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A Failed Start (Ratchet and Clank: Going Commando, Part 6)
updated
Games played:
Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy (PS2)
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Games played:
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 (PS1)
Fantavision (PS2)
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 (PS2)
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Games played:
Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy (PS2)
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Intro song: youtube.com/live/NwWqfUalG0Y
Outro song: Styles of Beyond - Subculture
QuakePSX: github.com/fgsfdsfgs/quakepsx
Games played:
Quake (PS1, unofficial port)
Baby Universe (PS1)
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater (PS1, early beta)
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 (PS1, early beta)
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Games played:
Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy (PS2)
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Intro song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTsLECF5L7c
Stories on mari.somnol: http://mariteaux.somnolescent.net/writing/stories
DocBook setup: http://github.com/mariteaux/marfs-docbook-xslt
Games played:
Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy (PS2)
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Intro song: Soul Coughing - Circles
Games played:
Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy (PS2)
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Still working through the GH2 set on RetroAchievements! Add me there, let's get those Internet points together, baby: retroachievements.org/user/mariteaux
Intro music: Jak and Daxter OST - Sandover Village
Games played:
Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy (PS2)
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Games played:
Guitar Hero II (PS2)
Namcomuseum Vol. 1 (PS1)
Potentially others?
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Games played:
Ratchet and Clank: Going Commando (PS2)
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Failed original intro: youtube.com/watch?v=lfBxtpdR2aA
marf's RetroAchievements: retroachievements.org/user/mariteaux
Games played:
Ratchet and Clank: Going Commando (PS2)
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Intro song: Quarashi - Dive In
Games played:
Ratchet and Clank: Going Commando (PS2)
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Intro song: OK Go - Unrequited Orchestra of Locomotion
Games played:
Ratchet and Clank: Going Commando (PS2)
Sega Rally Championship (PS2)
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marfGH repo: http://github.com/mariteaux/marfgh
Intro song: Remy Zero - Problem
Games played:
Ratchet and Clank: Going Commando (PS2)
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Games played:
Ratchet and Clank: Going Commando (PS2)
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Games played:
Ratchet and Clank: Going Commando (PS2)
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Intro song: Toxic Doom - Scavengers (a remix of Dieselboy's remix of Styles of Beyond's "Subculture" done in Amplitude by me)
Games played:
Amplitude (PS2)
FreQuency (PS2)
Rock Band Track Pack Vol. 1 (PS2)
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Games played:
Pac-Man World 3 (PS2)
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Intro song: Buckner & Garcia - Pac-Man Fever
Games played:
Pac-Man World 3 (PS2)
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Most of my customs are of pretty playable but I feel fairly fun songs. Chordy indie rock, some solos here and there, but nothing particularly punishing. The GH2 engine is already difficult enough to play on without me throwing plate patterns at anyone, and those just don't show up in the songs I wanna play anyway.
This, though! I've had the idea of charting more game and computer music for a while now (maybe doing a whole marfGH volume in the future of them), and this one's a stone cold CLASSIC. This is the theme to a highly regarded Commodore 64 platformer called Monty on the Run (natch), and the guy who wrote it, Rob Hubbard, is a legend of SID music. Seriously, none of that is news to anyone who actively follows the SID scene like I don't. That said, legends are legends for a reason. Patterns as fast as the ones at the end of this song probably shouldn't be possible on the SID, and it's catchy as all get out to boot. (If you remember which meme used this song to pretty amazing effect, you get a pinned comment.)
I was able to pull stems out of this one. sidplay lets you mute each of the emulated SID's three channels, and I captured 'em separately and then did some light editing to produce a "guitar" part and a "bass" part. I charted the initial pass of that solo drunk in a call with friends, and I've just been making sure it's as accurate as I can make it since. With this many unique parts to the song, reductions took a while, and everything was almost eaten last minute by a weird FeedBack glitch that Moonscraper helped fix, at the cost of having to redo the fretmapping and Face-Off phrases. Messy business, charting for this game.
I think my Retribution rechart is a lot harder in spots, but this is more consistently fast and crazy, so I'm calling it harder. Looks like a lot of fun though. I could probably pull out a pretty damn good run of this one on controller, but definitely not on guitar. I'll be very curious to try it myself either tonight or tomorrow.
This one will appear on the Volume 0 reissue, along with nine other new songs. Gotta give you a reason to redownload that thing after Volume 1 comes out, yeah?
