YUMP2 - Marginal Consciousness

[strongbadman]

This is extremely VIP-like in quality and concept. If this was in the Valley of Bowser in VIP 6 it would absolutely not be out of place.

[Nimono]

the thing is, this level is litteraly before the last world, so I think it's normal that it's really hard.

like the difficulty curve in this game is gonna be nebulous because the game spreads wide. Very early on the game splits many times and so instead of having a typical world progressions, you have several unnumbered paths who eventually converge to a point before the bowser cube, and then it's the bowser cube.

true, true! I *personally* would still expect that kind of difficulty in a bonus world, though, as opposed to "oh man this is the entry to the endgame!!"

but like I said- seems this is the intent behind this hack's difficulty anyway, so eh! if it's intentional, my comment is invalid!

[thatguyif]

i've been posting messed up thumbnails from discord embeds of raocow's uploads in the all the sonics thread since it's been happening a bunch with sonic advance 2 but i just noticed yesterday's YUMP 2 had a real messed up one too

I think it's a problem with your computer, or just the fact that you grab these videos right when they're released and thus YouTube hasn't finished crawling them. You should probably just let it go.

[Leet]

They're posting them because they like them, why would they let it go

Incidentally I just noticed the HUD is completely intact

[Emral]

The hud doesn't move, so there's nothing it needs to update between frames. It might glitch out if the thumbnail chosen overlapped with a frame where coins, points, or a reserve powerup are being collected.

Incidentally, my RSS reader displays all the thumbnails fine. Probably because it crawls in intervals rather than listening to all upload events (which causes it to take a few minutes longer to pull the thumbnail).

[Daizo]

click spoiler for info on blocked art servey (contains spoilers)

So there are 3 images:
- Mellonpizza cameo
- Koopaling Fight
- CLIMAX Pilot

All the details behind the answers are explained through this video


but really, I'll explain here too:
Answer 1) To figure out this answer, they are all (in a sense) technically true but the most accurate one is "Seven, Eight" because the eight is sideways and the seven is upside down. In some font styles "1" doesn't have the line underneath, but the answer lies within' the consistent number that doesn't (usually) have it. Thus, 7. If I were Bowser tho, I would've made both doors correct.

Answer 2) raocow got it, it's the SMB3 Super Show koopaling names. More specifically, (and thank you ♀¨•♠ö║í±☻~ for making the list)
•Larry = Cheatsy
•Morton = Big Mouth
•Wendy = Kootie Pie
•Lemmy = Hip
•Iggy = Hop
•Roy = Bully
•Ludwig = Kooky
•Bowser = King Koopa

Answer 3) raocow accidentally got it, it's the dark green block. There's two ways of reaching this answer; you could consider the actual background colour, or you could consider the green bush tile as the answer. Either way, both are true, and are grouped as the same answer.

Answer 4) This one is hard to explain. So this requires outside knowledge on something you only really see once, and that is the pilot controlling the CLIMAX boss fight from the original JUMP is what the "blocked art" is referencing. Now what makes this answer hard to explain is the reason the answer is "upside down roof" is because the image makes the pilot right side up, whereas in JUMP you see him upside down. Thus, what"s "above" him in the blocked art is an upside down roof. (It's better explained in the video since there are images showing what I mean. also you find out who is President Lord Bowser but hushhh)

Answer 5) raocow applied a very different logic to this, but it was right anyway. But this one also requires some outside knowledge in that you need to understand how specific tiles act. It's picture 2 because you're able to stand on some of the blocks, whereas picture one acts like air tiles (so you'd fall and die), and picture 3 is covered in death blocks.

Answer 6) You have 6 answers this time, where you can use L and R to explore the blocked art further to find the sixteen arrow pieces throughout the level.

The boss is the quiz master getting mad that you solved all his puzzles.

The entire level is based off of a quiz segment from the RPG Maker game "off" by Mortis Ghost, where an Elsen asks you 5 questions that relate to 3 images right beside him. Answer all 5 correctly and you get a surprise 6th question, and then a boss fight at the end. Good game, I'm glad someone else referenced off in YUMP2.

also who is President Lord Bowser?

it's me. big surprise right

I do suggest raocow check the door that says "thirteen", since....I won't explain, but it's funny.

