I AM IRONCLAW! | Amiga Longplay [316] Tusker @iamironclaw | Uploaded July 2023 | Updated October 2024, 6 hours ago.
Gameplay starts at 2:46.
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"The legendary elephant’s graveyard is the greatest undiscovered mystery of The Dark Continent. The harzardous quest for its discovery has cost the life of many explorers, one of whom was your father.
As his only son, you are curious to uncover the secrets that are so violently guarded from the outside world.
You now feel complied to succeed where your father failed."
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Using the torch is not needed as we can still see everything, just a bit darker, but I sometimes use it just so we can better see stuff, as things look better with light :). I don't use it though around bats, as they attack me then.
Sometimes I walk a bit slower to not trigger creatures under the ground coming up to hurt me.
You can get stuck in some places (at least this place...) if there's stuff at that height/level when you enter the screen. For example, at 11:22, if I enter the left screen too far up, I will get stuck inside the hut graphics and can't move. Well, if positioned "right", I could move to the left while walking on top of hut and in the middle of the fence in the back, high up above the enemy so he couldn't reach me, but I couldn't get back out.
The "insert disk 2" message is unavoidable when using floppy disks. Sometimes in games I just insert disk 2 shortly before the request, but that doesn't work with this game as it won't try to detect a disk until it needs it. Normally the computer recognizes when a new disk is inserted and automatically gets it ready for when it's needed by a game or whatever... but yeah, this game has that frozen until it needs to load data. What's even weirder with this game is even if I insert disk 2 shortly (or long) before it needs it, it will still say it wants disk 2 when it tries to load the disk as it will always assume disk 1 inserted. If I leave disk 1 inserted when it asks for disk 2, and press space, it won't even check if it's disk 2, it just happily load the next content from disk 1 while assuming you inserted disk 2, and yeah... when the next level starts, it's all garbled graphics :)
The scale thingy at the end has some broken graphics, and I used the IPF version, so guess it's just broken, unless it needed a very sensitive emulator setting/configuration. I checked YouTube and found another Amiga longplay of this game, it had the same broken graphics, and he too used IPF. And no, this can't have anything to do with the "insert disk 2" thingy, as I did it correctly when recording :). I only found out about all those problems during tests.
Anyway, here's what the scale thingy is supposed to look like:
https://i.imgur.com/aFavUtx.png (it also has an end picture that we didn't get to see in the IPF version... maybe the whdload version has these issues fixed, dunno)
Gameplay starts at 2:46.
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"The legendary elephant’s graveyard is the greatest undiscovered mystery of The Dark Continent. The harzardous quest for its discovery has cost the life of many explorers, one of whom was your father.
As his only son, you are curious to uncover the secrets that are so violently guarded from the outside world.
You now feel complied to succeed where your father failed."
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Using the torch is not needed as we can still see everything, just a bit darker, but I sometimes use it just so we can better see stuff, as things look better with light :). I don't use it though around bats, as they attack me then.
Sometimes I walk a bit slower to not trigger creatures under the ground coming up to hurt me.
You can get stuck in some places (at least this place...) if there's stuff at that height/level when you enter the screen. For example, at 11:22, if I enter the left screen too far up, I will get stuck inside the hut graphics and can't move. Well, if positioned "right", I could move to the left while walking on top of hut and in the middle of the fence in the back, high up above the enemy so he couldn't reach me, but I couldn't get back out.
The "insert disk 2" message is unavoidable when using floppy disks. Sometimes in games I just insert disk 2 shortly before the request, but that doesn't work with this game as it won't try to detect a disk until it needs it. Normally the computer recognizes when a new disk is inserted and automatically gets it ready for when it's needed by a game or whatever... but yeah, this game has that frozen until it needs to load data. What's even weirder with this game is even if I insert disk 2 shortly (or long) before it needs it, it will still say it wants disk 2 when it tries to load the disk as it will always assume disk 1 inserted. If I leave disk 1 inserted when it asks for disk 2, and press space, it won't even check if it's disk 2, it just happily load the next content from disk 1 while assuming you inserted disk 2, and yeah... when the next level starts, it's all garbled graphics :)
The scale thingy at the end has some broken graphics, and I used the IPF version, so guess it's just broken, unless it needed a very sensitive emulator setting/configuration. I checked YouTube and found another Amiga longplay of this game, it had the same broken graphics, and he too used IPF. And no, this can't have anything to do with the "insert disk 2" thingy, as I did it correctly when recording :). I only found out about all those problems during tests.
