[TAS] SNES Mega Man X "password glitch" by FractalFusion in

This is a tool-assisted speedrun. For more information, see tasvideos.org/2059M.html
Since moving to the SNES 16-bit land, Mega Man has taken the secret identity X, but everyone knows it's still him because he's the only blue robot who shoots three pellets at a time at other robots, steals their weapons, and zips through walls.
FractalFusion plays this game a bit differently than usual. He abuses a failed password in order to obtain all weapons before the intro stage; this also causes all 8 Mavericks to be flagged as beaten, so the run proceeds directly to the Sigma stages after the intro stage.
Because the failed password does not include X's armor upgrades and the Maverick stages are never entered, the dash boots (normally impossible to avoid) are never collected, meaning that Mega Man X spends the entire run walking through the stages; this provides more opportunities for entertainment than usual. For more information, read the author's comments.

[@ddduv]

2:52 X: What weapon should I use? X too: *yes.*

[@AndrewBlechinger]

That's a neat little detail there. His portrait was the right color in the cutscene after the first Vile fight...in a scene where you're only supposed to have the buster! This means that portraits aren't hard coded!

[@TechBlade9000]

It's how 16 but hardware works, it uses X's color palette so if that changes so does anything using that

[@flash4354]

It's still interesting how 8-bit and 16-bit hardwares work.

[@spicybreadproductions1972]

You do not know how palettes work, do you? I'll spare you the complicated stuff and just say that lots of items use ghe same line, and when ghat color line is altered, EVERYTHING using that line as there colors changed, no expectations

[@kotomishione]

a nice accidental detail because of shared palettes

[@fullofbullets58]

OMG the weapon change to the music of sigmas last form KILLED ME!!

[@cronoesify]

21:05 and you, looking like Zero at the end of X5.

[@ddduv]

LMAO

[@lassx6906]

Dark.

[@Superkidra]

just hide and repair yourself 4Head

[@samsum4525]

Too Soon 😭

[@Yamigata]

Interesting that he had the boots in the final scene

[@netoak7]

In the game its required the boots, i think that is the reason

[@adamsn89]

it probably has to do with some logic in the game about how its not possible to finish chill penguins stage with out the boots there for not possible to finish the game at the very least with boots and buster

[@maxim7amd576]

its leg upgrade

[@spicybreadproductions1972]

If you somehow skipped Zeros death, you'd probably still have the arm parts

[@CoylerProductions]

I think its because your not expected to beat Sigma without the dash boots so X having them in the final cut scene is written into the games code

[@ChaseHoman]

Little things like the weapon changing made me laugh along with a few things I've never thought about doing. Very nice, I definitely enjoyed this. Great job!

[@AkaiAzul]

14:15 Cool guys don’t start looking at explosions, but end up looking at them anyways.

[@randomyoutubecommenter2312]

If x was actually smart and went for sigma first

[@Slash0mega]

X would also have no weapons but the default blaster. So good luck being "smart" without cheats.

[@Alex_Off-Beat]

7:08 I too try to avoid harming Mettaurs whenever I play this stage. I mean, by the time of the X series, they're likely considered priceless antiques.

[@youkai3785]

So are the Bubble-Bats (Armored Armadillo's stage) that Almost always give 1-ups. But since the Bats and Mettaurs still identify you as "Mega Man", it's a clear case of "them or you".

[@Forte89]

Does anyone else think having only the arm cannon looks natural.

[@davidthecommenter]

i usually like seeing characters in their standard forms and not covering it with an outfit that covers it it just doesn't feel right

[@andresboomcandy]

X: Who needs stairs when you have gelatine walls?

[@TheeMaxMan]

12:11 Tas Megaman X was just mocking the game at this point.

[@ddduv]

5:13 *_BOOMERANG SHIELD!_*

[@nickaluscalixto9500]

If it only kept being like this in the tas, but it would be plant barrier anyway.

[@kaexewires7531]

that happens in megaman zero 3 too don't worry it's almost the same.

[@christianrissotto.gordohom3478]

X :IM A BIG BOI!

[@ricktenner1336]

X: I'M A MEGA MAN

[@Galagas1011]

I'm a mega Man now

[@themotioncodemarc]

12:23 some stellar dance moves

[@alexfield290]

That is the smallest health bar ever.

[@ddduv]

4:12 LMAO

[@drejp6792]

5:41 Vile: ... where did that energy come from? x: glitch

[@Tracks777]

I enjoyed the video! Keep it up!

[@Eyeofnelms]

there's something comical about X running from a mobile suit at 9:30

[@Fairlazy]

That was hilarious. Love it

[@enavy04]

I used a Game Genie code to get all the boss weapons at the start, once. I even managed to finish the game without the boots. The glitches are exactly the same. Zero's shot glitches the weapon meter at the end of the intro stage, and X loses his torso and legs at the end.

