Let's go through the GBA library!

[Fusionman]

Time for me to do a LP!

I have a crap load of GBA games I might want to do so let's have some voting.

Your options for "season 1" are: The Soma Cruz Castlevania games, Advance Wars 1 and 2, the Mega Man Battle Network series, Golden Sun 1 and 2, the GBA Fire Emblem games, Metroid fusion and Zero Mission, Boktai, Mario and Luigi Superstar Saga, The Minish Cap, Sigma Star Saga, the Duel Masters games and YuGiOh Duel Academy. The top 5 will be played in that order! Warning a series or francise counts as 1. HAVE FUN! :dance:

[A Zarkin' Frood]

If you can't do Harmony of Dissonance (which I love mostly for its music) you should go for the Sorrow Castlevanias.
Doing Golden Sun would be pretty much stealing someones gig as far as I know.
Fire Emblem would be fine, the dude who did those is banned and no one except me seemed to care about those anyway.

What format will the LP be in?
Have you done this before? If not, my suggestion would be to create some episodes in advance so you can find out what works best for you or if you can even pull it off.

[Amake]

Ooh, Metroid! I haven't actually played a Metroid game since Super M.

(Or any before that.)

Sidescrollers for teh win!

By the way if you're going with screenshots, I'll advice in advance to get a screenshot program like Gadwin (http://www.gadwin.com/printscreen/) to avoid having to resize hundreds of stamp-sized pixel screens.

[Kim]

For the sidescrollers, I'd personally recommend doing a video LP. Not really sure how well Castlevania, for example, could work as a screenshot LP.

[Fusionman]

For the sidescrollers, I'd personally recommend doing a video LP. Not really sure how well Castlevania, for example, could work as a screenshot LP.

I was going to save just before I take the screenshots and if THAT fails I'll do a written LP for those.

[Solid Snake]

...I wonder if there should be some sort of rule regarding a minimum number of posts you must make before you're eligible to start an LP.
...It's not that I think it necessarily should be illegal or anything, moreso that it just surprises me when someone shows up out of nowhere and immediately (probably erroneously) thinks that an LP project is going to work out.

...Not a specific criticism towards you, Fusionman, because I don't know you well enough to make the judgment call: just something I'm noticing generally lately. There are a hell of a lot of new LPs coming out the woodworks and at this juncture I almost wish we had separate LP and "regular talk about videogames threads" boards, the LPs are dominating the rest of the content. It's also hard to determine whether you're serious about your LP attempt (as I have no idea regarding your commitment / ability as an LPer) and thus whether I should spend time answering this.

(Mind you, this is coming from the guy who's failed at LPs twice in the past, you'll outdo me if you just get halfway on one.)

...Whatever happened to that "five LP maximum" rule, anyway? That was a good rule.

EDIT: Thanks NonCon.

[Fusionman]

If you can't do Harmony of Dissonance (which I love mostly for its music) you should go for the Sorrow Castlevanias.
Doing Golden Sun would be pretty much stealing someones gig as far as I know.
Fire Emblem would be fine, the dude who did those is banned and no one except me seemed to care about those anyway.

What format will the LP be in?
Have you done this before? If not, my suggestion would be to create some episodes in advance so you can find out what works best for you or if you can even pull it off.

I might do harmony of dissonance actually. :ohdear: Sorry that's now added in.

The format will be written or screenshot depending on the game and I have done LP's before. Thanks for the warning though.

[A Zarkin' Frood]

Oh, didn't see the Metroids earlier. Must've skipped over them with my tired eyes
I sorta like the GBA Metroids actually. Despite what some people I know say about them. I really like the last bit of Zero Mission. Y'know, the stuff that's new to the remake.

Now out of those games all the ones I played have been covered. Except Minish Cap. But I'm not very fond of that.

[greed]

(Mind you, this is coming from the guy who's failed at LPs twice in the past, you'll outdo me if you just get halfway on one.)

...Whatever happened to that "five LP minimum" rule, anyway? That was a good rule.