Anyway, here's what the scale thingy is supposed to look like:
https://i.imgur.com/aFavUtx.png (it also has an end picture that we didn't get to see in the IPF version... maybe the whdload version has these issues fixed, dunno)
![Amiga Longplay [316] Tusker](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Dgi9qkYWoiM/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [316] Tusker
Gameplay starts at 2:46.
The legendary elephant’s graveyard is the greatest undiscovered mystery of The Dark Continent. The harzardous quest for its discovery has cost the life of many explorers, one of whom was your father.
As his only son, you are curious to uncover the secrets that are so violently guarded from the outside world.
You now feel complied to succeed where your father failed.
Using the torch is not needed as we can still see everything, just a bit darker, but I sometimes use it just so we can better see stuff, as things look better with light :). I dont use it though around bats, as they attack me then.
Sometimes I walk a bit slower to not trigger creatures under the ground coming up to hurt me.
You can get stuck in some places (at least this place...) if theres stuff at that height/level when you enter the screen. For example, at 11:22, if I enter the left screen too far up, I will get stuck inside the hut graphics and cant move. Well, if positioned right, I could move to the left while walking on top of hut and in the middle of the fence in the back, high up above the enemy so he couldnt reach me, but I couldnt get back out.
The insert disk 2 message is unavoidable when using floppy disks. Sometimes in games I just insert disk 2 shortly before the request, but that doesnt work with this game as it wont try to detect a disk until it needs it. Normally the computer recognizes when a new disk is inserted and automatically gets it ready for when its needed by a game or whatever... but yeah, this game has that frozen until it needs to load data. Whats even weirder with this game is even if I insert disk 2 shortly (or long) before it needs it, it will still say it wants disk 2 when it tries to load the disk as it will always assume disk 1 inserted. If I leave disk 1 inserted when it asks for disk 2, and press space, it wont even check if its disk 2, it just happily load the next content from disk 1 while assuming you inserted disk 2, and yeah... when the next level starts, its all garbled graphics :)
The scale thingy at the end has some broken graphics, and I used the IPF version, so guess its just broken, unless it needed a very sensitive emulator setting/configuration. I checked YouTube and found another Amiga longplay of this game, it had the same broken graphics, and he too used IPF. And no, this cant have anything to do with the insert disk 2 thingy, as I did it correctly when recording :). I only found out about all those problems during tests.
Anyway, heres what the scale thingy is supposed to look like:
https://i.imgur.com/aFavUtx.png (it also has an end picture that we didnt get to see in the IPF version... maybe the whdload version has these issues fixed, dunno)")
![Amiga Longplay [271] Relics of Deldroneye 1.5: Return To Zantis](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/E9QaRRbcYzQ/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [271] Relics of Deldroneye 1.5: Return To Zantis
Not as good as the precursor. It only has one tune that plays during the intro and throughout the whole game, annoying... and its not a good one either (imo). Would have preferred just footstep-sounds like the previous.
Jump to 05:58 - to skip the intro stuff. (cool both this and the previous one starts the gameplay at the same time, pretty much, same timestamps)
The game and/or its manual might say the game require an A1200 with 2mb chip (some places on the internet even say AGA chipset is required - hi, Hall of Light!), but all 3 of these Relics of Deldroneye games work on any Amiga with 2mb chip. So no AGA or KS3.X is really needed. But yeah, I can see why they tagged them as A1200, as Amiga 500/500+/600 generally cant have 2mb chip.")
