The Mega Man 1 TAS is Broken!!!

[@cc_tw]

Wily forgot to account for the fourth "sibling" robot, GLITCH MAN.

[@Dragynn999]

Brother... that thumbnail face cracked me up harder than it should have. Now off to watch the video...

[@leonardogang4871]

Been really into your speedrun based content recently. Keep up the good work

[@ButcherGrindslam]

Seems like Rockman 1 engine is unstable with high enemy count.

[@TheBlackSeraph]

Aren't most games unstable with a high sprite/object count?

[@richardwallis9374]

Nes was unstable with more than 6-8 sprites I think. I have no ideas what sprite count and lag has to do with overflows that are connected to win conditions tho. 🤷‍♂️

[@dycedargselderbrother5353]

The early cartridge expansion technology used by Mega Man has a flaw where the incorrect ROM bank may be chosen when heavy spite calculations are happening at a particular time. In this TAS, the enemies are used to create the memory values (clear stage) that a lookup function references when the wrong ROM bank is (forcefully) selected. The original release of Castlevania, which was also used in the Anniversary Collection, has similar issues that occasionally crash the game. If you tried exploiting this condition in a human run of Mega Man you'd also likely crash the game due to memory being overwritten effectively randomly.

[@Alex_Off-Beat]

IIRC, Basically the game can only handle a certain number of items and/or enemies loaded in memory at once but there's no hard limit coded in to prevent more from spawning in after that limit is reached (or if there is it's able to be easily bypassed). So anything past that limit just gets written into RAM overwriting whatever was supposed to be there and causing unintended behavior which the TAS is able to manipulate to make the game jump to the end of level routine.

[@nobodyknowsforsure]

Dr. Wily: "How? Why?? You literally defy all known laws of physics!?? Curse...you...." _Dr. Light when Megaman returns_ "Dear God, what have I unleashed upon this world??"

[@D0ntTaseM3Br0]

This is where this series all began. It was just a happy little accident too because he had no plans to make this a series but people loved it so much he did the entire series and is currently doing the X series (He just finished any percent X2 as of this writing)

[@Protoman3]

tooterp is not capping today

[@Alpha-Trion7]

5:01, megaman turns back and forth very quickly. Would love to see the inputs here. Here be dragons. Oh, and then he 'wall jumps'? da fuq?

[@donskiver]

There used to be a speedrun of some game on NES where they put the system on a hotplate. The heat induced some kind of error or glitch and I just can't remember it now for the life of me.

[@palpiblade1586]

I believe it was a dragon quest game

[@donskiver]

@@palpiblade1586 ahh. You're right.

[@Juan_Pablo_81]

And that's how Glitchy Man used his forbidden powers to save the world. Let's go Glitchy Man for a world full of never endindg glitches ... (END?)

[@maxstone3779]

Glitch Man. The newest enemy in Mega Man 12.

[@MLBlue30]

Seriously. It's like some blue robot shows up one day, fucks with reality, and hands you your keys phone and wallet and anything else you couldn't find earlier and peaces out.

[@robmoore3176]

so you pick up the ammo so you get more magnet beam so you can do more zips. Also I've done the ice man glitch, it's called "ACE" but getting the magnet beam is idk how to do that. When you get "ACE" you actually force the credits, and that's a speed run category.

[@fabioalvesshow]

Would be cool if you try to beat a Megaman World Record, but i was watching Summoning Salt and looks way too difficult

[@enderslayer0848]

he literally did though

[@christinarawlings948]

@@enderslayer0848 true but he could do another world record

[@enderslayer0848]

@@christinarawlings948 not like he's obligated jeez

[@christinarawlings948]

@@enderslayer0848 😏

[@aaronsouthard8366]

Looks more like he is taking wiley from behind 😂

[@tomg22uztfx]

my biggest myth is that my friend back then in 1991 told me you can jump into the mambu (that one shell guy with spread shot in bomb mans stage)and this brings you to an another level.that was a lie !!!

[@chrusader5134]

You're now just dodging the "no dash X1-X3 challenge". You know it was popular comment and that's what your subscribers want! Deliverer!

[@hush8469]

What in the actual f**k was this run!? My goodness 😂

[@MLBlue30]

Man, this games code is held together with duct tape.

[@Chadmiral]

Lol

[@dumbpro555]

If this game is held by duct tape, I shudder to think whatever the heck Pokemon Red and Blue could be held together with.

[@DenizenofPhaaze]

This makes me feel like I'm watching one of those old videos where Vinesauce Vinny would corrupt NES games and get results that look like pretty much anything in this video.

[@MazterP28]

TAS just came in here take names and break the game. And they ran out of names

[@KennethEklind-es6dn]

Thank you for the best channel on the planet!! 😄

[@MazterP28]

This would be released as a finished game. I’m dead

[@VariantNYC]

4:58 ok that was sick 😂

[@DS_MOD]

plot twist: he was playing the whole time

[@MazterP28]

Shining missingno enters the game

[@ArtoPekkanen]

Ah, I have no clue what is going on in this TAS :D the level geometry alone is so messed up it's hard to follow.

[@adventureoflinkmk2]

5:19 i also thought the lower the clear bonus is, the easier the level is

[@A..D..D]

Is it finishing the level because all the enemies being killed makes them drop items with points and all added up is the same as the end of the level , so maybe the game thinks you’ve beaten the boss ?

[@therealinferno161]

Nah, said bug can also just warp to credits, because it's actually Arbitary Code Execution.

[@truthseekers1620]

ice man's weapon does nothing to fire man lol

[@MegaManXmyBeloved]

Just to let you know it's telling me your discord link has expired so I can't join 😭

[@mattsweeney3790]

That was funsie wonsie

[@linusgustafsson2629]

Is this an all bosses category TAS? Because I believe on ice-man you could even credits warp with the lagg bug.

[@therealinferno161]

Yea, from a look, said bug seems to be ACE caused by improper bounding of objects/sprites, so it's probably just a different category using ACE for a different purpose (namely unlocking Magnet Beam and such).

[@dycedargselderbrother5353]

@@therealinferno161 The problem is actually with the particular cartridge technology itself that Mega Man uses, though it can be fairly easily worked around once one realizes what the hardware problems are. As for what's happening, it's not really ACE since no arbitrary code is being executed, but the effect is much the same. The wrong ROM bank is selected and the sprites' positions become data that is in the right places for in-game lookup functions to call things like "clear stage" and "get magnet beam". There is also "end game", used in another TAS category (that ends very quickly).

[@therealinferno161]

@@dycedargselderbrother5353 Ah, I see. Thanks for the elaboration. Was making a guess given that it requires a large amount of sprites on-screen at once, makes sense that it's the bank switching tech that's to blame.

[@UberFamicom]

If you don't start live streaming bro ima be mad mad

[@alexandregb566]

Is there any person watching this TAS series againg like me?

[@truthseekers1620]

TAS needs to cut it out lol

[@lokkiirl4793]

Im sorry w t f was that ?

[@noble_wine]

Holy cow...... o0

[@RealMrSebas2005]

WOAH HAHAHAHAAHAHAH

[@chris1229sonic]

Omg

[@RealMrSebas2005]

Omg

[@cardboardbox_tech]

Yooooo.... The thumbnail face is only needed for the thumbnail bro. And easy on the youtuber voice, eh? Must've been hard to keep both of those up for an entire video. Don't push yourself too hard