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Top 5 American Dad Speedruns
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ส.ค. 2024
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3:42 LMFAO
This is FUCKING GLORIOUS PLEASE KEEP SHITPOSTING ON SPEED RUNNERS
SumitoMedia did you really just love and like my comment immediately?
When you like your own comment
The most funny part of this speedrun is that makes me feel smart and stupid in equal measure at same time
That's what I'm here for buddy
Amazing comment lmao
Agreed
z0dman83 perfectly balanced as all things should be
I tried to explain this shit to my normie friends that do not know what a speed run is and oh man that is hard :/ this is the type of meme that needs a crash course to understand
Historians in the future are gonna have such a hard time explaining this.
They're going to have a hard to explaining our generation.
Both of you are right
As if they’d be less weird
Religion
i have a hard time having it explained to me now
I died when he said if their is too much momentum Stan breaks his knees
i almost fell off my bed
Lmfao I can’t right now I already have a headache from laughing too much.
@@idontknowwhattoputhere5022 and break you’re knees?
@@William_Millar probably
Stan definitely did, look like some poltergeist dragged him off screen.
Crazy twist: American dad becomes sentient and speed runs other shows.
It has happened now with the family guy intro...
You need the dlc for that
Yoshi's run is probably a TAS. No way that's real.
It's a pretty tough execute but I'm sure there will be some key-input runs in the near future
it's actually the dreamcast version.
Ω it’s because he’s playing on the wii version, allowing for a run as quick as a TAS
I was there that was real
No human can do that its definitely a TAS
it actually sounds so real lol
thank you I used so many fucking speedrunning terms for this shit
it is real tho wdym
@@SumitoMedia I had to keep pausing and googling to keep tabs on these tactics
This makes me wish there was an American Dad game which whole purpose is to be about the intro and being able to use glitches to complete it
It is real you uncultured fucking swine
fun fact: In the early beta of the Joe Swanson pre-release there was a game-breaking glitch where you could tap A just as you enter the kitchen scene causing Joe to clip through the family after a jump, the game still thinks he hugged them and therefore allows an extra 3.5 seconds to be saved. This clip was nullified in the full release since it was inaccessible to anyone who had the ordinary copy, the community decided to ban this glitch in order to make it more accessible for everyone.
Yea I thought the other speedrunners shortly after the release where cheating
If you use yoshimaniacs technic, Stan can enter an alternate universe, unlocking Mario as an playable character
@Yourt Uytr YA HOO!
@Random Discord Stuff are you sure? I've tried that method multiple times and the game kept crashing
@Random Discord Stuff sometimes I use my pc but the majority of times I play on mobile
@@deloperfection I tried this on my American Dad console and it worked fine. You might want to try it there.
@@deloperfection Try using the Scuttlebug; it's the key to the multiverse
This is now legally the world’s most top-tiered satire
Satire? When?
Yes
When is the satire
Got nothing to say
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@@Sn0what I fell for it...
Update: They patched the floor glitch.
Mark Nissan yes but have you seen the new double jump wrong warp to the cia office?
windacis I have. According to leaks they plan to make Bill a DLC character
Aw that sucks
There is a way to bypass it because the floor will now push you up so you need to attempt to do the glitch which will push you backwards and go up a little if you do this a lot then you will get faster and then hop off the bed to misalign yourself to glitch into the wall and you’ll hit the felling but then misalign yourself more you turn upside down and skip the window scene and then you’ll go into the kitchen but you’ll be upside down but try to do a dive alignment with the diving backwards which will realign you and make the animations work and not crash
@@acardboardbox9386 man haven't seen my comment for this video in a long time aha, is Bill a DLC character yet? My uncle works for the development team and told me Jack is also planned
I hate that not only does this video exist, but it's TEN. MINUTES. LONG.
nice.
How the fuck did I even get here?
You said it best
It is quite clever! I loved his wire fraud scenario on Worst Case Scenario, that was excellent too! 👍🏻
For some reason this meme is just NOW happening again in November 2020, the Internet's such a strange place.
And now in July 2021
Disappointing the speed running community doesn’t want this free publicity and instead chooses to get mad that it exists
Butthurt smash fans mostly
Are you fucking for real? People mad at a meme? It isn't even making fun of them.
Tbh only some on reddit, im pretty sure a lot of speedrunners are chill with this
@@Joao-wr7xg yeah personally i fucking love this meme
"The speedrunning community"
No. That's definitely not the opinion of most of the speedrunners. Only stubborn ones. But I can understand that they don't accept this on speedrun.com, imagine if every shitpost could make it onto the site.
