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 WHAT ARE YOU DOING NOW? After our aborted attempt at Mizzurna Falls really impacted our sanity, Dewgy and I decided to do some stupid one-off projects for a while until we’re feeling up to conquering another long series that may or may not give us fits like the last one did. To that end, we’ve decided to do some VS. stuff with a whole bunch of sports games. WHY ON EARTH ARE YOU DOING THAT? Why not? We’ve been doing the LP thing for a long time, but with the exception of two games (Rocket League and Behold the Kickmen), we haven’t touched the sports realm at all. On top of that, we haven’t really done anything where we’ve been playing together…or, well, in this case, against each other. It’ll be an interesting turn of format! SO, WHAT SHOULD WE EXPECT TO SEE? Mostly, whatever weird sports games we can find! No real “mainstream” stuff on this go round (with one early exception)—we’re looking for things that are off-beat, not sports that are featured in the US, or just plan weird made-up stuff. We’ve dug up a number of things on our own, but  WE’RE OPEN TO SUGGESTIONS on what to do here (as long as we can get it working, that is!)In terms of our ability…well, if any of you out there enjoyed the incompetence that was either of my NCAA experiments (which, sadly, have been deleted—my personal YouTube channel got nuked a while ago for as-of-yet unknown reasons), then this will fit for you! If you enjoy laughing at (or with) us at the stupid things we do, then this’ll be great for you, as well! ….and now, without further ado, please enjoy SPORTS
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EPISODES EPISODE 0: Kirby's Dream Course--The Inspirations. We originally did this for Lehigh Valley With Love, and realized that "hey, this is kinda funny--let's make a series out of this!" VS. Courses 1 (Whispy Woods) and 2 (Mr. Shine & Mr. Bright) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgL94mw8H6o VS. Courses 3 (Kracko) and 4 (Gordo) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VH6Ct5tx7fU EPISODE 1: Super Bases Loaded (SNES) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AS90SDfhzEA EPISODE 2: Aussie Rules Footy (NES) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIzVl77idSw EPISODE 3: Brian Lara Cricket '96 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W34kEnHBhnY EPISODE 4: Road Rash II https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbPtfa1Fm6A EPISODE 5: Rugby World Cup '95 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4kR60mOR2Q EPISODE 6: Olympic Summer Games https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu7wJTq7ttY EPISODE 7: Winter Olympic Games https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL8OiteKztQ INTERMISSION: Super Punch-Out!! 2 PLAYER MODE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hw1UpZbXmBk EPISODE 8: NBA Jam Tournament Edition https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhLdraCrow8 EPISODE 9: Pigskin 621 A.D. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QomlkvULqU EPISODE 10: Ribbit King https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo3w0d9is7Y EPISODE 11: 2 On 2 Open Ice Challenge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik9IgU8liJE EPISODE 12: Windjammers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpHcZDqY7z4 Professor Duck fucked around with this message at 04:03 on Nov 1, 2022 |
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Professor Duck posted:EPISODES Something I'd like to point out here is we had to re-do a few chunks of these a few times, so occasionally we did have practice with the stages, but it was mostly a blind run for both of us. And it made no difference in the end!!!  If only my luck would hold up consistently like that going forward...  And regardless of how much I got my entire rear end handed to me it was great getting a chance to hear SBL's soundtrack again for the first time in probably 20 years. Such a great SNES game, sports or not. Dewgy fucked around with this message at 04:02 on Jun 5, 2022 |
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THE SPORT: Australian Rules Football, a game with an egg-shaped balled played on an egg-shaped field, with positions such as "ruckman" and "ruck-rover", and a penalty called "incorrect disposal" THE GAME:  Aussie Rules Footy, a PAL-only NES game that is pretty wonky. In preparing the thread, I discovered that there is at least one person that has attempted to mod the game to reflect the modern AFL (the Aussie Rules Football professional league). If you're really curious, you can check the efforts here THE CONTEST: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIzVl77idSw As you can see....it's an interesting little game. We had some fun with it...also struggled getting our head around some of the game mechanics and how they were implemented. Also, be ready to hear "Outta bounds, on the full" A LOT
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Having tried this one out I’m definitely curious to see how more modern takes on the game handle. Despite doing absolutely terrible it was pretty fun, and AFL Evolution 2 came out on PS4 in 2020. Maybe it’ll be worth revisiting once we get past all the retro stuff!
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THE SPORT Cricket! A sport that is the 2nd most popular in the world, which means that us 'Muricans don't care about it at all. Fun fact: A professional cricket league, Major League Cricket (creative name there, guys), is starting in the US in 2023. THE GAME  Brian Lara Cricket '96, released in PAL regions for the Mega Drive, PC, and Amiga. In Australia and New Zealand, it was released as Shane Warne Cricket THE CONTEST https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W34kEnHBhnY While the perspective makes it really difficult to judge when to swing sometimes, and the fielding being complete rear end, this was kinda fun. I've personally wanted to learn and try to play cricket, so this was an interesting introduction to how an actual game plays out, instead of just knowing the rules and how it works. Perhaps this could warrant a re-visit for a newer entry once we've gone through a bunch of other sports.