![Amiga Longplay [290] SideWinder](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/EMXXAcOk1DY/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [290] SideWinder
The two last levels were super mega hard! On the last one I died like 100 times. Thank god to savestates. Also, theres no proper ending, it just... ends.
I could have picked an easier difficulty in the beginning, but didnt know it would be so hard on the middle one, and the difficulty can be changed on the fly (F1) during game play, but I wanted to keep it on 3 that I selected in the beginning.")
![Amiga Longplay [252] Maze Hunter](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/EN-skf1TBDI/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [252] Maze Hunter
Was shorter and easier than I thought. Apparently made in AMOS, Im not surprised. For an AMOS game, its not TOO bad.
Weird they mix French and English, but not too uncommon in games, Ive noticed.
I usually record the whole title music, but not this time as I didnt care for it.
And as always in my longplays, I dont care about collecting all the things for extra score either :), so skipped some stuff.
10:51 - Took a couple of minutes before I figured out what to do. I have to get all the keys (well, at least get all the keys on the first side and then get over to the other side) during the common invulnerable-at-the-start-of-a-level thingy. Also learned here I could RUN by holding down the fire button.
11:41 - On this level I once again need to use run. Can be beat it without run too, but you need to be able to lose some lives then.
12:30 - You have completed all levels of this version")
![Amiga Longplay [253] Army Moves](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/FpF9sGv6yJE/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [253] Army Moves
Have had this music pop into my brain every now and then for some time now, even though Ive not played it in years :P, so thought it was time to play it.
I only remember level one and thought that was gonna be all. Guess Ive never played through it before, because it had several more levels to my surprise.
Level 1 (section, but prefer level) is pretty straight forward. Level 2 was much harder as the hit-boxes are crazy wrong. Died so many times on level 2, same on 3 and 4. On level 5 tho I wondered what purpose my gun has as it doesnt seem to hit or kill anything (same with the grenades), but what the firing does is make the birds fly upwards, so I can go below them. Messed up hit-boxes here as well (especially the enemy grenades when they explode). Then the rest ones were just run and shoot, ez. Could only go through the doors after they were opened (probably by the enemies).")
![Amiga Longplay [300] Diablo](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/GChGWZJXftM/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [300] Diablo
Yes, Diablo 1 (aka DevilutionX) on Amiga :). I wanted something special for longplay 300.
I played it when it was new on my pretty good (then) PC, but dont remember if I ever finished it. And havent played it since. So playing through it, for maybe the first time, ON AN AMIGA, was nice :)
I made a goal to do all quests I could find, explore all maps and kill all enemies 100%, which I did, except on the last one with Diablo, I left a few enemies there, but only those that were with him before he went for me. I dont like talking in games, and if I didnt record this, I would just not talk to the people in town if not needed. But to get more info and stuff into the video, I chatted to a bunch to learn more about the lore/quests/etc (but not all, couldnt be bothered to include every possible dialogue). And because of all these things, its a pretty lengthy movie (although Google says average playtime to complete game is 14 hours). Might have been a 3 hour run or so if I just skipped all the unnecessary stuff, especially entering the next level the moment I found it, instead of clearing the whole map first. And of course, I didnt do the Mana Shield exploit, so avoided getting the spell, and also no duping, no reloading the game to get better items from Adria.
I watched a bit of some Diablo YouTube videos and stuff so I wouldnt be completely noob. I noticed in the comments of some videos they complained the player never used the quick-keys to select spells and stuff, which was apparently annoying to watch as they did things so slow because of it. So, I made sure I did, of course... which I would have anyway even if I hadnt seen those videos :)
Rant:
Was a bitch to record for many reasons, a couple being WinUAEs frame rate with RTG games, which in the version I used (no version I tried had a solid 60 btw, all jumping around just below 60) jumped between 59.1-59.3. I couldnt get it to do a solid 60 no matter emulator settings or OS settings, also asked an expert and he too couldnt do it and said its just how WinUAE handles RTG, can be a bit finicky. So, the scrolling isnt perfectly smooth as it skips a frame every 1 seconds. While the game itself runs at 20fps, its of course still noticeable when I walk around and it scrolls. But ~99% of people probably dont care or even notice these things, but I do and its annoying to not be able to get it perfect. No, didnt wanna make a 59fps video.