It got removed when the initial rush stopped and people started getting antsy cause they wanted to start their LP and some of the current 5 were updating sporadically. The mods probably figured having a few too many LPs was less annoying than dealing with people bugging them to shut down slow LPs or to "just let me keep my LP open a bit longer, I'll update, promise!"

Edit: Thought I inlcuded this but my votes for Aria of Sorrow or Mario and Luigi.

[Solid Snake]

It got removed when the initial rush stopped and people started getting antsy cause they wanted to start their LP and some of the current 5 were updating sporadically. The mods probably figured having a few too many LPs was less annoying than dealing with people bugging them to shut down slow LPs or to "just let me keep my LP open a bit longer, I'll update, promise!"

I can understand that.
And I'd actually be all for more than an arbitrary number of LPs if I knew the LPers well enough to have hope that their material would be exciting. It's not even the quantity of updates or the success of the project itself that interests me (after all, I have a horrible track record there) but moreso that at least I'd enjoy the ride along the way. Minimum post requirements could be useful there just to ensure that LPers contribute to the community generally before popping out of nowhere and trying a huge project. With so many of these going on at once, it's just difficult for me to determine which ones are going to pay off -- and I'm hoping LPs don't actually outright replace conversations about video games as the dominant mode of expression here.

[PCD]

We've already got someone doing Golden Sun, however sporadically it may be... I always love a good Zelda LP, though, so I'll throw a vote in for Minish Cap.

[Fusionman]

So if I'm correct the votes are: castlevanias 2
Fire Emblem 1
Metroids 2
Mario and Luigi 1
Zelda 1

This right?

[Loyal]

For the sidescrollers, I'd personally recommend doing a video LP. Not really sure how well Castlevania, for example, could work as a screenshot LP.Considering our most successful LP is Arhra's IWBTG, I'd say action platformers could work in screenshot format.

I'm voting for Fire Emblem.

[Kyanbu The Legend]

I'd say do the Sorrow Saga Castlevania games.

[Fusionman]

So I think I'll do the Sorrow Saga then 1 of the Fire Emblems BTW which one 6,7, or 8? You guys then want me to do Metroid Zero Mission followed by Mario and Luigi with the Minish Cap last? That's the order you want right?

[Token]

Dude, don't commit to five at once, that's a horrible idea. These sons of bitches are incredibly time consuming.

[Kim]

Considering our most successful LP is Arhra's IWBTG, I'd say action platformers could work in screenshot format.

Yeah, if you photoshop the hell out of it, adding in your own plot elements, and mspaint the most uninformative walkthrough ever.

[Fusionman]

Dude, don't commit to five at once, that's a horrible idea. These sons of bitches are incredibly time consuming.

I know how consuming these things are! I tried an LP of Fire Emblem 8. Took forever! Seriously though dude, that's just the order! If I said game X will be done at time Y there would be a problem. I'll also be doing other games after these games. Those games will be left as a surprise though. ;)

[Loyal]

Yeah, if you photoshop the hell out of it, adding in your own plot elements, and mspaint the most uninformative walkthrough ever.It's all about execution, is what I'm saying.

[Jagos]

I'm up for seeing Metroid. The others would seriously run long.

[Fusionman]

I'm up for seeing Metroid. The others would seriously run long.

Well dude you'll need to wait. Admittedly now that and the Sorrow saga is tied the NEXT VOTE will decide it! So it's up to YOU to decide which is first and which is second!

[Token]

Metroid.

[Fusionman]

Metroid.

Well everyone thanks to Token Metroid will go first! Now obvious decision time. Do you want Fusion or Zero Mission?

[Kim]

I say Zero Mission.

[Lost in Time]

As much fun Zero Mission was fun, I always did want to see a LP version of Fusion. So I say Fusion.

Edit: I have no idea what I was trying to say here. So I'mma leave it be.

[Jagos]

I'm playing Zero Mission. Fusion sounds good.

[Fusionman]

OK then. The Metroid Fusion LP will start tomorrow!

