Sorry for lack of updates here, I haven't had much to say. But just in case you haven't been paying attention, I've been livestreaming lately on Twitch. I just went through KH2FM recently again, beating all Data fights & Terra at LV1. I plan to stream KHReCoM next week as well (English version most likely!)
So if you're not Following me yet on Twitch, make an account (if you don't already have one) and do so to support me: http://www.twitch.tv/Bizkit047.
Friday, July 13, 2012
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Follow my Twitch Livestream!
I'm going to start getting into some livestreaming a little here and there. So follow me at http://www.twitch.tv/Bizkit047!
What will I stream? Could be anything. Right now I'm having fun doing SM64 70 star speed run stuff (haven't streamed one yet, will soon!), I can also stream Brawl, and maybe even KH stuff. Either way, follow the account if you want to keep track of when I go Live.
What will I stream? Could be anything. Right now I'm having fun doing SM64 70 star speed run stuff (haven't streamed one yet, will soon!), I can also stream Brawl, and maybe even KH stuff. Either way, follow the account if you want to keep track of when I go Live.
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Help Donate & Donation Livestream!
A smasher friend of ours had a terrible tragedy happen to him last week. Gunblade's home caught fire and eventually burned doing significant damage to his house. This video displays the damage done: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xlUiQnJ3c4
Gunblade needs help with donations to help him and his family get back on track. Insurance only covers so much. If you wish to donate, his Paypal is brendantriano@aol.com.
However, to raise even more money, Dmbrandon from the Smash community is going to be livestreaming a 24 hour playthrough of Diablo 3 on May 15th, starting at 3:00am Eastern! He already has tons of help with getting this going and even has a sponsorship on Twitch for it and even others! If you want to support it, join the Facebook page for it: https://www.facebook.com/events/133496273448809/
A direct link to his Twitch is here: http://www.twitch.tv/dmbrandon
Any help for this is appreciated. Gunblade is one of the nicest smashers I have met, and he deserves every penny for this! Even if you can't donate any money, following the event on Facebook and Twitch will help build support!
Friday, April 20, 2012
Possible new YT Channel?
Hey guys, testing out the new Blogger design by posting my interest in creating a new YT channel! I've recently bought a new Webcam, after not having one for the last few years. So now I may start doing vlog type videos where I just talk or discuss stuff going on. Not about my life, because who cares about that, but about Smash issues, or gaming issues maybe even, who knows, we'll see if I do create it. Stay tuned...
Monday, April 2, 2012
April Fools of 2012
Sadly I didn't play an April Fools prank in NE this year on YT. I just didn't have the time after just finishing my 1,600th video and being busy with other things. I did, however, have time to do another NE Power Ranking prank image.
New England Power Ranking Prank Image
So everyone sensible hates Bronies. They're stupid, annoying, probably sick in the head, and they're stupid. Also, they're stupid. So I figured I'd make a My Little Pony image to screw with New England PRs. Turns out everyone pretty much loved it or thought it was the actual real PRs and was okay with it. So...I dunno if...successful or not...
Either way, it was rather painful that I had to not only figure out what characters are on that show, but find out their names (thx to a MLP Wiki...sigh) and then proceed to Google Image pictures that might be better than the ones on the Wiki. By the way, NEVER Google Image MLP stuff without Safe Search on. Cannot unsee.
The only fun part of this was making the image itself. I'm not really too knowledgeable about Photoshop overall, and messing with stuff and trying to figure out how to make a decent image was fun, it's just a shame it had to be MLP. That was the painful part of it for me. I also did player write-ups for the PRs, but that's about it.
Here is a link to the image if you want to see it: http://i.imgur.com/Zw8I1.jpg
Other Websites Pranks
*GameFAQs*
As far as I can tell, boring and nothing other than a trick poll that has a secret option. Not new, and not funny. So unless I'm missing more, which I might be, Gamefaqs dropped the ball this year.
*Smashboards*
Another disappointment. I don't think anything happened here either. A joke ruleset was posted for Smash 64, but that's about it, and probably not tied directly to the site. Read it here: http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=320453
Sort of fake edit: Okay so Smashboards trolled me hard. As I was typing this up, I'm near the end, and guess what. April 2nd 12:00am, and Smashboards whips out The Slowpoke Forums. Yes, I laughed really hard. As far as content goes, there's not much. They changed the skin (ugh) to a blinding blue/purple theme, I guess to gather attention, which it does accomplish. The only other change seem to be 4 new News threads as a slow joke. Here are the threads:
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=320464
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=320462
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=320461
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=320460
You don't have to know Pokemon to get the joke behind this whole theme, unless you don't know what the word "slow" means. But thanks to this, Smashboards has indeed redeemed itself as being good at April Fools.
*Youtube*
...Yea. No surprise here, just another video button gimmick. This time it seems to add a button on the bottom of the player that simulates a DVD type menu where you can choose options such as "Scene Selection, Home, etc" They work with your video, though, and not anything pre-set to another video. Their content thing was probably a joke too, too lazy to go into that. Overall, pretty underwhelming from YT unless I'm missing more stuff that went on.
*Google*
I only heard this on the news, but apparently Google made a fake ad for their new idea of having Google race cars that drive themselves without a driver. Probably to sort of promote their idea of cars that sense their way and can drive themselves that they've been working on. Either way, it's a joke and was a pretty amusing one, since I'm sure many believed it.
*AllisBrawl*
It's hard to compare to last year, both had a lot of thought put into it and both were pretty funny. I really miss the Toonblade harassment from last year, but the changes this year were pretty amusing as well. The general list of changes that I've noticed are:
1. Username box on Banner moves around on Mouse Over. This was last years joke as well, and it makes trying to click on your username to go to profile, clicking for alerts, PMs, or friend requests annoying to do. There were ways to get it not to move, but most wouldn't bother.
2. Everyone able to recommend blogs. Something only Admins/Mods can do. Some users have stated "Why can't all users recommend blogs?", so Neal decided to make it so any user can recommend any blog (except their own). Most likely as an attempt at showing why this will never happen. Most blogs were spammed with recommends just for laughs. This one I thought was pretty funny.
