What Happens When You Permanently Softlock Nintendo Games?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 เม.ย. 2024
- There are several methods to softlock Nintendo games into unwinnable states. Let's test a few in this video.
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Games
Super Mario Bros.
Super Mario Bros. 2
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island
Paper Mario: The Origami King
F-Zero
Fire Emblem
Golden Sun
Pokémon Red & Green
Pokémon Red & Blue - เกม
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Day 10 of being stuck behind this bush, the guy just keeps saying he is cool and has a girl friend, insane
He's a yandere, he got paranoid thinking you're after his girlfriend so he kidnapped you.
Day 25 I ate the cool guy and now I have a girlfriend.
Who is she? Palmela HANDerson?
Also didn't some stupid schmuck let's play the game, load mew into the game and then get stuck in that same spot and lost the mew in the reset?
@@samuraiwarrior87 Day 50 of being stuck behind this bush, now me and the girlfriend have kids.
There's another softlock in Diamond and Pearl. This softlock requires that you do not get any fishing rods during your playthrough. Then you need to have someone trade you a Finneon that knows Surf, then trade it to the hiker in the isolated house on Route 226. If you have no other Pokemon that know Surf, Fly, or Teleport, you're stuck there forever!
Just ask someone to trade you another fly / teleport / surf knowing pokemon
@@OGuiBlindao You can't. This is the original Diamond and Pearl I'm talking about, not BD/SP. In the originals, you _must_ go to a Pokemon Center's second floor to be able to trade.
Walk through walls cheat is the key, jk
Meister has planned this all along
I'm surprised this one was mentioned and not simply saving on Cinnabar Island with no money, no pokeballs, and nothing that can Fly or learn Surf
You can survive the Lyn mode soft lock by repeatedly rigging RNG using movement arrows until Natalie dodges everything for the duration of the map. It's tedious, but not impossible, because brigands aren't very accurate.
It's kinda like the softlocks that Pikasprey Yellow creates, where there's technically a way out of the softlock, but it's so incredibly tedious that it's far better to just start a new game, unless you just want the bragging rights of saying that you did it.
So you force Natalie to unlock Ultra Instinct
Imo you can softlock any FE game with the permadeath feature. If all your allies are dead, you are most likely not going to clear all missions.
The FE7 can get more sad or laughable tbh.
Sad because of the background changing and Lyn straight up becoming depressed, asking you if she can be alone for a while.
The hilarious part? There’s an enemy in that chapter (hint: his mutton was poisoned) who Lyn can recruit-who happens to be the husband of the NPC you have to protect. If Lyn’s the only one alive and you’re on Normal mode (where the game forces you to do what it says) the NPC is essentially doomed because the game was trying to teach you how to recruit her husband. On Hard? It’s possible for the game over to trigger if the husband attacks his wife.
I just find it ridiculous that this soft lock can only happen during a tutorial, so new players can easily get stuck 💀
@@Logans_Login To be fair, you basically have to do this intentionally for it to happen in Lyn Normal mode, even the most reckless of strategies would make it difficult to get every single ally incapacitated without doing so on purpose
@@Logans_Login You can pretty easily break forced movement in the game. Though it's something you would have to look up online.
Although that *said* it's *hypothetically* possible to escape this softlock via RNG abuse, since the bandits don't have *perfect* hit on Natalie in Normal. Like most GBA games, the RNG is actually a fixed seed upon initial boot, and you can utilize the very cursor itself to shuffle the RNG along. (It's called "cursor wiggling" or the like. Basically, if the arrow has more than one equidistant path to a location and you haven't specifically traced out the exact path yourself, it'll pop one of the RNG rolls to decide which of the two it chooses. You can use this to move the RNG along without needing to do anything. The TAS goes into more detail about this iirc.) Mind you, it could take a very long time and a lot of trial and error to get the perfect set of numbers where Natalie survives long enough for you to get Lyn back into position to protect her, let alone without dying herself, but it's *possible* and doesn't *actually* require TAS-level abilities, therefore not a *true* softlock... Just a really *mean* softlock, like the sort Pikasprey would put you in and then tell you "if you get your way out you get a prize" LOL
Wait a minute...the NPC's husband starts out hostile and will actually attack/kill his own wife if you don't recruit him? They must not be on good terms...
You end up losing your sanity over just one glitchy mistake
for what
wdym? most of these methods could never be done by accident.
