Selbi
How to access Hidden Palace Zone in Sonic 2 Final
updated
Watch RHS' full video here: youtube.com/watch?v=MaIDlHM3qC4
Music: youtube.com/watch?v=VcqsFR6OYh8 (VII. The Refuge)
In 2011, The Flaming Lips released a song with an astonishing duration of 24 hours. While it's impressive in its own right, I believe that the first and last movements of that song get somewhat lost amidst the other 23+ hours. In this video, I present a simple edit that seamlessly connects these two parts.
00:00 – Can't Shut Off My Head
25:38 – Can't Let It Go
Full song (part 1): youtu.be/7tLNSU2KBZs
Full song (part 2): youtu.be/lVVNfliHEoU
This was created by recording a short improvisation on my acoustic guitar (approximately two minutes long) and then stretching it to the absolute extreme while adding layers upon layers of effects. I'm quite pleased with the result!
You can consider this as a spiritual successor to a song I made a couple of years ago with a very similar vibe, although that one was a lot spookier than this one (and a fifth of the length lol): youtu.be/fn0ClQj45Qo
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This is a fan edit of one of the funniest GMod videos I have ever seen. Timbleweebs and MahoganyCrafter slip into the roles of Gordon Freeman and Eli Vance to portray what Half-Life 3 (totally) would've been like; also featuring the wonderful writing by BinkusTheTrinkus/icanplaytehdrumz, who also does the narration and plays the G-Man.
I have watched this video countless times already (easily 50 times by now) and always wanted to see how it would feel if it was taken a tad bit more seriously. It's still janky and ridiculous, but I think it adds to the humor if nobody ever breaks character and pretends to take everything at face value.
Since I just had the base video to work with, not all editing is smooth. In particular, the music will cut at random points, and I had no feasible way to edit the whole Tacowood section to make any sense, so it's skipped entirely. Not much I could've done about that, but it shouldn't detract from the overall experience.
Also, in no way am I implying this is a superior edit, it's simply a fun project :)
Enjoy! And subscribe to Deadwater Gaming!
08:30 Kapitel II - Dualität
17:53 Kapitel III - Reflexionen
23:19 Kapitel IV - Katharsis
Jenseits is a one-track EP meticulously crafted by the esteemed German band Finsterforst, recognized for their distinctive blend of what they call Black Forest Metal. This opus of sonic artistry unfolds gracefully across the expanse of a generous 39-minute journey, partitioned into four meticulously sculpted chapters.
A testament to the fervent support of their devoted community, this crowdfunded marvel stands as a resplendent masterpiece that beckons with its awe-inspiring depth and musical finesse!
(After my Ecce Homo lyrics video, I knew I had to make one for this beast too!)
Background video: youtube.com/watch?v=nnRA1W9Ap8E
༺﴾𝔅𝔩𝔞𝔠𝔨 𝔉𝔬𝔯𝔢𝔰𝔱 𝔐𝔢𝔱𝔞𝔩﴿༻
Originalvideo von CircleToonsHD: youtube.com/watch?v=XPNzAaqGpqY
So yeah, I'm making the source code to Sonic ERaZor and everything I've worked on over the last few years public. Why? Listen to what I got to say in this short video.
Watch Part 1 here: youtube.com/watch?v=wOI8p_Dowvg
Download SpotifyBigPicture on its GitHub page: github.com/Selbi182/SpotifyBigPicture
Java 11: adoptium.net/de/temurin/releases/?version=11
In the next part, I'm talking about a little project of mine called SpotifyBigPicture, which attempts to solve all these issues. You can find it here: youtube.com/watch?v=NyJoiEh_qhQ
SpotifyBigPicture GitHub page: github.com/Selbi182/SpotifyBigPicture
Enter Sandman (Instrumental Cover) by Danilo Vicari: youtube.com/watch?v=U6Txnv00_AQ
This is a mashup of these two videos, with some audio editing on my part:
• Eva Entry Plug Life Support Mode (youtu.be/OOaA3cJOpqU)
• IN UTERO Womb Filtered Sounds (youtu.be/lj_feh3L24U)
Original Picture: deviantart.com/spannarproduction/art/U92-Cloning-Lab-145384183
I was recently invited as a guest on MarkeyJester's new podcast series "Hacker: Behind The Code", and that episode is now live! We did talk for roughly 3 hours so it is a bit on the longer end when it comes to podcasts. But if you're interested in hearing me talk about my origins and other funny stories, you may wanna check it out!
