The FF4 Glitch That Squaresoft Made Canon

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  @YouTube · 4 years ago · pinned

  thanks for diving into this! 🎮

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• SP

  @sporedoutofmymind · 4 years ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xo7UhSN1lmg&amp;t=1072">17:52</a> Fusoya: &quot;Hey Zeromus, you smell like upt co&quot;<br>Zeromus: &quot;What&apos;s upt co?&quot;<br>Fusoya: <b>explodes</b>

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• HA

  @haraberu · 4 years ago

  Ah yes, who doesn&apos;t remember the iconic most powerful spells in the FF universe: Meteor, YottaFlare, and upt Co

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• OT

  @otterbeans · 4 years ago

  &quot;Puddle of Beard&quot; is the best descriptor for Fusoya I&apos;ve heard to date

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• TR

  @Trivial_Man · 4 years ago

  Oh it&apos;s canon the same way Robotnik&apos;s Diabolical Speed Traps are canon, or how the bricks in Mario are actually transformed humans. Got it

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• HE

  @henke37 · 4 years ago

  We programmers have a name for this design: a stack. Enter rooms push to the stack and return rooms pop from it. This sounds like a combination of a stack overflow and a stack underflow.

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• RA

  @raziyatheseeker · 4 years ago (edited)

  With both the 64 Rooms glitch in FF4 and Missingno glitch in Pokemon, I&apos;ve come to two conclusions:<br>1) Telling players not to use the glitch will only drive their curiosity, and<br>2) The code of classic JRPGs is so complex, that it seems to be held together with bubblegum and prayers

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  @ThatRagamuffin · 4 years ago

  &quot;Probably stuck or bacon&quot; is the best warning text I&apos;ve seen in my life.

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• EN

  @Entroper · 4 years ago

  The reason this works in the Dwarf Castle is because the stairways form a loop -- you can go around the castle and get back to where you started, without backtracking. &nbsp;Because of this, the stairways can&apos;t be marked as &quot;return&quot;, otherwise they would send you back to the wrong place. &nbsp;All the stairs in the loop have to be &quot;go&quot; stairs.<br><br>This also works in FF1 in Castle of Ordeals, where you can use teleporters to go back to where you came from. &nbsp;Step on enough teleporters, and you can overflow the stack, the section of memory that stores the history of which maps you&apos;ve been to.

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  @charlessegale6493 · 4 years ago

  So, what they&apos;re saying is that we need to watch out for Dr. Robotnik&apos;s diabolical traps, right?

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  @OJSimpsonVEVO · 4 years ago

  I don&apos;t know what&apos;s more impressive, the fact that all this work went into the FFIV code, the fact that Square knew about this glitch, or that someone actually mastered it to the point of planning a whole speedrun around it.

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  @bigbigestwiner92 · 4 years ago

  When u said “multiple runners like…myself” I had to get back and rewatch to be sure it wasn’t yourself you were mentioning xD it broke my brain for a sec

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