You can use the shyness book on anyone who replies with "..." And "quiet!" In the library. There's like 3 npc's. They have text that I'd bet the vast, vast majority players hasn't seen. When I reported it on starmen over a decade ago, someone in the hacking community was like "oh so THAT'S what that flag does."
@commanderclaus.2 ай бұрын
what do they say?
@1233702 ай бұрын
@@commanderclaus. Just uploaded a video on my channel. Standard Earthbound NPC dialog stuff :) One other thing I didn't capture in the video is that the librarian also has a reply if you use the book on her before the end of the game (something like "that book is great" or whatever).
@josephcolson8574Ай бұрын
Okay, so, when i was a kid, I clearly had too much time on my hands and (I think) I'd seen (or at least knew about) pretty much all of these ... but I don't think I knew about this one. That's neat. Thanks.
@Nov-50622 ай бұрын
By watching this insignificant video, I had a very fruitful experience that cannot be understood by someone who did not watched this insignificant video
@Ratralsis2 ай бұрын
This guy gets it
@Kamawan02 ай бұрын
@@RatralsisWhy, is he a bottom? 😂
@jazzerjaw2 ай бұрын
@@Kamawan0 ...What?
@gabrielreda2 ай бұрын
@@jazzerjaw you heard him
@jazzerjaw2 ай бұрын
@@gabrielreda Nah that's weird bruh 💀💀💀
@Deku24242 ай бұрын
The description for the cup of coffee has lived in my head for years and to this day I can’t think about coffee without thinking “I guess it tastes good to adults.”
@Capnsensible802 ай бұрын
When the game first came out I grinded levels at the start and was inundated with Cookies. I will never forget how melodramatic the phrasing was of dropping Cookies to free up inventory space: "You abandoned the Cookie..."
@KairuHakubi2 ай бұрын
@@Capnsensible80 RIP For Sale sign.
@lunyxappocalypse707114 күн бұрын
With added copious amount of suger and cream/poweder, yes.
@MxArgentКүн бұрын
Hell of it is, It doesn't necessarily even taste good, I'm just a masochist. (And a delivery worker.)
@lunyxappocalypse7071Күн бұрын
@@MxArgent I guess if you primarily get the cheap stuff, though one gets used to the bitterness.
@just_add_a_32 ай бұрын
In Earthbound, if you try to throw away the "Pak of bubble gum" key item, you get the dialog "Don't spit your gum out. Even if it has lost it's flavor..." which is flavor text in the most literal sense of the word. In MOTHER 1, to ensure the cutscene battle against Teddy goes the way it is suppose to, the game prevents you from triggering the sequence if Ninten is petrified. If you go on stage while petrified, you trigger the dialog "(The crowd becomes restless and upset.) What in the world is that stone with a hat on!" Since there are no enemies that can petrify you anywhere near Valentine, this dialog is pretty rare. Its too bad too, since its one of my favorite random one off lines in the game.
@TheSkyGuy77Ай бұрын
"You open a book and lick the page. It tastes delicious. This must be what they meant by flavor text."
@hburke77992 ай бұрын
"Ness ate the large pizza together!" this is just me honestly.
@parappa9222 ай бұрын
I feel called out
@ToriskAblinsky2 ай бұрын
I feel.. called about.. *Also, 200th like!*
@flup13032 ай бұрын
Doing a Porky Minch cosplay?
@fernandodamas85332 ай бұрын
The post-game part feels like a throwback to Dragon Quest 1 where you can explore the whole map with no random encounters and everyone congratulating you. I wish more games did that sort of victory lap.
@GoldenPickaxe2 ай бұрын
Super Mario 64 triple jump also comes to mind
@solknuckles2408Ай бұрын
Sonic Adventure 1 reopens all the levels again after you beat a character's Adventure mode. I think some NPCs probably have new text? In Black Ops 4 when you complete the "boss" on Tag Der Toten, you get to explore a firey, lava covered version of the map with no zombies before you collect the game ending item And while they don't exist, I really wish that the 3rd floor and basement of Luigi's Mansion could be lit up. I also used to wish as a kid that you could visit a completed version of the Bowser's Castle boss level in Paper Mario Sticker Star - Just like how you can visit other completed boss levels/arenas
@pentalobescrew2 ай бұрын
if you manage to corrupt your save file, there's a very rare message on the file select, complete with improper formatting. "We're very sorry... but the record of adventure number (number) has been lo st..."
@lounowell41712 ай бұрын
@@qtips1719 It's in the text dump
@inendlesspain47242 ай бұрын
I love how at the end it sounds like the game is falling apart as it's trying to relay the message.
