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Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Going on an ape hunt! Gonna find a big one!
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For extra funsies, how's about playing the thing WITHOUT the parts that ostensibly make it "Super" and not just "Game Boy"?
To get down to just the pixels and utterly defeat any purpose to playing it like this at all, try here:
youtu.be/lmMPOu6SrHU
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I promise I'll be DONE talking about the Super Game Boy enhancements specific to this game and this hardware configuration soon enough... but I played it this way SO much that I flat out did not even KNOW for the longest time that the vocalized cries for "HELP!" at the start of nearly every stage were one such feature.
I mean, in hindsight, yeah, no, that makes sense... it definitely doesn't fit within the tech specs of a Game Boy game. But part of the magic and whimsy of having discovered the bizarre treasure that was the Super Game Boy and its capacity to confer bespoke diffentials from the original capabilities of a game's base content... is the part that I hadn't even discovered just how well it was doing its job without my knowing it!
Listen. Kids are stupid. And observation skills and critical thinking come later. Sorry, kids. You'll grow out of it! Into... it? Something! You got this!
At least the lush, but INSANE (and not programmatically scalable with tech of the time) colorization was really eye-catching, so I didn't miss that. Until I was trying to figure out why a Game Boy Color apparently COULDN'T manage to figure out how to do the same thing.
A wizard did it. At R&D2. Yep.
---
In this pre-World demo, we get introduced to... switches!
No! Wait! I swear! It's good! It's not "oh, that's totally obvious!"
Umm... ... ... Donkey Kong uses switches of a totally unnecessarily different design than the ones Mario uses?
(It's actually quite rare that Mario can even REACH a switch that DK might be using, and not just because there's some big palooka in the way, but this is more of an observation of the visual language of Donkey Kong 1994 than anything actually useful.)
---
In case it was unclear up to now, there's... like... a LOT of extra lives to be had in this game. Bonus stages. Time bonuses! Every four stages, the combined remaining timer values for stage clears all get added together, and you get a 1up for every 100 counts left over! Even the excess extras after that is an extra life!
Collecting all of Pauline's dropped accessories (hats and handbags are one thing, but how many parasols does she ACTUALLY need?!) also gets you a free play of either a slot machine or a wheel of extra lives. Sure, it's usually one life per visit, and I'm REALLY bad at slot machines, but it all adds up! Mario is basically immortal! ... ... ...he better be, with how easy it is to utterly destroy his flimsy body.
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Forest, 2-1
You may also quickly notice... this game has an absolutely absurd variety of enemies. Sure, most of them end up funcitonally identical in many ways and are just a snazzy coat of paint, like... two sprites at most each time. It's a small detail, but also simultaneously an abundant one, serving to make the overall flavor of an otherwise gentle curve of simple gameplay very gradually ramping up can always feel fresh.
---
Forest, 2-2
See? You didn't know all there was to know about switches from just that one little demo segment! They don't just control platforms in a slightly different fashion from those ladder and bridge pickups! They can control the movement of elevator platforms! They can even have more than two states!
---
Forest, 2-3
Two helpful notes here that don't really get shown off... you can actually safely crouch under the plants' projectiles, but only when you're not holding something in your hands.
The other thing is that because the ladder pickup is so close to where Mario starts and the path to the door only shutters off once gameplay begins... you can actually block that shutter with the temporary ladder occupying that space, even after the ladder disappears.
These kinds of quirks in object interactions are critical to later stages in the game, but it's more of a quirky footnote in this one.
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Forest, 2-4
In a DK stage that's NOT the capstone of the whole themed world, you'll tend to just need to reach Donkey Kong to scare him into running away, much like the three stages leading up to 100m in the original arcade progression.
In this case, it's a recreation of the original stage layout for Donkey Kong Jr.!
... ... ...so... a reverse-reversal!
Going on an ape hunt! Gonna find a big one!
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---
For extra funsies, how's about playing the thing WITHOUT the parts that ostensibly make it "Super" and not just "Game Boy"?
To get down to just the pixels and utterly defeat any purpose to playing it like this at all, try here:
youtu.be/lmMPOu6SrHU
---
I promise I'll be DONE talking about the Super Game Boy enhancements specific to this game and this hardware configuration soon enough... but I played it this way SO much that I flat out did not even KNOW for the longest time that the vocalized cries for "HELP!" at the start of nearly every stage were one such feature.