This is unironically the best meme of 2019 with how deep it has become
I wish people were a little more creative with it but yeah it's pretty spicy
True
@@SumitoMedia give us time to weave the lore
Kind of like steamed hams
Please let this go on
"This will softlock the game, as stan has broken both of his knees"
Boomers: The internet is a dangerous place and it's filled to the brim with scammers, hackers and criminals! Don't go there!
The internet:
I appreciated how serious you took this incredibly serious topic.
it's literally the only thing that gets me out of bed anymore
SumitoMedia make sure to double jump when getting out of bed
I double jumped too late and broke through the floor and broke my knees
C/\MERO/\/ S/\MI lucky at least you didn’t soft lock and break your knees
C/\MERO/\/ S/\MI I jumped too early and clipped through the floor and fell through the map. Oops
I feel like i'm being gaslit by the whole meme community.
Yeah that's pretty accurate tbh
Feeling smart yet?
Gaslighting doesn’t exist. You made it up cause you’re crazy.
Christopher Edmiston ha
Christopher Edmiston oh my god
Like I’m actually confused is this a joke or not
It's a shitpost but a damn good one at that
Bruh im still watching it and can't decide😂😂 my brain won't let me register what the fuck is going on
@@LordScoobertIII bruh
This whole thing just makes me feel like I'm having a stroke
No, it's real, I've tried doing a speedrun on the American Dad intro a couple of times, it's pretty fun but also extremely difficult to pull off correctly
The teleportation glitch is completely valid, whenever you get Stan to move, you have "potential movements", this basically calculates where Stan will end up whener you move, the jumping to build up momentum makes Stan go so fast, that the potential movement literally goes past the walls, considering he never went out of bounds, this is a completely valid run.
All the dislikes are from people that never grew up playing the game
That is true
Or speed runners found splicing or using tas
Or ppl who don't like censorship
no ur probably right
Yea
what is the game about these "speed runs" look lame
When the floor glitch was discovered many people said that it was cheating due to it being so effective
Really did enable a lot of strats in the future
....isn't that what speedrunning is in a nutshell?
@@IAmKillEveryone pretty much op just made a retarded comment is all
Ahh the good old days
And then someone discovered a method requiring two frame perfect tricks in a row to beat the game in under 7 seconds
User Wham!Nation Recently discovered that running American Dad on an Croatian emulator takes the initial unskipable flag of the USA segment out of the game for propaganda reasons, this coupled with skipping the flag at the end too saves runners up to 1.58s
‘Soft locking the game, as Stan has now broken both of his knees’ hahahahahahahaha
Before understanding American Dad speedruns, we need to talk about parallel universes
I thought yoshimaniacs run was a parallel universe
Yoshimaniac is tj Henry Yoshi in disguise, except he read the description and understood everything about parallel universes
D4C!
I Dont get it
Is every American dad copy personalised??
Inb4 someone goes out of their way to make an American Dad game just for this.
I'd buy it
Why would they make another one?
Inb42
@@pantalonesycamisas Because American Dad really deserves a sequel
Theyd need rights to the ip of American dad. Probably wont happen for a long time.
I may be late to the party here but there’s actually an unused cell based off from the perspective of a neighbor during the intro that you can clip into by force double jumping a half second before the window scene which will half insert you into the cell and then propel you to the CIA closing bitself. If done perfectly it’ll set you up for a 6.7-7 second speed run
I would love to see people try this method, I’ve had no success
"Which sends the game into a soft lock as stan has broken both of his knee- *HALLS COOLING BREATH. HALLS. BREATH IT IN. ORGANIC BLUE CORN. REAL WHITE CHEDDAR. SIMPLE SEA SALT. GREAT TASTE AND INGREDIENTS YOU LOVE*-s"
I heard rumors that on the joe Swanson version you can make him crippled, call a bus for handicapped people that will take you straight to the c.i.a.
DannyBoy2005 you can only do the trick on the Gameboy Advance release
Nah, that glitch was patched in most North American releases, and sometimes messes up the cartridge in the GBA port.
@@elementallobsterx just use version 1.0
Even then it would still take a little longer than some of the other speed runs on this list
FredX1919 But the PAL version runs the best so just use that
The sad thing is that I don’t even know if this is satire
Same
clearly it's real
It’s not satire this is real
idoditisotidod
It’s a parody.
7:47
*G-G-G-G-G-G*_OOD MORNING USA_
It took me a year to realize that there are no actual American Dad speedruns
American Dad should somehow make an episode based around this shitpost.
