Ultima - Exodus (NES) Speedrun
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- Complete game defeated in 2 hours 26 minutes- no cheats, no savestates, no Mystic Weapon either. Just using a turbo button and spinning in circles in dungeons to recharge MP. Yeah, I know mistakes were made, but doing this in a single sitting wears ya down. I kept restarting until I got lucky with the random party and away I went. Just glad my dungeon encounters were lucky ones until I stocked up on the Sands of Time, especially since I didn't save in-game.
Roles:
Ranger- to get to Level 5 so I can get a boat
Thief- quickly gets gold and evades most traps
2 Wizards- teleporting up and down in dungeons, endgame death dealers
Points of interest:
1:12 Royal City to get Blowgun for my Thief
13:19 Cave of Sol for Mark of Snake and looting cash for equipment (ends at 27:47 )
28:45 Dawn for Ranger's Bow, food, Sands, and the Gold Pick
34:58 Cave of Fool for Mark of Force and looting cash for stats (ends at 1:23:55 )
1:27:48 Cave of Madness for Mark of Fire and a few quick chests (ends at 1:38:40 )
1:39:41 Yew for Horn
1:40:30 British Castle to get Ranger to Level 5 and acquire boat
1:48:52 Entering Ambrosia
1:50:47 Shrine of Intelligence to boost Wizards' stats and get Card
1:55:11 Shrine of Wisdom for Card
1:56:56 Shrine of Strength to boost Thief's stats and for Card
2:06:22 Shrine of Dexterity for Card
2:07:02 Leaving Ambrosia
2:08:03 Looting Mystic Armor
2:09:33 Entering Exodus Castle
Endgame Stats:
Ranger- LV 5, Str 25, Dex, 15, Int 5, Wis 5, Bow, Mystic Armor
Thief- LV 1, Str 30, Dex 25, Int 5, Wis 5, Blowgun, Mystic Armor
Wizards- LV 1, Str 5, Dex 15, Int 99, Wis 5, Dagger, Mystic Armor
Remaining Sands of Time for Wizard 2: 16
Food Remaining for all: 14
Marks for all: Fire, Force, Snake
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I played this game religiously as a kid and came here on a flashback to hear the music. I could hum every melody straight away. I was making real progress in the game when my mother let her friends mentally handicap daughter use the game and she erased all my characters and put three of her own named Sarah. When I discovered it my heart sank. I think it was the first time I felt real depression and loss as a child. Thanks a lot Sarah
The music in this game was wonderful.
lovesthebass i agree. This was a unique title on the NES... And very cryptic
@Mona Vanderwaal Yeah, demons were such a pain for that too.
Yes all except the dungeon
@@josepha3805 hahaha
Ambrosia theme
Glad I found the one guy who finished it on the NES. Those shrines are clean as a whistle now! 😂
Watching my dad play this is still one of my fondest childhood memories. Seeing him find Dawn for the first time blew my friggin mind. The music still slaps. This game is what got me into RPG's, and I'm so glad I did.
i remember playing this when i was little and not know what i was doing lol i'd just name the characters funny things and wander around until i died
I did that a few times as well, but in different games. Some I would do it just to see if my mom noticed me and Lo and behold if she did, I was getting the shit beat out of me that night
@@deadguysuperstar lool you brought it back with getting whooped for those crazy names
This was my favorite NES game when I was in high school. I spent countless hours, but never finished it until I downloaded the ROM many years later. This game and Adventure on the Atari2600 were my go to games for many years.
Adventure is different every time on Level 3!
Great game. Richard Garriot will never die! My favourite is still Quest of the avatar aka Ultima 4
RpgmaniacNo1 one of the best games I’ve ever played.
Thank you for this video. In 7th grade I spent countless hours playing this game. And nearly reaching the end, the game had a glitch and didn’t save our progress. We never tried again. But I’ve secretly been haunted by this until now. Much appreciated. LOL
This was the series that inspired Yuji Horii, Akira Toriyama, and Koichi Sugiyama to create the very first JRPG Dragon Quest released in Japan 1986. Fun fact.
I remember how many months I played this game before I beat it. Of course, this was way before you could get online and find a map. One of my fa NES games, even with the somewhat disappointing ending. Thanks for posting, brought back a lot of memories.
I'm here for the music and nostalgia! I had so much fun as a kid trying to figure this game out. I did not have a pc and this made me feel like I did not need one.
my 4 characters turned into a one guy that looked like a white noise TV screen and mad me invincible
My first RPG and the game that introduced me to my fascination with these types of worlds.. Thank you Ultima!
