Bloody hell. Thanks Koba, can't believe I didn't realise that. I got quite into Japanese mahjong when I played Yakuza and yeah, looking at Daddy Cool now, I can clearly see it's one of the betting stick things that you use when you call riichi.
VIP 5 2019 - To everyone there is a boon, and a time to every rom hack under heaven
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Re: VIP 5 2019 - Like mammoth-sized lungs to a trumpeter playing Moto Perpetuo
Re: VIP 5 2019 - Like mammoth-sized lungs to a trumpeter playing Moto Perpetuo
raocow, is it really necessary to specify that the VIPs were made by edgy super nerds? Personally I thought it was fairly obvious that anyone who made a SMW romhack was one. (A super nerd, not edgy in case that's not clear, lol.)
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Re: VIP 5 2019 - Like mammoth-sized lungs to a trumpeter playing Moto Perpetuo
Did you read this and just forget about it or something, it's almost word for word!
Re: VIP 5 2019 - Like mammoth-sized lungs to a trumpeter playing Moto Perpetuo
Apparently I just somehow didn't see it despite reading all the new posts before posting, lol. Whoops!
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Re: VIP 5 2019 - Like mammoth-sized lungs to a trumpeter playing Moto Perpetuo
Tell it to the judge!
Re: VIP 5 2019 - Like mammoth-sized lungs to a trumpeter playing Moto Perpetuo
In today's racoow is like "Yeah the VIPs never ask you do any weird stunts like shell jumping."
Seems you've completely forgotten about this level.
Jump 1/2 used alot of gimmicks but was there ever any other level that utilized this glitch? I think this is like the only hack I've seen use it.
Seems you've completely forgotten about this level.
Jump 1/2 used alot of gimmicks but was there ever any other level that utilized this glitch? I think this is like the only hack I've seen use it.
Re: VIP 5 2019 - Like mammoth-sized lungs to a trumpeter playing Moto Perpetuo
Since this might not be obvious to anyone watching, maybe it'd be a good idea to explain our reasoning behind this.I understand why it's done, but the removal of all the allcaps feels like such a tragedy.
Basically, the reason why we removed any instances of allcaps in pretty much all of our translations is that the alphabet graphics in any Japanese hack out there is invariably going to look like this:
Now compare this to what that graphic looks like in the original SMW:
As you can see, in the Japanese version all the lowercase letters of the latin alphabet had to me removed to make space for the Japanese characters! This means that whenever an author would want to write out something in English, they'd be forced to use allcaps simply out of necessity, not necessarily because they wanted to make the text stand out in any way.
This is basically why we decided to follow a self-imposed rule to remove the allcaps in any instance, even if I agree that there are certainly edge cases out there where you could argue that the allcaps might be more fitting.
this is getting laundromatic
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Re: VIP 5 2019 - Like mammoth-sized lungs to a trumpeter playing Moto Perpetuo
thank u so much for posting that
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oogggghhhh games aren't art Fuck You Roger Ebert *kills him with a hamemr*
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oogggghhhh games aren't art Fuck You Roger Ebert *kills him with a hamemr*
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Re: VIP 5 2019 - Like mammoth-sized lungs to a trumpeter playing Moto Perpetuo
Since smw itself always uses capitals, I've always thought small letters in level names looked hacky. Those crazy Japanese kids with their fuck-off big letters were the only ones doing it right.
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Re: VIP 5 2019 - Like mammoth-sized lungs to a trumpeter playing Moto Perpetuo
It's also because raocow and his nostalgia for the Japanese versions of these hacks isn't the only one we're making the translations for. Since the all-caps isn't by intent originally anyway, it'd be kind of weird for somebody who's playing this for the first time to have levels randomly in all-caps when the rest of the translated hack uses capitalization properly.Ryrir wrote: ↑4 years ago As you can see, in the Japanese version all the lowercase letters of the latin alphabet had to me removed to make space for the Japanese characters! This means that whenever an author would want to write out something in English, they'd be forced to use allcaps simply out of necessity, not necessarily because they wanted to make the text stand out in any way.