@poppip102 ай бұрын
as someone who ran earthbound through a corruptor, this 100% shows and confused the heck out of me the first time i saw it
@blahblah67872 ай бұрын
it also happens when your save games are removed because you've booted up a pirate copy
@emiliciachanАй бұрын
@@blahblah6787 That explains why the English version doesnt have that same oh shoot no oh my god Im so sorry vibe that it has in Japanese Because why would the game be sorry about deleting your quote en quote illegal save
@GlaceTheAce22222 ай бұрын
- disappears for almost a year - uploads 30 min random video that YOU KNOW you will watch - probably disappear again This is why we love cybershell
@Sonikku_Za_Hejjihoggu_19912 ай бұрын
@@GlaceTheAce2222 Cybershell is a mysterious being.
@littlebighedgehog15882 ай бұрын
This be reminding me of PatMac every time he uploads a video of collectibles from a lot of different series.
@diobrando-qv3uv2 ай бұрын
The description says a sonic video is coming soon which I can't tell if that's actually true or just a joke
@Krranski2 ай бұрын
My fav youtube folks do this. Irregular schedule with rare uploads, but banger videos every time. Quality over quantity, and such. Plus they get to live their lives outside youtube.
@megapussi2 ай бұрын
he also made a new video on his shared channel with bernie, netlore
@ThaneGaming2 ай бұрын
26:32 hey thanks for the shout-out & credit in the description! This is probably my favorite topic ever...the attention to the tiniest of details in both EarthBound & MOTHER 3 especially is key to why this series has continued to captivate me ever since I first played through it a decade ago. I'm glad to see you shining a spotlight on this tucked away dialogue a lot of players would likely never see otherwise!
@pangake2 ай бұрын
hell yeah.
@spitymatt52772 ай бұрын
Cybershell is slowly turning into a mother…… KZbinr after that monkeyness colab.
@MegadeathAdams2 ай бұрын
It's because the Earth is blue, round and cool like Sonic. It's been foreshadowed for years.
@spitymatt52772 ай бұрын
@@MegadeathAdamswho else is cool blue and round? Thats right, sans, sonic = sans!
@moosesues88872 ай бұрын
@@spitymatt5277no it’s goku
@etasjo2 ай бұрын
>Cybershell is slowly turning into a mother i wish
@dayzlove49942 ай бұрын
@@spitymatt5277Sans = Unkillable.
@TheDavidLol2 ай бұрын
I found an extremely obscure piece of dialogue myself while messing around with the debug menu one day. If you warp back to Moonside after already having completed it, you can beat the Mani Mani statue again and it'll warp you to the basement of Jackie's Cafe just like it does normally, but this time the rat's dialogue will read "I'm lucky I'm a rat. We have such easy lives...". This dialogue is normally inaccessible to the player since you can't re-enter the basement after leaving it, so I was shocked that they even bothered including a dialogue change like this.
@bluegum64382 ай бұрын
Judging by how comprehensive the edge cases are, I'd bet they didn't even test them, they just added dialogue for every conceivable flag and didn't care if it was possible or not to get it in a lot of places, it's covered now either way.
@chumtoad142 ай бұрын
Yesterday I was looking at the channel like a famished Victorian peasant, searching for scraps of food, today I open youtube to see a cybershell drop, 11 minutes ago, and I feel like a king. This is what I was made for. This is my destiny
@cudgle16332 ай бұрын
You gotta savor it and space it out until his next upload. Since it'll probably take another 9 months, then that means you can watch 1 minute of this video every 10 days
@ruthie41972 ай бұрын
@@cudgle1633 The mental image of someone actually doing that is funnier than it should be
@professorbadvibes6952 ай бұрын
oh my god he made his favorite thing "Sonic"
@Yousef770772 ай бұрын
Why is no one replying to this? Well, I’ll take it upon myself then. Yeah he did indeed do that. Astute observation.
@IanDerp262 ай бұрын
"PK Sonic" sounds like it could just be a real attack tbh
@HikikomoriMedia2 ай бұрын
It took a significant portion of my life to realize the bicycle shop Punk-Sure, was a reference to This Charming Man by the Smiths.
@zhitchcresttail33872 ай бұрын
You've now given me actually new information on ine if my favorite games, and I love you for it
@Seven-vu3md2 ай бұрын
13:46 Don't talk to Porky in the Monotoli building AT ALL until you give the trout yoghurt machine to the maid. Once you're in the Monotoli building to rescue Paula, visit Porky and his dialogue will be like this
@iBenjamin10002 ай бұрын
lol. this was just the thing pokey was saying when I was playing earthbound recently. I didn't even realize it was a rare line.
@BoundaryBreak2 ай бұрын
Great video man! I actually said recently one of the best things about earthbound is you can easily unearth dialogue never before seen on multiple playthroughs
@Ratralsis2 ай бұрын
Oh, hey, it's this guy
@generallyunimportant2 ай бұрын
unearth the dialogue, eh?