Fingers crossed they're hip enough to see the potential
i’m not creative enough
shitpost? what shitpost? this is a real run.....?
@@SumitoMedia they are, they put Felix's pet names in an episode where Steve was forced to watch videos.
@@SicknastyFPS episode and season?
At this point, this is gonna be created into a real game.
I mean is that really a bad thing though
I’ve wanted a full on American Dad game for a long time now
Wdym
It already is though??
That would be awesome. It should just be a game where you have to speed run the whole intro of the show. That's the whole premise. You have to wake up, do all tasks (such as get dressed l, hug family, check news paper), then you have to run out and drive to work. The fastest speed record wins. I might make that into a game lol.
If you perform the double jump too early, he will have too much momentum and break both of his knees. If you perform the double jump too late, the momentum will transfer through his shoes, exploding him, dropping him through two stories and breaking both of his knees.
My wife is just wondering where she went wrong as she hears me watching this video diligently
Speedrun community:NO YOU CANT JUST EDIT A VIDEO OF THE AMERICAN DAD INTRO AND CALL IT A SPEEDRUN ITS NOT A GAME AND PEOPLE PUT HOURS AND EVEN YEARS WORKING ON SPEED RUNS AND YOU CANT JUST DO THAT AND ITS SO DUMB
American Dad speedrunners:ha ha stan go cia
SumitoMedia: haha American Dad go speedrun
hah stan go cia real fast
To be fair, people are putting alot of work into legitimizing a video speedrun.
It’s a real game
I have the soulja console version
Learning that this not a real game after searching for minutes on google and youtube makes me question my life choices
Someone need to make a game or minigame of this
I got jebaited
I was sceptical of this from the beginning
They edit it
on the same path as you amigo
Speedrunning Tip:
On the Ps2 version if you use joe mode you are actually slowing yourself down. Due to faulty coding stan’s voice actually lags the game for whatever reason. This lag spike allows you to force the game to register a left and right press on the same frame which makes floor clip way easier. Joe’s voice does not have this lag which makes floor clip way harder. The difficulty usually forces the runner to go for stair clip which is 2 seconds slower. While the Ps2 joe swanson version is fastest due to the game not needing to load different sections of the house whenever you go there for the first time. *Note that this only applies to the Non updated version that features joe Swanson from the family guy series as newer versions do not encounter this issue due to the rereleases offering faster alternatives to floor clip*
This comunity is a gem, and we have to protect it at all cost
I love how this is presented both as a game with coding and mechanics and errors and whatnot that can be exploited AND the concept that you're taking control of this man's reality and possibly mauling/killing him.
exactly this
Man, this show is just FULL of glitches and clips
Yeah it was rushed. They didn’t have enough time to stitch everything together due to the creators of the show wanting it to be finished as fast as possible for fans to play it as soon as possible.
Its the sonic 06 of animation
I really enjoy the energy he uses to explain each method. Its a shitty meme but he looks like he’s explaining nuclear fusion and i love it.
Je sais pas s'il y a des français ici mais je trouve ce genre de vidéo vraiment incroyable. Ça part d'une blague prise au sérieux par les vidéastes, les gens dans les commentaires et maintenant des reviews où on t'expliques les glitchs. C'est abusé comment le concept par loin.
Has anyone ever glitched the Double jump sequence so bad that they ended up in the Cleveland show opening?
Just me?
Lmao
That's like saying you fucked up the Deku Tree Wrong Warp in OoT so badly that you end up inside the Moon in Majora's Mask.
One time i ended up in the undertale intro
Aiden M-C on the wii version?
Kukas Clan yeah how did you know?
I can't wait to see what people can achieve with a soft-modded TiVo.
Ideally sub 8 seconds thats the dream
@Jude Pirnat oh my word
@@SumitoMedia
there were already two runs that achieved the sub 8 second mark uploaded on youtube before you made this video
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th-cam.com/video/_a4fGaLs5DA/w-d-xo.html
"Stan will have too much momentum stepping into his shoes and will fly across the room, soft-locking the game as Stan has now broken *both of his knees* "
How didnt you laugh while recording that line
I had a drink with me, and i spit it all out every time stan:
Broke his knees
Screamed in pain
Broke his neck
Destroyed the ground
This feels legit, like the process it’s gone through feels real
it is legit
@@jermfu bro how is that a wooosh? i was playing along with the video
@GD Chomps you idiot
@@jermfu you're pretty stupid man
snsnsjsj he actually deleted his comment 😂
I'm honestly infuriated that I only now found this meme, this is really good but if I make one people will whine about how it's a dead meme
Well, there is a plethora of other animated shows. perhaps you could make one of the simpsons?
