This was designed to keep kids from cheating or else it would have potentially disastrous consequences. Which is still true. If anyone doesn't know how to fix a bricked system than yes to them it's a paperweight, however if anyone is remotely trained and educated with computers and basic programming there truly isn't such a thing as a bricked console. Which brings to question, why don't you want to try to beat the game on your own skill? It says something on a personal level if your willing to at least try instead of cheat.
Actually that is sort of curious since the GC and GBA don’t share hardware. Same ROM but it would require a different emulator so what it does when it tries to load that scenario wouldn’t necessarily create the same output. Also would that make the standalone GBA ROM a port and not an emulation (since it crashes the GBA, meaning the system itself presumably couldn’t find an out in that situation)?
Many years ago (definitely before 2016) I typed several Metroid passwords, memorized from my youth, on my cousin's 3DS. One of them was all 6s on the top row and all Ks on the bottom row. It froze his console, but it definitely didn’t brick it. I’m pretty certain that any password that normally resets the NES version will freeze the 3DS version.
Judt typed it into the Metroid Password Generator, It thinks you had been playing the game non stop for 29 years! you also had one energy tank, and Ridley dead. But it crashes as it doesn't give the game a starting location, which confuses it and locks.
You could always take out the battery or let it die to get rid of the last one... Not only that, but if something merely crashes a system and doesn't make you have to use hacks to get it running again, I'd hardly call it a brick.
Oh. I thought he meant it would overwrite the firmware. It would be conceivable for a memory leak to do this, since the 3DS has built-in persistent storage.
@@ZipplyZane IIRC nothing in the 3DS community has actually been confirmed like this. It's likely an exaggeration that it could actually brick the console.
So Larry is here exaggerating the content of his video, or donesn't know what "bricked" is. I like his content mostly, but sometimes he's just silly and misinformative.
To those who aren't tech savvy, yes it definitely is a brick, but if anyone is stupid enough to cheat pass a game that was hard by any era standards, than they deserve to have bricked consoles, if Nintendo doesn't ban your account for jail breaking consoles.
I remember seeing the garbage screen and Samus looping around the starting screen before, and I've heard about the 3DS bricking problem before, but I never understood exactly why that password caused the game to act like that until now. 314 consecutive years of play time, huh? That's dedication right there!
Guess I was spared of this disaster as the only Metroid I played was the second one. But who would have thought that entering profanity into the game was so overwhelming that it crashes your system?
I guess it's just a coinsidence, as it seems to allow you to insert anything ...? The password of all 0, with the last character on both rows being 5 or larger, it also crashes it.
@@sizzxrk I hole-hardedly agree, but allow me to play doubles advocate here for a moment. You think I am taking proper grammar for granite, but you should really stop being such a pre-Madonna. Take off that huge ship off your shoulder. Sometimes you have to swallow your prize and turn a blonde eye to someone's writing miss steaks.
Well, he said without the firmware update, it will be locked forever. But considering he even called the updated version bricked, even though you can restart it. I don't think I'll trust him with what is bricked or not.
If your stupid enough to try it after being warned, you deserve to have expensive paperweights. And he wasn't lying, he just knew how to fix bricked consoles when most people probably don't.
@@Openreality But it's not bricked, it's not a paperweight. When the battery runs out (which it eventually will do), you can charge it up and use it again. Most it is, is a temporary paperweight.
As long as any capacitors are discharged within the system.. it will forget and then just insert the battery.. Same as ram.. turn off and disconnect power.. count 30 and you're golden.
"So I welcome you to these disasters of data, these passcodes of peril, these saves of spurious quality and these bits of brickdom as I say BUT HELLO YOU..." PS: Nice touch using the Axiom Verge music!!
Note that the password is basically equivalent to this password: 000000 00000B 000000 00000B And the password causes it to pick an invalid starting location, which can lead to the NES executing an invalid instruction. Nothing permanent here, just power it off and on again. All these passwords will also start at an invalid starting locations: 000000 00000x 000000 00000x Where x is between 5 and 9, or A through F.
Let the battery die, the system is still on, it will die eventually. Then you can charge it back up and use it again. It is just softlocked, not bricked (and not softbricked either).
I still can't believe that I'm featured in this. This... I'm speechless in all honesty. Thank you for not only using my clip, but crediting me as well.
From what I know, the problem is not so much that any part of the code itself is invalid on it's own, but rather that it clashes horribly. Basicly, it has the resetflag enabled which boots the player to the first room, but the location is a diffrent area(I think it was tourian, but does not really matter). Once one of the two aspects are fixed, the code performs normally. Why nintendo did not think to make it impossible for the game to run illegal instructions in the first place is beyond me, but eh. something like that also happened in the japanese version of pokemon gen5, where one pokemon that was shinylocked was able to spawn shiny and thus just crash the game.
I'm surprised you didn't talk about the copy of NES Metroid found in Metroid Zero Mission. While it won't break your system, it can wipe out your save file.
Why? There is literally not a damn reason a youtuber spending 30 fuckin seconds of a video to get paid should inconvenience you. You can skip it, you can ignore it, it only benefits the youtuber. I am genuinely curious what goes through the mind of people like you.
@@lh757 okay, and? What in gods name does that do to harm anyone? You can skip the fucking thing! Do you want youtubers to go broke just cause you have some weird pet peeve?
Bricking means the console becomes unusable and will not work no matter how much you reset or unplug it. The name comes from rendering the console basically as useful as a brick. It does NOT brick Nintendo 3DS systems, just crash them.
