How Speedrunners Broke The WORST Dragon Ball Z Game

[@EZScapeSpeedruns]

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[@ShimmeringMizuko]

they're terrible. don't buy them.

[@GT-Rev]

it's okay bro we know they're trash. real talk, most people ive talked to say that they arent good but arent bad either, theyre just earbuds.

[@SlimeBlueMS]

This isn't Taiketsu. THAT is the worst DBZ game...

[@Mediamarked]

Every time I use the raycons, I get the most thin, runny shits. Really something.

[@Quenlin]

Scam.

[@brandonwood7432]

My favorite part of about Sagas was how Future Gohan was missing an arm as normal, but since they didn't change his combos from adult Gohan he would still try punch with his empty sleeve and it wouldn't do anything

[@technothehedgehog203]

Actually the missing arm CAN do damage but it has an extremely tiny hitbox so you're likely not hitting with it 90% of the time

[@thecountercounter9127]

​​@@technothehedgehog203hats hilarious. Imagine youre a world ending threat and some guy without an arm slaps you in the face with his stub and knocks your teeth out like tyson

[@joekline3478]

@@thecountercounter9127lmao that’s so funny

[@Westile]

​@@technothehedgehog203 That's incredible.

[@mateusfelipecardoso40kview3]

Erin spirits kicked in!​@@thecountercounter9127

[@EATSxBABIES]

You see Atari, you're not dealing with the average speedrunner anymore. He has risen above and become a legend... the legend that you fear... He has become... a Super Speedru--

[@goldacunit9464]

No seriously you have no idea how old that was getting. Super speed runner this, super speed runner that.

[@tasticfan4286]

Freezer no!

[@kimberlym1497]

Its over 9000

[@Edymos1000]

Oh dear Christ, you're really doing it again, aren't you?

[@legion5463]

Well why didn't you block that one?!?

[@pbentle1990]

“And we just have to take a beating from freeza while we wait for goku to show up” is the most dragon ball thing a dragon ball game has ever done

[@SebasTian58323]

I always loved sagas, I didn't realize people thought so little of it. Me and my brothers would all take turns playing it alone and with each other. My favorite thing that ever happened was when I died and my brother was somehow able to drag my body around in game for the rest of the level. I could never replicate it but my body would just keep following him around even when he was flying

[@datguyzae6854]

Man like sagas is thee best dragon ball z game in my opinion💀 it was even coop. It’s the same as naruto chronicles 2. Both should’ve got a remake or another game🤷🏽‍♂️

[@kusakabe3264]

its only good with cheats on. the difficulty and crap mechanics are not worth it.

[@SebasTian58323]

@@kusakabe3264 never played with cheats, and I heavily disagree

[@larrybills5840]

@@kusakabe3264 it’s not that difficult but it is garbage 😂

[@samdilophosaur9787]

@@datguyzae6854 dude really? You have low standards

[@tywilkins2584]

I felt bad for 10 year old you in a way. Made up some badass custom invitations, had cake, ice cream, pizza, and bowling and topped it off with that “wet stinking garbage” of a game. Glad to hear you made the best of it! Some of my fondest memories as a kid came from our parents going to blockbuster and letting me and my friend pick a game to rent for the weekend, and half of them were dumpster fires, but we still made the best of them, even made our own mini games inside the game if it was that bad, just like you and your friends did!

[@majorcrits2341]

R.I.P Akira Toriyama you will never be forgotten

[@VyseOfLegends9001]

Interesting that Sub 30 is possible....and this is where I learn about other OoB things when I stopped running. I do have a theory about the Ginyu stage where Jeice is leaving the level causing the menus to glitch and end the level. Normally the other OoB ending tricks are you moving into them. If I remember correctly, AI enemies continue to move a bit even after ending the level or a menu. That might be why more and more menus appear. Also If Jeice can effect the ending of a stage via falling, makes me think that the ending stage trigger is actually waaaaay below the stage instead of just far away or a little below like the other ones. Finding it far below thou might be a bit tricky.

[@Krolm009]

First: Congrats on the double sub 30, Thats insane! Second: What you did here was a public service to the whole community. When people see a World Record they usually don't care about second/third places, there's a lot of effort and a lot of history, a lot of hand pain and sweat. By portraying this in the video, you immortalized the entire history of all these runners, praising their work and all the passion and love they deposited in the game and in the countless hours of research. This is noble and must be recognized. Thank you for your support to the history of speedrunning!