@MouseplaysvidyaАй бұрын
Out of nowhere, appears another of my favorite hidden content explorers.
@EarthboundBenjy2 ай бұрын
I can't believe you talked about item descriptions and didn't mention the ridiculously overly-detailed descriptions for the Pasta Di Summers and Royal Iced Tea. They even give us lore about extremely obscure characters, "Anna Summers" and "Mr. Y. Todaar" who might be the least-recognisable EarthBound characters I can think of.
@WaysofReading2 ай бұрын
Don't forget Beef Jerky: "Recipe for making jerky. Obtain some type of meat, slice it into pieces about a half of an inch thick. Hang the pieces on a laundry line or something like it and leave out in the sun for maybe 6 months... Well, that's what my recipe says."
@AuraDoesThings2 ай бұрын
I don't know what's more depressing; the fact that I knew 90% of this stuff already, or the fact that there was still that 10% I didn't know.
@cloverkip2 ай бұрын
why is this depressing
@Immadeus2 ай бұрын
@@cloverkip you clearly aren't a MOTHER freak like the rest of us kid. You wouldn't understand oh sweet summer child.
@KairuHakubi2 ай бұрын
@@cloverkip i think that was self-deprecation. the suggestion is she's obsessive.
@Hazrd242 ай бұрын
Discusses going through the raw text dump would require a mental illness. Constantly references the raw text dump in the video. Quality content as always Cybershell.
@HalfDuck2 ай бұрын
Same energy as "I just finished a full rewatch of sonic underground" after saying he has better things to do than watch a childrens cartoon
@codered11322 ай бұрын
@@HalfDuckrewatching Sonic Underground over watching Sonic Boom once is insane
@rancorousGamer2 ай бұрын
25:22 This dialogue isn't actually unique to this scenario. Mother 1 has a really odd Easter Egg where, if you're facing a party member somehow and use the talk action, you will get a dialogue box containing "What?!?". It's been a long time since I've played Mother, but I believe the easiest way to trigger this is on a rope/ladder. It's a funny thing for the devs to add, though I kind of wish the feature was expanded upon a little bit. Speaking of Mother 1 though, there's a lot of weird niche interactions similar to the ones you talked about in this video, especially surrounding Teddy and his recruitment. Because you aren't actually forced to recruit Teddy at any point, you can skip his interaction and complete the section of Mt. Itoi where he would normally be injured and replaced with Lloyd. Going back and triggering his recruitment after doing this allows you to bring him to the end of the game, at the cost of losing Lloyd permanently. You can also complete the game with a party of just Ninten by teleporting out of the bedroom where Ana temporarily leaves your party for the dance scene. Mother 1 is weirdly non-linear and I'd absolutely recommend checking these things out if you haven't already.
@GiAnMMV2 ай бұрын
Oh, that's interesting. I knew from editing the game that that dialogue only occurs when speaking to party members, but I didn't know there were other ways to "legally" obtain it.
@sneepsnoop95472 ай бұрын
That Teddy fact just blew my mind, I had no idea.
@BelBelle4682 ай бұрын
Mother 1 is so underrated. And cool. It’s a bit unfortunate that due to Mother 1 Encore becoming more linear, this likely won’t be possible there.