3. Everyone has League of Legends avi. This one was a little underwhelming compared to the Pokemon avis from last year. The ratio of people that know Pokemon to LoL is just abysmal for LoL. So most didn't know who they were, or hated who they were. I wuold have just preferred Pokemon avis again or something most people could relate to.
4. LoL ladder added. This was kind of amusing, but I still was not really digging the LoL theme. Either way, to get a new badge Neal made, you had to make a 5 vs 5 team to get it. It was a little confusing, since you apparently needed to know LoL to know what kind of users to add. The ladder was fake, but Neal edited the score of the team he was on which happened to be the one I was on to have a 1-0 record, giving us 1st on the fake ladder.
5. Random loading skins per page & new pink skin. This one was kind of a jerk troll move. I HATE the skins on aib for the most part. Most of them are blinding, aside from Rising Sun, which is better than the original IMO. The new pink theme looked promising, though. I still would prefer Rising Sun, though. But the others made the constant changes ridiculous, Neal should have made it able to be toggled off for the day since the joke kind of wore off after the first few page loads. It also lagged the pages with loading until near the end of the day when Neal fixed it.
6. Swear words replaced with "flour". This was really funny to do. Instead of a swear filtering to "****", it filters into "flour". So saying "Fucking" would end up being "flouring". It restored back to "****" the next day, which makes a lot of blog posts during April 1st really kind of funny. Though on the other hand, having "flour" remain would have equally been as hilarious later on to users who maybe weren't here on April 1st.
7. All videos on aib replaced with a different video. It's exactly what it sounds like. Every video page on aib that links to a YT video was replaced with the same YT video of a "Guiles theme goes with everything" video. Kind of funny, easily missed this one myself as I don't often watch aib linked videos to YT.
8. Some trading card groups replaced with repeat cards. Stuff from last year repeated, such as all character cards are fox, all stage cards are Final Destination, items were blankish, etc.
9. Last, but maybe not least if I missed any, is user names changed to LoL titles. I don't know LoL, so I don't understand the titles, but basically it was just "username, LoL stuff". It made it pretty confusing to follow. Once again, didn't dig the full LoL theme going on, user names from last year were much funnier to me.
Overall, still really well done and lots of effort put into it clearly. I feel like Neal's blatant love for LoL made him choose a theme most don't really know much or anything about. But the non-LoL related stuff was pretty funny that wasn't re-used from last year.
TV???
Yea, one last thing. Toonami. If you haven't heard, you must not be on any social media sites. Adult Swim aired Toonami as their April Fools joke. Just in case you're out of the loop on Toonami in general, it was one of the greatest things to ever happen to Cartoon Network. It consisted of a bunch of animes when Toonami would run, all of which were generally entertaining (until it got into Naurto and other garbage). So CN killed it, even though people still loved it. So AS brings it back for the night replaying the really old series it had, such as DBZ, Gundam, YYH, and more.
I heard from a friend that Adult Swim aired the new ep of Bleach first at midnight like it always is, but then had The Room movie play next. If you're unaware, The Room was their April Fools prank from the last two years (it's considered the best worst movie to most). But they apparently cut off the movie 5 minutes in into a surprise Toonami DBZ episode. And so began the epic Toonami night. It also featured Tom, old Tom too. It also had some of the old commercials and promos for the shows as well. It was just a great night overall.
It's hard to say whether or not Adult Swim is serious about bringing Toonami back. Here's an idea of how successful the night went. Reportedly, a regular Saturday night ratings for AS is around 140,000. This night had over 4 million ratings. That should be a red flag that people want Toonami back, if even it's on Adult Swim Saturdays. Online social medias exploded over this, it was huge. Adult Swim clearly must know what's going on and might have Toonami planned. Steve Blum, who is the voice of Tom had his Twitter up all night supporting bringing this back, showing us he's on our side. Will Adult Swim (CN) listen? We'll find out next week, as the end of AS on April 1st had Tom say "Next week on Toonami..." sort of phrase.
That's about it for this years April Fools. Who did well this year for me? Adult Swim knocked it out of the park. It could all be a cruel joke to get our hopes up, or the greatest April Fools leading into the greatest return ever. Maybe I'm a little biased, I sort of grew up with original Toonami. But Toonami was amazing. Youtube and GameFAQs blew it as far as I can see, not really taking advantage of anything to get hype or interest in their jokes. Just resorting to the old boring tricks from last year. AllisBrawl did a good job overall with lots of noticeable effort, but the LoL theme made it a step down from last year IMO, although so many things were changed that some of the new ones were better this year than last year. Smashboards did pretty well also after fooling us all day into thinking they were going to change something but then whipping out The Slowpoke Forums April 2nd.
New England Power Ranking Prank Image
So everyone sensible hates Bronies. They're stupid, annoying, probably sick in the head, and they're stupid. Also, they're stupid. So I figured I'd make a My Little Pony image to screw with New England PRs. Turns out everyone pretty much loved it or thought it was the actual real PRs and was okay with it. So...I dunno if...successful or not...
Either way, it was rather painful that I had to not only figure out what characters are on that show, but find out their names (thx to a MLP Wiki...sigh) and then proceed to Google Image pictures that might be better than the ones on the Wiki. By the way, NEVER Google Image MLP stuff without Safe Search on. Cannot unsee.
The only fun part of this was making the image itself. I'm not really too knowledgeable about Photoshop overall, and messing with stuff and trying to figure out how to make a decent image was fun, it's just a shame it had to be MLP. That was the painful part of it for me. I also did player write-ups for the PRs, but that's about it.
Here is a link to the image if you want to see it: http://i.imgur.com/Zw8I1.jpg
Other Websites Pranks
*GameFAQs*
As far as I can tell, boring and nothing other than a trick poll that has a secret option. Not new, and not funny. So unless I'm missing more, which I might be, Gamefaqs dropped the ball this year.
*Smashboards*
Another disappointment. I don't think anything happened here either. A joke ruleset was posted for Smash 64, but that's about it, and probably not tied directly to the site. Read it here: http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=320453
Sort of fake edit: Okay so Smashboards trolled me hard. As I was typing this up, I'm near the end, and guess what. April 2nd 12:00am, and Smashboards whips out The Slowpoke Forums. Yes, I laughed really hard. As far as content goes, there's not much. They changed the skin (ugh) to a blinding blue/purple theme, I guess to gather attention, which it does accomplish. The only other change seem to be 4 new News threads as a slow joke. Here are the threads:
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=320464
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=320462
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=320461
http://www.smashboards.com/showthread.php?t=320460
You don't have to know Pokemon to get the joke behind this whole theme, unless you don't know what the word "slow" means. But thanks to this, Smashboards has indeed redeemed itself as being good at April Fools.
