"Fastest crash" speedruns have seen some popularity on nicovideo lately, so I wanted to make a post here now. Although I'm kind of late...
What constitutes a "crash" or a "freeze"?
The freezes in
Kirby & The Amazing Mirror and
Kirby Nightmare in Dreamland can also be counted as "soft locks" (which would be the mildest kind of game crash). Are
Unwinnable situations softlocks as well?
That aside, I wanna put some notes here..
If you wanna know details about something, PM me here or on youtube.
Maybe someone knows better (or more) about a game than me, which would be interesting.
Super Mario Land 2
-Can be crashed within a few seconds, with the pause glitch.
-Can otherwise be crashed if you go out of bounds and crush stuff in the ROM area or something.
Kirby's Dream Land
-I don't know how to freeze this game. But you can probably make it unwinnable with a
glitch.
The Smurfs (GB)
-I don't know how to freeze this one. One glitch at the dragon boss would almost make it unwinnable but you can just kill yourself and re-try.
Kirby & The Amazing Mirror
-Can be softlocked with the glitch shown in the video linked above in this post. I haven't been able to do it in an earlier room, can't clip into walls.
-Can be frozen with a recent glitch I found, in the first Dark Kirby battle.
-Can be softlocked with a glitch that happened to SirVG in the Dark Mind 5 battle.
-Can be frozen/crashed with a glitch in the Dark Mind 6 battle.
-It may be possible to softlock with the Cook glitch.
Kirby Nightmare in Dreamland
-Can be softlocked when Kirby uses Crash a few frames after jumping out of water.
-Can be crashed and frozen if you press up+down on the battle against Nightmare's orb.
Mario & Luigi Superstar Saga (Mario & Luigi RPG)
-Can be made unwinnable in many ways, using glitches that involve wall clipping.
-Can be softlocked in the Hoohooros battle when one of the brothers learns his advanced move while Hoohooros is also attacking. (I guess that would be the earliest point where you can screw the game)
-Can be frozen/crashed with the Mini Mario glitch.
-Maybe many more possibilities to freeze the game, idk
Kirby Super Star Ultra
- You can freeze(?) the game early in Dynablade when you enter a miniboss while using Suplex(?) on an enemy. It never worked for me on every version of the game (JP, EU, US, Desmume and DS Lite).
Kirby Squeak Squad
-The only way I know to screw this game is to clip out of bounds with Ghost kirby in a certain level and then switch to Sword and use final cutter(I believe?). You will be stuck at the bottom of the screen forever. (But because it requires Ghost Kirby it means you have already beaten that level so you can exit)
-One glitch involving also Ghost Kirby is supposed to freeze the game when you possess Uja (the enemey that resembles Masterhand). But it doesn't work for me and I haven't seen footage of it so I believe it is false information.
-Maybe you can wall clip with Ghost Kirby and get stuck out of bounds (only on the Japanese version, because when they translated the game they changed how out-of-bound walls are made up). (But because it requires Ghost Kirby it means you have already beaten that level so you can exit)
Super Smash Bros Melee
-The fastest way I've seen on nicovideo is using Name Entry Glitch in Break The Targets.
-Game can otherwise be frozen in many different ways:
-- Put party balls, green shells on VERY HIGH; choose Final Destination and place two Foxes on each side and reflect shells until the game eventually freezes due to too much stuff going on.
-- Some way in training mode, involving putting many bob-ombs or red shells in a pit out of blocks in Green Greens, then attacking that spot.
-- Homerun Contest over the limit, either the sandbag reaches the right end or the lower end. The game can't process what happens if the sandbag reaches the border of the level.
-- So-called Soulbreaker glitch with Mewtwo can lead to a freeze
-- A glitch that I found, which involves using Fox' up-b under the wooden bridge diagonally up left in Adventure mode.
-- As Link or Young Link, kill Masterhand or Crazyhand with a thrown bomb while being grasped to freeze the game
-- Possibly many more
Kirby Super Star
-Crashed by using up+down on a ladder, earliest doable in Great Cave Offensive. I tried to improve by going to the ladder in Gourmet Race #2 but it takes longer.
-Otherwise, you can softlock the game with opposing directional input while Yoyo Kirby to make Kirby disappear forever. I don't know if the game allows you to leave the game mode or not, though.
-Opposing input while in Milky Way Wishes' overworld
-A crash glitch that I can't remember well. 0xwas should know about this. In Milky Way Wishes, in a previously beaten level, get Sleep(?) and leave and enter Nova(?).
-Another crash(?): Turn your wheelie partner into a wheel at the same time you hop on him. This will make Kirby get stuck in mid-air, and if an enemy touches him, the game freaks out. On emulator it may not crash the game. In any case you can softlock by simply doing this where no enemy can touch you. I don't know if the game allows you to leave the game mode or not, though.
Super Mario Sunshine
-The earliest softlock I know is when you beat the first goop piranha and you talk to someone at the same frame that the cutscene starts playing where it shows the goop disspitating and the ground evening.
-Many freezes possible, I think. But the only one I can think of:
--In a Shadow Mario episode, beat Shadow Mario and spray at a graffiti and obtain the shine during the cutscene where it shows the blue coin that appeared. This will make the game "brrrr"-freeze.
-You can "crash" the game by leaving the level at the same time you enter a loading zone into a new level. The game resets itself when you do this.
Zelda Wind Waker
-Abahbob will probably know better so I won't even try
Earthbound
-Can crash the game with the "Check Area glitch".
-Can freeze the game if you use Walk Through Walls glitch and walk off the map too far (it will not always freeze the game, but sometimes it really lasts for 100,000+ frames).
-For the record, I believe the shattered men glitch or the tree enemy that's set on fire and kills you while you kill it and win, both do not screw the game but only glitch up the graphics at most.
Kirby's Adventure
-You can get stuck somewhere late in the game due to bad level design. You float up and bad movement will push you inside of a wall with no way out.
-Transform into stone while inside a body of water (see the glitched TAS). Fastest crash TAS would probably be the exact same as the glitched TAS.
Daffy Duck The Marvin Missions (GB)
-Can probably be screwed really fast. I should try it later
Wario Land 2
-Clip out of bounds and touch certain blocks. Should be doable fast as well
I switched back to 10.3 but the video is still glitched.
EDIT:
I did a few test uploads.
30 FPS MPEG4 AVI -> This is the problem file
60 FPS MPEG4 AVI -> Seems to fix it, but I didn't account for the framerate change in my avisynth script, thus the resulting movie is trimmed at wrong frames
30 FPS MPEG4 AVI converted to MP4 -> Didn't fix it
30 FPS MPEG4 AVI converted to MKV -> Didn't fix it
30 FPS MPEG4 FLV1 -> Didn't fix it.
What I found out:
When the glitch occurs, rendering the video in another format may fix it sometimes. Rendering the video in a different framerate may fix it either sometimes or for good(?). Converting the problem video doesn't seem to fix it.