@FreeBirb Except all it really does is freeze the system up in a way that prevents the normal forced power down from working as it should. If you remove the battery or let it drain all the way, the system will work as normal from then on. So, not a brick. The privilege escalation needed to put the firmware in a compromised state is far more complicated than just crashing the nes emulator in a big way.
If you're tech savvy there truly isn't such a thing as a bricked console. However the opposite is equally true, if you aren't tech savvy than any glitch, cheat code, or hack can possibly brick your console if you don't know what to do. Its that simple.
The TH-camr Bisqwit did an analysis on why this password (and similar passwords) cause so many problems. Essentially, these passwords tell the game to load an invalid location. When that happens, the game sends improperly formed commands to the cartridge's MMC1 memory mapper chip, putting it into an inconsistent state and sending the code spiraling off into chaos - where it will eventually encounter an illegal opcode, halting the emulator (or freezing the NES). This also explains why the very earliest cartridges behave differently - the first revision of the MMC1 chip may have been, shall we say, "relaxed" in its fault handling, while the later revisions adhere to the specification much more stringently. Since emulators are all based on the specification, they will behave the same as the later revisions. (It is likely the actual ROM was not changed between these versions.)
2:30 "...this error even soft-bricks your system!" There's no such thing as a goddamn softbrick. You're either bricked or not. It's like calling fainting "softdying." Please stop using that term.
None of the consoles seems to have been bricked either. He mentioned the unpatched 3DS being a paper weight because of the "blank screen", but never mentions what happens if you let the battery die out and the charge it back up again
1:50 Larry, please tell me you didn't just say "for all intensive purposes." It's "for all intents and purposes", which actually makes any kind of sense.
He uses the term "softbrick", which makes no sense either. He aslo calls it "bricked" when it isn't. When a device is bricked, it means that the device is as technologically useful as a brick. Softbrick makes no sense. He meant to say "softlock" or "feeze", but calling it bricked just sounds more intense!
Nope all intensive purposes, get your ears checked you idiot. "Intents and purposes" was never a saying at all. Intensive basically is another way for say intense or important. Intents, isn't a word , therefore it was never a saying.
The background music from around 2:12 to 4:06 is from Axiom Verge for those wondering. A great soundtrack and a very good Metroidvania in its own right.
Nintendo could of easily used that failsafe from the Metroid Prime GBA version just to stop the systems from crashing. I think the reason why the Error failsafe is used is to prevent any crashes in the game.
Lol, thank you. I thought it might be funny to do it in the style of an '80s informertial. Manscaped had to aprove it before it went live and I heard they absolutely loved it!
What’s your favorite Switch exclusive game, Larry? “Bowser, I’ve been dead for eight years and you’ll never be able to leave here until you accept that. You’ve been living a lie ever since I died. This isn’t your house. This is a padded cell in a psychiatric ward. Your family misses you. Raven Branwen has to work two jobs to compensate for your absence, and without a proper male authority figure Bowser Jr. has gotten involved in gang activity. Everything you’ve worked for and everyone you love is going to hell and you selfishly decide to sit here and play childish games with yourself. This fragile dream must be shattered. Wake up, Bowser.”
Only the digital version of pokemon sword and shield can delete game data and have less than half the content of the previous games and still sold like hot cakes.
@@skyrimlover777No, it's because consumers knew they were mass produced, so snapped them up to be destroyed, never to be played again. Only a few thousand have survived
@@CrazyRiverOtter Or "bricked", none of these consoles are bricked, not even the pre-pached 3DS. It's just softlocked/frozen, and the battery needs to be removed/emptied to work again.
Your ending music seems inspired by "The Lords of Acid" music :) (It's not the same but it reminded me of one of their songs) Another excellent video!!! I kind of want to try it out but I only own like 3 of the systems you mentioned and 1 of those is a New 3DS XL so yeah I don't even want to get that near my system lol
Wow, lot of indoctrinated people here. Tim Pool is as middle-of-the-road and objective a pundit as they come. Anyone who thinks he's some objectionable terrible person has reaaaaally been drinking the Koolaid hard.
I have no gonads to groom but nice commercial, I especially liked the Shantae-esque boxer short dance at the end Games lost to the ages would be an interesting video though I think you did one before I’m sure there’s other games that are now considered “lost media”
Thumbobby I wholeheartedly agree, but I think my gonads turned into ovaries and I’d prefer not to groom those! I hope that trimmer isn’t THAT good! That’d be more gruesome than any video game that said a little trim does make one feel good. I don’t want anyone to think I’m smuggling tarantulas in my swimsuit, even though I like tarantulas.
“When it comes to shaving, I only want the latest technology touching my balls” - I normally skip adverts, but that one really got my attention. Well played Larry. As a reward I will watch the rest of the advertisement.
Is Manscaped really safe for balls? I nicked myself bad one time, and I never want that to happen again so I'm gonna need some additional confirmation.
@@BobMonkeypimp Waxing is the way to go. It really is the only option unless you want to pony up for laser hair removal. Either you wax or you just use a light duty electric shaver set at a low level. Just make sure it's not so low that the hair isnt short enough to be stiff and prickly. Shaving only ever looks/feels good for a day.
"Soft Brick" isn't a real term for fuck's sake. That's a Freeze or Console Hang Up. A Brick renders the console PERMANENTLY useless, like in the early days of Wii softmodding doing it without care, would result in an ACTUAL brick, meaning you'd need to actually buy a NEW one.