*Youtube*
...Yea. No surprise here, just another video button gimmick. This time it seems to add a button on the bottom of the player that simulates a DVD type menu where you can choose options such as "Scene Selection, Home, etc" They work with your video, though, and not anything pre-set to another video. Their content thing was probably a joke too, too lazy to go into that. Overall, pretty underwhelming from YT unless I'm missing more stuff that went on.
*Google*
I only heard this on the news, but apparently Google made a fake ad for their new idea of having Google race cars that drive themselves without a driver. Probably to sort of promote their idea of cars that sense their way and can drive themselves that they've been working on. Either way, it's a joke and was a pretty amusing one, since I'm sure many believed it.
*AllisBrawl*
It's hard to compare to last year, both had a lot of thought put into it and both were pretty funny. I really miss the Toonblade harassment from last year, but the changes this year were pretty amusing as well. The general list of changes that I've noticed are:
1. Username box on Banner moves around on Mouse Over. This was last years joke as well, and it makes trying to click on your username to go to profile, clicking for alerts, PMs, or friend requests annoying to do. There were ways to get it not to move, but most wouldn't bother.
2. Everyone able to recommend blogs. Something only Admins/Mods can do. Some users have stated "Why can't all users recommend blogs?", so Neal decided to make it so any user can recommend any blog (except their own). Most likely as an attempt at showing why this will never happen. Most blogs were spammed with recommends just for laughs. This one I thought was pretty funny.
3. Everyone has League of Legends avi. This one was a little underwhelming compared to the Pokemon avis from last year. The ratio of people that know Pokemon to LoL is just abysmal for LoL. So most didn't know who they were, or hated who they were. I wuold have just preferred Pokemon avis again or something most people could relate to.
4. LoL ladder added. This was kind of amusing, but I still was not really digging the LoL theme. Either way, to get a new badge Neal made, you had to make a 5 vs 5 team to get it. It was a little confusing, since you apparently needed to know LoL to know what kind of users to add. The ladder was fake, but Neal edited the score of the team he was on which happened to be the one I was on to have a 1-0 record, giving us 1st on the fake ladder.
5. Random loading skins per page & new pink skin. This one was kind of a jerk troll move. I HATE the skins on aib for the most part. Most of them are blinding, aside from Rising Sun, which is better than the original IMO. The new pink theme looked promising, though. I still would prefer Rising Sun, though. But the others made the constant changes ridiculous, Neal should have made it able to be toggled off for the day since the joke kind of wore off after the first few page loads. It also lagged the pages with loading until near the end of the day when Neal fixed it.
6. Swear words replaced with "flour". This was really funny to do. Instead of a swear filtering to "****", it filters into "flour". So saying "Fucking" would end up being "flouring". It restored back to "****" the next day, which makes a lot of blog posts during April 1st really kind of funny. Though on the other hand, having "flour" remain would have equally been as hilarious later on to users who maybe weren't here on April 1st.
7. All videos on aib replaced with a different video. It's exactly what it sounds like. Every video page on aib that links to a YT video was replaced with the same YT video of a "Guiles theme goes with everything" video. Kind of funny, easily missed this one myself as I don't often watch aib linked videos to YT.
8. Some trading card groups replaced with repeat cards. Stuff from last year repeated, such as all character cards are fox, all stage cards are Final Destination, items were blankish, etc.
9. Last, but maybe not least if I missed any, is user names changed to LoL titles. I don't know LoL, so I don't understand the titles, but basically it was just "username, LoL stuff". It made it pretty confusing to follow. Once again, didn't dig the full LoL theme going on, user names from last year were much funnier to me.
Overall, still really well done and lots of effort put into it clearly. I feel like Neal's blatant love for LoL made him choose a theme most don't really know much or anything about. But the non-LoL related stuff was pretty funny that wasn't re-used from last year.
TV???
Yea, one last thing. Toonami. If you haven't heard, you must not be on any social media sites. Adult Swim aired Toonami as their April Fools joke. Just in case you're out of the loop on Toonami in general, it was one of the greatest things to ever happen to Cartoon Network. It consisted of a bunch of animes when Toonami would run, all of which were generally entertaining (until it got into Naurto and other garbage). So CN killed it, even though people still loved it. So AS brings it back for the night replaying the really old series it had, such as DBZ, Gundam, YYH, and more.
I heard from a friend that Adult Swim aired the new ep of Bleach first at midnight like it always is, but then had The Room movie play next. If you're unaware, The Room was their April Fools prank from the last two years (it's considered the best worst movie to most). But they apparently cut off the movie 5 minutes in into a surprise Toonami DBZ episode. And so began the epic Toonami night. It also featured Tom, old Tom too. It also had some of the old commercials and promos for the shows as well. It was just a great night overall.
It's hard to say whether or not Adult Swim is serious about bringing Toonami back. Here's an idea of how successful the night went. Reportedly, a regular Saturday night ratings for AS is around 140,000. This night had over 4 million ratings. That should be a red flag that people want Toonami back, if even it's on Adult Swim Saturdays. Online social medias exploded over this, it was huge. Adult Swim clearly must know what's going on and might have Toonami planned. Steve Blum, who is the voice of Tom had his Twitter up all night supporting bringing this back, showing us he's on our side. Will Adult Swim (CN) listen? We'll find out next week, as the end of AS on April 1st had Tom say "Next week on Toonami..." sort of phrase.
That's about it for this years April Fools. Who did well this year for me? Adult Swim knocked it out of the park. It could all be a cruel joke to get our hopes up, or the greatest April Fools leading into the greatest return ever. Maybe I'm a little biased, I sort of grew up with original Toonami. But Toonami was amazing. Youtube and GameFAQs blew it as far as I can see, not really taking advantage of anything to get hype or interest in their jokes. Just resorting to the old boring tricks from last year. AllisBrawl did a good job overall with lots of noticeable effort, but the LoL theme made it a step down from last year IMO, although so many things were changed that some of the new ones were better this year than last year. Smashboards did pretty well also after fooling us all day into thinking they were going to change something but then whipping out The Slowpoke Forums April 2nd.
