Mega Man Zero by Flameberger in

[@yungbisher]

see zeros breathing patterns? that affects the rng

[@Imozart0341I]

Lololol

[@theonlymeian]

see zero's hair moving? that affects the rng

[@randomguy9988]

See the way Zero makes a sandwich? That affects the rng

[@yungbisher]

Random Guy the size of the knife he picks out of the drawer? That affects it

[@sayvionwashington1939]

See that Pantheon existing? That affects the RNG

[@VGInterviews]

"That jump is supposed to be impossible but I do it anyways" is basically speedrunning in a nutshell

[@cyanthelouie]

that jump is meant to be impossible but everyone can do it very easiliy lol

[@lucendence4710]

Ciel: Zero! Copy X is planning to take over Neo Arcadia! Zero: *_k just give me 30 mins_*

[@danvexwx6926]

Lmao, nice comment

[@PBStriker101]

Love this comment.

[@sebman6031]

Amm, copy x is the ruler of neo acardia. He was not taking over anything but any civilian reploid life

[@Star1ightEmpresss]

Technically, he is the ruler of Neo Arcadia, as the reply above me says. He was actually intending to kill Reploids due to an energy crisis.

[@mr.platinum696]

This run makes zero look like an unstoppable monster, ripping apart armies, destroying buildings, and taking down powerful machines, all under an hour

[@arcstar8337]

As he should be

[@Star1ightEmpresss]

That's literally what he's supposed to be.

[@paolo8473]

30 minutes

[@mariochacon6789]

That sounds like Zero!

[@JonCom3dy]

Meanwhile when I play this game I’m a T bone steak slathered in sauce facing an army of Rottweilers

[@shadowsinscarlet3222]

One of the more underrated Mega Man games IMO and one of my favorites. This game is such a challenge compared to the X series and it was fun to boot. Much love to Flameberger for taking the time to plan out this game and run it at AGDQ. Hope they get around to the sequels.

[@gamesdonequick]

+KobaltKreations Zero 3: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qZ_TpquKga6GldU Zero 2: kzbin.info/www/bejne/foO7cqavrZiXa9U

[@shadowsinscarlet3222]

Well, thank you. I guess I should've dug a bit deeper. Apologies for my ignorance.

[@gamesdonequick]

+KobaltKreations No need to apologize, the older runs aren't always the easiest to find!

[@shadowsinscarlet3222]

Much appreciated all the same. Thanks for all you do.

[@Geneolgia]

Totally agree, i love the fast paced action and smooth move options, the ZX games for the DS are pretty good too.

[@hostiusasinhostilityhostil7853]

X series X: Why must Reploids fight? Zero series X: TERMINATE WITH EXTREME PREJUDICE.

[@toastwings9358]

that's what we call a character arc

[@quadvox8822]

Hey if some clone of you started murdering the people you swore to protect and you could do literally nothing, you'd wanna terminate them with extreme prejudice too

[@dawudabdur-rashid6172]

It just occurred to me that the guardians each use a version of Zero’s weapons (Harpuia = saber, Fefnir = buster, Leviathan = javelin, and Phantom = boomerang shield)

[@nickfrazier78]

Believe it or not, each of the Guardians are borrowing X’s skills from different games. X imbued them with his strengths in their field when they were created, then gave them all an insatiable warrior drive.

[@araarabutkermitthefrog]

@@nickfrazier78 fefnir ground punch: charged fire storm Leviathan snowflake rain: maybe a reference to the charged ice tower but idk Phantom giant shuriken: spinning blade Harpuia vertical tornado: charged storm tornado

[@HarbingerYT]

I always thought that the Guardians were based on different armors. Harpuia - Falcon Armor (X5) Fefnir - Gaea Armor (X5) Leviathan - Blade Armor (X6) Phantom - Shadow Armor (X6)

[@cactus_juice3217]

Oh so thats why phantom is piss easy

[@kerryvanskonsol792]

@SandwichZX yeah, in level s actually he releases ultimate move, all background to become pitch black

[@sylveonchan8460]

Ciel: Zero...Help us. Zero:Say no more just gimmie a gun and 5 minutes Ciel:Wa... Zero: *Speedrun is over*

[@hoangkamam]

Ciel: Wa... re wa messiah nari

[@sirmidnight2039]

@@hoangkamam Zero: . . . You’re 2 games early.