Anyway, guess I'll talk about the other thing that was causing the overworld to glitch out, which is the custom water animations.
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Re: VIP 5 2019 - Like funny cat pictures to those bored at work
the zombie navy is invading D:
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Re: VIP 5 2019 - Like funny cat pictures to those bored at work
I wanna see someone make a level from that now
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Re: VIP 5 2019 - Like funny cat pictures to those bored at work
Endurance is one of those levels that are literally just made to shitpost. By taking it seriously you're effectively being beaten by it. The only winning move is to laugh at it. That's the kind of audacity I like about VIP.
That and TSC is a sort of idiot savant in that all his levels are really stupid (ABUSE OF ABYSS, Canary Tunnel, Fruitea, So Sadistic/Lunatic, Death Bubbles, Missingno., Shall We Get Serious? etc) but stand-out somehow for better or for worse. I love his stages.
That and TSC is a sort of idiot savant in that all his levels are really stupid (ABUSE OF ABYSS, Canary Tunnel, Fruitea, So Sadistic/Lunatic, Death Bubbles, Missingno., Shall We Get Serious? etc) but stand-out somehow for better or for worse. I love his stages.
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oogggghhhh games aren't art Fuck You Roger Ebert *kills him with a hamemr*
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oogggghhhh games aren't art Fuck You Roger Ebert *kills him with a hamemr*
Re: VIP 5 2019 - Like funny cat pictures to those bored at work
Oh wow, VIP 5, that's kinda big. Was searching for older raocow stuff, then this appeared. I pretty much stopped following raocow after he played Wario Land 4 in such a depressive style, that it seemed to negatively affect people and make them think that it is "unfair" on Hard (even although it is one of the easiest games ever), which is just unacceptable. Funnily enough, at the same time he played a game called Rex Rocket, i only watched a single part, and it was the same thing, it was raocow dieing and complaining all the time. Is raocow still like this nowadays?
The Dailymotion and first Youtube Vip 1 to Vip 4 Let's Plays were fantastic and made me play and enjoy the VIP series myself. I doubt this would have happened if i had watchted the Third Youtube playthroughs first, starting at 2014 i believe. In the original Let's Plays, raocow said the Vip series were his favorite hack series ever, then in the Third playthroughs, he just complained at how unfair they are. I doubt that i'd have been motivated to play the Vips myself if i had seen raocow's most recent Let's Plays first. I can at least understand that raocow got rid of his amazing random commentary (even although i definitely preferred the randomness), i think his goal was to focus more on the game in his commentary, but when that just consists of constant nagging, then i don't think it adds that much.
Overall, when you watch a video of peak raocow 2007-2010 and then you watch one of his modern vids, you wouldn't even believe it's the same person. If you look at Dailymotion vids, it already starts within the first few seconds... the extremely energetic HEY THERE EVERYONE, THIS IS raocow, is nowadays just a quick Hey'er everywun, 'zis raocow...
The Dailymotion and first Youtube Vip 1 to Vip 4 Let's Plays were fantastic and made me play and enjoy the VIP series myself. I doubt this would have happened if i had watchted the Third Youtube playthroughs first, starting at 2014 i believe. In the original Let's Plays, raocow said the Vip series were his favorite hack series ever, then in the Third playthroughs, he just complained at how unfair they are. I doubt that i'd have been motivated to play the Vips myself if i had seen raocow's most recent Let's Plays first. I can at least understand that raocow got rid of his amazing random commentary (even although i definitely preferred the randomness), i think his goal was to focus more on the game in his commentary, but when that just consists of constant nagging, then i don't think it adds that much.
Overall, when you watch a video of peak raocow 2007-2010 and then you watch one of his modern vids, you wouldn't even believe it's the same person. If you look at Dailymotion vids, it already starts within the first few seconds... the extremely energetic HEY THERE EVERYONE, THIS IS raocow, is nowadays just a quick Hey'er everywun, 'zis raocow...