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Intro song: "Weird Al" Yankovic - Pac-Man
Games played:
Pac-Man World 3 (PS2)
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Intro song: Power Pill - Pac-Man
Games played:
Pac-Man World 3 (PS2)
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Games played:
Rock Band Track Pack Vol. 1 (PS2)
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Games played:
Guitar Hero II (PS2)
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Games played:
Vib-Ribbon (PS1)
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Intro song: Laugh and Beats - Laugh and Beats (Vib-Ribbon soundtrack)
Games played:
Vib-Ribbon (PS1)
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Games played:
(All games are early builds of their final counterparts)
Yabasic (PS2)
FreQuency (PS2)
Amplitude (PS2)
Guitar Hero II (PS2)
Neopets: The Darkest Faerie (PS2)
Pitfall: The Lost Expedition (PS2)
Okami (PS2)
Smash TV (Arcade, Midway Arcade Treasures for PS2)
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Games played:
Various bad BBC Flash games (PC)
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 (PS1)
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Games played:
Minecraft Alpha v1.1.2_01 (PC)
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Games played:
Ratchet and Clank (PS2)
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Games played:
Ratchet and Clank (PS2)
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Games played:
Ratchet and Clank (PS2)
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Games played:
Ratchet and Clank (PS2)
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Intro song: Rob Zombie - Living Dead Girl
Games played:
Quake: Blue Episode (PC)
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Intro song: Siestas - mtlx
Games played:
Ratchet and Clank (PS2)
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Games played:
Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves (PS2)
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Games played:
Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves (PS2)
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I've been getting the fuzzies for GH2 again for a couple months now, but my boy Connor dropped me some stems for a song he did for his virtual J-rock group MoriHime a few days ago, and you don't say no to free stems, do you?
In short order, I charted it all up pretty quickly and dusted off my old chart demo disc to show it off in-engine. Normally, when I chart for GH2, something has to get tweaked, either the stage animations or the mix, but here? Pretty much perfect on the first shot. I can't describe how excited I was to see it in-engine. Seriously, every GH2 custom I get working is a little bit like Christmas--I can't 100% tell what it'll look like just from some text events and FeedBack note scrolls, so it's as much a surprise to me as it is to you.
You won't be able to tell from this video, but (shoutout to Felipe who found a way to make this happen) I switched over my formerly very clunky MIDI pitches-based camera cut solution to a text event solution far closer to how Rock Band does its cuts, as I always intended but never 100% figured out. This means I can author cuts directly in FeedBack (fast, easy) and not in Reaper's piano roll (obnoxious, eye-glazing). I'll need to port my existing charts over to this, but going forwards, much easier on myself.
I've been debating the best way to announce my future plans for GH2, but this is what I've got for tonight: I still love this game, and I will do more with it. I will eventually finish up the marfGH discs, and all my other silly ideas. You will see those. I think it'd be a damn shame if all the work I've done and could be doing for easily my favorite game of all time went to waste because of some dumb shit that happened in a Discord server almost two years now. I'm not saying right now, but I'm saying by the end of 2025, there will be something big from me. I might still go into more detail in a video, but you'll have to give me a bit. I'm working full time now, and my time is a lot more precious to me as a result.
The MoriHime stuff is fucking killer, and if you like your J-music, you can check out Connor's full tribute to Sonic Adventure's soundtrack over on his Bandcamp: http://morihime.bandcamp.com/album/morihime
And! Although I'm holding the full GH2 chart for a future marfGH, since this video is partially meant to promote his album (again, go listen to it, some phenomenal effort went into it), I've prepared a Clone Hero version of this chart which you can grab off my website: mariteaux.somnolescent.net/modding/guitar-hero/charts/morihime_-_shooting_star_ch.zip
Stay tuned, folks. If you're here twenty years after GH2 came out, you're probably in it for the long haul, and I thank you for that. Let's give this another try.
Games played:
Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves (PS2)
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Intro song: Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium
Games played:
Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves (PS2)
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Games played:
Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves (PS2)
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Intro song: Sly 2 - Paris Overworld Theme
Games played:
Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves (PS2)
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Intro song: Soundgarden - Been Away Too Long
Games played:
Xevious (Atari 7800)
Pole Position II (Atari 7800)
Gran Turismo 2 (PlayStation)
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Games played:
Gran Turismo 2 (PS1)
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Games played:
Sly 2: Band of Thieves (PS2)
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Games played:
Sly 2: Band of Thieves (PS2)
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Games played:
Sly 2: Band of Thieves (PS2)
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Intro song: Dan Auerbach - Because I Should
Games played:
Sly 2: Band of Thieves (PS2)
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Intro song: Jeff Tweedy - Laminated Cat
Games played:
Sly 2: Band of Thieves (PS2)
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