Ecco the Dolphin any% Speedrun World Record [

[@personM4N]

Producers: play as a dolphin! me: nice! Producers: swim through the ocean! me: cool! Producers: travel through time! me: oh...um...okay! Producers: fight aliens! me: ...what? Producers: kill their queen for kidnapping your pod! me: are you okay?

[@JeremyNoblitt]

The greatest horror game ever made.

[@wikeni9096]

I've been having nightmares about this game recently for some reason. Glad I'm not the only one who found it terrifying, lol!

[@rayjenboi]

@@wikeni9096 same! the reason is I never knew there were aliens and the final boss... oh gosh

[@ggodhand3559]

@@wikeni9096 You're not the only one who sometimes has nightmares about it. I'm revisiting Ecco videos today because I thought about it today in fact. As a kid I played this alot. Beat it with invincibility cheat code at first because it was too difficult doing it without it. Once I understood where to go and what to do in every level after beating it with the cheat, it didn't feel right to me until I beat it normally. It took awhile but eventually I learned to beat the game normally, with no cheats or exploits. I put it down for good eventually until the sequels came out and I cant remember if I beat those, but I do remember playing them alot. It's odd that I remember the first one so well though. Anyway, as a kid I always liked going in the ocean to get wet, but overtime as an adult I've developed a phobia to go in too deep into the ocean and I think Ecco is a huge part why I have that phobia. I used to swim out pretty far out into the ocean. Once I swam beyond where the waves even form and that's when a strong current almost took me. I had to swim out of it as hard as I can. I had to quite literally swim for my life. That was such a frightening experience that I never attempted such a thing again and now I only stay close to the shore during the rare occasions I decide to go in. I wont go deeper than my waist level which also begins to give me the chills. Now as an adult, every few years I will eventually think of the first Ecco game, and I'll sometimes even have a bit of a nightmare about it. Now when I think of the ocean, I can only think of all the dark scary thinks in its depths. Strangely I love visiting aquariums to look at sea life without consequence, and yet I think of Ecco at the same time every time I visit an aquarium. To think this game can have such a mental impact on you is crazy. Believe me, you're not the only one.

[@sayingnigromakesyoutubecry2647]

​@@ggodhand3559ocean is scary only if you go very deep. On the beach is alright

[@TamasRedler]

This game is still a misery for me :D Never passed level 1, so thanks for showing the other levels :)

[@CatOfTheYearuWu]

Pink Floyd’s the machine playing at the end was hauntingly fitting

[@DeathEgg666]

One scary ass game lol

[@wjb4578]

Not sure what it is about the time travel sequence at 6:00 that gives me chills whenever I watch runs of this game. Also, the programmers seemed to have taken into account the average underwater breath of a dolphin when considering how long the tube + machine + end boss takes to complete (around 8 min). Any longer and Ecco's pod would have drowned, unfortunately.

[@WobblesandBean]

Huh...I legit never thought of that. That's so cool.

[@andrewg944]

This game was so gd hard. And terrifying when I was a kid.

[@suiteCRMtutorials]

Probably has the highest level of first level quits than any other game. The first level's "puzzle" makes 0 sense..

[@TheD0GGPOUND]

As a kid this game made no fucken sense to me 🤣

[@whosaidthat84]

I just wandered the ocean not knowing what was happening. I had older cousins who figured out what to do so I just watched them

[@falshion1837]

As a kid I remember being stuck at the first section BEFORE any of the actual levels. I was like 8 or 9, but I'm still unsure if I was just a dumbass, or the game design was really bad. EDIT: I'm thinking of Tides of Time where it had you gather 3 crystals together, it was such a stupid puzzle with extremely cryptic clues from the other dolphins swimming around.

[@aolson1111]

Dolphin: Try to jump out of the water as high as you can! You: WHAT DO I DOOOOOO?

[@sayingnigromakesyoutubecry2647]

​@@falshion1837undercaves is TOO difficult. It should be a later level

[@Robkinggozer]

That music in the autoscrolling level before the final boss brings me back to being a kid, when I grinded and grinded and grinded untill I finally beat it. One my finest moments :p

[@WobblesandBean]

I gave up after a week and just brute forced the password 😂 Took an hour to finally guess it right.

[@skel3tron]

Yeah...I dont remember for sure but I swear I remember beating this game at one point...

[@l8631]

Avgn is right ECCO also somehow appeared in my collection as well and I didn't get much further than him as a kid. Very cryptic game

[@felibe1526]

Qui viens ici après la vidéo de JDG ? XD 😂

[@skateurs25]

moi:)

[@flovadormir4160]

@@skateurs25 idem

[@SkroOt69]

Tu m'étonnes, après avoir vu un fou furieux maso qui s'prend la tête sur un jeu aussi dur, fallait bien qu'on cherche un autre fou furieux qui a osé se le taper en speedrun x)

[@felibe1526]

@@SkroOt69 ouais XD

[@bilalbe6258]

Moi

[@lukeperry6903]

This game was way before its time!

[@wewd]

I'm still not certain if this game's time has come yet. It's so bizarre.

