Oddities From the World of MapleStory

[@user-ki7ux9mz6l]

these videos are so fucking great I could watch this forever

[@litojonny]

reminds me of my childhood :')

[@inkz9002]

Exactly

[@ErvinBuenaobra]

I swear. The nostalgia is so real I love this channel

[@kidakazeda9245]

swear to god it hurts at the same time. Knowing I can't go back T_T......

[@fish-rm6xl]

ikr i wish i just knew everything about maple

[@silent_pete]

This thumbnail got me better than even the most enticing clickbait. My brain immediately went "a BLUE whip?! oh, I gotta hear more about this" lmao

[@skygar9]

classic maplestory was the childhood of so many people, thank you for preserving the memories of the simpler times

[@Tracer_Sweat]

my childhood was weird looking back on it, I played tons of maple but was only ever a merchant...got addicted to Gamba spent everything I could on NX cards from 7-11...eventually got into a sketchy low-life gamestyle where I would go to FM channels that are usually empty, like 16 or something random, and you just wait or bounce around till you see some random high level walking through like he's going to one of the 3rd or 4th level rooms, they were doing something called a Drop-trade, so what you would do is double click them as they pass by, figure out their name and spam find, they would usually go to a vague room, then CC and drop a ton of great stuff, then try to re-log to pick it up on a different account...but the stuff would be gone, the life of a 11 year old maple merchant could get desperate. oh and of course, I was a dexless sin, with that great classic look

[@christopherjollie8988]

If you were ever to do a follow up oddities video I have a few idea's that have always fascinated me: -The concept of Islanders (Players that remained on Maple island forever and tried achieving the highest levels they could) -In an earlier version of Maplestory right before the release of Pirates, there was a feature known as the TRADE shop where players could list an in-game item to sell for NX currency. This is fairly common knowledge. However, I personally discovered a glitch back then where if you typed ?????? (not sure how many ?'s marks, but it was more than 1) into the item search, it would show all Gun weapons before they were even available!! I have never seen this discussed or documented anywhere but I can assure you I did experience it. Maybe it could be tested in a private server? -Forgotten Party Questions like the original Ariant PQ (Catch scorpions, which rewarded the Palm Tree chair), Kerning Abandoned subway PQ (constantly spawning mobs, population control) and Nett's Pyramid PQ (20 waves of mobs, don't let them reach the end the platform) -The addition of previous cash shop only cover weapons that were made into actual in game items with stat requirements. Examples like the Guan Yu Polearm, Liu Bei dagger, Slime stick dagger, Cao Cao Bow, Cupids Bow, and many others. -The forgotten Part-time job system. Up to 3 characters can be locked (unplayable for 6 hours) and assigned part time jobs to receive rewards. Jobs were: Relaxation (EXP), Herbalism (Recipes), Mining (Ore, equipment, recipes), Accessory shop (Scrolls). -The countless Rollbacks to combat the item duplication and hacking epidemic. -Ultimate explorer's. When Cygnus Knights maximum level was 120, you could accept a quest known as Empress Grace. Kill harps for 5 Peridot quest items (took an EXTREME amount of time) and be granted Empress's shout & prayer. Then the quest Ultimate explorer becomes available. It grants you a new Level 50 Explorer character of your class choosing which had exclusive skills including Empress's Might (allows your character to wear items 10 levels EARLY) and a Cygnus class skill relative to the counterpart of the explorer classes you chose. Example: Assassins'/Bandits would get Eckhart's Vampire bat attack/healing skill, I/L F/P Cleric would get Oz's flame gear attack skill etc etc -Forgotten Maplestory PVP. Setup like a PQ, players could use their skills to attack each others (only in specific PVP arena's) to compete for points. Funny enough, before he was banned I met curryishott in this map and uploaded a screenshot to basilmarket! Anyways, @Togain I love the videos and appreciate your curiosity/effort. I hope this list has given you at least 1 additional rabbit hole to explore. As a fellow aging Maplestory veteran, I understand how difficult the lengths are to find first-hand accounts of older Maplestory content. If you like I might still be able to find some super old screenshots that could aide in your videos! Feel free to add me on Discrd: tie_fytapilot Keep up the awesome work!!!

