I Beat Paper Mario Backwards... It Almost Killed Me

[@NathanielBandy]

What's more shocking about this video is the fact that this is a speedrun category, let alone doing it at all

[@pressaTD]

100%, if my run was legit all all (spoiler it wasn’t) then it would have clocked in at over 30 hrs. I think the world record for this category is like 2 hr 30 min lol

[@GlitchythePumpkin]

What's even more shocking is how little people commented on this

[@baconboy712]

​@@GlitchythePumpkin true! I thought there would be more comments

[@Zel-Veraan]

Speedrunners are insane people. But I've watched enough speedruns of various games to know if someone can think up a challenge, someone is trying to complete it as fast as possible.

[@nathanlehman9415]

​@@pressaTDnow do it legit

[@davedood679]

the locals watching mario perform a complicated ritual involving hopping with ridiculous precision so he can walk into a whale from the back entrance: (twice, now):

[@Boomblox5896]

Walking into a whale from the back entrance sounds... SO wrong out of context.

[@Robin_Glorb]

The locals watching Mario jump into a tree for hours

[@loubob69]

Tragic: Beloved KZbinr Pronounces Mario Like "mare-io" For An Hour Straight don't worry it adds comedic value :^)

[@dazcarrr]

less egregious than "external fuel dynamo"

[@GadolElohai]

What’s that a reference to?

[@ShizukuMizuchi1]

@@GadolElohai Pikmin 1 is what this references. Maybe Press A! says it weird

[@ShizukuMizuchi1]

Ah yeah, looking at his blue pikmin run I see specifically the weird part is it being called "External" rather than "Eternal"

[@Jaiden-Draws]

It causes me PHYSICAL PAIN (This is a reference, I don’t actually care)

[@seanhennessy3968]

It was nice of Luigi to clear the dungeons for you ahead of time.

[@jovecutur5560]

lore

[@RichardDong68]

Doing Paper Mario backwards crashes your sanity. Not Paper Mario.

[@thewanderingchelmet]

The title is just as brutal.

[@ThaCataBoi]

Rip stryder7x

[@CR1MSONACE]

Stryder, could you have not been a terrible person, we would've really enjoyed the TTYD remake reactions.

[@ThaCataBoi]

@@CR1MSONACE wait what did he do?

[@CR1MSONACE]

@@ThaCataBoi Abuse his girlfriend and not even try defend himself. Well, he did, but if a single card was more valid evidence than witnesses who know both people involved and their relationship very well then... I don't even know.

[@thevolcanickitten9195]

The comedy between "Hell Isn't So Bad" and "Oh God It's That Bad! It's That Bad" made me laugh so hard. The distorted music also sold the descent into madness.

[@pressaTD]

Thank you that was the intention lol

[@Team_Orchid]

"We need as many key items as possible." Oh boy, I know where this is going.

[@haydes1285]

If I remember correctly, there’s an ever worse glitch that can be done than that doll bullshit, badge duplication, which comes with the added bonus of being completely useless as badges work differently in pm64 meaning while yes you can duplicate the badge, when you go to wear it, the original and the copy are worn at the same time with no extra cost or benefit

[@pressaTD]

Yeah Stryder7x has a super detailed video on it. It’s insane lol

[@sapphireaurora9634]

If I remember right, it's basically just retrigger prolog with more work on either side, mostly on the later end with the near endless letter chain. Been a while since I've watched the explanation video. So I could be wrong but that's what I remember.

