The Man Who Broke Spyro in Half
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Good afternoon.
Today i wanted to highlight one of the most underappreciated contributers to speedrunning. Touval. His discoveries and records caused earthshattering changes in every community he's been in. This video will go over his legacy.
Soundtrack:
00:00 Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage - Summer Forest
01:12 Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage - Crystal Glacier
02:43 Spyro the Dragon - Lofty Castle
04:11 Metal Gear Solid - Warhead Storage
06:01 Spyro: Year of the Dragon - Midnight Mountain
08:13 Tekken Tag Tournament - Ogre's Theme
09:26 Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage - Winter Tundra
10:32 Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage - Autumn Plains
14:33 Spyro the Dragon - Gnasty's Loot
17:12 Super Mario Sunshine - Gelato Beach
18:08 Bully - Preps Vendetta
19:54 Donkey Kong Country - Map Screen
20:53 Final Fantasy VIII - Martial Law
22:25 Ratchet: Deadlocked - Planet Torval
24:56 Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage - Aquaria Towers
25:38 Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus - Credits
Touval's Info:
► Twitch: / touval
► Twitter: / touval_
► TH-cam: / touval1
My Info:
► Twitch: / tharixer
► Twitter: / tharixer
► Discord: / discord
► Alt TH-cam: / @tharixersspeedarchive...
► My Speedruns: www.speedrun.com/user/Ricky - เกม
My favorite tale is when a run seems dead but the runner decides to do some outlandishly hard skip at the end cause they got nothing to lose... And then pulls it off like it's nothing.
Same dude, Summoning Salt's Mario Kart 64 vid has some epic gamer moments with yolostrats
It's called Flow State. They already think that they don't have to try anymore so they stop trying. Their muscle memory takes over, they stop thinking and they just play. And they play out of their minds.
Y e s
Then there’s always that mad lad runner who goes for exactly all the hard skips on every run.90% fail rate then they finally get it to work. And now everyone has to do the skips only this person has ever done in a full run.
Taygon45 those points in speed runs are my favorite, it shows they’ve mastered the movement... at least some of the times lol
One of my most vivid memories from the world of speedrunning is Touval's stream following his discovery of Gulp skip. It began with Spyro just sitting there in front of Gulp, Touval saying "hi", then opening the guidebook to show that he didn't have 14 talismans, before detailing basically the holy grail of Spyro skips with that signature calmness of his. What a legend.
bro is there an archive of that? id love to see touval back in the day
I would love to see that
@@hibiku757 It's a highlight on his Twitch channel!
@@GarfieldTheLightning which video is it ? :)
@@MsPochiri www.twitch.tv/videos/45674970
Love how this man casually finds skips to eliminate half the game, and just passes it off as "hey, lookie what I found!"
A true hero.
"Hey! Look what I can do!" -Colossus monk
Literally me finding the warp whistle in mario 3 when i was 5
He destroyed God and the entire universe shattered before him. Numerous galaxies spiraled into oblivion. Planets and Stars collided into a collidoscopic cacophony.
_ha, cool._
Nobody here talks about the irony that gulp skip was originally found by trying to phase through a *broken wall*. It's almost as if the devs left that there intentionally
Touval: "ok so how do i glitch hunt."
(Skips Twilight Harbor
(Skips Sorceress
(Skips Gulp
(Skips Gelato Beach
"don't worry guys i think i figured it out."
YA THINK!?!
(does coveless)
Hahaha, that's hilarious. XD
I know what you're referencing :)
Where did that meme originally come from, by the way?
@@stefanm.734 i dunno.. but its good
Should be mentioned the reason Autumn Plains is so locked down compared to other levels is because there's a huge, high tower you can climb during normal gameplay. In pretty much every other level, since you can glide, finding a way to get on top of even one thing you're not supposed to usually allows you to glide over to even more things you're not supposed to and so on. Autumn Plains was designed with the idea that you would have an extremely high point above everything else to start a glide from, so they put extra effort into making sure all walls were solid and blocked sequence breaks.
Zk Pkl great point. Autumn Plains long glide is the most rewarding and zen moment gaming has to offer.
I just like to think someone thought it was really pretty
too bad they didnt pour all that effort into the INSIDE of the castle XD they missed a few spots
Spyro is so engrained in my mind from childhood that the music causes such a flood of dopamine. Like hearing an old friends voice that you haven't heard from in a while.