I mean, in hindsight, yeah, no, that makes sense... it definitely doesn't fit within the tech specs of a Game Boy game. But part of the magic and whimsy of having discovered the bizarre treasure that was the Super Game Boy and its capacity to confer bespoke diffentials from the original capabilities of a game's base content... is the part that I hadn't even discovered just how well it was doing its job without my knowing it!
Listen. Kids are stupid. And observation skills and critical thinking come later. Sorry, kids. You'll grow out of it! Into... it? Something! You got this!
At least the lush, but INSANE (and not programmatically scalable with tech of the time) colorization was really eye-catching, so I didn't miss that. Until I was trying to figure out why a Game Boy Color apparently COULDN'T manage to figure out how to do the same thing.
A wizard did it. At R&D2. Yep.
---
In this pre-World demo, we get introduced to... switches!
No! Wait! I swear! It's good! It's not "oh, that's totally obvious!"
Umm... ... ... Donkey Kong uses switches of a totally unnecessarily different design than the ones Mario uses?
(It's actually quite rare that Mario can even REACH a switch that DK might be using, and not just because there's some big palooka in the way, but this is more of an observation of the visual language of Donkey Kong 1994 than anything actually useful.)
---
In case it was unclear up to now, there's... like... a LOT of extra lives to be had in this game. Bonus stages. Time bonuses! Every four stages, the combined remaining timer values for stage clears all get added together, and you get a 1up for every 100 counts left over! Even the excess extras after that is an extra life!
Collecting all of Pauline's dropped accessories (hats and handbags are one thing, but how many parasols does she ACTUALLY need?!) also gets you a free play of either a slot machine or a wheel of extra lives. Sure, it's usually one life per visit, and I'm REALLY bad at slot machines, but it all adds up! Mario is basically immortal! ... ... ...he better be, with how easy it is to utterly destroy his flimsy body.
---
Forest, 2-1
You may also quickly notice... this game has an absolutely absurd variety of enemies. Sure, most of them end up funcitonally identical in many ways and are just a snazzy coat of paint, like... two sprites at most each time. It's a small detail, but also simultaneously an abundant one, serving to make the overall flavor of an otherwise gentle curve of simple gameplay very gradually ramping up can always feel fresh.
---
Forest, 2-2
See? You didn't know all there was to know about switches from just that one little demo segment! They don't just control platforms in a slightly different fashion from those ladder and bridge pickups! They can control the movement of elevator platforms! They can even have more than two states!
---
Forest, 2-3
Two helpful notes here that don't really get shown off... you can actually safely crouch under the plants' projectiles, but only when you're not holding something in your hands.
The other thing is that because the ladder pickup is so close to where Mario starts and the path to the door only shutters off once gameplay begins... you can actually block that shutter with the temporary ladder occupying that space, even after the ladder disappears.
These kinds of quirks in object interactions are critical to later stages in the game, but it's more of a quirky footnote in this one.
---
Forest, 2-4
In a DK stage that's NOT the capstone of the whole themed world, you'll tend to just need to reach Donkey Kong to scare him into running away, much like the three stages leading up to 100m in the original arcade progression.
In this case, it's a recreation of the original stage layout for Donkey Kong Jr.!
... ... ...so... a reverse-reversal!
![[Super Game Boy] Donkey Kong #4. Nature Walk](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/VtVWbN7bs9Y/mqdefault.jpg "[Super Game Boy] Donkey Kong #4. Nature Walk
Going on an ape hunt! Gonna find a big one!
twitter.com/yuugijoou
discord.gg/bKT9pRW
For extra funsies, hows about playing the thing WITHOUT the parts that ostensibly make it Super and not just Game Boy?
To get down to just the pixels and utterly defeat any purpose to playing it like this at all, try here:
https://youtu.be/lmMPOu6SrHU
I promise Ill be DONE talking about the Super Game Boy enhancements specific to this game and this hardware configuration soon enough... but I played it this way SO much that I flat out did not even KNOW for the longest time that the vocalized cries for HELP! at the start of nearly every stage were one such feature.
