Glitches you can do in Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition

[@PhobiaSoft]

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[@Metalninja89]

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[@Slinky511nx7]

If only my controller had a circle button...

[@nathan_something]

Is there a way to randomly glitch a fucking red titanite slab into the game? I'm level 179 on the ps3, I'm stuck killing these God damn tentacle arm, big mouth monsters in Lost Izalith and they will **not** drop it! I've been grinding for at least two weeks now! Where is it?!

[@DuckPerc]

Honestly, selling people online courses on programming *today* is fundamentally immoral. The market is so saturated, and everybody knows AI is well on the way to replacing a vast majority of programmers. This kind of shit was already all over the place ten years ago, you'd have to be stupid or desperate to think this was worth your time.

[@oldhoonta]

Lightning infused spear at Sen's: Am I a joke to you?

[@PhobiaSoft]

Ah, a man of culture I see

[@brandonsilva2008]

Dark souls video in 2024 🔥

[@ThommyofThenn]

Ima bout it

[@jebbushu711]

And PTDE at that

[@ThommyofThenn]

@@jebbushu711 I've still not played that port!

[@jebbushu711]

@@ThommyofThenn its really not that good, you pretty much have to play with a controller for it to work so theres not much point playing on pc unless youre modding. It was my first dark souls though, so i love to see it get some love.

[@ThommyofThenn]

@@jebbushu711 I remember when it first came out, I had no clue what it was but I saw tons of fellow gamers talk about it. However, I was under the mistaken impression that PC version=Better than console version in every way. As such, when I saw PTDE get negative appraisals, I wrote Dark Souls off. I didn't touch it until DS3 came out some years later :( i only wish I had been more informed as to what PTDE was exactly meant to be! Still, I eventually played the entire series and they are amongst my top 3 greatest game series. Cheers

[@Space_Australian]

21:40 The crossover we never knew we needed

[@kytlerchynoweth]

I love how instead of just showing the glitches, you do a playthrough and do the glitches needed to get past an obstacle. Very creative and makes it a lot more fun to watch

[@d3nyd]

I know this is a glitch video and would have deprived you of adding even more examples, but you also could have gone to Darkroot Basin and through the tunnel with the bonfire near the halberd Black Knight to get into the Valley of Drakes in order to skip Blighttown.

[@PhobiaSoft]

Sir, that is Forbidden Knowledge, don't make me call the police

[@d3nyd]

@@PhobiaSoft I will go back to the Quiet Corner now.

[@_Gormakesh_]

You could also drain the water in New Londo.

[@damazingwundawuumaaan4441]

yeah was about to comment this lol

[@Xener09]

That elevator only unlocks from the bottom, you can't get down for the first time that way. You could kill ingward and go through new Londo though.

[@yoshimallow]

At long last. Glitches for OG DS1 is back.

[@helenastenvislavskovic]

Prepare to die is the base game with DLC bundle, right? The OG would be the original base game, then additionally the DLC

[@yoshimallow]

@@helenastenvislavskovic Yes it is. I just said this because Phobia made a video for Classic DS1 after his video for Demon's Souls, and around the time if Dark Souls Remastered, it became lost to time.

[@nitroturbo7869]

12:11 Very small correction: the Iron Golem doesn't stagger from poise damage like other bosses, it's instead entirely dependent on DPS.

[@davidlejenkins]

Holy cow! This video was amazing. I was not expecting a cameo from the man himself Illusory Wall. 10/10

[@adriangar95]

0:25 I love it Games for Windows Live (No joke), you coud text with people you did PVP as invader or as invaded, sometimes you made friends other times you received hate mail but was a social aspect more and I remember miss it a lot when Dark Souls came to Steam.

[@combinemanPL]

Yesss that was a great feature

[@nerdymidwesterner3662]

13:10 It's fair to note that if you have quick enough button inputs, you can use any non-item animation to trigger the duplication glitch (roll, backstep, attack, parry) and it'll give you the same result.

