Earthbound Glitches - Son of a Glitch

In this episode, we check out some of the interesting,speedrunning glitches in the cult SNES classic, Earthbound! From the hilarious to the game breaking and everything in between!
Glitches -
1.Onett Barrier Skip - 0:14
2. Skip Sandwich Glitch - 3:15
3. Bike Bell Glitch - 6:40
4.Sprite Overload Crash - 7:22
5. Diamonized Glitch - 8:31
6. Shattered Man Glitch - 9:04
7. Stairs Glitch - 11:20
8. Check Area Glitch - 14:10

Patreon Credits - 3:07
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Special thanks

[AStartShow]

Hey, Andy here!
Sorry for the long time between episodes. This was something that was supposed to be a shorter production time, but it just got out of hand haha.
Thanks for your continued support with the channel, and if you're new here, please consider subscribing if you enjoy this kind of content. Drop a like and I'd like to know what game you'd all like me to cover next!
Let me know and I'll see you in the next episode (hopefully much sooner)
Andy (A+Start)

[BoundaryBreak]

Oh man I dont know how it took this long to get a Earthbound episode but all that matters is it finally exists now!!

[NerdUndStolzDarauf]

"No problem here"

*proceeds with eldritch chants and corrupts reality itself*

[gabbls_]

For the Bike bell, the reason why it's playing a horn sound is because of the Twoson song being loaded in. The Twoson track uses a different instrument pack, therefore, playing the horn sound that was in the bell's place.

[TheChronova]

the shattered man shattering the fabric of reality is kinda spooky

[TheOutsideBox]

The first glitches explanation was really interesting! I finally get an idea of how sprite manipulation ACTUALLY looks like behind the scenes

[christopherpaige]

Space and time, broken using the power of a sandwich.

[MrGameAndSketch]

7:07
I think I know why this happens. The bike bell sound is part of the bike song's soundfont, so when the phone call changes the song back to Twoson's theme, the bike tries to play the same instrument, but gets its equivalent in the Twoson theme instead, which happens to be a horn. This same effect is actually used later in the game for Magicant's footstep sounds and the clanking footsteps in Cave of the Past. Those also glitch out if the robot transformations or pajama Ness are brought into areas with different music.

[artstrange]

Actually, on the topic of Shattered Men, there's a video called, "The Mystery of the Mole Playin' Rough" that goes in depth on cutscene flags and status ailments in the overworld that directly relates to why having a Shattered Man defeat you during the Epilogue causes this visual mess.

The Epilogue is considered a cutscene, so no wild encounters spawn. The Shattered Men in the museum are not wild encounters, but sort of static, so they stay loaded in.

I think the Mole Playing Rough you encounter in the desert flips a switch in the game's code that enables wild encounters and overworld ailments to trigger for you right after you defeat it. The Shattered Men in Summers do not.

[mickkelley]

Of course the Threed tent debug screen would be obsessed with zombies, you have to use the tent to trap the zombies. That's just the tent freaking out - said tent was initially an enemy, after all.

[Alex--Gaming]

I was just thinking yesterday "Man, A+Start hasn't uploaded in a couple of months." And here you are!

[mickkelley]

It may be convoluted to bring up the debug menu, but at least it's not Majora's Mask, where you have to play the Song of Soaring what feels like eight billion times to bring up a debug menu - on TOP of being a Wii U exclusive glitch.

[vampireopossum]

for a deeper look into the mechanics behind the Shattered Man glitch i highly recommend Chaz's video "The Mystery of the Mole Playing Rough"

[eneyel]

What irony that the Skip Sandwich would be used to skip content in the game.

[IronSnake]

When the world needed him most, he came back!

[vlionheart]

It's a good day when son of a glitch gets a new episode. Glitches will never stop being hilarious.

[PWPictures]

I remember (and probably a lot of people too) Chuggaconroy messing with the corner of the tent to see all the nonsense that spawns from there. Which was really neat. Or I guess the opposite of neat as the case may be.

[Lunar]

9:04 Someone made a video about it. You can also do it with the Mani Mani statue too. In fact, it's believed that one mole in the desert exists solely to prevent it from happening.

[Darkington]

The Tent anomaly is one of my all-time favorite glitches.

[miauntil]

Bro we needed this video like 5 years ago