I've listened to this song quite a few times and enjoy it a lot, but sometimes I just wanna relax and listen to the atmospheric bass/choral parts without having to skip those manually. That's why I've created this Calm Edit, which trims away any "aggressive" parts. Even though the song is now less than half its original length, it's still over 38 minutes. And while I'm not an expert at music editing, I did try to weld the spliced parts neatly together with some lengthy crossfades.
Get the full version at Bandcamp: bellwitch.bandcamp.com/album/mirror-reaper
0:00 Movement One
2:38 Movement Two
11:52 Movement Three
24:08 Movement Four
I've noticed that this track hasn't been uploaded anywhere on YouTube yet, which I think is a shame, because it is one of my personal favorites even after all these years. So, I decide to upload it myself.
For anyone wondering, this is a downtempo and heavily down-pitched version of the otherwise very energetic "Shutdown" of the 1994 game "Pulseman". You might otherwise hear the original version in the Finalor Place intro (youtube.com/watch?v=xLmfWPRLgI0).
Fun fact: Out of all the ERaZor songs, this is the only one I 100% modified myself. Maybe that's why I'm still proud of it. :V
The original intention was actually to make a translation video of the lyrics. Unfortunately, I've realized that my English isn't nearly good enough to do justice to the poetic word choices that were used in the German lyrics. By the time I noticed this, I was already done with half of the video, so I decided to make a simple lyrics video instead (my sorry attempt at a translation can still be found in the pinned comment, should anyone care).
Note that the video section starting at 15:20 was taken straight from the Short Single Version (youtube.com/watch?v=l_7pxaS6aOE). This video took forever to make as it was and even then why try to reinvent the wheel when an already infinitely better lyrics video exists for that particular part?
Enjoy!
༺﴾𝔅𝔩𝔞𝔠𝔨 𝔉𝔬𝔯𝔢𝔰𝔱 𝔐𝔢𝔱𝔞𝔩﴿༻
http://info.sonicretro.org/Sonic_ERaZor
Music: Finsterforst – Ecce Homo
0:00:00 – [Abfahrt]
0:00:56 – Untergang
0:22:16 – Nichts als Asche
0:35:28 – [Im Auge des Sturms]
0:37:00 – Mach dich frei!
0:44:48 – Zerfall
0:52:50 – [Rast]
0:54:50 – Flammenrausch
1:15:00 – [Reise zum...]
1:20:55 – Finsterforst
1:44:34 – Wut
1:58:08 – [Am Scheideweg]
1:59:30 – Des Waldes Macht
2:04:54 – Verlorene Seelen
2:18:12 – [Flasche leer]
2:19:42 – Ecce Homo
2:56:05 – [Das Dunkle aller Welten - Outro]
2:56:28 – Försterhochzeit
Taken from:
2006 – Wiege der Finsternist [EP]
2007 – Weltenkraft
2009 – ...zum Tode hin
2010 – Urwerk [Compilation]
2012 – Rastlost
2015 – Mach dich frei!
2016 – # YØLØ [EP]
2019 – Zerfall
Spanning an impressive back catalog of five filled-to-the-brim albums, German "Black Forest Metal" band Finsterforst have created an insane amount of extremely ambitious and very long songs, some of which even break beyond the 20 minutes mark. However, while their imposing lengths might seem daunting at first, the band's outstanding ability to mix atmospheric melodies with epic progressiveness will make the listener wonder how half an hour flew by in an instant yet again.
I've been interested to combine these tracks into one big megamix, because the Spotify playlist I kept them in didn't account for the transitions, making the chops between songs very annoying. On top of that, to grant the listener some breathing room after long songs, I took a couple intermissions to preserve the progressive energy of the original albums as best as I could.
This video is an extended version of a long-track megamix I made a couple years ago, as Finsterforst have recently released their fifth album. I contemplated just adding its 36-minute closing track "Ecce Homo", but the more I thought about it the more I realized that would do injustice to a huge portion of the many other timeless classics the band has composed. The project has instead turned into a love letter to this band that I've worked on for almost an entire day, resulting in this gigantic three-hour beast.
Hope you'll enjoy it!
I recently got a new microphone and had way too much fun playing around with stupid audio effects in Audacity. No big meaning behind this "song", if you can even call it that. It's just 10 minutes of various layers of humming and sorry attempts at singing turned into a sort-of meditative drone composition. No instruments, just voice – A-Capella Drone, if you will.
If anyone cares, most of this was done using the "Paulstretch" plugin. Try it, it's amazing to see what crazy results it spits out!