[@fraydizs7302]

50:01 I dont know how I never noticed it before but when zero jumps away from Copy X's explosion X in his cyber elf form follows behind him to protect him from the explosion.

[@drinkbleach8561]

this is by far the hardest game I own, to see it ripped apart like this makes me feel like a shit player.

[@edwardamador5114]

True. I still struggle with a large double health bar with half damage from enemies.

[@SkullyMegaTen]

Drink Bleach The trick is not to play like a TAS. Take it a tad slower when fighting.

[@jjwilliams410]

Cuphead: "Hold my cuppa"

[@pikminman13]

@@jjwilliams410 Cuphead isn't that hard though

[@Rayman_Axel]

@@jjwilliams410 its way easier to learn cuphead patterns than this

[@FarhanH1]

That climb sequence at 41:35 was so sexy dayummm

[@thesterndragoon9159]

This game is my leviathan (no pun intended).I love the game. I love the story, characters, sprites, layouts, EVERYTHING. But.....I suck at it. I suck at it SO damn hard it's not even funny. I love Megaman games but these Zero games are just my Kryptonite for some reason. I can barely beat one or two of the bosses...when I can even get to them. Seeing it get annihilated here was so satisfying! Thanks for playing it/uploading it, AGDQ!!

[@nguyenhuyduc9151]

The Stern Dragoon i try zero manytime but still feel like you. It's too hard with me. X series is far easier than zero series..

[@mooonmoon]

True zero is really hard, but it's soooo satisfying when you are able to beat a boss (and like know the patterns) it's one of the only games I was able to get better instead of just capping at some point. It feels so nice to really see your progression. Each boss took me ages to figure out but damn being stubborn is really helpful in this game

[@di-gun5791]

oh my god this is literally me though this quarantine gave me a lot of time and i'm tackling zero again so far so good but i've only just done with the factory mission

[@nassirshahshah7216]

Heres a tip: Learn the boss attacks practice reversals do one normal run a A rank or S rank run and a no damage run for each game by this i did the intro stage aztec falcon destroy train find the shuttle ocuppy factory and the retrieve data stage with no damage

[@JonCom3dy]

I’m playing the legacy edition with save assist. Yeah I said it!

[@IKR2419]

start in 11:14

[@jordangiles9222]

iker THANK YOU!

[@shirifuari7425]

This should help the people who don't read the description!

[@seansimonalle8896]

Bless you my child

[@theunoriginalpizzaguy6682]

Thanks and nice pic btw no homo tho

[@horricule451]

I like to think this is how Zero canonically went through this game

[@ayahuascamaharaja]

At least something similar, yes. Canonically, Zero should behave like a pro player, since he is a legendary reploid after all.

[@xTheSweetyMan]

6 dudes on the couch and the speedrunner not only speedruns the game but explains literally everything while doing so. Fucking Amazing.

[@darkysouly]

Flameberger is a pretty amazing speedrunner, this was very fun to watch.

[@seymourcarson]

I hate the runs where the couch says nothing. Come on dudes why are you on the couch if you’re not going to commentate? When he says there’s a difficult part so I need to focus, that’s when you take over.

[@retrovcr777]

Dude was already covering everything with his own commentating, at the times he wasn’t saying anything you could see it was self explanatory. Not only that Im sure most the people know how tough this game is normally, and the couch didn’t wana distract him. They saw he was already killing the gameplay, and commentating aspect, but they stepped in a couple times respectively. Dude was a beast, straight forward, and to the point, this game ain’t no joke to beat

[@blackhole5482]

ciel: Zero... Help me please Zero: *NO* 50:45

[@Skeletonman59]

>YES >NO WAY

[@henrynaa9088]

Ciel: Zero, I need your help destroying Neo Arcadia Zero: Sure Ciel: Btw, I need you to do it 38 minutes and 27 seconds or less, it's real important Zero: waaaaaaat

[@araarabutkermitthefrog]

It more like this: Zero: 38 minutes? I can take a nap and still have time to spare And are you my new girlfriend?Alrighty then

[@PBStriker101]

Love this comment.

