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Mak0rz posted:I've tried a good number of them. The problem with them (as with all ROM hacks) is that they are insanely difficult to the point where they are extremely unfun. I've been waiting for an "easy mode" hack of SM Redesign for years now. Unfortunately, Axeil Edition (an edition of Redesign supposed to be easy enough for Axeil, who did the original LP to be able to beat without as much trouble) did finally release but in an ironic twist of fate people seem to find it harder than the original mostly due to some very stubborn decision-making by Drewseph when he revamped Tourian. And yeah, randomizers are fun but one of the problems with almost all of them is that while it's hilarious to get really powerful items early but that means the late game difficulty is totally broken or you're stuck wandering around nearly-maxed out looking for that one item that isn't very useful but is totally required to beat the game that you normally would've gotten a few hours ago.
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FPzero posted:Unfortunately, Axeil Edition (an edition of Redesign supposed to be easy enough for Axeil, who did the original LP to be able to beat without as much trouble) did finally release but in an ironic twist of fate people seem to find it harder than the original mostly due to some very stubborn decision-making by Drewseph when he revamped Tourian. I should check this out! Can you elaborate on the bit about stubborn Tourian decisions? How is the Axeil version harder in that case? FPzero posted:And yeah, randomizers are fun but one of the problems with almost all of them is that while it's hilarious to get really powerful items early but that means the late game difficulty is totally broken or you're stuck wandering around nearly-maxed out looking for that one item that isn't very useful but is totally required to beat the game that you normally would've gotten a few hours ago. I can see it working more for the original NES Metroid and Zelda games, as they aren't as linear and the world designs aren't as tailor-made to getting things in a certain order compared to games later in their respective series. Majora's Mask's time shenanigans and pseudo-linearity probably makes it a better candidate for a randomizer than OoT, especially considering it has an entire extra page of items ranging between "broken or otherwise insanely useful" to "literally just cosmetic except for a change it makes to a single dialog option" Mak0rz fucked around with this message at 03:59 on Jan 9, 2016 |
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Mak0rz posted:I should check this out! Can you elaborate on the bit about stubborn Tourian decisions? How is the Axeil version harder in that case? The page for its release is on Metroid Construction's forums. As for the difficulties, I've heard there are some laser barriers used to block progress that have the side effect of two-shotting you (they used to one-shot you) and apparently the Metroid AI is way too smart and actively dodges everything thrown at them while also being very fast and deadly. That part may have been addressed in the latest updates but I'm not sure. Overall it has some REALLY nice quality of life improvements like an active hint system and a really detailed map that probably make it a superior version, but an excess of 25-missile doors and some other difficulty issues stopped me from beating it. I have not played the latest version though, which apparently addressed a fair number of complaints including some of the ones he was more stubborn about leaving alone. If you (or anyone else) want any other info on it or other SM romhacks, feel free to shoot me a PM so we don't derail this thread too much.
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 Part 4: You Are Tearing Me Apart, MajoraNew episode! This time crowe / corn in the bible joins Suspicious Dish and me. This episode is a bit slow, it took me a while to get in the groove of playing, but we do get a few things done. Key accomplishments: getting all transformation masks, finding gold, the Shannara Chronicles. Given that we found so many great items already, I thought it might be good to add something to focus on for this particular recording session, to make it more interesting. Before we started, Dish picked a row of goals from a "Bingo Board", and I attempted to accomplish them by the time we finished recording. We talk more about it in the episode, but hopefully that sounds interesting to you guys. Let me know if it is. DoctorKill fucked around with this message at 00:50 on Jan 12, 2016 |
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Since the bingo board doesn't accept actual strings, I had to do a bit of math to turn MoonMoon into a number. Here's the code I used: parseInt('MoonMoon'.split('').map((a) => { return a.charCodeAt(0).toString(16) }).join(''), 16) Basically, turn MoonMoon into hex, and then convert that to decimal. Also, I spent nearly half of the recording session staring at Wikipedia's "List of trashy reality sex shows" looking for that dumb VH1 show, but I couldn't find it!
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I found it really amusing that DoctorKill continued to spam the Lense of Truth button while climbing the wall, despite him having unlimited magic. Old habits die hard, right?