@WaysofReading2 ай бұрын
What an awesome video! I was really happy to see this because I'm actually working on a "Full Dialogue Run" for EarthBound. I've routed up to Dusty Dunes Desert and have uploaded segmented videos of the run so far on my channel. A few things I've discovered in addition to what's in your video: -- The For Sale Sign summons several different NPCs who all have unique dialogue if you refuse to sell them something, and/or try to sell an un-sellable item. -- There's also unique dialogue if you try to use the Exit Mouse right after the For Sale Sign: "If you release the mouse now, it might be stepped on by the approaching customer. So... it's not a good idea to release the mouse now." (mentioned in the video!) -- If you talk to Carpainter before getting the Franklin Badge and he strikes you with lightning, you respawn next to the blue cow, who says: "(You got mooooved here because you gave Mr. Carpainter some lip.)" -- The Runaway Five in Twoson all have unique dialogue if you use the Wad of Bills on them. They also have different things to say if you go backstage after they perform, and Gorgeous (red jacket) will give you the option see an encore. (Wad of Bills interaction mentioned in the video!) -- Ness' dad periodically calls you with a "take a break" message and has alternate dialogue if Ness is dead. He also has a unique third alternative if you're playing Jeff or Poo's sections. -- If your inventory is full when the Mach Pizza man tries to deliver the Zombie Paper, he repeatedly tries to convince you to drop an item. If you refuse, he'll only try to make the delivery again after you go into the Threed Mach Pizza store and step back outside. -- The old lady outside the Department Store in Twoson has custom dialogue that breaks the fourth wall if Jeff has joined and Ness is dead: "My grandson is playing a game called EarthBound. He’s now talking to a plain, old lady in Twoson. I heard that the game has some messages that are just there for fun." -- You mention it in the video, but there are a truly _massive_ number of post-Giygas dialogue changes. More than 100 NPCs change what they say, by my count. A fun one is the lady in the Onett bakery, whose dialogue depends on whether you talked to her all the way back at the start of the game. She says "Isn't it nice to talk to so many people?" and if you spoke to her at least twice before defeating Giygas, she adds: "I gave you some advice when I spoke to you the first time, right?" I could go on about this all day, those are just a few of the examples I thought of. It really feels like these lines amount to a "second script" that most players will only see a bit of, and few if any have ever seen all of. Earthbound a heck of a game for many reasons and I continue to be impressed by it even after 30 years. Thanks again for the really great video! Edit: OK, one more. There is some additional plot detail about the Mani Mani statue that is incredibly easy to miss. Once you've visited Twoson, you can go back to Lier X. Agerate at the bottom of his tunnel and he'll mention selling the statue to someone (Carpainter): "There was a man who insisted that he buy the golden statue, so I sold it to him. It's not that I needed the money... It's just that his unbridled mania affected me. As you know, I'm a sucker for sentiment. Bye, for now." (There's also a "detective from Twoson" in Threed who's investigating the theft of the statue from Happy-Happy headquarters, but I haven't yet figured out when/if he appears.) PS -- I didn't realize you could wedge yourself behind the punk guy to see the alternate door text in Threed, so I'll have to revise my route accordingly! PPS -- I'll check into Pokey's trout-flavored yogurt comment when I get to that part of the route and will be sure to reply here if I figure out how to access it.
@kathy4442 ай бұрын
Love the dedication here! So Cool.
@Pirateyware2 ай бұрын
The Exit Mouse and Wad of Bills bits are mentioned in the video.
@WaysofReading2 ай бұрын
@@Pirateywareoh, I rewatched and you're totally right! I'll make a note in the OP~
@Cybershell132 ай бұрын
Really good list of stuff, MonkeyNess posted on twitter that the way to see that Pokey dialog is to talk to him after Moonside when the maid tells you about the Trout Yogurt, but it must be your first time talking to him. Another really obscure one I learned in the comments here is you can use the shyness book on the NPCs in the onett library who say "..." for some extra dialog.
@justinkolata6252Ай бұрын
Full Dialogue Runs can be exhausting. I did one for Grandia 2 when it came out on Dreamcast. Played 52 hours straight with only brief bathroom and snack breaks, and only made it to the 2nd town. Every NPC in that game has multiple dialogue boxes that you have to talk them repeatedly to see them all, AND they get updated with practically every event flag. Since the game is so linear with little chance of ever getting lost, about 95% of NPC dialogue is flavor text.
@kieran82662 ай бұрын
14:55 I can absolutely tell you why it's in the game -- it's a left-over debugging script. The person who programmed that beam of light effect probably wanted a way to control the values that drove it in real time so they could test how it works -- after all it had to use horizontal interrupts to draw which wasn't as straightforward as drawing regular sprites. I can almost promise you this is the same reason for that "hidden" knuckles animation in S&K. In the Sonic situation, I'd guess that the code was used as a quick way to "audition" the animation for the rest of the team before they ultimately decided to cut it, but then they forgot to remove the debug code.
@supremekirb2 ай бұрын
bingo, there are a number of debugging functions bound to P2 (or certain macros, like B/SELECT+R) but the vast majority are controlled by the debug flag. I assume this one wasn't treated properly as it's in an action script, not regular code.
@phoenixbound57682 ай бұрын
It's... a bit more complicated than that. As far as I know, there's no intentional debug code added here. There is a debug routine that depends on the Select button, but it normally doesn't affect anything (it switches between two functions that sort sprites by their vertical position, to see which is faster). While verifying all of this info, I found a note someone left about an uninitialized local variable in the function that sets up this effect, used as the Y position for some part of the effect. When you don't hold the Select button, that uninitialized variable reads data that was set by... that sorting function. Normally, by coincidence, the sorting function leaves the value as -1, which makes the windowing effect extend past the top of the screen. But when you hold Select and switch the sorting function, it doesn't write to that variable anymore... And by the time Buzz Buzz appears and starts moving around, other code starts writing values to that location for _its_ local variables, and it starts using those instead. So... yeah it looks like this is more a case of a bug/nasal demons than an intentional feature.
@BagOfMagicFood2 ай бұрын
Like the MegaMan 3 debug buttons?
