[TAS] NES EarthBound Beginnings (Prototype) by Nitrodon in

[@Mega_Mikey]

It makes me jealous seeing him run around all willy nilly and not getting any random encounters

[@byHexted]

I literally can’t get to the zoo in the time it takes him to complete the entire game

[@Trey06383]

@@byHexted ive been playing with cheats for 4 days now and i still cant find the singing bird💀💀

[@The93195]

i literally keep getting random encounters even with the pause strategy i cant even get to merrysville 💀💀💀

[@sypheur27]

​​​​@@The93195 all you can really do is grind around 10 levels from the enemies at the beginning of the game, once you have a decent weapon, it's just a matter of outliving enemies to get exp

[@The93195]

@@sypheur27 i didnt think of that lmao

[@jambon2730]

Ninten : Has asthma Also ninten in this vid : We ride at dawn bitches

[@adventureoflinkmk2]

Those of us with asthma irl have good days and bad days. The runner chose to manipulate it for all the good days :)

[@minerturtle45]

*Ana was kinda slow and showed up after the aliens had already left, but reunited with her family nonetheless.

[@minerturtle45]

*Lloyd, after dying multiple times and realizing he really was weak, went back to his trash can at the top of Twinkle Elementary. *Teddy, having nothing to do with the story at all, decides to disband his gang anyways and pursue a singing career.

[@Akogiri]

@@minerturtle45 NEUTRAL ENDING.

[@JunaidWolf3]

And giegue was found by some scientist and brought to a lab were they used the DNA of a Mythical creature and it became a new type of creature that they called mewtwo

[@tarragon112]

@@JunaidWolf3 (intro of Pokemon: The First Movie plays)

[@ico128]

"No grinding until the end."

[@gabymogax4283]

And even then it was because you are Force to have Ninten at level 25 to fight the dragon

[@YoloYester94]

The reason they pause randomly is to avoid enemy encounters. This is a common TAS trick and is useful when doing a save state playthrough.

[@SemiHypercube]

LastStarmen be like "Oh, maybe I'll get him this time" "BEAM ATTACK!" _dies because PK Beam γ got reflected_

[@kumaytb2140]

Nice référence dude

[@tarragon112]

franklin badge: “im about to ruin this mans whole career”

[@merio7271]

As soon as Ninten got paid by the mayor he stock up on bread. Dad's gonna be surprised when he can use a bread as a teleporter

[@Hardrian_Hardrada_Cicero]

Question

[@jboyathegamer]

​@@Hardrian_Hardrada_Cicero what is the question

[@Hardrian_Hardrada_Cicero]

@@jboyathegamer I teleported bread

[@jboyathegamer]

@@Hardrian_Hardrada_Cicero oh you were talking about the bread?

[@jboyathegamer]

Ok so when you use the bread you can use crumbs and then teleport you back

[@tStevester83]

The ending of this TAS implies that Teddy suffered from a terrible injury (he got stabbed by someone outside of Ellay) and now he has fully recovered singing to children that he doesn't even know. And Ninten writing love letters to a girl he JUST met on top of Mt. Itoi and dragging her to see Teddy's show is pretty unsettling.

[@flufftroopers1197]

"We met online." *Drinks alcohol*

[@Trey06383]

Ninten at the ending: Who's Ana? Who's Teddy? Lloyd you weakling, you didnt do anyhthing, you are still litteraly level 1

[@jboyathegamer]

Lloyd: well maybe if you healed me on mount itoi I would've been alive to help

[@oofey27-243]

he killed the dragon though. That is something.

[@basicallysnake]

“I damn near killed a dog with a bottle rocket, I killed an entire dragon, and this is the thanks I get?”

[@stickychannel92]

Ninten says "Forget my family! I'll leave them behind and just defeat Geeg."

[@stickychannel92]

By the way, I guess the reason why you constantly flicker the menu is to despawn the enemies...

[@Maroyakana1]

waaiit… aren’t you that person who i always see on the spriters resource?

[@cultofmrozinski368]

When Giggity Giggity needs his ass kicked again:

[@win18512]

gig ass has ptsd

[@StageCraftBeast]

This games map is so huge and looks almost the same with green grass and trees everywhere. No wonder Ninten needed bread crumbs.

