Cal's LP thing (NP: Rayman Origins, PTCG 2, SMWCP)

gamercal · Post by **gamercal** » 11 years ago

Old thread for legacy purposes

Alright, so I'm going to keep this here thread updated with my LP videos for just now, assuming I remember. I'm uploading Worms Reloaded matches every once in a while at the moment, along with Minecraft stuff, but I won't be putting those up here since it would be a waste of time to be honest.

Current LP's (if you didn't read the thread title): Rayman Origins
Pokémon Trading Card Game 2: The Invasion of Team Great Rocket!
An Super Mario World Central Production

Previous LP's in this thread:

Super Mario Star Road

Info:

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Sonic Generations

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Now featuring Touhou 11!

Rayman Origins

Super zany game going back to Rayman's 2D beginnings. It is 100% blind outside of the first level (done to test if the game was working). I'm not too familiar with the Rayman universe but this looked and played far too good in the demo not to get. Done from my PC instead of my Wii so it is in HD!

Part 1: Let craziness commence!
Part 2: That bug sure knows how to Gradius!
Part 3: Chest Chasing to learn mechanics of the game
Part 4: WIND! ARCH-ENEMY OF THE WORLD! Only it isn't so bad in this game
Part 5: Where Fraps decides to forget that microphones exist
Part 6: Cold Suicide
Part 7: Somehow transitioning into lava city. Still in World 3 mind you.
Part 8: My fears from the demo come back!
Part 9: Power to trek through dark waters!
Part 10: TNT Underwater? Well this isn't Minecraft I guess...
Part 11: Is it just me or was that not that hard for World 4?
Part 12: Wherein the mountain kinda broke.
Part 13: Speaking of mountains, this one didn't last very long.
Part 14: Red Eyes are very frightening!
Part 15: Are we really going back to old level motifs? And difficulty it seems...
Part 16: I ran out of gimmicky titles, so genericness it is!
Part 17: The remake of World 2 starts out pretty neat!
Part 18: The return of the wind levels... I like this place!

Pokémon Trading Card Game 2: The Invasion of Team Great Rocket!

Overly long title is long! I decided to do this because Rayman is currently in a bit of a... lame spot imho and I can't record much whilst my main screen is kaput. I was always going to do this game, but I just decided that now would be as good a time as any since I recently got a full english translation.

Basic idea: After becoming the Grand Champion Team GR shows up and steals all the cards on the island. Along with many of the inhabitants. Start out fresh (they stole your cards too) and go kick their ass!

Part 1: Predictable start for luck-based games
Part 2: How did Gene of all people be the ONLY one to fend off GR?
Part 3: Seems like the Rock Gym was weak after all... how did Gene win again?
Part 4: That misplay... possibly my worst fail of all time
Part 5: Who would've thought that the rival could be so good?
Part 6: That one really long part to beat up GR3.

An Super Mario World Central Production

I know not why I am doing this. I really don't. This is ~3/4 blind - I watched raocow's LP at the time but haven't touched the thing since, never actually playing it through myself. I played the first world before recording just to get back into the swing of things (I don't play hacks often), but everything after 2-1 is as good as blind. Going to attempt to stay tool-less, but I do not have the extreme threshold of you elites out there so if I feel myself becoming too annoyed/I feel cheated by something I feel is unreasonable then I will use tools.

Part 1: I have no idea why I am doing this but I am
Part 2: Wherein the LP Curse has already started!
Part 3: And so the semi-blindness begins...

gamercal · Post by **gamercal** » 11 years ago

Going into a vase apparently equates to entering a Sky World.

Funny how that works. World 2 is pretty fun though, so I'm not really complaining!

Post by **raocow** » 11 years ago

Way to put down an url before it's available!!!

gamercal · Post by **gamercal** » 11 years ago

It was at 95% processing! It said it had just one minute left!

Oh well, it happens. I just wanted to do this whilst I remembered, since if I didn't I would definitely forget to do so later on.

gamercal · Post by **gamercal** » 11 years ago

This time with more immediate availability!

Unfortunately take two since the recording blacked out the first time for no apparent reason other than me changing emulator settings to try and remove the interlacing and disappearing issues. Didn't seem to work at all. Oh well.

On the plus side I now have access to all on my controllers, including my super-awesome one with 2 analogue sticks and a dpad ^_^. So I basically have very accurate analogue movement with a c-stick too, good times.

gamercal · Post by **gamercal** » 11 years ago

Glitching through the floor during a bonus room... fun times!

gamercal · Post by **gamercal** » 11 years ago

Wherein we get to the first legit tricky level, which doesn't give me that many problems this time!

gamercal · Post by **gamercal** » 11 years ago

Gotta love it when everything dies on you in one go...

Something about being similar to Tall Tall Mountain, without being Tall.

At least I learned something about compatibility of Blueberry Flashback Express with VSync buffers... wonder if there's a way to turn off Touhou's reliance on them.

gamercal · Post by **gamercal** » 11 years ago

Panic does not always cause instant death! Even when it should!

Probably gonna upload some of the other LP I can today, if I can get it recorded. I've been doing this one exclusively because it's fun, but I shouldn't neglect the one I was doing before this!

Post by **raocow** » 11 years ago

Nonsense!

gamercal · Post by **gamercal** » 11 years ago

Sometimes it has to be done man! Although I ended up screwing up the editing a bit and putting my mic audio 5 seconds or so before the game audio, but welp it happens sometimes when standard protocol fails...

Anyhow, somehow made it into Stage 6 when all I was doing was messing around. Good times. Seems like a standard underwater world, but with a couple of neat twists and rather... peculiar occurrences. Like that lava tile right under the ground pound, what up with that?

