Hey everyone, my name’s tomatoanus, also
known as the One-Inch Wonder, and I have a bit of a different style video today. Normally videos on this channel cover different
speedruns where I provide commentary over the speedrun as it’s happening, and you
all like to leave lots of comments marvelling at how insane some of the glitches are. There’s seemingly an equal amount though
joking about how insane it is that these glitches were found in the first place, and asking
how on earth people even discovered them. My friend EZScape already has some videos
covering times that speedrun skips were accidentally discovered, but today we’re going to go
a bit more in-depth. I contacted three members of the speedrunning
community who have found glitches that are used in speedruns, and interviewed them about
the game they speedrun, the glitch they found, and got to hear their stories and insight
on discovering these glitches. And that’s what this video is; three first-hand
accounts on how speedrun glitches have been found. I hope that this video gives you a bit of
insight into how speedrunners search for ways to break games, and in-part answers the question
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Switch on launch day. I just loved LADX so much back in the day,
I just wanted to be ground floor on the new one, and I became active in the Discord and
started looking for ways to route the game, break the game, and then following the progress
and development was pretty insane. The game was a very rapidly developed game. In just one month we discovered a lot of tricks,
a lot of tech that just brought the time down drastically. If you’ve never seen this game, it’s a
top down Zelda. You have your dungeons, eight of them in this case. And this game is very strange compared to
a lot of other Zelda games because the premise is you’re trying to wake up from this trippy
dream where a giant fish is God. It’s honestly one of the strangest pieces
of lore in the series. So with the remake, the speedrun requires
you to get all eight instruments from the dungeons in order to open the egg and defeat
this nightmare in your dream to wake up. So to describe the speedrun, it’s very hybrid-based,
and by that I mean you’re doing a lot of sequence breaks, a lot of technical tricks
and glitches, but at the same time you’re still having to complete all eight dungeons
which means getting the instrument from that dungeon. In some cases that means completing the dungeon
almost vanilla, in other cases it means just skipping to that final instrument room and
not even having to destroy the boss of that dungeon. At the discovery of Early Lens, it was used in Any%, and currently it’s only used in the 100% category. So the state of the route before the glitch was discovered was what I would describe as very vanilla. You have to get all items from a trade sequence. So the classic Zelda trade sequence, right? So normally you would have to go through the
entire trade sequence, a lot of talking, a lot of backtracking, in order to get the Mermaid
Scale, which is the item that allows you to move the Mermaid Statue, revealing the magnifying
lens cave. So the Magnifying Lens item is used to, well
it’s required to read the Dark Secrets of Koholint Island, which is this book in Mabe
Village Library, that reveals the maze pattern in the final dungeon of the game which is
called the Wind Fish Egg. So it’s just dark, and you don’t know
which way to go, left, right, up, or down, and that is randomized every file. So every time you create a new file, that
pattern will be random, but this book will tell you what to do, so it was required to read that book and in order to read it, you need the Magnifying Lens. Early Lens was found five days after launch
on September 25th. Pretty proud of that honestly. *laughs” Early Lens allows you to enter the staircase
that leads to the Magnifying Lens without moving the statue which means that you don’t
have to complete the trade sequence in order to get to that cave. So normally you’re talking, like I said
you’re backtracking, and you’re trying to get all the items to get to the scale,
but Early Lens skips all that and allows you to just clip inside of that Mermaid Statue
to get the lens before you’re supposed to. So the way this glitch works is you need to
get on the outer wall around the Mermaid Statue. So this is just putting Link out-of-bounds
and then going back in-bounds into the statue, which will push Link into the staircase that
is underneath the statue instead of having to move it and the game thinks that Link has touched the staircase which does exist before moving the statue. So the way Early Lens works is combing one
fundamental glitch that is used heavily throughout the route and this glitch is called Air Climbing. Now, funny enough, this glitch was discovered
the day before I discovered Early Lens, and it was discovered by Flockdjur, we just call him Flock, and it has become the glitch in Link’s Awakening Switch. So you first need to Air Climb on the ladder
near the statue in Martha’s Bay, and the way you do this is you stand at the top of
the ladder, it looks like Link is standing on air. You pick up the blue rooster, which is this
