Uploaded February 2022 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
A rather devastating bug present in the final battle. When Malkil enters the third phase of his attack pattern, he starts vanishing and appearing at random intervals, shooting his wicked pinwheels as he appears.
If you press Select to enter the character change menu right as Malkil is about to reappear, he will get stuck and never reappear again. As far as I'm aware, the only way to fix this on actual hardware is to reset the system.
Using the Purple Wizard's levitation ability, you can "bump" into Malkil sometimes and it can cause a variety of different effects, from what happens in this video to instantly crashing the game. Other times nothing happens when levitating up to where he was, or levitation is almost impossible because you keep hitting an invisible obstacle as you're trying to rise up. The result shown in the video was the most interesting one I got.
The window on triggering the bug is pretty small, either requiring quick reflexes or trying to predict when he appears. You have to press Select as soon as the puff of smoke appears.
Chapters
0:00 Malkil enters the third phase
0:15 Bug activated
0:36 Levitating into Malkil
1:01 Dying on the way back to home planet
A rather devastating bug present in the final battle. When Malkil enters the third phase of his attack pattern, he starts vanishing and appearing at random intervals, shooting his wicked pinwheels as he appears.
If you press Select to enter the character change menu right as Malkil is about to reappear, he will get stuck and never reappear again. As far as I'm aware, the only way to fix this on actual hardware is to reset the system.
Using the Purple Wizard's levitation ability, you can "bump" into Malkil sometimes and it can cause a variety of different effects, from what happens in this video to instantly crashing the game. Other times nothing happens when levitating up to where he was, or levitation is almost impossible because you keep hitting an invisible obstacle as you're trying to rise up. The result shown in the video was the most interesting one I got.
The window on triggering the bug is pretty small, either requiring quick reflexes or trying to predict when he appears. You have to press Select as soon as the puff of smoke appears.
Chapters
0:00 Malkil enters the third phase
0:15 Bug activated
0:36 Levitating into Malkil
1:01 Dying on the way back to home planet
![Nuts & Milk [Famicom] - Playthrough (Game A)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/n--tuWrqKU8/mqdefault.jpg "Nuts & Milk [Famicom] - Playthrough (Game A)
Something classic today. First 1440p upload, too.
On the whole, Nuts & Milk is a relatively easy game once you get the hang of it, but doing it deathless was miserable. Took me 12-13 hours of non-stop playing to do this the one time. Something that may be hard to fully comprehend without having played the game is how brutally precise many jumps get. Those 2-block gaps require close-to-frame-perfect jumps, the chains/ladders are deceptively difficult to reach from certain angles, and they dont let you jump on them. Im also going to throw in the controller excuse and blame the bafflingly sticky D-pad on DualShock 4 controllers, even if most of the deaths were total chokes.
Anyway, in case youre wondering, *Nuts* is the green blob; he HATES you. You control the pink blob *Milk* , and your goal is to survive these treacherous lands, forage for victuals and to HelP your fiancée, *Yogurt* .
Meatiest tips to focus on to fully Milk your Nuts:
1. When stunned from a fall, hold A (jump) instead of tapping it for the quickest recovery. To ensure no jump happens when recovering, you have to hold A before initiating the fall, if you start holding mid-air or when already stunned, youll jump
2. Nuts is persistent, but largely predictable. Follow their movements closely and memorize how they react to your actions, thisll be useful for manipulating them out of the way in some of the tighter rounds.