Soft brick is a term but it's not used correctly here. Generally a soft brick is something like when a device will turn on but cannot be used in any meaningful way, like (say) a Linux box that boots up but then sits spinning on the kernel loading text indefinitely... or a computer that boots to the bios splash but can't be interacted with. A hard brick is the traditional "brick" where the device is effectively an electronic brick/paperweight and cannot even power on to any boot screen etc. Using proper terminology from the field is important to make sure communication happens effectively. If someone said to me their device was "soft bricked", there's no way that I would think "oh, just reset it" or "oh just pop the battery out", I would be thinking about things like OS reinstall, flashing firmware, sideloading, etc, and that's where my advice would be coming from. That'd be a really bad situation for someone who really just needed to power cycle their device.
@Tommy Kavanaugh No, I don't control the world, but this misuse of terms like this lead to rumors, false accusations, clickbait and sensionalistic headlines, poor journalism all around. For example, even if it might not be the best example, the news that Mighty No. 9 bricked Wii Us spread like wild fire to make the game look even worse than it already was, it was entirely fake. The game did not brick Wii Us, it merely froze them pre-update patch, requiring to turn off the console and turn it back on. The console wasn't damaged in any way.
Cant you just remove or run down the battery to unbrick the 3ds? Im at a loss as to how any gamecode could do any permanent harm to the firmware itself as it should be locked to writing unless a signed update is applied.
Although your terminology is a bit misused, this video is definitely a good public service announcement. I salute you for putting in the work for this.
For all intensive purposes it's intently purposeful. I get it...what drives me insane is when people say things like- "all of the sudden" or "irregardless." That last one really hurt to write and was actually set in my autocorrect. I have witnessed honest to God college seniors writing things like my two examples in research papers. I have outright refused to peer review papers when I see things like that so...I get you, I really do. Perhaps the absolute worst is when I hear people say "a whole nother..." that's not a fuc..."nother, is not a word.
Yes, essentially the initial code used in games with a PassCode system is loading variables like: Money^ Time^ Collectables^ you get the idea. So imagine information like a=Hockey Puck b= Basket Ball and (H)(I)(0) represent Five, Ten, and Fifteen The information might be 0aHbi could mean level 15 5 Hockey Pucks collected and starting with 10 Basketballs This would mean cobbling up some thing like 8K6bi would give bizarre results like Level 8 Key to Boss section 10 Basketballs. But the creators didn't intend for anyone to locate the 10 Basketballs in level 8 and so when you defeat the boss to retrieve one you might develop a fatale error, get it?
If I would've been the developer of emulator, I would've add an error like "Error 0x000... Don't try to engage Ridley in such manner please..." I mean, I don't see anything wrong with Nintendo just crashing the emulator, what it's supposed to do when it encounteres an illegal execution code generated by the password for fuck's sake! Bricking the console is not good ofc, but just properly crashing the emulator - I consider it an okay fix. Maybe an improvement here will be just adding a more understandable error, which says that it's the game's code that had crashed the game, not smth else. Not just "an error occured". Switch version does it right - "An error has occured WITHIN THE GAME". And I don't see any more need in fixing the bug which only occurs when someone is being rude/intentionally trying to break the game, not the bug which I dunno makes the final boss disappear for everyone and soft locks the game. Fixing the rom will be much more expensive job than just properly crash the emulator. Although I do think that this job is already done by miriads of reverse engineer enthusiasts, and Nintendo just needs to apply this in their game. Maybe they are just not Rockstar Games? (those who embedded someone's NoCD hack in their official release)
Hej Larry I got your book on Tuesday and I will finish it before work tomorrow. What an incredible fun and easy read, it was like a marathon of this video series. I never expected it to have such a great quality to it too. Its a really beautify and well made book. So thank you for that well worth the wait and price.
… :/ I don't know what I was expecting, but it wasn't the same tired, old knowledge about _Metroid_ that everyone already knows. And, to think… Mansfaping gave him money to advertise in this episode. *Edit:* … that was a typo, but… I don't want to fix it…?
I'm a big man myself. My worst was at 370ilbs. I'm down to 205 now but I've become fairly muscular from work. Next step is to do some weight training so you become an absolute unit.
I remember playing around making up passcodes for Mike Tyson's Punch-Out based off of ones I had gotten as I played. I actually got one to work and it started me at Macho Man with a record of 1 win and 99 losses! No joke. I wish I had written that down at some point.
"Cheezy 80s infomercial" may just be the best aesthetic for the sponsor spots. Map Men is the only other channel I've seen that makes the sponsor promo an actual fun part of the videos.
Great, I just bought a Switch and now I discover it can't handle me playing Metroid for three-hundred years. What a piece of junk.
This was designed to keep kids from cheating or else it would have potentially disastrous consequences. Which is still true. If anyone doesn't know how to fix a bricked system than yes to them it's a paperweight, however if anyone is remotely trained and educated with computers and basic programming there truly isn't such a thing as a bricked console. Which brings to question, why don't you want to try to beat the game on your own skill? It says something on a personal level if your willing to at least try instead of cheat.
Peter von Feldt get off your high horse. Cheating is fun. It has nothing to do with “who I am as a person” chill with your ego.
What does it do on Switch?
Think on the positive side, in 300 years time, you'll probably own a Nintendo console that CAN run the Engage Ridley code without crashing :)
@@Openreality It was a joke. Also if something is bricked k think it usually takes more than "basic" "programming" to fix it.