@@lava2istrue nah nah nah how about the untapped potential of futurama
Meme?
This is one of the more respected games dude
I still like the "Who's on first?" Joke and that was made in 1953 do what you want.
@@bell3287 What is that
Hold on, my record is 3.76, no video :(
First you need to set the time to 1:59:58 before daylight savings, jump out of bed on to the shoes, and when you land onto the shoes,
the game has no idea what time it is, so it wrong warps you to the CIA, in your underwear
This guy has such a large knowledge of how games work, and he's funny. The potential is limitless
This is what all those fired video game journalists could be doing with their time if they learned how to code.
idiots could never think properly
This is the most deep meme I've ever seen and you deserve all the fucking kudos in existence.
Ive learned too much about american dad speedruns in the last week
what can I say except you're welcome
What do you mean, "real"?
Seriously 😂
Thanks to this run my mind is a chamber of eternity only limited by stan's jawline.
I thought this was an actual game then but with just a few google searches I may have been tricked, bamboozled, and possibly manipulated
I wasn't expecting such a well researched video on the American Dad speedrun since it is such an oversaturated topic that has been done so much, but I am impressed
Its crazy how deep this meme goes and yet not many people know about it
i want to keep this unknown lol. it’d be a shame if reddit got ahold of it.
@@FAUXCUSpd yeah,it would die real quick
You forgot to talk about the somersault car skip, if you build enough momentum you can jump over the car and go straight to the CIA building, probably would't beat the WR but still a useful strat
Yeah it wasn't used extensively in any of the record-breaking runs but a fun skip nonetheless
thats only useful on the nintendo wii version of the game, for some reason the way the game calculates stans speed is different in the wii version, in other versions theres a cap speed to somersaulting so using the method is slower than taking the car, but in the wii version, there is no cap so stan keeps building speed and rockets to the cia building
@@JustAHat yeah but in exchange for that in the ps2/ps3 version there was the family hug skip where if you managed to use the force of the family members pushing against you you could catapult yourself to the credits. Usually this requires Stan to do the right arm expand first, where if you got Stan to push his left arm against the bed, the model would make his arm shift a little to the right. From there the family hug scene would progress, but due to stan's right arm reaching the left side first, this bumps Stan into the right part of the family which builds him just enough momentum to catapult to the credits. This is due to a coding difference. In the PS3 version Stan hugging his family was coded through the game's physics engine and not an animation like in the Wii version. Because of this players could manipulate the system to simply have Stan pinball from the right side of the family to the left, in which causes Stan to pinball in a direction. From there the speed of Stan was so great It overwrote nearly all game memory except for the title and credits. It also allowed the cpu to run unsigned code. This allowed for arbitrary code to be executed. From there players would code in a piece of code that instantly transports the player to the credits. This was also used for other stuff such as homebrew, where players would use the free space to run homebrew applications.
@@64bitmodels66 yes but that only works in the japanese 1.0 version, it was fixed in japanese 1.1 and the us release, copies of japanese 1.0 are very rare because 1.1 was put out as a day 1 patch so not very many 1.0 copies were manufactured, this is why this method isn't used much
@@JustAHat Yeah but considering this game is about speedrunning after all why did most people update to the 1.1 version? was it a forced update or was it optional. I wouldn't know because i play the ps2 version and got the game day one so it cant update
Floor Clip was actually discovered by Lyve's cousin, but he didn't have a capture card to prove it, so he told Lyve about it.
I dont know if its already been found, but if you hold shoot while tapping the unequip button and holding forwards, Stan will drop the newspaper and skip that segment.
man i really appreciate the fact that you took this as a serious matter
Shitposting at this caliber is the only thing that gets me out of bed anymore
It is a serious matter you fool
@@SumitoMedia shitposting would be Bad content, so this can't be shitposting
the fact that people are confused about why you became a speedrunning channel makes this so much funnier
I'm taking it as a compliment that I made this video believable
that’s 10:33 of my life that i’m never gonna get back
The last version can be done real fast too, I call it the "Early Bird Run". First when stan wakes up do a roll forward while jumping from the bed, this will make stan go in the direction of the window and fall down to the front of his house, now just before he hits the ground you have to pause and un pause the game so he doesn't suffer fall damage and break his legs, now when you enter in your car as the family is still asleep Roger won't be inside the car and thus his cutscene won't play skipping ahead to when you get to the CIA.