This was my favorite game. After I beat it, I stopped gaming. I figured "What's the point? Ultima was the best. No reason to continue." LOL. I still feel that way. I'm 52. I still don't game.
I need to surround myself with more people from your generation. I love the NES era of gaming, and have spent years swearing by RPG's made before 1991! The problem is.. I'm 19. Kids my age start crying when they see pixels, but games aren't the same anymore. Graphics are valued at the cost of everything, to the point where I avoid new games. Dragon Warrior III, Final Fantasy I&II, Ultima III, those are good games! LOL
I've become passionate about recreating that NEStalgia with my own game development. Been making modern "classics" for a hobby the past 4 years. You know where it's it!
You missed a lot of great games then, even better ones than this.
@@PerilsAbound Ironic that kids your age cries when they see pixels, yet play Minecraft. I used to play this game in the 80's. You should look into games by SSI. They mostly made D&D games back in the days. I used to skip college classes at Penn state, just sit in computer room, & play D&D games all day on their Apple II C/E. At home we had an Atari 800.
Absolutely impossible game without any kind of strategy guide. I would still shy away from this game to this day even after watching this video.
Nope. My dad cleared this game when I was a kid. In the old days adventure games were time for the good old notebook and pen. you could write your own strategy guide as you went along.
God help you if you messed or misplaced with the Password Notebook or the Game Notes Notebook. you could expect a lot of frustration directed your way if either one went astrtay on your watch
this was one of my favorite games! I used to have a notebook that I drew all the caves in to have maps to find all the marks and treasures. I never used the premade characters I would always hand make them. Fighter, Ranger, Cleric and Wizard
Wow, I haven't seen this game since I was a little kid and I can still remember the music as if it were yesterday. So my nostalgia right now :D
i never played this game. but my brother did. the music has never left my memory. i memorized it all..it's like reciting lines from a movie. crazy.
A true classic. I played this game both on the NES and the C64. :)
4- a challenge party (Illusionist, Alchemist, Barbarian, and Lark), a Ranger solo, and two glitched practice runs. This isn't counting how many times I killed this game as a kid back when it first came out. The first two runs served as a refresher. And I did have to restart a few times to get a decent party- the rest was a combination of knowing where to go and luck.
I'm SUPER impressed. I played and finished this game when I was 9 years old. I even called up the nintendo Power line to find where that dam silver/mystic sword was. Eventually I was able to clear the game in like 7 hours. I'm crazy impressed you did it in under 3. I always LOL'd at the box (which I still own), "Over 100 hours of game play". har har.. We showed them! :D
My favourite party: Illusionist, Lark, Wizard and Cleric. A beautiful game, great story and wonderful music!❤️
much respect, I want to play this all over again since I never finished it but it is such a long game. Cant believe you finish it so fast
Thanks, though I've seen people RTS this MUCH faster (not to mention how insane TAS times get). LOL
All I know U rule ....make gaming look easy
One of my favorite games of all NES games. I prefered a Ranger,Paladin,Cleric,Wizard party. If I wanted a challange I would sub the Ranger for a Fighter just to take away some magic. Thanks for the post
I used the same party as you :P
A remake of this series needs to happen
I bought this game years ago and played it for a week. It soon became a great coaster on my coffee table.
I remember creating my core characters, then creating 3 new characters to go with my main guy. Transferring their starting gold and equipment and selling it, then delete them, create 3 new and do it over and over again.
Only way I could get through.
I did the same thing lol
Yeah most of us did that. The food thing got annoying fast. Without this trick you'd be starving half the time.
Amazing! I spent countless hours/days trying to win this game but in the end could never build up my characters strong enough to survive the final castle enemies. Great to at least see the ending.
I remember playing this game as a young child (maybe like 5 or 6) and it was just way too complicated for me at the time. That being said it did begin my love of rpgs and fantasy.
The Castle Exodus theme was totally METAL!
The Ambrosia theme was pure isolation and despair.
The dungeon theme was just simply fun.
The only music from the game I'm not that fond of is the battle theme. It's kinda catchy, just a little too repetitive.
I vaguely remember there was some sort of glitch with the cartridge where you could repeatedly and quickly cycle the power on the NES and when it finally loaded up you had max gold or HP or level or something...? It's been a very long while!
This is what is called a Western RPG (as opposed to Final Fantasy and Dragon Warrior being Japanese RPGs), so it'll definitely play differently.