To me, those games are Sonic Advance 3, Tak and the Power of Juju GBA, and Mega Man Zero 2 and 3. Spyro is a new addition to my gaming career.
the nostalgia is sickening at this point.
I was expecting Spyro to literally be in half.
all depends on the size of the d
@@GamerFreak-jf3qq hold the f**k up
HOLD THE F*** UP
He was half in the wall technically.
This was recommended to me from th-cam.com/video/UbkDJXKm3sY/w-d-xo.html, so I was expecting that too
"Touval you're on a roll man!"
"Yeah dunno what I'm even gonna do next"
"I mean what's even left at this point? Early Jacques?"
"I mean with my luck I could go for Gelato skip"
"Hahaha Touval you're too funny man"
"I have a gamecube..."
There it is ^ early Jacques
early jacques in what regard? a quick kill for him exists but you miss out on 75 gems by the vortex
I was tricked into watching this video thinking that the speedrunners name is "skipskipskip"
i thought the trick was called skipskipskip. this trick skips a skip that skips the skip!
A semi-detailed account of me watching this video:
"Oh, he found that? Cool"
"He found that too? That's insane"
"And THAT?"
"HE FOUND GELATO SKIP?!?!?!?"
"A drunk chat message might have gotten him a world record???"
I read this half way through the video and thought "Haha, that's a funny joke."
But oh my God, you weren't joking. He was THE ONE that found the Gelato Skip.
the Enter the Dragonfly headbash glitch is my favorite, cool that he found that one as well
@@SeanLaMontagne THE ONE. HAA-aa HAA-aaa... *goes on knees and raises hands
Looking through his twitter, it seems like he was the one who found the way to skip the wires in Oddysey too 0.0
Touval is the best. Thank you for this video, you covered it all and did him well.
Avid lurker back in the day watching those Spyro runs day after day. Good to see you still around.
“Did him well”. 🤨
When I was a kid I thought I was just really bad at Enter the Dragonfly but then as I grew older I simply realized it was a bad game
Enter the Dragonfly is absolute garbage
DUDE, same! But boy, did I try to beat it, though.
When I was a kid I actually discovered a very easy swim-in-air setup. I must have been about 7. That game is so broken. (The setup is just to go to that tropical island area off the hub world and swim into the darker netting behind the island. Spyro will just... Pop through. So easy a tiny child can do it.) It took a while of goofing around and figuring out that I had to stay low enough to activate the loading triggers, but I found my way to the final boss without finishing the rest of the game. And then the final boss kicked my butt because I was a tiny child.
omg same!!!
@@AppleIPie Oh my god I remember that too!!! I thought I was king of the world at the time, figuring out how to pop through the net all on my own-- when in hindsight, it was very easy.
It might've been a buggy mess, but wow dude, I've got some memories with that one
Touval is an absolute madman, and easily deserves more attention than he's gotten.
How the hell do you just burst onto the scene one day and completely change an entire speedrunning community like that
Big D(ragon) Energy, of course.
*multiple* speedrunning communities
touval: hmmm.. this seems fun.. *puts on infinity gauntlet*
The Goldeneye speedrunning community is another bonkers example with the discovery of looking at the floor.
his dad actually knew spyro
"To prove the power of glitches, I sawed these games in half."
I read that in Billy May's voice.
"Now that's a lotta glitches!"
@@TheDash456
Obtained:
The Joke!
Introducing: _Glitch Seal!_
@@richardpike8748 "NOW THAT'S A LOTTA TIME SAVED!!"
Doing this in Reignited Trilogy:
>find game breaking glitch
>your glitch is hailed by the community to an extent
>your glitch inspires EZScape to make a video on it
>the video is found by Toys for Bob
>the glitch is patched
>nobody remembers you
That's just the sad truth
I think they wont patch that, almost 2 years since the update
@@dawidek8237 This was November 2018....
@@Picobits it's September 2020. it's autumn already.
@@eva-lota9701 I am aware??? This story I'm sharing happened in 2018...?