Ridley is the only Nintendo character powerful enough to both Smash and smash your consoles.
Could you finish the sentence plz...
Both smash and smash your consoles... Doesn't seem like 2 differents things to me...
@@kevintappminville195 He's referring to super smash bros. "Smash" is used as slang for competing in one of the games.
@@BenGearig Hey!
i'm having a very acute and energy draining gastroenteritis.
And you, what's your reason for being butthurted?
@@BenGearig I made a mistake so what.
I don't divert attention from meaningless error. I put attention on you heatheness.
@@kevintappminville195 can you just chill? This isn't as serious as your making it.
You forgot the bonus version on Metroid: Zero Mission. Fortunately, it operates the same as the Prime version, as it was probably the same rom
Wanted to say the same thing.
@@inthefade ditto.
@@fawfulmark2 galarian ditto
Actually that is sort of curious since the GC and GBA don’t share hardware. Same ROM but it would require a different emulator so what it does when it tries to load that scenario wouldn’t necessarily create the same output.
Also would that make the standalone GBA ROM a port and not an emulation (since it crashes the GBA, meaning the system itself presumably couldn’t find an out in that situation)?
Many years ago (definitely before 2016) I typed several Metroid passwords, memorized from my youth, on my cousin's 3DS. One of them was all 6s on the top row and all Ks on the bottom row. It froze his console, but it definitely didn’t brick it.
I’m pretty certain that any password that normally resets the NES version will freeze the 3DS version.
Judt typed it into the Metroid Password Generator, It thinks you had been playing the game non stop for 29 years! you also had one energy tank, and Ridley dead.
But it crashes as it doesn't give the game a starting location, which confuses it and locks.
I swear it’s to the point where even my sleep paralysis demon is sponsored by manscaped
[SKIP AD>>]
this is the first I've heard of it. More shitty shaving products
The brewing podcast I listen to does a segment for them and hot damn does it get TMI quickly. But that sort of humour is part of their schtick I guess
Wtf! I just watched a video about sleep paralysis then here's your comment about it in this vid.
Mine's sponsored by RAID Shadow Legends.
I eagerly await the day that *H-E-L-L-O Y-O-U* will be a password in a game
Indie Game Devs, write that down!
You could always take out the battery or let it die to get rid of the last one... Not only that, but if something merely crashes a system and doesn't make you have to use hacks to get it running again, I'd hardly call it a brick.
Oh. I thought he meant it would overwrite the firmware. It would be conceivable for a memory leak to do this, since the 3DS has built-in persistent storage.
@@ZipplyZane
IIRC nothing in the 3DS community has actually been confirmed like this. It's likely an exaggeration that it could actually brick the console.
So Larry is here exaggerating the content of his video, or donesn't know what "bricked" is. I like his content mostly, but sometimes he's just silly and misinformative.
To those who aren't tech savvy, yes it definitely is a brick, but if anyone is stupid enough to cheat pass a game that was hard by any era standards, than they deserve to have bricked consoles, if Nintendo doesn't ban your account for jail breaking consoles.
@@Liggliluff
No he just knows that a majority of gamers aren't really tech savvy.
I remember seeing the garbage screen and Samus looping around the starting screen before, and I've heard about the 3DS bricking problem before, but I never understood exactly why that password caused the game to act like that until now. 314 consecutive years of play time, huh? That's dedication right there!
Guess I was spared of this disaster as the only Metroid I played was the second one.
But who would have thought that entering profanity into the game was so overwhelming that it crashes your system?
I guess it's just a coinsidence, as it seems to allow you to insert anything ...?
The password of all 0, with the last character on both rows being 5 or larger, it also crashes it.
Just think about the justin bailey code, there is no person involved with that name, it just happens to work for that specific result.
Shiro, I've learned to just stop questioning your profile pic. Thick thighs save lives after all, you're just trying to be a hero.
This video is sponsored by Peter Molyneux
He promised to pay me.... still waiting, he'll do it someday right? *HELOOO YEEUUUUXXX*
Yeah, and those trees he promised us will DEFINITELY grow in real time.
I miss Peter. NOT
"For all intensive purposes."
Aaaaaaaaaa
Those phrases are so ingrained into the collective subconscious, they come to people's minds a diamond dozen.
@@roadent217 The phrase is "For all intents and purposes" not "For all intensive purposes".
@@sizzxrk
I hole-hardedly agree, but allow me to play doubles advocate here for a moment. You think I am taking proper grammar for granite, but you should really stop being such a pre-Madonna. Take off that huge ship off your shoulder. Sometimes you have to swallow your prize and turn a blonde eye to someone's writing miss steaks.
@@roadent217 Fair enough mate lol. That's a nice lot of misspoken phrases, I was *pacifically* pointing out the problem with that one though 😂
i'm so glad i'm not the only one who noticed, and cringed.
Have you lost more weight, Larry? Looking good, man.
I'm proud of him. Keep it up bro!
and he's turning slowly into H. R. Giger
@Frizzurd "Buy our product or else!!!" LOL
Makes sense because ridley
Looks like he has. Not to be rude, but it looks like he needs a shower, though.
Now I can't stop imagining Larry shaving his baw sac. Tasty.
Soo... it only really bricks one console (The 3DS), and that one can be fixed by letting the battery die. Okay.