3. On bonus rounds (rounds ending in 3 or 8), its better to always ignore any fruit that requires a detour on bonus rounds and simply try to reach Yogurt, as the fruit are only 800 points per, while reaching Yogurt gives you one extra life up to a max of 9. You lose the bonus if time runs out
4. If youre struggling getting high jumps off the springs, start holding the jump button moments *before* you land on the spring. If youre landing from high enough that Milk starts tumbling (e.g. in rounds 17 or 35), youll never get a high jump from a timed press. As for momentum, it depends entirely on what speed you jump on it, and which part of the spring you land on. If you land near the edges, you lose a lot of your forward momentum, so aim slightly closer to the center
5. Pressing Select on any round will automatically skip to the next one, but you will miss out on the beautiful ending if you skip even once in a run
If youre wondering what the differences are between game modes, Game B adds helicopters and blimps. Thats it. When youre closer to the left side of the screen, a greenish helicopter occasionally spawns in approaching from the right, which gives you 500 points when collected. Closer to the right, a red blimp approaches from the left which kills you on contact. Beating Game A automatically switches to Game B for the rest of the run, but beating Game B never changes the ending, regardless of whether you do it from the start or as a repeat run.
Fun fact, the thing that got me wanting to do this was the 300-minute GCCX special where Arino challenges this game.
Chapters
0:00 Title & Attract Mode
0:24 Round 1-5
2:09 Round 6-10
4:18 Round 11-15
6:06 Round 16-20
8:36 Round 21-25
10:42 Round 26-30
12:38 Round 31-35
14:37 Round 36-40
17:28 Round 41-45
20:08 Round 46-50
23:14 Ending
23:25 Loop/Game B Demonstration
23:48 Player Miss Demonstration")
![Contra [NES] Playthrough (Archive*)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/nx2m-8Gj66w/mqdefault.jpg "Contra [NES] Playthrough (Archive*)
*NOTE: This is an unedited archive of a live no-commentary playthrough originally streamed on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/bippoernesti), which means there may be deaths, restarts or intermissions/interruptions.
This stream was a little bit unique. Check the Stream Description if you want to find out why.
I already have my eye on a game I will most likely stream next.
Stream Date: 2022-07-23
Stream Title: Its Contra
Live Notification: S for Success
Stream Description: Quick Contra today with a bit of a twist as I already know the result. A couple hours before I decided to stream, I played Contra with input recording enabled. I usually dont know how things will go when I write stuff down here, but I would have typed the following.
The goal is a regular playthrough, hopefully without many/any deaths.
Contra was one of those games I only knew through a crusty multicart (that I still own) from when I was a kid, and I played it a ton. I used to fancy myself pretty good at doing deathless runs, but most of that skill has left me over the decades.
Anyway, its unlikely Ill do an input movie in this way again, but I might start recording inputs during streams whenever possible. It seems like a better way of future-proofing archives over having just a 720p video.
...Youre still reading this? Thats amazing. Sincerely hoping it doesnt desync mid-stream and make everything super awkward.
00:00 Game Start
00:16 Stage 1 - Jungle
02:09 Stage 2 - Base1
03:55 Stage 3 - Waterfall
06:06 Stage 4 - Base2
08:53 Stage 5 - Snow Field
11:42 Stage 6 - Energy Zone
14:07 Stage 7 - Hangar
16:29 Stage 8 - Aliens Lair
19:16 Ending
19:55 Staff Roll")
![Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back [PS1] 100% Playthrough (Archive*)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/pWqzUvy00uU/mqdefault.jpg "Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back [PS1] 100% Playthrough (Archive*)
*NOTE: This is an unedited archive of a live no-commentary playthrough originally streamed on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/bippoernesti), which means there may be deaths, restarts or intermissions/interruptions.
100% playthrough (42 Gems, 25 Crystals). Played on a PS3 using the PS one Classics version since my physical copy tends to freeze in the third warp zone levels a lot. Its the PAL version, so there are some differences.
Stream Date: 2021-03-26
Stream Title: Adventures of Crash the Bandicoot 2: Cortex Copyright Strikes Cocos Vlog and Ransoms it for Crystalcurrency
Live Notification: Rotary rampage resumes in stunning sequel starring slides & spins.
Stream Description: PAL version of Crash 2. Like the previous Crash game, 2 has some notable regional changes. 100% playthrough is the goal.
0:00:00 Playthrough to normal ending
4:08:15 Continuing into 100% playthrough")