I love how in all these kind of video game history videos the narrators sound all serious and calm and explain the people and their accomplishments in a suspenseful way and then introduce the persons name as something like DuckiBoi and I lose it-
Enter the Dragonfly: Exist
Touval: I'm about to end the developers whole career under 1 minute and 9 seconds
did they even have a career after they released that shit?
IGN : Developer react to Spyro Enter the Dragonfly in 1 min
He must have done that game breaking glitch shortly after the game came out, because I believe the majority of the staff involved in "Enter the Dagonfly" are not in the gaming industry anymore.
What year was this glitch "discovered"?
@@masterreaper115 not their fault. Watch Mr. Foi enter the dragon fly documentary on the game, it will make rethink
I love how Touval is a fodder seagull. Amazing.
Everyone: "... Wait, Touval, what game did you break again?"
Touval: "... _yes."_
Touval: Well yaknow spyro?
Everyone: Yeah? which one?
Touval: Yes....
This guy found Harriet Escape!?!? This is one of my all-time favorite glitches, and he also found a bunch of the big Spyro skips and found the famed Gelato skip!?!? How did I not know him, this guy is a legend!
Touval: "Now this is the story all about how I turned the Spyro series upside down."
@Shagaru Bleed Gaming "I'll tell you how I ended the 'Dragonfly' devs' whole career." ;D
Wow, really enjoyed Spyro 1 and 2 as a kid and didn't know anything about the any% or glitches used in those speedruns. Very cool to see how essential skips were found by Toval in a really engaging video :)
Thanks wodahs!
Touval: The man, The myth, The legend.
He who gave us so many glitches that we see used in runs to this day.
"Where am I? I fell asleep and now I'm here?"
"Its been 2 months..."
"Oh well, I'll just get back to spyro speed running then, no big deal."
"ON THE CONTRARY"
That drunk guy accidentally changed history
All hail that drunk streamer watching guy!
"The man who broke Spyro in half"
Poor Spyro, he should have never let than man ride him :(
There's a way to tie this to the Spyro Subway meme but it's entirely too gross to consider
@@Reynsoon how dare you make me think of that picture
@@CAMSLAYER13 I offer only my deepest apologies. I wish for us to collectively bond over the trauma of seeing such an image, not bring it up wholesale. ;)
@Pyro Flare damnit pyro..
@@Reynsoon never heard of the spyro subway meme so i looked it up i was expecting maybe some sexy spyro not.....that.
Touval: "Imma end this mans whole franchise."
Really nice video man. I agree, Touval is very underrated and legit is probably one of the best glitch finders out there by a mile!!
Oh hey it's dyl! Heyo :D
the best thing about the coveless skip at the end is the guy in chat who suggested it crying out later that he was just joking around
5:32
ThaRixer: This is unfortunately not viable for RTA, the proxy is simply too precise.
Dayoman: Hold my fucking chugger.
I see you’re a man of culture. He got any% WR with Rat Proxy
@@JCPrince705 He certainly did!
He got any% and 120%. Now he's coming to claim all our anime goth GFs, so watch out!
“Unfortunately this rat proxy is not RTA viable, it is just to precise”
Dayoman: Allow me to introduce myself
Good shit. Extremely comfy
Thanks squid ❤️
@5:32 Oh how times change - goes to show how much further things can be pushed beyond the popular assumptions
(19:43) "AND WE STILL GET THE FRUIT BACK"
Man, Scykoh's video is already 6 years old...
This guys insane, never heard of him till just but am so interested and love the style of video! Gz man
Drywall Tele if you haven’t already, try Summoning Salt. You’ll probably like it a lot.
It's great that the guy who discovered Gelato skip is finally getting his due.
There are tons of videos giving Wind Waker's barrier skip well-deserved attention, but Touval deserved some love as well.
I *knew* my hate for Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly was justified as a kid.
I don't know why but these speedrunning explained videos are super comfy and great to fall asleep to
That's great to hear! Some of my other videos have some montages with louder music which might ruin it a bit, apologies in advance haha
@@ThaRixer Start adding earrape in random parts of videos.
"a 28 minute time saver" and thus a god was born
20:17 I actually beat Enter the Dragonfly in under 5 minutes back in college with Touval's method! It took me more time to get the clip than to beat the boss. That was about 5 years ago - I had no idea this was the guy who found that skip when I clicked on this video.
