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Link Warrior! This one isn't a randomizer, but more of a setup to the next video which is randomizer stuff. So hopefully it fits within the confines of the thread. I still haven't actually recorded the rando run yet, but surely I'll have time at some point to get it done. I go over it in the video, but basically someone in the DWR discord requested to have the map from Zelda 2 put in as the overworld map in Dragon Warrior. So, I did it cuz it sounded like a fun learning opportunity. Afterwards I put it in to the randomizer with a couple of fun options. Sadly, I can't imagine it'll ever get implemented in the real program and I can't figure out how to make it a standalone program for other folks to use. So here it sits for me and me alone. Enjoy the video! I'll see about recording the rando version here soon. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TlZTT11cBo
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Not feeling up to playing right now, but I did have an update written up for PoR, so I can at least post that, right? DSVania: Portrait of Random 3, First Photo Pretty ridiculous how much of the castle I had to explore to find my first portrait.
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Mario RPG Rando 12, At Last! Feeling better about gaming after sleeping on it, so I guess it was my insomnia issues holding me back again.
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DSVania: Portrait of Random 4, Nested Images Apologies for the triple-post, but since I'm on a roll, I figured I'd post this update too.
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very normal unjank darksouls playthrough #8 AND #9 person challenges their old rival  person meets a philosopher Spoiler Explanations: - Double update because I cut these short and meant to put one out earlier this week. - The entrance of Demon Ruins is a complete nightmare, but we can technically progress through there with the ring. We'll have to return later. - Ortorias had really low HP. We keep finding low HP Oreos, actually. - Sen's Fortress opens more than few illusory walls to us, the only one locked off is the door that normally goes to the Parish beyond the front gate. - I forget to visit the fog door on the side with where you normally exit to the upstairs section to, I'll have to remember to check it and the chest at some point. - Still can't find a decent weapon that can match the mighty exploding bedroom. >> Last Update HERE << Left 4 Bread fucked around with this message at 18:03 on Jun 22, 2023 |
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Jun 22, 2023 17:02
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Just a heads up, but the links are backwards.
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Jun 22, 2023 17:59
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Crumps Brother posted:Just a heads up, but the links are backwards. Fixed, but it's almost more appropriate for this jank playthrough to be like that.
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Jun 22, 2023 18:04
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Did you disable the Grate Guy Casino skip to Smithy or just want levels and/or show off all the bosses?
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Jun 22, 2023 22:24
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lmao, perfect timing on that end
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Jun 22, 2023 23:12
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PurpleXVI posted:lmao, perfect timing on that end
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CptWedgie posted:Mario RPG Rando 12, At Last! Your characters mutating into each other is always so trippy, you somehow finish fights with two Luigi of which one has always been green Mario and the other recently was a weirdly coloured Bowser.
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FeyerbrandX posted:Did you disable the Grate Guy Casino skip to Smithy or just want levels and/or show off all the bosses? Blaze Dragon posted:Your characters mutating into each other is always so trippy, you somehow finish fights with two Luigi of which one has always been green Mario and the other recently was a weirdly coloured Bowser.
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Blaze Dragon posted:Your characters mutating into each other is always so trippy, you somehow finish fights with two Luigi of which one has always been green Mario and the other recently was a weirdly coloured Bowser.  This is because everybody's special skills (except maybe Mario's Jump since, AFAIK, every character has a jumping animation in their sprite sheet) are pre-rendered "cutscenes", as it were; to save on cartridge space therefore the game simply calls Animation ID [Whatever] (which the randomizer can't touch) and the associated pallet (which the randomizer can mess with).
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Link Warrior! And here's my final video for the thread. A somewhat standard flagset deep shuffle Z2 map run of DWR. I'm super happy with how this came out and managed to show off my work. Thanks for the thread, DoubleNegative! Thanks for all the wonderful content, everyone else! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCJUiBkrxkY There's a tech you can use which I could have shown off but sorta forgot. When you search the Death Necklace you can only pick it up once. So when I found the DN in Kol I could have kept searching that one location repeatedly and get rewarded with ~150 gold each time. It would have taken maybe 30 seconds to grind out enough cash for the Full Plate and given me a really nice starting point for defense. Lots of talk about the bridge between the two main continents. The connection is vanilla Z2, but since DW has the swamp cave to connect continents I figured utilizing it when possible would give a little more DWR flavor. So the logic dictated its removal. The overworld search location is indeed a secret spot in Z2. I just totally forgot about it because it's such a nondescript location. I was also slightly too far up the coastline for the location I thought it was at as well. I'm almost positive level 16 was go mode when taking the death necklace in to account. I just didn't even think about it until I was accidentally putting it on in front of charlock. On that note, I already coded up a nice little bugfix for the cursed soft lock situation. So I guess I don't have to worry about that one anymore. Brecconary and the NPC that uncurses the hero was located on the first continent though so it was never a real concern for this run.