@@ryangallagher9723 Yeah, thanks god, these kind of guides exists...😅
The first glitch in Pokémon Red is really unlikely in common gameplay.
Like who would not keep the HM for Cut in their inventory, and happen not to have a single Pokémon with the ability to learn cut in their team.
It is also unlikely for someone to save their game specifically in that spot, unless maybe your battery is about to die, and you haven't saved in hours and thus panic.
I never played most of the other Games so I can't judge on those, but I'll just assume that they are similarly nitpicky.
The minus world is also rather nitpicky, yes you do technically lose progress, but even if you somehow managed to get this glitch in an unintended manner, like even I, being absolutely terrible at Mario games myself, could finish 1-1 within like 2 minutes again, so there is not much *real* progress to be lost.
@@gamin9wizard945 The Pokemon softlock is in an area the player is required to visit BEFORE they get the HM for Cut. It's on the route to Bill's house, which is where you get the SS Ticket, which in turn is used to obtain Cut.
I do agree that it's in an unlikely place for them to save, though the trap is somewhat inviting since there's an item up there. Most people aren't going to save and quit after grabbing it, but it's certainly not outside the realm of possibility.
The soft lock at the end of golden sun was a heartbreaker
Right? Screw you trying to explore the world any more, you're stuck! I think there's something similar in Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time, although that game wasn't as interesting to explore freely
@@PomodorosanNah it was interesting too.
In the original Paper Mario, you can use Lakilester to clip out of bounds in the volcano and beat Chapter 5 again. The game will go to the next Chapter's Peach story, so you can use this to essentially beat chapters 6 and 7 without actually doing so.
However, if you've already seen the Chapter 7 Peach cutscene, the game won't have any more to load. So you'll be promted to save, as usual, but then the file will be stuck looking at Bowser's Castle for eternity.
Yeah...
I remember that! The "Evil" Save files video for Paper Mario.
Oh my that's so cool! I have that one, I never knew that, is there a video on that? 😮
@@StoMoComedoPro th-cam.com/video/ab9vw_QercM/w-d-xo.html
Here's a video creating that file and 3 others.
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3:03 For anyone wondering, this softlock was patched on the GBA version, by editing the level layout slightly...
I have one from personal experience: You can softlock Oracle of Ages/Seasons by saving the game and reloading it after defeating the final boss, but before actually completing the game. The final boss won't respawn, and it won't let you finish as a result. I remember finding no way to fix my game of Ages, though I was young at the time.
How that can happen, most importantly: How Nintendo did this miss overshight...?
I was softlocked in Link's Awakening for years. All you had to do was get to the 8th dungeon, save, and leave your Gameboy unattended for like 30 seconds. One of your siblings, cousins, or random passersby would erase your save for you.
But seriously, that's rough.
Both games are remakes of links awakening
The minus world glitch isn't too bad of a softlock considering you get to it from 1-2 and not say 8-3
Yeah...😅
nice music in level -1
Haha yeah lol
Can't you just lose all your lives and send you back to World 1?
its at the end of 1-2 not just 1-2 !11!!1!
In the 3DS remake of Bowser's Inside Story, you could lock up your save file, by perfoming an OOB glitch inside in one of the rooms of Peach's Castle, sometimes the game could warp Mario & Luigi inside the castle without defeating the Super Peach's Castle Of Fury boss. This bricks your save file if its saved on that room.
That's the end of the game too...
@@bellhop_phantom Yes.
[ Nintendo ]: Okay here are some boundaries to better ensure a polished experience with less potential for softlocks
>Glitches out of bounds and softlocks
[ Nintendo ]: *B R U H*
@@TheGameCreator13 LOL. 😅
Wow... I didn't know about the Golden Fox being too slow of a machine. Thanks for clearing that up, honestly! This is the one instance where I can blame the game and be right about it lol
Here's a frustrating one. In Pokemon Sun & Moon, if you somehow manage to get out of bounds the game will refuse to open the menu to prevent you from saving yourself in a softlock. They had the foresight to ensure you couldn't save, and the means to detect being out of bounds, but didn't have the foresight to have it say "You appear to be stuck, do you want to warp to the Pokemon Center? Yes/No".
No, that would make too much sense.
Could have just done a "you can't save right now" thing, but noooo
@@vampyroteumint In my experience of that kusoge, if you get stuck somewhere, odds are good you wont be able to get out.
