Runaway Five Glitch

Pretty cool. I wonder if it works in Mother 1+2 also…

Haha, this happened to me by accident last time I played.

Interesting. May have to try that some time.

Wow I gotta find my USB stick or SD card now XD
Oh yea and I think I’m getting my first paycheck soon, I think I’ve worked enough to earn enough for a EB cartridge but I not sure

This happened to me the first time I played the game, and it sucked because I was way too low level for Threed. xP

If you want to jump to this particular spot in the storyline, you can use the saves over at the downloads section of SVO’s site (click my name)

i never knew you could do this but it’s cool and i wanna try this lol

So many glitches, I’m curious as to how many are left to find.

only earthbound fans find glitches in 15 year old games 🙂

EarthBound is a treasure trove for strange glitches, apparently, I like it! It’s like digging for gold, or, something like that 😉

Hey, I didn’t know about this! But that’s the beauty of Earthbound, there’s always something new to discover, intentional or not.

It’s a pretty helpful glitch, always hated the Lilliput cave.

I don’t think this trick is really a glitch actually. Since a glitch is unintentional, and I think the game was meant to be this way to prevent you from dying while the R5 wait for you. If you did die at that point, it could potentially cause a glitch, or if nothing else, make the flow of events feel awkward.

I’ve never tried it, but I assume if you walk back to Onett, there would be no enemies there either.

Of course, I guess they didn’t think it all the way through and didn’t expect you to have skipped over the mole. Kind of how I didn’t watch the whole video before commenting. 😛

This also happens when you die during the shattered man battle that’s possible after defeating Giygas.

TGP, I was thinking the same thing. mixed with what neonix said (caused because it was overlooked. because they expected them to already be defeated.)

Since it sounds like your invertory still works, I wonder if it would let you use an exit mouse to leave the dungeon…

Remember that glitch you can do when you can skip one of the mummies in the Summers museum, and fight it at the end of the game after giygas? This same thing happens if you intentionally die in that fight. the game glitches up the same way

@Anonymous, that’s exactly what TGP said, but thanks

Still in GBA version?

Body actor for the video here. Out of curosity, I memorized the button pushing to use a certain item after activating the glitch, I can’t remember what item it was, but I think it was a food item. When I tried using it, it just gave me a bit of text I couldn’t see. I wonder if it was something like (Your party is dead, dead people can’t eat things.) The only thing I recommend before doing this is is to make sure that you don’t have a bunch of teddy bears on you, like the first time we did this…

Yeah, that’s also the glitch at the end of the game (After you defeat Giygas). If you go back to the museum in Summers, you know how there were Shattered men in the place with the hieroglyphics? Well, if you don’t beat both of them, then there should still be one left at the end of the game, while there are none anywhere else. If you die during this battle, you get the same effect as in this video.

I remember the first time i ever played the game, i screwed up and bailed out the runaway five before beating the second sanctuary. Suddenly i found myself screwed with no enemies to level myself up with before the boss fight. I don’t remember getting a game over glitch, though. But things only got worse when i went to threed and stronger monsters there just slaughtered me. Now i know never to do that again.

The glitch also works in Mother 1+2, apparently. But that’s not surprising.

THAT TEXT DOESNT LOOK LIKE EARTHBOUND! (the videos’ not there)

But do the enimies come backafter you defeat the mondo mole?

Video is down.