[@maxieprimo2758]

Man, love this series. To be honest, one of my favorite things they added from the X series is the Dash wall-jump. It's just a neat animation that sends you at a really useful angle.

[@lolialf]

thought using the charged elemental attacks where the fastest way to defeat the bosses boy i was wrong

[@arkan5000]

the combo system in the Zero series is ridiculous

[@JonCom3dy]

@@arkan5000 combos?

[@arkan5000]

@@JonCom3dy combos in megaman zero is what attacks trigger immunity frames in enemies. How you can chain the first two saber swings into a charged blaster and then a charged boomerang shot for max damage before making the boss go invincible for a bit. Combos is basically how to max DPS by alternating and avoiding certain attacks as zero

[@humorss]

these plays are so enjoyable to watch, plus all that commentary

[@siLvercross90]

This guy could literally finish the entire game in a 1 hour lunch break.

[@AfreakingPear]

this guy is so ahead of what he thinks versus what he says in such a tight and precise run... amazing! GGWP

[@lorenzocampici7885]

Blonde robot shakes the foundation of an utopistic city in 30 minutes

[@atlaspressed]

All Mega Man games are just awesome to watch and play, I wish Capcom wouldn't have killed the series :(

[@jruler93]

A lot of Mega Man games are fun to play, but X6 & X7 are shit, X3 & X5 can be monotonous if you're going for everything without having the most efficient route planned out in advance, and I'm sure there are more bad (or just plain mediocre) Mega Man games that I'm forgetting. But, overall, yes, I do agree that Mega Man is an amazing franchise that helped shape gaming into the multi-billion dollar industry it is today.

[@cosmicalryu]

The series lives on with megaman ZX

[@SafetyKitten]

Krombopolus i agree, love zx

[@DanielAyy]

It's not over yet...

[@araarabutkermitthefrog]

It back boiiiiiii

[@CrimsonMoonM]

It's nice to see a run of this game that really makes good use of the Triple Rod.

[@garchompelago]

Poor Ciel. She was forced to run through all the enemies without any cover or protection then she got slashed several times with the saber.

[@EveryHandles]

Ciel: *Oh god we released a fast monster.*

[@possumverde]

I'm not even a big mega man fan but that was one awesome and informative run...

[@ninjahedgehog5]

wow, I ussually have trouble playing well in the megaman zero series, now I have neat boss strategies to help me get those S ranks

[@jonathanselander5094]

this game seems so extremely well made

[@soni-switch5207]

No, not really, because for some reason you have to level up the weapons and lives don't regenerate after a game over, both of which make the game much harder than it needs to be. This was fixed in the later games thankfully, especially Zero 3.

[@cosmiclikesminecraft]

@@soni-switch5207 The game itself is well made just with some stupid decisions

[@Rihcterwilker]

Only complaint that i would have is lives. In my opinion, they should be infinite, so you wouldn't have to replay a level to get to the boss. Besides that, i don't mind leveling up weapons, it just adds a grindy element to the gameplay.

[@MisterFanwank]

@@soni-switch5207 waaaaaaaaaaaah

[@crypticDJ]

Guy makes the bomb defusal look easy as shit

[@nassirshahshah7216]

It is accept those DAMN FRICKIN ROBOT WOOD THINGS

[@ngkn2008able]

One thing about this make me giving up on it: You don't lose the process even if you die without extra life; the mission is just marked as failed, and you can't do it anymore. But the game continues anyway, new arc, new stage. And that's how I got the the last arc, when the enemies raid the base. It was hell, fighting them without any upgrade. Watching this give me some hope that I could win this game, one day, maybe.

[@zayxen9346]

35:00 this whole stage was godlike

[@emilkarlegrund8800]

This game is hard as f...

[@jjwilliams410]

An enjoyable And Challenging experience.

