"I was told there were 4 of you, warriors of light." "Oh yeah, Dan is dead."

Feasal: "id try some bat soup" Everyone three years later: *NOOOOOOOOOOO*

Welp that's my childhood in 3 hours and 6 minutes

I spent more hours on this game in my childhood then all others combined.

I spent my entire summer between 4th and 5th grade playing this game with my best friend and our brothers using the Nintendo Power strategy guide... when we needed to stock up on heal potions we left an encyclopedia on a turbo controller and went swimming and ate lunch... This video on my 3rd monitor at work during an afternoon brought back that euphoria... Best summer ever... But the real point.... Nobody could have every beat this game without the strategy guide... not in a summer at least... Well done in 3 hours...

I was wondering what the hell that glowing blue thing at the bottom right of the screen was, only to realise it's the runner. Lol

I usually spend longer than this grinding ogres and creeps to get the 4G for the silver sword haha.

This cat could start and finish this game THREE TIMES by the time I put in one shift at work. You broke my childhood - but damn, this is awesome.

Hey Feasel0! When are you going to do some more speed runs on your KZfaq channel? I've watched this one several times and am always amazed at the strats you did to get to 3:06:08

This game would freeze and erase the save file so many times! It was an amazing game with my brothers, we all pretended like we were different characters in the group. Very nostalgic!

feasel you did an amazing job at at AGDQ. I donated $10 during your run. I also enjoyed a lot of your interviews. thank you for being one of the few Runners are actually knew. Its cool garbagio only visited most the races. 2.2 million HYPE

I spent 3 days grinding for the ice cave when I was a kid. Jesus....

So if you're looking at the pros/cons of using a Black Belt as primary damage later... Pros: You would be able to skip a lot of things you otherwise have to do. You'd no longer be forced to get a class change, as Black Belt is stronger than Master. This allows you to skip the whole Castle of Ordeals, as well as Bahamut. You'd also be able to skip grabbing Xcalbur, Masmune, and most armor. Black Belt's Absorb stat unarmored is his level, meaning until you grab him the Opal Bracelet he'll be fine naked. He gets his 5th and 6th attacks at level 21, meaning at that point with Fast he'll be attacking 12 times, and he crits more often than the Knight. The critical hit rate of the Ice Sword is 20, the Masmune is 40, the Black Belt's crit rate is twice his level -- as is his unarmed damage. That's another pro -- you're cutting out rng STR gain for your knight, because for BB it's a useless stat. Ultimately, your BB will outdamage a Knight even with Masmune. Finally, Black Belt gets more magic defense than Fighter, which makes status attacks and spells hit him less often. At level 21, a Fighter/Knight has 75 magic defense, which means a status attack hits him roughly 1/8 of the time. A BB is at 90 by then, and will be hit 1/20 of the time. Given a bug in how these status attacks are inflicted (it'll often roll 4-7 times instead of just once), this can be a big advantage against stunlock. Cons: Your BB won't always outdamage your Knight until around level 30-32. Flat numbers will often favor the Knight, but the higher crit rate should favor the Black Belt on most hits. Skipping the Castle of Ordeals saves time, but not much -- it's a short dungeon, and you get the Zeus glove, the Heal staff and the Gold bracelet. Skipping class change also blocks the Warp spell. Finally, there's an armor bug that occurs every time the BB levels up -- the game will forget he's wearing armor until you visit the armor screen. It means once you have the Opal/Gold bracelet on him, you'll have to menu once every time he levels. So ultimately, it's a calculation based on 1) the benefit of skipping Class Change vs the downside of missing Zeus, Heal staff and Warp spell, 2) the benefit of avoiding late-game stunlock, skipping certain chests and doing increased damage vs the downside of extra Agama battles to grind.

Glad I caught this live! Great WR run. Now, on to sub 3 hours!

Watching AGDQ 2017 right now. Omg awesome, feasel is going to play final fantasy after super mario sunshine run. You're great!

The regular battle music on the world map, was one of the first things I learned to play on guitar. It sounds killer distorted.

The bat soup discussion takes on whole new level of relevancy...

Impressive! First time i have seen (bits) of a FF1 speed run. Had to see to believe.

I've been playing this again after seeing some 30th anniversary stuff. I was curious, thought I'd search for a speedrun, just to see what kind of tactics get used. Man... I wouldn't have imagined THIS is anywhere close to possible. It's really amazing what you speed runners do.

