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Sunday, February 1, 2009

SNES Megaman X

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It's my 30th upload spectacular! Megaman X!

Of particular note is the fact that I now own a capture card, and as such, this video was not created using an emulator. Nothing against emulators, mind you, but a game like Megaman X is significantly harder to play with a keyboard. Now you can really get a good feel for my abilities (though not at the very end of the video, ugh). This also allows me to get around all further emulator compatibility problems, so it's a handy thing to have.

Megaman X is one of my all-time favourites, but it's hard to play with a keyboard because the shoulder buttons are really important. As such, it was a natural choice for my first capture card video. The game is also fairly easy so I wouldn't have to attempt it a ton of times.

There's still a couple bugs to work out in the process, though, the card really doesn't like the explosion effect used by this game and the video gets a little wobbly after it happens. Sometimes it takes the card a little while to lock back on to the signal, which is worst in Boomer Kuwanger's level. I've been fiddling with the settings and have managed to reduce how often this happens, but not totally eliminate it. Thankfully, this problem doesn't seem to exist on systems from the N64 era and onward. Must be something different about how the SNES sends the signal.

On another note, this will probably be my last video for Google Video (see the post below this one). It's a shame GV is closing, it was a good service for this kind of thing. I hope I'll be able to find something else that works as well. At least this is a good note to end on.


This video has now been completely redone, eliminating the video distortion effect, and the death that was in the previous run.

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What's On:

NES:

Adventure Island 3
Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers
Contra
Darkwing Duck
Die Hard
Double Dragon 2
DuckTales
DuckTales 2
Eliminator Boat Duel
Felix the Cat
Galaxy 5000
GI Joe: A Real American Hero
Hi no Tori
Ivan "Ironman" Stewart's Super Off Road
Jackal
The Jetsons: Cogswell's Caper
Journey to Silius
KickMaster
The Little Mermaid
Little Nemo the Dream Master
Low G Man
MC Kids
Megaman 2
Metal Storm
Ninja Gaiden
Paperboy
Power Blade
Rampart
SCAT
Shatterhand
Snake Rattle n' Roll
Stunt Kids
Super C
Super Mario Bros
Super Robin Hood
TaleSpin
Widget
Yume Penguin Monogatari


Master System:

Wonder Boy in Monster Land
Wonder Boy 3: The Dragon's Trap


SNES:

Aladdin
Battle Dodgeball
Battletoads and Double Dragon
Biker Mice From Mars
Bonkers
Bubsy
Cool Spot
Demon's Crest
Dolucky's A-League Soccer
Donkey Kong Country
F1 ROC 2 Race of Champions
Ganbare Goemon 2
The Magical Quest Starring Mickey Mouse
Megaman X
NBA Jam TE
Pac Man 2: The New Adventures
Pieces
Plok
Pocky and Rocky
Sparkster
Super James Pond
Super Mario World
Tetris Battle Gaiden
Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster Busts Loose
U.N. Squadron
Wario's Woods
Yoshi's Cookie


Genesis:

Alien Soldier
Castlevania Bloodlines
Chiki Chiki Boys
Cyberball
Knuckles Chaotix
Puggsy
Rocket Knight Adventures
Sonic the Hedgehog 2


N64:

Bust a Move '99
Diddy Kong Racing
Mario Kart 64
Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon
NFL Blitz Special Edition
Penny Racers
Pokemon Puzzle League
Sin and Punishment
Snowboard Kids
Super Mario 64


PSX:

Bishi Bashi Special 2
Bishi Bashi Special 3
Choro Q2
Monster Rancher 2
Pocket Fighter
Snowboard Kids Plus
Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage


GC

Sonic Adventure 2 Battle


PS3

Puyo Puyo Tetris


GB

Batman
Megaman V
Trip World


GBA

Megaman Zero
Summon Night Swordcraft Story


DOS:

Holiday Hare
Jazz Jackrabbit
XMas Skyroads

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Here I've listed a handful of games I've considered doing runs for. If you have a particular preference for one of these games, you can vote for it here. There's no guarantee that a game that gets a lot of votes would get done right away, but it might influence me when picking the next game to do.

Should I switch to using Youtube?

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I'm just a guy who plays far too many video games. I own an Intellivision, NES, SNES, N64, Playstation, Playstation 2, Gamecube, Dreamcast, Wii, Gameboy, Gameboy Colour, Gameboy Advance, DS, and PSP, as well as far more games than I could count.

I started doing these game runs both as a way to show off and to challenge myself. Mostly the former, though.