I'm still not entirely sure how to feel about this, though I wouldn't deny that the idea of buying a quality cart of ERaZor one day would be cool.
=== Links ===
The shitty Sonic ERaZor repro scam:
ebay.com/itm/Sonic-ERaZor-16-bit-For-Sega-Mega-Drive/273537720989
A slightly higher quality collection of other hack repros:
ebay.com/itm/Sonic-The-Hedgehog-Ultimate-Fan-Hack-20-Titles-Mega-Mix-Knuckles-Sega-Genesis/264099735143
Made somewhere in 2011. Only God remembers why, I never even finished Sonic 4.
Despite my best efforts and intentions to keep this one simple and relaxing, I ended up including a ton of double bass drums again. Somehow I kept finding ways to make non-metal songs sound metal, without even trying. More a curse than a blessing.
The title was decided way after the song was finished, and it's as cliché as it gets.
During that time I had some fun writing original songs with a free program called Logic Fun. This particular song was reworked and extended at least ten times by now, because I kept on adding more and more bits until it eventually reached 5 minutes in duration.
"Zaster" was titled by my brother. It's a German slang for cash.
This is a concept demo for a VR game with a throwable teleporter and an interactive laser gun. It was made for the HTC Vive and written in Unity.
Music:
Binary Division - Hacker (Instrumental Version)
Here I've assembled some highlights to celebrate this anniversary. Basically, a quick entertaining journey through my history as a casual YouTube content creator as well as Sonic hacker.
And I regret nothing.
Today we're wrapping things up in one gigantic episode, covering everything I've got left to show off:
- Sonic ERaZor - Straight Version (August 30th, 2011)
- Sonic 1 - No Time (March 30th, 2012)
- SnakeMD (August 19th, 2012)
- Sonic 1 - Mind Control (January 28th, 2013)
- SSSSSS (February 27th, 2015)
- Sonic 1 - The Enhanced Special Stage Experience (April 1st, 2015)
- Hedgehog Abuse Simulator (October 19th, 2015)
- It's Something (December 3rd, 2015)
Downloads for all hacks:
http://selbi.hapisan.com/HogFromThePast
A love letter by a fan:
http://selbi.hapisan.com/Samuel.png
Music kindly provided by Binary Division (aka. SonicVaan)!
binarydivision.bandcamp.com
facebook.com/binarydivisionband
open.spotify.com/artist/0zVagS46EI6aDwKilf1onT
Title track, "Hacker", taken from the album "Defcon 2":
binarydivision.bandcamp.com/track/hacker
Today we're looking at a small gem in the book ERaZor "B-sides":
Sonic ERaZor: Special Stage Demo (October 2nd, 2010)
Download: http://selbi.hapisan.com/s1erzss.zip
Music kindly provided by Binary Division (aka. SonicVaan)!
binarydivision.bandcamp.com
facebook.com/binarydivisionband
open.spotify.com/artist/0zVagS46EI6aDwKilf1onT
Title track, "Hacker", taken from the album "Defcon 2":
binarydivision.bandcamp.com/track/hacker
Today we're having technical issues and the most (unwanted) broken hack in this series:
Green Hill Zone in Sonic Crackers (September 27th, 2010)
Download: http://selbi.hapisan.com/ghzcrack.rar
Music kindly provided by Binary Division (aka. SonicVaan)!
binarydivision.bandcamp.com
facebook.com/binarydivisionband
open.spotify.com/artist/0zVagS46EI6aDwKilf1onT
Title track, "Hacker", taken from the album "Defcon 2":
binarydivision.bandcamp.com/track/hacker
Today we're looking at the most boring hack so far, whose purpose can already be read from the title:
Hyper Sonic in Sonic 1 (April 18th, 2010)
Download: http://selbi.hapisan.com/s1hyper.bin
New music kindly provided by Binary Division (aka. SonicVaan)!