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Haha yeah, I didn't even realize that.Suspicious Dish posted:Also, I spent nearly half of the recording session staring at Wikipedia's "List of trashy reality sex shows" looking for that dumb VH1 show, but I couldn't find it! I think its house of cards
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Suspicious Dish posted:Since the bingo board doesn't accept actual strings, I had to do a bit of math to turn MoonMoon into a number. Ooh, are we playing code golf? Here's my Python version: sum(map(ord, 'MoonMoon')) Which doesn't work the same way yours does: it converts each letter into its ASCII identifier and then sums the lot, yielding 818. If you want bigger, more likely-to-be-unique numbers, you could use reduce: reduce(lambda x, y: x + y, map(str, map(ord, 'MoonMoon'))) That gives 7711111111077111111110, again by converting to ASCII identifiers, but then just bodging those identifiers next to each other to make a giant number-string.
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Python code golf?Python code:
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The Shannara Chronicles is not very good.
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The best way to describe the Shannara Chronicles is "Game of Thrones if it were marketed to teens." It's blatantly trying to be a Game of Thrones knockoff, except the Shannara books were - well, let's just say I loved them when I was a teenager. They're very "generic fantasy." And from what I've seen of the TV show so far, they're actually being pretty faithful to the books.
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I was wondering if you knew about this weird thing Mico showed off in an LP he did a few years ago. During the part where you get the Zora mask you're able to pick up the Zora dude like a regular object and run around with him. Mico says in the video that it makes you go fast in the water but he doesn't really show it off all that well. I haven't been following the thread so I'm not sure if anyone has shown this off.
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DoctorKill posted:
So you Song of Time'd to go back to before you started the run? That... seems incredibly appropriate actually, excellent strat.
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corn in the bible posted:The Shannara Chronicles is not very good. You know I looked and I couldn't find any pictures of elves in skinny jeans, so maybe you're lying about this too, maybe I should be watching it right now Seedy Wizard posted:I was wondering if you knew about this weird thing Mico showed off in an LP he did a few years ago. During the part where you get the Zora mask you're able to pick up the Zora dude like a regular object and run around with him. Mico says in the video that it makes you go fast in the water but he doesn't really show it off all that well. I haven't been following the thread so I'm not sure if anyone has shown this off. I showed off something related to this, I wouldn't do it while playing because there's a chance picking him up can softlock the game.
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 Part 5 - Really Bad Graveyard Time with Bats and FireThis episode is a bit shorter, and I don't really get any items, so feel free to skip this one! Not that I want you to, but man I had a bad time in this one. Luckily corn in the bible was here to save the day and soothe my pain with Terrence Malick and Wrestling. If either or both of those things are your jam then go ahead and tune in! I do manage to finish one of the assigned bingo goals, so there's that.
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Terrence Malik is one of the best filmmakers of all time.
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Cowman posted:Terrence Malik is one of the best filmmakers of all time. Remember when he shot Thin Red Line and then edited out half the cast in post without telling them?
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corn in the bible posted:Remember when he shot Thin Red Line and then edited out half the cast in post without telling them? He was a Philosophy professor but decided he was bad at it so he decided to become a film director and he's become one of the best even though he hasn't made that many movies.
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His movies are certainly super pretty even at the worst of times but drat I did not like To The Wonder
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When you mentioned Tree of Life I thought I had seen it but I was actually thinking of The Fountain so I know who Terrence Malick is even less than I thought I did.
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DoctorKill posted:When you mentioned Tree of Life I thought I had seen it but I was actually thinking of The Fountain so I know who Terrence Malick is even less than I thought I did. You aren't missing much.
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Those black bats are really weird because they're the only bat-like creatures that are actually called bat instead of Keese or something.
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DoctorKill posted:When you mentioned Tree of Life I thought I had seen it but I was actually thinking of The Fountain so I know who Terrence Malick is even less than I thought I did. Tree of Life is really good if you're into the extremely artsy impossible to comprehend cerebral stuff. Really you should watch Badlands, Days of Heaven and The Thin Red Line.
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Carbon dioxide posted:Those black bats are really weird because they're the only bat-like creatures that are actually called bat instead of Keese or something. The other weird thing about them is that they are strong and terrifying and yet people are more afraid of Iron Knuckles I just don't get it
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 Part 6 - Learning New Instabilities of the RandomizerNew episode! Some issues pop up in this one that make me scared for future sessions, but let's just call those "possible avenues of entertainment." This one is all about Snowhead, and you get to see how much easier it is going in with fire arrows and not needing fairies. This was also the end of the session so you get to see how far I got in my "bingo." So I'll admit the last few episodes have been a little slow in regards to content, so in the next session I'm probably gonna try to focus on some specific things instead of just winging it, so there aren't as many whiffs and such. I'll probably start cutting out more stuff, at the very least cutscenes but maybe some failed attempts. We'll see how it goes.