lovable character in the game, and then you move forward and the game thinks that Link
is on the ladder, but you begin to climb on an invisible ladder, seemingly on air, so
that’s why we call it Air Climbing. At the peak of that ladder, or fake ladder,
you jump off and fly over the trees to get on the wall, which makes Link out-of-bounds. Now once you’re out-of-bounds, you have
to do a tightrope walk all the way around to the statue, and in my opinion this is the
more challenging part of the trick, just because of the stress level and the stress factor
in a run, and you’re having to just make sure that you stay right in the center of
that fence otherwise you’re going to fall off back into-bounds in the water or on the
land, and it’s gonna be slow. So you have to walk all the way around, once
you get to the corner you can jump or walk back into-bounds, and Link is pushed into
the same space that the Mermaid Statue is occupying, and Link hits the staircase trigger
and regardless of where the statue is, he goes into the stair and into the cave. The fence tightrope walk is not very forgiving. It’s very dependent on Link being right on top and it’s a sliver, it’s a wall, it’s an invisible wall, right? So Link is actually inside of that wall, looks
like he’s walking on a fence, but there’s a very tall wall right there. You don’t want to go too far left or right
or it’s going to push you out immediately and you have to retry the trick. If you mess up the tightrope, I would say
you’re looking at close to a one minute timeloss, maybe more, because you have to
walk all the way back around, well first you have to swim around, walk all the way back
around, and set up the trick again, so it’s pretty devastating in the run. If I had to rate the difficulty of this trick,
let’s say out of 10 with 10 being very difficult, I’d say about a 6. It requires an understanding of a fundamental
glitch, which in our case is Air Climbing, so you have to be able to set that up efficiently
and actually perform it, but the hard part is actually the precise movement. Especially under pressure. I discovered Early Lens because I was looking
for Early Lens. Like it was my mission to make that happen. Now again, we’re five days into the game's
life, we just got the game and the community is looking for things, it’s fresh, you know
how new games are, everyone wants to discover something, and you know at the time the vanilla
aspect of the game was the trade sequence. So this theory that the community came up with was like, “man it would be great to get the lens early.” So I thought, “well sure it would, so I’m just going to spend the rest of my life doing it until I get it.” I’m doing it on my lunch break, I’m putting
off work because that’s the beauty of speedrunning on the Switch. On the train I’m practicing tech, at work
taking breaks and I’m trying to get into this statue. So at one point, you can see on my Twitter
feed at one point I’m like stuck in the ground trying to fly into the staircase, I’m
trying to kill Link to get back into-bounds so that maybe I fall into the staircase. So I was looking for this trick, it was my
life’s mission, and I found it, and you know, tweeted it, clip goes viral, I think
ZFG re-tweeted it and I had to turn off notifications. But what was great about that is that I think
it gave the game some traction, I feel some many people may have wrote the game off as
“eh, it’s a remake, it’s not as good as LADX, it’s not really gonna be a good
speedgame.” And it was a big moment. It was great, we had fun with that one, so
yeah, I was really looking for that one. My first instinct to try and get into that statue and the stupid staircase was to go out-of-bounds. Before Air Climbing there was a method of
getting out-of-bounds with bombs actually. You can bomb clip through some floors or the
ground in some areas of the game with ladders, right, and there’s water underneath the
statue so you can swim. So I was swimming under the ground close to
the statue but there’s like an entire void space that Grezzo placed around the staircase
if not all staircases out-of-bounds, I don’t know as a safety measure for this very thing? So you can actually void in an infinite state
so that was happening constantly, resetting the console, bomb clipping again. So that was my first line of thinking, was
like, I’m just gonna clip into the ground and then swim over there and somehow not fall
into this bottomless pit, but it didn’t work out. So Early Lens saved about three to five minutes
and that’s kind of a big window there. That’s my best estimate because it wasn’t
used for a long time, however Samura1man was really pushing the record at the time the
first week of the release and it saved at least three minutes, more like four-plus,
so it saved minutes, it was a pretty good find. If I hadn’t have found Early Lens, the state
of the run would actually be the same as it is today. It’s actually kind of ironic, *laughs* this is terrible. The day after I found Early Lens, the remake
programming community and the LAS Discord discovered RNG manipulation, so what that
meant was that we don’t actually have to read the book to uncover the path because
it can be predicted every time because the way the game is coded, the RNG is set at game