@wideclide420692 ай бұрын
I actually visited the hint man A LOT because I played earthbound on a phone at my school with very limited internet access. Didn't wanna connect to school wifi so I relied on the game itself guiding me through.
@KalypsoLemon2 ай бұрын
Love the part where Ness gets all the 7 emeralds and turns into super Ness And that part where Poo will shoo you off only if you stand in a very specific spot Greatest game ever
@SoupwithSeafood2 ай бұрын
I've never been a huge Earthbound/Mother fan but there is no denying how thought-through and hyperdetailed it is in its construction
@runnersdialzero12442 ай бұрын
The Hint Man was invaluable to me because my first full play-through was a rental. No packaged player's guide, and little to no internet access in 1995. I went back to him more than a few times and, like OP, also still pay him the occasional visit when playing it today (he has some good dialogue!) even though I could play the entire game blindfolded at this point.
@gavin13812 ай бұрын
I am also one of the five children who had Earthbound early enough to recognize him in Smash. I think my parents shed a few tears when they bought the box set for Earthbound. (Seriously. The game would have sold better if it were just the cartridge.)
@woobgamer52102 ай бұрын
and if the magazines didnt advertise it so badly
@LonelySpaceDetective2 ай бұрын
I guess the marketers were really concerned that people wouldn't really _get_ an RPG and would get stuck.
@wtfsong32 ай бұрын
you having earthbound as a kid and recognizing ness in smash bros 64 makes so much sense
@RinaRetro2 ай бұрын
*Why does no one talk about the Special RARE Snake enemy encounter, that levels you up a massive amount in the beginning in the game?* *Am I the only one that found it? Is it a Japanese Super Famicom exclusive enemy encounter?* *I never find any videos about it!* 😑
@sweetypuss2 ай бұрын
that's not a thing. that's never been a thing. if it was, it would've been documented already
@onerb_junkyard2 ай бұрын
HOLY SHIT A CYBERSHELL VIDEO ON EARTHBOUND I'M SO HAPPY RN
@whosapickle2 ай бұрын
I ralphed, cyber'd, and gooned all at once
@Rhythm162.2 ай бұрын
So hyped
@RoachOverlord2 ай бұрын
He has a full playthrough on his stream archive channel.
@hungrysteakboy2422 ай бұрын
A cool piece of dialogue I discovered is if you use the diamond on the guy you present your show ticket to in the topolla theater, he’ll say “No kidding…” (This led to using the diamond on every NPC you could talk to in that point in the game) nothing was different.
@PsiPaula42 ай бұрын
The Mr. Saturn house in Happy Happy Village can actually be accessed if you visit Happy Happy Village after it's not all blue anymore. Far earlier than the postgame.
@Cybershell132 ай бұрын
Well I'll be damned, you're right. It's still locked after defeating Carpainter, but if you come back after Threed it will be unlocked.
@doodlestack35952 ай бұрын
I love the idea of ninten just absolutely flipping out when he sees a party member and the npc clip
@Desincarnage2 ай бұрын
Your video made me realize why I fell in love with EarthBound when I first rented it from the video store 25+ years ago. It's all this attention to detail, especially in the dialogue. Never before, had I played a game where NPCs would say anything more than one or two lines. In other games, non-plot NPCs would only ever say a bit of information to help you move forward. In Earthbound, so many NPC have so many unique dialogues. This adds flavor and personality to this game, and made me feel like I was adventuring in the real world. Truly a masterpiece.
@DuderinoBroGuy1242 ай бұрын
It's been nine months. Someone could've gotten pregnant since ur last video and by now they would've given birth. Let that sink in dude
@dragoknighte482 ай бұрын
Cybershell had to take time off for his pregnancy, be sensitive.
@Slenderquil2 ай бұрын
No wonder he's covering Mother
@Dmnthygtshlds22 ай бұрын
@@dragoknighte48his own little chao
@mylesjohnston72592 ай бұрын
Literally my sister and I don't know who 😰
@megapussi2 ай бұрын
@@mylesjohnston7259 your sister and me
@SonicTheCutehog2 ай бұрын
Happy 30th Anniversary to EarthBound!
@Krranski2 ай бұрын
NO. It's not 30 years old. **sighhhhhh** (I mean yes it is, but I don't want it to be, because that means I am OLD, or whatever).
@insertobligatoryreferenceh4892 ай бұрын
About a month off, but you’ve got the spirit!
@liammcnicholas9182 ай бұрын
This game, FF6, Super Metroid, Sonic 3, and Donkey Kong Country in the same year is wild (yeah EarthBound came out in North America in 1995 but shut up)
@generallyunimportant2 ай бұрын
@@liammcnicholas918 wait which part of sonic 3?