[@MFG1243]

are you old enough to say the f word now

[@Linkenfant]

What controller do people usually use with GB Player? As the GC controller D-pad is pretty bad, I assume the best choice is an actual GBA SP?

[@Blah17717]

+Linkenfant I think Kuribon played Z series games with a hori gamecube controller, using a GBA itself as a controller is also a viable option imo. I wasn't using a gameboy player though, I was on the Wii U VC version, using a Classic Controller Pro.

[@KemaTheAtheist]

I remember cramping my hands so bad running the levels over and over to get S rank and get all the cyber elves and everything... Sometimes I really hate being a completionist....

[@t-universegamer7609]

actually, u don't need to s rank to get everything, just an A is enough

[@vivec6857]

A rank is what I could only achieve due to slow hands and a bad controller

[@Chikoooo]

41:43 man that was just beautiful to watch

[@SeekGrace]

11:21 that scream tho. lol. PS: Dang, i didn't know he fights X in the end. It looks like a nice and hard game. I'll definitely play it.

[@LightningFromHeaven]

+Levi Hackerman Its not x its a copy of x ciel made when the actual x sealed himself away with the mother elf

[@turity]

+LightningFromHeaven it was actually supposed to be the real x, but they changed him to copy x a month before release because they thought the story would taint x from the original x series.

[@ultraspinalki11]

Levi Hackerman Even though he's a Copy of X, one can argue that he is still a perfect copy and the reason why his personality is different is due to not having gone through Dr. Light's centuries-long testing of his A.I. (which ensured the original X never became malevolent).

[@alexanderdelgado3828]

Paulo Penado just a quick correction, it was 30 years long not centuries :p

[@ultraspinalki11]

Alexander Delgado Wasn't X in that capsule for centuries? I doubt it would take a mere 30 years for Light's lab to become "ancient ruins" in a mere 30 years?

[@BibikiTV]

Fantastic run. I had completely missed out on this Mega Man game. Gonna have to pick it up.

[@return9010]

Zero doing no i-frame hits on bosses Also Zero: So I pulled out my boomerang

[@exiaismycity5608]

11:19 - Countdown start

[@viewson83]

I love this game. I wish they had kept all of the combat abilities in the other 3 sequels like the spin jump or whatever it's called. I know you can still have it using other Forms but it's still not the same. Awesome run, by the way. Never seen a speed run of this game and man...this was great.

[@t-universegamer7609]

in zero 3 and 4 you could with elves tho

[@Yugiboii]

“Now its time for the most challenging mission.” Beats it in 1 min and 32 secs

[@breatheintheair165]

That was awesome, this game is very challenging

[@technnicalvapor007]

You wanna a Challenging Game? Then Zero 2 is for You.

[@megamasterzero7634]

The best mm game series

[@Jardonius]

.... Dude that flailed his arms at like :24 fucking made my day xD

[@Vtubears]

is MMZ2 too hard to run in a marathon because of the weather RNG? I remember those impact the game a lot and theres no seed.

[@BrookeSpeedruns]

MMZ2 will be run at Summer GDQ in a couple of days!

[@acicon]

omfg. I completely forgot how difficult the Neo Arcadia stages were.

[@di-gun5791]

The first neo arcadia is pretty easy, but the tower... oh my god the tower, i spent a whole day trying to A-rank it

[@joshuasrauterkus]

11:17

[@MultixFramez]

Como hace para anular la invencibilidad de los boss?

[@ToaGresh300]

And here I am, still stuck in the second boss fight.

[@just-mees]

5:38 I really shouldnt have laughed at that

[@BobbyMiller64]

Decimated one of the hardest games I've played.

[@ILikeDogz]

where was megaman y

[@End0rphin]

What controller is he using? Is it Wii Classic or Wii Classic Pro? And is this on Wii or Wii U? Is there a difference in frames when running VC titles on Wii and Wii U?

[@Blah17717]

+End0rphin I use a classic controller pro, and I personally can't tell any difference between playing on VC versus the original console.

[@End0rphin]

+Flameberger Oh, please help me out, is there any difference in frame delays between Wii VC and Wii U VC?