The NES graphics and sound are better than the PC version (look up Ultima III). Though, if you're oldschool like me, it all comes down to controls (n,s,e,w, & type out commands vs up,down,left,right,A,B,Select,Start). The computer version does have a couple options not available on the NES, but I have more fun playing the NES port.
Yeah, it is pretty easy as long as you have some spellcasters in your party and take the time to loot enough gold. A melee-only party gets a bit trickier, and requires more leveling.
It's wild how much the fastest completion time for this game has been cut by like 80%, but sometimes but just gotta come back to this one.
The year is 2017; December 6th. I decide to pop in Ultima Exodus for the Nes; A game I got on eBay after losing a bid to another game. I proceed to have my shit rocked and wander helplessly. Hours of playing and reading the guides, and now, I am perfected. Two days pass, it's the 8th; I have mythic armour, the 4 cards, Force & Fire relics, and a wizard with 99 Int. I simply need the Snake relic and the Horn; After which I make way to Exodus.
I got this game in very early 1992. I had zero clue what to do, even less where to go so I just walked around killing stuff until my party was dead. Cave enemies always killed me.
Why the hell were those Pirates and more able to dodge so damn much in Ambrosia? :/
The Thief has a much better chance of avoiding traps, though it still boils down to luck, just not as much as other classes need to avoid them.
This game was so tough. Damn them hunger and thirst factors!
The most dramatic enemy in existance... THE FLOOR!
And aah, so there's where the Stranger got the Anhk that is shown prominently on the staff on the cover of the next game.
I didn't have access to Nintendo Power, Game Pro, etc. back in the day (well, aside from a newsstand glance through). Figuring this and Simons Quest out without a guide or hint sheet took a while. I kinda miss the days where a few notebooks full of hand-drawn maps and NPC banter was the norm for games with lots of exploration. Then again, my handwriting is so horrible I can barely read it half the time LOL
that does make sense, I forgot about the Sands of time you really do need for most of the game
O my god i use to have this before final fantasy came in my life. Thanks to this i really enjoyed rpgs
Why is Dragon Warrior credited as the first proper RPG to be released on the NES when this came out a year prior?
The enemy sprites in the overworld map look like the Baseball Furies from The Warriors.
I loved this game as a kid, but it's truly aged terribly. Closer you get to the endgame, the more it feels like a chore.
The music is still incredible though
bought this game again just for the fight battle song. brings back memories.
Good job! Thank you for posting this.
Slingstones, arrows, magic missiles and scourges for these baddies.
I got this game back in 1992 when I was 10 and not having any clue what I was supposed to do. I just wandered around until I went into a dungeon and got killed by Bavrons or Devils.
why you didnt find any monsters on the first cave?
I've seen people do it faster after I posted this- and both the RTSs and TASs I've seen are insane.
I'll have to try that glitch when I get in the mood for this again- though that'll be a while. Too many other games in my queue for now LOL
Is that sound effect when your entire party dies during the collapse of Exodus castle original to the game or was it added?
I remember being so frustrated at first with getting gold, until i realized you sell a new npc's armor and weapon. I sat a whole day ....create 3 characters, sell their stuff, delete characters, make 3 new. Over and Over again.
I LOVE THIS GAME... Maybe I can learn to play it on my flute.
You should always have a cleric in the party. I like to use a party of two wizards and two clerics. By having two wizards and two clerics I don't even need weapons or armor.
Not the fastest way to go, though most of the spellcasting variants are fun.
kamikaze9699
The people I normally see completing this game the quickest use a thief (elf or fuzzy) to open the chests. I prefer the 'open' spell. I like to use a lot of magic in the castle.
If you like the old Ultima games you ought to try Questron I & II, Legacy of the Ancients, and Legend of Blacksilver. All are quite similar in format and provided me many hours of entertainment as a kid.
Why do you stop after each battle in Exodus' Castle?
would you put a list in order of all the places you´ve visited, this is a great game an awesome video, great job!
Yeah, I mean the dungeon music is very themed, but there isn't much to it, huh?
I personally loved the wandering music, though :D
Lack of money for proper equipment- getting the chests and Mark of Snake was risky enough. Getting greedy with another Mark probably have stretched my luck too far. Sands of Time are almost essential.
Ok, after having read that...
What exactly drove you to do all this? You've put such an incredible amount of time and effort into it. Why??