[@Goresmog]

Them adding cash shop weapons as regular weapon drops to the game during the big bang was super cool

[@dawk7]

Holy shit, I remember the gun thing, ahahaha!

[@BuffPomsky]

Lol i totally forgot the jobs was a thing 😂

[@srboromir452]

I wanted that stupid palm chair so bad, but as a warrior my accuracy SUCKED had to constantly use sniper potions, and leveled out of the ariant PQ (level 20? Iirc?) before I could get the chair In those days you had to split your stat points between two, you couldn't do a warrior with pure STR or you would never hit anything, had to get some amount of DEX

[@ChaseAHansen]

I was part of those islander guilds and communities, good times.

[@ii9nn391]

I’d go back to this game in a heartbeat if there was still a sense of family , meeting and making genuine friendships, competing against one another . Haven’t played since 2015 , remember watching older family playing around 2007 though .

[@blakeblake5127]

Google Maple Legends :) pretty decent community of the 2008 version of the game (and free)

[@ii9nn391]

@@blakeblake5127 I don’t play much video games but maybe I’ll play again someday or recommend to a younger brother or sister . Thank you 🙏

[@mykofalco]

These videos are absolutely necessary. The blue whip got me clicking so fast hahaha. As a player from 2005 that played for 12 years straight and quitted, this game has left an impact on me. I don't have time to play but I do enjoy videos exactly like this so I don't have to play at all. There are no other videos like this. Sometimes it feels as if it takes me back in time and I'm still able to feel like I'm enjoying the game back in the days...so please, continue making these videos. These are important more than you think..thank you..

[@drewwberri]

WE FREAKING LOVE YOU TOGAIN

[@NinjaxCad]

i remember the "Prist" misspelling! I was leveling a cleric at the time that flash came out so those slides were an object of fascination to me

[@ehuglen]

i played before 3rd job was released in gms and remember the hype about 3rd job. i definitely remember that flash graphic! i also remember seeing a level 80 something assassin training at zombies and being totally amazed. fond memories

[@SupahOmri]

Great video. I've got something random and maybe useless to suggest: In the old versions a few NPCs had different names. Francois was Arten, Grendel was Hines, I think that Dances with Balrog was Sitting Bull or something. Perion also had some very oddly shaped maps in its outskirts. Maps with massive random spaces in the bottom of the map you could only reach with teleport. They didn't seem to have any use.

[@Yzerbruh]

Your MapleStory videos never fail to bring about a great deal of nostalgia and memories. I wonder if you'll make a video dedicated to memorable bugs, exploits and oversights. I recall there always having been plenty back in the OSMS days.

[@velorexe8871]

Absolutely loving your Maplestory content!

[@hakersbunyanson5562]

Your videos are honestly the thing I look most forward to on all of KZbin. Thanks again for another all-time classic

[@MariaBear94]

Just found your channel, and I'm very happy to watch every video about Maplestory as it's all I played when I was 13 and even in my 20s lol Giving me hella nostalgic and the music is always so calming

[@MaybeNotARobot]

These videos are absolutely amazing - good enough to actually get me back into Maplestory! Now i'm reliving my childhood by being confused about everything as a Mechanic and Kaiser (first played during Tempest) but with the adult wisdom of looking up guides.

[@Arikadou]

Thanks for another one of these, my favourite childhood game is getting more love =D

[@OzMan434]

these videos make me warm it takes me back to times from when i was as young as 7 and it hurts i cant go back to that exact time but im glad it happened and will always cherish and relive it whenever i can through these videos

[@keturahms]

Another great job capturing the magic of OSMS! Really appreciate all your hard work in researching

[@dice2775]

You're great at telling stories and explaining things. The topics really make me nostalgic.