[@nightowl_ap]

Snes ram values

[@nightowl_ap]

How the hell can you blacken the end-fight animation/screen?

[@stevenpavelish6017]

Now this is a WALK Through! XD

[@leoregulus4621]

Wow at all the life ups I wish I could be that lucky even if I don't need them

[@ddduv]

9:09 j-j-j-j-j-j-j-j-j-j-jump!

[@_autumnshot_]

I tried to do the Password Glitch on my Rom, but I ended up with X not being able to move with a max health of 0. I'm on Rev 1. Help.

[@Rolanmen1]

Follow the author submission (link in the video description), there should be details to set this up.

[@_autumnshot_]

@@Rolanmen1 Well at least I got a video of X panting for 8 minutes.

[@Ryukgrey]

@@_autumnshot_ you still have the problem? (Sorry if i have bad english)

[@_autumnshot_]

@@Ryukgrey I didn't do anything about it so yeah i guess

[@end137]

what was with all the 1-ups

[@ngoctienvu7790]

Tas can bypass RNG too so

[@davidthecommenter]

it seems like this game even played normally is generous with it's 1up drop

[@thelastmlg2699]

2:51 i see, megaman stole mario's star.

[@ddduv]

LMAO

[@xisktrl]

ITS ME, MEGAMAN!

[@thealaskannomad6018]

What's funny is I wonder how many people took the time and read the storyline of MegaMan X instead of skipping it to get to the Title Screen? 🤔🤔🤔

[@TheGamingDuck3]

Something about mega man is bothering me i dont know what

[@skillsharekirby2048]

My question is, would it not be faster to go to chill penguin's stage and get the dash boots? Or am I just being an idiot and revisiting stages after you beat them is only in the remake?

[@forestdragonwing7552]

You can in the SNES version as well, and it is likely impossible to get everything without redoing stages.

[@TayoEXE]

Sure, it might have been faster a bit, but I'm not 100% sure. It sure is more entertaining this way, though.

[@younglink309]

@@forestdragonwing7552 from my path, I only need 1 revisit to Chill Penguin for the heart container. 2 if you want the easter egg in Armored Armadillo. There may be a better way, but that's how i always played it as a kid.

[@hinatalovetonaruto]

The point of the glitch is that hes nos suppouse to pass the game without them because in the cutscene at the end he dashes and they never made a sprite of him dashing without the dashboots so they just disapear

[@Bond101Studios]

(mega man x for iOS cries in the corner) (Mega man maverick hunter x has a small existential crisis) (I ain’t proud of this reply)

[@FerChannelXD]

Ese si es un verdadero megaman x :(

[@vallevalle6540]

ERES UN TROLL EXPERTO TODO UN CRACK

[@joeybonzo1758]

Wut it makes you have the boots at the end lol

[@belmontzar]

Ya know, in hindsight.. I wonder why they got rid of Sigma's wolf Motif.

[@nickname9351]

Because he ded

[@kaexewires7531]

@@nickname9351 poor wolf...

[@PartyPossumPosse]

The amount of SASS in this TAS I swear

[@mohamedrethaa8270]

Cool

[@ddduv]

12:01 nice battle

[@nickname9351]

It's not really a battle

[@littlemissinsane8383]

3:13 X, did you just- copy Zero's Z buster shot into an ability?!?

[@HarbingerYT]

I think it's because the game doesn't expect you to have Special Weapons in Central Highway.

[@crowns_aaron8857]

Does anyone know why the password for Megan x won’t work at all when I put it in I freeze

[@JahovasFitness]

MlgAaron are you letting the demo cutscene play at the title screen before you enter it?

[@adventureoflinkmk2]

@@JahovasFitness not to mention I'd like to know which version of the game this TAS was made on.. remember MMX had a version 1.0 and 1.1

[@flash4354]

@@adventureoflinkmk2 Try seeing the TASVideos entry of this TAS.

[@lennny.6984]

Que cagada que la primera vez que jugue megaman x fue con una version como esta Odie y ame a ese juego a muerte.

[@alanbrito141]

So x has less health than usual?

[@fasgamboa]

So many life drops

[@jessiebsvtuber228]

+1000 likes man

[@anafreire4467]

Yeah

[@nickname9351]

No

[@kaimaeneh3278]

What does a password glitch do?

[@stevenpavelish6017]

Walk it out X!

[@munha666]

what is the filter applied in the emulator to reduce the jaggies?

[@Rolanmen1]

It is called nnedi3 and it is not applied to the emulator but rather at the output video.

[@marcianoacuerda]

Although you win the fight against Zigma, you get a song that’s kinda sad in the credits. Eventually we do get to know that X stopped fighting because of the Megaman Zero series, but we never get to know if X found the answer.