[@pikminboi9324]

Actually it’s not entirely useless, you can make infinite mistakes or sell the duplicated badges for money (after roughly 14 hours of set up (it’s not worth it but also not useless))

[@haydes1285]

@@pikminboi9324 are you sure? I could’ve sworn it still went into the badge inventory and couldn’t be used for cooking or selling

[@jamesflynn932]

​@@haydes1285the badge inventory overflows at 128 badges and moves to regular inventory. So duplicated badges can be cooked, sold, used in battle etc

[@the_godbodor7026]

“What if I told you this game was so broken you could beat it backwards” Sounds to me like a modern AAA release

[@pressaTD]

Ayoooo

[@greyscaleadaven]

Games never really do change all that much do they... Like yeah the engines and equipment get upgraded all the time but devs are still just expected to cram as much content as they can into a final product. I guess I've been told as a dev myself that there's only so much we can do, but scope is where a lot of these modern games are failing. Not work ethic or passion really, just gargantuan expectations set by a bunch of out-of-touch people sitting in a board room who tell you what the design is gonna be and you have to fit that in the time you have or your job is at risk. Not every game IMO has to be an open world, 3D, fully animated HD in-depth narrative-heavy action RPG. Like pick a lane and it becomes a lot more polished. I guess some entitled people who expect that bar of samey versatility will be pissed at you, but they can stay mad when the game is well-liked despite the little details they harp on. Like I wish people were more focused on genre pieces and not a variety pack. But that's just my thoughts on why games are coming out unpolished, with some that are still good despite that. Feels like the best modern games focus on doing a few things well, not everything.

[@iantaakalla8180]

Funnily enough, you can beat Sticker Star in reverse boss order without glitches, but that game is still broken in other ways so it doesn’t even have that much of a leg up on the first two games anyways.

[@retrogaming8713]

HE SAID IT! HE SAID PRESS A! LETS GOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!

[@pressaTD]

Gotta hide at least one in every video lol

[@mogusman3]

Years of watching Stryder7x has prepared me for this video

[@pressaTD]

You and me both lol

[@MrRyanroberson1]

it's such a shame stryder hasn't posted in 4 years though

[@Kranich2008]

​@@MrRyanroberson1yea I wonder why. I know why.

[@johnboy5929]

Wish him the best man, i miss him but respect his decisions

[@nascour5991]

@@MrRyanroberson1 fuck his ex honestly i miss stryder

[@kirbymaster5]

You're not the 8th person to beat Paper Mario backwards, you're the first person to beat Paper Mærio backwards.

[@pyritenightmare]

Press A! discovers that just because a game is broken doesn't mean it's easy to break. Knowing of these glitches already made this hilarious, you know the torment that is coming

[@MemesSwitched]

The same theorem applies to knowing *what* you’re doing, but not know *how* to do it.

[@Tatercon]

​@@MemesSwitched that is the worst feeling ever lol

[@justsomejojo]

I've been getting into speedrun history videos recently and my favorite thing about the scene is how many parallels to old shonen battle anime there are. You have rivalries, you have drama, you have mentor figures that support newcomers until they finally overcome them, you have outlandish names for glitches that are akin to special attack names, which you also have to do to such precision that there's assertions of "it took me 3 months to master this". And then you have a climax that isn't even the end, in which you smash a bad guy by flying 1000 steps into the air and crashing down on him. Real Goku vs Frieza energy right there.

[@i8chocolatecake995]

Frrrrr

[@jackbishop8610]

Smash Melee History is very similar

[@sheriffaboubakar9720]

Fr, OoT has fucking Reverse Bottle Adventure and Extended Super Slide it’s wild.

[@iantaakalla8180]

I like that some clips are so wild you can be thought of like a god. Reverse BiTMagic in Skyward Sword, for example, is literally a thing where you can do stuff in your world, then really start your day and most of your issues are cleared.

[@pacgabe99]

"I've played Paper M-A-rio before-" *Immediate pause* Ma-Mari-MAREi-MAri-MARE-io?! Lol, I'mma watch video now. Can't wait XD

[@gnolfo]

Mario said his own name so often back in the day, you'd think it'd be known how it should be pronounced.