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Double posting because....quote:Sign-ups for the 2023 Standard Tournament are now open!
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Mario RPG Rando 13, Castle Raid In case anyone else wants to try this randomizer: Are you even allowed to use the Grate Guy shortcut without the Bright Card?
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CptWedgie posted:Mario RPG Rando 13, Castle Raid Any time I saw anyone stream the randomizer I'm pretty sure the bright card is hard coded to stay with knife guy's juggling minigame in booster's tower.
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FeyerbrandX posted:Any time I saw anyone stream the randomizer I'm pretty sure the bright card is hard coded to stay with knife guy's juggling minigame in booster's tower. Anyway, DSVania update time now. DSVania: Portrait of Random 5, Desert Performers Methinks this "clear the portraits before finishing the castle" thing I decided to do is gonna take a while...
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FeyerbrandX posted:Any time I saw anyone stream the randomizer I'm pretty sure the bright card is hard coded to stay with knife guy's juggling minigame in booster's tower. There's a flag you can set that adds the Bright Card to the random boss drops, but I don't know/remember if CptWedgie tagged it or not. That said I couldn't get the casino entrance to appear in Bean Valley without the card in rando, and in the original you can't get into the building without it, so I can't imagine you can trigger the Smithy Warp without it.
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Mario RPG Rando 14, What's OSHA? And due to a combination of still being motivated and being close to finishing... Mario RPG Rando 15, Factory Demolished
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Castlevania: Circle of the Moon Randomizer Third Session: Mostly Just Underground Waterway https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lQp6QSB1qQ This area sucks, but guess what? It was entirely pointless. Basically a wasted session except for the experience. Womp womp
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Simply Simon posted:This area sucks, but guess what? It was entirely pointless. Basically a wasted session except for the experience. Womp womp DSVania: Portrait of Random 6, More Desert Also, don't you hate it when a power outage happens while you're playing? Because that just happened to me.
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The crow/lever dynamic tells me not even the devs bothered with the familiar card. Admittedly, IIRC you get the card much later and the waterway is a horrible area even in the regular game so I guess they could be forgiven for not testing it out.
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anilEhilated posted:The crow/lever dynamic tells me not even the devs bothered with the familiar card. Admittedly, IIRC you get the card much later and the waterway is a horrible area even in the regular game so I guess they could be forgiven for not testing it out.
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DSVania: Portrait of Random 7, More Clowning Next update coming whenever I figure out what's wrong with that one room, and how to fix it.
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Quick update just so you guys know I haven't disappeared off the face of the earth: Still kicking, still haven't given up on my DSVania seed, still can't get it working yet. Kinda suspecting it might be an emulation error, but getting back to where I was to check is kinda time-consuming considering how many stages I went through. So... fair warning: It might take a few more days before I can definitively say whether I can continue this seed.
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CptWedgie posted:Quick update just so you guys know I haven't disappeared off the face of the earth: Still kicking, still haven't given up on my DSVania seed, still can't get it working yet. Kinda suspecting it might be an emulation error, but getting back to where I was to check is kinda time-consuming considering how many stages I went through. Fair enough, thanks for the heads-up. Sometimes a randomizer bugs out or gives you a super obscure path forward. I still don't actually know if my Dark Souls randomizer can be completed, but I haven't run into a hard wall yet. I've still got my rando for PoR sometime that I should edit if anyone's interested in seeing Jonathan and Charlotte lost in the two-shot City of Haze Maze. I won't lie, I started to get a little tilted towards the end. I'll get another of the Dark Souls videos put up soon, I've got 4 more still in the backlog but my week has been a mess. (I did get some significant progress on a map done at some point.)
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Odd Wilson posted:Fair enough, thanks for the heads-up. Sometimes a randomizer bugs out or gives you a super obscure path forward. I still don't actually know if my Dark Souls randomizer can be completed, but I haven't run into a hard wall yet. CptWedgie, you're doing a bang up job so by all means work at your own pace. I'm sure we're all good for whatever schedule you run.