Thursday, March 8, 2012
Video Stealer Gets Mad For Getting Caught
Yes, you've read the title right. Every once in a while a nice YT user will comment on a video or message me saying someone stole one of my videos and link me to it. This has happened about 3-4 times now. I don't know WHY people steal my videos, but they do. And I get them taken down for Copyright.
So anyway, this kid stole my video and put it on his channel. The funniest part was probably that he completely changed the description to make it sound like he's playing. So I comment on the video warning him to remove the video within 24 hours or else I would report it for Copyright, because I'm a nice guy. 24 hours later, nothing removed. Regardless of why, I report it and it gets taken down within 1 minute, surprisingly somehow. Here is the link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byzsYTIltac
Our friend gets mad and leaves me two rage comments:
Yes, you're reading that right. He's angry, furious with rage that I got his stolen video taken down. How dare I get him a 2nd Copyright Strike for stealing a video. Stealing a video should be okay. The problem here is that he is upset that I didn't give him enough warning. As if he has some kind of right to steal the video and get fairly warned for stealing it to take it down before getting some kind of consequence. I ignored his threat at the end, since there's absolutely nothing he can do to get me a strike, as I obviously did not steal any videos from him or post all over his Channel like a lunatic.
So he's 1 Copyright Strike away from being banned from Youtube. I tried to leave him a clever comment, but he blocked me, which wasn't too surprising. I decided to see if YT had a way to report someone for harassment. It turns out they do. Personally, I'm unaffected by it, but I think it would be absolutely hilarious if between the Copyright Strikes and this, he would get banned anyway. Not only that, but who knows what other videos he probably stolen from others without even so much as crediting them. So I sent a complaint via YT's surprisingly amazing harassment form that figured out exactly what I was reporting without me having to do anything, with hopes that YT may be smart enough to make an obvious decision of "hmm, this guy steals videos and will verbally harass whoever reports the stolen videos for Copyright...sounds like he should be banned." . As it warned, the comments were deleted almost immediately after I submitted it, so I took a screenshot knowing this.
Moral of the story: Don't steal videos. Now before you get all bent out of shape over this, I've let people use my content before. Some users have messaged me asking "Hey, can I use this part from your video for some video I'm making?" I always reply the same, with something similar to this: "Yes, as long as you give me credit in the description" and sometimes mention to link to my channel or the original video or something along those lines. I'm fine with it, as long as I get credit. However, uploading my entire videos are not okay. If I say it's okay, then it is, but otherwise assume no and that it'll be taken down. I consider using parts of it Fair Use, even though that means jack shit on YT, I follow it personally. Oh, and big thanks to the users who actually go through the trouble of letting me know when someone steals my videos!
So anyway, this kid stole my video and put it on his channel. The funniest part was probably that he completely changed the description to make it sound like he's playing. So I comment on the video warning him to remove the video within 24 hours or else I would report it for Copyright, because I'm a nice guy. 24 hours later, nothing removed. Regardless of why, I report it and it gets taken down within 1 minute, surprisingly somehow. Here is the link to the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byzsYTIltac
Our friend gets mad and leaves me two rage comments:
Yes, you're reading that right. He's angry, furious with rage that I got his stolen video taken down. How dare I get him a 2nd Copyright Strike for stealing a video. Stealing a video should be okay. The problem here is that he is upset that I didn't give him enough warning. As if he has some kind of right to steal the video and get fairly warned for stealing it to take it down before getting some kind of consequence. I ignored his threat at the end, since there's absolutely nothing he can do to get me a strike, as I obviously did not steal any videos from him or post all over his Channel like a lunatic.
So he's 1 Copyright Strike away from being banned from Youtube. I tried to leave him a clever comment, but he blocked me, which wasn't too surprising. I decided to see if YT had a way to report someone for harassment. It turns out they do. Personally, I'm unaffected by it, but I think it would be absolutely hilarious if between the Copyright Strikes and this, he would get banned anyway. Not only that, but who knows what other videos he probably stolen from others without even so much as crediting them. So I sent a complaint via YT's surprisingly amazing harassment form that figured out exactly what I was reporting without me having to do anything, with hopes that YT may be smart enough to make an obvious decision of "hmm, this guy steals videos and will verbally harass whoever reports the stolen videos for Copyright...sounds like he should be banned." . As it warned, the comments were deleted almost immediately after I submitted it, so I took a screenshot knowing this.
Moral of the story: Don't steal videos. Now before you get all bent out of shape over this, I've let people use my content before. Some users have messaged me asking "Hey, can I use this part from your video for some video I'm making?" I always reply the same, with something similar to this: "Yes, as long as you give me credit in the description" and sometimes mention to link to my channel or the original video or something along those lines. I'm fine with it, as long as I get credit. However, uploading my entire videos are not okay. If I say it's okay, then it is, but otherwise assume no and that it'll be taken down. I consider using parts of it Fair Use, even though that means jack shit on YT, I follow it personally. Oh, and big thanks to the users who actually go through the trouble of letting me know when someone steals my videos!
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Upcoming Stuff
I was really thinking about streaming Thursday, but I'm probably going to put it off some more to get things done, as I got to start putting together my 1,600th video. What is it? It's Brawl related...but no, it's not another Silly Brawl Moments. You'll have to wait and see what it is.
Anyway, as I finish up these DNA #20 videos this week, I plan to start up a new series next week. Then I'll be doing more tourney videos in between them along with probably more KHBBS hacked fights. Again, the "new" series is an old game, but still worth uploading for whomever has never heard of or played the game.
So in summary: More Brawl tourney vids, more KHBBS Hacked Fights, and new series. Stream will not be this week.
Anyway, as I finish up these DNA #20 videos this week, I plan to start up a new series next week. Then I'll be doing more tourney videos in between them along with probably more KHBBS hacked fights. Again, the "new" series is an old game, but still worth uploading for whomever has never heard of or played the game.
So in summary: More Brawl tourney vids, more KHBBS Hacked Fights, and new series. Stream will not be this week.
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Stream Again?