If you have Enter the Dragonfly on your shelf, just pick it up right now and beat it. Just do it.
believe it or not when i was a little kid i entered the boss fight by accident via touvals skip before it was invented. i think i was 12 at the time so it was around 2006. i didnt learn about speedrunning until i was like 19 so when i accidentally bugged into the final boss i immediately panicked and restarted because i wanted to play the game normally XD
23:30 Okay I've been extremely impressed with Touval throughout this video but this moment takes the cake. What a boss! THE MOXY.
24:30 "I WAS JOKING TOUVS" in chat, hahahaha!
Dude said that he was drunk when he suggested that. I like to imagine he spat out his beer when he saw Touval do it
@@Uncle480 I can imagine the fear behind that reply. XD
Touval was actually the first speedrunner I ever watched. I ended up finding about all the other speedrunners that did Spyro and I rarely saw him streaming anymore. I knew he found out some of these skips beforehand but it's insane finding out he discovered basically all the major skips in the Spyro series.
I love how the chat goes wild when coveless runs perfectly
Touval: *finds a new spyro glitch*
Everyone: Stop it! He's already dead!!
this all basically boils down to
someone: you cant just skip major parts of the games for a speedrun
touval: collisions go brrrrrrrrr
Update a year later cause i thought of a better joke while watching this again:
The community: you cant just skip major parts of the game for a speedrun
Touval: ya ever watch that one part of doom eternal involving blowing a hole into the surface of mars?
Lmao
Collisions? What are those? Can you eat them?
Nathan Carver obviously
collisions dont go at all
SilentOnion no, they're there. its just he uses them to his advantage
Finally, a video about skips that pronounces his username correctly :)
Memes aside I thoroughly enjoyed the video. I honestly forgot that 3 of the major skips in spyro were found in the course of a week. Was a truly wild time coming into the spyro community right as these tricks were being found. Thanks for giving me some solid chills from reminiscing.
What both amazes me and also makes me a bit sad is that, all these amazing discovery videos only have a couple thousand views max. They spend so much time and effort and don't get anywhere close to the recognition that sort of dedication deserves.
@Young Absolutely. I get it if someone doesn't really understand the point of speedrunning, but even then it's important to remember the time and effort that goes into it.
Dayoman did a rat proxy in a 39:19 run. About 6 or so day ago from this post
How did I not know Touval discovered gelato beach skip, this man is a legend.
tysm for making videos like these! i love watching speedruns these makes me appreciate all the effort even more
i'm not at all surprised at the enter the dragonfly glitch i remember when i was younger i jumped around outside a locked door requiring gems and i just went right through it 😂
I love this type of vids man you a beast. Ty.
Imagine being that drunk guy. I think I would just start weeping
Yo this feels out of nowhere. Thanks so much for making this, Ricky!
Been working on this for weeks haha ☺️
Outstanding video! I love these long-form looks at specific speedrunners and stuff.
I love documentaries like this. Thanks for the video, man. Good work!
That is the quarantine content that I'm looking for.
You, my man, are severely underrated. I found out about you through your God of War runs, and now there are these gems for videos. Keep it up, Ricky! You'll be really big someday. ❤
Dang really happy to see this video of Touval, great job making it. Really brings you back to watching his streams all those years ago! Wasn't aware he found the gelato skip, so cool, thanks.
This was exactly the sort of video I was looking for. I love these speed-running breakthrough vids, coincidentally love spyro. I need more
this man ripped spyro’s guts out & devoured his heart
I have never completed a speed run in my life, but this still gets me hype.
This is a really great video! I really appreciate the effort that went into it! Touval sounds absolutely phenomenal!
Bro you're such a hidden gem on youtube. So overlooked you deserve greater success I love your content keep it up. Amazing story teller.
I've never seen such a commitment to breaking something since Bane broke Batman's back (the first time). I love seeing speedruns of my childhood games absolutely breaking the limits of the game just to shave half a second off a time. It shows me the peak of gaming. Speedruns show gamers at the top, being able to get frame-perfect inputs consistently, being able to find glitches that nobody would think to try, and even learning engine tricks that no casual player would even think to attempt.
Touval is an absolute legend. It's like he can speak to the game code and parse it's secrets.