Speedrunners: We have professionally defeated games in seconds or minutes!
Memers: *ALLOW US TO INTRODUCE OURSELVES*
I love how far we, as a community, has come.
I remember back in the day when i used to play this on my xbox. It was so much fun, and i loved the intro, and i managed to lower my time from the original with about 2.7 seconds. No clipping but when you come to the flag in the end, you gotta press ”X” while doing a triple input, i could make a video showing it if anyone would like me to :)
Please do the video, I need more detail.
Sally Lawrence Just for you, gotta find a way to record my old xbox though :)
*LIAR*
guest 1233176 I swear
I think my favorite part is the layout of stans house keeps getting mixed up, stan's room is above the garage and the door in the kitchen is the back door
7:20 I love the joke about how people use Japanese versions of games because of text speed lol
If this game isn't speedrunned in agdq 2020, we riot
I'm down, hate that organization anyway
@@SumitoMedia why? Because not all of the runners are men?
@@Cosmolovescheese ok boomer
Let’s go my dude
@@Cosmolovescheese Because the staff is full of SJW's
Misconception: Joe wasnt in a rerelease, he was hastily added into the original on gamecube
@SumitoMedia i have a video on a new joe% glitch on my channel if you want to see it
They ported him onto the gamecube after the rerelease, pretty sure he wasn't available originally
@@SumitoMedia he was, the first rerelease was on xbox, in the gamecube only his clipping and minor details were different, other than that he was a skin swap
In the xbox version he has his own mechanics, he was more of an actual character
you might be thinking along those terms
I love this so much
I hear if you double jump into Stan’s shoes while holding left you can access the model of the unused Peter Griffin who was going to be unlockable, but was scrapped because said model would always get stuck during the front door segment.
The Floor clip was so funny. If you get it wrong, your knees spontaneously combust, if you do it too late, your floor explodes.
I had to pause this multiple times due to uncontrollable laughter. Thank you man, I really fucking needed something like this. 🙏
It took me too long to find out this was a meme, legitally thought it was some old RPG
Unfortunately, same. I finally figured it out when i looked it up
The internet is an amazing place.
it really is
Boy, you said it.
You're god damn right
The phrase "the game doesn't know where to put Stan" is so brilliant.
I never knew about the window skip, that really helps. You just earned a sub
It will only be a matter of time before American Dad becomes an ESPORTS title.
I honestly would be surprised if someone makes this a real thing
Its already a real thing its gonna be at AGDQ this year
@@SumitoMedia lol
Wdym this game is real
@@Overlapinion oh yeah
It is a real thing though?
I’ve found a clip that straight up SKIPS THE INTRO so baisically Stan has to stay in bed until THE FRAME IT CHANGES you jump into the slippers the game gets confused and begins to spawn all into entity’s at once causing the game to think you’ve seen the entire scene causing the American dad logo to show up I’m no speed runner and have only pulled off this trick off camera so I suggest someone else use the trick to skip the entire scene
This is the best video you have ever made. This is the Cabin In The Woods of speed running. A love letter and a parody of the genre at the same time.
Nobody:
SumitoMedia: *B R E A K I N G B O T H O F H I S K N E E S.
idk why I couldn't think of anything else lmao
@@SumitoMedia is okay. It's an important safety tip for aspiring live-action speedrunners.
He's too powerful
Wait, this needs clapping hands emoji
Sumito: breaking 👏 both 👏 of his KNEES 👏👏👏
I will never stop leaving multiple comments in sequence; you cannot make me
Wait a moment, how do people agree that something is patched?
3:48 Stan broke his knees and this 10 min video broke my brain. The amount of effort into this shitpost
You know, people who complain about younger generations clearly have not seen the artwork of American Dad speedruns. For shame...
The speedrun community is honestly a joke if they cant handle a meme. Really hope they come around.
Nah the runners are enjoying it but they're like submitting it to the SDA as an actual thing and that's causing problems lmao
Sda?
Speed
Demons
Association?
@@commoncommentatingcommento8683 speed demos archive
Because it is like on every other thing on the internet, if they allowed memes, the memes would take over the entire community
@@haraldhey9210 Implying speedrunners aren't extreme memers.
So much information, speedrunning truly is something else
yea heres a sub you deserve it man. much love! thanks for speaking for the community. people just dont get it. speedrunning is an american dad tradition. fr fr.