start. So if you reset your Switch and start your
game at the same time every time, your egg path is going to be the same every time, so
you don’t even have to read the book. And I’m, you know I’m just a little salty,
but 100% still uses it so my pride isn’t completely destroyed, but I’m talking day after so it was a short lived glitch but it lives on in hundo. *Laughs* I was so pissed, but I was happy,
it saves so much time, RNG manip, it was good. While it was only used for a couple runs technically,
and while it’s not being used Any%, it meant a lot for the community. Again, we’re looking at the first week,
five days into the lifespan of the game, it was the first “breakthrough” glitch that
set the stage for further glitch-hunting, further research, further progression of the
game, and it just felt great, right? It meant a lot because at the time we thought
the game was extremely unbreakable, vanilla, as you do with new games. So it was huge, and it was fun to freak out
for that for a little bit, and it also proved that stairs can exist before an event, so
that could mean a lot of things for future glitches, getting the rooster early for instance,
that’s the next pipedream. It saved time. So I’m very happy with the glitch and I’m
very happy that I found it. Hey everyone, it’s SHiFT here, and I’m
going to explain how Sponge-Warping works in Battle for Bikini Bottom - Rehydrated. I’m mostly known for speedrunning the original
game which I’ve been doing for the past four or so years, but for a little bit when
the remake of this game came out this summer, I speedran it for a couple weeks, and before the game was even released actually, I had a review copy. So Battle for Bikini Bottom is a sixth gen
platformer which also has adventure game aspects and some puzzling as well. You pretty much work your way through these
levels that were inspired by the show to collect Golden Spatulas which are used to unlock the final boss, and once you beat the final boss, you beat the game. Rehydrated is a remake, it’s not the original
game re-painted or re-coded, it’s a game built from the ground up on Unreal Engine, whereas the original game was built on RenderWare 17 years ago. So it’s entirely different, and therefore
when you see something like the Bubble Bowl, the Cruise Bubble, the Bubble Bounce, and
so forth, they’re all meant to emulate the original game’s moves but they’re not
the exact same thing functionally. So as it’s well known, Battle for Bikini
Bottom is one of the more broken platformers in speedrunning, but the thing is, it’s
broken in a way that when you put a game under enough pressure for a long enough time, you
eventually find cracks and exploits that you make use of, and they lead to more exploits,
and eventually you just have a game that’s just extremely broken because the community
spent so much time breaking it. But it seemed like Rehydrated, just putting
a little bit of thumb pressure on it made it completely collapse, I mean the game had
a warp to the end of the game day one. Immediately even after that, people were still
finding tons of insane glitches because the game is just so busted. Rehydrated is basically 3/4 glitches and 1/4
movement, and BfBB is the exact opposite where it’s like 3/4 movement and 1/4 glitches
and tricks and stuff. Now in Rehydrated, there was a glitch found
the literal first day the game came out that can be used to warp to the end of the game,
because the devs oversaw something in Unreal Engine that allows you to use two controllers
at the same time to warp to different parts of the menu you haven’t unlocked yet. So due to this, you can beat the game with
two spatulas instead of the usual required 77, so like how Mario 64 you need 70 to get
to the final area, it’s like that but in this game you need 77. So because of this, we created a new category
called 77 Spatulas, and in this, as the name implies, you finish the game with 77 spatulas,
having not used the warp glitch to go straight to the end of the game. But there’s also a third category, 100%,
so we have 2, 77, and 100. The Sponge-Warping glitch is used in 77 and
100 because you actually get to go in other places than just the Pineapple and the final
boss, so there’s more of a use for those things since you can damage boost in them. I was doing some glitch-hunting before the
game actually came out, and I was able to show people what I’d found finally when
the embargo lifted the day before the game came out. And that’s because I was one of the people
who had gotten a review copy from THQ Nordic so I was doing some glitch-hunting while I
was anticipating being able to show people the game. One of these things that I showed off in this
video that I released was the Sponge-Warp. I actually don’t have an exact day when
I found it, because I found it during the period when I had my review copy and the embargo
wasn’t lifted, and then I uploaded it on the day the embargo was lifted, the day before
the game came out. So it was like sometime within a week before
the game came out, I found the glitch. Sponge-Warping was implemented within the
first week of the game coming out. The name Sponge-Warp is a play on the name