[@Kaitri]

Sidenote: sushi is a lady fish

[@GelatinCoffee]

This reminds me of a challenge me and a couple friends did back in elementary school. Since you can get anywhere in the map with tweaking in diamond & pearl, i thought one day "hey, what if we all had a race and we have to beat the gyms backwards" it was like 2 days after the legend of our group taught us all how to tweak. The rules were simple, you couldn't do more than 1 gym a day, because the next day at recess you had to show the badge (to prevent people doing it more like 6 then 7 then 8. Instead of 8 then 7 then 6) and whoever finished that then beat the champion got to erase everyone else's save file. I was dead last because i didn't know how to navigate in tweak land, all i accomplished that whole school year was learning that there is a girl in a cave somewhere that double battles with a Kadabra (later found out it was in the cave on cycling route)

[@agenderwitchery]

I know that this doesn't qualify for the speedrun leaderboards due to the usage of a practice ROM (and the likelihood that you didn't do this all in one go) but seeing someone who isn't half machine perform most of the tricks required for this without assistance and explain how difficult they are is honestly amazing. It's one thing to watch someone at GDQ do this sort of stuff and then casually say "That's actually really difficult" after 2 attempts, but watching someone who's probably about as good at performing these tricks as I am do it really emphasizes exactly how difficult these can be. By the way, there are actually 9 people who are on the leaderboard for Reverse All Cards, but one of those clears is on Wii VC and one is on Wii U VC.

[@pressaTD]

That was exactly the vibe I was going for in this video, so thats awesome. And yeah that’s my bad, I honestly forget to check the other systems.

[@geschnitztekiste4111]

Pronouncing Mario like that crashes the viewers sanity

[@hAboyd]

Stryder7x reference?

[@MatthewStark-q2q]

Fun fact: you can do a much easier version of early whale by “bombette pushing” the toad next to the water on the left and clipping out of bounds that way. Essentially, when bombette falls from the sky you can move npcs by pushing bombette into them.

[@pressaTD]

Are you shitting me?

[@EthanTheWerewolf]

​@@pressaTD I am so sorry for laughing at this

[@beangorl7005]

Every time you talk about doing a trick and having to "Press A" a little crowd cheers in my head

[@Misto_deVito6009]

25:34 That sound of heartbreak was real. Really hilarious

[@huhneat8908]

This loomed arduous as hell, like not a single bit of this run looked fun to do at all. Good job!

[@outofideasexe]

stryder7x core, in reality cool af vid did enjoy and it definitely reminds me of his content from back in the day.

[@JamesP7]

I mis him… I hate evil jealous exes.

[@taylornelly2705]

😢😢😢 I miss stryder7x so bad. I hope he is okay and happy

[@sonicbhoc]

Something happened to him? Is he okay?

[@heckles5866]

@@sonicbhocdude got abused and stalked by his girlfriend, and it was enough to make him basically drop off KZbin.

[@ethanhawkins3391]

Loved the storytelling here! Talk about an emotional rollercoaster. You weren’t kidding when you said it almost killed you 💀

[@WyGuy2087]

Paper WHO? in all seriousness great vid

[@CosmxOfficial]

As a paper mario any% speedrunner who got log skip once in 3 hours, I know your pain

[@iBenjamin1000]

your confidence in the ability to perform speedrunning glitches is admirable. I was playing the game and tried the lakilester clip to get into the oink pen so I could get more items without them running away. tried for 5 minutes and it didn't work. no idea what I was doing wrong so I gave up lol

[@smasher8uhx932]

those seven people were the chosen ones

[@lennyblox023]

They were the star spirits themselves

[@Awesomellama572]

Junior Troopa at the beginning when you are that powerful is like pulling a gun on a kid who slaps you.

[@thebrave9971]

Ahh yes, the multi day journey of learning 12 different ways to navigate a Volcano, My favorite game lol

[@camillo4308]

I'm trying to watch this video but calling him Mary-o is gonna kill me

[@MegaDumbGaming]

Everything I see of the old paper Mario reminds me strider7x

[@merchantziro4285]

Same

[@niilovalorinta1107]

"Hey guys, today we beat Paper Mario backwards... but we don't really care about that, we will use tens of hours to do pixel and frame perfect tricks just to easily destroy bosses in the wrong order"

[@X10power]

BHS is such a pain, I had to drag a toad over from the right side and clip out of bounds using toad clip.

[@mickkelley3776]

I use Bombette to NPC-push the toad, it's a lot easier for me than NPC luring.