@liammcnicholas9182 ай бұрын
@@generallyunimportant Yes
@springcheese36422 ай бұрын
9:38 Oh my God. I’ve been playing this game for years and only just realized it has “french fry” in the name. I just thought it was a pan from France.
@XanthinZarda2 ай бұрын
...Oooooh.
@theloldog122 ай бұрын
out of anything i expected today i didnt expect these two things: 1. cybershell coming back 2. cybershell making an earthbound video
@planescaped2 ай бұрын
The dialog in Lunar Silver Star Story Complete and Eternal Blue Complete have the same trait as Earthbound. I remember being flabbergasted just how many times random characters had new things to say depending on the point in the story. Some of them have entire side plots.
@MLBlue302 ай бұрын
I was thinking the same thing! I remember traveling to out of the way spots just to see if specific peoples dialogues would change after an event. I loved those games, spectacular music and lore.
@whosapickle2 ай бұрын
You'll never know why this comment got so many upvotes
@zoltancity52 ай бұрын
Bro
@dictatorvert24912 ай бұрын
you got it boss
@rockandrule2 ай бұрын
true
@frouvoxes2 ай бұрын
Have my grandparents
@Sonikku_Za_Hejjihoggu_19912 ай бұрын
Be my wife
@EdwardoFE2 ай бұрын
I just now learned that you don’t need to fight Everdread. Huh.
@Noodles4Ever1000Ай бұрын
Conversely, I just learned that you can fight Everdred.
@patrickholt87822 ай бұрын
Strangest sonic vid yet. I’d say earthbound is the most obscure sonic game. I would commit crimes for cybershell.
@Fazberrygooday2 ай бұрын
This has epic RAWR XD energy
@maraganger2 ай бұрын
this video releasing right after i finished a mother 1 replay is like THE sign i gotta replay earthbound absolutely loved the vid'
@yoyodinodan4342 ай бұрын
I saw a notification for this and audibly yelled "OH MY GOD!"
@kingofcrap44142 ай бұрын
Papyrus-flavored comment
@netmeister79412 ай бұрын
25:30 If you move your character just right so that you're facing the one of the other party members, they will say that. This is just a weird way of doing that.
@lemonsmug2 ай бұрын
cybershell is like that cool uncle that only shows up every now and then but always brings cool trinkets and is always a pleasure to have around whenever he does
@MxArgentКүн бұрын
MOTHER is a series near and dear to my heart - by all accounts, a watershed moment for New Weird gaining a foothold in game design. I think the lavish detail's one thing that's kept me coming back - I've been obsessed since Smash 64 introduced me, and I'm *still* learning new things. I also ended up getting into Twin Peaks through it, and that spiraled into its own lifelong obsession.
@gregthespinarak2 ай бұрын
The Stoic Club line made me spit out my water
@NerfPlayeR1352 ай бұрын
So obscure it passed by the censors!
@Faapu2 ай бұрын
The Exit Mouse not being agreeable reminds me of when you try to use Zoom or something in a Dragon Quest game but you're not supposed to leave the area like that, so you're just told a mysterious force prevented Zoom from working
@dansmith16612 ай бұрын
Using Zoom in Heroes causes you to hit the ceiling very hard.
@Stupetin2 ай бұрын
A video on Earthbound? This topic is mega awesome.
@ZalianАй бұрын
"You can't *play* a play" As a theatre actor, I resemble that remark!
@metroidhunter28612 ай бұрын
you got me with not knowing all the mario rpg secrets, but you wont catch me with earthbound got me on the first hit
@NerfPlayeR1352 ай бұрын
No one uses the Hint Man, huh?
@meameano88582 ай бұрын
Awesome timing because I was rewatching your content
@jackychangreal2 ай бұрын
I'm in Japan right now. I shouldn't be watching this when there's so much to see and do. But I am ecstatic about a new upload, especially since it's about earthbound
@Benzinilinguine2 ай бұрын
Pasta de Summers. It is the item with the longest description in the game. Its like an essay.
@nixon20072 ай бұрын
Our yearly video is finally here W
@maxwassermann31712 ай бұрын
With this video you made me love Earthbound even more. Bravo, sir.
@jamlpe2 ай бұрын
A child could have been developing and birthed between this and the last upload lol
@ninjax96752 ай бұрын
one of the few KZbinrs i still get excited to see an upload from!