binarydivision.bandcamp.com
facebook.com/binarydivisionband
open.spotify.com/artist/0zVagS46EI6aDwKilf1onT
Title track, "Hacker", taken from the album "Defcon 2":
binarydivision.bandcamp.com/track/hacker
Today we're looking at what I believe is the only hack in this list that is somewhat known (for all the wrong reasons):
Sonic 1: Rape 2.0 (March 13th, 2010)
Download: http://selbi.hapisan.com/s1rape2.0.bin
Today we're NOT looking at the first release of Sonic ERaZor, but a small test hack that is almost completely unfinished, but contains a lot of inspiration for what would later become ERaZor's opening cutscene:
Sonic 1: Tiny Challenges (December 5th, 2009)
Download: http://selbi.hapisan.com/s1tiny.bin
Today we're looking at the first version of Sonic ERaZor that had some form of contact to the outside world:
Sonic ERaZor (SHC 2009 Build) (September 8th, 2009)
Download: http://selbi.hapisan.com/Sonic%20ERaZor%20-%20SHC%202009%20Build.bin
Today we're looking at the oldest version of Sonic ERaZor that I still have a ROM of:
Sonic ERaZor (April 10th, 2009)
Download: http://selbi.hapisan.com/Sonic%20ERaZor%20(April%2010th%202009%20Build).bin
Today we're looking at one of the most infamous hack ever created:
Sonic 1: Projekt 255 (August 8th, 2008)
(Fun fact: This won the Rick Roll Trophy in the Sonic Hacking Contest 2010!)
Download:
http://selbi.hapisan.com/S1_Projekt-255_V2.rar
Today we're looking in a more mature way (what a joke) at a hack I've shown you before:
Sonic 2: Team Black Force (2008)
Download:
http://selbi.hapisan.com/sonic2-team_black_force-v1.0.bin
Today we're starting off with my very first hack ever created (that I still have the ROM of):
Sonic 1: Hardcore Terror (2008)
Download: http://selbi.hapisan.com/s1ht.bin
I guess...
Download Sonic ERaZor: http://selbi.hapisan.com/erazor
Now also on Steam: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=674699953
Now also on Steam: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=674699953
Technically speaking, Sonic ERaZor has been finished over two years ago. However, after watching many Let's Players suffer at the wrong parts (as in, despite me being a sadistic bastard, they had problems in sections where there weren't supposed to be any), I realized just how many things were left unpolished.
I've decided to dig it out ERaZor for one final instance (hopefully for real this time) to fix these issues, and also go back and change a few other things that have always bothered me.
One thing is that I finally got rid of the superfluous Life system! There always were infinite Continues by default anyway, so it served no purpose at all. Instead, it's now displaying how many times you've died already, so you always know just how bad you are!
But listing all the new features would be boring, as these are mostly bugs most people wouldn't even notice.
However, there is one specific feature I wanted to have added years ago...
Download: http://selbi.hapisan.com/sonic2-team_black_force-v1.0.rar
(I highly encourage you to take a look at the text files for an extra laugh!)
Here's a proposal, a shortened version of the song! And by shortened I mean shifting the colon one spot to the left. You know, for those times where you simply don't have the patience to listen to it all.
Interestingly, after editing this song down, I feel like it became even more chaotic.
Full Song: youtu.be/YmpUNQYwxBg
Victim! Into this masquerade
Forgot who I am
This story is driving me mad
My life is hanging by a thread that is about to break
Suicidal tendencies burn inside the mind of this miserable man
Is it life? Is it death?
I don't give a shit!
Still...
Is it life? Is it death?
When you fool yourself
Fucked!
*CHORUS*
Bleed behind this painful mask I wear
I'm falling from a misleading grace
The life I dreamed is killing me!
Stuck on the tightrope
Staring down to the void beneath
In imposed equilibrium I stand swinging in my indecision
Uncompassionate result of a fearing existence
I don't care if my time has come
All I want... my liberation!
*SOLO*
Drunk! I make it through the night with spirits hand in hand
My soul must be anesthetized
I can't bear this pain
To my frustration engaged
Just like to get laid with the worst enemy I've inside
But I cannot change myself
No way to squeeze blood from the stone that I am
Is it life? Is it death?
Fuck!
Is it life? Is it death?
When you fool yourself
Why?
*CHORUS*
Bleed behind this painful mask I wear
I'm falling from a misleading grace
The life I dreamed is killing me!
Bleed behind this painful mask I wear
I'm falling from a misleading grace
The life I dreamed is tearing me down!
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I did Elegy when it came out (youtu.be/l39URo4nsmI), so I figured I'd do this as well. The whole project took way longer than it should've been (about 5 hours), if only because of the stupid video effects. But it was still fun!
All musical content is owned by Fleshgod Apocalypse and Nuclear Blast.
Interesting part starts at: 4:36
Actual reading starts at: 5:30
Download SonicMT.bin by Natsumi: http://sonicresearch.org/forums/index.php?/topic/4607-sonicmtbin
(The audio recording was a genuine, blind one-take, but I decided to spice it up a little.)