The other thing was I wanted to record using WinUAEs built-in recorder (for many reasons), and thanks to the varying frame rate, most .avi files got sound delay (the usual - the longer the file is, the more desynced it is at the end of the file). Ive fixed as much of it as I could.
Those were the two main problems, there were many more, like me using save-states, but as few as possible because it too made problems/complications because of how WinUAE works, and also the game itself. I had to replay the game 3 times, both first times I got to half the game. And I noticed things started auto-duping because the game apparently auto-saves the town info when I enter a dungeon, which made the stuff in town stick, so if I loaded a save-state from way earlier when there was nothing in town, or way later, those items appeared in the town again lol. They were removed by the game when picked up tho as it said dupe detected, so a few times when this shit happened, I had to go back to town, pick all items up that shouldnt be there at that point in time, and put down other things that SHOULD be there, and in the same spots as been recorded earlier so the video clips would be seamless, so much work. Didnt want people to think I duped/cheated.
Anyway, there were way more problem, but enough is enough.
Too bad I didnt get The Butcher quest. I had it on my first two runs tho (as mentioned earlier). My first two runs went way better. Had better gear by the same time in my third and last run
Some timestamps:
00:05:25 - Yup, thats a cow alright
00:05:48 - Level 1
00:23:45 - Level 2
00:33:26 - Poisoned Water Supply
00:38:19 - Ring of Truth
00:43:04 - Level 3
01:07:09 - Level 4
01:16:40 - Snotspill
01:19:25 - Gharbad the Weak (drops Fools Crest / ID at 01:22:28)
01:25:49 - Harlequin Crest
01:35:50 - Level 5
01:45:16 - Arkaines Valor
01:53:55 - Catacombs entrance/exit unlocked
01:54:55 - Level 6
02:07:26 - Bone Chamber
02:17:01 - Level 7
02:35:42 - Level 8
02:47:23 - Optic Amulet
02:53:00 - Level 9
03:06:57 - Black Mushroom / 03:07:02 - Now THAT is a big mushroom
03:10:09 - Caves entrance/exit unlocked
03:11:21 - Level 10
03:34:04 - Anvil of Fury / 03:36:34 - Griswolds Edge
03:37:44 - Level 11
03:45:40 - Level 12
04:05:09 - Level 13
04:37:17 - Hell entrance/exit unlocked
04:43:40 - Warlord of Blood
04:50:15 - Level 14
05:15:22 - Level 15
05:42:26 - Archbishop Lazarus Lair
05:51:54 - Doombringer
05:53:44 - Level 16
06:27:07 - Diablo
06:28:10 - Ending/outro
06:30:27 - Credits")
![Amiga Longplay [237] Little Red Riding Hood (Coktel Vision)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/GyWs8XIcll8/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [237] Little Red Riding Hood (Coktel Vision)
This is the third and final game in the Once Upon a Time series. The other two previous ones were Baba Yaga and Abracadabra. Might be more, but I couldnt find any other ones.
I wrote a bunch for the other two, but cant be bothered again for this one. All three are quite similar, especially the first two, but this one differs a bit from the other ones. If you watch the other two and read their video descriptions, and then watch this video (before or after), youll see whats different... I guess :) *yawn*.... 2 AM...
Baba Yaga longplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpwFNoOEBeE
Abracadabra longplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEetleSfi9I")
![Amiga Longplay [313] Dino Wars](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/H4o4yhMy5Qg/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [313] Dino Wars
So, its a game where you control your dinosaurs and the enemy (or 2nd player) control theirs. The aim is to get your stolen egg back from their side to yours. The different dinosaurs have strengths and weaknesses depending on what type of dinosaur they fight against. So its good to know which dino to use against another type of dino, it could make it easy to beat or very hard (or even impossible I noticed when I practiced once, I couldnt land a hit, forgot who I and they were now). Good thing theres a practice mode.