[@possiblymatt7970]

The AND YOU AS MEGA MAN X X looks like he is bad

[@Ragnarok1881]

I can't be the only one that set the audio to Mono just for a different sound experience.

[@Mega_Mikey]

Trolled the shit out of storm eagle

[@josedavidelinteligenteprac4296]

15:57

[@--_--_--_--_]

Walk man X

[@RiteshRockz]

This is how a pro plays Megaman which noob like me has to learn to.

[@tomy3235]

Its a TAS So He Is Not Doing IT Really

[@TheChucklesGamer]

@@tomy3235 u are wrong, the TAS is a machine that do things impossible to be made by a human, the TAS is just help to do those tricks

[@JRoddvelar]

Que putiza le metieron a chill pinguin

[@MugenYomi]

It's not impossible to avoid the leg upgrade just moronic 😋

[@zakcolburn]

Wtf happened at 11:36

[@Toadzx]

Something about screen scroll allows you to skip armadillo there.

[@elisangelamartha799]

i'm frustrated

[@digaothuglife5160]

Como assim

[@josedavidelinteligenteprac4296]

16:31

[@TayoEXE]

Did anyone else try a glitch password as a kid that got you to Sigma stages without the leg part just to see what happens at the end when X dashes?

[@Magus12000BC]

Glitch password wasn't discovered until recently. Nobody in the 90's knew this existed. There were vague rumors of it. But no one knew how to replicate it and was disregarded as bullshit.

[@TayoEXE]

@@Magus12000BC Really? I was playing it mid 2000s and saw this password on MMHP (The Mega Man Home Page), and I tried it out. It puts past all the Mavericks, ready for the Sigma stages with everything but the leg part.

[@Magus12000BC]

@@TayoEXE - You got to bare in mind, I am talking 90's here. You wanted to know if someone tried it as a kid. I was in 3rd grade when this game came out. I graduated in '02. I wasn't a kid in the timeframe you're talking about.

[@TayoEXE]

@@Magus12000BC But what I mean is you said it wasn't known until recently. The MMHP is from the early 2000s, which I would hardly call recent.

[@Magus12000BC]

@@TayoEXE - I should should have said, "more recently". The game was out for a decade before that was found.

[@s-fc9078]

🤣

[@souleblade32790]

Uh, why do you think that Mega Man and X are the same? It's been stated many, MANY times that they are NOT. 🙄🙄🙄

[@kaavyaguragain4335]

how can you do it without upgrades

[@joshuagreen8995]

The description stated that because the code was entered and caused a glitch, megaman X has access to all the weapons and the game thinks all the bosses have been defeated so the speedrunner doesn't have to play any of the stages that aren't sigma stages, meaning the runner can ignore the dash boots.

[@vidiosconejimazul2643]

Rico

[@nicthecat]

esta rico

[@Harukix333x]

Esta en el megaman x dive, se siente rico

[@famscrow]

What this password glitch does, I saw nothing diffe ... 1:49 OH! Okay....

[@davidthecommenter]

when you play X1 like 1

[@gamerexplorer8402]

Buen video: comparto video que calcula tu nivel de fan para megaman X snes kzbin.info/www/bejne/p3ylm2iIjaufY9E

[@magdamasowska857]

Mega hack

[@solomonsambaya6910]

Boring how you cant dash when used the failed password

[@francocosta165]

I don't get the fun of this :v

[@nickname9351]

Just chilling with a nice gameplay of mmx

[@lucasvelez5955]

Me neither bro. But I think getting ppl curious about game coding is a good and healthy thing.

[@TheChucklesGamer]

Bruh...

[@reimald3577]

Good vídeo but if this was a speee run this never Will bê accept

[@adamsn89]

maybe in its own category as a TAS

[@davidthecommenter]

TAS movies would accept it.

[@P0keM0N.ofc16]

FAKE

[@Android-sh5ss]

Hacker

[@holyflamelegendvargas2804]

Mr Tia 21 It's a TAS

[@Android-sh5ss]

Holy Flame Legend Vargas ?

[@holyflamelegendvargas2804]

Mr Tia 21 Tool Asissted Speedrun/Superplay

[@Android-sh5ss]

Holy Flame Legend Vargas I do not understand english 😊

[@holyflamelegendvargas2804]

Mr Tia 21 Well what language do you understand?

[@arrhedy4060]

TAS= No valid Speedrun.

[@TheYouTubeGame]

Why?

[@AkaiAzul]

[ytg] People make assumptions that TAS means cheating, and thus no effort was made into the run, despite the fact TAS is an art onto itself that requires extensive knowledge and execution of the game down to the minutes of details.

[@TheChucklesGamer]

@@AkaiAzul yep and a TAS is just a bit help, nothing more without it this speedrun would be almost impossible

[@josedavidelinteligenteprac4296]

15:36