[Fenris]

Dude, don't commit to five at once, that's a horrible idea. These sons of bitches are incredibly time consuming.

Update yours so I have a reason to continue beating the game with a raticate.

[Token]

Update yours so I have a reason to continue beating the game with a raticate.

I don't wanna.

[Revising Ocelot]

Fusion's underrated, IMO. Sure, it's fairly linear, but I still found the gameplay solid fun and there's a good amount of exploring you can do once you get the final upgrade. Not to mention that one Shinespark sequence...

Haven't played Zero Mission though. And I wouldn't (Space) pirate it either, viruses and illegality aren't my style.

[Fusionman]

OK guys I'm taking the screenshots now but how do I make them show? Do I just paste the imageshack link? My last LP area didn't show pictures.

[Kim]

There's a little button you can click when posting. It's a square with mountains on it. Click that. It'll ask for the url of the image you're trying to post. Post the picture. Ta-dah!

Alt answer: Put the url inside some [img] tags.

[Fusionman]

There's a little button you can click when posting. It's a square with mountains on it. Click that. It'll ask for the url of the image you're trying to post. Post the picture. Ta-dah!

Alt answer: Put the url inside some [img] tags.

Thank you NonCon. I will post sometime today.

[Fusionman]

Well guys I have a problem. I took some pics and put it in imageshack but the pics don't show! What do I do now?

[Kim]

Well guys I have a problem. I took some pics and put it in imageshack but the pics don't show! What do I do now?

I usually roll with photobucket (http://photobucket.com/). Photobucket is kinda nice because you can create an album for a single update, for example, select "view all" in the album, and then have it generate all the image tags for the entire update. Then all you gotta do is put the text between them.

[Fusionman]

Warning: These images are huge.



Well everyone time to start Metroid Fusion!

http://i831.photobucket.com/albums/zz239/Fusionman/Metroid%20Fusion/screenshot1.jpg

Or Metroid 4. Funny seeing how Fusion is currently the last game in canon.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/16/Yokoi.jpg
Shut up.

Oh shit the ghost of Gunpei Yokoi! I'm sorry!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/16/Yokoi.jpg
Fine but never do that again.

Yes sir!!!

Moving on... http://i831.photobucket.com/albums/zz239/Fusionman/Metroid%20Fusion/screenshot2.jpg

BNL's rival BSL!

http://i831.photobucket.com/albums/zz239/Fusionman/Metroid%20Fusion/screenshot5.jpg
Graphs that mean something! Also there was a Samus shot I missed.

http://i831.photobucket.com/albums/zz239/Fusionman/Metroid%20Fusion/screenshot6.jpg

http://i831.photobucket.com/albums/zz239/Fusionman/Metroid%20Fusion/screenshot7.jpg

Let's start!

Question. Do you guys want to see my pictures I took of the exposition scene?

[Jagos]

I'm a story guy. I love to watch story so I say yes.

[The Argent Lord]

I'm a story guy, too, but if I recall the story scenes tend to be visual-novel-style text walls over a static image. So I'd say one pic per background image and transcribe the rest. Also, the pictures could REALLY use resizing.

[Jagos]

Yeah, irfanview lets you do that quickly. Not sure if Photobucket or Flickr have that.

[Fusionman]

I'm a story guy, too, but if I recall the story scenes tend to be visual-novel-style text walls over a static image. So I'd say one pic per background image and transcribe the rest. Also, the pictures could REALLY use resizing.

Is there a resize option either in this forum or photobucket?

[Kim]

Don't think so, but the picture size doesn't bother me so yeah. Maybe my laptop screen is just higher res or something than Argent's. Actually like your writing so far. Gunpei Yokoi joke was pretty rad.

[Rejected Again]

Tinypic has a re-size function. Its what I use.

[Fusionman]

Do I have to transcribe it 100% or can I summarize it?

[Kim]

Go with whatever you think will make the LP better.