[@765craven4]

I remember as a kid that me and my brother accidentally found the out of bounds clip on the stage where you fight second form Frieza. The one where both players move in opposite directions and it causes you both to clip under the stage. The memory overflow where the flight trails and ki attacks lingered on the screen were super cool. We had no idea how to replicate it and couldn't find anything online at the time.

[@theonionfatty4420]

Sagas isn't the worst, just look up ultimate tenkaichi for 360 glorified rock paper scissors guessing game mashing buttons etc

[@lord_eko]

yo dawg ultimate tenkaichi fuckin *SUCKED* foh, way worse

[@jugg6261]

Yup 😂

[@Digitalhdwmn]

4 words: dbz ultimate battle 22

[@cody3504]

The one game i decided to pre-order because i thought it was gonna be good 😂

[@echothegecko2875]

​@@Digitalhdwmn DragonBall Z for Kinect

[@ivanadriazola1991]

I actually really liked this game as a kid, I remember I played it enough to unlock everything and it lets you use other charachters instead of the normal ones, like future trunks to beat radditz and stuff

[@viscountrainbows2857]

Yeah the game sadly was kneecapped by not balancing the characters at all after the unlocks. Like, if I'm playing as Broly, I wanna be able to kill a Saibaman in one hit. But clearly the devs were not given any time to make the game good because Atari was going senile in its final.days.

[@calamorta]

​@@viscountrainbows2857 But Broly can still kill bosses really fast

[@felipeaguena5289]

You had a bad childhood

[@maximumcockage6503]

I loved it as a kid. I found in Co-op you could choose the same character at the same time and it'd let you both be the same guy. Me and my friend did a replay of the game as Broly absolutely demolishing everyone for shits and giggles.

[@tobias8351]

​@@felipeaguena5289nah , you had a bad childhood

[@DBcade]

Thank you for your speedrunning this game, and highlighting all the hardwork the anime speedrun community does, it was awesome to see how everyone comes together to break the games!

[@TailzP]

fun story: when I got Sagas at Gamestop, the guy somehow accidentally put 2 games in the case. So I bought Sagas, and got Prince of Persia Warrior Within for free

[@lordcantiismyname]

What a deal!

[@weirdboy7]

I was around the same age as you when I played it. But I had a lot of fun with it somehow. It never struck me as a "bad" game. I loved how you could replay the game as different characters once you beat the game. I loved beating up Frieza as LSSJ Broly all OP and everything lol

[@vironamas123]

Thanks for doing the video. And I hope this shows a lot of people who played this in their childhood the Speedrun for the game, and I very much hope they enjoy it!

[@harleyzeth]

This game was so much fun as a little kid. Being able to teleport while charging an attack made me feel like a genius.

[@itsthesteve]

Fantastic video dude. I miss when DBZ was on TV and every episode was a cliffhanger.

[@JelloFluoride]

I can't believe I did a 100% of this game when I was younger. I played it again last year and didn't even want to continue after the first level.

[@noThankyou-g5c]

This was my favorite game as a kid (i was 7 and didn’t know games could be bad). It was the first game i ever beat. My friends would even invite me over just so I could beat the game for them. And once you finished it you’d unlock all these different characters to basically play it as a fighting game. I tried playing it as an adult a couple years ago and was shocked not only how bad it was but how clunky the controls were. I couldn’t even beat the first level! 😂

[@Alphamangs]

I love how whenever anyone says "the worst DragonBall Z game," everyone already knows it's Sagas

[@doverboy1]

​@XboxxxGuy How? What fun things can you do in sagas that makes it more entertaining than kakarot?

[@GuyWithZen459]

​@XboxxxGuythis is some brain dead shit to say

[@kluneberg8952]

@@doverboy1 not running to into a random group of enemies every 50ft is a big plus for sagas

[@doverboy1]

@@kluneberg8952 You can just run away from them? Its not like Kakarot is gonna force you to fight them, unlike Sagas.

[@dumbbaboon]

I am extremadely proud. I LOVED this game too as a kid and seeing a comunity getting together to play makes me wanna cry

[@dumbbaboon]

@@doggodesign4259 what

[@doggodesign4259]

My phone was having a stroke when I was working out lmfao

[@BlueMareen]

IAmAddison is a really great irl friend of mine! He showed me this run and I has a lot of fun learning how to do it. He doesn't run it anymore as far as I know but this was a great era. Love ya bud!

[@Gogetassj4666]

I really try my best doing speedruns, I do budokai 3 Z3 speedruns, I got the goku Z3 breakthrough category record 20 times, and the Z3 no capsules goku 8th times (this one is way harder), and I really try a lot of diferent stuff to promote these runs, but nothing seems to work, I just hope people look at them one day, cause Z3 speedruns of budokai 3 are almost none.