Well, he said without the firmware update, it will be locked forever. But considering he even called the updated version bricked, even though you can restart it. I don't think I'll trust him with what is bricked or not.
If your stupid enough to try it after being warned, you deserve to have expensive paperweights. And he wasn't lying, he just knew how to fix bricked consoles when most people probably don't.
@@Openreality But it's not bricked, it's not a paperweight. When the battery runs out (which it eventually will do), you can charge it up and use it again. Most it is, is a temporary paperweight.
As long as any capacitors are discharged within the system.. it will forget and then just insert the battery..
Same as ram.. turn off and disconnect power.. count 30 and you're golden.
@@garystinten9339 Sooo...pull it out, wait for the discharge to stop, and put it back in?
That's what SHE said.
"So I welcome you to these disasters of data, these passcodes of peril, these saves of spurious quality and these bits of brickdom as I say BUT HELLO YOU..."
PS: Nice touch using the Axiom Verge music!!
Good ear. Good soundtrack.
Just for the record, the anime at 5:23 is the second Squid Girl OVA.
lol E-Zero
Toonrick12 i thought it was JoJo Part 4
SquadalaGuy do you mean part 3? Part 4 never showed a cartridge
Is that the episode where they play on a console with super stiff buttons?
Toonrick12 A man of culture! 👊
Note that the password is basically equivalent to this password:
000000 00000B
000000 00000B
And the password causes it to pick an invalid starting location, which can lead to the NES executing an invalid instruction. Nothing permanent here, just power it off and on again.
All these passwords will also start at an invalid starting locations:
000000 00000x
000000 00000x
Where x is between 5 and 9, or A through F.
Another note is that some of those invalid locations will kick you back to the title screen instead of actually loading the password.
@nice try167 unplug the battery?
@nice try167 unplug the battery?
Let the battery die, the system is still on, it will die eventually. Then you can charge it back up and use it again. It is just softlocked, not bricked (and not softbricked either).
I still can't believe that I'm featured in this. This... I'm speechless in all honesty. Thank you for not only using my clip, but crediting me as well.
From what I know, the problem is not so much that any part of the code itself is invalid on it's own, but rather that it clashes horribly. Basicly, it has the resetflag enabled which boots the player to the first room, but the location is a diffrent area(I think it was tourian, but does not really matter). Once one of the two aspects are fixed, the code performs normally. Why nintendo did not think to make it impossible for the game to run illegal instructions in the first place is beyond me, but eh. something like that also happened in the japanese version of pokemon gen5, where one pokemon that was shinylocked was able to spawn shiny and thus just crash the game.
I love how Larry even manages to make the advertisment bits fun to watch!
I'm surprised you didn't talk about the copy of NES Metroid found in Metroid Zero Mission. While it won't break your system, it can wipe out your save file.
Fact Hunt Special: That Time I Stayed on a Horrible Website Just to Mock Them!
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Zamininc He’s staying at Channel Awesome ironically.
Thank god.
Now a days "This video has been sponsored by.." Fills me with dread
Why? There is literally not a damn reason a youtuber spending 30 fuckin seconds of a video to get paid should inconvenience you. You can skip it, you can ignore it, it only benefits the youtuber.
I am genuinely curious what goes through the mind of people like you.
Al Dakota It can be annoying hearing about RAID Shadow Legends all the time.
Al Dakota Ever hear of a mobile game called Raid: Shadow Legends?
Ashtin's Bizarre Adventure “Manscaped Ballz 3D Legend”
@@lh757 okay, and? What in gods name does that do to harm anyone? You can skip the fucking thing! Do you want youtubers to go broke just cause you have some weird pet peeve?
You can run down the 3DS battery and the 3DS will boot up as normal as if you had performed an emergency reset. That title is quite the exaggeration.
Or you could just physically remove the battery.
@@LonelySpaceDetective i am really oblivious, are you serious or are you joking?
Bricking means the console becomes unusable and will not work no matter how much you reset or unplug it. The name comes from rendering the console basically as useful as a brick. It does NOT brick Nintendo 3DS systems, just crash them.
@FreeBirb Except all it really does is freeze the system up in a way that prevents the normal forced power down from working as it should. If you remove the battery or let it drain all the way, the system will work as normal from then on. So, not a brick. The privilege escalation needed to put the firmware in a compromised state is far more complicated than just crashing the nes emulator in a big way.
@FreeBirb let it die.
If you're tech savvy there truly isn't such a thing as a bricked console. However the opposite is equally true, if you aren't tech savvy than any glitch, cheat code, or hack can possibly brick your console if you don't know what to do. Its that simple.
The TH-camr Bisqwit did an analysis on why this password (and similar passwords) cause so many problems. Essentially, these passwords tell the game to load an invalid location. When that happens, the game sends improperly formed commands to the cartridge's MMC1 memory mapper chip, putting it into an inconsistent state and sending the code spiraling off into chaos - where it will eventually encounter an illegal opcode, halting the emulator (or freezing the NES).
This also explains why the very earliest cartridges behave differently - the first revision of the MMC1 chip may have been, shall we say, "relaxed" in its fault handling, while the later revisions adhere to the specification much more stringently. Since emulators are all based on the specification, they will behave the same as the later revisions. (It is likely the actual ROM was not changed between these versions.)
I knew this was going to be this password
Whelp I've destroyed my 3DS, time to lawnmower me balls.
