We have seen countless tricks with which to reduce the total time to complete a game by thousandths of a second, but today is something that we could never imagine. Heating a Famicon (NES in Europe) to trigger a glitch? That's just what some are doing. speed runners de Dragon quest iii.
Dragon Quest III glitch
Dragon Quest is a mythical RPG that in all its editions ensures endless adventures that ensure hours and hours of gameplay. The problem with these endless games is that for speedrunners they are a tough nut to crack, so they try to find a way to cut minutes and even seconds in order to achieve the world record.
With Dragon quest iii It was not going to be less, and for a few months a glitch has been helping enormously all those who intend to complete the game in the shortest possible time, and that is that a complex trick allows them to achieve the 99 level of the character in the early starts of the game. But how is it achieved?
The foundation of the trick is to corrupt the internal memory of the cartridge. Said ROM is in charge of storing the saved game with the help of an internal battery (remember that at that time there were no memory cards or the cloud), and apparently, if it is corrupted, the player is able to start the game with the values of the stats in style.
A combination of buttons
The trick seems to be in a combination of the reset button and the power off button, since by pressing the buttons in the proper order and time, the internal memory of the cartridge collapses, and when turning the console back on, the game begins to display plain and corrupted texts to the point of being able to manipulate the character's statistics To get the maximum score, start the game.
Perfecting technique with temperature
But the people behind this method decided not to sit idly by, and after hundreds of trials and tests with dozens of console models, they have managed to discover that by applying a specific temperature to the console they are able to manipulate the state of the internal memory. to apply the glitch.
This method avoids having to use the combination of buttons and console resets, which is why some speedrunners are using electric irons and freezer bags to manipulate the internal temperature of the console with the idea of launching the glitch on the console. desired moment.
うちの本体では、冷やした方が結果が良いので、こうなりました略 pic.twitter.com/ZV0GWsku26
— ばくぜろなんでもありRTA走者 (@baku_zero) December 27, 2020
It has worked?
For the moment it seems that everything has worked as expected, since the speedrun times have been reduced to 22 hours and 7 minutes, a new record that drops from 22:22 that remained unbeaten until now. And to think that a few years ago some had three red lights on their Xbox 360...