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Sonic Boom cartoon makes Knuckles' jump glitch in the game canon
- Thread starter DaBoss
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This scene completely justifies Sonic Boom's presence in this world, in the same way this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMrdRaiCUug completely justifies High School Musical's presence.
Hahahaha this is exactly what I first thought of.
Somebody please remake this scene in gif-form using the Knuckles footage!
spindashing
Banned
Yeah. But it's funny how a writer on the show acknowledged the joke
Winterfang
Banned
LOL
You pretty much just fly.
Try watching some Sonic Boom speedruns. They use the glitch quite a lot.
This topic is a bit confusing. So they wrote an episode in 2013 that recently aired where Knuckles has a dream sequence in which he flys. A writer then goes to Twitter joking they made the hump glitch canon. The clip in the OP is that clip but modified by a Youtuber to add in the pause screen. Correct?
RyanPierre
Member
Sometimes a joke is just a joke
There was a speedrun either just before or just after release (since some stores broke street date) where the glitch was abused and the game was completed in under an hour. You can skip most of the game doing it.
Really just as far as you want. You could even find a test area by using the glitch and skip most of the game.
Also, a more accurate explanation for how the glitch was done:
1. Jump as Knuckles
2. Do his Ground Pound move, which as part of the animation moves Knuckles upwards, then down.
3. Pause mid-animation before Knuckles starts going down
4. Ground pound again
5. And so on.
Yes.
That wasn't so confusing. yeah pretty much
Gonzo The Great
Banned
The topic title implies that this joke was part of the official cartoon and thus canon, so I don't blame him for being confused.
Cheeseman Battitude
Member
Ah, so it's an exploit type thing. I thought it paused the game by itself every time you jumped!
Dark_castle
Junior Member
Ayyyyye. Hilarious shit right here.
Bravo
Was going to post this myself.
Dr. Buni
Member
mgs2master2
Banned
lolo
Rentahamster
Rodent Whores
Wait, they don't call him "Robotnik" anymore? I thought "Eggman" was the Japanese name? I'm probably out of the loop.
The Bankslammer
Member
huh, thought the first couple episodes of the show were kinda middling (still a lot better than any other sonic show imo), but this seems a lot more consistent. good for the show.
Ah there it is so not real.
Winterfang
Banned
They integrated both names a roughly 15 years ago. His name is Dr Ivo Robotnik. Eggman is his nickname,kind of like everyone calls Miles, Tails.
djplaeskool
Member
RazielCuts
Member
Well it is when people think that Sega themselves made an in-joke in the cartoon by poking fun at themselves when they didn't. Observe the 'I've got to watch this now' comments.
Yeah I suppose. I figured it was more obvious that it was a joke
Sadly, correct. Episode was written in 2013 before the infinite glitch existed. Then when the episode aired, the writer jokingly went on Twitter and said they made the glitch canon (joking of course).
If you watch the episode itself, it's just knuckles dreaming and flying for 3 seconds. The two weren't related. The fan edit to the clip made it funny though.
Winterfang
Banned
Is just the writer acknowledging the fan. The show is clever and lighthearted,the game is actually the shitty tie-in.
Diddy Kong
Banned
Lmao. Good on them.
BodiesWithoutOrgans
Member
HILARIOUS
I actually think the writer posted that on Twitter before being shown the fan edit