[@Blah17717]

+End0rphin I don't know personally. I was under the impression that Zero 1 was only on Wii U VC, not both. If you just mean for VC games in general I don't know, sorry.

[@rodnie3903]

when i played this game , it took me forever to finish a boss xD

[@hayateayasaki7271]

Dude, Chara donated just when it started. Cool

[@emilkarlegrund8800]

Very hard game, takes lots and lots of practice.

[@badgermcwaffles4834]

wow this game is brutal! slashing enemies in half bosses and such and then like the guys nearly dying from the spikes!

[@davidsanchez178]

What console did Mega-man X come out on????

[@SongShiyu]

And ps

[@metis7534]

Yo so like did he use a GBA for this run or a GameCube controller?

[@brimstoner982]

he used WiiU Virtual Console.

[@willtorres7250]

what's the name of the commentator

[@shifanahmed2391]

Will Torres, Flameberger is commentating it himself as he runs, allowing us to see the various tactics and tech he uses to get the fastest route.

[@agreedboarart3188]

The RNG affects the RNG, and I was hoping that the RNG would be in my favor, but it wasn't, so now I'm going to act based on the RNG.

[@atlys258]

Lmfao he even speedran the end credits 😂😂

[@Kerrfuffle]

poor Blizzack

[@2PacPRNDL]

Damn these RNG factors, how do they find these things out lol

[@glat12345]

Isn't it faster escaping all the missions?

[@PlayMadness]

Yes, but you heard them say early in the game that skipping directly to Neo Arcadia, a category called any%, is more boring than finishing every mission, so they run this category and complete every mission instead.

[@Genshinmaniak99]

I didn't get why he died intentionally at phantom.

[@burleynelson4263]

Something about resetting the rng manipulation.

[@Blah17717]

Yeah that's exactly it. The RNG (which is what determines "random" events in the game) gets reset if I die. I use it there because unlike other parts of the game, I can not keep an RNG manipulation through Phantom's death sequence.

[@Blah17717]

You can press the Start button during the intro to skip it. Only if you already have a save file though.

[@Blah17717]

I jump with A, alternate weapon (Saber / Triple Rod) with B, dash on R, main weapon (Buster / Shield / Triple Rod) on L.

[@miguelo.3036]

27:00

[@littleguystar]

Is it just me or this is being played on a Gameboy player? That has a ton of input lag!

[@ravenogburn3522]

It’s cool 😎

[@ironmilutin]

xD pogochamp

[@return9010]

*WAT*

[@raseruuu3742]

what the heck is this about RNG Manipulation? whahahaha

[@cramsalesman]

The music that plays when you are in the home base sounds like Megalovania.

[@ByaKyuren]

Deezz Nuts I kindly ask you to shut the fuck up

[@cramsalesman]

k then

[@bestytheyellowduck8052]

It would be proper to say that megalovania sounds like it, I guess?

[@codymacdermid8225]

Are the guys on the couch just there to watch? Is banter a bad thing? How is it that the most social guy is the one owning one of the hardest games ever made?

[@MadMod666]

this game was my childhood....i didnt know someone could be so pretentious while playing it....

[@SonofSethoitae]

What's pretentious about this?

[@xXxShadow431xXx]

11:20 Thank me later.

[@tigerex777]

I wonder if a lot of speed runners are narcissists. They always blow themselves up every chance they get. "This move is impossible but I can do it", "this trick I just did is pixel perfect and it requires perfect precision", "this mistake never ever happens". These are all narcissistic traits.

[@gegor41311]

no I'm pretty sure they aren't narcissists but are objectively rating their speedrunning skills. The jump IS supposed to be impossible, but it isn't because of a certain trick they master. It's not narcissistic to say something that is actually true.

[@FulgurHalcyon]

21st

[@cramsalesman]

"RNG Manipulation" Bullshit.

[@t-universegamer7609]

?

[@DefinitiveDubs]

That lady is so annoying.

[@2Broken]

tbh she's better than some other announcers in previous years

[@2Broken]

tbh she's better than some other announcers in previous years

[@kenjaku_]

Jadine Swinesworth whats her name?

[@LendanBR]

11:17