of the glitch from the original game called Sponge Gliding, which is the one where you
float across the beach, many of you are probably familiar with that one, but Sponge-Warping
is entirely different where it’s based on damage boosting and slamming while you’re
being launched back. Battle for Bikini Bottom - Rehydrated’s
physics engine is not traditional by any means. It feels very stiff and scripted but to our
advantage, actually, in speedrunning. Damage boosting kind of just sends you back
like a bungee cord to where you were standing before, and using the Bubble Bound hard translates
you upward. So if you combine the weird scripted physics
of the damage boosting with the translation upward from the Bubble Bounce, you get this
weird effect where the game calculates your landing position somewhere else than you should
have been. So you can use this to warp around maps and
land on taller objects and farther objects than you would have been able to before. So in the blink of an eye you’re watching
this happen and you just instantly teleport from one area to the next. It’s pretty crazy. Because the physics engine just feels so last-thought,
many of the actions in the game feel scripted where it just hard calculates where it’s
gonna put you and just kind of animates you back to that spot instead of actually having
real physics. So if it’s just calculating some translation
from being damage boosted back, and it’s taking another translation at the same time
into consideration while you’re being translated already, it kind of makes sense you would
end up in some weird spot that just doesn’t feel appropriate to where you jumped from,
because the base game mechanic is trying to place you back to where you were if you touch
something that hurts you and knocks you back, but interrupting it with another calculation
would in theory cause you to move somewhere else. So that’s kind of the idea, is that you
get put somewhere where you shouldn’t be because the game is calculating something
based off of two different actions you just did. It eventually got found out you can use lag
to extend these, so now most of the run is using these Sponge-Warping lag tricks to kind
of boost around the map and just warp anywhere. Just going straight into the sky and launching down. So in the original game, one of the most useful
tricks in the history of the game’s existence is the one-frame damage boosting where between
your damage animation and your falling animation, you have one frame where you can do any grounded
move. And obviously we wouldn’t expect that to
work in the remake because it’s different, but we still wanted to see how we could use
damage boosting and combining moves to our advantage. So before I was able to show people stuff
during the embargo period, I wanted to try and find a way to damage boost on top of one
of the statues in the Kelp Caves to get to one of the crystals early. So I ended up sitting and testing bouncing
off the goo and then slamming immediately after bouncing and just seeing what would
happen, and eventually after doing it a bunch of times, and eventually after doing it a
bunch of times, I just got shot straight up and I hit the ceiling and I fell straight
down and landed on the statue, and it just felt completely random, I popped off really
hard but nobody could hear because I was obviously not allowed to stream it, but it was really
strange and cool and I wanted to investigate to see where else it could be used. So I tried it in Goo Lagoon as well where
I got another really big boost, and I showed this off in my pre-release glitches and tricks
video actually, the first two tricks to be shown. So I couldn’t get on top of the castle with
that one, but then I thought to myself, “well, because the level design is different,
maybe this can be used to maybe clip out of the Goo Lagoon Caves.” So if you check the video, I theorized the
possibility of shooting out of the upper little hole in the cave, like in the ceiling. Obviously these are all pre-release theorycrafting
and glitches, so they’re pretty dated now but just to kind of get you in the state of
mind that somebody would be in when they’re trying to glitch-hunt a brand new game. That’s pretty much what I was thinking when I was going through. I personally didn’t find the useful implementations
that are being done in runs now, but it seemed like pretty much immediately people were finding
uses for them, but they still felt random. But now it seems like they’re being used
in a lot of spots in runs and also being used with implementation of lag as well. So it seems that the people who are still
actively running the game have gotten them down quite a bit and have kind of put it down to a science. It’s cool to see how stuff feels almost
random or just unexplained when a game first comes out, or when a glitch is first found,
and over time they just get better to the point where most people are using them in runs. It seems though that most of just the top
players have a grasp on how Sponge-Warping and Lag Boosting work, but a lot of lower
level players have kind of a difficulty getting into the run because they feel that they might
have to learn those to get competitive times. According to Jhay, which is one of the top