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Yeah not gonna lie I really really enjoyed this game. Got me all looking up backyard cricket sets and modern video game versions afterwards. Cricket ‘22 seems to be the way to go if you want the modern experience, though there’s more choices available on the PS store than I would have expected. There haven’t been any Brian Lara games since 2007 though. 
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THE SPORT Motorcycle road racing! I know that is doesn't really fit the "ball" part of the sportsball motif here, but we're still gonna count it! THE GAME  Road Rash II for the Genesis/Mega Drive, released in 1992 THE CONTEST https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbPtfa1Fm6A Holy framerates, Batman! This was difficult to play because of how bad the framerate is on this. I've played most of the Genesis entries in the series before, but never in 2 player mode, and....ouch. It made it really hard to judge turning so as it was, but then throw some shakiness from Parsec in there and I had a real tough time making adjustments on the first race. Eventually got the hang of it, though. It's a pretty simplistic idea, and it has some fun to it. I'm sure it might have been a little different experience had we chosen a more modern representation.
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Jul 7, 2022 14:09
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Don Bradman's Cricket when
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Bogart posted:Don Bradman's Cricket when We already did cricket though.  (But we might go back if I break down and buy a copy. I’m a little hooked.  )
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THE SPORT Rugby! Another handegg sport that involves a moderate amount of kicking (not as much as Aussie Rules, but way more than American football), and looks hella painful! THE GAME (sorry for the size!)  (Had to go with the old print ad rather than just the box art) Rugby World Cup '95 for the Genesis/Mega Drive! I remember taking this out as a rental quite often when I was younger, and I remembered it being pretty fun THE CONTEST https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4kR60mOR2Q It wasn't as fun as I remembered, but it's still a good time! EA adapted their FIFA International Soccer engine for the game, so it doesn't always feel quite right, but its pretty responsive and somewhat intuitive. The problem is keeping track of the action and who has the ball, but that could've been because we both were pretty terrible at this!
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Love to see you give Desi Adda : Games of India a shot if it's possible.
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Kangra posted:Love to see you give Desi Adda : Games of India a shot if it's possible. We can certainly look into it!
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Dewgy posted:Something I'd like to point out here is we had to re-do a few chunks of these a few times, so occasionally we did have practice with the stages, but it was mostly a blind run for both of us. Sorry to say I think something got messed up with the audio on Gordo's course. Now I'm not saying you recorded the session against an empty chair and did a fantastic bit of performance art to make us think you were actually competing with someone just so you could win a round, but it does appear that only half of the audio is present after about 30 minutes into Course 3/4.
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THE SPORT The (Summer) Olympics! Once a proud centerpiece for any country's cultural and monetary power, now a giant boondoggle that usually sees more scandals and issues in its staging than anything else. Still winds up being a really awesome time, though--assuming you live in a country that treats it as a spectacle for everyone and allows access to content for free (unlike the US) THE GAME  Olympic Summer Games for the SNES! What finer way could you celebrate the 100th anniversary of such an illustrious event? With a lovely tie-in game, of course! THE CONTEST https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu7wJTq7ttY Wow...there are few words here. The control scheme to too convoluted for its own good, there's no real feedback on what you're doing wrong, and...well...its just bad! Not much else to say about it, other than SHOW SOME RESPECT FOR CANADA, YOUR ATHLETIC SUPERIORS, EH
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Kangra posted:Sorry to say I think something got messed up with the audio on Gordo's course. Now I'm not saying you recorded the session against an empty chair and did a fantastic bit of performance art to make us think you were actually competing with someone just so you could win a round, but it does appear that only half of the audio is present after about 30 minutes into Course 3/4. Us? Audio problems?! NEVER I passed this along to Dewgy, since he's handling our editing at the moment. Hopefully an easy fix!
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THE SPORT: The Winter Olympics! In other words: How well can you slide and do stuff? THE GAME:  Winter Olympic Games for the SNES! We felt it was only "right" to do this one, since we subjected y'all to the SNES summer olympics game. THE CONTEST https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL8OiteKztQ WOW that took forever, but here it is in all it's....glory? I was happy I managed to glitch the thing out again (I did in a test run), but other than that this was just as bad as the first time. Professor Duck fucked around with this message at 04:01 on Aug 13, 2022 |
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does the actual game run at 5 seconds per frame? the skiing event has 1 frame of skiing, 1 frame of crashing then back to menus
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ilmucche posted:does the actual game run at 5 seconds per frame? the skiing event has 1 frame of skiing, 1 frame of crashing then back to menus No, that's not right--something is screwy on the render. We'll have to fix that.
