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This display of skill means you'll have no trouble at all beating the last couple of stages.

It's your job to find out whether I'm being sarcastic or completely earnest. I'm kind of curious about that myself actually.

I thought we all knew by now that raocow will not let tracked VIP coins (or their Horse equivalent) go uncollected, no matter whether people tell him it's worth it or not.

I mean, just look at that circle next to the level name.

It's taunting him with its lack of gold coloring.

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I was wondering if that series was gonna feature in the video title, considering your avatar. Don't worry everybody, tomorrow's gonna go like a dream. Oyster's Pearls: Detteiu's Haunted House/And Then There Was a Haunted House His name for: What's With This House? It Moves! (The first one is raocow'...

Make Bloopers thwackable with a cape? No, see, that would make powerups useful, and we can't have that. Oyster's Pearls: Ikasumi's Fortress His name for: Squid Ink Fortress "Oyster adds: 'Not sure what that's supposed to translate to. It's in katakana, most likely the name of a Koopa Kid or som...

Another World.

If "lightning strike causing electrical spike that messes up particle acceleration experiment" counts as "power failure" anyway.

Six people are invited to a mansion to compete in solving the owner's puzzles, so one of them may attain their greatest wish.

Fun fact, that room with the red Yoshi platforms is actually coded kinda weirdly. It only matters whether you enter the room while riding a red Yoshi. If you are, then you can stand on the platforms even if you get off him, and if you aren't then you'll just fall right through. Basically, you could'...

Thank you for saving the integrity of my naming gimmick by beating the entirety of Bowser's castle in just two videos.



...tell me you finished the rest of the rooms in one video.

"Nonchalant Gambling"???????? W h a t ? ? ? ? ? ? Wow, almost would've missed this one. I guess that makes for an impromptu Oyster's Pearls: Oyster's Pearls: Nonchalant Gambling The original name of the stage is "Oikake Nokonoko". 'Oikake' means 'to chase' here (disregarding its...

[We fixed] one VIP Coin that was placed on a horizontal screen boundary, which was also called out in the Japanese community and in all likelihood was not intentional, since the level doesn't draw attention to it, and the rest of it contained more VIP coins to collect. I should probably eat my word...

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/478535096962514944/488313895367475229/other_path.png You press the P-switch, and a Yoshi's Island style red arrow pops up under the transparent ? blocks. Go in, and it goes here: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/478535096962514944/488314151198785536/othe...

Kinda funny that it was somehow fixed to "Yoshi" between 2008 and 2009, too. I'm sure there's a story behind that that we might never know. The 2008 LP would've been accompanied by a thread on SomethingAwful's Let's Play subforum, so presumably the story is "someone in the thread tol...

I've been lagging behind on posts lately. Kinda preoccupied with some other stuff. Today's level really isn't as bad as I've seen people claim. It's basically a memorization level, for better or for worse, but ultimately not really that hard to execute once you know how to. ...Are we sure that The F...

People have said world 6 is either 'eh' or 'holy geez', but I think it has some pretty good stages as well, like Super Spinner Boon for instance. Even the 20.000 leagues level is kind of clever in its use of the time limit, in a way that a certain level in VIP 1 probably should have been. It's just ...

In regard to raocow and people in the comments on Youtube wondering about the lack of ascension glitch, I'd like to reiterate that we did not patch or change anything ASM-wise that wasn't directly causing problems on real SNES hardware due to assumptions about emulation accuracy. The sole exceptions...

Yup. Translation of the 'official' solution in the spoiler tag: Steps for the proper (?) solution: There are many ways to tackle this level, but below is the way to do it while using all the tools at your disposal. 1. In the room with the Rexes, hit the P-switch, and go to where the green Yoshi is. ...

I'm wondering which level the quote from the title refers to... the turtle level I'm guessing! It actually refers to the castle level. There's quite a few things in that level that might come across as unintended behavior after all! Translator's note: Wait... This Castle's Too Easy I think someone ...

To elaborate on this error further for everyone else: if it wasn't for this mistake, Oyster might have translated the name as "Unreasonable Athletic", which is pretty close to the current name. "If he didn't make any mistakes, he would've done it correctly" is kind of an obvious...

Today was history in the making. I'm voting it 'best LP moment of 2018'. Haven't been in the thread for the previous couple of days, mainly because the message boxes were pretty straight-forward and Oyster did a passable job on the level names. One of today's levels makes up for that though, as it s...

The next few levels... ...will be a thing. Whenever raocow refers to the information symbol as "'i' sphere" or just 'i' it feels like he's addressing me specifically. Three Oyster names to comment on here. He was really on fire in world 4, which was unfortunate due to it being a forest and...

Oyster's Pearls: Thorn Thorn Labyrinth His name for: Stickerbrush Spikery He totally missed the DKC reference.For what it's worth though, it's not a bad translation of the actual name, since it keeps with that Mario theme of repeating an adjective. Though even in that regard it should've actually b...

Did you guys change part of the level when translating to give raocow some mercy. What happened to the optional hell gauntlet at the end of the first half to get the last dragon coin? It involves pixel perfect bounces with saws and green springy things. That was the part I was expecting was gonna b...

You kept tapping the A button when shooting out of the cannons didn't you? I can't blame the problems you had here on the level or the design of the barrels, the textbox clearly says you should hold the button. If you do, and time it right with obstacles, you always land where you need to be. Oyster...

Somehow the reversed controls didn't bother me much in this stage. Compared to the stage itself anyway. Most of the time you're only pressing one button to pitch down and another to pitch up anyway, and even if they're inverted it's not that hard to get used to which button does which. Oyster's Pear...

Blue wrote: ↑5 years ago What the heck are the drybones throwing about? "Poor you~"?

Actually, yes, though that graphic replacement was already in the translations of the previous VIPs.

No real translator notes today, other than pointing out that this is the first appearance of Maks' double textbox tech, which helped a lot with cases like these where there was a lot of information to translate. I guess I'll address the thing raocow said at the very end about whether the use of tech...