Post by **raocow** » 11 years ago

Do you think it would be possible that some stars remove the cannon from existing, like some stars dynamicaly add/remove stuff?

yoshicookiezeus · Post by **yoshicookiezeus** » 11 years ago

Well, the cannon was there the first time he tried to get into it with the metal cap; it just didn't activate properly. My guess is that the code that makes Metal Mario sink into water somehow took priority over Mario getting affected by the cannon, and since it was never properly fired it wouldn't activate again.

Of course, this is all guesswork; I don't actually have any experience with hacking SM64. But in any case, I severely doubt it will affect anything in the future; the game permanently saving cannon status just wouldn't make any sense at all.

gamercal · Post by **gamercal** » 11 years ago

I guess we will discover this when I record more!

This is the beauty of going into something like this completely blind - you have NO idea what's going to happen whatsoever. What glitches come up, what things you will discover, it's really all so fresh and exciting. Very few people will actually know a huge amount about SM64 hacking too, so there's an element of "how did he even do that!?" in there too. Add to that how much you can learn about the engine whilst doing this, and it's shaping up to be one heck of a ride!

I hope I'm not "letting the side down" commentary-wise though. Like the last thing I'd want to do would be to not give a game like this any form of justice! I must admit though it's pretty strange doing a game like this completely blind in commentary terms though - it's different from Galaxy 2 in the sense that Galaxy 2 was (mostly) filled with very specific star paths that you couldn't devoid from whatsoever, whereas this is one big level with 6 different stars to get and no real clues as to where to get them. And I love to go EVERYWHERE in these sorts of games too, so I'll often stray away from the actual point whilst I explore this random section that probably leads to star 5 instead of one etc.

I'm still having loads of fun with it mind, and I believe that shows. Just... yeah.

Post by **raocow** » 11 years ago

Oh, I'm digging this run quite a lot. It was a wonderful way to 'discover' you, which led me to watch about half of your galaxy 2 run (I'll be watching the other half next month when my bandwith resets, gotta think about these things).

So at least as of yet, you are not 'letting things down', though do expect to maybe have more judicious editing to do down the line when you mess up at things. Like, the biggest difference between SMW and M64 is that more often than not, when you mess up it looks like you don't really die, but you do have to start some bits over, and down the road this can become meaningful.

Again, it's not a problem -now- but it's something to watch out for I guess ?!

gamercal · Post by **gamercal** » 11 years ago

You sir are a brave man, going through all of THAT LP several months after it finished lol. Hoowee, the length of that... I really must have been out of my mind when I decided to do that with literally zero playing experience beforehand!

I guess it shows the general sort of editing style that I like to employ for these types of games though.

In any case, I have to thank you for your attention towards this LP too. One inherent thing with being who you are, is that a ton of people have come to watch this series, and many of them subbed as well. Just with that, there has been a ton of additional activity with my stuff, which is fantastic for helping me improve further. I'm so glad that I put this thread up, it has made such a difference...

The whole "expect more editing" thing is already coming to light a little bit in terms of what I recorded just now, along with the coral one. I'm fully expecting there to be times where you can slip off and have to redo a section. It's hard NOT to have that kind of section in these games. When that happens, should I fail it I will just cut to either the next significant mistake/discovery, or the "winning run". On very rare occasions I will speed things up, but it means taking the video over to my old laptop running Vista so as to get a working speed-up code in Windows Movie Maker.

One odd thing I've noticed though with my one compared to like every other speed-up ever on YT is that my sped-up sections never change in pitch, they just get faster. This was probably noticeable on today's part (which was actually only edited on Vista because Live Movie Maker decided not to recognise the avi, calling it corrupt), though since I didn't talk through that part it was maybe not so obvious.

Anyhow, editing the next part just now, to go up probably later on tonight. Let's just say I break the level order now... and not in a good way either. This one ought to get some interesting reactions!

gamercal · Post by **gamercal** » 11 years ago

Well this was a shock to the system!

Suddenly found myself staring into Course 10! So much for sequential order!

Excellent course though, fantastic design overall. Not looking forward to those red coins mind you!

gamercal · Post by **gamercal** » 11 years ago

CAMERA!!!

Also, Yoshi Coins, they exist. Dunno if they give anything special, I'd assume they are another thing to collect for a star.

gamercal · Post by **gamercal** » 11 years ago

So much for there being a ton of lives in this bonus stage!

gamercal · Post by **gamercal** » 11 years ago

Looks like the fat lady had the last laugh on this one after all...

gamercal · Post by **gamercal** » 11 years ago

Koopa's so quick now he tried to run up a wall... and failed epically.

I've had one or two people saying I just need to restart the ROM to fix this, but who knows. It won't be done until I go back to this world for recollections later, so yeah.

gamercal · Post by **gamercal** » 11 years ago

Ah self, why must you get worked up so easily? At least be slightly less vocal on it, jeez.

gamercal · Post by **gamercal** » 11 years ago

Looks like the last switch has been collected!

Funny how the red switch is now at the end-game area, when it was first in the normal game.

gamercal · Post by **gamercal** » 11 years ago

Just where was I meant to go on that platform ride?

Also totally putting this out there too early, but some question about whether or not another ASMT LP would be watched by anyone here. I have a twist in mind for it that would make it interesting, just obviously if nobody would care for the game again I wouldn't bother. Nobody else has done it the way I intend to though...

Wyatt · Post by **Wyatt** » 11 years ago

raocow was right in the YT comments: the platform glitched out. It's supposed to spawn somewhere else and do a different path. I've never actually seen it glitch out like that before, probably because I usually played from power on instead of loading state.

As for the ASMT run, you should wait for ASMT v2.0 before you do it: Long-time fans of ASMT would be interested to watch your run even if only to see the changes that have been made. Not sure when the v2 is actually coming out, though, but I think it'll be worth the wait.

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