I remember finish dragon Warrior and start última exodus ... But 10 minutes after being poisoned... Basically this was the most dificult NES game to me... I never finished it :(
THE FUCKING FLOOR IS THE FINAL BOSS AND WHY IS EXODUS!!!
I wonder how hard it would have been to port/remake Ultima 1&2 for the NES?
2 clerics and 2 wizards and you would be basically invincible
Nice port'd version of ultima. And I'm not even kidding...
i rarely sit down to watch a 2 hour long speedrun, but i found it impossible to believe someone could get through a game in 2 hours that i couldnt figure out in the 10+ years i owned and played it.
Warms my heart to hear that, though I've seen RTSs that blow mine out of the water, not counting the TASs I've seen.
I wish I could meet the maniac who programmed how the map tiles disappear as you move about.
it's actually not that hard, you have a name table that stores all the tiles and you just set them to a blank tile. Same way they make the text display. Can only be done in 8x8 pixel chunks though
well the palette tiles are 16x16 so yeah
ive never understood what the hell the point was to this game. could someone tell me in here
The music while you are in the towns is some of the finest 8 bit tunes ever made.
The last boss is a floor? :o
Bro i have ask, how many times you played the game to do speedrun?
I don't remember the invisible floor enemies
im trying to remember why i spent so many hours playing this ...
i remember doing it, just not why lol
have you heard the tunes from the apple ][ version? you may like them even more :D
ncc170p must have been the smartest 9 year old ever cause at the time, There were only 5 people known to have finished it (i was one also but never put into a record tracking book). I find it hard to believe that a 9 year old finished this game
mattylga01 Took me and a friend almost 10 years to beat this damn game and only because my mother had a really old strategy guide for it and some notes from when she played it back when it came out on NES.
I just googled the location of the crests and mythic armour. Now I'm about to beat the game over a weekend. Thank God for Rise & Sink.
How you never had to visit the doctor after opening all those chests gets me.
Beat it in 89 with the help of a strategy guide, Nintendo power hintline. I used to kill off every character but a wizard. It's easier to power one character as opposed to 4. Sands of time etc lmao Could finish it in about 3 and a half hours. Can't believe I remember this.
I am pretty sure a lot more than five finished it at that time. I finished it as did several of my friends. Took a lot longer than 2.5 hrs though. At that time I had never even heard of record tracking books
Cool game.
Have you ever had a ménage à trois with two ex-girlfriends while your current GF taped it? Drank a beerbong filled to the brim with a half gallon of cheap vodka in 9 seconds? Eaten 25 hits of 98% pure acid before going to see a Gwar show and perform cunnilingus while getting sprayed with blood? If that's the high point of your life, you haven't lived...
What is that clip at the end?
"Your soul is mine, I fart on it!" My death metal voice is more reminiscent of Dr. Claw from Inspector Gadget.
As for the background, it's a mix of Secret of Mana temple music and backmasked "don't look at the man behind the curtain" from the Wizard of Oz.
@@kamikaze9699 Never would have guessed.
i am surprise you did not get the mark of fire when you were in the cave of sol
I got tired having my save delete on me in this sigh
Someone's battery died. Sucks. That happened to my original gold Legend of Zelda cartridge. Suddenly it couldn't save games. I cried.
The battle music on the Apple II (and by extension the C64) is better than this version. I like the C64 Ambrosia theme, but it really doesn't leave the same impact that the NES one does. The rest kind of depict the medieval well, but just don't really stand out as anything special.
I used to sit here and play the life out of that game. This battle music was my junk
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Notice all the NPCs?
why does the music sound like some arcade pacman game? it's not how I remembered it
It's exactly as it was.
Undead and repel spell need a nerf STAT!
4 ranger teams FTW
hmmm...definitly not your final fantasy or dragon warrior type of rpg. I guess you had to be a big fan of the old computer versions to like this. (then again, if you were a fan of the computer versions, I couldn't see buying this and playing through it on the nes.)
no dragon lord to fight. Although fun to watcho.
No, the floor is the last boss you fight. Exodus itself is the super computer you feed punch cards to so the OS shuts down or something. Welcome to the 1980s, where sorcery and cybernetics mixed often.
Nice❤
impressive
agh a trap but you avoided it
Yeah, 2 Tankers and To spellcasters :/
I almost forgot how irritating and tedious the fighting was on this game.
You never went to college then...
To think I wasted my time getting all four characters to level 99
Iv never one ghost and goblins but I also beat silver surfer
Magic was over used god power in the game.
I always liked this game but it was way too hard. Kinda like Mega Man 1.