I think the player you pronounced as 'frick' is actually pronounced 'effyusikay'
That makes sense
Wait it’s not “smmsnnajaisfsg”
enaigeegi iar
This is more fuckery than when i learned about blowing square breaths.
Well how else are you suppose to get square balloons?
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I haven't smiled this much at a TH-cam video since uh I guess pre covid?
I only just discovered American Dad Any% this week somehow. This video is amazing. Thank you.
I just found a new glitch we’re if you press select on the doorbell as Stan is pointing his hand towards it he gets scared and flips to the car skipping the newspaper scene entirely
Is making a game this buggy even possible?!
Yeah the developers really dropped the ball with this one
I know not even sonic 06 is this glitchy
yeah, you seen sm64?
Uh. Yes. If you've seen any popular any% speedrun progressions over the years, this is not an exaggeration of how games can be much more broken than they appear.
Super Mario world can be beaten in a tas in 46 seconds. I actually think a guy managed to beat the game in less time, I remember seeing a guy manage to pull the wrong warp pretty fast.
This man managed to make an interesting 10 minute video about American Dad speedruns
About an American Dad game speedrun that doesn't exist
And the family never spawns in the kitchen because they can’t clip like stan can
I deadass thought this was a real thing for the last 2 years well played
bruh i watched this whole video and THEN realized it was Sumito, excellent work my boy
I'm glad that you mentioned the New Game+ category, because there's a trick in it that I always liked. Unfortunately, it is completely obsolete due to the save file trick that you mentioned, but I remember feeling pretty clever when I discovered it. I'm talking about the focus fire speed boost.
So, for anyone who doesn't play this game, one of the skills you can get throughout the game is "focus fire", which increases your attack power. You can keep leveling it up over the course of the game to increase how much it boosts your attack power. There's also a single-use item, the clock, which doubles the duration of whatever buff you next use. If you max out "focus fire", and then you save the clock until _after_ you beat the final boss, there is a brief moment at the beginning of the last cutscene where you can still make inputs (though Stan doesn't _appear_ to be doing anything in response), and you can still activate the clock and THEN use "focus fire". You can tell it worked because you do get the little sound effect and see the light red glow on Stan right as it cuts to the bunker interior view.
Why boost your attack when you've already beaten the final boss? Because...
With the clock boosting its duration, the "focus fire" stays in effect all the way through the final cutscene if you skip through it as fast as possible. Hold R during the credits to make them go by as fast as possible, and when you start a New Game back at the title screen, "focus fire" will STILL BE IN EFFECT!
Now, you might be wondering, WHY would I want increased attack power during the intro? There's no combat until halfway through the first level! You don't HAVE any combat abilities during the intro, and even with the clock, the "focus fire" will expire just ten seconds after starting the intro!
Because the intro uses its own set of mechanics, but they occupy the same _memory space_ as the mechanics that replace them later in the game! When "attack power" is boosted, what is really happening under the hood is that the values at the _memory address_ allocated for attack power (specifically those values beginning at address 0x02EC89E8) are doubled. When you get halfway through level 1 and get the combat tutorial, that memory address is used for attack power. Prior to that, it's used for one component of Stan's movement speed, specifically, the component that is in the game intro's "north" direction. It's not used for that in later parts of the game, after you get the combat tutorial because the game mechanics fundamentally shift from out of the intro mode, and the game does physics and movement totally differently.
They made the intro work differently from the rest of the game to better "look" like a snazzy, musical intro. But why, you might ask, did they use the same memory space? Why not just use a separate memory space? Remember how cheaply and how long ago this game was made. Resources like memory were extremely limited. Remember that the fifth boss is basically just a palette swap and pitch-shift of the third? The original designs show that the fifth boss was going to be a totally different design, wider, light tan, more guns, HUGE rear end, but they had to scrap that due to memory limitations. So, instead, it's just the third boss again, but green and lower voice. Also, it _does_ fire extra guns, but still _appears_ to only have the ones of boss 3. They just produce more projectiles. The development team was pushed to stretch that old system to its very limits, and that meant squeezing every byte of memory that they could. Reusing memory space from the intro that would not be needed again after the game mode shifted was an obvious choice.
Why not just ditch the intro entirely, though, or make it run in the same mode as the rest of the game, if they wanted to save memory so badly? Well, I don't know about all of the decision-making process that went into this, but I do know that the intro eventually became one of the most iconic pieces of this whole game, and we are all quite glad that they didn't cut it. I like to think that on some level they knew that the intro was important enough to drawing in the audience that they refused to compromise on it.
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