The Incredible Glitches of Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine for the N64 

Everytime i hear "Infernal Machine" i think of my Grandpa yelling at the microwave. Calling things "Infernal contraptions" was his common response to new technology.

There's something really nice about that crouch flight bug, I just like watching Indy glide around the levels on a slope

Awesome video! I love all the visualizations. It actually would be cool to have a game like that in 2D haha. And thanks for all the memories osu. Hopefully this game will get even more broken. This definitely deserves more views! Super well made.

This video in one sentence: Crouching breaks EVERYTHING. (In all seriousness, good video. I never even heard of this game before, crazy that it's so broken!)

I love the photosensitivity warning with the bell. My epileptic cousin gets so frustrated with RU-vid videos when they have warnings but no indication of when the lights are or when it’s safe to look again. This is the best way I’ve seen to deal with it.

Osukarui: Hey, Indy, we better back up, we don't have enough roads to get up to 1:10:00 speedrun. Indy: Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads.

step bro I'm stuck in my crawl animation

The map between the different sections of the video is a great thematic touch for this video, and should be appreciated.

This is the kind of special special interest documentary content I watch RU-vid for!

Hope future movies will finally use those techniques, to make them more dynamic.

This video inspired me to glitch-hunt some older games, I love this sense of discovery when digging into mechanics.

I always think of this game when anyone mentions Babylon in a modern context. Also Indie flying through the air in a fetal position is unironically a better plot synopsis than the last Indiana Jones movie.

Thank you for this video, it is really entertaining and well made. I actually enjoyed playing Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine, but on the PC - with less bugs of course

Brilliant video, and criminally underviewed! There is just something so fascinating about speed running and the glitches that make it so much more interesting. Thank you for explaining the glitches in detail!

8:30 This flight has more connections then a plane from New York to Washington, holy shit.

This was so well put together! Thank you for your work!

One of my all time favorite games! Thanks for breaking it :D

This was really well made, and you did a pretty good job with the information overall I had never heard of this game before but I felt like I understood everything

I watched a highlight playthru vid of this game and was made aware of the long runtime and the "jankiness" or bugs. I then immediately thought of the combination and searched for a speed run, finding this specific vid, so niche, it's great. Thanks

Excellent video. Great editing.

Beautiful video. Thank you for sharing this.

Great editing!

I never even heard of this game until now. This was a really well done glitch showcase, great vid!

Found your channel a few days ago. Love your content, love seeing obscure games get turned into mechanical puzzles all unto themselves. Keep up the killer work!

Beautiful work.

I mean with Speed Runs you do have top level runners but also the guys who know how to fuck with a game are so next level and they pretty much inform the whole speed running scene.

Excellent video!

Fascinating stuff. Great video.

It's the first time I see a glitch state that needs to perflrm a glitch performed during a glitch state to then perform another glitch to go through a glitched wall. This is beautiful

great video bro! edit: @27:59 they should really call it "Swim Indy Air",

Honestly, this should have been the latest movie with old Indy just crawling around everywhere.

very good scripting and delivery. low-key one of the better speed content channels on YT. also neat to see these obscure speedgames documented.

Seeing a grown indy flying around in a crawling pose really broke me... lmao

Cool video, I love the deep dive into the tech and always like to take a look at speedruns of less mainstream games. This kind of thing would be really great as a primer before runs at GDQ events!

It's really lovely to see deep dives on on speedrun glitches, the explanations and diagrams you've paired them with are top notch.

Very well made video. Talented for sure

10:19 you actually just about nailed that pronunciation! Good job!

these visual representations are so helpful :D

You can tell that craw mode was programed on a Friday afternoon. :P

I just finished the Windows version, and the sheer amount of times I had to reload just because Indy was stuck between a ledge and a floor, forever in his landing pose, or else just plain stuck in the geometry so no controls worked, may be the highest I've encountered in any single game. Good story, but I'm never playing that again.

So this is absolutely hilarious how broken this game is... When I had my Nintendo Power (it's the Banjo-Tooie issue), it had a walkthrough for Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine... And the printing was glitched for the the whole second half of the walkthrough, making the words impossible to read because it was all just this blurry mess and turning the screenshots into this "is this in 3D???" mess. So that game is so glitched that it transferred its breakable-ness to at least one printed official walkthrough.

I saw that UI and thought "Imbiamba Jombes and the ocarina of time"

Going to watch this with one of my friends later, 5 second preview and I can tell its gonna make our night😂

I've never even really seen this game before but that certainly was incredible... and hilarious. If you could crawl around on the floor like a baby, that would be so beautiful.

This is seriously funny, I've been laughing for 15 minutes

Speed running is evolution unfolding.

the diagrams you use to explain everything are sooooo good.

A super comical thing to see Indiana jones doing...floating around in the air on all fours. When Lucas & Spielberg made Indiana Jones they couldn't have predicted this 😄

I work with a few of the devs of the pc version of this game. I'll share this video with them and see what they think lol

Very well made video

I know that this was one of the few games that Project64 could not run at all, making it hard to access.