[@browndiddly2659]

This game's map is 2x bigger than its sequel's map.

[@waitressroyal]

>used the normally useless bottle rocket on the stray dog due to low offense kino

[@bbbbzshssaggzxjkxjkfkgjzxf]

i like how not even seonds into the game you find a lamp flying around your room

[@BrozdoVSN]

"saved the world just before lunch!"

[@jimmyjohnjoejr]

You again???

[@happylockdownproject9187]

30:00 in sync with music😆

[@xeroxcopy8183]

aaahhhhh amogus

[@browndiddly2659]

Type beat right there.

[@wumper9691]

Jesus 75% of mother 1s ending has no meaning in this tas speed run. Seeing as we didn’t recruit Ana We didn’t fight teddy And teddy didn’t get wounded And we didn’t talk to anyone in young town.

[@WoodlandDrake]

The perils of living life too fast and not taking time to enjoy the journey.

[@sunscraper1]

On my first playthrough, I did none of that except for going to youngtown and talking to everyone

[@awesome5144]

One of the first TASes I ever watched back when I was 4… the nostalgia uvu

[@isaacp170]

Are you 8?

[@awesome5144]

No, this video is just a reupload of the movie

[@AmbiguouslyAnonymous]

@@isaacp170 it says in the description "TAS originally published on 2009-06-17"

[@redshell9205]

@@AmbiguouslyAnonymousthat’s so close to when I was born. That feels so special in a way.

[@juiceoverflow]

@@redshell9205 mate you young as hell

[@maplecinna3979]

Man those first 2 characters remind me of Charlie Brown and Linus.

[@zephyrous8155]

mother was partly inspired by peanuts

[@Thewolfguys.cartoons2000]

Thats exactly what I thought!

[@DigiPen92]

Wait, you can beat EarthBound Beginnings without recruiting Ana nor fight Teddy and use 5 melodies instead of 8 before beating Giygas?

[@xypher3ns]

I'm assuming it has something to do with the way the melodies flag progress. I.E: assuming you've found these five melodies, the game basically just says "Yeah there's no way you got here without legitimately getting the whole melody right?"

[@TimeSpaceMage]

Kind of like how you only need the last 2 medallions in Zelda 64 :V

[@orngng]

It's like DK64 you only needing the 3rd and 8th banana to unlock some shit because the developers were lazy

[@saraskyline8331]

Well Teddy was never necessary

[@saraskyline8331]

He is just there to help you get through MT Itoi you don't have to go get him he is great for grinding

[@icon_diva36]

I love how Ana is completely optional

[@ComradeAtSpace95]

Moment when Giegue/Giygas attempts to stop Ninten from singing the Eight Melodies song: 42:55, 43:06, 43:40, 43:55, 44:19, 44:53, 45:31, 45:56, 46:28, 47:03, 47:41(last attempt) (this will get edited later for more accurate)

[@SiIverLeaf]

Mother/Earthbound Beginnings is one of my favorite games. 3rd to be exact, I'm always down for a play though of it even if it has a lot of "grinding"

[@SPCooki34]

In guessing your other favourites are mother 2 and 3

[@DobygamesGC]

Same :)

[@laser90]

It may be outdated, annoying, grind-heavy, unforgiving, lacking personality, lacking humour, completely blown out of the water by its sequels and abusable as hell (as shown in the video), but deep down I believe it is still a good game

[@soldadito34]

PK teleport? No thanks, *I have bread.*

[@qondonyon]

no girls%

[@SPCooki34]

And savage gang leaders wielding katanas

[@levthelion71810]

Wait...... Ana is optional?!

[@justinsketchesNG626]

Always has been... 🔫

[@NarokathCrimzonAE]

Beautiful music!

