Not only an amazing feat by Kumo discovering this, but an awesome job explaining it on your part. Thanks!

Felt like this video needed the summoning salt music for the intro

I’m always amazed by your videos, I am obsessed with the game, I started to do a walkthrough but no one watched it… I am still going for the perfect game, all material mastered, 99 of the items and levels gold and time maxed… I’ve been playing since the game came out… if I do one thing I don’t like I start over, even the video on my walk through are from a game that was about 5 games ago, numerous lost memory cards and hours later… I’m close… this game is special… much love to you, and the community

That was cool. Looking forward to see the other skips and glitches.

There's some deliciously appropriate parallel to skipping the lore of this game by getting distracted by Chocobos. Truly, this is FF7. I first got into the speedrunning community through this game, so it still stuns me how much the game has been shaved over the years. Ever since I'd seen GarlandG's videos on some of the weirdest world map glitches found years ago, I wondered how any of them could be useful for speedrunning. Seems like Chocobos can override so many events because there's always gotta be some unique conditions in the code for them. Maybe one day we'll have the PC run finish in less than an hour. "FF7 for Busy People" is real, 2024.

This was fun to watch you mess with on Friday morning and Saturday evening. Hopefully more skips can come from this new glitch, I’m sure someone is looking right

Skip Kalm and Carry On

Great video. Was hoping someone would cover this

Been a long while since a 4-8 video popped up in my recommended, always exciting as it’s usually newly discovered stuff

Wow. Just, wow. Thanks for bringing this to light!

This was in my suggested and that music at the start has made me wanna play this again for the 100th time. It's been a while

I love these information videos from you. Freaking great stuff on recapping everything.

Thankx to Kuma and the entire FF7 community for their amazing work and keeping the Speed run exciting and relevant.

Well that's great Ive been thinking about speed running FF7 for a while now. Maybe I'll do it soon.

Great job on comprehensively explaining the skip itself, along with the reason it was desired and hunted for so long. I hope you do more of these, I will watch em' for sure!

Final Fantasy 7 music makes me feel true nostalgia, but also pure terror, with such an existential crisis. I'm 31...played this first at 7 ish. I have an 8 year old now. I just... I don't want to think about it...

I wonder if this clip could be used to somehow get Cloud to walk on the ocean. Then it could jump straight to Rocket Town and skip 50% of Disc 1. Based on the way the world map works you can't transition to a terrain type that isn't walkable, but this allowed Cloud on the river because his y position is 0.

Huh. Seems to be based on the Breath of the Wild glitches where you load different parts of the map. Congratulations to those involved in the find.

I had no idea that there was an instance of wild chocobos not running away after you dismount. Neat!

Always check in on this channel love the content.... love FFVII more 😜👍👍👍🔥

Just a reminder that this game is 24 years old! And we're still getting crazy new stuff out of it!

Man. Long time watcher. This was amazing to watch. Thanks Death. 💀

This reminds me to glitch from 007 Golden Eye (video from Karl Jobst), the one you glitch through prison bars... just slightly more complicated. Sometimes the missing piece is the one almost nobody thinks about it, or the obvious one. Good job!

This game... It's story, music and gameplay. It still reminds me when I was a child and had zero preoccupations in life, and all my beloved ones were still alive. Miss the old times.

Damn your videos are so interesting even speedrunners would watch them in full.

Woooooooooow, you literally have to trick Za Warudo to get past Kalm. Good on ya m9s for cracking one of my favorite games!!!

This is amazing, well done to the whole community. Hopefully sub 6:30 can be a thing now. I remember when sub 7 hours was only a dream!

Very exciting to see, and I can't wait to see where the game goes from here! It's amazing how the game has unraveled over the past few years.

I was kinda expecting that this topic would be covered by you Death and you more than delivered, thank you for putting time into this. May I ask if you will create a FFVII iceberg? There's at least one out there, but by the way I know your content you're much more informed about stuff than other content creators. Not hating other creators, but that's the facts to me.

That's so crazy. I couldn't really understand why the glitch happens (I guess I'm too dumb) but it's so neat that you can have the PHS again. FF7 is a beautiful pile of messy buggy lovely pixels. And this community is pure gold! Love your videos.

The flashback is probably my favorite part of the game from a storytelling perspective.

This is amazing to see and I'm excited to see what potential this glitch could have for the game as a whole. I haven't been involved in the FFVII speedrun community in a long time but I love to see discoveries like this. This is the first time I've seen the chocobo glitch but it looks very similar to a different (less useful) glitch I'd found back in 2015. It was similar but on the kalm side of the swamp and if you got into an encounter with the zolom without entering the swamp at all, you would exit the fight on the mines side of the swamp. I never found any practical use of the glitch but I'm excited to see even more of the amazing discoveries the community will make.