[@sagacious03]

Super excited for this huge analysis video! I'm pretty interested in Sagas, & I'm excited to see just what people did with it! Thanks so much for uploading! Might comment more later!

[@Skulljack17]

Hah, I remember the infinite combo when I rented this game with some friends. It was super easy to pick up in playing cause we found that letting the enemy have the chance to attack was...well, it kept us from focusing on the most important thing: beating them up. It was a bit of a game between us to see who could keep the combo going the longest, and who could catch the enemy in it. It was a game within the game to make the game more tolerable!

[@Josh2Play]

I remember being able to consistently infinite combo by inputing a walking command in between attacks, canceling the recovery lag animation and being able to make it more consistent, congrats on your run

[@TheNutshaq]

My brother and I had this game on GameCube, but we didn’t have a memory card so we couldn’t save our game. We would wake up early on Saturdays to speedrun (before speedrunning was popular) the game so we could unlock all the characters and we would fight over who got to be Broly

[@owlbot9636]

A strat i used to use that i tried to submit to gamefaqs (but got rejected) was where you uppercut an ememy, then teleport to him just before it reaches the height of his ascent, and grab him, but dont let go of the throw button combo. Doing so will make you spin with the enemy grappled and cause you to ascend way higher than you should be able to go. This will allow you to fly over barriers and skip all the way to the boss. The only catch is you couldnt skip to the boss like raditz because youd get a never ending cutscene and the match wouldnt begin. Instead i think you had to fly to the last barrier and clear it normally.

[@jamall7003]

That memory leak glitch probably inspired the completely out of place dimension hopping fight in Broly 😂

[@ParadiseDB7]

So the community doesn't allow you to play off an official console hardware but it DOES allow you to play on unofficial emulation that makes the game act differently!?!?!?!? That's such BS.

[@Halo3Matalix]

speed running is pretty stupid if you ask me. especially when its almost all just glitches and bugs. how about a category that is playing the game normally instead. glitchless is all but glitchless

[@ParadiseDB7]

@@Halo3Matalix that's what glitchless is for bud

[@KXNG_BXNZ]

​@@ParadiseDB7Glitchless categories still allow plenty of glitches and bugs Look up the GDQ Mirrors Edge glitchless speed run lmao

[@ParadiseDB7]

@@KXNG_BXNZ no

[@KXNG_BXNZ]

@@ParadiseDB7 Ok, well stay ignorant then I guess Sounding dumb in the comment sections

[@theancientsam]

looking up recipe for fried chicken the recipe: "when i was young, i loved dragon ball z, and the games. it wasnt long before i was dreaming of becoming a super saiyan myself"

[@ScootaNinja]

I played this game so much as a kid on my xbox, and loved it. Replayed it over and over when I unlocked broly, but I realize how super flawed it is

[@sagacious03]

Nice run & analysis video. Thanks for uploading!

[@DBZscrub]

Excellent video quality and production, impressive stuff

[@procow2274]

I remember keeping a save file of this game on PS2 just for the cinemas

[@craciunator99]

I really enjoyed playing through sagas, but it was EXTREMELY short, I beat it in like 4 hours when I got it for Easter as a kid, exxcited for the game and beat it in one night, and there wasnt much replayability and content

[@Sykroid]

Bro I also got the game for Easter when it came out, which was the only time I ever got a game on Easter. It was also the last time...

[@sleepingblue2605]

So the funny thing about games like these, is that when they go undiscovered, and only when someone lays partial road work, the flock of 'the first ever" usually emerges. Basically competition is what drives the discovery of exploits.

[@O16.œ]

I dont do speedruns but i find videos talking about them interesting W video pls keep it up

[@abellinns4013]

I really liked playing sagas back in the day with my cousin. I also discovered by myself how to perform infinity combos

[@b2j135]

I love that fact that GLOMPING your partner is the secret to sequence breaking this game 🤣🤣 that is hilarious

[@zDaven]

Love you to see you covering DBZ games! Hopefully we get to see more in the future although to my knowledge none of the other DBZ games have big glitches and breaks like Saga’s 😂

[@TheSadMusician]

The out of bounds against cell goes like this You have to jump and levitate high enough from the floor to be uppercutted by cell And then do a recovery at the highest point of cells uppercut Then you are high enough to get off the barrier that keeps you in the arena

[@krunchy_03]

Legacy Goku (Buu's Fury) were gems that I want again. We need a romhack for Super.