[@RykalRs]

Man your content is such a hidden gem you deserve so many more subs. I LOVE reliving my childhood nostalgia through your MS videos. Can't wait for the next video

[@RadicalJawzFunnyMoments]

These are great. Been playing maple royals and what’s funny is some of your videos are actually helping me in that private server since it’s played on 0.64 XD

[@hotblume]

dude these oldschool maplestory videos rock. Thank you for making them!

[@chuckz6802]

Beautiful video as always Togain! I looooved that 3rd job flash. As I kid there was nothing cooler than browsing all the screenshots I could find on both the official website and basilmarket!!

[@burster8357]

u put an amazing admirable amount of editing effort into your maplestory content i fucking love it. theres no other maple youtuber out like this rn. you'd be huge if it wasnt such a niche game. (pls keep doing maple tho)

[@JaeJaezX1]

As an avid youtube consumer, i think youre in an extremely small list of youtubers that immediately make me happy when they upload. Keep making these awesome uploads Togain! ❤

[@Chrexter]

I mainly collect old polearms since I fell in love with arans the day of release. So many rare and unique ones

[@DxnnyLy]

I love this channel. I'm going to recommend this channel to all the homies. Keep up the good work!

[@jacobbigras1435]

As long as you’re making these videos, you’ll always have a fan in me. maplestory for life

[@ShinkuDragon]

Excellent video as always. here's an idea for a video you can "build" on the background as you do other stuff. something like "legendary anvils" items from times past and events that are just not obtainable anymore and rare. old maple gear for example which just got a reprint, things like the iruvata set (which i think has showed up in gachapon?), and, what made me think of the idea, the visitor set, which was nigh-impossible to get a permanent version of. oh there's also the agent equips. but yeah, a story like that, when you find interesting old equipment like the cutter moon. but truth be told, i'd watch anything you put out. these videos are great, informative, and fill me with nostalgia and a need for more.

[@MilkBell]

Okay! I knew I wasn't TOO crazy! I swore I remembered Shadow Partner being named Copycat at some point in the game! This actually makes me feel validated as hell lmao.

[@CampsHated]

You should be getting an award for this series. Wow. Well put together, informative, accurate, nostalgic, AND a documentary that can hold someones attention (the only other person to do that is David Attenborough). I want a maplestory documentary series on netflix made by this guy

[@pirateizzy]

9:10 The reason was because stationary mobs were changed at one point to not show their knockback animation, even if you did the correct amount of damage. However, certain skills that marked mobs as targets for other skills to focus on them could still trigger these animations, assuming it wasn't in the middle of an attack or skill animation. A couple examples were using Corsair's Homing Beacon and Evan's Killer Wings. On a side note, in current MapleStory it is now impossible to knock back any boss monster by doing the required "knockback" damage, from Mano to the Black Mage and beyond, though it is still possible to view the knockback animation with certain skills like Rush (if possible) or any type of Bind skill.

[@fl6294]

Underrated channel! Thank you for all the hard work! Your videos are amazing ❤

[@ziltoidomniscient848]

great video!!! I still have my OG Evicerator from back in the day. another rare weapon i use to have but lost was the pooh shovel. i have my main spear transmog'd as it now, but lost the og a few years back. i do miss a lot of the old fun weapons. and still have quite a few. Keep up the great content. and thanks for the nostalgia trip. F2 :)

[@LouEaze]

Some video ideas: - History of Maplestory private servers - Theme Dungeons in Maplestory (Lionheart castle, etc.) - Maplestory in pop culture (music, impact)

[@Killdestroyer1]

The private servers were great. A lot of memories on extalia

[@blueb_oy]

Really happy I found your channel/videos. Really hits home with every one of them. Definitely subbing. Thanks for making an old MapleStory player feel nostalgic ❤.