[@platy4700]

Still looks like a better experience than Sticker Star

[@alex_-yz9to]

You know whats funny, sticker star technically has a route that DOES lead you to beating every boss backwards... its just not a full backwards beating order because you basically have to beat world 1 normally up untill the boss fortress

[@Eevee860]

No

[@myhlosic]

STOP SHITTING ON STICKER STAR IT'S TIRED AND OLD

[@thewanderingchelmet]

@@myhlosic exactly the game is better than all games in the entertainment industry. Best story ever written too 👌

[@S0meb0dy728]

@@thewanderingchelmetyou're joking

[@noahsmethers9339]

I’ve had this challenge run in mind for a game that is adjacent to this. It’s totally impractical and unnecessary and isn’t necessarily a challenge run like a nuzlocke or no damage, but makes the game entirely stupid and different. I didn’t think it was a good idea, and quit after ~115 hours sunk in. Now you’ve convinced me it isn’t a good idea. But it’ll all be worth it. (Fantastic video. Obvious that you’re taking the spirit of the challenge even if you’re missing the full authenticity. Great work!)

[@RedStoneMatt]

Thank you for this amazing performance! I hope the pain was worth it!

[@wolfetteplays8894]

This video was absolutely incredible! I genuinely got emotional near the end! I loved every second of this !!

[@Blackda222]

This video made laugh so much bc I would have quit min 3 lol like. Auth note. "3 months to learn" it's been a min since I laughed that hard. Plus then staring at the blue house wall. Omg im dying. You are great I respect you so much. I found this channel today. Like subbed and ganna watch all your videos be safe and thank u for this amazing entertainment!!

[@deanmachinespeedruns5590]

another masterpiece! really makes a person appreciate savestates when you go through it like this. GL with your endeavors

[@FurryVile]

marry-o like the hit character from super mario maker for the nintendo wii u marry-o

[@JellyMyst]

1:00:25 Small point, but I think it's actually because of something you _don't_ have. Goompa is supposed to be with you for that sequence, and there's a cutscene with him when you open the gate. When you don't have him as you open the gate, I can see the game crashing. Then again, this is all just conjecture.

[@pressaTD]

Honestly you might be right.

[@tommyh8462]

Great video! I never knew this was possible even after extensively watching Stryder back in the day

[@Mostly_Roblox]

Why does he pronounce Mario like a grandma would?

[@TheShinjiakamoto]

For comedic effect

[@Wookis]

I remember I spent two hours trying to do log skip and then realized it wasn't working because the notches on my gamecube controller were messed up, truly the experience ever

[@7Zealot]

Okay, yeah, that definitely deserves a sub. Congratulations on 30k! I hope you can fully recuperate and still live a mostly normal life after these events!

[@SinEmerald]

You know I'm crazy when hearing all of this makes me want to try running it.

[@SkyEcho751]

I'd give this a 10.5/10 It's not impossible, but the sanity drain gets it an additional cost. This is like the "Complete FNAF: Security Breach Backwards" challenge, except somehow much worse. Impressive that you managed to pull it off, shows that you have both the drive and the skill needed to pull it off.

[@StationSquareW]

Jokes aside, that was awesome. You make explaining the tricks easy to understand, something few speedrunners simply can't do

[@eliasprodinger8239]

Love your content man!! So glad i stumbled upon your chanel... Keep up those awesome vids

[@nikoskonstantinidis4069]

man, backward is always near-impossible to complete. despite not being an expert on any game, i'm proud of you A. awesome content

[@gertgratz9248]

Well, after that you can call yourself a Patience Elemental.

[@pressaTD]

What an honor

[@gertgratz9248]

@@pressaTD That depends on how much you like Lemon ... or his style of masochism ^.^

[@Big_Red200]

some of the music you use make this seem like an inspiring, yet sad A24 film, and I absolutely love it XD

[@kerhoe8524]

Omg this is so cool. I really needed a Paper mario vid to watch tonight. Subbed!!!