I've wanted to stream again since the first time, but haven't really had time lately. If I come up with a good day next week or the week after, I'll do it again. Probably only Brawl for now until I find more time. Just keeping you guys updated.
As for videos, got Brawl stuff to upload and then a new series planned for an older game (1998 to be exact). Start the guessing games.
As for videos, got Brawl stuff to upload and then a new series planned for an older game (1998 to be exact). Start the guessing games.
Friday, January 27, 2012
Sonic Generations - Time Eater (Final Boss) Guide
Video of Time Eater: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgoE8TjqmsU
This Blog will explain how to take on Time Eater. I'll explain all his moves, how to hit him, and some of the lesser known tricks to this fight.
How to Damage Time Eater
First of all, to take out Time Eater, you have to hit is Orb 3 times. To do this, you have to Boost into the core. Easier said than done. You only have to hold down Boost, you don't have to mash it like some people think. You have to be somewhat centered on Time Eater to reach him. You have to be in Modern Sonic dimension to hit Time Eater (to my knowledge).
When you get close to Time Eater, he'll do a crush move. Avoid it by going up to the height of the head, and then after the move quickly descend while still Boosting and ram into the core. For some reason, it's possible to bypass the crush move sometimes. It's rare, but I did it twice in this fight. Don't rely on it.
Time Eater Attacks
This game does not really make it clear, but there is a heavy reliance on the ability to switch Sonics. What most people don't realize is that the only way Time Eater will generally be able to hit you is if you're in the same "dimension" as him, as I'll refer to it. There is both a Modern and Classic dimension. Time Eater will constantly go back and forth between them. If he does moves in the Classic dimension, then you can't get hit by them int he Modern dimension, and vice versa. Use this to dodge all the moves, or at least most. The downside is switching often makes it harder to get close enough to the Time Eater fast when he's int he Modern dimension to hit his orb.
Your friends will try to tell you what to do constantly. While sometimes they may be wrong with "switch now" and such, you should listen to them because they tell you when the Time Eater will attack, and what attack he'll do. It's extremely helpful when dodging the Laser.
*PHASE 1*
Homing Attack
Description: The Time Eater sends out multiple yellow homing bullets at once that track you.
How to Dodge: Move around slowly in a circle to avoid it easily. Just moving at all will dodge it, but make sure on Hard Mode that you don't trap yourself with the extra bullets. Switching Sonics should also avoid this.
Notes: If you switch Sonics to avoid the move, keep in mind you only need to switch if the Time Eater does the move in your same dimension, otherwise the move will be really easy to avoid anyway.
This is the Time Eater's most used attack. On Hard Mode, you'll see this a lot.
Warping Arm Attack
Description: The Time Eater sends an arm through a warp to hit you.
How to Dodge: This ones a little tricky to dodge. You'll want to fly as far away from the arms potential path as possible. It usually does a swiping motion, so if it's all the way at the top, it'll probably reach down. If you don't think you'll avoid it, switch Sonics and the move will not ever hit you.
Notes: As noted with Homing Attack, if you switch Sonics to avoid the move, make sure you switch into the dimension that the Warping Arm is not in, or you may switch right into it!
Crush
Description: The Time Eater uses a Crush move when you get too close to him.
How to Dodge: Simply hover above him near the head level to avoid this. Then immediately go back down while in Boost to hit the Orb.
Notes: He uses this always when you approach him close enough. Rare occasions it'll glitch and you'll just go into the Orb. This may be due to him not doing the Crush move if he's in the middle of one of his other moves, so if you're too close already you may just glitch into the Orb anyway. (At least I think it's a glitch).
*PHASE 2*
Laser
Description: The Time Eater charges and releases a laser on you.
How to Dodge: A lot of people have trouble dodging this, but it's really easy if you use the same idea from the moves above. Switch Sonics to avoid it! It's that simple. I don't think it's possible to dodge if you stay in the same dimension as it.
Notes: Time Eater will only use this move in the last phase. This move comes out fast, so you'll have to listen to your friends warn you or watch him charge up. It also makes it hard to Boost at him when you have to switch to avoid the laser when he uses it in Modern Sonic's dimension.
Slow
Description: Time Eater slows time on all his surrounds except for himself.
How to Dodge: This move appears to do nothing but freak you out. The move ends after a certain amount of time. I've never been damaged by it. Even though Time Eater is unaffected by it, he just spams Homing Attacks that probably won't hit you before the move ends.
Notes: This move tends to be followed up with the Laser, so beware!
Explosion
Description: This is his desperation attack he uses on the very last part of Phase 2. He charges up a giant energy ball to send towards you.
How to Dodge: Simply hold L1 + R1 at the same time, as a friend will tell you to do.
Notes: Do not let go of L1 + R1 too soon, or you'll get hit. It's best if you just wait until the cutscene starts.
How To Survive
Since the Time Eater does not damage you when you get hit, you're probably wondering how you can die. As usual, being Super Sonic consumes your ring usage. When you hit 000 rings, you die. Many people have trouble gathering rings in this fight, but it's actually rather easy if you know the layout.
To stay alive, at the very beginning of the fight, use Boost immediately on the rings. If you don't know, Boosting past rings makes them follow you until you get them. So every time you find a row of rings, Boost past them and you'll pick up more than if you didn't.
Whenever you hit the Time Eater's Orb, he'll drop a ton of rings, so Boost right after again to pick up as many as you can. However, before warping into the next part, let go of Boost so you can align yourself with the incoming rings and THEN Boost through them as straight as possible to get as many rings as possible.
In Classic Sonic's dimension, it's really easy to pick up rings as they're really easy to pick up in a 2D view. So switch sometimes to that dimension to get more rings.
Using these tips will help you stay alive in this fight long enough, because sometimes, especially on Hard Mode, you may have trouble reaching Time Eater.
Summary & Tips
Catch Touch This Trophy
To get this trophy, you have to beat Time Eater without getting hit. This is very vague and it's hard to know when the Time Eater actually hits you or if it's just debris, as debris does NOT count as a hit.
Really to get this trophy just make use of Sonic switching to avoid all hits. You CAN get this trophy on Hard Mode instead of Normal Mode, but I only did it for video purposes, don't do it if you're sane.
This Blog will explain how to take on Time Eater. I'll explain all his moves, how to hit him, and some of the lesser known tricks to this fight.