runners of the game, he’s third place I believe, he says they’re consistent but just difficult. I would take his word for it but I can’t speak for myself. If you mess up a Sponge-Warp, the amount of
time you lose from doing it depends on whether you die and if you die from doing it, where
you respawn. So for example, when I was running on high
FPS, the Sponge-Warp to do Goo Lagoon Skip would place you all the way back by Mrs. Puff
by the Mussel Bar if you failed it, so you have to go all the way back over there to try it again. So it depends on where you’re doing it and how risky it is. I’ve seen some of the runners do the ones
in Dutchman’s Graveyard where if you fail it you get launched so high in the air you
could probably just die, or fall in some random spot if you messed it up, so it seems pretty
high risk-high reward. I’m sure now, if according to the runners,
it’s consistent but difficult, I’m sure it probably feels pretty satisfying to get them. Especially because there are so many of them. It’s used many times with the lag now, getting
all of them in a single run might just be the best feeling ever to actually perform
them all perfectly. I believe that Sponge-Warping in conjunction with the
lag strategies made it much more challenging, I agree yeah. Because the lag strategies really blew it
wide open, because Sponge-Warping is just a method of damage boosting and the lag strats
just amplify the damage boosting to make them much more powerful. I don’t remember who exactly found the lag
strategies, but I remember that back during the first week the game was out, a runner
named Four who’s been around the community for, well I believe he joined in 2014, and
he left at some point in 2015 and came back in 2018, so he’s been in and out, he contributed
to the development of lag strategies which originally started with window dragging, which
people really weren’t happy about. Some people thought it was metagaming where
you’re doing something outside the game to affect it, but it was found eventually
that you can use Steam mapping on your controller to create different hotkeys for clicking and dragging the window,
and it’s not a macro either, before that comes up. It’s not a macro because it’s all one
input for one input. So for example, you’d have one hotkey that
maps to the mouse, which is positioned over the window, so you can use the window to lag
the game without having to physically drag it. There’s a whole explanation on how they
use the mapping in Steam to make this strategy consistent and much less awful to perform,
but that’s basically the gist of it, is that people developed window dragging and
Print-Screen lagging, and then eventually got to the point where people were mapping
their controllers to create a little sequence that you can press buttons and generate lag. It’s pretty cool. My personal philosophy is better knowing than
not knowing, because the goal is to make a game faster, not to make the game more fun. The fun comes second, fast comes first. So I’m glad that we know that this glitch
exists, but I know there are people who feel that the development of lag strats in conjunction with
Sponge-Warping has made the game a lot more annoying to speedrun. A lot of people stopped running it because of the lag strats. Despite knowing that a lot of people feel
that Lag Boosting, coming from Sponge-Warping, caused the game to become less fun to speedrun,
I still think that it’s cooler knowing these things exist than being blissfully unaware
of them. You can choose to make rules around your game
however you want, and obviously some games require more intervention than others. Like you see some games having different rules
about when to start their timer, different timing methods and so forth, some games have
rules about like you can do these glitches before you start the timer and so forth, different
communities make their own rules on how to play their games competitively, but I feel
that you should always desire to know the most you can about a game, and then worry
about the rules and the politics later. As soon as you start saying, like, “I wish
this wasn’t found,” people are not gonna be motivated to look for stuff and you don’t
know what’s not going to come from that I suppose. It’s best to encourage people to develop
games and not be so focused on like, “is this going to be fun or not,” because you
can worry about that later. There’s always a chance to make your own
rules and guide the community in the right direction that you best feel suits the purpose
of the run and what the community stands for. Hello, I am havrd, I’m a Norwegian speedrunner,
I found Saddle Skedaddle in Oblivion. Mostly I find glitches in speedgames or I
reroute speedgames from the ground up. Usually those are awful games that I enjoy
routing and showing off at marathons. Oblivion is an open-world action RPG where
you make your character, and uh… I don’t know, you probably find stuff and do stuff
to stuff, have fun I assume, but I’m all here for the glitches I’m afraid so I don’t
know much about the game other than that. The categories I had any interaction with was Any% and No Dragonfire Skip,
but yeah, Oblivion as a speedgame, it’s very broken. It has Loadwarping, which is bringing your