Hey found a glitch in Final Fantasy 1 for NES years ago.. anytime you take the SHIP into a harbor walk into the town.. go to the INN spend the night.. hold reset and turn power off.. turn the game back on now leave the INN.. leave the village get on your SHIP and after sailing a short distance.. a random encounter will flash the screen. In most roms or original carts of the game for the NES.. the random enemy will ALWAYS be "Kyzokus" (but on some carts it is a shark every time lol)which are similar to the pirates you fought in the town you got the SHIP! they are useful for raising GP in short amounts of time but not much else. Still a neat bug i wanted to share.

Wow Feas, super run! BM ftw!

With this guide I hope to finish my game in 4 hours, I take off many hours of my childhood and I never end it. Thanks for uploading! sorry by my english

I don't think you would want any bat soup in 2020.

That prelude music is so comfortable to my ears. By the way, nice run.

Im 35, just played the game for the first time (i owned a SEGA Mastersystem), i played for 6 days & 4 hours a day to beat this game, and DESTROYED this game with ease. Went Fighter + Fighter + Red Mage + Black Mage. Protips: -You can grind gold & exp vs Orges around the 'Melmond' city area, and in the dwarf cave on the far left side of the dungeon map. -Use the Wizard's Heal Staff near the end of your battle to heal your party to save gold instead of using heal potions. -Cast 'Fast' at the START of your battles on each of your Fighter class heroes to do DOUBLE damage EACH strike!

I think my fist party (in late 88) was Stab, Kick, Zapp and Heal...

The best party I think is Two knights, one Red Mage and one White Mage. Great video.

I'e always thought that they should make a FF game like the first where you can choose a whole party of whatever class character that you want. Or just do a remake of this game and update it.

great job dan

I learned a magic spell for you "tceles B hsup".

good that mario has found himself as the weapon seller

When you're using a tent and saving out on the world map, are you simply memorizing the spaces where a battle encounter will next occur ?

Can someone explain how he knows the exact number of steps to take before a "random" battle will trigger? He clearly knows how it is going to occur in the beginning of the game given his tent trick.

Rip dan 😭

Is the ships music Feels So Good by Chuck Mangione? Better face east it's 11:00

Jeeze, that nearly sub-3hr FF1 run. How do? Anyway feasel getting excited for a great run on his 140p cam. So good. Thanks.

WOW! GOOD SHIT BRO!! (Just curious... How many times have you beat this game previously before getting this time??) ALSO: I noticed when you started off, your character "Cal's" face was dark and hidden. (As it normally is) But then sometime throughout me watching, I just happened to notice his face is now shown & not hidden anymore? Why is that??

The memories the childhood 🥲

Well done!!!

That bat soup segment didnt age well 😱👀😱

That. Was. Epic.

Is the naming of the characters counted toward the run time?

For leveling up - the BEST place to do this is the square in front of the FLOATER in the ICE CAVE vs the EYE. 3225 exp and 90% of the time he casts spells that are nullified by the RIBBON. Save time here, friend. 👍😊

Why do you unequip the ice sword?

Looking to start really start speed running FF. What is a good resource for research?

I dont understand why he dont bring the black mage alive again.

I just did my first successful run at this game with warrior warrior red mage red mage...where do i go to start learning how to do these routes and optimize my team?

Black mage really said king dedede dash attack

Fucking amazing. I am in tears.

newb question, but how do you know when the random battle happens, you're so good at tenting

Last time i watched your ff1 speedrun was with Gyre a couple years back. Curious to see how the strats have changed.

The anxiety and aggravation he gave me for not rezzing the second mage

Hearing about bat soup in 2020: *BRUH NO*

I loved this game as a kid...id damn near shit my pants when it was time to get the "floater" definetly had a lot of rage quit attempts lol

Why do you do the resets? I'm new to watching speedruns, so sorry if it's an ignorant question!

Trading red for black? Definitely gonna watch this a little later!

dan saved you bro. dan for MVP

si alguien le podria traducir le tiras heal al chaos con el clerigo puede que en una occasion lo cure pero sigue le tirando lo mataras de un tiroo 2 como mucho cuando le aga el da-o

Super play

So I was looking for a way to make Lich go easier, short of Level 8, and the only thing I found was that you should pick up the FIRE spell at some point. Lich resists ICE, so having FIRE gives Cal something to do after his two FIR2 charges. Course, if Cal survives ICE2 your success rate is higher anyway, but in the event Ace or Bil dies to ICE2 or they just get shitty rolls, and Cal is alive, using FIRE over ICE helps your odds.

