EarthBound - Game "lock-up" via death

Once you defeat Giygas in the SNES role-playing game EarthBound (named MOTHER 2 in Japan), you can explore all places you can teleport to without any enemies appearing, which also means there is no way to die. However, there are 2 enemies that are required to defeat in the Summers museum during the game that won't disappear if you skip any of them.
The trick is to avoid fighting one of these enemies (named Shattered Man). After defeating Giygas, go to the museum's top floor and enter this room. The Shattered Man you didn't fight will still be here. Engage it in combat and lose the battle. The game (update: DOES NOT) freeze(s) at this point.

UPDATE: As it turns out, you're actually returned to the map with 0HP, but the screen is black.

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• earthbound
• earth
• bound
• ness
• paula
• jeff
• poo
• giygas
• bug
• glitch
• freeze

[NessLover94]

Please do not do this! You will have to restart the entire game.

[Groudon0199]

@NessLover94

If it actually locked up at this point, you'd only restart the entire game if you never saved. It's not like the AP check when facing Giygas.

Just walk to the left through the door to refresh the graphics (something I wasn't aware of until just recently).

[Nickj109]

this makes me feel weird asking this but before you go into the phase distorter in saturn valley to the cave of the past, if you save in the house in saturn valley and not save with the phase distorter, wouldn't the game revive you in saturn valley?

[Groudon0199]

Regardless of where you save, this will happen. When I made this video, I used a "save" from the first tool-assisted run (where the player never saves at all, so dying would revive you back at Ness' house).

[ranmaster27]

Congratulations Ness, You rid the world of the Ultimate Evil...

OH! Except for that "Shattered Man" back in Summers.

[PoeTrader]

That background looks like waffles! I never noticed before. :D

[hybrinoid]

DEATH BY WAFFLES

(look at the background)

[MrRage71]

uhhn, the battle's music.. looks like Nightmare Battle from mother 1 ?

[StudioSHAD]

Something similar happens if you don't get on the Runaway Five's bus in Twoson right away and then die in battle...or it least it did that on my cartridge

[NessLover94]

I did just recommend watchers not to do this, i didn't forbid them to do it

[Groudon0199]

@Timsonourside

Even if you manage to run away, I'm pretty sure the enemy's sprite will be removed from the map.

[Timsonourside]

@JakeHaydenDJ

Yep, that's all there is too it. Use a skip sandwhich (or double skip) if you have to.

It would be nice if you could run, but I don't know if you can even at this point, their being just two. Especially if he's at 0, though that may just have the same result as any other if successful =/

It seems that the graphics will glitch if you leave the building, but I don't think any vids on YT show it. :S

[Tonnlink989]

@BugStyleXX No. I LOVE this song! Best one in the game besides the title theme

[Cloaytonem2]

And over here, we have on display some DEATH.