Earthbound Glitches - Son of a Glitch

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)

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

"No problem here" proceeds with eldritch chants and corrupts realty itself

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

the shattered man shattering the fabric of reality is kinda spooky

WE'RE SO BACK

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.

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

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

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

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.

SON OF A....GLITCH!

When the world needed him most, he came back!

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.

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.

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.

Bro we needed this video like 5 years ago

8:29 missingno cameo!

This series is back? AND it’s an episode covering one of my favorite games of all time? I see this is as a win!

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"