Leo pointing at the tv when tomatoanus appears

LOL nice documentation of the whole process

Excellent video! I wonder what game we'll break next?

Reminds me of my last succesful try to beat Body Harvest on an Emulator, as this game isn't properly emulated even until this day I had to use a metric fuck ton of cheats and glitches to actually beat the levels due to missing collision detection which prevents you from entering certain progression critical facilities and building xD

great narrative to fall asleep to

I totally forgot they had an Indiana Jones game for N64. My grandma used to rent it for my uncle & I when we were kids.

It turns out that the real infernal machine is this game.

This guy is a treasure that I'm surprised I didn't know about earlier

Used to watch my Dad play the pc version. This video makes 64 Indy look rediculous and I'm all for it.

Its like, a polygon is just a plane in 3D space, defined by three points. If you crawl on a polygon, you're crawling on that plane. When you cross a polygon boundary you're supposed to switch to the plane of the next polygon. But what if you skip that step? You'd still be crawling on the plane of the first polygon's plane, even though you're out of the polygon's bounds. Which would let you crawl in the sky, or maybe even underground if you could clip through, but you're still on that plane.

It is so nice to see this game get some more recognition, hopefully increasingly so. I usually play the PC version, but idk if that has more or less glitches

Those old timey map interstitials for chapter breaks were inspired.

Spider Potter Indy ... That's how I will describe all of this

underrated video

Got to love glitches, some reason I end up get them unintentionally everytime I record any gameplay.

well done

man, this was one of my childhood games. the strange atmosphere and the puzzles, which at the time i could not solve, made this game a real unique treasure for me as a kid. i'd spend hours hopping between the levels just exploring and trying to figure things out, and having a blast all the while. i've always been interested in speedruns of this game, but for years i could never find anything other than some old segmented run, so i'm really glad to see things have taken off in recent years!

this is a really great video, cant believe i got recommended it now, thought this was recently uploaded but it was uploaded 8 months ago, my only issue with the video is the fact you just didnt give any of the speedrunning people who found what specific credit (even said so in the intro why) but then later on just gave a dude casually streaming the game credit for finding a glitch. seems a little backwards on the logic i feel like, i think every glitch deserves credit for who found it. other than that, this is a really great video, and you made everything so incredibly interesting about it

i had no idea indian jones speed runs involved so much *CAKE*

I hope the developers found the crawl glitch during testing, but thought it was too hilarious to fix.

Annnnnnnnnnnd now you have my sub thank you and thanks RU-vid for this gem

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How have I never heard of this game. I know all these obscure games but didn't know there was a Indiana Jones n64 game

LMFAO the crawl mechanic is so broken! Great breakdown!

The crawl glitch state seems pretty easy to trigger accidentally

wow it all makes sense now!

I think this game gives me Army Men Sarge's Heroes amount of noustalgia: its probably not the best game but you can still have fond memories of this game. Heck i havent played the game, but i always hear negative stuff about it mechanical-wise, but its got a UI similar to Ocarina of Time haha

Can you hit load/level end triggers with swim in air active

are we not gooinna talk about the scary gougar at 24 minutes 😱😱!

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I loved this game but on PC! after playing this, I bought a collection of old DOS indy games and the original trilogy on DVD : )

its nice to take indy for a swim...

I love speedrunning glitches. The wackier the better.

I love seeing #glitches ! Thanks for the vid.

Guess I have to watch the speed run now Cool

I lost my shit at "sunwalk" hahahahah

U deserve at least 1mi visualizations.

Really nice work putting this together! This has got to the the most broken game on the N64 😂

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i agree with u i like the glitches and i find them cool

4:02 and the game doesn't immediately crash from an infinite polygon popping up in the memory?

1:07 I don't think a game being poorly made is all that extraordinary, and is quite common in the games industry

What do you mean when you say soft lock? Does the character get stuck, does the game freeze, etc?

I wanted this game so bad as a kid, but it never released in PAL :(

4:00 I can’t imagine how that would even work technically. It generates collision on the fly?

I wonder if some of these tricks aren't consistent because of controller polling. I don't know how the N64 works as well as the GameCube, but there are Melee players like Hax$ who emphasize that you don't need to just hit the right frame, but have your input occur at a point where the controller is both polled but some important code has either finished or not finished running, which can change how the game interprets the input. Melee is not a great example of a well-programmed game considering its extremely short development cycle, but I would not be shocked some issues happen in this game too just because they did not have the time.

So do you rapidly press it or do you make potatoes out of it?

These glitches would have been useful in the movies.

I'm surprised Indy3D has as many glitches as it does, JKDF2 (which it's based on) is remarkably resistant to glitches. ie, OOB is impossible because going outside of a sector intentionally results in the physics deadlocking until your return to in-bounds. Was hoping when i decompiled OpenJKDF2 I'd find shenanigans but nothing for that game, lol