I mean, in hindsight, yeah, no, that makes sense... it definitely doesnt fit within the tech specs of a Game Boy game. But part of the magic and whimsy of having discovered the bizarre treasure that was the Super Game Boy and its capacity to confer bespoke diffentials from the original capabilities of a games base content... is the part that I hadnt even discovered just how well it was doing its job without my knowing it!
Listen. Kids are stupid. And observation skills and critical thinking come later. Sorry, kids. Youll grow out of it! Into... it? Something! You got this!
At least the lush, but INSANE (and not programmatically scalable with tech of the time) colorization was really eye-catching, so I didnt miss that. Until I was trying to figure out why a Game Boy Color apparently COULDNT manage to figure out how to do the same thing.
A wizard did it. At R&D2. Yep.
In this pre-World demo, we get introduced to... switches!
No! Wait! I swear! Its good! Its not oh, thats totally obvious!
Umm... ... ... Donkey Kong uses switches of a totally unnecessarily different design than the ones Mario uses?
(Its actually quite rare that Mario can even REACH a switch that DK might be using, and not just because theres some big palooka in the way, but this is more of an observation of the visual language of Donkey Kong 1994 than anything actually useful.)
In case it was unclear up to now, theres... like... a LOT of extra lives to be had in this game. Bonus stages. Time bonuses! Every four stages, the combined remaining timer values for stage clears all get added together, and you get a 1up for every 100 counts left over! Even the excess extras after that is an extra life!
Collecting all of Paulines dropped accessories (hats and handbags are one thing, but how many parasols does she ACTUALLY need?!) also gets you a free play of either a slot machine or a wheel of extra lives. Sure, its usually one life per visit, and Im REALLY bad at slot machines, but it all adds up! Mario is basically immortal! ... ... ...he better be, with how easy it is to utterly destroy his flimsy body.
Forest, 2-1
You may also quickly notice... this game has an absolutely absurd variety of enemies. Sure, most of them end up funcitonally identical in many ways and are just a snazzy coat of paint, like... two sprites at most each time. Its a small detail, but also simultaneously an abundant one, serving to make the overall flavor of an otherwise gentle curve of simple gameplay very gradually ramping up can always feel fresh.
Forest, 2-2
See? You didnt know all there was to know about switches from just that one little demo segment! They dont just control platforms in a slightly different fashion from those ladder and bridge pickups! They can control the movement of elevator platforms! They can even have more than two states!
Forest, 2-3
Two helpful notes here that dont really get shown off... you can actually safely crouch under the plants projectiles, but only when youre not holding something in your hands.
The other thing is that because the ladder pickup is so close to where Mario starts and the path to the door only shutters off once gameplay begins... you can actually block that shutter with the temporary ladder occupying that space, even after the ladder disappears.
These kinds of quirks in object interactions are critical to later stages in the game, but its more of a quirky footnote in this one.
Forest, 2-4
In a DK stage thats NOT the capstone of the whole themed world, youll tend to just need to reach Donkey Kong to scare him into running away, much like the three stages leading up to 100m in the original arcade progression.
In this case, its a recreation of the original stage layout for Donkey Kong Jr.!
... ... ...so... a reverse-reversal!")
![[Clip] F-Zero 99 First, Do ALL of the Harm! #fzero99](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/W0LNLFTja1c/mqdefault.jpg "[Clip] F-Zero 99 First, Do ALL of the Harm! #fzero99
*You can trust me, Im a doctor!
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*This is terrible medical advice for patients and practitioners alike. No one should ever follow anything I do for any reason whatsoever. In fact, its probably more medically sound to do the OPPOSITE of what I do or say. Probably.
(Bearing in mind that this is also something I said to do, so doing the opposite of... doing the opposite of what I say means... um... ... ... I need a doctor!)")
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Name one work of fiction where an arc-defining terrible thing happened when youre expected to be super socially awkward making perfucntory merry!
If you need LESS chatter, theres that version as well:
https://youtu.be/xPQJPRANw3k
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![[NO AUDIO/Archive/Portrait Mode] Metroid Prime Hunters 1. The One with Sylux in It?!](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/X09l1tDWR1w/mqdefault.jpg "[NO AUDIO/Archive/Portrait Mode] Metroid Prime Hunters 1. The One with Sylux in It?!