@XanderRowlet2 ай бұрын
Ness is basically Human Sonic
@FederalBulgeInvestigator2 ай бұрын
*NESS stands for New Era Sonic SOS, just like SANS stands for Steven After Not Surviving.*
@Pimploaf_YTP2 ай бұрын
Hot chick heaven
@XanderRowlet2 ай бұрын
@@FederalBulgeInvestigator I recently rediscovered Steven After Not Surviving and died laughing so this is a very opportune time for you to make that connection, thank you
@LuckyMarathons2 ай бұрын
Literally, started playing a couple days ago and made everything Sonic related. Ness: Sonic Paula: Amy Jeff: Tails (Makes sense doesn't it?) Poo: Knuckles (Or "Knucks") Favorite thing: Speed (I'm not very creative.) Favorite food: Chili Dogs (Or "C.Dogs") and the dog is named Cheese
@Diwasho2 ай бұрын
@@LuckyMarathons That was the exact set of party names I picked on my first playthrough of EB back in the 90's. I was a big Sonic fan at the time and it wasn't uncommon for me to name things as something Sonic related but I was surprised how well the Sonic names fit the main party of EB in particular.
@Qwerty-86442 ай бұрын
glad I got this video recommended, the mention of Monkeyness was also very cool!
@Triple-Q2 ай бұрын
"I think a lot of the item descriptions go unread by most players" People who are trained to try and understand Souls lore:
@jamesismybestie7122Ай бұрын
congrats on 300k cybershell been here since the Sonic the Hedgehog LP days
@3spoons3662 ай бұрын
That porky line with the trout flavored yogurt might trigger before the maid tells you about it. I remember seeing it on my most recent playthrough, though im pretty sure its after paula gets kidnapped
@IAmFromTheYear2 ай бұрын
I recently played an Earthbound Rom Hack called Hallow's End. It was awesome. I would definitely recommend it.
@double7cross2 ай бұрын
The Mysterious Mine is pretty good, too.
@whosapickle2 ай бұрын
My favorite channel. Holy shit its christmas when this guy uploads
@heyzbeauz2 ай бұрын
I'm loving all these earthbound videos people are making right now
@PSOCecil2 ай бұрын
Don't just move on from 17:48 like didn't all see that your favorite thing was Sonic. How embarrassing!
@muffin75334 күн бұрын
I like to believe that every time cybershell releases a new video, he gets so tired that he falls down the stairs and goes into and 8 month coma.
@OrbisAetherum2 ай бұрын
It was decades after Final Fantasy 6's release that I discovered the Setzer/Cid dialogue on the downed airship.
@Yixdy2 ай бұрын
I too am one of the 5 Americans that played earthbound as a child, my sister gave away our cart when we were teenagers though. It was going to be my retirement, oh well
@callie_yt2 ай бұрын
hey cybershell, it’s me, your MOTHER (2)! you forgot your adult diapers at the house so i brought them here for your trip to super nintendo world! you’re getting so big now…
@evanprince38752 ай бұрын
Welcome back! Haven't watched the video yet but knowing the absolute bangers you've put out in the past I'm sure this is a triumphant return.
@dimthedimwit72212 ай бұрын
There's actually special dialogue if Ness' dad calls you while playing as Jeff!
@kevintappminville1952 ай бұрын
A NPC asking where the sequel of Earthbound is? That's some meta foreshadowing!
@omega_blue50092 ай бұрын
Cybershell and Earthbound a second time was not on my bingo card for this year
@RougeMephilesClone2 ай бұрын
Appreciate all the work that went into this.
@chich-ai2 ай бұрын
Finally, something for my Earthbound / MOTHER hyperfixation
@javiergomez94642 ай бұрын
Cybershell I missed you so much, glad you’re back and I will be patiently awaiting the next upload in 2 years
@phoenixbound57682 ай бұрын
I see someone already explained how Pokey's dialogue is used, but... yeah it's reaaaally obscure. It only triggers if the *first time* you talk to Pokey is _after_ you get the trout yogurt. And only in the SNES/Super Famicom version! It's obscure enough that it actually got removed in the GBA version of the game, making it so that you can't see it with any combination of flags. (That removal doesn't apply to VC versions of the game though.) The meteorite light thing is... kinda weird. The game devs tried optimizing the "sprite sorting" code, which determines which sprites appear on top of which other sprites. So holding the button is supposed to switch to an alternate routine that they hoped was faster but behaves mostly the same way. It didn't end up being appreciably faster in practice, but they never removed the code to switch between them. And the Buzz Buzz effect happens to have an uninitialized variable that gets written to by _one_ of the sorting functions. So when that function doesn't run, random values related to Buzz Buzz's movement replace the value that the one sorting function normally puts there, and the result is the rectangle position getting thrown way off. My personal favorite obscure dialogue is that there's special text for one specific item that you can try to throw away: the Pak of Bubble Gum. *Don't spit your gum out. (A press) Even if it has lost its flavor...* Like, why does that specific key item have different text when you try to throw it away?? A close second I just remembered after posting the comment is this one cop who yawns on the hill in Onett in the beginning of the game, after you've talked to Pokey and you're on your way back home. *Aaaaah--h... If I yawn like this... it looks like I'm goofing off. Aaaaah--h... ...yes, it does...* I didn't remember all of the hint man text so it was neat to see some of those
@just_add_a_3Ай бұрын
Do you know who discovered the meteorite thing?