[@MrAlanAlden]

You can also use the animation of popping the soul from the glitch itself to continue quickly chaining it, making duping for big quantities of souls go faster. Another thing to note is that only male characters can perform the glitch with all possible character animations. It has been a long time since I've played the game, but female characters for some reason cannot dupe boss and fire keeper souls either with attack or parry animation, I do not remember which exactly one but that's one weird thing about original Dark Souls 1. Edit: Actually I think I remember now. It's the attack animation. Male characters can do it with both one handed and two handed attacks, but female characters can only dupe with attacks while holding weapon with 2 hands.

[@mochafennec]

@@MrAlanAlden It's because certain female-specific animations are missing animation interrupts that would allow items to be queued for use mid-animation. Any animation shared between the two genders works fine because it uses those aforementioned interrupts. Catalystz has a good video on this topic that explains it in more depth.

[@MrAlanAlden]

@@mochafennec That's cool, thanks for letting me know. I'll for sure check out that video.

[@IIIllIIIIllllllIIlIllIIIIllIIl]

Regarding the missing master key to unlock the door in new londo ruins : If I remember correctly, you can start from the Undead Parish bonfire, go down past Andre and the Titanite Demon and out to the darkroot garden, then to the right down to where you fight the black knight that gives you the halberd. There's a cave to the left with a bonfire, and an elevator that takes you down to the valley of drakes. From there, you can run back to the other side of the locked door, and you'll be able to access blighttown without the master key

[@PhobiaSoft]

(I know dude, I just needed an excuse to show off Blighttown Skip)

[@waelmagdy7757]

@@PhobiaSoftSpeaking of which, this skip is known in the speedrun community and is already being utilized in all bosses category.

[@saladninja69]

Illusory wall: The mad scientist Phobia: The crash test dummy Ymfah: The crazy bloke that somehow got his hand on the technology

[@bbenjor]

There's a easier way to do the soul dup glitch. Put the boss soul on the first slot of the inventory, then parry, click to use the item, and open the inventory all at the same time. If done correctly, when you try to use a estus flask directly from the menu, the question to use the boss soul will appear. This method is way simpler than the other from the video Just a reminder that doing this will consume your estus flasks as if you were using it. But not having an full estus doesn't stops you from doing the glitch. Amazing video btw!

[@alessandrobaggi6129]

Yep. I did that with the R2 from the Zweihander... basically any animation with long-enough recovery time is ok, if i understood it correctly.

[@mariofann9000]

If you get timing right after doing it the first time with a parry or a weapon or whatever else, you can use the animation of you using the soul during the dupe too, just click the use button just as your character crushes the souls with their hand and do as you would normally, meaning you don't have to repeat the parry or jump or swing each time and can just chain it with the soul use animation itself until you feel you have enough, which is really quick.

[@theg4062]

39 minutes and 4 seconds of sweet dopamine

[@jobelthecoolkid]

The boss soul dupe also works with firekeeper souls. Could be useful for stocking humanities. I always save atleast one firekeeper soul just in case

[@CharlotteMimic]

ILLUSORY WALL CAMEO

[@shakeysugar4382]

Windmills! The same artist EpicNameBro used to put in his videos! Love their music, and the souls references they put in their second album always make me smile

[@anesthetized7053]

i really like hte approach of this video, net just explaining the glitches, but actually putting them into practice and trying them all together into a showcase run

[@PhobiaSoft]

Thanks mate! That's how I do all of my videos 👍

[@Notartorias211]

As a person with artorias as his profile picture, I can confirm that this game has “some” glitches

[@TheMelnTeam]

There's a 4th way to get to Quelag - just go into valley of drakes from the forest area. No keys needed, just a bit of extra running past stuff. You can run straight to where the master key would take you. Far less interesting than glitching that though, especially with that one frame window haha!

[@thegreatgramcracker]

I find that's once you are good enough, you can actually queue the boss soul duplication glitch in the animation of using the boss soul, so you just chain the same animation over and over again giving you the fastest possible rate of duplication. Also the glitch works for fire keeper soul for infinite humanity and healing.