character from one point in space-time to another point in space-time. It has duping, it has ways to stack your movement
speed, it actually also has armor stacking which I also was instrumental in making viable. It has drinking a lot of drugs to go extra fast. Yeah, as a speedrun it’s very wonky, let’s put it that way. So Loadwarping is a glitch in the mainline
Bethesda games, not all of them, where you can make a save of your character, and in
some way or another teleport that character with its quest information, its inventory,
that kind of stuff, to another point. That point has to be a door or an entrance
or some sort of load trigger that you have made a save at previously. So you can only travel from somewhere you’ve
been to somewhere else you’ve been. The nice thing though is that you can be like
inside of a dungeon let’s say, and you go all the way to the boss, and usually you would
have to run back through the dungeon again which would take time, but we can just make
a save and then load an old save by a door, open the door while loading the save inside of the dungeon. Our dungeon character comes out of the other
side of the door, traversing space-time. I started messing around with Oblivion at
some point before the 23rd of January, but not many days before that, so 21st of January I would assume. And then I found Saddle Skedaddle on the 27th
of January, so it took a week of on-and-off research. But yeah, it was added to the Any% route on the day of discovery
and then in the other categories the next day. *laughs* Saddle Skedaddle saves somewhere on the order
of 21 seconds in Any%. People who are around speedrunning would be
aware that the shorter speedruns are by far more optimized. The time spent invested in them is less so
finding even a second timesave in three minutes is massive. So when you get upwards of 20 seconds, it’s groundbreaking. Earth-shattering is maybe a better word. It also affects the other categories. In No Out-of-Bounds or All Main Quests, it
saves over a minute in one of the later sections of the game when you’re in Paradise. You can use it to skip straight to the ending
of the area. The Any% route before Saddle Skedaddle was
you’re a prisoner man and you run around in the sewers to get out of the sewers, because
when you’re out of the sewers you go to the main city. And in the main city, there’s a district
with a 1D door behind a door. If you interact with this door, you’re now
in the endgame area of the game, and obviously there’s a trigger there that just gives
you the last quest and that’s Any%. So, explain what the glitch is is very simple. If you sit in a saddle or a chair, and make
a save, and you loadwarp that save within the same chunk of coordinates as the saddle
or chair would be, then you get teleported to that location. How it works is way more complicated and I’m
not sure if anyone really understands why it’s this way. So this, I’m gonna have to do this in steps. In Oblivion, you can have these informational
panels up on the screen to show you, like, your position, or the FPS the game is running
at, or the in-game date, stuff like that. And there’s a bunch of pages of these, and
there’s a lot of interesting information there. One of the lines is called a Procedure Pack. The best way to describe these Procedure Packages
is if you were to sit in a chair, your character goes into this animation of sitting down on
the chair. If it’s a horse, your character goes into
this animation of getting on a horse. So the first thing I discovered was you can
teleport with horses. Turns out you can do that over short distances
in the same cell, cell meaning a chunk of the playable Bethesda game’s worlds. You can do that with interacting with a chair
or a horse. So you can teleport between short distances
if you have a save and then interact with a horse or a chair and then load. So what if you bring a character that’s
on a chair or a horse into a door in the same cell? So what happens then is that you get a horrible
mangled mess of a character model, and then the game crashes. But you exist for, like, a substantial amount
of time, and that still makes no sense, and we’re not even scratched the surface yet. What happened next was that I managed to make
a horse-chair hybrid creature. So if you sit in a chair and make a save and
interact with a horse in the same cell, you are sitting on a chair on a horse, so that
just happens to softlock the character, but nevertheless it’s very interesting as a
witchcraft. *laughs* And the next step then was, “well we have this abomination
horrible hybrid creature, what if loadwarp this now?” Well then we get sent to an alternate dimension. So if you’ve seen, like, how to do half
an A-press in Mario, it’s kind of the same deal. You get sent to an alternate, empty, unloaded
universe if you are a loadwarped horse-chair hybrid. And throughout all this loadwarping while
sitting on chairs and on horses, I happened to realize that if you had coordinates that are the same
in different cells, then this still works, this teleporting. So that’s Saddle Skedaddle. It’s having a Procedure Pack in one cell
with certain coordinates, and transferring it to another cell, and the coordinates have