How to Damage Time Eater
First of all, to take out Time Eater, you have to hit is Orb 3 times. To do this, you have to Boost into the core. Easier said than done. You only have to hold down Boost, you don't have to mash it like some people think. You have to be somewhat centered on Time Eater to reach him. You have to be in Modern Sonic dimension to hit Time Eater (to my knowledge).
When you get close to Time Eater, he'll do a crush move. Avoid it by going up to the height of the head, and then after the move quickly descend while still Boosting and ram into the core. For some reason, it's possible to bypass the crush move sometimes. It's rare, but I did it twice in this fight. Don't rely on it.
Time Eater Attacks
This game does not really make it clear, but there is a heavy reliance on the ability to switch Sonics. What most people don't realize is that the only way Time Eater will generally be able to hit you is if you're in the same "dimension" as him, as I'll refer to it. There is both a Modern and Classic dimension. Time Eater will constantly go back and forth between them. If he does moves in the Classic dimension, then you can't get hit by them int he Modern dimension, and vice versa. Use this to dodge all the moves, or at least most. The downside is switching often makes it harder to get close enough to the Time Eater fast when he's int he Modern dimension to hit his orb.
Your friends will try to tell you what to do constantly. While sometimes they may be wrong with "switch now" and such, you should listen to them because they tell you when the Time Eater will attack, and what attack he'll do. It's extremely helpful when dodging the Laser.
*PHASE 1*
Homing Attack
Description: The Time Eater sends out multiple yellow homing bullets at once that track you.
How to Dodge: Move around slowly in a circle to avoid it easily. Just moving at all will dodge it, but make sure on Hard Mode that you don't trap yourself with the extra bullets. Switching Sonics should also avoid this.
Notes: If you switch Sonics to avoid the move, keep in mind you only need to switch if the Time Eater does the move in your same dimension, otherwise the move will be really easy to avoid anyway.
This is the Time Eater's most used attack. On Hard Mode, you'll see this a lot.
Warping Arm Attack
Description: The Time Eater sends an arm through a warp to hit you.
How to Dodge: This ones a little tricky to dodge. You'll want to fly as far away from the arms potential path as possible. It usually does a swiping motion, so if it's all the way at the top, it'll probably reach down. If you don't think you'll avoid it, switch Sonics and the move will not ever hit you.
Notes: As noted with Homing Attack, if you switch Sonics to avoid the move, make sure you switch into the dimension that the Warping Arm is not in, or you may switch right into it!
Crush
Description: The Time Eater uses a Crush move when you get too close to him.
How to Dodge: Simply hover above him near the head level to avoid this. Then immediately go back down while in Boost to hit the Orb.
Notes: He uses this always when you approach him close enough. Rare occasions it'll glitch and you'll just go into the Orb. This may be due to him not doing the Crush move if he's in the middle of one of his other moves, so if you're too close already you may just glitch into the Orb anyway. (At least I think it's a glitch).
*PHASE 2*
Laser
Description: The Time Eater charges and releases a laser on you.
How to Dodge: A lot of people have trouble dodging this, but it's really easy if you use the same idea from the moves above. Switch Sonics to avoid it! It's that simple. I don't think it's possible to dodge if you stay in the same dimension as it.
Notes: Time Eater will only use this move in the last phase. This move comes out fast, so you'll have to listen to your friends warn you or watch him charge up. It also makes it hard to Boost at him when you have to switch to avoid the laser when he uses it in Modern Sonic's dimension.
Slow
Description: Time Eater slows time on all his surrounds except for himself.
How to Dodge: This move appears to do nothing but freak you out. The move ends after a certain amount of time. I've never been damaged by it. Even though Time Eater is unaffected by it, he just spams Homing Attacks that probably won't hit you before the move ends.
Notes: This move tends to be followed up with the Laser, so beware!
Explosion
Description: This is his desperation attack he uses on the very last part of Phase 2. He charges up a giant energy ball to send towards you.
How to Dodge: Simply hold L1 + R1 at the same time, as a friend will tell you to do.
Notes: Do not let go of L1 + R1 too soon, or you'll get hit. It's best if you just wait until the cutscene starts.
How To Survive
Since the Time Eater does not damage you when you get hit, you're probably wondering how you can die. As usual, being Super Sonic consumes your ring usage. When you hit 000 rings, you die. Many people have trouble gathering rings in this fight, but it's actually rather easy if you know the layout.
To stay alive, at the very beginning of the fight, use Boost immediately on the rings. If you don't know, Boosting past rings makes them follow you until you get them. So every time you find a row of rings, Boost past them and you'll pick up more than if you didn't.
Whenever you hit the Time Eater's Orb, he'll drop a ton of rings, so Boost right after again to pick up as many as you can. However, before warping into the next part, let go of Boost so you can align yourself with the incoming rings and THEN Boost through them as straight as possible to get as many rings as possible.
In Classic Sonic's dimension, it's really easy to pick up rings as they're really easy to pick up in a 2D view. So switch sometimes to that dimension to get more rings.
Using these tips will help you stay alive in this fight long enough, because sometimes, especially on Hard Mode, you may have trouble reaching Time Eater.
Summary & Tips
- Always be in Boost except when you want to align yourself to pick up rings.
- If you use X, you can send the Sonic you're not using to destroy nearby Debris. It's almost useless, but worth noting. Also be aware that you cannot switch Sonics while using this move.
- Remember that Boosting past rings makes them follow you.
- Try to stay centered on Time Eater in Modern Sonic dimension to get to him faster.
- The laser move can only be avoided by switching Sonics.
Catch Touch This Trophy
To get this trophy, you have to beat Time Eater without getting hit. This is very vague and it's hard to know when the Time Eater actually hits you or if it's just debris, as debris does NOT count as a hit.
Really to get this trophy just make use of Sonic switching to avoid all hits. You CAN get this trophy on Hard Mode instead of Normal Mode, but I only did it for video purposes, don't do it if you're sane.
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Stream Tonight?
I'm most likely going to stream tonight for the first time in a long time. If it goes well, I'll schedule more streaming dates. I plan to stream playing Brawl wifi matches with random players who join the stream.
It'll be around 9:00pm eastern, I'll upload a video before then for when it'll start.
