thread of some of my favourite videogame glitches, as applied to speedrunning and TASing [cw: flashing]
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As required by law, I must begin with Parallel Universes (inconsistently checking things in modulo or absolute coordinates, leading to different simultaneous versions of reality):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpk2tdsPh0A …
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The Paper Mario games expect story events to happen in a precise sequence, and so essentially track progress as a single number. If you ever do something out of order, you instantly time travel (forward or back) to when that "should" have happened:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTG-Yvdsgww …
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Yeah, almost every RPG tracks story progress this way. In Chrono Trigger that number is actually exposed to the player, as the “chapter name” on the file select menu.
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