[@UAintGotNoYeezys]

Would love a video talking about the dupped items era and how everyone was fearing for their lives

[@fehiki]

I like how the player with the Cutter Moon weapon was referred to as a "relatively low level" at lvl80, when in truth, back in the days most of us couldn't get past level 40. I personally never got past 30 😂

[@juanguardia5520]

Started playing back in 2009. My main was pirate (buccaneer). Its so nice to remember old days. Time to time I log in, but the friends are gone. Makes me Wonder hows their lives going. Hope their r doing Just fine as it was in the maple realm, overcoming everything that was released. Keep up with the work. I really enjoyed

[@SmokeyEdits]

Maplestory, FFX, and Pokemon D/P/Pt. The three games I'm most nostalgic for. And you crammed their music all in one video? Something tells me we're very similar in age lmao.

[@zane3608]

I’ve been collecting items in maple for a little over a decade at this point, the amount of information I’ve discovered that the average player wouldn’t know has ever existed is so interesting to me. Typo items, Hacked items, Duped items. Items from character creation zones that had been teleported out with exploits back then. All of which still exist in the game, and some of which I own myself. Even just the “???” Class alone is something a lot of people don’t know about Also my guild leader is the original White lady of Perion. The nostalgia I feel when looking at old conspiracy’s or when I hear the lore of my items is so explosive I don’t know how I could ever give it up. I still go on Hidden-Street atleast once a week!

[@ayoubidrissi8121]

16:12 what do you mean you dont want to do that to people, brooo i could literally listen to you for hours man your voice is so entertaining hahahha

[@ii9nn391]

bro doesn’t realize that’s why we clicked on vid

[@alonking4321]

Your vids hit the spot for sure

[@SlicedUP2]

Oh I know this one! Zakum's knockback animation could be triggered by Corsair's Homing Beacon/Bullseye. This was true for nearly all boss monsters iirc. I know this because I mained a Corsair and was always amused by the knockback animation. There might be some videos of it somewhere!

[@Dnite13]

buccs barrage too, locks in all boss in kb

[@spellxthief]

a minute in and i'm absolutely blasted with the nostalgia of probably hours spent rolling the damn dice to get two 4 stats

[@Polyrux]

The blue whip origins! Thank you for solving. I was left utterly baffled by it.

[@I-VisiBomb-I]

about the zakum section of the video, when the arms cast spells, you can see their faces. not all arms have the same face, some are different from others. you can clearly see it when looking at old school zakum run videos.

[@Copyrighting]

Togain you're the fuckin' GOAT. Thanks for the great content. I've watched the iceberg video like 3x while wapping.

[@kaayakbos]

Damn you Togain, you making this good ass videos made me regret not playing MapleStory when I was little. Now I became a new player when the game is not the same as before. Keep going! This is so entertaining.

[@robertsullivan6045]

the "theres something wrong with me" line got me. same dude. obsessed with a game this old uhg.

[@MattFondude]

Great video and excellent thumbnail!

[@williamstensen5586]

okay but anyone else remember the game dc-ing during character creation if you stayed there for too long (e.g. rolling the dice too many times)??? i remember being annoyed that i couldn't roll the dice for like 5-6 minutes in a row before the game just gave up

[@zeronamagem8617]

Wow I remember the holiday 3rd job teaser you were looking at. I was 15 and sooo pumped even tho i quit MS to play wow in 2006 and i only hit like 50 on my assassin main. Good times

[@kakuoh]

Regarding the blue whip, when i was playing a bunch of osms private servers way back then (like 42 or 55 were the popular ones) some of them did have a blue whip available as a weapon and i vividly remember being so excited when i found out it existed. Not sure if it was a private server only item, so either someone else had the same idea, was aware of the mystery (?), Or the item was just a really rare/lost exclusive jms item

[@Ldmendez]