Livestream link: http:///www.twitch.tv/Bizkit047
It'll be around 9:00pm eastern, I'll upload a video before then for when it'll start.
Livestream link: http:///www.twitch.tv/Bizkit047
Friday, January 6, 2012
Apex 2012
I'm going to be at Apex 2012 Saturday & Sunday. So I won't have another video up until either Monday or Tuesday depending on how much sleep I'll need after I likely near sleepless weekend I'll be having.
Follow the stream here: http://www.apexsmash.com/stream/
Today is Melee, Saturday is Brawl, Sunday is top 8 of Brawl & Melee. Don't get too excited, I doubt you'll see me on stream at any point, but there will still be tons of top players from all over the world. We got Nietono, Kakera, Otori, Rain, Brood, Ocean, and more from Japan. We have Mr. R and Leon from Europe, of course Ally from Canada, and vVv Zero from Chile.
You can also follow my Twitter: www.twitter.com/Bizkit047
I'll be doing updates mostly for New England players only, although there's so many of us going I might forget.
Follow the stream here: http://www.apexsmash.com/stream/
Today is Melee, Saturday is Brawl, Sunday is top 8 of Brawl & Melee. Don't get too excited, I doubt you'll see me on stream at any point, but there will still be tons of top players from all over the world. We got Nietono, Kakera, Otori, Rain, Brood, Ocean, and more from Japan. We have Mr. R and Leon from Europe, of course Ally from Canada, and vVv Zero from Chile.
You can also follow my Twitter: www.twitter.com/Bizkit047
I'll be doing updates mostly for New England players only, although there's so many of us going I might forget.
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Streaming?
I've thought about streaming again recently. Not like how I used to where it was nearly every day, but maybe schedule one every once in a while, maybe every other week. However, I need to get it set up. Last time I tried I had some problems with the audio not being good enough for my liking and such, so we'll see what I can do.
Monday, December 19, 2011
New Video Series Tomorrow & FFXIII-2???
Hey guys, just letting you know what's up. Now that my FFIX series is over, I'm starting another series tomorrow. It's not FF, though. Or Kingdom Hearts. Or Brawl. WHAT IS IT!? You'll see. I only very recently planned to upload it, but I think you guys will like it. It isn't the same series I intended to start after FFIX as I stated in my 1,500th video special, but I put that on hold for this instead.
As for FFXIII-2, it came out in Japan on the 15th. I don't intend to get a Japanese copy. I don't even know if I'll get it when it comes out in the states. I might wait, because I'm really skeptical on how good it will be. SquareEnix does not have a good track record with making sequels to FF games (FFX-2...). And the OST that I've heard so far for the game has been either downright insulting or just bland, save maybe a couple songs. In other words, I'm not too hyped about it. FFXIII Versus, on the other hand....when that comes out I'm all over that.
As for FFXIII-2, it came out in Japan on the 15th. I don't intend to get a Japanese copy. I don't even know if I'll get it when it comes out in the states. I might wait, because I'm really skeptical on how good it will be. SquareEnix does not have a good track record with making sequels to FF games (FFX-2...). And the OST that I've heard so far for the game has been either downright insulting or just bland, save maybe a couple songs. In other words, I'm not too hyped about it. FFXIII Versus, on the other hand....when that comes out I'm all over that.
Saturday, December 10, 2011
Youtube's New Update
So Youtube updated its site, once again, last week. Just when you thought YT couldn't be designed any more stupid, they go out of their way to prove you wrong. They re-designed virtually everything, even though the Home Page and Channels Pages stick out most.
Let's start with the Home Page. Oh boy, where to begin..for starters, WHAT THE FUCK DID THEY DO TO THE HOME PAGE!? Like seriously, before the update the Home Page was set up so that every person you're subbed to shows up on the Home Page when they upload a new video. You're probably thinking "Well hey, they do that now too!" Well the difference is...they displayed them horizontally. What you see now is a vertical list...well forget calling it a list, might as well call it a cluster fuck of seemingly random videos.
I can't help but feel like YT is trying to be like Facebook with the status updates. Just because it works for Facebook does NOT mean it works for fucking Youtube. The absolute WORST part about this update is the inability to close out of the videos on the Home Page after viewing them. Yes, thanks for taking away that feature YT. Now we're stuck with 9000 fucking videos on the front page and have to watch the videos immediately when they come out or they get buried in the giant stack of nonsense you call a video list.
As for the Channel pages? Good god, it's like they purposely wanted to suck the creativity out of them. They're replacing them with bland grey/white boxing. So if you spent hours working on a channel design to make your channel look unique and exciting...then you're out of luck. You can still keep the background image, but it will likely look out of place and stupid with the bland boxing. They haven't force updated the channels, but they will soon.
That's about it. It's sad that no one at YT appears to be smart enough to design a reasonable Home Page. I wonder if they ever see the feedback they get on their YT re-design videos. It's nearly all negative comments and thumbs downed videos.
Let's start with the Home Page. Oh boy, where to begin..for starters, WHAT THE FUCK DID THEY DO TO THE HOME PAGE!? Like seriously, before the update the Home Page was set up so that every person you're subbed to shows up on the Home Page when they upload a new video. You're probably thinking "Well hey, they do that now too!" Well the difference is...they displayed them horizontally. What you see now is a vertical list...well forget calling it a list, might as well call it a cluster fuck of seemingly random videos.
I can't help but feel like YT is trying to be like Facebook with the status updates. Just because it works for Facebook does NOT mean it works for fucking Youtube. The absolute WORST part about this update is the inability to close out of the videos on the Home Page after viewing them. Yes, thanks for taking away that feature YT. Now we're stuck with 9000 fucking videos on the front page and have to watch the videos immediately when they come out or they get buried in the giant stack of nonsense you call a video list.
As for the Channel pages? Good god, it's like they purposely wanted to suck the creativity out of them. They're replacing them with bland grey/white boxing. So if you spent hours working on a channel design to make your channel look unique and exciting...then you're out of luck. You can still keep the background image, but it will likely look out of place and stupid with the bland boxing. They haven't force updated the channels, but they will soon.
That's about it. It's sad that no one at YT appears to be smart enough to design a reasonable Home Page. I wonder if they ever see the feedback they get on their YT re-design videos. It's nearly all negative comments and thumbs downed videos.