Fact Hunt Special: that time I loaned Peter Molyneux a quid and he forever became a running gag on my channel
Hey there, Sergal! ^.=.^
@@AzrialAlaria hello, dergun
ThT was awesome!! I’ve never enjoyed a story AND an ad so much! You held that maniac grin for a BIT longer than a sane person would. I love it!
Larry: This video is sponsored by...
Me: 🤞Don't say Raid, don't say Raid🤞
Larry: Manscaped!
Me: *phew*
I'd rather have Raid then an add about shaving your balls.
@@iaincowell9747
I'd rather have an ad for shaving your balls over raid.
I mean, he did crack a joke as well.
Never, NEVER in my life did I think I would see Larry Bundy be offered and accept a Manscaped sponsorship.
0:22 Doug DeMuro is leaking into everyone else's videos.
And his "son" Tyler Hooves with that sponsor section music too
THIS... is well observed.
What do you mean? That isn't, like, his footage is it?
@@Mokujo "Quirks & features".
Kalvinjj - actually, Tyler is OLDER than Doug and may know more about cars as well...
2:30 "...this error even soft-bricks your system!"
There's no such thing as a goddamn softbrick. You're either bricked or not. It's like calling fainting "softdying." Please stop using that term.
Finally someone who fucking says it. This was either a "freeze" or a "hang up". God damn clickbait.
Soft lock started this whole craze with everything going “soft” lol
None of the consoles seems to have been bricked either. He mentioned the unpatched 3DS being a paper weight because of the "blank screen", but never mentions what happens if you let the battery die out and the charge it back up again
Yup, that’s what I was thinking too.
@@DjSamination or just remove the battery
1:50 Larry, please tell me you didn't just say "for all intensive purposes."
It's "for all intents and purposes", which actually makes any kind of sense.
Don't take semantics for granite. That's when things go from worse to wurst.
@@czardeaner7713 Defiantly.
memespace We midas well keep going, but we should grab something to eat while we do. Bone apple tea!
He uses the term "softbrick", which makes no sense either. He aslo calls it "bricked" when it isn't. When a device is bricked, it means that the device is as technologically useful as a brick. Softbrick makes no sense. He meant to say "softlock" or "feeze", but calling it bricked just sounds more intense!
Nope all intensive purposes, get your ears checked you idiot. "Intents and purposes" was never a saying at all. Intensive basically is another way for say intense or important. Intents, isn't a word , therefore it was never a saying.
Ordinarily i object top permanent ads in youtube videos, but the one in this video is priceless and must be preserved forever.
Finally, another upload.
Just dropping a comment to say that yes, I read the subtitles, and thank you so much for writing them!
Last time i came this early my wife left me
The background music from around 2:12 to 4:06 is from Axiom Verge for those wondering. A great soundtrack and a very good Metroidvania in its own right.
What about the music from 0:06
@@lars3213 No idea, but I think I've heard it in Larry's videos before.
Nintendo could of easily used that failsafe from the Metroid Prime GBA version just to stop the systems from crashing. I think the reason why the Error failsafe is used is to prevent any crashes in the game.
By far and away the best Manscaped ad-read on YT! Congrats on the sponsor my dude.
Lol, thank you. I thought it might be funny to do it in the style of an '80s informertial. Manscaped had to aprove it before it went live and I heard they absolutely loved it!
What’s your favorite Switch exclusive game, Larry?
“Bowser, I’ve been dead for eight years and you’ll never be able to leave here until you accept that. You’ve been living a lie ever since I died. This isn’t your house. This is a padded cell in a psychiatric ward. Your family misses you. Raven Branwen has to work two jobs to compensate for your absence, and without a proper male authority figure Bowser Jr. has gotten involved in gang activity. Everything you’ve worked for and everyone you love is going to hell and you selfishly decide to sit here and play childish games with yourself. This fragile dream must be shattered. Wake up, Bowser.”
Eep. Didn't expect such psychological comment in a Larry Bundy video.
*YOU AGAIN?!?*
Great video Larry! I don't need a Lawn Mower 3.0, I use a Spectrum Vega+!
Only the digital version of pokemon sword and shield can delete game data and have less than half the content of the previous games and still sold like hot cakes.
Yeah cause it's still a decent game.
@@skyrimlover777No, it's because consumers knew they were mass produced, so snapped them up to be destroyed, never to be played again. Only a few thousand have survived
Are you okay?
I love how you used my favorite song from Axiom Verge in your video. Vital Tide is a haunting piece of music.
I don't know what bothers me more. That you reused content for an entire video, or that you said "all intensive purposes."
I dunno why everyone is bringing up "all intensive purposes" but not "softbrick."
@@CrazyRiverOtter Or "bricked", none of these consoles are bricked, not even the pre-pached 3DS. It's just softlocked/frozen, and the battery needs to be removed/emptied to work again.
Its a real saying. Since when is a saying offensive? Especially if it doesn't directly target a person, place or thing.
"All intents and purposes."
@@Openreality 1.) No, it isn't a real saying and 2.) Nobody has claimed it's offensive.
Nintendo Engaged Ridley once...
They were never the same after that...
Your ending music seems inspired by "The Lords of Acid" music :) (It's not the same but it reminded me of one of their songs) Another excellent video!!! I kind of want to try it out but I only own like 3 of the systems you mentioned and 1 of those is a New 3DS XL so yeah I don't even want to get that near my system lol
I think the music is from NFL Blitz 2000
Dude you're right! Love that song! Lol
Even your promotion is super entertaining holy shit
aw, thank you! Yeah I though if I'm going to make you sit through an advert, at least make it entertaining :D
I'd love to hear about the legal aftermath. I mean the company essentially made an app that bricks their own device
I was really surprised to see Tim Pool give Larry's book a shoutout on his podcast the other week. Talk about worlds colliding.