New togain just dropped!!!!! Lets gooooooooo

[@zehrajade8353]

Watched lots of your old school maplestory videos really enjoyed them i still play on private servers sometimes with my daughter she likes that game also

[@marcuslim7916]

BABE WAKE UP TOGAIN JUST DROPPED

[@inkz9002]

Love your videos sooooo much🎉 Playing MapleStory back in the days is one of my best memories ❤

[@natetaylor8593]

Love these videos man! Keep it up 😊

[@spazzwazzle]

I have a mystery for you, Togain! I played Trickster pretty much at launch, and I can't find any info about this ANYWHERE--but when they released the R.E.V.O.L.U.T.I.O.N. patch a year or two after, they changed some of the maps. The specific change I remember is that a cave in the Desert/Coral Beach area used to connect to Ghost Blue. Both areas still have caves that look the same, but they no longer connect. IIRC, the cave would bring you to the bottom right of Aquarius. I remember someone befriending my sister and I (who were completely new) in Paradise during a GM event and taking me to the Nora sewers to power level me. When I was a higher level, I remember being confused about the story quests because I had never been to the gate of Ghost Blue!

[@霊]

god the thumbnail made my brain say "i need to watch this"

[@gorshe74]

Hohoholy I cannot wait. I am SHAKING with anticipation to press play on this video! I am CLAMBORING for some Togain rn you have NO CLUE!

[@gorshe74]

Absolutely phenom as always!

[@TheDarkestEdge]

When you hovered over shadow partner at 15:29, looks like they initially had the skill called "copycat".

[@yufeng1707]

Togain lets me relive the glory days of MapleStory better than Nexon ever could.

[@wodnwodb1888]

So underrated channel nice video bro

[@yoroo]

For zakum arms faces, they were 1st seen by me to be knockbacked by a godly crusader's panic before potential and BB patches.

[@MC_Railman]

Babe wake up, new Togain video just dropped

[@OneRockyBoi]

Had to pause at 3:38 to say I personally have watched hours of your OSMS videos so it is frankly not possible that I am normal.

[@lordkatakos]

Love these videos! As someone who has played far too much maplestory from 2006 onwards seeing this style of video done for the game is excellent! If you ever want to discuss pre-bb/early post bb content with someone who knows far too much hmu! (classic vids in my channel). I think it would be cool for you to maybe do something on basil market/hidden street and the gms related community forums. Or even server based stories etc.

[@hygeslevanaj8769]

Love your videos, commenting to push the algo for others to see this

[@Jaze2022]

You have to make a shadower video. The underdog. The forgotten. The one no one wanted. The soloer. Loved that class. Quit right after big bang because I started playing less and every map was empty. Did not get the memo that everyone moved to greener pastures

[@Felinaxo]

TOGAIN UPLOAD, LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOO

[@maxwellwylie8356]

best new youtuber !

[@roberthamman6367]

this video made me late for work and it was worth it

[@davidfu8174]

when togain uploads, I smile

[@Frodo_Sagbag]

ANOTHER BANGER HE CANT KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT

[@tetrisface9845]

Can't speak to GMS, but Zakum's knockback animations worked fine on the private servers I played in the 2007-2009 era. I'm thinking they worked normally in GMS as well, it was just really rare to see them because the damage required just wasn't possible then. You could probably look on the Korean web for an old video of a Chief Bandit killing Zak using Meso Explosion to confirm.

[@ZaihasSyakhir]

Give this man a PhD in MapleStology

[@shaunshaun5714]

You have great commentary 👍🏼👍🏼

[@KraDeNine]

Man, I remember that third job preview

[@tails183]

You've gone through a lotta stuff. Do you have any pictures of items that are theoretically perfect, whether clean or all 10%/chaosed? Your community seems like one of the best places to ask.

[@purpledabs]

My old acc def has a frozen tuna or two. All the whips, snowboards and skis. I loved those weapons so much

[@JusterinoSan]

Hell yea more maple nostalgia!