[Fusionman]

http://i831.photobucket.com/albums/zz239/Fusionman/Metroid%20Fusion/screenshot8.jpg

So once again I found myself on SR388.

http://i831.photobucket.com/albums/zz239/Fusionman/Metroid%20Fusion/screenshot11.jpg

Holy shit what's that!?

http://i831.photobucket.com/albums/zz239/Fusionman/Metroid%20Fusion/screenshot12.jpg
Yay it exploded!!!

http://i831.photobucket.com/albums/zz239/Fusionman/Metroid%20Fusion/screenshot13.jpg
Orange blob thing!

http://i831.photobucket.com/albums/zz239/Fusionman/Metroid%20Fusion/screenshot14.jpg
never encountered before.

http://i831.photobucket.com/albums/zz239/Fusionman/Metroid%20Fusion/screenshot15.jpg
attacker the parasitic organism known as X.

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/CAPPOD/MM025~Mega-Man-X7-X-Posters.jpg
Not that X!


http://i831.photobucket.com/albums/zz239/Fusionman/Metroid%20Fusion/screenshot17.jpg
when disaster struck.

http://i831.photobucket.com/albums/zz239/Fusionman/Metroid%20Fusion/screenshot20.jpg
consciousness and my ship drifted into an asteroid belt.

Well um shit that sucks.

http://i831.photobucket.com/albums/zz239/Fusionman/Metroid%20Fusion/screenshot21.jpg
the ejection pod. Biologic recovered it and took me to Galactic Federation HQ.

http://i831.photobucket.com/albums/zz239/Fusionman/Metroid%20Fusion/screenshot24.jpg
corrupting most of my Power Suit.

http://i831.photobucket.com/albums/zz239/Fusionman/Metroid%20Fusion/screenshot26.jpg
Power Suit had become so integrated with my system that it not could be removed while I was unconscious

http://i831.photobucket.com/albums/zz239/Fusionman/Metroid%20Fusion/screenshot29.jpg
dramatically altering my physical appearance. However, the X in my central nervous system were too embedded to be removed safely. I was given a small chance of survival.

OK This is getting long so summary of the rest. They use cells taken from the baby metroid for a cure. It works. Samus awakes with a new suit. She then mentions she owns the baby metroid her life twice over. She then arrives at the Biologic and finds out an explosion rocked the station. She lastly mentions she must take orders from a AI. This reminds her of "him" in a blatant foreshadowing scene.

Next time: Actual gameplay?

[The Argent Lord]

Don't think so, but the picture size doesn't bother me so yeah. Maybe my laptop screen is just higher res or something than Argent's.

Nah, I'm 1680x1050. They're just large enough to showcase the low resolution of the game itself. *shrug* If other people aren't bothered, it doesn't matter, though.

As to the LP itself, withholding judgment until we're out of the exposition.

[Fusionman]

Nah, I'm 1680x1050. They're just large enough to showcase the low resolution of the game itself. *shrug* If other people aren't bothered, it doesn't matter, though.

As to the LP itself, withholding judgment until we're out of the exposition.

Well giant pics of graphics equal to SNES graphics ain't going to look good...
Also will start actual gameplay soon!

[mudah.swf]

It would be best to make the pictures smaller since GBA games look a little blurry and pixellated when shown at a huge resolution they weren't designed for.

[Fusionman]

Well I have taken my pics and uploaded them now I just need them ALL resized so the next update will be done either late at night or tomorrow.

[mudah.swf]

Is it not possible to have the pics output to a smaller size upon taking a screenshot from the off? Would save you some time.

[Fusionman]

Now it's time for actual gameplay! http://i50.tinypic.com/skuji8.jpg
well that's weird, I thought Samus' spaceship was red.


http://i50.tinypic.com/f1a8gn.jpg
Hey guys 2 questions. 1. What weapon is needed for this door?
2. Will you guys please remind me to come back here?

http://i50.tinypic.com/308d24l.jpg
Well good to know.

http://i47.tinypic.com/2jc8upe.jpg
Oh crap! I only have my gun!

http://i47.tinypic.com/epq69y.jpg http://i46.tinypic.com/j5jl0x.jpg

I'll need to come back here too once I get the morph ball.