My guess would be that the inability to save under certain conditions wasn't intended for that purpose, and is just a byproduct of the real reason why it was implemented. And that real reason probably didn't justify implementing a warping option.
@@gurvmlkwhat would the real reason be???
You can softlock Mother 2 or Earthbound by going to Jeff's father's lab after using the spaceship the second time, but not having Poo in your party.
In the Fire emblem example, it's not technically a soft lock. Even if you have Lynn drop her weapon. You only have to last a certain number of turns.
That games RNG is based off a seed. You can know which numbers you'll get, emulator have a feature for it. You can find a seed where no one hits the green NPC or Lyn for a game over. It's a survive map so you'll win.
The way to change the rng is by consuming the roll by moving the arrow, which way it rotates consumes 1 roll. Mounted units can usually consume more due to the higher movement.
Never saw you do GS content. Thanks for bringing attention to the best RPG series out there.
I did the death loop thing unintentionally myself and yeah the only way to get out of it as far as I know is to delete the save file and start all over again
And this is why old fire emblem games are laughable, cause they are hard, which can feed into a permanent unplayable state.
And also why you don't make a level where you have to save an NPC that can't fight
As nostalgic as the older Fire Emblem games are I'm also glad for the existence of FE12, Awakening and all the subsequent entries as let's face it the Fire Emblem games needed to be streamlined
@@woobgamer5210 Funny enough this wouldn't happen in Lyn hard mode as the tutorials are disabled allowing you to play the way you want and even give Wallace's Knight Crest to another unit.
@@woobgamer5210 except... Fire Emblem 7 is known for being one of the easiest games in the series
@@woobgamer5210 A lot of older Fire Emblems are not very difficult, Fe1, 4, 7, 8 and 9 are all fairly easy games on normal difficulty. The first two just suffer from archaic mechanics but the latter 3 aged pretty well
I think this is the first time a video surprised me with seeing bsnes-hd being used.
So cool when you see your work has become someone's default for something. Thanks
Interesting video as well. I'll look through the channel and probably subscribe.
In Wind Waker you can do a careful jump onto a boat to avoid the first conversation with Tetra via the gossip stone. This makes the flag for which version of pirate ship is loaded not update so that when you go to get bombs from Niko, it loads you back to the early game version of the ship but with no way to progress.
Also completely covered in a shadow. Lol. I stumbled on it by accident once looking for glitches
I've never seen that fire emblem screen before
That's kinda depressing
Yeah...🙁
I remember being annoyed at the Golden Sun one, because I really thought I was only about halfway through the story, as I had just completed only the second lighthouse out of the four. And then I saved when I got returned to Lalivero because I had just gotten past a very difficult boss and wanted to take a break, not knowing that it was actually the final boss of the game, and that the story would be continued in a future game.
Of course, there were still plenty of uncollected Djinn and unfinished sidequests that I could no longer access on that save file, with Lalivero now being my eternal prison there. (And yes, I played through the game again on another file and made sure to get everything, and kept a backup save just before the point of no return just in case.)
for the origami king softlock, i figured out a way to get back into the tunnel. all you need to do is close the game without saving, open it back up, and you'll be behind the toad that checks the card, so you can walk right in.
Yeah, also don't enter any loading zones, as the game will save automaticly, and then you're screwed...😅
@@IvanFranco120 I went through a lot of load zones trying to figure out what to do, and it still put me behind the toad, but it could be possible that you could be put somewhere else if you start heading back down the tower.
In Sticker Star, you can beat Big Cheep Cheep and get the boat before a certain Wiggler segment goes to the harbor. Doing this will prevent the cutscene needed to beat World 3 from happening, preventing you from beating the game
ah, another prime example of "could they have made this this game any worse"
@@laurensprungl7722 They should have just forced you to play the worlds in order, since they clearly didn't want sequence breaking
Stryder7x's Paper Mario 64 videos: *Are we a joke to you?*
I've heard of a glitch in Mario and Luigi Dream Team that could softlock your save. You need to perform an out of bounds glitch to get rid of Luigi, and if you enter a battle or cutscene afterwards, the game will wait for Luigi to come to Mario, but since he isn't being controlled anymore, the game will softlock. If you saved at any point while Luigi is gone, your save file is doomed.