[@Daydricoldsmith]

Every time he said mare-io I couldn't help but say it in the old mario tv show voice.

[@sparrowflyaway]

I had to salute at the ease with which you got the Japanese Raphael skip compared to the hours you would have spent trying to climb the tree. Definitely worth the reset, and hey, at least the second time around you had a better idea of what you were doing with all those other skips beforehand too :)

[@RenoReborn]

The melodrama is thick with this one 🤣I appreciate your true Gamer dedication my man, this is is some crazy shit

[@unquestionableexistance8704]

StryderX has made me love Paper Mario 64 more than any other in the paper mario series The wild glitches and strategies are so fascinating to me it's insane to me how far speedrunners go just to beat this game

[@kosmosfan01]

My condolences to your sanity.

[@ashbladegaming]

The use of okami music during the hell portion gained you a subscription

[@pressaTD]

One of the greats

[@Emberilliance]

You saying that it plays during the Hell portion made me immediately think "Oh, it's going to be that eerie track that plays right before you face the Spider Queen." And sure enough... ;)

[@mickkelley3776]

The trick for getting the Odd Key early is just to face away from the wall, spin, then while spinning hold left and hammer. The game doesn't take the direction change into account when hammering, so the hammer just goes through the wall. You can see that it doesn't update the facing direction by doing the trick the opposite way; face the wall, spin, then hold right while spinning and hammer. You'll end up hammering... the... air. Yeah, that checks out.

[@cheplays2482]

I've done a lot of these tricks casually on my cartridge as well as on the Wii U VC version. My God did they take hours! Tree Hop gave me PTSD. There's also a potential to soft lock your game if you mess up that skip.

[@FarizArditiyo]

It's kinda ironic that there were only 7 speedruns in the category.

[@Luigi_Jr]

Missed opportunity to have the Chapter title cards go from the highest number to the lowest number

[@pressaTD]

Oh damn that’s a good idea

[@sambrabham9183]

Great video! Paper Mario has got to be my favorite childhood game and you just have to respect the multi hour grind to pull off these glitches.

[@Rael0505]

What a journey that was! I’m impressed.

[@JadeyCatgirl99]

As a lifelong Paper Mario fan, I love this. Great video. Thank you for the wilde ride!

[@TriforceWisdom64]

That chapter 5 gag got me good

[@anasoto7210]

I saw the whole video and this man is a absolute legend like the amount of hours this took like dude how

[@edgybubblegum6404]

i want to see more challenge youtubers that break things, a regular playthrough with an asterisk gets boring after a while, a regular playthrough with an asterisk that requires a gamebreaking bug every other story section is really fun

[@Sinclairsfinance1]

Seriously underrated video. Can’t wait to rewatch this in a few years with 400k views

[@crystalking2468]

35:54 ouch great work on the run btw

[@venis1335]

Ah yes, a 1 hour long paper mario video, my favorite

[@thebratwurst]

I clicked off the video with so comedically timed with him saying to subscribe I had to come back and subscribe.

[@SmokieJosh]

My major question is… how did people figure all these glitches out? TAS? Time? These frame perfect glitches and such are absolutely insane. Kudos to you for this video.

[@pressaTD]

From my extensive viewing of Stryder7x videos, it seems like mostly glitch hunters

[@Darkness5423]

Most people play games to experience the game and story and then there's people like me who play the game to try and break it anyway possible. Personally i remember finding out the perfect repair/unlimited caps from shops glitch in Fallout 3 a few days after it's release. One thing to remember is there can be endless glitches in games and not all of them found not everyone reports their findings, some just treat it like an easter egg, other get well known for doing it, nothing wrong with either option.

[@1stCallipostle]

​@@Darkness5423One of my favorite moments is when someone casually performs a glitch they assume everyone knows about, and speedrunners just go "YOU KNEW THIS THE WHOLE TIME!?"