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Simply Simon posted:Castlevania: Circle of the Moon Randomizer Pretty sure the whip spin blocks the ice balls from the shades and demon in the Waterway, though definitely not the ice spears from the armors. Also I'm a big fan of the late-game boss music that we hear in the Camilla fight here, previously used as the final boss music from Castlevania III
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Minor improvement so far: After changing emulators, I at least got to see a little of what's in that room before freezing instead of just a black screen. Gonna see if restarting the game makes it actually work properly; will edit this post to let you know if that works. edit: Nope, didn't work, but I haven't tried entering from the other end; don't expect it to work, but worth a try anyway. edit2: Nope, that room's just FUBAR. Which is unfortunate, since it's directly in the way of getting to Medusa, and while this is the first time I've played this randomizer, I remember that every boss from the good ending is locked behind her in vanilla and I have little reason to believe otherwise in rando. CptWedgie fucked around with this message at 10:22 on Jul 4, 2023 |
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dark salsa 10 person meets the world's most generous man Spoiler Explanations: - The Covenant of Artorias only might be required (the Abyss boss could be anywhere), but at the very least it's another key item gotten. - Piles of super cheap Charcoal Pine Resin only serves to boost our scythe's damage. - This area is mostly a dead end on that side, at least. DLC starting bonfire nicely caps off a branch. - I mistook "dynasties" for the Blighttown key, that was actually the Crest Key- it'll let us access Hawkeye Gough, if we ever find him. >> Last Update HERE <<
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Odd Wilson posted:dark salsa 10 I think I might have asked this before, but does the randomizer randomize enemies on a one-to-one basis or on a type-to-type basis? Like if it replaces one Sword Skeleton with a slug, are all Sword Skeletons replaced with slugs? Because this randomizer seed seems to love slugs. Or leeches, or whatever the hell they are.
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PurpleXVI posted:I think I might have asked this before, but does the randomizer randomize enemies on a one-to-one basis or on a type-to-type basis? Like if it replaces one Sword Skeleton with a slug, are all Sword Skeletons replaced with slugs? Because this randomizer seed seems to love slugs. Or leeches, or whatever the hell they are. It's on a one-to-one basis, I believe. If we think back to, say, the Firelink Graveyard, almost every enemy there is normally a default scimitar + red wood shield skeleton, but here there was just a lucky coincidence of 2 bone towers and everything else was a fustercluck of the enemies it's proven to like putting everywhere with this seed. I think the way it operates is that it rearranges the game's enemies into tables, maybe somewhat based on a new, percieved difficulty and then fills it in with that. That could just be me misinterpreting it, but it feels like the enemies have a rarity associated. For us, humanity sprites, leeches, hellhounds, and the two stone golem types are strangely frequent. Meanwhile, I can only recall very few Hollow Soldiers, and I can't even remember if we've seen a normal Hollow Warrior- both normally pretty prolific spawns in the base game. Have we even seen a Man-Serpent? I think we've only seen a few Woman-Serpents. The leeches are kinda annoying thanks to their sudden and jerky attacks, but at least they're pretty weak and their hitboxes are sometimes pretty easy for us.
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Odd Wilson posted:I think we've only seen a few Woman-Serpents. I was shocked that you found some in the location they actually belonged in! edit: Switching type for type would have the potential to be an absolute nightmare, if you got something like the Four Kings being replaced with the Four Kalameets.
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C-Euro posted:Pretty sure the whip spin blocks the ice balls from the shades and demon in the Waterway, though definitely not the ice spears from the armors. 1) Whip spin deal very little damage, but otherwise it behaves like a normal whip swing. All the destructable projectiles get taken out by one swing, and thus also by a spin. I actually never tried against the demon's ice balls, that might have helped. Spears I know it doesn't work on, yeah. 2) Huh, you're right! I never played CV3 all the way through, so I didn't notice it. original CotM version And with that... Castlevania: Circle of the Moon Randomizer Fourth Session: Underground Warehouse (attempted) - Underground Gallery - A whole bunch of running around https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpzfPQVGp5Q I cut literally half of the original footage!
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Oh yeah, been meaning to post something here for a while. Unfortunately, that post is to 100% confirm my PoR run is dead (thankfully through no real fault of my own- if it's unplayable then the run dies). On the bright side, at least I'm not completely leaving you hanging; I switched games to get my CV fix in: Castlevania Symphony Rando 1, A Creature of Chaos Indeed As if the above confirmation isn't enough, I used PoRRunIsDead as the seed. I'm using the Casual preset here, but honestly I prefer to customize my seeds. ...took me a bit to find an online image resizer that didn't lock the aspect ratio, though; some of the screenshots wound up as squashed, nigh-illegible abominations.
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CptWedgie posted:Oh yeah, been meaning to post something here for a while. Unfortunately, that post is to 100% confirm my PoR run is dead (thankfully through no real fault of my own- if it's unplayable then the run dies). On the bright side, at least I'm not completely leaving you hanging; I switched games to get my CV fix in:
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Simply Simon posted:Oh, I missed this post! Circle of the Moon has a ton of music from elsewhere in the series. The Underground Warehouse actually takes a tune from Castlevania IV! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd7P7niYimk&t=1346s (starts at 22:25)
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Woebin posted:Not to complain, but could you post these in the thread directly or host them elsewhere? I read mostly on my phone and the page you're using doesn't wrap text on zoom or otherwise work in mobile-friendly ways so it's pretty much unreadable.
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Castlevania Symphony Rando 2, Vaulting the Walls Made some genuine progress here. Well, not that the Dracula relics aren't progress, but now I can actually go places.
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