You can also do something similar with Paper Jam, but with Paper Mario.
As a kid, I soft-locked OoT when I was already at Ganon's castle...
Performed the glitch where you equip an empty bottle near a fish / fairy / bug, press the catch button, immediately pause the game and map a different item to the bottle button.
Link will now catch the bug or whatever and the filled bottle will overwrite the item in the spot you just assigned a different item to.
I had deleted the Ocarina and still needed it for at least one more Triforce pedestal to play Zelda's Lullaby.
Pretty sure (cause I did it myself) in paper Mario color splash, if you don’t open the suitcase on the train with the green rescue toads while the train is still moving, when it stops you cannot get back on, ever. Therefore you cant go to the next boss
If you go back to the station afterwards and talk to the toad on the platform he'll ask if you want to ride the train, which lets you get any toads on the train that you missed (I missed the one that asks you not to push, requiring you to hammer him out the window [didn't realize that latter bit], so had to go back and get him)
@@Akhos THANK YOU.
Holy shit! It's Kris! Can I have your autograph?
in the first game of ace attorney you can save even after you run out of attempts during a cross examination, making you always get a game over when you load
I know this from personal experience... Caught myself in a death loop on camera- XD
Freaked out as well- XD
Had to restart the whole chapter bc of that
@@rosecrystal5859can i see the footage?
@@drcj725 It's in a video somewhere, don't remember which one, but it's in the Chapter 4 videos
Thanks for acknowledging the Cavi Cape theme exists !
Yes, its from Bowser's Inside Story
@@IvanFranco120 Yeah, I know, I love it (so much I made it on Musescore) !
I found one the other day. If you somehow die during the opening mission in Starbound, you get warped to your ship as usual, but because you didn't complete the mission, the ship computer won't give you the starting mission to go planetside. This makes your teleporter, navigation, and storage inaccessible, softlocking you until you quit to the title screen and log back into the character.
Wasn’t there a softlock in Zelda Skyward Sword? Where you did the order of the three areas wrong?
How about the guy who trades you his Magikarp for a Finneon? Or teleporting into Sootopolis after putting your Surf and Dive Pokémon in the daycare?
At least the Skyward Sword glitch is fixable, so that is why I think it doesnt count
Metroid Prime Echos had this room that if you started a puzzle and left the room, saved, and then came back to finish the puzzle, it would be permanently unsolvable and broken. I lost my save file because of this glitch
I thought that the entirety of Fire Emblem was one big softlock: just play poorly and get everyone killed, and it's now impossible to win pretty much any chapter, forcing you to redo the entire game.
If I recall, FE7's RNG is a predetermined list, which makes it impossible to savescum that mission.
@@RianQuenlin It is but you can waste RN's if needed
Let's not forget that one from twilight princess on the wii where you're permanently stuck in the cannon room if you save and reload at the wrong time
There is also a glitch in that game where you can get permantly softlocked that happens after clearing Goron Mines. After Bridge of Eldin is destroyed and before entering the Twilight to Lanayru Province, if you save and quit there, and then reload, it transports you back to the exit to Kakariko Village. If you go to the bridge, you will be unable to cross it since it already got destroyed.
@@TristanPinder
Isn't there a another way to get across the other side of Bridge of Eldin if that happens?
@@Antonio-is2cn I think so, and that involves you getting to the other bridge, by going through the locked gates. Because bumping into them, causes a small enough gap to side hop through. Don't know what good it would do though, as you are forced into the Lake Hylia, and probably unable to transform into Wolf Link, when you walk to the bridge. Unless you can somehow managed to jump around in the forest and get the Master Sword early. Only if you have the Game Cube version, otherwise Gale Boomerang won't let you do high long jump attacks to the cliff side you need to be on to jump to the Lost Woods.
Because if I'm not mistaken, I'm pretty sure the game just crashes if you try riding those big birds as normal Link.
5:46:
The game: *text noises*
TH-cam subtitles: NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO
*Laughs in Lucario*
What!? 😳😳😳
@@IvanFranco120 yeah, turn youtube generated subtitles on that moment.
@@Wiskdecreb Yes, i did that and i was just like that... LOL. 😂
“Destroyed save file”
=
“Your adventure log has vanished!”
R.I.P
Can we appreciate the fact that he softlocked himself a lot of times just for this video?
