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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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
"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..."
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.
@@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
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?!?!?!?"
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.
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
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-
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.
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!
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 :)
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?
@@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. ;)
"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"
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
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.
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.
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.
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!!!
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.
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'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.
(Barely related opinions). I always find the discovery part of speedrunning a lot more interesting than the technical skill. It's still impressive that people manage to do frame-perfect movements, but glitch and route discovery feels like watching a game be played for the first time. Thanks for sharing your videos.
As a both major Spyro speedrunning fan and lover of high effort video game history videos, thank you for making this. Very happy to see a skilled researcher/video producer tackle the history of Spyro speedrunning. I’ve been following the scene since James Bertoli was the 120% WR holder, and watching it grow from there has been a wild ride. I hope your work gets more attention.
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!
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!
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❤️
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.
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. ❤
Fun Fact: for the Link's Awakening portion of the video, the "Other Runner (@21:24)" who found D4 early (AK Skip) was a guy named Kincaid. He actually doesn't run the game at all, and puts all his effort into glitch hunting. Due to this, the guy has discovered (or had a major hand in discovering) practically most of the major sequence breaks in the game. Some of these tricks include (but are not limited to): Villa Skip AK Skip Slime Eel Skip Genie Skip D7 Skew and had a huge part in discovering D8 & D7 Hinox Warps. Also, another trick that Touval discovered in this game which was not mentioned in the video was Flame Cave Skip, which is an super big sequence break that allows access to D8 before D7 (which actually saves a really good portion of time) Amazing video! I learned so much more about Touval than I knew before. The dude is a glitch hunting legend!
Wouldn't have been surprised if he was the one who discovered barrier skip but still: absolute nutter. And thanks @ThaRixer for this video. I really appreciate people taking the time to make these speedrunning documentaries.
I dont speed run any games myself. But I LOVE watching them and joining streams. I keep seeing the "History of The Speedrun" videos popping up and I love them! It's awesome to see how these people break games and make the runs even faster. When I saw this Spyro one pop up, I had to watch one of my favorite childhood game. Thank you for sharing how it was done through the years.
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
I remember I got big into watching spyro runs in 2013. I loved watching superior war bringer, touval and ssbm stuff. I eventually lost interest around 2016 when the community started to fizzle out, but I often think back fondly on being when these monumental breaks were found and incorporated.
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
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.
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 :)
this game got me so much into motion sickness as a kid but I couldn't stop playing it so I played it entirely while being sick and threw up many many times for hours and hours day after days, feeling terribly conflicted every single time I was about to play the game... it was so bad that even till today I still got the motion sickness just by imagining it playing in my heard or hear or think about the sound spyro makes.... watching this video basically killed me worse than an extreme roller coaster
How did he even discover all of those skips? Did he just mess around in the levels etc. long enough to notice that certain parts are breakable? I need an answer for that
Really well made video, nice of you to include the music timestamps as well as briefly describe the goal of each of these skips for those of us unfamiliar with the games. I wish I could be like Touval in any aspect of life. This guy just starts hunting for random cool stuff and gets so good at it that anything he touches turns into gold. And yes, out of all the insane stuff he's done, I agree with you, you ended the video with the wildest one of all. I mean heck, I've chronicled my own Super Metroid speedruns where I repeatedly choke good runs on a trick that I found really easy in practice, and Touval does the exact opposite, SAVING an otherwise crappy run by performing a nearly impossible trick in one try.
Nice coverage about Touval and his endeavors. As someone who enjoys the Spyro series but never heard of Touval until now, this was very informative and made me appreciate my childhood game even more. Oh also that panoramic shot at 10:32 really hit different haha, great edit man 👍
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
Not sure if you’ll ever see this. But this is one of my favorite vids on TH-cam I’ve legit watched it 20 times and love your narration of his amazing story
![[MV] A leap of faith...ความเชื่อใจครั้งสุดท้าย (From "Petrichor the series")](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/U1piZH2CNXA/mqdefault.jpg)
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
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
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”. 🤨
"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
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
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
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
@@Davidpoland2005 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 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!
"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!!"
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-
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
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
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!
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!
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
I love how Touval is a fodder seagull. Amazing.
Touval: The man, The myth, The legend.
He who gave us so many glitches that we see used in runs to this day.
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
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
"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.
Everyone: "... Wait, Touval, what game did you break again?"
Touval: "... _yes."_
Touval: Well yaknow spyro?
Everyone: Yeah? which one?
Touval: Yes....
"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"
Touval: "Imma end this mans whole franchise."
@5:32 Oh how times change - goes to show how much further things can be pushed beyond the popular assumptions
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
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.
“Unfortunately this rat proxy is not RTA viable, it is just to precise”
Dayoman: Allow me to introduce myself
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
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.
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.
(19:43) "AND WE STILL GET THE FRUIT BACK"
Man, Scykoh's video is already 6 years old...
That drunk guy accidentally changed history
All hail that drunk streamer watching guy!
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!
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.
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.
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!!!
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.
Good shit. Extremely comfy
Thanks squid ❤️
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 *knew* my hate for Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly was justified as a kid.
How did I not know Touval discovered gelato beach skip, this man is a legend.
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.
"a 28 minute time saver" and thus a god was born
(Barely related opinions). I always find the discovery part of speedrunning a lot more interesting than the technical skill. It's still impressive that people manage to do frame-perfect movements, but glitch and route discovery feels like watching a game be played for the first time. Thanks for sharing your videos.