[@cirokuma]

the blue whip is called "newbie/beginner's whip" in JP btw! hence why people said it had a cool name.

[@ddranimestyle]

Played GMS since 2005-2006ish. Seeing 3rd job for the first time was awesome. We mostlly watched Korean and Japanese videos of 3rd job skills while we waited for it to come out for us. Edit: Just looked some videos up for old time's sake, "Maple's Level 113 Priest" was a huge one and is still here on KZbin!! Sooo nostalgic. There were a few too from a str chief bandit called "Squaii" that are no longer available :[

[@StarryGMS]

Eviscerator from Philosopher's Books in GMS by the way :3 Pretty common/standard collectible item nowadays.

[@Hyooonie]

When I saw the thumbnail, I was like “oh a shiny whip.. when did maple get this?”. Lol

[@BChanAzn8876]

15:50 Probably similar to our reactions to seeing our sixth job origin skills haha

[@legarate]

I love this so much, even though it's such useless knowledge to me, as I don't ever plan to play classic maple again.

[@BeyondDestiny]

I have a screenshot of a player named TehSpearman with a Cutter Moon in the GMS beta Tespia server... this was taken pre 2004-2005

[@jamesandrews7928]

Love your videos, just had a quick question! I noticed you referenced the Red Surfboard being the fastest high level polearm in not only this video, but your dragon knight video as well. Do you mean to refer to the Purple Surfboard? It was A level 95 polearm and had Fast(5) speed. Thanks!

[@Sharpe94]

The floating doorways in ludi is a later added thing in gms.. I remember coming back 1.5-2years later to the game and immedietly started noticed my old grindspot being different and I started hating how they looked and how they disrupted movability with flashjump

[@AStupidNewb]

Togain does it again 🍁🔥🔥🔥

[@deno7047]

Banger vid, where’s the “this one’s a classic” line from?

[@timr.2257]

Power creep was needed in OSMS...

[@cvvquoell]

No it wasn't, it needed quality of life and better design philosophies. If you think powercreep is good then you just wanted a different game with the same art style.

[@jeandegrin8687]

If you look at the Warning Street: Dangerous Croko II there is also a hidden portal on this map that does nothing :D

[@jasonnuno132]

I heard there was a beginner only frozen tuna available back in the day

[@ZADAIN88]

Get the snacks ready! Togain with another video....

[@machvia2429]

Hahaha it's nice to finally hear it confirmed that a 13 is impossible; i can still find LUKless magician guides from back in the day that insist it was totally possible to roll a 13 in INT and to just keep rolling til you got it

[@lordvasileLive]

There's a lot you can still cover lad given your still younger than most oldies who still play to this day! I can list some for you given the majority of the files still exist today in the game which old coding still exist! LOL 1. Perion/ GUILD PQ way before my time/ Some "weird sword" that was a quest 20yrs ago, glass shoe, omega sector agent npc. 2. Ellinia Malady/lupins 3. Henesys. Hangout spot/ Amoria PQ/ OMOK 4. Hidden portals turned into teleports 5. OLD NEO CITY 6. 999 Signs 7 Reach lv120 with any CGK You get SuperAdventure and place in Ereve. 8. Useless NPC Cody, package dealer,& another 1-2 or in El Nath 9 Family System ( I was senior before they remove it) sadly 10 The old MTS 11 I got possibly 2 legendary items that rarely drop or got removed entirely. Crystal Ilbi Throwing-Stars & Golden Bullet! 12 Crab turtle island that was removed no more Giant Grab to kill :( 13 Rare PVP event 14 Old PQ's that are coded in todays game but no one does them anymore, Ludi PQ, Slime PQ, R&J PQ & REX PQ , Orbis PQ I know there's a lot more and more broken portals, but dam i missed neo city so much :( . I need to go watch House of Dragon now cya!