I remember on wwe svr 09 you could make an unwinnable match. But this was due to the creaters actually allowing you to turn of pins submissions and ko at the same time.
Also sometimes when you let the cpus play against each other theyll sometimes repeat the same controls. One time they they got unto the good ole wwe lock up and after they would release each other redulting in a tie they would lock up and the cycle would continue. Or the animation where they run into each other the cpu would constantly run into each other causing repeatedly.
I remember evolving my torchic on emerald and birch get surprised i didnt know It was too dangerous on 1st gen
It's only dangerous on the Japanese games. They fixed it when they localized Red and Blue.
Although, obtaining a second Pokemon in Yellow version will softlock in the same way, but that's not usually possible, since your starter Pikachu refuses to evolve.
@PrimePal Even if you try to use a Thunderstone on it, it'll knock it away. You're not supposed to have a Thunderstone that early, but I think you could use Stadium 2 to transfer over a Thunderstone early on. So if it didn't bat the stone away, it would be possible to softlock with another game's help.
Well, now I know why my Origami King save file from before was unbeatable 💀💀💀
6:15 Super Mario Advance fixes this by adding a vase to reset the room.
Yeah, the devs where warned for the 3rd re-release of SMB2.
God that Origami king one... jeez I cant imagine how infuriating that would be.
Softlocks messed me up when i was younger, i lost all trust for RPGs or anything that wasn't straight forward
For some reason i ran into many of them
Resident Evil games where the most notorious cases, The first 5 Tomb Raider games had this issue often too if you happened to save at a bad spot
I could swear i got softlocked in a couple of RPGs due to not wanting to grind
I also had this issue with Fire Emblem games, worst part is that i didn't realize i was screwed until later, because i didn't knew how much you had to protect your units
I just tought "if there is permadeath, there has to be a failsafe too right? they wouldn't just softlock me, right?"
But no, the games just literally screwed you over because "permadeath realistic"
Wow. No mention of Tombs and Treasures, the GOD of softlocks...
T&T was an interesting hybrid RPG/point-and-click puzzle-adventure for the oldschool NES. Ok, not really - the encounters were fixed, only winnable when you were ready to progress to the area they guard, and low in number. But it was still a much more expansive game than your average P&C game.
There are many areas where the game can permanently trap you without the courtesy of a game over screen. My memory's hazy but there was this one maze area where, in another (connected) area, you had to open a door via a switch to leave yourself a means of escape. Back in the maze area, you'd eventually wind up in this trap room where the doors seal shut. Unless you already HAD the earlier door opened, arriving in this room would provide you with no possible means of escape.
In the same area where you open the maze-trap-room-door, there's a little metallic stick holding up some gear-like mechanism. You need this item, but removing it causes the gears to spin and a door to seal shut. Permanently. Without having obtained the contents of the room, you're screwed (but may wander around for a while before realizing it).
I loosely recall something similar to the maze area happening near the end of the game. Not having a certain item in your inventory left you trapped in a room with a number of interactable things. Makes it SEEM like there's something you're supposed to do, but it turns out you're screwed. I remember getting caught by this one and not realizing my predicament for a while...
But by far, my favorite, is the area with the jaguar statue as this puzzle can trap you in several ways. One method screwing you right from the start of the game, even!
The first area we explore is some high priest's tomb. A secret passage reveals a room with TONS of items to obtain. Among them, there's a rod with a strange hole in the middle and a bowl with a strange needle standing up in the middle. Combining the two items will yield a compass. Aha! (Btw, this is where you screwed up. Sorry!) The compass is used later on and somewhat mandatory (although I think guesswork could get you through if you were persistent enough).
The jaguar room, later on, contains a jaguar statue. The idea behind it is simple: blow the Horn to wake up the jaguar statue. It will be there during certain time periods only (and you get a free turn to bail before it pounces on you if you run into it). While it's gone, however, there's a crack in the wall behind it and attempting to investigate reveals a key. Only, the crack is too small, so you need to use the rod (from our compass) as the tip is magnetized and can be used to pull the ferromagnetic key out. With that done, you blow the horn and the jaguar re-petrifies. I think you get some blue gem from the jaguar statue afterwards (memory's fuzzy on how this item is obtained).
Ok. So we can "join" two items, how do we un-join them and get the rod back? ...Yeah. You can see where this is going. Once joined, the bar and the bowl are stuck for good. There's no getting the key. Because of something that seemed so intuitive all the way back at the start of the game.