[Mandew]

I freakin loved seeing that first level because of how stupid good it is as a joke

[Valentine]

top 2 levels in super mario world

Number 1: these two

[Crow]

i've been posting messed up thumbnails from discord embeds of raocow's uploads in the all the sonics thread since it's been happening a bunch with sonic advance 2 but i just noticed yesterday's YUMP 2 had a real messed up one too

I think it's a problem with your computer, or just the fact that you grab these videos right when they're released and thus YouTube hasn't finished crawling them. You should probably just let it go.

can confirm: it is 100% a problem with youtube that has been ongoing for some weeks now. also who the hell is it hurting for them to post these anyways

[The Doctor]

I liked the idea of the first level, but going back to look at the pictures was so tedious. I ended up just brute forcing it when I played. That level would be better if you could see the pictures while reading the questions.

The second level was great. It hurts your head a little, but not too much that it's frustrating to play. There could have been more variety in the enemy types, but what was there was put to good use. Very fun and challenging level.

[ft029]

I brute forced every single question in the first level. Didn't even notice the arrows, but guessed 16 first. I understood 0 references while playing.

I love the aesthetic in the 2nd level

[thatguyif]

can confirm: it is 100% a problem with youtube that has been ongoing for some weeks now. also who the hell is it hurting for them to post these anyways

It's just weirdly obsessive to keep posting about these when we know what the problem is and can't do anything about it

[Leet]

They just look cool dude jesus christ

[CrappyBlueLuigi]

i've been posting messed up thumbnails from discord embeds of raocow's uploads in the all the sonics thread since it's been happening a bunch with sonic advance 2 but i just noticed yesterday's YUMP 2 had a real messed up one too

I think it's a problem with your computer, or just the fact that you grab these videos right when they're released and thus YouTube hasn't finished crawling them. You should probably just let it go.

at least one other person (AUS, i think?) posted a screencap of it showing up on discord for them too, so it's not just me. FAKEEDIT: it was SAJewers actually but AUS also said they saw them on discord. they definitely come about because of youtube processing the videos and not being done yet, and while on youtube the thumbnails are clean and fine, discord embeds seem to be pulling up these mid-processing thumbnails.

i'm not posting these as some weird criticism or anything, i just think they're neat and weird. i could spoiler them if they're bothering anyone though?

[Ashan]

My best guess is Discord's scraper tries to grab the thumbnail from a rendered page but it's triggering the animated video preview you get when you hover over a thumbnail so it melds a bunch of frames into one. I'm only kind of talking out of my ass

Also no you don't have to worry about spoilering, it's literally one person throwing a tantrum for no reason

[Grounder]

I don't think it's particularly annoying, but it does seem like you're maybe a bit too focused on them at this point to me.

Not gonna ask you to spoiler it, though...

[raocow]

they do look neat, share them with impunity

[Ditocoaf]

I also enjoy seeing the glitched-out thumbnails. Screw the haters.

[thatguyif]

i'm not posting these as some weird criticism or anything, i just think they're neat and weird. i could spoiler them if they're bothering anyone though?

Oh okay, then. If that's your angle, that's fine. I was getting a different vibe from it, not the way you described it

Happens, sorry about that

[Piesonscreations]

Matter of fact, someone make every icon in this forum glitched up like that.

[Kilgamayan]

I liked the idea of the first level, but going back to look at the pictures was so tedious. I ended up just brute forcing it when I played. That level would be better if you could see the pictures while reading the questions.

Second monitor + Print Screen button + three instances of your image editor of choice

Granted, this doesn't help the very very last question, but

(That being said, I think having the images readily available when answering questions defeats the point of the exercise)

[CrappyBlueLuigi]

I don't think it's particularly annoying, but it does seem like you're maybe a bit too focused on them at this point to me.

oh it's just because i'm not really keeping up with the sonics atm outside of seeing discord bots post video links, and i haven't felt like saying much in the lp threads lately anyway, so i end up only posting about these thumbnails since i want to and don't think anyone else is going to

it's really not like it consumes my entire raocow Experience™ or anything, i just find em funny

[BobisOnlyBob]

I've definitely woken up to those glitched thumbnails on my phone, so it's definitely not a weird interpolation thing on Discord's part, it's pure Youtube silliness.

[Rockythetigre]

i wish 1f8 would be played be by raocow someday

[Kilgamayan]

Sorry you have to miss out on those sweet sweet e-bucks duder :(