@phoenixbound5768Ай бұрын
@@just_add_a_3 Not really, but it seems like something that would be easy for speedrunners to find in general, because Select is one of the many buttons you can press to advance text (it’s treated the same as pressing B in most contexts) and they want to press all the buttons they can to advance text quickly. And personally, I first heard about this from watching an EarthBound speedrunner.
@just_add_a_3Ай бұрын
@@phoenixbound5768 Sorry. Just to be clear, I meant to ask if you knew who discovered the specifics about the inner workings of the bug - the technical details about it using the same memory addresses as the sprite sorting algorithm. Or, at the very least, where did you get that information from?
@phoenixbound5768Ай бұрын
@@just_add_a_3 Oh! Uh, that was me, after reading a disassembly that mentioned the uninitialized variable (Herringway was the one to notice that part, I think, since he maintains the disassembly). After reading the comment about it, I checked out a few of the relevant functions/memory addresses in an emulator with debugging features to confirm the theory. Maybe I should write a more detailed post about it somewhere so that it’s not only explained in a random KZbin comment and on a Discord server…
@RupertAndCheese2 ай бұрын
Thankyou for this interesting and informative video that you made specifically for me and beamed directly into my brain.
@skyty02 ай бұрын
We got an earthbound bonus video before mother 3 in english
@luvkirby4ever2 ай бұрын
This video is EXACTLY the kind of stuff I love. The last time I played Earthbound I stayed at hotels frequently just to see what kind of headlines there would be. I'll have to try all the other neat stuff in this video. Amazing work!!
@Moe_Posting_Chad2 ай бұрын
We got Terry Hintz because of Hint Man. I for one am grateful!
@Pickyjonez2 ай бұрын
Never even played it but I'll watch the full vid just for you Mr Shell
@fungusghoul2 ай бұрын
SMRPG is the gateway drug to Mother.
@liammcnicholas9182 ай бұрын
Mother is the gateway drug to making your own quirky RPG
@fungusghoul2 ай бұрын
@@liammcnicholas918 It's like trying cocaine one time, then immediately jumping into the Columbian Cartel
@double7cross2 ай бұрын
That's why I prefer my Earthbound *uncut*
@cheychc2 ай бұрын
LOVED THE VIDEO! INTERESTING AND INFORMATIVE
@guitarlamb92952 ай бұрын
i cant believe Lucky of the Runaway Five was there on january 6
@MLBlue302 ай бұрын
Red hats are ruined forever
@sonic1on2wiiu2 ай бұрын
Bro I just finished Earthbound, this video couldn't have come at a better time
@corncobjohnsonreal2 ай бұрын
I'm literally turning 59 this year and I do not care about video games like earthbound jim, but I will always up thumb a cybershell video
@lpnp94772 ай бұрын
Ten more years and I'll toss you a "nice"
@blackvoid16802 ай бұрын
Earthbound jim?
@JulieSquirrel422 ай бұрын
I always figured the hint man was there in case you took a break from playing for a while and couldnt remember what you were supposed to do next (as well as just for people who somehow can't figur eout what to do next)
@NinjaXFiles2 ай бұрын
Yeah that makes sense to me. They knew what they were doing with the game. Got it all figured out for the 1st time players.
@diobrando-qv3uv2 ай бұрын
14:54 i think developers back then had stuff like this when testing the game kinda like sonics debug mode where you Bassicly kinda code the game with the controller in a way it might be a leftover from that that accidentally wasn't removed.
@MishKoz2 ай бұрын
I didn't even know that the Insignificant Item existed. Truly, my playthroughs haven't been fruitful...😔
@Chad_Wick2 ай бұрын
the cult quirky indie rpg inspired by undertale
@doktorhabilitowanystanczyk2 ай бұрын
@@qtips1719 he's right though Earthbound is a bad cheap knock off of the brilliant genre-defining toe curling genius subversive master piece known as "Undertale".
@PKzale2 ай бұрын
Hell yeah a Cybershell vid on Earthbound, love your stuff dude!
@smob02 ай бұрын
Oh man, he's back and he's talking about my favorite character. 😊
@SirKoto512 ай бұрын
Bless you for uploading sar
@The_real_williamtv2 ай бұрын
this video is mega awesome
@terios82302 ай бұрын
An out of context moments from cybershell video got in my recommendations so I decided to watch some of your videos again and coincidentally you had just uploaded a new video, pretty cool