I love all these speedrunning and glitch docs ive been finding on youtube. Summoning Salt got me hip and now im discovering all these similar channels. Keep it going!
I really enjoyed this compilation of Touval's achivements. Thank you for putting this together! It surely took countless hours of obtaining footage, editing and doing voiceover work.
The bully soundtrack giving me extreme nostalgic flashbacks
I really love your informational videos like this, as someone who is getting into speedrunning, it can be really overwhelming to learn the history of any games records and skips, and there are so many unsung heros of glitchhunting
I am completely unfamiliar with the speedrunning community, but the fact that this young man was so humble about his achievements, with his simple video titles and calm demeanor in his demonstrations, it says a lot about his character. Touval is definitely a champion, this is what I've gathered from this video about him. So much patience and passion! I may be a university student, but I think people like him have just as much drive and dedication. Perseverance pays off!!!
I love that the best way to beat the game is to make Spyro jump into the lava after killing the boss.
Wow, this glitch hunter was way ahead of his time
Absolutely love these style of videos and yeah Touval is one of my favorite speed runners nice to see him get more exposure through this video.
It’s been FOREVER since a video had me so intrigued and captivated! Great work man, and unimaginable respect for Touval -!
5:06 Things like this almost feels like the devs does that on purpose some time. All the other heads are solid but the one head that you really want to enter lacks collision for part of it for some reason. Insane!
I know.. Such an oversight you question if it's intended
Really love these speedrun history/lore videos. I don't care about speedrunning myself, but Inlove seeing what others have done to games to break them or manipulate the code to do unintended things. Always interesting to see and learn *why* something works.
love the direction you took with these videos! massive respect to these communities who never stop working on the games they love too
Another amazing video! This is definitely my favourite series if videos on TH-cam! Great job Ricky!
when i saw this video in my recommended i was shocked cause when i was a toddler i broke our family's spyro 1 disc in half for some reason and i was paranoid someone got into my mind or something. but then i clicked on it and it's about speedrunning
Lmao, sorry to scare you friend
@@ThaRixer oh don't get me wrong this is a great video i just had a really weird first impression
@@timelordricknmorty8179 thanks a lot, I'm sorry about your disc 😔
ONE MILLION VIEWS BABY
Quite an interesting look on this incredibly talented runner! Thanks for uploading!
Oh hey, the seek bar is split with the background music during each portion.
Neat.
this has been wild, but with the times we live in i was afraid you were going to announce the poor guy had died and this was a tribute
Pretty nice video! Didn't expect Touval to be the same person that found Gelato skip, honestly.
I love the cinematic camera slides, reminded me of how much I love the original Spyro trilogy. :D❤️
the production on this video is excellent, especially the shots of the empty levels from the spyro games. great job
"Hoe is dit ooit gevonden?"
-'Door toeval'
Tim Mutsaers Haha.
based and dutchpilled
shoutouts to jumpyluff
These are honestly my favourite games. The Music, the gameplay, the charm. I truly do love every one equally, but watching this guy tear them a new one was absolutely insane. Thank you for this, it's very well made and your voice lends to it perfectly. Please continue to do more great work :)
Thanks a lot, i will continue to put out more ☺️
Don't remember exactly how long ago I found him (mostly because I just haven't been paying attention go to speedrunning), but the second I heard his name in invoked so many memories. Great video
I’m calling it now, he’s a time traveller
"The Man Who Broke Spyro in Half"
>me when I catch him
Instantly one of my favorite spyro videos of all time. Thanks!
amazing video!! so nice to have some spyro speedrunning history. been wanting to do that myself for a long while! super nice work on the video; and huge shoutout to touval!
Helmet proxy can also be used to reach the "secret"/cut platform with 3 lives on it. I haven't managed to pull it off in a decade though.
here is the video: th-cam.com/video/_SmhDaTgels/w-d-xo.html
Why do spyro runners call these "proxy"?
@@thewolfin maybe because of the IT word "proxy", which is used to connect from one location to another.
FIRST 1 MILLION, LETS GOOOOOOO
Best video relating to gaming ive watched for awhile you built the anticipation so well!
Thank you!
These videos kick ass. You're doing a great job documenting various Playstation speedrunner history.
Permission to make a image of touval literally steamrolling a bunch of video games
1 cheeseburger, extra dayo