[@MasterLink924]

AND! THEN! Lol nice video man. I remember playing this game a lot but never got passed the second chapter as I was a dumb kid. Makes me wanna play it again and finally beat it :)

[@WarioTimeWarioTimeWarioTime]

I like the longer videos. I know they are probably harder to make than it’s worse but I find videos like this oddly soothing and use ‘em to sleep (don’t get the idea that they’re boring because of this because this might be the most interesting paper Mario video I’ve ever seen), I remember trying to sleep to your Pikmin videos (only yellows, etc) but they were just too short. Don’t view that as a complaint please, even though I didn’t sleep to the Pikmin videos I found them really cool, and you don’t make these videos so people can sleep to them. I forgot what my point was because my brain is convinced I’m a cartoon old man. Uh, I really enjoy your videos and your channel is underrated

[@Zel-Veraan]

I watched Pannenkoek2012 talk about invisible walls in Super Mario 64 for almost four hours.

[@WarioTimeWarioTimeWarioTime]

@@Zel-Veraan That’s my current go-to video for snoozin’

[@AtomicFire41]

Paper Mario mentioned? Liked, commented, subscribed

[@Seth_Hezekiah]

The idea that there's some pride in playing a game without cheats is the biggest lie.

[@oniyigamers6497]

lets go for lost cause falacy

[@Flarestonealso]

32:03 but before that we need to talk about parallel universes

[@matthewwilcox2015]

Early whale seems like the suppository clip that we all didn’t need to see. 👁️👄✋ This whole video, impressive!

[@FlamingoSugar]

I love the way he says Mario. It makes me smile every time. :)

[@windlink6496]

I'm pretty sure this is the ultimate punishment for winning, I'd rather play hey! Pikmin than this hell hole 😅

[@kuboskube]

I've been watching your stuff for eons How was I not subscribed before today? Well, I fixed it.

[@trianglburger19]

I like how the goal of the hardest trick is to get inside of the butt of a wail and leave through its mouth.

[@jonrcena2676]

Dude you know what your pride may be hurt but you're still someone who did something of 1 in a billion literally so congratulations you definitly deserve a rest after this crap

[@RipVanFish09]

12:50 face away from where you want to hammer, spin, hold towards where you want to hit, and hammer. The game does the collision checks for where the hammer will hit something, telling it when to stop Mario's swing. But then you face the other direction. So it checks, finds nothing, which means a full swing, and then you turn around and do that full swing, right through the wall. (You can do it the other way, and have his hammer collide with thin air)

[@littlevivigaming4822]

Congrats on hitting 30k

[@logicalfundy]

Good job, looks like a really tough challenge. Although I imagine using the trainer disqualifies you from being put on the speed run leader board?

[@pressaTD]

Yes 100%

[@jkid1134]

It's cool to see you do something this hard (even if you couldn't really do it). Another game you can do this in is OoT, if you're interested. I don't think it's this tough (a very high bar to clear to be fair).

[@ein123456789]

Hey, idc that you used a practice rom, whale early sucks, fun video anyway!

[@angelindenile]

As soon as you said "and we have to hold onto these key items" ths first time, I KNEW what was coming.

[@NonisLuck]

I still have fond memories of the first time I booted up Mario 64 and heard his first words "It's-a me, Mehrio!"

[@Cliffordlonghead]

Awesome video I miss Stryder7x

[@egbertmilton4003]

Well too bad, he was an abuser, and got what he deserved. (Side note: I would share the specifics, but since the comments I posted describing what happened got deleted for some reason, I would search for the post What Happened to Stryder7x, made in 28 Nov 2022, which has links showing his response, and then his ex's response to his flimsy defence).

[@TriforceWisdom64]

Me too, dude. At least we have Badly Translated Thousand Year Door forever. Long live Big Ass.

[@sapphireaurora9634]

At the end when i saw retrigger prolog come in i knew what he was in for. I though whale early was thr hardest part but nope, retrigger prolog is arguably the hardest glitch in this game.

[@jackalscry8173]

25:34 That is the sound of a man breaking.

[@KTSpeedruns]

Practice ROMs are not only valid, but invaluable.

[@AndresD.deLeon]

Can it be? Press A's Mangum Opus: Paper Mario