[@tomypower4898]

Alexander Engström sing the songs for ships

[@rianthreeden]

God I just wish I could malipulate RNG this well so I get no encounters

[@iamfrisk3606]

this is the most impressive speedrun i ever watched

[@playlikepig0550]

well it isn't really a speedrun, it's a TAS(tool assisted speedrun). that means someone gave a bot exact instructions on what movements when to make. I'm not entirely sure if you knew that, I'm just saying it just in case. Edit: Still really impressive nonetheless

[@XxDannySniperZXxGOB]

@@playlikepig0550 lol i didn't know what a TAS was back then i do now

[@zachatck64]

​@@playlikepig0550 It literally is a speedrun, the S stands for that. Speddruns are divided into categories.

[@Aethelia]

@@playlikepig0550 If this isn't a speedrun, what is? It's definitely not a slowrun.

[@playlikepig0550]

@@Aethelia 1. You're equating [not being x] with [being the opposite of x]. That doesn't make sense. 2. It's been more than a goddamn year since I wrote that comment, why would I remember the reasoning behind it? 3. I assume I just wanted to clarify that there was a difference between a TAS and a typical speedrun, as these are usually regarded as separate things in the speedrunning community.

[@AllToastersToastToast]

I had no idea bread crumbs were a thing in this game. I just thought the bread was a regular food item.

[@BigMacOrange]

What are the breadcrumbs?

[@AllToastersToastToast]

@@BigMacOrange It's how Ninten teleported. He used bread to lay out bread crumbs at 3:23 and used those bread crumbs at about 4:18 to go back where he put the crumbs. I never knew bread had the second use, _and honestly I'm kinda disappointed because it would've been so useful._

[@estebanminnoye1236]

that weird moment when you figured out Lloyd was more important than Ana to finish Mother :o Guess Lloyd and Ninten will sing Bein' friend for their wedding.

[@L20412]

yes, because unblocking the path for the train requires Lloyd to launch the rocket 🚀

[@L20412]

we don't need Teddy, Lloyd or Ana to defeat a dragon, but we need Lloyd to launch a rocket in the factory, and throwing a bomb, and everything else can be done by only Ninten himself

[@tangy3003]

rip lloyd

[@tomypower4898]

tangeruse earth bugs

[@budlite8413]

RIP Ana who never even became a party member

[@SWithR]

This helped me with the haunted house maze, thanks

[@jolerojosta]

Haha action menu goes brrrrr

[@drkinferno72]

2019 no you can’t manipulate the enemy rng in a speed run! >:’(

[@GeoGeos]

wait this run is fake theres supposed to be enemies every step

[@chamasdad]

TAS means Tool Assisted Speedrun, so of course he used cheats or hacks or edited the trail a bit. He/She even said so in the title.

[@GeoGeos]

@@chamasdad did you get the joke

[@chamasdad]

@@GeoGeos ik what ur tryin to say, the encounter rate is too frickin high..

[@Flamsterette]

Just Loid. Crazy!

[@Thewolfguys.cartoons2000]

I dunno why wasn't this going to be on the switch nes online :(

Or like Fire Emblem: Shadow dragon and Blade of Lite, that game is translated and is official on Switch, it's ok game, but hard like this Earthbound Begginings

[@DiegoPalestro]

it finally happened 🙏🏻

[@Thewolfguys.cartoons2000]

@@DiegoPalestro I saw that and I was happy crying that it's really confirmed

[@Beam3178]

Anyone want to explain what's happening at 33:21?

[@PerhapsGuy]

Beam3178 he was manipulating RNG for fights. Every time the game is paused, the amount of steps until the next random encounter is reset. I’m guessing the amount of time sitting in the menu sets up the luck for the fights.

[@stuff5499]

@Yess7895 and frownyface44 yes

[@Beam3178]

@@PerhapsGuy new to me, ty

[@KaptainKyro]

Lunatic scrolls through menu options

[@jboyathegamer]

So then ending is actually really good since ana reunited with her mom teddy is a singer now the kidnapped grown ups are back and lloyed is a hero at his school but ninten went to sleep after seeing everyone happy since he did help them all mother 2 continues with ness as the new hero going to stop giygas again after discovering a new set of 8 melodies and lucas pulled the last needle and watch his brother die these games are sad in the end like how ninten lost eve even though she protected him and like how lucas lost almost his whole family and then ness said goodbye to his freinds

[@saxton8257]

But how did he turn off the random encounters??? 🤨

[@mxtoastytoad]

I think it had to do with when they paused from time to time.