This is awesome. I remember seeing the Tsuna skip and being blown away. This is just nuts

I fondly recall my 24 hours on disc 1 in 1997.

Another educational and fun video Death, thanks for the content!

Ironic, I'm making my friend play FF7 while i watch him since he never played it before and he's liking it a lot

I just finished playing the original today and I’m watching all of the ff7 videos and had no idea this game had a community like this. That’s so cool.

6:10 Cloud forgets the laws of physics.

On the rerelease on the PS4 (not the remake) you literally have a fast forward button that will make any section of dialogue take a few seconds, a "limit breaks are always usable" button, and an invincibility button. The skips and glitches are cool and I know this is kind of besides the point, but for the regular people I've seen post here a lot, who aren't speed running and just cba with a particular part, the rerelease has been out for years, is about 7 quid and addressed all these issues. It's also one of the easiest, most enjoyable platinum trophies I ever got. Being that I did all this stuff legit on the original PS multiple times I didn't feel bad fast forwarding and cheating certain bits from time to time, especially when it came to farming Magic Pots for AP.

Great analysis! Thanks for uploading!

I love that the less of the game we can play, the better it gets. 10/10 gaming experience.

I don't speedrun but I wanna try this just to get around the flashback. I love how much of a glitchy mess FFVII while still being a fully functional and enjoyable game. I love it for the same reason I enjoy Pokémon Red and Blue

I was just picturing what Kuma's reaction was like the first time crossing that gap

With the HD version with speed feature in it. Getting past that part is even faster except for the cgi bit.

This reminds me of a time i was playing Final Fantasy IX. I got the Gold Chocobo as quickly as possible and accidentally skipped some of the story. Plus while flying around with the chocobo I noticed that the airship appeared out of nowhere when I didn't have it before.

That's bananas how long everyone worked on that. Congratulations to everyone.

I love that you've adopted this format

You should make an FF7 video going in depth about certain locations in the map!

It's a good job you didn't finish your speedrunning history video for this game before this was found!

I love how the game came out in 1997 and there’s a big community out there still breaking the game

I was surprised it took you this long (a week, lol) to upload something about this, but seeing the final product I definitely see why. I was expecting a short clip of the stream like with the double Chocobo glitch, but I love all the detail you put into this, especially for people who don't regularly watch your channel and don't know about the game moment.

After all these years... I feel speachless. Just when I thought this game has been researched to hell and back, we get a new glitch, and HUGE one at that. Wow. Just... wow...

Looking forward to a FFVII glitches video!

I wish that the remake had actually just been a graphical improvement but with so cool new stuff added in. Basically, ways of causing things to happen like this that can change the game experience, but also leaves you the option to play normally.

What makes FFVII so great? The game is SOOOO broken and patched together, it just works.

These glitch hunts always involve thinking outside of the box. Simply brilliant.

Ppl who keeps finding huge glitch in several decade old game warms my heart

This was so deeply fascinating!

Great overview Death 👍👍

Huge!! Congrats to all involved!!

I'm amazed at games like ocarina of time, Mario 64, Ff7, how they become a completely different game when being exploited, and somehow, it works amazingly. Not all "normal play" masterpieces translate into "speedrun masterpieces"

Big Find! Now we need lifestream skip, 2nd place of boring section in FF7 speedrun

Good work community! Let’s keep it up. Soon enough we will have a FFVII negative speed run!

Wicked so happy for the ff7 community

almost makes me tear up, beautiful ;D

FFVII: The game that keeps on giving.

Is there a video with all the type of skips? I dont do speedruns but I find it entertaining watching them.

i jus wanted to comment that, playing "Under The Rotting Pizza" at the opening was perfect. side note, the name of the song is very clever

People enjoying the game in potentially less that 1.5hrs and here i am with a 500+ hrs game file

Super amazing. Looking forward to seeing the next evolution of this crazy new tech.

makes sense though, the kalm flashback is an important part of the story and introduces the main villain, so the game is gonna make sure the player has no choice but to watch it.

Hell yes, managed to pull this skip off for the first time. Took me like three hours using multiple methods. This setup was not only the easiest to setup, but the fastest to know if I messed it up. Practicing this method took me like half hour to get it right. The precision on leaving the swamp is pretty tight, but just running away resets the whole thing nice and easy, of which you are needing to do anyways. Running across the swamp hopping off the chocobo and saving helps significantly in resetting when you are too late to leave the swamp. Early is easy to just run back across and do it again. You know it works when you hop off on the farm side and the chocobo doesn't run, after which the hard part is done. The movement part is super easy to do, and if it isn't right, you just hop back on and do it again.