If someone like that likes Larry's stuff...it looks bad for him from a certain perspective.
Tim Pool is a shit covered in puke
Who'd of thunk, i love both these guys don't which all of Tims vlogs but will keep an ear out for that shout out.
Wow, lot of indoctrinated people here. Tim Pool is as middle-of-the-road and objective a pundit as they come.
Anyone who thinks he's some objectionable terrible person has reaaaaally been drinking the Koolaid hard.
Guru Larry returns to lay down some great gaming history.
I have no gonads to groom but nice commercial, I especially liked the Shantae-esque boxer short dance at the end
Games lost to the ages would be an interesting video though I think you did one before I’m sure there’s other games that are now considered “lost media”
Nothing wrong with a bit of lady gardening :)
Thumbobby I wholeheartedly agree, but I think my gonads turned into ovaries and I’d prefer not to groom those! I hope that trimmer isn’t THAT good! That’d be more gruesome than any video game that said a little trim does make one feel good. I don’t want anyone to think I’m smuggling tarantulas in my swimsuit, even though I like tarantulas.
That's not what bricking means.
Pedant.
@@MagikGimp They're right though.
SOFT bricking can be reversed sometimes through doing a system reset, like Larry said in the video.
@@BloodyAngel88 No. That's not bricking.
@@porovaarayeah, it's _soft_ bricking. Soft bricking and bricking are 2 different things
I don't know what's scarier, a password to an old game that crashes the entire system or the fact he uses a facial shaver on his balls...
Is this a re-upload? I recall you mentioning this awhile back…
Ah, well; more Larry's never a bad thing! ♥
This exact topic was discussed a lot when the 3DS version of the game was first released, so that's probably why.
“When it comes to shaving, I only want the latest technology touching my balls” - I normally skip adverts, but that one really got my attention. Well played Larry. As a reward I will watch the rest of the advertisement.
Is Manscaped really safe for balls? I nicked myself bad one time, and I never want that to happen again so I'm gonna need some additional confirmation.
It's just awkward having itchy bollocks when the hair starts growing back. Especially in public.
@@BobMonkeypimp Waxing is the way to go. It really is the only option unless you want to pony up for laser hair removal.
Either you wax or you just use a light duty electric shaver set at a low level. Just make sure it's not so low that the hair isnt short enough to be stiff and prickly.
Shaving only ever looks/feels good for a day.
@DevilKaz Never use an electric on the nuts. That's crazy.
I'd never heard of this madness before...but I'm kind of intrigued to try it now.
"Metroid games bricking consoles"
(Motherboard getting bios flashed/update) "Am i a joke to you?"
(4:40) Who doesn't know that you hold down the power button on things to shut it down? Plus, it will eventually shut down when the battery runs out.
I wonder what would happen when you charge the 3DS back up after it runs out of battery
It works like normal. It's not bricked.
Always wonderful getting a video from the hunger games winner.
"Soft Brick" isn't a real term for fuck's sake. That's a Freeze or Console Hang Up. A Brick renders the console PERMANENTLY useless, like in the early days of Wii softmodding doing it without care, would result in an ACTUAL brick, meaning you'd need to actually buy a NEW one.
Soft brick is a term but it's not used correctly here. Generally a soft brick is something like when a device will turn on but cannot be used in any meaningful way, like (say) a Linux box that boots up but then sits spinning on the kernel loading text indefinitely... or a computer that boots to the bios splash but can't be interacted with. A hard brick is the traditional "brick" where the device is effectively an electronic brick/paperweight and cannot even power on to any boot screen etc.
Using proper terminology from the field is important to make sure communication happens effectively. If someone said to me their device was "soft bricked", there's no way that I would think "oh, just reset it" or "oh just pop the battery out", I would be thinking about things like OS reinstall, flashing firmware, sideloading, etc, and that's where my advice would be coming from. That'd be a really bad situation for someone who really just needed to power cycle their device.
@Tommy Kavanaugh No, I don't control the world, but this misuse of terms like this lead to rumors, false accusations, clickbait and sensionalistic headlines, poor journalism all around. For example, even if it might not be the best example, the news that Mighty No. 9 bricked Wii Us spread like wild fire to make the game look even worse than it already was, it was entirely fake. The game did not brick Wii Us, it merely froze them pre-update patch, requiring to turn off the console and turn it back on. The console wasn't damaged in any way.
@@justinkendall8341 Thanks for clearing that up. I had never heard the term soft brick for these specific situations, just the term brick in itself.
@@kat_lynx no worries, it's not a very common term so that's understandable. :)
Dropping you a shout as I love having subs available. Keep it up, along with the weight loss.
Aw, cheers matey! Muchly appreaciated!!!
I'm early on a Guru Larry video woo
Nice touch using Axiom Verge music in the background! That and the commercial at the end is why I love TH-cam.
Cant you just remove or run down the battery to unbrick the 3ds? Im at a loss as to how any gamecode could do any permanent harm to the firmware itself as it should be locked to writing unless a signed update is applied.
meetoo594 I was wondering that too.
It'll work like normal. It doesn't get bricked.
Although your terminology is a bit misused, this video is definitely a good public service announcement. I salute you for putting in the work for this.
