This topic is for the purpose of discussing #5664: MESHUGGAH, feos & Koh1fds's NES Battletoads "game end glitch" in 00:55.66

Nice and quick. Yes vote.

Go back and do it again. 4 times is not enough. Betcha the 5th time is more that enough. (Shotgun pubs.)

Link to video

Coooooool way to finish this game! It was very surprising. Yes vote. With the discovery of new glitches recently, I hope if someone improves the 2p warpless someday.

Not sure how you can manipulate level 1 music, but nicely done still! Easy yes vote.

That jumping glitch is so cool to watch! It makes the end look so much smoother now. Great work on the new run all around. Yes vote!

Challenger: I might tackle 2p warps, but it's definitely not on my "next projects" list. The 1p warpless is very long / 2p warpless is already updated and no real incentive in working on it. 2p warps probably needs discussion with feos about "movie goals" as we used previously the fastest warp 1 level, but I think that after the reactions from HRDQ showing the TAS, we could definitely spice up it to include some entertainment/speed tradeoffs. Captain Forehead: by pausing and unpausing the game alternating between the two player's pads without losing time. The previous-previous submission notes includes it. This was abused in most of my game end glitch runs but this one only at level 1. On level 3 it flickers the background too which could be seen as a negative thing (and probably went unnoticed as lack of feedback). Alyosha: wanted to emphasize the trick and the ending result really differentiates enough from previous versions of this TAS FCEUX 2.2.3 version (the original version. this submission has different inputs for resyncing random factors and payload on P2 pad): User movie #42077213552229072

Big YES VOTE! Great work and awesome glitch!

"Zits%" can be pretty entertainment. Like you can skip all sprite walls in Ice Caverns with the stick and then spawn necessary objects with the stick. I managed to spawn last warp, last checkpoint, but didn't managed to spawn end of the level trigger. Link to video JC said that he already got "bike glitch" with Zits.

Level can only end if you trigger the expected amount of checkpoints. You can't trigger them if you break them. So you won't end the level that way. But warp is known to work regardless of checkpoints, you just have to spawn objects by scrolling the screen in a certain way. Otherwise, I don't think it will be too different.

Nice little improvement, and I like the change to the ending. The music threw me off a bit, I wondered if it would 'pause' if you hit start at the end, but I see it goes to the title screen like you would expect.

Informations from IRC elaborated: Original game ending path (mostly done by memory) 1. final level, boss dies 2. in-game cutscene 3. dialog cutscene from boss (can be manipulated but won't progress from there, the cutscene will be replayed each time you watched/skipped it) for 1P / dialog cutscene from eagle guy (every game end glitch uses this once getting through game over) for 2P 4. flying ship cutscene 1 5. final screen Final level consists of step 1, 2 and ends with loading step 3 Ending sequence consists of step 3, 4, 5 All the special scenes (I'v elaborated this enough times) can be manipulated. Short list: intro, warp 1 level, warp 2 level, reset level, game over screen, 2 unexisting levels, ~4 corruptd game over screen, boss dialog cutscene. Remove 1 B from P2's pad last input to get "old" ending (from step 3) instead of this movie version I've already did in my very 1st usermovie (which starts from step 5) It's very easy to identify the game ended. The game takes no input starting from step 3. Otherwise, you would have non-lag frames to input. So if you try to be a barbarian and mash some other buttons in the movie, the game over screen will either fail or countdown finally and then the next cutscene (with hawk guy) will have non-lag frames and won't magically starts step 3 (because it didn't loaded step 3's cutscene but the game's primary "you suck" cutscene which looks visually same apart from text). I think I've covered every area. edit: originally the music would change at step 3/step 4 but since we went to the final ending screen, there was no new music to load. If this would be just a simple image showing, you could instantly press start to get to the title screen.

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Dunno if this is worth using, but here's a pic that tries to demonstrate the improvement:

I think the screenshot should refer to the corruption. The improvement shines in the movie already.

The publication text needs some fixing, parts of the third paragraph still refer to a single author (the obsolete publication also has some of the same errors).

So does the run actually console verify?

Sorry for bumping this old submission, but I am noticing an issue with music. The stage 1 theme appears to be un-able to play more than one note at a time, I am not sure if this is an emulation issue or if some options setting is the cause. Does anyone know why this is?

Sorry for bumping this old submission, but I am noticing an issue with music. The stage 1 theme appears to be un-able to play more than one note at a time, I am not sure if this is an emulation issue or if some options setting is the cause. Does anyone know why this is?

I'm pretty sure this is caused by alternating pressing pause on player 1's controller and player 2's controller every other frame, which prevents the game from ever really pausing but messes up the stage music. The submission text says it manipulates level 1's music, so I'm assuming that this is what was done.

As Lobsterzelda wrote, it's due to the use of the pausing which screws with the sound of the music. It's not an emulation issue.

I understand now, apologies fir the needless thread bumping then.