http://i46.tinypic.com/v4tj69.jpg
Mini hell-hound!

http://i48.tinypic.com/kal43t.jpg
Motherfuckers!

http://i50.tinypic.com/sm3sd0.jpg
Hey Samus may I say something? NICE JOB FUCKING UP THE BALANCE OF SR388!

http://i50.tinypic.com/20rsls4.jpg
OOH first boss!

http://i46.tinypic.com/qn4eh5.jpg
There's the save room everybody!

http://i48.tinypic.com/302npkh.jpg
Why didn't the Federation give me the weapons before I got here?

http://i46.tinypic.com/1532puv.jpg
Thanks for your encouragement.

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FORESHADOWING!

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YES MISSILES! http://cdn2.knowyourmeme.com/i/000/039/879/original/Fuck_Yea.PNG?1266163464

http://i46.tinypic.com/wvtt1v.jpg
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

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Missile Tank 1 GET!

http://i49.tinypic.com/mmbqf6.jpg
Shit! WTF caused that?!

http://i50.tinypic.com/11rdwyw.jpg
Energy Tank 1 GET!

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Hello first boss!

Next chapter: Samus VS Arachnus!

[Revising Ocelot]

Much better screensize.

And she got a new ship because her previous ship in the first cutscenes veered off and crashed while she was in a coma.

[A Zarkin' Frood]

And what happened to her yellow ship.

[Fusionman]

And what happened to her yellow ship.

That's a great question!

Now I have 2 things to say.

1. I will fight the boss soon and upload the pics after.
2. My emulator can play DS games now! If you guys want a DS game tell me and I'll try it out.

[Fusionman]

Hey guys what happened? This died all of the sudden... Do you guys want the boss fight? Well it should be coming today.

EDIT: Well I'm a day late but pics!

Well our little buddy has 3 attacks.

Attack 1: Shooting fire. Attack cue here http://i25.tinypic.com/34i4fhf.jpg

Attack 2: Rolling at you. Part of the attack seen here http://i26.tinypic.com/t7op5x.jpg

Attack 3: Giant claw scratch wave thing. I failed here and forgot to take a picture. Sorry.

http://i31.tinypic.com/2vdjwbo.jpg

Die! Die! Die!

After you shoot him a lot he becomes this thing.

http://i30.tinypic.com/15oa5qa.jpg

After you shoot this guy with missiles his "bubble" will pop.
http://i29.tinypic.com/2vk0013.jpg

I wonder what happens if I absorb the parasite?
http://i27.tinypic.com/16113q8.jpg
:dance: :dance:

Well crap. Sector 1 has been infected by X parasites. It also shows several abnormalities on the bio-sensors. I need to go down the elevator and check up on the sector.

Also remember that small corridor?

http://i47.tinypic.com/epq69y.jpg
Yeah that one.

Well go through it and
http://i32.tinypic.com/24gr2c1.jpg
Missile Tank 2 get!

Well I go down the elevator by going through the other corridor I mentioned and...
http://i28.tinypic.com/nyb3bn.jpg

WTF is that thing!?

Next time we explore Sector 1!

[A Zarkin' Frood]

It's okay, I just can't help but thinking it would work much better in video format, since it's an action based game. Other than that: Keep it up.
.

[Fusionman]

It's okay, I just can't help but thinking it would work much better in video format, since it's an action based game. Other than that: Keep it up.

Well if someone can help me find a good and free video recorder I will try video format.

[Fusionman]

Is this dead now?

[A Zarkin' Frood]

Well, I don't know. I'm not the one running the LP.

[Fusionman]

Well, I don't know. I'm not the one running the LP.

No I mean I'm playing the game and making pictures but no one is commenting and talking about the updates.

[Fusionman]

Well guys I finished my pics but A. I'm stuck and don't now where to go and B want to give up. What should I do?

[Fusionman]

Screw it the LP will go on! The next update IS coming today. I mean it! I'm not Token.

[Fusionman]

Well I was wrong about the posting time. It will happen by next week though.