WAIT, WE'RE NOT DONE!
Blowing the horn before getting the key will ALSO trap you as the jaguar cannot be un-petrified again. Which may happen if you don't know what you're doing, run into the (unpetrified) jaguar, and decide to defend yourself.
NOT DONE WITH THIS ROOM YET!
...Unfortunately I forgot the third thing. But it involved that blue gem. Maybe you're supposed to get it while the jaguar is unpetrified from another statue in the room? One way or another, the Horn can dick you over again with this. The gem is a vital item to completing the game and losing access to it renders the game unwinnable.
There may be more but I now realize I have a god damned screenfull of text written. I'm switching back to my old brand of coffee. -_-
There’s another softlock in paper Mario 64: This softlock occurs if you have overflowing key items, and you pick up another item, where the game tells you to throw away an item, if you combine this with a chest with a key item in it and open the chest on the same frame as picking up a key item, both the item menu and chest will open at the same time, since there is already a menu to throw an item, and we pick up another item from a chest, the game tries to pull up the same menu, but because the game doesn’t know what to do, the game locks up at the item menu and soft locking the game as well, forcing a reset
Anakin was the only human to win Death Wind with Golden Fox.
3:16 Oh yeah, of course
*SOFTLOCKED*
since f7 rng can be manipulated pretty easily (it just requires you to mess around with the movement cursor after selecting a unit) and the bandits don't have 100% chance to hit natalie or lyn it is technically possible to do some softlock picking and beat the chapter.
Not a Nintendo soft lock but harvest moon tree of tranquility was infamous for the glitch where you couldn’t marry Calvin because your whole game would crash every time you tried to view his cutscene leading to that area of the game being forever inaccessible
0:06, also works if you go into the third pipe without loading the text, but if you go into the second pipe instead, you go to world 5
Wasn't watching Nintendo Unity for a long time. Glad I'm back.
What happens you might ask? Simple.
You lose your mental will to live after all of the pain and endurance you had to go through.
BRUH, at least its worse than losing your life. Not, your save file life...😅
5:53 Evolution of Fire Emblem game over plz
I remember finding a softlock in Super Mario Land 2 in a cave level you can be stuck like in the Yoshi's game
No idea about the Lalivero thing in Golden Sun, and a glitch at the epilogue that won't let you see the credits (and to make matters worst, banning you from getting the code for The Lost Age)
For the fire emblem 7, it's technically not impossible but you need some God tier luck.
The Golden Fox fun fact is hilarious as hell
Sad Lyn is funnier than it should be.
lyness
Lyness
Linus
Linus based.
@@darthwinsor Sad Lyness
It Makes sense I guess haha..
You can softlock FF7 by saving at the mako reactor when the bomb timer reaches 0.
Now everytime you start the game, the bomb explodes and now there's a game over!
FFVII is a Square Enix published game not a Nintendo published game.
I think the same logic can be used for Paper Mario TTYD in chapter 2. I'll have to test it to see if it works or not.
I have a habit of trying to evolve my starter as soon as I get it when I play Pokémon games, especially when I play red/blue or firered/leafgreen. I always evolve before I get to Viridian City. When I played Red/Green, I softlocked myself. In that game, you always have a pokedex only you cannot access it until Oak gives it to you. Oak will never give you a pokedex if you have more than 1 pokemon registered to it and by evolving your starter, you now have 2.
I was honestly amazed that I found a game breaking bug that fastm
Bring back memories when some how my brother got me stuck in-between some barrels in golden sun and I got so far
in duck life 4 on swimming training if you go down then get back up on the exact edge of a platform then jump instantly then you go up to the sky.
The subtitles during the FE7 Game Over... It makes me cry ;-;
There are 2 softlocks in Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
One where you save after the bridge is teleported away (before going off to purify the twilight on the Lanaryu region as Wolf Link) and another where if you save in the Cannon room of Kakariko Village (before having it transported to be used to get into the Sky Temple)
Thank goodness I stumbled upon this video, specifically for The Origami King.
I don’t have the game just yet, but I’m so glad that Nintendo patched that glitch out. What about one of the Toads in the game? Is that glitch still present or is it gone? I don’t have a clue unless I get around and play the game for myself. Either way, I’m taking a massive “L” for this one. Ouch.
