Foggy's Playground Zone, ACT 1 - Nostalgic Sonic! 《≈ᴖ.ᴖ≈》*
Kids... step aside. It is Mommy's turn now!
...sorry guys, I always wanted to say this one.
So, here it is my first "Let's Play" ever. Most of you already know (if not, the title of the thread should give a hint)
that I am taking on the first, original Sonic the Hedgehog, which was effectively my second console game on the
Sega Mega Drive, back in 1992. I remember struggling with it a lot in the beginning, and crying when I got stuck
but I also remember how much I played/enjoyed it after I got the grip to it. I had a lot of fun going through the
game again. It gave me a very nostalgic (and warm) feeling... ^^
Anyway, the style of my gameplay here will be speed. I will not attempt to get many lives nor many points.
It will be just the result of me trying to complete the game as fast as I can, avoiding hazards at all cost, of course. ^^'
But before getting started, I will just make a little explanation about the controls
and some insight on the process of recording, the emulator used, and other details.
As for the controls, I used the keyboard. I would have used a gamepad any day of the year, for the comfort
apect of it, if mine were not so old and used (abused) but I usually feel that the keys are more precise.
(Also, I heard some "Doctor" here uses the keyboard too, so it could open way for... competition?)
Now, for the recording process, I used the "gens v11a Re-recording" I obtained from the paradise that is emu... paradise. Yes.
Anyway, there is an option under the "Tool" tab that says "start AVI dump", so it would be really easy, but here is the catch:
my somewhat old PC (almost 7 years now... just a few years to puberty) is not able to run the game properly while doing this.
While "dumping" the AVI, the game gets a lot of frames cut and the screen on the emulator window sometimes goes black,
heavily compromising my gameplay. The AVI ends up intact, however, like there were no lagging or glitches. (I tried with VBA
once, recording a GBA game called "Kirby Nightmare in Dreamland" and was even worse...) So, one day, I start making some
tests with the "gens v11a" and learned how to use the "record movie" function, which records, from what I can understand, the
keys I press, allowing to reproduce my performance from a save file. That was just what I needed to counter the AVI recording
problem. I just "record the keys", play the recorded "movie", start dumping the AVI with my key recording and...simply wait. ^^
Even if the screen blacks out or gets sluggish, it will not affect my gameplay because the performance was already made.
(Nyarharhar! Take that, technology!) And this is to say that I would never even dream of making a "Let's Play" if it was not
for that specific emulator. (and yes, this means I probably took a nap between Zones... or even made test runs.)
Oh, before I forget, this is also why you will see, in the end of every video, the words "Movie Finished". That is because
I stopped the "key recording" but still allowed the AVI dump. I am fairly disappointed with youtube also, since it literally
"halved" the frame rate of my videos, and they look a lot... well... "crappier" (if I may) than they really are...
At least youtube has "annotations"... (and believe me, you will see plenty of them.)
Enough chatter! Let's rock.
Green Hill Zone
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Marble Zone
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Spring Yard Zone
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Labyrinth Zone
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Star Light Zone
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Scrap Brain Zone
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Final Zone (and credits)
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Foggy's "Sonic 1" final results:
LIVES: 10
EMERALDS: ALL
CONTINUES: 4
RINGS LOST: 0 ...as in "zero". (^o^)
SHIELDS LOST: 7 ...hmpf. ¬¬
LIVES LOST: 0
TOTAL RIDE TIME: 35 : 51 ... (includes Special Stages)
FINAL SCORE: 430'800 <-------------------- we are almost there in the countbackwards thread! XD
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I hope you enjoy!
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Originally Posted by Knightshade