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Suspicious Dish actually did a glitch run of twilight princess once. It's quite fun to watch But he wasn't able to finish it back then.
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And I did it on the Wii version, which loses a very helpful trick in favor of waggle. I was a loving idiot.
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I feel like MM Randomizer Bingo races aren't a thing, they should be
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They absolutely are, but both them and even regular Majora's Mask bingos don't happen too often. Maybe 1 or 2 every week or two. I was actually about to talk about how long they take right before our possible avenue of entertainment. MM bingos haven't been 'balanced' properly in a while, making some goals way better than other ones. So how long it takes to finish them can vary from something like 40 minutes to 1h20m, for good players. Randomizer bingos take much longer since you can't plan anything, usually around 2-3 hours, potentially up to 4 if you have really bad luck.
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Just a heads up so you don't make the same mistake I did: the ocean spider house only gives you the reward once. So if you don't hand that land deed into the swamp in this cycle, you will never get what replaced the swamp deed. My first randomizer run was ruined when the spider house wallet was replaced with a powder keg, since it meant I could only ever get one, and I beat the spider house at night so I couldn't do the ranch stuff.
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Holy poo poo, I tried this as fcommas and just... I think MoonMoon was the wrong choice, guys.
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Edward_Tohr posted:Holy poo poo, I tried this as fcommas and just... Well? Come on. What does it do?
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The big thing is getting the Razor Sword from buying the shield. There's a few other interesting swaps, but I don't want to give too much away.  Oh, and it also gives you the letter to Kafei instead of adult's wallet, so be aware of that if you try it.
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 Part 7: Breaking Weapon Laws, Fighting Aliens, Peddling ConspiraciesNew episode! This time ChaosArgate joins Dish and me and helps us do all the things I just mentioned in the episode description. No bingo this time, but I had a specific set of goals I set out to achieve so there's a lot less flailing about. A lot of what I do in this episode will build up to stuff I do in the next, so make sure you pay attention! One annoying thing is that I accidentally recorded the audio stream I was sending to Dish and Chaos, so I got my voice and the game audio on the same track. Because of that there will be a few audio quirks since I couldn't edit easily, but it's nothing too bad. Sometimes the game audio gets a bit loud.
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All your sword troubles would cease to be a thing if you could stumble across the GFS somewhere...
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Your video is set to private for some reason, just as a heads up.
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So, I don't really know a lot about Majora's Mask speedrunning, but why did you guys red out "3 Temple Compasses"? You got one, and there were still two temples left, right? How come you can't get the other two? Or is it something about the randomizer that prevents you from getting three compasses?
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Captain Bravo posted:So, I don't really know a lot about Majora's Mask speedrunning, but why did you guys red out "3 Temple Compasses"? You got one, and there were still two temples left, right? How come you can't get the other two? Or is it something about the randomizer that prevents you from getting three compasses? From what I've seen people use it, red doesn't really have a fixed meaning in the bingo board. Seemed like in this case they were using it just to signify "a part of this goal has been done". Another way to use red would be in, say, OoT Beta Quest (aka. entrance randomizer) bingo where some people use it to mark a goal that has become technically possible to finish with the current inventory and knowledge of entrances.
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SystemLogoff posted:Your video is set to private for some reason, just as a heads up. I keep forgetting this! It's just I usually notice much faster than this. Captain Bravo posted:So, I don't really know a lot about Majora's Mask speedrunning, but why did you guys red out "3 Temple Compasses"? You got one, and there were still two temples left, right? How come you can't get the other two? Or is it something about the randomizer that prevents you from getting three compasses? And yeah tiistai is right, sorry for being unclear. It just meant that I did part of it, and I know I wasn't really consistent about that, since I didn't use red for other stuff. I just did it for the end. KieranWalker posted:All your sword troubles would cease to be a thing if you could stumble across the GFS somewhere... Possibly, but like I mentioned in the episode the goal of this session was "sword stuff," and finding gilded sword but having the swordsmith still take it ended up being a really good result toward that end. I'm fine with how that turned out.
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