[@redroversk]

I remember when I was a kid, this was not advertised as a weird alien game, just "you're a dolphin and you talk to other creatures like Flipper...", that and Free Willy and Seaquest came out and then Jurassic Park came out and wiped all the neat sea creature shows out of the zeitgeist and replaced them with dinosaur media.

[@dunningdunning4711]

Ecco has to be the fever dream of an aging hippy, and I love it.

[@thizlam4810]

The fact that you're faster at this manually than a tool assisted speedrun blows my mind.

[@uncannyx]

highly questionable.

[@neonicplays]

@@uncannyx tas is 20 mins. So yeah he actually is

[@jordanvespa720]

@@neonicplays I haven't seen it but mostly likely the TAS is outdated and doesn't use some of the glitches in this speedrun

[@lionnelc13]

@@jordanvespa720 The TAS doesn't use the "horizontal camera glitch" (not sure about the name) that skips every stage with a "normal" exit, leaving only stages with a "special event" like, time travel, a boss fight or the autoscrollers. Basically the only "challenge" remaining is not dying on the machine (no optimization here, but its isn't easy even for a speedrunner) and of course the final boss. I understand why there is no TAS with this glitch, it make the game kinda pointless

[@Toasterloaf]

But first, let's talk about parallel universes.

[@WobblesandBean]

Holy shit. All these years, and I never knew any of these exploits. Also you aced The Machine like it was NOTHING. Damn good show!

[@s0lanumx]

I'm here thanks to avgn. It brought back memories of me and my nephew trying to figure out what the hell to do in this game. We never got passed the 3rd level. We always agreed that this game, the music, the way it looked, gave us the freakiest of vibes, and that's even after beating Shadow of the Beast.

[@craigsult3416]

I swear, I've never been so happy to see a dolphin and its pod return to its own time after defeating an alien! It's been 30 years since I played this weekend, and we all got excited when any of us got the big blue, a few times we made it to the prehistoric pterodactyl levels, but never pass that. And to see you do it with such ease, just blows me away. Makes me realize how much I missed during my childhood.

[@amarokorama]

Impressive stuff. By the way, Ecco records the play time in passwords (not counting time spent in message screens, loading, etc.). OOPYYHJD = 60672 frames (with a possible error of 63 frames), i.e. 16 minutes and 51 seconds, assuming NTSC.

[@rachaellaferney2216]

the Alien in the game is form the move 👽!!!!

[@d01phn37]

whats the formula?

[@joshfish2]

Anyone here from AVGN?

[@jaredmartin7040]

Here lol

[@frod79]

reporting for doody.

[@googleuser673]

This is the first type of stranding game

[@craigsult3416]

I fully understand it's a speed run, but all the tricks and things that are performed in order to get through so many levels so quickly, just blows my mind. I grew up as a kid playing this game, and you are able to get through the first eight levels faster than I could get through the very first one. I was never able to beat the game as a kid. You doing this like this, makes me sick to my stomach LOL! Bravo to you!

[@falshion1837]

You know a game is too hard when the speed run is basically skipping the whole fucking game.

[@kevintoone3901]

depth bro.

[@kevintoone3901]

imagine nes games.they all suck but there a few amazing ideas

[@falshion1837]

@@kevintoone3901 I’m just puzzled who this game was marketed for if you have a dolphin as your main character and the game takes like 10 hours to beat.

[@vmorales225]

Geez it took me so long to get to the last level and final boss in this game. It really makes me happy to see someone give the middle finger to the game and use those glitches to get through it.

[@Darkmage1293]

God you just broke my childhood over your knee, beating the game as fast as you did. D: I think this bears a little explaining...Blueglass runs this and says that walls don't exist while off-screen, so I get that's how you're phasing in...but I don't get how the camera pans like that while you're turning and charging.

[@DuskFiend]

it's a movement glitch that allows ecco to dash while tricking the camera into remaining stationary. the original TAS actually uses it in the lagoon IIRC, but it uses it vertically through an air tunnel. it just requires an odd rhythm on the d-pad, in most applications it's pretty easy. it gets really touchy in some though (the vents, origin beach)

[@LazyWorkCreations]

DuskFiend I didn't believe this crap game could have been beaten in 20 minutes when I was playing it normally, but after seeing your speedrun I can see why now.

[@noble_wine8809]

The movement glitch reminds me of a similar bug in the Sonic games. Nice speedrun btw.

[@andyq524]

@@noble_wine8809 I was thinking the same thing. I definitely got "screen wrap" vibes from it.

[@billyfakersonton3663]

Really a work of art

[@jrgaln]

Never understood this game

[@CPS2]

You're a dolphin. You swim and stuff.

[@joselitojoselito9536]

And kill aliens while at it.

[@ccpboy1]

I remember this game when i bought it in sega genesis, NO CLUES NO TALKING NO IDEA WHAT THE FUCK TO DO!! the people that did this game were in drugs 10000%

[@adambaker2001]

This sound track would of worked in an 80s vampire movie.

[@zsascsforever4155]

even faster than a tas wow!

[@uncannyx]

that doesn't raise any questions to you?

[@mollz3704]

@@uncannyx lmao this is the second comment I've seen from you regarding this. you don't think it's legit?