Oops. I messed up. A fixed version is in the works and will be linked and this video unlisted as soon as reasonably possible. Please understand.
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You know, Im a bit of a Hunter myself:
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For the pure, janky and unadulteratedly scuffed stream experience:
https://youtu.be/_1F_XAZS_v0
Since I actually PLAN around being unable to play new releases on the day Im assured release day delivery supposedly happens, and Ive been trying to break back into two-screened capture... ... ... and Im really also really-really trying to commit to NOT neglecting YouTube so badly anymore, I think I should really just rip off the nondescript corporate-unafffiliated adhesive bandage strip cheese food product and get around to posting stream archives.
Yknow, the way I always talk about. To NOT let Jeff keep exclusivity to the content until he throws it away in the end after about a month or whatever. Doing things like that, only Jeff wins. He wins sweet, sweet fractions of pennies that nobody actually cares about.
Whereas the thing we should ACTUALLY care about is the content.
That just leaves my general squeamishness about uploading entire streams instead of more targeted episodic content. But I think weve seen how well I manage with THAT of late.
Of course, this ALSO represents a rather borderline insane conceptual paradigm shift that was way before its time and my general preparedness to handle it: vertical DS capture gameplay variants. And Im STILL not exactly where I want to be with it, BUT... the idea is not as inherently insane as it seems like it should be on a workflow level, since Ive managed to iron out the biggest kinks in having not only commentary and clean-audio variants, but selectively including and excising an entire uncanny puppet show on the side.
Im like one logical leap away from making peace with every possible want and need when it comes to that and more, and Im just shy of being able to claim confidence and comfort with a MUCH less hassle-prone workflow generating all the building blocks of a proper production environment. (And that goes for 3/DS capture AND ridiculous puppet pal monstrosities, where the skys the limit insofar as how visually depraved we can get.)
Definitely PLEASE yell my way if you have any input on any of these things.
Do you feel brazenly neglected that Im not doing a no-commentary version in the properly landscpe layout?
Do you think Im out of my mind for not only focusing on no-commentary video variants, but also a portrait style version for mobile screens? (Again?!)
Do you think the full-stream archives are indigestible garbage?
Do you think proper episodic uploads, even sourced from streams, would still be far more manageable and therefore worth pursuing? (If its NOT watchable, whats the point in expecting anyone to want to WATCH them?)
Do you think its the greatest shame of all that I thereby cut my description-to-video ratio way too far in the visual direction over the verbose? (And most of the descriptions in cases like these are wasted on PRODUCTION NOTES?! Wheres the three-page thesis on the deep meaning of the Slench?!)")
![[Super Game Boy] Donkey Kong #1. Humble Beginnings](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/X5c-bFJEuG4/mqdefault.jpg "[Super Game Boy] Donkey Kong #1. Humble Beginnings
But... like... celebrating Mar 10... with... ... ... a game called... just... Donkey Kong?
...Marios name isnt even in this thing!
Hes also like... black and white and some weird orange color. Are you sure this is even Mario? (Hes just some... Jumpman!)
Incidentally, this Donkey Kong design is itself the most... refined as yet of its original concept. Its particularly interesting, since it would be all but entirely supplanted for decades to follow without question scant months later with Donkey Kong Country.
And now, we find ourselves upon the eve of such as potential comprehensive redesign almost as sweeping, the confluence of film and the oncoming headlights of go-karts...
For extra funsies, hows about playing the thing WITHOUT the parts that ostensibly make it Super and not just Game Boy?
To get down to just the pixels and utterly defeat any purpose to playing it like this at all, try here:
https://youtu.be/5LKn8bnZERg
I think its pretty fun that the border is mocked up in the style of an old Donkey Kong arcade cabinet... although the details are a bit... strained... in order to fit within the limitations of the Super Nintendo video output with any degree of clarity.
Happy March 10 regardless!
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Anyway, without further ado, I present... Marios first ever video game.
...or the enhanced remake thereof. Thirteen years in the making!
And I do mean ENHANCED.