"All intensive purposes" eh?
It's a mute point, really.
Whats the problem? This video is a blessing in the skies
Do knot trussed yours bell check her two fined awl yore miss stakes.
Allow me to play doubles advocate for Guru Larry
It's worth it's waiting gold.
ffs, that ad at the end XD Love it.
twitches.... Ok I don't mean to be that girl, but it's like nails on a chalkboard. "intents AND purposes" not "intensive purposes"
Achron Timeless stfu
For all in tents anpurr passes. I don't mind either way.
Ok, I actually didn’t know that. Makes a lot more sense now that I think about it though ah
I was just about to add this
For all intensive purposes it's intently purposeful. I get it...what drives me insane is when people say things like- "all of the sudden" or "irregardless." That last one really hurt to write and was actually set in my autocorrect.
I have witnessed honest to God college seniors writing things like my two examples in research papers. I have outright refused to peer review papers when I see things like that so...I get you, I really do. Perhaps the absolute worst is when I hear people say "a whole nother..." that's not a fuc..."nother, is not a word.
Bruh the dude who made subtitles was drunk lmfao
Isn't that hoovies garage theme playing in the background to your manscape promotion
Thank you for providing subtitles! You're a king among men
You are most welcome, can't stand the ones youtube provide, they just give you a headache.
E-Zero is such a hidden gem.
What?! I don't want all my Nintendo consoles bricked!!!
I love your videos Larry BTW.
Passwords can do that 🥺
Yes, essentially the initial code used in games with a PassCode system is loading variables like: Money^ Time^ Collectables^ you get the idea. So imagine information like a=Hockey Puck b= Basket Ball and (H)(I)(0) represent Five, Ten, and Fifteen The information might be 0aHbi could mean level 15 5 Hockey Pucks collected and starting with 10 Basketballs This would mean cobbling up some thing like 8K6bi would give bizarre results like Level 8 Key to Boss section 10 Basketballs. But the creators didn't intend for anyone to locate the 10 Basketballs in level 8 and so when you defeat the boss to retrieve one you might develop a fatale error, get it?
Holy shit Larry that's you at the end?!
I thought that HAD to be someone else completely!
BRB. Going to go brick my SNES.
Was Metroid released on the SNES? I don’t think it was
Super metriod was but not Metroid.
Thank you for putting the commercial at the end. That being said, that commercial shouldn't be missed!!
Thanks, might as well make it entertaining if I'm going to make people watch sponsored ads!
If I would've been the developer of emulator, I would've add an error like
"Error 0x000... Don't try to engage Ridley in such manner please..."
I mean, I don't see anything wrong with Nintendo just crashing the emulator, what it's supposed to do when it encounteres an illegal execution code generated by the password for fuck's sake!
Bricking the console is not good ofc, but just properly crashing the emulator - I consider it an okay fix. Maybe an improvement here will be just adding a more understandable error, which says that it's the game's code that had crashed the game, not smth else. Not just "an error occured".
Switch version does it right - "An error has occured WITHIN THE GAME". And I don't see any more need in fixing the bug which only occurs when someone is being rude/intentionally trying to break the game, not the bug which I dunno makes the final boss disappear for everyone and soft locks the game.
Fixing the rom will be much more expensive job than just properly crash the emulator. Although I do think that this job is already done by miriads of reverse engineer enthusiasts, and Nintendo just needs to apply this in their game. Maybe they are just not Rockstar Games? (those who embedded someone's NoCD hack in their official release)
Hej Larry I got your book on Tuesday and I will finish it before work tomorrow. What an incredible fun and easy read, it was like a marathon of this video series. I never expected it to have such a great quality to it too. Its a really beautify and well made book. So thank you for that well worth the wait and price.
… :/ I don't know what I was expecting, but it wasn't the same tired, old knowledge about _Metroid_ that everyone already knows.
And, to think… Mansfaping gave him money to advertise in this episode.
*Edit:* … that was a typo, but… I don't want to fix it…?
I love how the code that crashes has a swear, like the game HATES SWEARING
uwu
Holy crap you got skinny. Good for you Larry we need you in good health so you can continue to produce quality content.
I'm a big man myself. My worst was at 370ilbs. I'm down to 205 now but I've become fairly muscular from work. Next step is to do some weight training so you become an absolute unit.
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Lol
This video is worth watching for the product skit alone.
You hero Larry.
great clickbait
All videos are clickbait you moron.
Good video! You would think Nintendo would patch this 34 years later. That Manscaped ad at the end was legendary with the added film effect.
So Ridley really is a Muddy Funster for your console.
I remember playing around making up passcodes for Mike Tyson's Punch-Out based off of ones I had gotten as I played. I actually got one to work and it started me at Macho Man with a record of 1 win and 99 losses! No joke. I wish I had written that down at some point.
The 3DS bit is kinda misleading. You can revert to FSM with a magnet then flash an updated firmware.
I didn't know consoles could get freaky like that 🥵
Any console that you can update can potentially be bricked.
The best way to give your Nintendo console seizures.
As I suspected, if you remove the battery it will still work fine so it isn't truly a "brick", still interesting they never patched it out earlier.
"Cheezy 80s infomercial" may just be the best aesthetic for the sponsor spots. Map Men is the only other channel I've seen that makes the sponsor promo an actual fun part of the videos.
Ryan George does it with his Adstranaut.
The use of Axiom Verge ost was a nice touch