[@lionnel013]

@@mollz3704 it's legit, the glitch used in most levels is called " horizontal freeze clip" It basically lets you swim trough wall, making levels ridiculously easy. most speedruners and TASers , incluing Blueglass refuse to use this glitch because once mastered it removes any challenge except for the autoscoller levels

[@Aaron10026]

hated the soundtrack when I was a kid, pure nightmare material.

[@Frenomnom]

After beating this game after hours and hours and then watching this.. its like.. do you even play the game? :D gz on world record

[@VideoGameAnimationStudy]

Man, The Machine is so boringly long. Like, it'd be a great stage if it was just shorter. Also, the exit to the level is unusual.

[@LazyWorkCreations]

it's just a flat out terrible stage the designers liked so much. I agree if only that stage is shorter or better yet didn't exist in a form of an auto scroller.

[@VideoGameAnimationStudy]

LazyWorkCreations There's something menacing about the stage which I think would be lost if the auto-scroll was absent. Usually I'd agree as auto-scroll kinda sucks in any game, but it's put to fairly good use here. Just needs to be at least 75% shorter.

[@LazyWorkCreations]

Dan Root I think they could have done better like in tides of time which did this auto scrolling again but at least it was way shorter. As for menacing I have a hard time seeing it, it just looks like a stage from super r-type except with a dolphin.

[@VideoGameAnimationStudy]

LazyWorkCreations Ha, yeah I suppose it does. I think, of me, it's the rumbling the stage has when it's scrolling, too. Just adds a menace, for me. But yeah, I agree, Tides of Time did it exactly right. It wasn't overly complex and it was much shorter.

[@Geistlos0]

Dan Root If u would read the plot, u understand the reason for the machine and its self-scrolling. You have to read the guy first who had the idea for Atlantis..

[@StraightEdgeHippie]

Wait......what's with Pink Floyd at the end?!

[@BobYTisreal]

The reveal of the title song was in astrate

[@StevJohn]

JDG. :)

[@Crystal-rv5ys]

I'd love to learn how to make all these "sliding" skips !!

[@kaizze8777]

after almost 30 years, still cant beat it lol

[@nikshadow92]

In fact, TAS didn't skip anything, but demonstrates ideal knowing levels. So, he could beat WR easy.

[@RUWormsReloaded]

Very good! I'll try to beat that

[@andrejstojanovic5455]

yep this is a world record

[@xirtus]

Wonderful video, timeless, and so underrated. I love watching your playthrough. I'm making a youtube documentary video about Ecco the Dolphin with an interview with Ed Annunziata and archive footage from John C Lily. I'd like to know if you'd want to have your video featured in the doc?

[@deceiver444]

Insane

[@hikeskool]

Wow this looks tedious.

[@Soup3dBlast]

Me: fails to beat undercaves

[@ValeriiAS]

It's amazing

[@fakhrulzainal5384]

tf, is the game deeper than it looks?

[@Ptera_xd]

Imagine if the Vortex existed lol

[@NemXX2]

Rather than speed run it should be called "how much can X game be broken?". 😂

[@d07a]

Is this possible on keyboard? tried the skip at the start of level 2 for 2 hours and cant get through the wall, got stuck IN the wall 3 times (dunno if that's what's meant to happen then you swim before camera moves or something?) just feels horrible on keyboard and dont wanna buy a mega drive controller and an adaptor etc

[@NeonFXx]

This seems like a really cool game to speedrun because of all the glitches in it. It's also one of my favorite Mega Dive games, Is there a list of Ecco glitches I can look up to help me with this stuff?

[@conormackeigan8201]

+NeonFXx the english isn't perfect but Rezard wrote a guide detailing the glitches in the game: steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=192343679

[@NeonFXx]

Conor MacKeigan Thanks, I'll check it out! :)

[@silentdeadsd9726]

Спасибо!)

[@Rickyinhollywood]

This is Great!

[@BobYTisreal]

I actually did a speed run but it’s not posted on KZbin

[@zombiehunter2956]

the audio sounds like a toilet bowl

[@BobYTisreal]

He keeps glitching to stuff

[@yurilyra6884]

quem veio pelo meteoro brasil da like

[@professortrickroom3777]

How do you play Genesis games *on a Wii?!*

[@djmhyde]

man, this game is weird, but nice speedrun

[@lauraiss1027]

12:09 ?

[@mickwilla1490]

DE QUOI ?!....

[@soraruzaky]

You playing a Wii or Wii U ?

[@MrPottsTeaching]

I have NO IDEA what I just saw lmao hahah ;D Half tha GENESIS Games are UNBEATABLE lmao hahah ;D This one needed a GAMEPRO to beat lol lmoa hahah ;D

[@jamesmccarthy3029]

Wtf

[@CJHElectro]

really? aliens? lol I thought the music was bad enough

[@ReverendSyn]

*Glitching shouldn't be admissible as speedruns.*

[@leomadero562]

there are glitchless speedruns, and what's the fun in limiting a way people play games? the point is to see physically how fast it is technically possible to beat. whining about things you don't like isn't a very good way to change things either.