[Token]

No I mean I'm playing the game and making pictures but no one is commenting and talking about the updates.
Don't worry, that almost always happens.

Screw it the LP will go on! The next update IS coming today. I mean it! I'm not Token.
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaa. Also, ha.

Well I was wrong about the posting time. It will happen by next week though.

Ah, deadlines. Those are always fun to break. Don't worry, this just means you're a real LP'er now.

[Fusionman]

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaa. Also, ha.



Ah, deadlines. Those are always fun to break. Don't worry, this just means you're a real LP'er now.

Oh I'm sorry Token did I offend you? LOL. And yes I love breaking deadlines. Doesn't work well when you're in school though. Yeah though I actually got the pictures.

[Fusionman]

http://i55.tinypic.com/k51li8.jpg

Took you long enough to get to that elevator Samus.


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disabled.

Fuck you too random evil Samus.

http://i53.tinypic.com/2vcj77o.jpg
They are adjusting the environment to their needs. DAMN smart little parasites!

http://i52.tinypic.com/2jbw6k8.jpg
1 found 4 to go!

Yeah imagine me finding 4 more of these and blowing all 5 up with missiles. I don't have pics of the exploring except for these ones.

http://i54.tinypic.com/wuo67m.jpg
Missile Tank 3 Get!

http://i55.tinypic.com/x0p4lz.jpg
Missile Tank 4 Get!

http://i56.tinypic.com/dd2e82.jpg
Charge Beam Get!
:dance: :dance:

So yeah see you next time where hopefully something happens.

[Fusionman]

Would anyone mind if I went to a different game? Metroid Fusion is fun and all but not easy to do a screen-shot LP of.

[Vauron]

Nope, for a game like Metroid Fusion a video LP would work better. Feel free to go to something else. I honestly thought this was dead.

Edit: Since you mentioned you can do DS games, maybe a Phoenix Wright game would work better?

[Fusionman]

Nope, for a game like Metroid Fusion a video LP would work better. Feel free to go to something else. I honestly thought this was dead.

Edit: Since you mentioned you can do DS games, maybe a Phoenix Wright game would work better?

Which one? I have all of the released ones on the emulator.

[Vauron]

Iunno, I only played the first one. Roll a die?

[Fusionman]

OK. The RNG hates me. I got 4 which is Apollo Justice. Damn. See you guys when I make Apollo a real defense attorney.

[Fusionman]

Would you mind if I did this from Apollo's point of view?

[Token]

I have no... objections. http://i55.tinypic.com/28b632v.gif

[Fusionman]

http://i52.tinypic.com/24bkuu1.jpg
I'm Apollo Justice. This is my story.

http://i54.tinypic.com/k4vvog.jpg
My story begins with a Turnabout Trump.

((Note the normal scene that shows the murder will be skipped because Apollo did not see it himself.))

It's April 20th. The time is 9:37 AM at the Little Japan District Court. I'm panicked. My palms are sweating like a pig's. A male voice calls me. There's a slight German accent noticeable.

http://i55.tinypic.com/29vb993.jpg
Kristoph Gavin. My mentor. The best Defense Attorney in the district.

http://i56.tinypic.com/34owz1e.jpg
Oh no even he can see how tense I am! I lie, telling him I feel fine.

http://i51.tinypic.com/29nv5nr.jpg
My voice is squeaky!? He thinks I'm nervous over the fact that I'm already covering a homicide case.

I tell him the truth. I woke up early today to do my Chords of Steel workout. It was the only way I could copy the volume of Phoenix Wright himself.

Kristoph looks ashamed. I guess I would be too if someone like me was defending his best friend.

http://i54.tinypic.com/keaoow.jpg
If only Kristoph could have stayed an extra hour and we would have another witness.

Kristoph walks away to prepare our case. I don't know what would happen if he didn't help me for this. He tells me to meet our client

http://i56.tinypic.com/2nrn87b.jpg
This is my client. He looks familiar.

Next Time: We talk to our client and start the case! See you then!