[@Blue-ke5sb]

The menuing you see happen occasionally is setting up the perfect frames to either avoid fights altogether, or get the Starman fights you see near the end. Many games like this have their "RNG" set to frames.

[@darknexxenby]

it has to do with the menu opening and closing. every time you move your cursor in the menu, a lot of rng elements are altered due to frames passing. its sorta like why some speedrunners in smb1 hesitate before touching the flagpole, waste time to save even more time. the trick also works in mother 2/earrhbound!

[@charlesdemagalhaes960]

Thats fake! He did not even got in a fight in his 10 firsts steps And worse! DID NOT HAD FIGHT ANYONE

[@Joshua_Gomez15]

> tool assisted speedrun

[@xxEzraBxxx]

>joke

[@L20412]

ninten did fight with LastStarmen tho

[@Chopscrewyyy]

Watch this on 2x speed. It's funny

[@L20412]

Ana: When can I be with y- wait... you already defeated Giegue?

[@Mabox-sc5iz]

They literally didn't meet Ana but she still appears in the ending xD

[@Gameproducer6]

Why did the robot not show up at 24:20? I know it appears after the dance with Ana in the house, so because she’s not there does the game not restrict just Ninten and Lloyd?

[@goingunleashed5826]

The big red one? It only appears if you try and go to the house with Eve in your party.

[@Gameproducer6]

@@goingunleashed5826 Ah, yes! Eve is the reason. Totally slipped my mind, thank you!

[@goingunleashed5826]

@@Gameproducer6 np

[@TheBoogeymanMOFO]

Bro really got the pacifist ending

[@nskachuful]

He killed a lamp and the first starman. The laststarmen basically killes themselves. So all in all he only killed 2 enemies.

[@TheBoogeymanMOFO]

Well it’s a lamp just an object under giygas control and the star man is basically a kill so I say it would be 1 real kill

[@supercubemanofc]

​@@nskachufulit says "lamp doesnt move anymore!" not "the lamp has been killed!" so it's not a kill, and being defeated does not count as being killed so yeah it's 100% pacifist

[@happylockdownproject9187]

As far as I remember the original game had neither run option nor diagonal walk.🤔

[@chamasdad]

it does tho

[@majora361]

US prototype

[@AllToastersToastToast]

I played through EB Zero, which had both. It’d make sense for EB Beginnings to have those as well though. Edit: I watched a Mother 1 speedrun, and it seemed that you could walk diagonally but you couldn’t run.

[@MR_Doodles432]

49:53 Imagine being a child of maximum 11 years old and suddenly you now have the mission of saving the entire world from an alien invasion. If that were my case I would have gone to bed and not woken up for like 5 months.

[@alpacalemons3123]

16:34 HOLD ON

[@uvhunters4677]

They did it again 18:35

[@cultofmrozinski368]

Starmen after trying to hit Ninten with the same attack that just got their brothers killed:🗿

[@erictse2]

i figured out you were outside and the inside house music was playing. you broke the music

[@dienamo1251]

Oh hey, this was uploaded on my birthday Edit: Oh hey, I forgot I even commented this

[@tomypower4898]

Dienamo1 sing the songs!

[@andrewboyle5231]

Happy Birthday then

[@starscratcher]

happy birthday ⁰-⁰

[@SiltyToast1997]

is this wr

[@TASI-xw2of]

何故最初が輪るピングドラム？w

[@Chinghiskhankid]

47:56

[@erictse2]

now since lloyd is dead, he is a ghost

[@CheekyGuy-q4i]

7:39 RNG control!!!

[@oofey27-243]

49:38 You never even met Ninten, lol. (Joke)

[@liplepeoberty5815]

Seems like a trivialised opening icon of one of the most impressive and worst anime I’ve ever encountered. I approve of the hatred towards Mawaru Penguindrum

[@androbodomknight]

man ... how people can do those run without fighting ... and sorry **** the last battle seriously ... this song I will remember forever damn

[@singlereedenjoyer]

It’s a Tool-assisted speedrun. Uses pause menu-shenanigans to manipulate random encounters favourably.