[@rtyuik7]

5:30(ish) - the original title of this game was "Dragon Ball Z: All of the Sagas Except Buu" but it wouldnt fit on the box so it was shortened...

[@antnuh765]

I had family friends whose kids were about 3-4 years older than me. They had this game and they refused to let me play it and told me I wouldn't want to, which frustrated me at the time. Now I know they did me a great service that day.

[@chops3905]

I actually loved this game as a kid. I remember one glitch happened on the fight against 19. I killed 19 with broly because I was replaying it and suddenly I couldn’t continue and the map went black. I could run around and doing your ki blast made the black background go crazy. Like a splash of different colors like a kaleidoscope. I couldn’t go past it so I reset after messing around a couple minutes. Never seen anyone else talk about it before

[@MartialGlobe]

The photo sensitive warning was unluckily placed and came a little late :D anyways great video and an amazing run

[@brandondano1995]

I was that kid with a brother only a year younger who enjoyed the game well enough as a couch co-op romp.... it *is* an ass game but it holds a special place in my heart.

[@wolfcl0ck]

"WOAH WE'RE MAKING SHENRON!" I love the creative minds of children uncovering game glitches.

[@sidewalkid]

Growing up we didn't have alot of money so me and my brother would put our birthday money together to buy new games. We bought sagas Saturday night and beat it before we left for church on Sunday morning. The only reason it took that long was because it Recoome got stuck and fell into the water on his boss battle and crashed the game.

[@NoPixelLive]

This game feels like a passion project turned shovel ware

[@traewilson5127]

You can tell Recoome's favorite musical is The Prince of Egypt' 'cause *YOU'RE PLAYING WITH THE BIG BOYS NOW*

[@Dazertron]

3:31 3 months later and I still stand by this claim.

[@keystone6561]

ive done this glitch for fun as a kid cuz of how blast look out of bounds and never thought about trying to skip with it lol

[@Tman2bard]

No matter how meh the combat is, the music still sticks in the back of my mind

[@perc_nowitzki4735]

I had this when I was younger and the only thing I remember is how cheap the cell fight was I was great at games for a kid but that fight had me frustrated forever

[@roboman3678]

Yes that cell fight was cheap man

[@TramiNguyen-oi3kp]

I watched Dragon Ball Z before when I was a teenager!

[@meepdameep5343]

Has nothin to do with the vid, but seeing that game ad at the start actually show gameplay... Impossible

[@infinitefun527]

I love how this is 1 of like 2 games with future gohan without an arm

[@Mornings]

played this growing up but was too bad to beat it without cheats

[@andrew4life362]

Does anyone else die laughing when cell randomly yells "LOSER" lol

[@TheDXJC56]

Had this game as a kid, played it a bit but never got too into it because of the jank, then one of my friends decided we should beat it and I swear coop actually made this game legitimately fun, RIP James thanks for making me get through this one homie

[@thenuetrix6574]

I had fun with it as a kid but i couldnt touch it today

[@jeremiahbaugh8195]

Had the same exact experience with this game as a kid. First game I ever played that made me realize games could suck.

[@dannyhockensmith9724]

RIP Akira Toriyama

[@Brando216]

I remember using the Boulder glitch during the jeice and burter fight to skip to ginyu

[@thegatorhator6822]

Damn. I was lucky to miss this one. Played almost every DB game but the handheld ones and apparently this.

[@thomasrodriguez2808]

Am I the only one that get whiplash every time Ez says Kamehameha so…. Weirdly? (Also, this was a very good informative video and nostalgic driven 👏)

[@demoniac4821]

Now the real fun in Saga begins when you unlock Broly.

[@kd_thakai9508]

I know everyone hated this game but I loved playing co op with my brother as kids

[@IBRook]

It’d be really dope and legit to see someone glitchless speed run this game

[@magnawaves]

Wew lad, Sagas...I loved the concept of it but man it was jank. I experienced a large variety of glitches and bugs, but my favorite was after defeating Cell and the game never proceeding to the next part. I just flew around endlessly around the arena with Gohan. The very limited time as a super saiyan was remedied with this glitch :^)

[@takumifujiwara8356]

I loved this game so much growing up. every intro to the sagas hyped me up so much to finish each and every mission. but now that I'm 25, I agree with how horrendous this gameplay was even at its time of release.

[@avasam06]

This is well timed with Joueur du Grenier's videos on Dragon Ball games that came out recently. Never heard of most of these games before last month.