An extended 3-hours Megamix of this video with even more Finsterforst goodness!
youtube.com/watch?v=A3fSx67t5Dg
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0:00:00 – [Abfahrt]
0:00:56 – Untergang (21m38s) [from "...zum Tode hin", 2009]
0:22:25 – [Rast]
0:24:00 – Flammenrausch (22m10s) [from "Rastlos", 2012]
0:45:14 – [Reise zum...]
0:50:05 – Finsterforst (23m55s) [from "Mach dich frei!", 2015]
NOW ON SPOTIFY: open.spotify.com/user/11120191361/playlist/5qz5O98DcvmBtS0Tzw05iQ
In their last three albums, German Pagan Metal band "Finsterforst" have created very ambitious closing tracks, all of which exceed 20 minutes of playing time, displaying the band's ability to mix awesome melodies with epic progressiveness perfectly.
I've been interested to combine these tracks into one big megamix that would fit onto a single Audio CD (74 minutes). Having some room to play with, I took the respective intermission songs (except for the intro song) to create one smooth longplayer that still keeps the progressive energy of the original. The entire project took about two hours, hear-testing not included.
Cover art mash-up made by me. (It really shows that I'm not an artist...)
"The Greatest Show on Earth" features three of these spoken passages, where he talks about the beauty of life and how we are the lucky ones to live. This video edited those segments out using the instrumental version of the Special Edition.
Note:
I personally don't have a problem with Richard Dawkins at all and I even found what he said rather inspirational. However, I dislike spoken words in music after the first few listens, because they pull me out of the song's immersion. So for me, this is more of a "musically improved" version, rather than an ethics debate.
If more new questions come up over time, I'll do more of these.
PS: This was actually already recorded and edited two days ago, but the time it took to render and upload was RIDICULOUS...
Songs: "Reise zum..." & "Finsterforst" by Finsterforst
Information on the update: http://forums.sonicretro.org/index.php?showtopic=25477&view=findpost&p=775640
Download: http://selbi.hapisan.com/erazor
It should've been the mother bomb from Sonic CD all along! So I went ahead, included it, and made the boss more challenging with each life it loses.
What is this all for you ask? The final revision of Sonic ERaZor I promised over a year ago is in the works, and I've had a few new ideas to expand on it more, instead of just fixing a few bugs. It probably won't be a "Fifth Public Release", as it won't include that much new content either, but it's still more than your average bug fix.
Stay tuned for more!
The night is captivating me like a siren
Seductive voice of my frustration
Refusing wisdom, feeding my dread
Twisting all the warps of my insanity
As I am scorched in a slow decay
Demonic courtiers torment my spirit with misleading speech
To let the faith of the one sadly crawl before the deceiver
And make the pain rip the soul of the unbridled sleeper
Gods! Partake my grave endeavor
Gods liberate the force giving me a new vigor
Gods! Unleash the rage so unfairly enslaved
Lead me to this leech draining innocence
Concealed between the bleeding walls of my suffering
And bless the sword that's gonna slay
The beast that I confined into myself
Surpassing all the edges forever
Bound to this labyrinth
Selene is tricking me
Misled by darkness 'n' tainting lies of my mortality
Can't find the passage to my own rise
Enforcing all the gates of duality
I let my days falter in decline
Invaders of my shelter
Becoming stronger in my hearth and driving me to madness
They dominate like a storm with a raging power
And burn the core, lacerate, the forsaken hero
Gods! Partake my grave endeavor
Gods liberate the force giving me a new vigor
Gods! Unleash the rage so unfairly enslaved
Lead me to this leech draining innocence
Concealed between the bleeding walls of my suffering
And bless the sword that's gonna slay
The beast that I confined into myself
Surpassing all the edges forever
Grace of the gods for one that will live forever and find the secret of a scar!
Cold through my flesh is the blade of my abysmal vengeance
The dagger lacerates my neck while I'm feeling conscious
The muscle's pushing through my veins
Red lymph that from my new mouth come outside
Like words I never told you
Gods take this prayer of my last tragic epilogue
Concealed between the bleeding walls was my suffering
And bless the sword that's gonna slay
The beast that I confined into myself
To transmigrate and live forevermore
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All musical content is owned by Fleshgod Apocalypse and Nuclear Blast.
This is actually a completely different video made back in 2013 for a completely different purpose. Figured I might as well use it for the channel trailer. It's not like I could adequately describe what this channel is about anyway. :V