As a both major Spyro speedrunning fan and lover of high effort video game history videos, thank you for making this. Very happy to see a skilled researcher/video producer tackle the history of Spyro speedrunning. I’ve been following the scene since James Bertoli was the 120% WR holder, and watching it grow from there has been a wild ride. I hope your work gets more attention.
Thanks a lot ❤️
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: *finds a new spyro glitch*
Everyone: Stop it! He's already dead!!
Yo this feels out of nowhere. Thanks so much for making this, Ricky!
Been working on this for weeks haha ☺️
Imagine being that drunk guy. I think I would just start weeping
I love how the chat goes wild when coveless runs perfectly
I have never completed a speed run in my life, but this still gets me hype.
Dayoman did a rat proxy in a 39:19 run. About 6 or so day ago from this post
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.
tysm for making videos like these! i love watching speedruns these makes me appreciate all the effort even more
this man ripped spyro’s guts out & devoured his heart
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
I was there in all of his Spyro skip showcases. So much love and respect for the Toucan! A true legend of the community!
Touval is an absolute legend. It's like he can speak to the game code and parse it's secrets.
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❤️
Wow, this glitch hunter was way ahead of his time
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.
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. ❤
Fun Fact: for the Link's Awakening portion of the video, the "Other Runner (@21:24)" who found D4 early (AK Skip) was a guy named Kincaid. He actually doesn't run the game at all, and puts all his effort into glitch hunting. Due to this, the guy has discovered (or had a major hand in discovering) practically most of the major sequence breaks in the game.
Some of these tricks include (but are not limited to):
Villa Skip
AK Skip
Slime Eel Skip
Genie Skip
D7 Skew
and had a huge part in discovering D8 & D7 Hinox Warps.
Also, another trick that Touval discovered in this game which was not mentioned in the video was Flame Cave Skip, which is an super big sequence break that allows access to D8 before D7 (which actually saves a really good portion of time)
Amazing video! I learned so much more about Touval than I knew before. The dude is a glitch hunting legend!
I love this type of vids man you a beast. Ty.
It’s been FOREVER since a video had me so intrigued and captivated! Great work man, and unimaginable respect for Touval -!
Glad to hear it!
I love that the best way to beat the game is to make Spyro jump into the lava after killing the boss.
This was exactly the sort of video I was looking for. I love these speed-running breakthrough vids, coincidentally love spyro. I need more
That is the quarantine content that I'm looking for.
Wouldn't have been surprised if he was the one who discovered barrier skip but still: absolute nutter. And thanks @ThaRixer for this video. I really appreciate people taking the time to make these speedrunning documentaries.
The bully soundtrack giving me extreme nostalgic flashbacks
I dont speed run any games myself. But I LOVE watching them and joining streams. I keep seeing the "History of The Speedrun" videos popping up and I love them! It's awesome to see how these people break games and make the runs even faster. When I saw this Spyro one pop up, I had to watch one of my favorite childhood game. Thank you for sharing how it was done through the years.
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 😔
I remember I got big into watching spyro runs in 2013. I loved watching superior war bringer, touval and ssbm stuff. I eventually lost interest around 2016 when the community started to fizzle out, but I often think back fondly on being when these monumental breaks were found and incorporated.
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
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
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.
Outstanding video! I love these long-form looks at specific speedrunners and stuff.
Oh hey, the seek bar is split with the background music during each portion.
Neat.
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 ☺️
"Hoe is dit ooit gevonden?"
-'Door toeval'
Tim Mutsaers Haha.
based and dutchpilled
this game got me so much into motion sickness as a kid but I couldn't stop playing it so I played it entirely while being sick and threw up many many times for hours and hours day after days, feeling terribly conflicted every single time I was about to play the game... it was so bad that even till today I still got the motion sickness just by imagining it playing in my heard or hear or think about the sound spyro makes.... watching this video basically killed me worse than an extreme roller coaster
I’m calling it now, he’s a time traveller
I’m a casual gamer and not really into speed running at all but this was so well made I watched it twice, well done
ONE MILLION VIEWS BABY
I love documentaries like this. Thanks for the video, man. Good work!
How did he even discover all of those skips? Did he just mess around in the levels etc. long enough to notice that certain parts are breakable? I need an answer for that
Really well made video, nice of you to include the music timestamps as well as briefly describe the goal of each of these skips for those of us unfamiliar with the games.
I wish I could be like Touval in any aspect of life. This guy just starts hunting for random cool stuff and gets so good at it that anything he touches turns into gold. And yes, out of all the insane stuff he's done, I agree with you, you ended the video with the wildest one of all.
I mean heck, I've chronicled my own Super Metroid speedruns where I repeatedly choke good runs on a trick that I found really easy in practice, and Touval does the exact opposite, SAVING an otherwise crappy run by performing a nearly impossible trick in one try.
FIRST 1 MILLION, LETS GOOOOOOO
Not gonna lie, found your channel because of the GOW video, watching this now and subbing. You do a great job my guy.
shoutouts to jumpyluff
Nice coverage about Touval and his endeavors. As someone who enjoys the Spyro series but never heard of Touval until now, this was very informative and made me appreciate my childhood game even more.
Oh also that panoramic shot at 10:32 really hit different haha, great edit man 👍
Thank you!!
"The Man Who Broke Spyro in Half"
>me when I catch him
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
1 cheeseburger, extra dayo
Not sure if you’ll ever see this. But this is one of my favorite vids on TH-cam I’ve legit watched it 20 times and love your narration of his amazing story
Damn dude that fucking means a lot
@@ThaRixer yearly visit!
Permission to make a image of touval literally steamrolling a bunch of video games