if you were paying attention you may have noticed it but shatterbox opened and closed the menu quickly to do something called rng manipulation if this isn't your first time watching this channel then you know what's coming newcomers check this out most super nintendo rpg speed runs have some form of memory manipulation and earthbound is no exception to this rule there are three separate values that runners manipulate we'll call those rng-NUMBER_TOKEN rng-NUMBER_TOKEN and rng-NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN and NUMBER_TOKEN are actively advanced by npc movement text scrolling on screen cursor movements and more rng NUMBER_TOKEN is updated thanks to crossing through NUMBER_TOKEN by NUMBER_TOKEN pixel grids in the game among several other ways and is directly affected by what values rng-NUMBER_TOKEN and rng-NUMBER_TOKEN are rng-NUMBER_TOKEN also can control enemy spawns item drops damage rules and more chatterbox will be using this to take out bosses as fast as possible later on now that we're done talking about that and NUMBER_TOKEN of you have clicked off the video we'll go back to the run where tina convinced the man who had the lights for the town's tree to return them from whence they came trying to find more info on what's going on the gang heads up to the drugstore to ask the clerks if they've seen anything and a shady looking fellow drops a step-by-step booklet on how to ruin christmas tina goes to read it and it says subscribe to dr swellman on youtube huh weird anyways she finds out that the grunt was supposed to go out and get food so some group could wait out the awful holiday this note also includes steps to get back to the base which tina and kyle will use a little later they'd leave the drugstore and go to another person's house to return a set of ornaments a lady decided to use his earrings i don't have a witty comment for this one but personally i wouldn't want massive balls hanging from my ears after narrowly avoiding demonetization the chatterbox goes to the nearest trash can and picks up the fruitcake that was used to threaten uncle jack into leaving the family dinner early heading north towards the base that was mentioned in the note chatterbox does more rng manipulation to prevent any encounters from happening and goes into the spooky looking cavern after narrowly avoiding death from the local wildlife the gang heads further into the cave and finds a really old fruitcake in a gift box the duo finally find the shady man from the drugstore they call him weird and thanks to some anger management issues he starts throwing punches at the party with that we fight the lowly grunt our first encounter of the run to explain the madness that is about to happen we'll have to look at how rng mechanics work in battle in the normal game's encounters rng NUMBER_TOKEN and rng NUMBER_TOKEN are the only things being advanced with rng NUMBER_TOKEN being where it was before going into the battle the way speedrunners advance rng NUMBER_TOKEN and NUMBER_TOKEN in battle comes down to cursor movements pressing b to reload the menu going in and out of other menus and selecting offensive equipment in the inventory to make the character use it an attack in holiday hex it also seems as if some rng
START_INTERACTION_TOKEN tina goes to read it and it says subscribe to dr swellman on youtube huh weird anyways END_INTERACTION_TOKEN