[@trevorhansen4590]

The nice thing about duping and moveset swap in DSPTD is you can use basically any animation for the purposes of menuing here. Once you have a good hold on the timing a roll, or even a parry, is plenty enough for these glitches

[@andresospina6596]

I think talking to kathee to get to the kiln of the fist flame was possible.

[@PhobiaSoft]

(There were actually three different methods to get to Blighttown without glitching, its just an excuse for content)

[@andresospina6596]

@@PhobiaSoft oh that actually explains a lot, thanks.

[@YsoKain]

I screamed with glee and happiness when hearing illusorywall xD the dream Collab OF MY LYFE

[@mollywhoppedsouls_pvp]

I definitely prefer my humanities hard

[@anttkd5730]

Windmills. The real dude, haven't heard them in ages. Outside my window by the windmills at 19:00

[@fading-sun-studios]

Its been so long, still i can see people play this masterpiece. This is one of the games which inspired me to become a game dev myself.

[@JustinLeeper]

Watched this on a lark. It was WAY more fun than I anticipated. Really need narrative to the video - rather than just a list of glitches. Will definitely check out other videos of yours.

[@Soumein]

You missed the glitch where you can die to Pinwheel. What do you mean that's not a glitch? It's definitely a glitch!

[@CaptainSkylocke]

Pinwheel was explained a long time ago. You're supposed to fight him much earlier than people do for the rite of kindling but most people go through him on the way to the TOTG when they're way over levelled. Imagine how much less issue people would have had with O&S with 20 estus

[@Soumein]

@@CaptainSkylocke I know. I've died to Pinwheel rushing the Rite with a Blessed Bandit Knife. He likes to hop over daggers. Just trying to be funny. Failure was inevitable.

[@CaptainSkylocke]

@Soumein That's one of the things I loved about DS1 you could do a lot just through knowledge of the map like getting a maxed out weapon before the gargoyles.

[@alexandercook1288]

Great choice for a video! Wasnt expecting the illusory wall cameo!

[@sindweller]

You can chain the soul duping glitch off itself. There's no need to reset it with a running jump or parry. The moment you hear the soul pop, queue another action from your hotbar and navigate to the menu as you normally would when duping. Saves a lot of time.

[@PhobiaSoft]

You're playing with fire, doing that with only one soul

[@dariuspenner2528]

The boss soul dupe glitch doesn’t need to just be done with jumping. Any long animation can be done to queue it. I remember using the stagger you get from missed halberd/mace swings to get it started and then the soul use animation from the first dupe lets you continue to queue inputs to dupe the soul again and again. Made it very easy to level up characters for PvP back before respecs were a thing.

[@PhobiaSoft]

Correct, the jump just has the largest timing window because it has the longest recovery animation

[@xSimone92x]

This is the most epic collaboration in dark souls! Seriously two of my favorite ds content creators. Those beautiful minds combined is legendary!

[@apthehagg2241]

3:16 “eww, okay.” Took me clean out. I was not prepared.

[@SuperGameFan77]

Regarding the boss soul dupe. You can use most animations to perform the glitch including the consume soul animation to repeat it. You don't have to do the running jump every time. A weird quirk of it is that it wont work with any female model exclusive animations. For example a 1Hand claymore attack won't be able to perform the glitch(not due to speed) but the 2Hand attack can.

[@woodchucksquirrel]

Perfect bedtime watch! Glad you're still posting these videos, man! 😄

[@Ghostly8895]

Always happy for the Windmills music

[@HarshilPatel-y6g]

I was literally holding my breath and praying that you would say illusorywall right as you mentioned asking for help from someone with knowledge about planes and level geometry and lo and behold

[@cronaelk5114]

Forgive my ignorance but wouldn't talking to the other serpant in the abyss bring you to the lord vessel room?