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Re: VIP 5 2019 - Like funny cat pictures to those bored at work
I mean you are not wrong. That was a rough period of my personal life when I was working at a job I hated, and the negative energy was being released in the games I was playing. I'm not saying that an excuse, I think that's just what happened, and it did impact my videos a lot.
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Re: VIP 5 2019 - Like funny cat pictures to those bored at work
...rao only played wario land 4 in the past couple of years and it wasn't depressive in any way
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I am perfectly tasty...
AND I'LL STEAL YOUR SOUL!
I am perfectly tasty...
AND I'LL STEAL YOUR SOUL!
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Re: VIP 5 2019 - Like funny cat pictures to those bored at work
wait that was just two years ago ?!
Why does it feel like it was way more than that...
Why does it feel like it was way more than that...
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Re: VIP 5 2019 - Like funny cat pictures to those bored at work
Well yes he actually talks about the videogame and its design more often instead of just saying random wordsMR.X wrote: ↑4 years ago Overall, when you watch a video of peak raocow 2007-2010 and then you watch one of his modern vids, you wouldn't even believe it's the same person. If you look at Dailymotion vids, it already starts within the first few seconds... the extremely energetic HEY THERE EVERYONE, THIS IS raocow, is nowadays just a quick Hey'er everywun, 'zis raocow...
Well it is a decent hack but sometime its just too repetitif there no level that actually pop in your face and your like oh yeah that level they all ressemble themselves and just monster along the way.
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Re: VIP 5 2019 - Like funny cat pictures to those bored at work
that's not a reflection on raocow, that's a reflection on rex rocket
EDIT
Almost three years now. Wario Land 4 and Rex Rocket LPs were July/August 2016.
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Re: VIP 5 2019 - Like funny cat pictures to those bored at work
If you look at Superstar Saga right now, raocow is maintaining chipper even in the face of the endless sea of criticism that is only now starting to die down somewhat. I'd say this is some significant morale. If you think he's still being "depressive" these days, I dunno what to say
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Re: VIP 5 2019 - Like funny cat pictures to those bored at work
raocow i can't understand who you're addressing and what your name is at the beginning of every video. Can you please enunciate more? Thanks.
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Re: VIP 5 2019 - Like funny cat pictures to those bored at work
I mean say a phrase at least once a day for twelve years and sometimes it might slur a bit
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Re: VIP 5 2019 - Like funny cat pictures to those bored at work
Maybe it needs some modernization.
Proposal:
"YO, WHADDUP GAMERS AND GAMETTES, MY NAME IS raocow AND TODAY WE'RE GONNA BE PLAYING SOME WHACK AS H*CK GAMES THAT YOU'RE SURE TO LOVE. SMASH THAT LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE BUTTON IF YOU LIKE TO PLAY FORTNITE AND MAKE SURE TO SHOP THROUGH MY AMAZON AFFILIATE LINK. THIS VIDEO IS SPONSORED BY FLAMIN HOT CHEETOS! FLAMIN HOT CHEETOS, ONLY FOR BADASSES!"
Proposal:
"YO, WHADDUP GAMERS AND GAMETTES, MY NAME IS raocow AND TODAY WE'RE GONNA BE PLAYING SOME WHACK AS H*CK GAMES THAT YOU'RE SURE TO LOVE. SMASH THAT LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE BUTTON IF YOU LIKE TO PLAY FORTNITE AND MAKE SURE TO SHOP THROUGH MY AMAZON AFFILIATE LINK. THIS VIDEO IS SPONSORED BY FLAMIN HOT CHEETOS! FLAMIN HOT CHEETOS, ONLY FOR BADASSES!"
Re: VIP 5 2019 - Like funny cat pictures to those bored at work
Because you've played like 1.6 trillion games on your channel maybe? You've done a lot of series since Wario Land 4.
Clearly the solution is to occasionally spice it up by introducing yourself as someone else. (Steal DC's "hey there, La-Mulanaites!" intro or maybe Iso's for a day or something. Though I think you did do the former once during your La-Mulana lp, lol.)