Oh yeah I also casually spent a few hours playing in the Con 5 Duros stream of SRB2Kart 32 players that was programmed for today...while at first I was having issues to even stay connected, I eventually was able to stay well and keep often okay positions if not Top Three, and even getting at least 6 first place finishes in a humongous lobby that had at least 6 or 7 players always ready to hound me on sight at the final stretch. Really fun races, really good competitors and I also got compliments from them which was nice considering I could name two or three that always had me deathly afraid of getting orbi'd or outrunned by them.
Stream is linked below but you probably have to skip ahead a few races until you can find me after I could stay stable in the server and constantly running fights over the road.
I HAVE ACHIEVED WHAT MANY HAVE FEARED: EVERY SINGLE CUP IN MASTER MODE COMPLETED. There's only four of them not cleared as Vectorman as they were the first ones with Sonic [sans the first which I revisited], but otherwise I did everything with Vectorman, with today ending with Skate Cup once and for all.
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That's right baby. I even got a playlist with all of my runs done on the Replay Warehouse channel.
Another long session- finally unlocked the Expert boats and did a handful of events with them, mainly the new tracks I was unlocking [up to Atlantis], Gauntlets, and any Ring Master Expert challenges I unlocked as those always demand you to use those boats. I did at the end of my session a Professional Championship instead of an Expert one just to save time and knowing that the Expert races can give a tight fight [even if not as hard as OG HT/H2O], and I managed to run back my iffy performance at the first event by crushing the three after it.
A video of this long session should be available below as a video whenever it's done processing in Handbrake [the original recording is a whopping 20GB] and then finished uploading to Youtube on my Replay Warehouse channel.
This took me approximately 45 minutes to one hour to do between getting my grips with the controls and just learning how to tackle the track with how the bots often leave you no room to come back if you make a mistake. In Easy. There's a longer explanation/backstory on the description at the moment but yeah, I played this game around a week ago and spent like two hours grinding this track both in Easy and Normal- giving up that night when the best I could do after a run without big mistakes was third place.
Read the descriptions of these, already poured my kilometers of text in those about my thoughts. Still fun and cool although the road to getting a first place is pretty damn tough if you don't get everything done just right. Probably gonna go add these runs from the Replay Warehouse into the Record Attack for Arcade Racers page.
that's the whole entry for tonight- I'll probably have something more elaborate when I do something with the footage I recorded.
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HYDROOOOO THUNDERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
I played the N64 version for RetroAchievements, and got five tracks completed out of...12? I got the first three down kinda fast, and while Lake Powell took me several tries to get down the shortcuts and optimal driving well, I could get a completion [2nd Place] in The Far East in my very first try. And that was AFTER several attempts before that being of Greek Isles. I eventually got Greek Isles down after a lot of attempts, and my first visit at Ship Graveyard resulted in my second Super Start + Boost ever, the first one being in a Greek Isles attempt that somehow went into disaster faster than the rest despite the luck I had there.
I didn't beat Ship Graveyard though, but I mentioned that anyways because while it can be kiiinda easy to get a Super Start overall, getting the bonus Boost with it is a different story, as the timing is especially strict and I feel like getting it for me was lowkey luck with how RetroArch had a bit of input lag for me while playing...throwing a wrench in that precise timing for the special rocket start.
At first I was going to make this a part of a ReJournal page, but since that needs a fair amount of work, I'll instead carry over the very little that I had started to describe with it...since the first thing I started talking about was SUPER MONKEY BALL.
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- I mean Monkey Target, one of the first things I played with the first friend that arrived was Super Monkey Ball on the Wii because the PC was taking its dear time to go running- first some stupid hijinks playing by turns in Normal mode's Advanced levels, and then going at it in Monkey Target for like three rounds until another friend arrived with another Gamecube controller and we could start going HAM with Monkey Fight.
Monkey Fight was REALLY funny when considering the wacky powerups and the last second steals that are possible as, if you are playing one versus one, whoever's losing will always get 20 points as that's what you get for KOing the leader in any condition. So taking back a lead is much faster than the amount of time a leader can usually hold a lead.
Soon enough we started playing PMEX Remix on PC instead, although as there was only one controller and the keyboard, I watched my two friends duke it out at first while I had lunch, and then I took over for one of them to fight against the Maniack...and I picked Vectorman. Vectorman can be REALLY funny in PMEX Remix due to how aside from having some neat stuff for a Smash character, his Down B lets you turn his normal attacks, which are his default weapon and is like very long ranged jabs but can be escaped from, into powered up shots that will basically force your opponent to eat dirt if you can get one of those in and then continue shooting them with it, as those powered shots have more hitstun and thus combo longer.
I was beating his Blaziken many times with funny shit, even though he took one win from me, that he went nuclear...and picked Vectorman as well. I also got a handful of wins until he eventually got one where he was the faster one at power-shooting me to oblivion.
I think the rest of the day was a lot of talking in between those PMEX matches and outside of it, which was neat considering one of these friends that arrived had visited three days straight because he was going to leave the city for good- meaning that we would now know about him only through internet or if we happened to travel to the city he's going to live now for the meantime. But at least it was a good sendoff overall.
Playing Naruto Revolution 3 is TECHNICALLY possible with a phone acting as a controller through DSUController emulating a Classic Controller over Dolphin [while my friend played with a keyboard], but...uhh...anyways, still had some fun matches and hilarious moments. Also got to introduce another friend to Ring Racers, although I don't know if he still got all of the things I had to explain verbally or if he'll be interested in checking it out again, but oh well, at least a reason to try the game again.
Well, look at that...I actually delivered a montage with those Kart races I mentioned before :]
I finally revisited it after many years. Has been fun so far, and I got six race tracks unlocked :]