[@autobotskyflame6287]

I was wondering that as well

[@PhobiaSoft]

Guys... I keep getting this comment. Of course its possible, but it more bosses. You're forgetting that Sif is required to survive in the 4 Kings boss arena. You're adding two unnecessary bosses to the killcount.

[@DjAtmaWeapon]

13:54 After the first jump that has initiated the boss soul dup, you can simply SQUARE and open the menu fast before the character finish the animation so you don't have to jump anymore. So it is like : run, jump, square, menu, YES, square, menu, YES, square, menu, YES ... until you miss the timing during the animation of the boss soul use.

[@PhobiaSoft]

Yeah I don't recommend that method at all if you only have one copy.

[@DjAtmaWeapon]

@@PhobiaSoft When you get use to it, not so bad. But still a wise advise. If on PC, there still is the fast Alt-F4 to save the day.

[@mochafennec]

Or just unequip your weapon and do the same thing but use the open hand parry animation. Much faster and easier.

[@KarmaJolt]

Any glitches for the LeapFrog Leap Pad?

[@PhobiaSoft]

Last I heard, you can install emulators on them 😛

[@Hugo_Tate]

12:21 the golem’s feet in the air when it falls off is hysterical 😂

[@albertbrzozowski]

Oh shit waddup, a new phobia video and its dark souls related!! Double win this friday night, lets gooo

[@WaitComatose]

I remember using the dragon head to do the infinite soul glitch back in 2013 on Xbox 360. My friend was playing on ps3 on a different tv, we were chilling in the same room watching each other explore different areas

[@defenestration.nation]

Found this from an Illusory Wall binge. I love speedrun explained videos but it's a shame that they don't feature other awesome glitches. Thanks for showing off other ones and explaining so clearly that a more talented gamer than myself could replicate them!

[@KosOrSomeSayKosmo]

This was such a fun video, a great mix of old and new! And always glad to see Illusory :)

[@TrickyThe0ne]

You also could have went through the valley of drakes which connects to where the hydra is to access blight town. That’s how I did it on my first ever play through

[@PhobiaSoft]

(There are actually three different methods to reach the Valley of Drakes besides using the Master Key, I just wanted to show off Blighttown Skip)

[@TrickyThe0ne]

@@PhobiaSoft that was a very creative way of doing it! Good work!!!

[@MoonSystem-They-It]

For anyone who wants to open up the drake - New Londo shortcut without Master key in Remaster, there is a shorter method, although glitchless: A) go to New Londo, and make your way to Ingward B) kill Ingward, and they'll drop their key C) use the New Londo Key to drain the water, and unlock access to Valley of drakes D) make your way to the back enterance of blighton, and get the Drake-New Londo key from the chest at the top of the scafolds. For general tips regarding this - prob best to wear high poise armored and use a transient curse when climbing the ladder to Ingward, cause that section can be very annoying. - after draining the water, prob best to take the elevator in Drakes up to darkroot garden since there is a bonfire nearby.

[@shakeysugar4382]

Can also kill ingward with a bow from the stairs outside, the ghosts don't aggro on you at all if you stand in the right spot

[@axeldiaz7441]

Just a tip if it hasn't been said before, but using the fire keepers soul also causes a prompt to show up confirming if you wanna actually use it. You can use the fire keeper soul in place of any boss soul and duplicate the item to get max humanity (max base defense & item discovery)

[@TannCo2]

That Blighttown skip is brutal.

[@trulyinfamous]

I didn't realize just how many glitches in DS1 I've learned about through speedruns and challenge runs until watching this video.

[@irecycleoxygen2730]

“There’s no way I’m going through the work of beating the game intentionally” Proceeds to spend more effort to pull off a convoluted glitch to skip all of that. And I love it.

