Creating an Impossible EarthBound Save File

EarthBound's Sword of Kings is among the holy grails of video game item drops...but what happens if you get too greedy?

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[MonkeyNess]

What do you guys think of these shorter topic videos? Would you be open to more shorter videos like this?

[krispiest-korn]

53 Swords of Kings crashes Paper Mario

[Chiptendo]

"The developers clearly thought of inexperienced players, but stupid ones" had me rolling

[Patashu]

this is such a good softlock because it's so absurdly out of your way that you deserve to be rewarded with something truly stupid happening

[jeltajink]

"You may have accounted for me being inexperienced, but not for me being an active moron"

[petrie]

"But look, at this glorious moment you have no more room." Even minor error messages in Earthbound have its signature silly charm.

[voidvoidvoi]

1:40
weird al in albuquerque when that one guy said to cut off his arms and legs with a chainsaw

[Morgil]

I did have a playthrough on the 3DS port where I grinded for a Sword of Kings, then after getting it, coincidentally found a second one as I was progressing normally through the remainder of the dungeon. I was absolutely shocked. Since miiverse was still a thing at the time, I made a post and attached a screenshot of my inventory screen.

[ElTaitronAnim]

"Gee Ness, I thought someone with 53 swords would be happy."

[SuperSmashDolls]

3:20 To be clear, the "scrambled language" is disemvowelled Japanese. e.g. "DRNSMSK" is 「どれにしますか」 or "who do you want to do this to". Believe it or not, there are actual writing systems that work this way (e.g. Arabic), but I have absolutely no idea why the EarthBound debug menu did this.

[putridmoldyTam]

youtube thought it could keep this video from me for 25 seconds 💀

[BeeSquared]

Seeing 53 Sword of Kings brings up a lot of emotion in me that I'm not prepared to deal with 😂
Wonderful video man!

[supreme-ss]

This could’ve been avoided had Nintendo just program the game to only drop 1 Sword of Kings per save file once it’s obtained, or make it able to be sold for money if the player wants to, while also adding a hint to not do so since it’s the rarest item in the whole game, and they can’t get it again.

[JossCard]

"When people make something fool proof, they often underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."
Ford Prefect

[Nullnon_]

"Checking the corner of this tent crashes Earthbound"

[rhyano_]

The mad lad went from the Earthbound CyberShell to the Earthbound Stryder7x

[rainbowmacaroon]

You know it's serious when you gotta start using scientific notation

[Exeggutorking]

Also you could get one more sword of kings if you fill your inventory up with cookies when you go to collect the sound stone

[BananaFaceDude]

I think I’ve come up with a more devious scenario; if you wait until after Ness returns from Magicant, you can do the same inventory trick with the Fobbies in Lumine Hall, which drop broken antennas that also cannot be gotten rid of like the sword (even if Jeff fixes them), leaving you unable to pick up the meteorite piece and soft locked a hair throw from the end!

[QuarrelInsect]

I tried to come up with an original joke about Hunter R. and Stryder7x, unfortunately I wasn't clever enough.