Glitches and New Alternate Endings Tutorial Compilation - Maniac Mansion (NES)
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2024
- Here's a compilation of tutorials for various useful glitches and newly discovered alternate endings for Maniac Mansion. The beginning portion of the video is more geared toward any% runs, so I don't really cover stuff specific to regular Hamsteak, regular Meteor Police, or Dave Solo%. I also didn't include stuff like the doorbell skip because it seems like that's now outdated in any%. Nothing contained in this video requires Game Genie, tools, or hacking to execute. I forgot to mention in the video that the game crashes if you bring up the New Kid menu on the cutscene where the Weird Edsel is rising from the house. You will need to either let it play through or press Start to skip out to the pause menu at that time.
Chapters:
1. Green Tentacle Skip & Tele-Strength 0:09
2. Weird Ed Dungeon Escape 1:43
3. Despawning Edna 2:30
4. Unlock New Kid Menu in Lab 2:55
5. Super Hamsteak Ending 3:52
6. Triple Threat Ending 7:28
7. Final Fortune Ending/Weird Edsel Extra Turn 9:43
8. Meteor Police/Hamsteak Ending 12:00
9. Hamsteak/Talkshow Ending 13:53
See also:
Meteor Police WR speedrun w/ commentary
• Meteor Police FWR Spee...
Music by Tom Interchangeable
tominterchange...
Thanks so so much for this. This is a great start for speedrunners to begin learning the run!
Glad it wasn't useless. There's some stuff I might've glossed over, like in depth detail of some techniques I thought the other leading runners are either better at or had more to do with developing the strategy of. I hope you try out the weird new endings. *I forgot to mention in the vid that the game crashes if you bring up the New Kid menu on the cutscene where the Weird Edsel is rising from the house*
Great work!
I'm curious, though: Since you found a way to unlock the _new kid_ command in the game's climax, have you tried to kill the meteor by drowning it in the pool?
Hey, thanks. I think I did try that at one point. Here's what I can say about that: once Meteor is picked up from the room it's found in, the game starts treating it as an inventory item instead of a character, so effects that impact characters (like attempting to give the Contract or Can of Pepsi to the Meteor) won't work. I remember this being especially a problem while trying to figure out how to stack the porch and Talkshow endings.
You can lose a character in the pool if they have Meteor in their inventory, but it will just soft-lock the game instead of treating it like the Meteor's been gotten rid of. Same applies to Microwave/Hamster/Green Tentacle character deaths with Meteor in inventory.
As an aside, the Meteor doesn't despawn from the Lab in the Talkshow ending, so if you can get back to the Mansion from the Talkshow set, you can still launch/feed/bust Meteor.
Correction: The only way to win after a Meteor-posessing character gets the pool refilled around them is to first suspend the Talkshow ending from triggering (give Contract, regain control, switch characters a few times to neutralize the progression), and then grab the Meteor, go in the pool and refill it. I haven't tried this but it should probably work, because any character death will trigger the ending in a suspended win-state (provided it's not the third of three characters, and even that works under some circumstances). Of course, the Meteor subsequently appearing on the Talkshow is a glaring continuity error in this glitched ending, but if you want to win after losing Meteor in the pool, that's probably the closest you're gonna get.
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Interesting!
Did you try putting the meteor on either the pool grate, or the cooling rods, and then having the other kid refill the pool _after_ the first kid had gotten out of it?
The only places a collected Meteor (item) can be placed are in the Weird Edsel trunk and the Plant. Not sure why they skipped the microwave after everything else they left in the game. Meteor can't be put on the pool grate or cooling rods, but in the suspended win-state, a character can attempt to Get the Cooling Rods, and their refusal will trigger the ending.
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