[@TheOriginalElkstone]

Side note the boss soul dupe thing can work using both a parry animation, and the animation of using the soul itself. If you chain it right you can use them pretty much one after another This works for any item that has the yes/no prompt, so can save homeward bone uses or be used with a firekeepers soul for 5 loose (or soft) humanity a pop

[@cherryluckyy]

ngl at 20:00 i was thinking the whole time, just go kill Sif, Pour the flood out New Londo, kill Four Kings, then boom you have Kaathe. but then i forgot he had a plan to use exploits/glitches, for a glitching video lmao. fun storytelling tho! loved the video ❤❤

[@Tzhz]

I own the box with artwork, poster and postcards for windows. The artwork book contains loads of images I've never seen online or in videos. It also has a making of Dark Souls DVD.

[@LOLMGS]

I've been waiting for someone to cover glitches in the OG version of DS as there so many cool glitchrs you can do.

[@EditorJohn_TIRL]

OH SNAP, Illusory Wall in the house! That glitch was IN-SANE!

[@MasterOfKnowledge.]

Just to note, the boss dupe glitch (at least on the 360, where I pulled it off numerous times years back) can also work by simply rolling assuming you're fast rolling

[@lignagirroc]

hey just wanted to say I love this channel, thank you for what you do.

[@f3ryx]

It’s crazy how devoted the community is to this game, Remastered just had its move swap figured out since this videos release

[@PhobiaSoft]

That's true! The same could be said about the Homeward Wrong-Warp as well. For years we also thought that glitch couldn't be done in Remastered

[@bmetallaoui]

the Blighttown Skip was so extra.... i love it

[@hellxapo5740]

Dark Souls: Prepare to Glitch Edition

[@mr.typhon7997]

collab with illusory, love it.

[@tacoman736]

The dragon head stone glitch had the whole squad going ballistic back in 2013 or whenever

[@mody2648]

These videos blow my mind, the amount of time it must have taken people to find all these complex glitches is crazy

[@Taeki]

Ah good old darks soul glitches. great to see a new video

[@LudovicCrowell]

Wonderful! i swear that this is one of the only ptde videos out there, given that pretty much everyone plays the remaster or original instead.

[@PhobiaSoft]

To be clear, Prepare to Die Edition is just the final patch of the Original with a fancy name. So everything that works on PTDE works in the Original too!

[@guilhermegaspar752]

A yes, glitches that i can perform in my original unpatched dark souls for xbox 360. Thanks for the video

[@09widji90]

Okay, I'm sorry for my terrible memory on this, BUT!!! I remember speedrunning the prepare to die edition a bit back in the day and one of the methods for getting to the Quelaag fight quickly was much faster and easier than the one showed in the video. Here's where my memory starts failing me. The skip was very much the same and involved both the Fall control quit out and falling trough the terrain. I remember the set up was pretty easy down in New Londo ruins, I just don't really remember where. If this rings a bell for anybody else, I would love a reply :)

[@PhobiaSoft]

If you're talking about the method that queues a roll mid-fall to "dodge" the fall damage so you can skip getting Fall Control, that method requires a keyboard and cannot be done on console

[@09widji90]

@@PhobiaSoft I don't remember ever using my keyboard playing dark souls, so I'm sure its something else. But if nobody else can remember a skip like that, maybe I'm just delusional or something.

[@drewpool4537]

The dupe can also be done with a parry animation, so you can do it in place. You just get heavy and parry with a medium shield. Plenty of time.

[@therealatomic6170]

Man I love your content, it’s always very nice to see you upload. I hope the sponsorship is paying off for you mate, only the best for you

[@NeoGato2point0]

Hell yeah. This is the version of Dark Souls that I first played and that I still play - to this day - on my PS3.

[@GodKingIssei]

Lesson of the video: Pick the god damn Thief class.

[@sillycat_lover]

You should do armoured core 6 at this point

[@kowalski6931]

with the boss soul duplication glitch you can also just use a weapon that has a long enough attack animation, you r1 press to consume soul then go straight into the estus flask before animation ends and it works the same. works faster imo

[@UnisX0]

Wow that's a lengthy vid you have just uploaded Tnx man

[@Flyas.]