[@mainejojo]

Hey @EZscape Congrats on the first place speedrun on Lord of the Rings Golum....your suffering and sacrifice will not go unpraised

[@saiyanbarber6806]

Great video! I have a question, the footage of tenkaichi 3 at the 0:12 mark is clearly running at 60fps, how did you achieve this? Which version of the game is this? Thank you!

[@EZScapeSpeedruns]

I found it from a BT3 TAS. Generally TASers are really good at encoding their videos to be high quality and just have a lot of general knowledge when it comes to emulators. So truthfully I don’t know, but here’s the link kzbin.info/www/bejne/iH2UhJKenZuBkMk

[@sygos]

i remember i bought sagas full price too and was excited reading the box and it was so disappointing. still finished it a few times

[@Z33N_THE_HEDGEHOG]

20:08 IM WATCHING A SPEEDRUN VIDEO ABOUT AN SEMI OBSCURE OLD MEDIOCRE DRAGONBALL GAME, WHY IS NAKAJIMA/QUADE FROM SMT HERE!?!?!?

[@epicDiggs]

14:07 "The Holy Grail of Dragon Ball Z Sagas speedrunning" is an insane sentence

[@Izanami2442]

I remember playing sagas while not having a memory card so I’d just leave my console on all night to continue where I left off lol

[@jjDarell]

That saga comercial opened a world of nostalgia

[@squaminator]

but I don't see your run on the leaderboards?

[@MetalSandshrew]

Yeah I came to see if there was an explanation but it's just gone.

[@pomegranatesyndicate8139]

I remember renting this as a kid and beating it in the rental period. Can't say I did that with many games

[@byrontheusurper6505]

What a cool video!

[@vampenga9277]

Congrats on the WR! It's always great to hear when RNG lines up for a troublesome game. That said, the size of the rose-tinted glasses I wore playing this as a kid were ridiculous. I don't know if I knew it was a bad game at the time, but I enjoyed it when I had it. I do remember the damage system and maintaining transformations bugged me, but other than that I was just thrilled to be able to fly around and run through the world of Dragon Ball. Looking back now however...yeah this was a hot mess.

[@zackarywest8096]

this game was so glitchy it was a masterpiece. I remember fighting jace and berter and when it was jayces turn in the fight, i hit berter somehow and it skipped me all the way to the end of the ginyu saga after defeating captain Ginyu.

[@TetsukoCrow]

*practices for 9 hours a day for months* "yeah so my best run I got super lucky on 5 miracle rng spots-"

[@LeggoSF]

By the time he got to mentioning the speedruns I forgot that's what this video was about

[@ghost_ship_supreme]

This is why out of bounds triggers usually have push triggers with them 💀

[@Etrius10]

Yooo big Legacy of Goku shoutout. Those made my childhood.

[@christophercruz1513]

EZSCAPE I'm jealous you had a fun childhood.

[@suomynona4420]

I had a broken copy of the game that wouldn't let you past the Freeza Saga.

[@DJprofessorK]

Sagas is a classic. Me and my buddy played through it a few times

[@fatman7064]

I remember my older cousin spent all nighters in our weekend trying to beat vegeta, never seen him struggle with a videogame, granted he played all the OG resident evil's without saving once, so seeing him almost crying trynna beat vegeta was heartbreaking, the game is not enjoyable.

[@WhoWatchesThis]

Credit should go to me because I found the level 1 upper cut skip back when the game first came out and gamefaqs wouldn't accept my entry

[@UVProDUCKions]

Level 1 uppercut skip?

[@WhoWatchesThis]

@@UVProDUCKions So you uppercut a guy into the sky, teleport at the height of the uppercut, grab it in mid air, then do a throw but don't let go of the throw button. Keep spinning and you'll rise in altitude, eventually going higher than any invisible barrier, letting you clear almost any of them. Just don't skip to boss. It'll soft lock the game. Skip to the barrier right before boss.

[@hippiedude2232]

I'm surprised I haven't heard of the gba game or the game or sagas until now. I was really into dbz back in the day as well, and owned a gba, PS2, and Xbox so it's a wander these weren't in my library.

[@oldwellenthusiast8750]

7:55 cute.. reminds me of trying to recreate bugs with friends as a kid

[@zaquandyer5992]

I actually loved this game when I was a kid after I’d beat the game i went to play as broly to get my revenge on cell for being d**head when I had gohan I wouldn’t mind buying this game again .. if I can find the real copy anywhere

[@GriffinatorOriginal]

Yep this game released when I was 13. Bought it at release for full price. I remember beating it in one day and getting my first disappointment from GameStop when I asked what it would trade for after one day of use and they said “$17”. I’m 30 now and still salty.