But if you're already in the epilogue, why would you have any reason to leave? Any additional side quests you didn't complete would be moot by that point.
I think I actually did the yoshis island one as a kid and got so frustrated cause I thought I was bad at the game
It's been almost 20 years so I don't remember all the details, but I got stuck somewhere in Eternal Darkness for the GameCube. I saved the game with almost zero health near a corridor where monster attacked and killed me immediately. There was no one else to go and I couldn't get any progress from there.
imagine hearing that in 1-2 you can skip to other worlds by going above the pipe, but you accidentally crouch jump backwards and you see another pipe and think "huh that must be it" and then softlocking your game
Oh wow I got an ad about new episodes of Pokémon on Nickelodeon, now I’m totally in the mood
❗️Adverts on TH-cam?
Since when?
My Browser blocks them...
Ugh that softlock on Yoshi's Island is so frustrating! I got it as a kid and even now remember to never jump up to that platform. Why Baby Mario can't break the material is beyond me.
Yeah... Its bad, sadly...😓
Thankfully, It was fixed on the GBA remake.
I started hyperventilating at the Yoshi's Island one!
Yeah, i randomly softlocked Yoshi's Island DS one time while i was speedruning in 5-6...😅
There was a dead end in Halo Reach where I'd be sent back to a checkpoint to an inescapable death. Thus the loop would continue forever, so I had to restart the level.
Thank goodness it didn't require me to erase all my progress and start at the very beginning.
(Edit: I think it was a grenade so there was no way out.)
I actually just recently played golden sun for the first time, and I locked myself in the epilouge because I wasn't aware I just beat the final boss and that there was a second game (still haven't gotten part 2 yet)
"The Golden Fox can't win on Deathwind 1 against Master CPUs"
Heck, even the Blue Falcon and Wild Goose will struggle. There's a reason why every world record for that game is set with the Fire Stingray.
In gen 3 pokemon, make it all the way to sootopolis, use the pokemon center, make one pokemon that can learn surf only know other HMs (excluding fly), then release everything else that can learn surf or fly. The only way out is to have both a fishing rod and a way to get a pokeball
luckily the only two sidequests in Golden Sun are Crossbones Isle and Lunpa so it's not too bad of a softlock, esp since you can complete the game without doing either of these without much repercussion iirc
I think the funniest part about being stuck in level -1 limbo is that you are punished with an eternity of water levels with bloopers.
Yeah, and you'll be trapped until you get an game over...
How do you guys actually record these? They are so high quality that it's so pleasing to watch.
3:38 most you have to go out of your way for but this one is inevitable. I found out the hard way 😭
"Dormannu, I've come to bargain."
4:26
This happened on my very first playthrough of FE 7(I was 14)
And played through the game like normal...until I realized this game had permadeath(I didn't read the instructions), I had softlocked myself and had to start over.
Ah, the SMB minus world. Back long before the internet it was just an urban legend. I heard all sorts of ways to get there, my favorite being jumping completely over the flag pole in 1-1 and going into the pipe to 1-2.
I see Golden Sun I click.
An interesting thing that happened to me that i wouldnt consider really a softlock is when, in pokemon pikachu i moved an articuno block the wrong way and it was impossible to get articuno again
There are two on the Wii, which are bad because these games are very easy to reach these unwinnable states if you dont know previously how to not trigger them:
On Metroid Other M, there is a certain part of the game if you backtrack, the game will not unlock the door to progress and you are permanently stuck
Pandora's Tower
I dont remember especifically, but I think the game has 12 towers, on the end of the game you have to traverse to 2 towers at the same time. You can play the entire game fine and backtrack as you wish UNTIL THESE 2 TOWERS. If you reach this point in the game you must not backtrack ever, if you do the game will save on a loading screen and it will freeze, everytime you load the save and try to enter any tower the game will fail to load and will freeze on loading screens. Some people tried some tricks like trying to interact with Elena to "fix" the savefile but for me didnt work.
Not too long ago, I accidently got myself stuck in the last dungeon of Final Fantasy Adventure. Apparently, if you don't have enough keys left in your inventory, you can't get to the end. You can't go back to town either since it's a no turn back point. Thus, you're stuck. That pissed me off to the point i just turned to game genie to finish this game off.
*difficult* supposed to be the key right here.
RIP for those players who tested these.