to be the same because that’s where the Procedure Pack tries to put you. And that’s my understanding of Saddle Skedaddle. How that moves you doesn’t quite make sense,
but it is instantaneous teleportation except for when you become a mangled abomination
and then the game crashes. So instead of clipping out-of-bounds immediately
at the start of the Any% route, you first have to make a save at a chair, seeing as
we already, to somewhat an extent we understand Saddle Skedaddle now, so you need a save on
a chair for it to work at all. So the first thing you do is use the first
chair available to you, which is the one in your cell which it’s a very fortunate location
to be honest. So after having made a save in the chair,
you then have to clip through the wall and then we get to the door we need to Saddle
Skedaddle on. To Saddle Skedaddle you press ‘interact’
and ‘Escape’ at the same time, and then load the save with the chair in it. This will put you at the coordinates of the
chair which just so happens to be out-of-bounds in the next area. And then we can just go straight where we
want to go instead of having to deal with collision. Saddle Skedaddle is also used later in the
run, but right there it only saves running through a cave, or it saves running through
a part of the cave. Saddle Skedaddle also changes other things
with the run, but when we get through a few more doors and deal with the Emperor and stuff,
we’re going to interact with a sewer grate that leads us to the sewer part of the prison-escape
sequence, the intro of the game, and there we use the same Saddle Skedaddle save, which
again saves quite a bit of time. When we use the Saddle Skedaddle the second
time, we skip running through a corridor. Performing Saddle Skedaddle is not a hard
thing to do, you just sit in a chair or on a horse and then you make a save. You just need some knowledge beforehand where
to make the save, but if you have that then there’s no skill barrier to perform the
glitch. So when I started looking for glitches in
Oblivion, or in any game really, you kind of try to scope out what glitches are already
known, or you use knowledge from the engine if you play other games like that, which I do. There tends to be overlap between games. It also helps using the Bethesda game creation
tools for modding, the scripts are the same, you know, it’s written in the same scripting
language and everything, so it’s really easy to glitch-hunt all these games at the same time. What I did when I started playing the game
was I… Um… What is that glitch even called? What is that called, it’s like “Ragdoll
Slide” or something? *typing noises* So I wanted to test that out and see what
I could do with that. Obviously at that time I didn’t know much
about the Any% run or any of the other categories really, or how applicable it would be, I’m just as
a person, very interested in looking for glitches. So I started looking into that and seeing
how I could incorporate that into the little I knew of the route as it was. So when I was messing around with this “Ragdoll
Sliding,” I don’t remember its exact name, but when I was messing around with that, usually
you tend to make saves that have useful things nearby, like chairs or horses, or maybe an NPC. In Oblivion it’s very nice to have a door so you
can loadwarp to or from that are within the same cell. So I was sliding around because when you lose
your stamina, you store that location and then you can slide around with it if you loadwarp it. So one thing leads to another usually, like
if you figure out that this sliding thing isn’t really practical for the run, you
still have a save where you have like a bunch of Skooma potentially, or some other things
in your inventory, or you used the console to do that at first and then you have the
save that’s ready to glitch-hunt with. I have a save with a horse and a chair outside
one of the major cities, and that’s when I started looking into Procedure Packs because
they’re very similar to InputEnableLayers in Fallout 4, in that version of the engine. That’s when I started to sit on horses while
being in chairs, quicksaving and quickloading while doing both of them at the same time,
stuff like that. And when I started loadwarping that, I saw
that the game’s starting to crash or stuff like that because it’s trying to put me
places that don’t exist yet, and that’s how the procedure fell together. You should never really disown a glitch, it’s
just something really cool you did or found to the benefit of others. Speedrunning is all about community, that’s
why we do the hobby. There’s nothing intrinsically interesting
in speedrunning, it’s the friends you make along the way, it’s the communities you
make, it’s the shared love and interest for a game, for a system, how it works, right? Hey, it’s me, I’m back, I hope you guys
enjoyed hearing these few examples of how speedrun glitches were found. I originally had the idea for this video almost
a year ago now, and it was super cathartic to finally make it, but I think the best part
about making it was definitely getting to talk to Nolan, SHiFT, and havrd and getting
to hear their stories. If you also enjoyed their stories then please
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