What do you mean you cant tell, theyre such tiny little pixels blown up too many times even when they were on the absolutely minuscule SNES native resolution, then bordered to oblivion to make them seem even smaller?
(You wouldnt be one of those pscyhos who would prefer to stretch the whole thing out regardless of screen ratio, right?!)
Anyway, the arcade original is, at best, four stages. Sometimes some of them cut for technical constraints when ported over to other platforms.
25m
By far, among the most well-known and celebrated of vintage arcade platformer stages. Its... actually kind of annoying when you get down to it, though. I mean, who ever heard of barrels rolling down ladders? At their own randomized volition?!
That said, theres no better nor more familiar stomping ground upon which to highlight the improved faculties in Marios arsenal. Hes some kind of miraculous gymnast! Acrobatic privileges heretofore unseen and unimagined, at least not until two years later when he would prance about in three dimensions for unprecedented mobilities to revolutionize the platformer all over again as we know it.
To wit: he can no longer simply subsist on Jump, man! He can handspring! He can backflip! He can toss a hammer skyward and collect it once more as it descends! Most significant of all, he can fall an entire height of his own without instantly perishing! Remastered, indeed!
50m
For my moneys worth, this one is the most particular fever dream stage of the lot, since I mentioned that compromises notably had to be made to make the whole surely massive game that is Donkey Kong fit on other formats.
Its notable that Nintendo itself commissioned a variant of the NES port for its Virtual Console purposes in anniversary celebration that reinstated this one... to unusual technical dismay, but surely technology has advanced far enough to permit such hackish measures?
75m
I would say, in modern days, perhaps among the most infamous of stages, perfectly preserved for the ages... much to the ongoing suffering of the newly exposed.
Its historically fascinating level design, to be sure... but not exactly well-suited to being used in a quasi-competitive brawler context.
And dont even get me started on completionists of yonder newfangled three-dee collect-a-thon platformers the likes of which Jumpman himself eventually unleashed upon us all... the confluence of the subgenre and Donkey Kongs own lineage! ... ... ...and all for a paltry token with Nintendos own mark emblazoned upon it?!
100m
A strangely open-ended and, dare I say... proactive... stage? No longer content to present you an obstacle course from point A to point B, Jumpman is presented a task: walk across these... floor bolts... and they disappear. But whatever would happen to this structure if they were all removed?
And there you have it. The classic tale. The origin story. Never has it been so utterly... palatable? Jumpman gets the girl and all is well! We can once more bury this dusty old relic in the annals of history from whence it came.
... ... ...
Surely!")
![[Gameplay Only] Splatoon Raiders 9. Multiplayer Makes the Medicine Go Down](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/XBUUsyIiWYM/mqdefault.jpg "[Gameplay Only] Splatoon Raiders 9. Multiplayer Makes the Medicine Go Down
We speak ONLY in the language of violence!
If you NEED mindless chatter cluttering out the UI, theres that version as well:
https://youtube.com/live/xvMWYk2pV3Q
(due to the nature of streaming, the resolution will unfortunately be lower)
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![[VTuber/Chat] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Closed World Racing](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/XJ7HZZZZYnY/mqdefault.jpg "[VTuber/Chat] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Closed World Racing
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Wait, this isnt the one we were looking for?! Lets complain about it!
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If youd prefer the version with more road and less (voiced) rage, go here:
https://youtu.be/6LhoirJN40o
Sensing the games time was nigh, we actually set about giving the old girl a mighty sendoff.
We... kinda... ... ... somewhat succeeded?
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is over a decade old at this point, and it EVENTUALLY accumulated a preposterous amount of content. I think we got pretty far along for what we were trying to do?
(spoiler, Ive already posted a short clip of how off-sent this game done git gotd...ed.)")
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Its so cold! Shulks male-presenting chest definition froze clean off! And it wasnt even Mumkhars doing!
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(to be added after the stream is over)
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Im sure the salt-based economy cant come crashing down around us, right?!
If you need LESS chatter, theres that version as well:
https://youtube.com/live/y-HVB40mfu8
(the gameplay resolution will be higher at least?!)
Originally ALSO streamed at:
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Stay up to date on what nonsense Im doing:
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...or, yknow, just harass me if Im doing something you dont like, whatever.")