Yeah...😔
This is why you keep at least 4 allies alive.
I know this is Nintendo games, and what I'm about to say isn't a Nintendo game, but Final Fantasy Tactics and the Wiegraf fight at Riovanes Castle! The game offers to save the game between fights when you are at a location with multiple fight sequences in it (such as Riovanes Castle). And the Wiegraf fight is fight #2. FFT is a strategy RPG, similar to Fire Emblem (shown in this video) for those not aware, except like some FF games, you can swap your jobs and classes around on a whim, except in battle. What makes Wiegraf's fight so rough is that it is a two-phase fight where the first phase is a 1v1 between your main character (Ramza) and Wiegraf himself, a knight with unique and powerful abilities. So if you build Ramza to be something not accustomed to a 1v1 against a heavy bruiser like Wiegraf (like I did in my first attempt at the game, making him a Summoner), he can get VERY QUICKLY rinsed by the Holy Knight. Not only do his abilities hit hard, but they have range, can cause some nasty status effects (I remember Silence being incredibly annoying for my poor summoner Ramza; preventing the casting of spells), but he's also rather fast and moves far, and the stage is pretty small, so you can't run and hide if you need to. It's a nightmare if you are unprepared.
ALL THAT SAID, remember what I mentioned at the beginning, how it offers you the option to save between fights in multi-fight areas and that Wiegraf is fight #2? Imagine being stuck in a grudge match with him, unprepared for the fight, AND you can't escape to go prepare if you need to. Always have two save files at the ready in FFT, folks!
The second phase of the fight is less obnoxious, by the way. He turns into an admittedly powerful creature, summons some backup minions who are also rather tough, and you are still as injured as you were from the fight with Wiegraf alone..... but your backup arrives (whoever you decided to bring to the battle), so the cavalry arrives to aid in the tackling of the new threats.
Again, I know it isn't Nintendo-related, but it is easily the most memorable soft-lock situation I've been in. I was stuck in that fight for a long long time, trying to work it out from every angle, because I simply didn't have what it took to beat him 1v1 with Ramza in other classes. In the end, the ONLY way I was able to save the file was that I realized I had just enough Job Points in the Knight job to take the [Weapon Break] skill, made Ramza's secondary Knight skills, and continually attempted to break Wiegraf's weapon until it finally connected. Once I broke his sword, he couldn't use his powerful knight skills and was forced to punch me for significantly less damage (although I think he had Monk skills as well, which hurt, but definitely hurt less). Had I not had enough JP for 'Weapon Break' I think I would have had to start the game ALL over.
Technically FE7 does have a way to break forced movement and I have used it before. Though I believe it is a glitch and not intentional, as it never formally teaches you how to do it. So you can probably beat that chapter with only Lyn, if you're very knowledgeable about the game and playing on easy for some reason.
Ah man what's that music during the transition screens between example softlocks? I'm very sure I've heard it before
Its the Cavi Cape theme from Bowser's Inside Story.
Nice! Thank you.
fire emblem one seems RNG heavy but possible to escape
the Pokemon Red/Green glitch is funny lol
In paper Mario color splash if you don't get all of the toads on the train you get soft locked
What is the song at 4:14. I swear I've heard it elsewhere and I've never played golden sun
Mario ended up in The Underwhere a land of ended games and some people call world -1
Or 36-1
Surprised you didn't cover the softlock near the end of Metroid Fusion, I actually got stuck in it and never finished the game because of it
Huh?
AFAIK the only genuine way to make Fusion unwinnable is to beat Nettori before Yakuza, which can only be done with TAS.
It's A REALLY good thing My Little Brother Didn't Get The TOK Softlock, He Loves TOK, Thank Arceus
speaking of which, What Was the worst Softlock you came across?
Mine is one in Yoshi's Island DS, which happened me recently.
I was playing 5-6, and somehow the game spawn me OOB out of surprise. 😳
I was playing sapphire and ended up stuck in dewford with no way out. Can't remember the exact circumstances but I think I whited out after leaving dewford but before healing elsewhere.
A very recent one in Minecraft Bedrock (April 2022) - Running into MCPE-154278 on Windows 10 which can Freeze the game, "corrupt" certain chunks, and causes the game and in extreme cases the OS to crash
(I stopped playing Bedrock for a while because of this)
People have beaten death wind on master with the golden fox, but it's incredibly difficult.