While moving on the board, the players take turns (default option), but theres an option to make it realtime, so one gotta think and move fast as the computer will just go for it.
After I completed one of the boards, I didnt feel like completing the rest of the boards, as its just the same thing all over again, but with different board-looks and backgrounds when fighting (and sounds too).
I selected music for the fights, as sound effects got repetitive and annoying really fast. Later after beating the computer, I show a bit of the other boards and switched to sound effects so we get to hear some of those too.
After showing the other boards I did two practice fights in the BATTLE thingy to show some of that stuff as well, and picked two dinosaurs I think we didnt get to see in action earlier, or not much anyway.
And finally, the nice encyclopaedia.
BTW, theres a black line at the bottom of the video, its because the encyclopaedia is 1 pixel taller than everything else in the game.")
![Amiga Longplay [263] Danger Freak](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/HV0PiEFnS4M/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [263] Danger Freak
Crazy hard, or I just suck. Cant fail too many times or you cant play the next level/stage/part/whatever. And if you fail 8 times (cuts), its game over. So while not getting too many cuts or lose too much health AND are fast enough so the timer doesnt run out, youll make it to the next level/stage/part/whatever. Fail and you have to restart from the beginning of the current level.
Only found one playthrough/longplay of this game, but he didnt include the last level for some reason (edit: found the reason, I think, putting it in the last paragraph), and yet he got the great job !/the end parts. Without the manual I would have no idea how to finish the last level. I kept dying to the rocket as I couldnt outrun it, so looked in the manual and it said I had to press fire to jump out of the flying thingy. After that I kept failing the landing, became game over so many times. Again, checked the manual and apparently I had to press up + fire (or whatever it was) at the right moment to land properly, I never managed to do it, kept failing... but what worked was just spamming fire and all directions randomly like crazy.
According to Hall of Light (http://hol.abime.net/263) this game only contains two of the three levels of the C64 version. But the version I longplayed has all three. So maybe the player I mentioned earlier used an older version. I cant find any info about a newer or different Amiga versions. Seems to be only one, or the different disks in the Tosec are not properly labeled. Anyway, HoL should update their info. Even the manual mentions all three levels in both C64 and Amiga version.")
![Amiga Longplay [315] Le Fetiche Maya](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/HnzmwPE4lF4/hqdefault.jpg "Amiga Longplay [315] Le Fetiche Maya
The body of the famous archaeologist Edward Halifax was discovered yesterday morning in the jungle of Yucatan, not far from Chichen Itza. The cause of the death remain unexplained. The old scientist, missing for more than 3 years, had carried on him a Maya parchment mentioning the existence of a mysterious fetish. Professor Michael Fairbanks, his young pupil, traveled by the first plane for Mexico with the intention to continue research.
You guessed it, you’re playing Michael Fairbanks and it’s your duty, nay privilege, to unravel the mystery of the Mayas.
So, you buy/sell/trade to get that you need, and if it wasnt for a walkthrough, I would have no idea what to do in some of the parts of this game, as some stuff didnt make sense to me, or a couple of others Ive read reviews from. Some of the stuff you find try to give clues for what to do, but they can still be way too vague and cryptic that probably most people still wouldnt understand what to do. But... Im not a bright person anyway, so maybe its just me :P
You can die in several ways, and usually a picture of what happened is shown. Like driving off a bridge shows a picture of you doing just that. But most deaths seem to just show the one I added to the end of the video (the best one imo), which is why I just picked that one, as I couldnt be bothered to collect all of them. The text at the bottom of the death picture got messed up as I forgot to apply the correct settings/resolution. Its supposed to be pixelated, but not like that.
Not too bad for a game released in 1989. It kinda reminds me of Colorado, which is not strange as both games are by Silmarils.")