The moment he said "developer's tools" i knew right away who he was

[@maaj3142]

29:00 Can u attack the eggs And then let them follow u to the fog gate and grab attacked u After the grab attacked u will move back Will this makes u entering the fog gate?

[@PhobiaSoft]

Nope

[@ShadyPlatinum777]

Phobia is always there when we need him most

[@Rob.Coleman]

Absolutely mad, some of these glitches are insane 👍👍. Nice shout out for Illusory Wall, love his stuff 👍👍.

[@camharkness]

Dark souls prepare to glitch edition

[@batialite5080]

What a fascinating video! I love learning more about odd glitches and such in games, and this was a delight. Especially the creative skip to Quelaag

[@jcselement]

I remember I was so high once I accidentally loaded Prepare to Die and played it for a solid hour before realizing there was a reason everything seemed way off

[@albertblanco1902]

17:39. This is possible to do if the cutscene is already seen?

[@Gowthr]

Dark Souls Remastered(patch 1.03) does actually have a move-set swap glitch using the bow and dark sign.(though I believe it was discovered months after this video came out)

[@PhobiaSoft]

Yep, you're spot on, Moveswapping in DS Remastered was discovered only a little over a month ago! Everytime we think we're done, there are always more things to discover in these games

[@EarthboundX]

Oddly this version is how I first played Dark Souls. I actually don't recall having any real issues with it, but after a bit I still used the fan patch fix for it.

[@bigbigx2250]

You can also use the boss soul dupe on fire keeper souls for humanity. I'd often do it to open the izalith shortcut although handing in 30 humanity one by one is incredibly tedious and something I'm grateful to the remaster for

[@PhobiaSoft]

Smart!

[@NGPlusVideos]

Great video, it was nostalgic to see those old glitches. I was low key hoping for the Dragon Head glitch, but maybe that was patched.

[@PhobiaSoft]

Yeah, that one's patched sadly

[@matheusheringer9569]

i've only played the remastered version, but was there a patch between for a particular enemi? coz i've parried many times the crap stick dude on blithtown, so i was sure you would use that guy for that on 29:20

[@PhobiaSoft]

The ones you're thinking of outside of Quelaag's Domain attack with giant boulders, not clubs

[@matheusheringer9569]

​@@PhobiaSoft for a moment a thought they had either club or pickaxe, coz they drop that kk that would leave only other 3 npcs then, but prob impractical too

[@serioushex3893]

my favorite glitch is still just poop bombing the capra demon from outside his arena. it's just so dumb.

[@PhobiaSoft]

I REALLY wanted to put that one in, but I had no reason to kill Capra this time 😅

[@celestialkitsune]

Been looking forward to this since you talked about it in your OoT stream.

[@Hollow_Specter117]

Crazy, I just got PTDE a few days ago and was looking for a video like this. Great timing.

[@9thR8Duelist]

20:09 I could’ve sworn it was also sold by patches, after you agree to forgive him for trying to kill you. I might just be remembering it incorrectly however.

[@PhobiaSoft]

Seems like something he might sell, but nope

[@NotTrundle]

The Blighttown skip was incredible.

[@stefanoninivaggi98]

the boss freeze works also for boss without cutscenes in remastered, or at least works for Capra Demon (I tried it there)

[@PhobiaSoft]

Nice! It probably differs on a case-by-case basis tbh. Every fog gate seems to behave a little differently across the Souls series

[@SubmitToTheBiomass]

I personally find the soul dupe at 13:10 easier if I do it with a parry animation rather than a jump and roll.

[@MlnscBoo]

Dude, on my life, I knew it was going to be IllusoryWall lol

[@_Astrum]

I was so hype during the Illusory Wall reveal

[@hlaxdal]

18:00 and onwards, complete noob question, but I thought the darkstalker kaathe could teleport you to the lordvessel room, bypassing frampt. Couldn't you go to new londo, do the four kings (somehow) and talk to kaathe to get there? Super fun video regardless

[@PhobiaSoft]

If you also did Sif first, sure