So long story shortened a bit, anyone remember K-Mart?? It was 1990, around October or so, my school rezoned on me, and I had to go to a new school, and of course, it sucked. I was walking through K-Mart, with my head hung low, and saw Dragon Warrior, Crystalis, and this sitting on a red lazy Susan plastic rack. I almost reached the line with Crystalis in my hand, when I saw the 40$ Nintendo Power Final Fantasy strategy guide. Sixty five dollars for the game, thirty five dollars for the guide to go with it. Eleven year old me cursing out the swamp cave in Sanscript, 'cause I was possessed by the ancient spirits of evil to get that f*,*#%^ Crown. And then got royally rubbed out by "A$$ Toast" Astos. Rage quit and never came back until almost 1992, one year later.

Why did the characters change what they look like in battle around 1hour 40 minutes?

Man... those bat soup comments are ironic looking back on them today.

I find it hilarious you ground a lot of fire-type enemies with a fire weapon. The good old days where elemental weapons weren't elemental.

"Say no to crack everyone", lol.

in the chaos shrine portion why do you want to keep two party members petrified?

Are u gonna go for the WR again? A lot of improvements to be made to this run. You got this! Plus I love watching this speedrun!

My crew was 2 fighters, a black wizard and a white wizard. The game took me a while because I reached all of them to Level 50. I was very powerful so the last boss didn't survive to two turns of attacks from my team.

Okay, so does he hate someone named Dan and this is a way of getting revenge or was there a strategy to keeping Dan dead?

I just beat the game on the Dawn of Souls version, and I can say I was not expecting Chaos to just have the regular battle theme.

1:46:43 white mage, full heal and aero? I've never done this game without one. Except when I tried running 4 reds.

fease0 what party do you recommend for a noob at this game?

Why does he keep using cabins? Also what’s the difference between the cabins and houses?

Has anyone seen speedruns on the nes ff1 by theaxeman and if they have could they let me know if they think its not a legit run it just seems really questionable to me

So basically, playing this game without saving. Can't imagine keeping up the console and TV ON for long grinding, and a mistake happened in final boss and geeting killed. 😱

1:04 ...... corona virus, you rethinking bat soup now feasel? Haha

Where I can download this game on pc

Why not after reaching a certain level bring back the mage? Surely it would give you higher DPR

Great video and game, though I thought I detected turbo buttons on the error sound.

no gas dragons, lucky!!

Bane sword and bane spell. Double your pleasure.

Ur voice is relaxing

why isn't Cal a Red mage? More durable and would provide slightly more damage at the start of the run. He can learn all the same spells in addition to exit.

If the temper spell worked, you would pick it up, right?

GG

How was he able to be so successful running from enemies in the Temple of Fiends?

Wouldn’t the guy at the armour shop be a good party member?

1:05:00 Bat soup

1:05:38 now we know who started the corona

I noticed you got poisoned by a mudgol during the waterfall. I didn't know that mudgals could poison you?

Will you be participating in agdq 2017?

Poor Dan.......

33:43 CLUTCH AS SHIT GOT DAMN

Feasel -- only benefit to a white mage I can see is using Harm2 to grind the PNEOP ZomBulls.

Yo the saving before battle thing doesn't make sense to me. So either you've memorized about a 200+ step sequence throughout the game or there's a rhythm that you follow. If it's 200+ steps just to avoid fighting, that would put the other sequences of the game to a total of probably like 500 or so. This doesn't make sense just purely on memory grounds. That would be like having around 15 games of chess memorized, move-by-move.

I don't get it why intentionally kill your Mage before fighting the Kraken? Or not revive the second mage the whole game?

I don't grind ogres or agamas. I grind on the northeast tip by the city you get the pirate ship at. that was with 4 black belts and at lvl 8 they are better than fighters on their respective levels. I beat the game in under level 25 with 4 black belts and destroyed Chaos.

black bell en level 50 magic fast destroy chaos only 1 hit

Wait, what? there is fighters in this game? i thought mages was an only option ... whoaaaaaaaa

You can hold the button down to buy heal potions. Save the effort.