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ilmucche posted:does the actual game run at 5 seconds per frame? the skiing event has 1 frame of skiing, 1 frame of crashing then back to menus Professor Duck posted:No, that's not right--something is screwy on the render. We'll have to fix that. It’s probably better this way to be honest. Pretty much the entire winter olympics run was deeply shameful.
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So, it took forever to get back to, but we finally have out re-take of Winter Olympics up! It's still bad! We have another surprise, unscheduled, unplanned update to go along with that, too! As a nice refresher, enjoy an actual good game played in a new way. For some background: In Super Punch-Out!!, there are some 2-button cheat codes. Two had already been discovered forever ago--one to allow Japanese name entry characters in the US version, and a sound test. What's been recently discovered is this: Press and hold Y and R on controller 2 at the title screen while controller 1 presses A or Start--it brings you to a "stage select", where you can do a one-off fight with any of the boxers in the game without having to go through the circuits! The second discovered code is even better! Once you select an opponent in this mode, at the fighter information screen, you hold B and Y on controller 2 and start the match (keep holding through the fade-out and until the announcer starts). Now controller 2 controls the CPU fighter! We did the only respectable thing and ran through every fighter, and tested our skills! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hw1UpZbXmBk
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I really can’t stress how much fun this mode is. Balanced? Absolutely not. But so, so much fun.
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We're back (again) after a long wait and more technical issues! It's almost like a higher power is trying to tell us to stop doing this, but eff that! THE SPORT  Basketball! I really don't like basketball, so let's not hang around here. THE GAME  NBA Jam Tournament Edition! We're using the arcade port, and a specific build, too--you'll see why in.... THE CONTEST https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhLdraCrow8 It's nice to be at something that isn't terrible! Using all the goofy cut hidden characters was a nice touch, and while it is a sport I don't enjoy, its just stupid fun!
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An all-time classic. It was interesting trying the actual arcade version too, I genuinely can’t remember if I ever played it back in the day, but the console versions definitely didn’t have as much RAZZLE DAZZLE as the original.
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THE SPORT Football! Handegg! Inflatable Oblong Zeppelin Toss! Whatever you wanna call it, this is it! THE GAME  Pigskin 621 AD! You know Arch Rivals? Well, it's back--in football form! THE CONTEST https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QomlkvULqU Honestly...I remember really having fun with this when I was little. It's still fun, but I didn't remember the controls being this loose before. There's a Genesis port that I played, and perhaps that's what I was remembering rather than the arcade version. I'm not sure, but it is a good, mindless football game to play against friends!
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Professor Duck posted:THE SPORT It really is fun but I’d have to imagine that back in the day paying two bucks for a full game of football was kind of a steep ask. Still wondering if anyone has the merch around these days. I’d totally say I want to buy an official Pigskin jersey and then never actually buy it.
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Been a while, but we're back again with more bullshit! THE SPORT  Golf...? Well, not QUITE golf, but its the closest thing I got here. THE GAME  Ribbit King! Or Frolf, as I keep calling it! I couldn't resist using the print ad here--its great! THE CONTEST https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo3w0d9is7Y This was really fun! The presentation is great, controls are easy enough to deal with (and forgiving and adjustable enough, too!), and its not necessarily about just rushing to the hole--exploration can pay off in a big way (as you will see)! Also, certain characters make Dewgy uncomfortable, so added bonus!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaST85utYL8 Ah man, that takes me back to LPs of yore.
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THE SPORT/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/pmn/WG55BCNQO5FTLLH7SMD5GR46MI.jpg) Ice hockey! I'll let this cover it...  THE GAME  2 on 2 Open Ice Challenge! AKA The NHL wanted to make an NBA Jam clone! (Had to go with the promo copy again, can't help myself) Dunno where they're getting the "140 MPH" part from--the hardest shot on record is only 108 (although there are arguments that Al MacInnis could've topped that by using a composite stick), and I don't see it going much faster than that THE CONTEST https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik9IgU8liJE Fun, although the controls definitely aren't as tight as NBA Jam--I imagine because it's supposed to be on ice. The controls felt a little off otherwise. Still a good time, though!
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Really fun game, but I’m kind of surprised it never took off like NBA Jam did. Only one game in the series and only two home versions probably made sure of that, but I wonder if it was considered a flop when it came out. Also, a small correction: 
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THE SPORT This...thing. Kinda sorta. I'm not sure how else to set this up. THE GAME  Windjammers! A hybrid tennis/soccer thing with frisbees! It's loving awesome and I love this game, and I love the concept for an actual sport. Someone needs to get on this! THE CONTEST https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpHcZDqY7z4 As I mentioned above, I love this game. It's so fun, and Dewgy never stood a chance
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Alternate game title: Doogsmashers. I am not all that good at this, if it isn’t already painfully obvious.
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