Monday, November 21, 2011
1,500th Video & Donations!
View my 1,500th Video Special here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TOaiVUtCfo
As for donations, like I said in the video, you're welcome to donate to me now to support my channel. Click the button below to donate to me on Paypal, or just send it to my Paypal directly at Bizkit047@yahoo.com.
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As for donations, like I said in the video, you're welcome to donate to me now to support my channel. Click the button below to donate to me on Paypal, or just send it to my Paypal directly at Bizkit047@yahoo.com.
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Friday, November 18, 2011
1500th Video Special
My 1,500th Video Special...Is NOT going to be Brawl related! I know, shocking. What is it going to be then? You'll have to wait to see. This is assuming it comes out the way I want it to. I'm trying to make this pretty epic. It's not a super awesome long bunch of stuff like I usually do, but it should definitely be entertaining for the people who will care about it.
I plan to release it as my Monday video, unless I fall behind on schedule, in which case I may push it back a couple days. Just letting you know it's coming.
I plan to release it as my Monday video, unless I fall behind on schedule, in which case I may push it back a couple days. Just letting you know it's coming.
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Tourney in Wallingford, CT
Hey guys, if any of you are in the New England region or in CT especially and play MW3, check out their tourney this Saturday (November 19th): http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=241674559227858
It's at the venue I normally hold my Brawl tourneys at, so it's legit!
It's at the venue I normally hold my Brawl tourneys at, so it's legit!
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Upcoming Videos?
If you've been following my channel, you'll have noticed that I'm nearing the end of SSE (Brawl). What's next, you ask? What, you didn't ask? Well I'm going to tell you anyway! Maybe not exactly what's coming up, but some stuff.
I DO have more tourney videos to upload. However, going from so many SSE videos all in a row into tourney videos would be a bit much. So instead, I'm likely going to start off my new video series first. Then after that gets started off, I'll do some tourney videos. By then, I'll have hit my 1,500th video.
After my 1,500th video, I'll have some more tourney matches to upload as well as finishing off the new video series that's coming next week. I have even bigger plans for a new game series to join in, one that I have not ever uploaded anything from before. What is it? It's super secret, no one knows as of right now. And I will keep it that way for a while. Stay tuned!
I DO have more tourney videos to upload. However, going from so many SSE videos all in a row into tourney videos would be a bit much. So instead, I'm likely going to start off my new video series first. Then after that gets started off, I'll do some tourney videos. By then, I'll have hit my 1,500th video.
After my 1,500th video, I'll have some more tourney matches to upload as well as finishing off the new video series that's coming next week. I have even bigger plans for a new game series to join in, one that I have not ever uploaded anything from before. What is it? It's super secret, no one knows as of right now. And I will keep it that way for a while. Stay tuned!
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Sonic Adventure 2: Battle - A Rank FAQ
Note: This isn't new, it's a re-post of the text file from my old site that I no longer have.
Here are some tips on how to get A Ranks on levels, as well as tips for specific characters and levels. This may be added onto.
For more information, go to www.gamefaqs.com and look up FAQs for Sonic Adventure 2. There is an A-rank FAQ, but it does not offer tips/strategies, only requirements for scores and times. There are also FAQs for Lost Chao and 100 Ring levels (most of them).
Last Updated: 11/8/07
SCORE EXPLANATION
Scores are calculated by a few different factors. Each time you preform certain actions, your score is increased. The time you finish a level also affects your final score. Dying anytime in a level resets your score to 0. Needless to say, if you want an A-rank, don't die. There are very few exceptions (Lost Chao missions, for example).
Your score is raised whenever you kill an enemy, grab a ring, or preform certain tricks (such as grinding on rails or doing a trick off a ramp). Whenever you get the chance to do a trick, do it. Some levels depend on this for getting A-ranks.
Doing enemy combos and trick combos give you bonus points. These bonus points get added onto the points you already earned. For example, home attacking 2 enemies in a row with Sonic gives you 100 extra points on what you already earn for killing them. But if you only kill one at a time, you don't get that extra bonus.
A-RANK TIPS
1. Always kill the Golden Bot. These guys are worth 1000 points. They only appear once in every level, though. And they only appear when you are close to them. They also disappear if you take too long to kill it, and won't come back. Their positions are the same on each stage, except on some occasions on Hard Mode missions. So before you attempt A-ranks on a mission, find where the Golden Bot is so that's 1000 less points you have to worry about.
2. For Lost Chao missions, your rank depends on your time, rather than score. Use this to your advantage. It means you can die and still get an A-rank. Note that the time you have to get the Lost Chao in for the A-rank is different for each stage.
3. Go for combo attacks and tricks. These basically come into play with everyone except Knuckles/Rouge missions. For Sonic/Shadow, using the Homing Attack on multiple enemies in a row give you a nice big bonus ontop of the enemies normal score points. For Tails/Eggman, hold down the targeting button and get as many enemies locked on as possible before letting it fire. As for tricks, these mainly apply to Sonic/Shadow. Grinding on rails one after another can give you nice bonus points. The max amount of bonus points you can earn in one combo move is 2000 (called "Perfect"). These tend to only show up on Tails/Eggman missions though.
4. Be more concerned with your score instead of your time. Although you do get bonus points for completing a level fast, if you rush through levels too fast, you may miss ways of getting even more points. In some missions, you can get an A-rank even if you get 0 points for time bonus. A perfect example of this is Hard Mode missions for Tails/Eggman (Cosmic Wall and Eternal Engine as a perfect example). I personally got an A-rank on Crazy Gadget Hard Mode with a 0 time bonus, because I killed every enemy I could and preformed enough combos. So before you worry about speed, find out how large you can get your score without a time bonus. Who knows, you may even get an A-rank while doing that. If you've looked for every possible combo and score points you can earn without a time bonus and still fall short, then try to speed yourself up. Because sometimes you do have to rely on being somewhat fast (hey there Metal Harbor).
5. An alternate way to get A-ranks for any mission is to get all the rings on that mission. You will get a "Perfect" count for the rings and it'll give you the A-rank. While this may seem not too bad, keep in mind most levels have massive amounts of rings. You usually can't backtrack easily either, so if you miss ONE ring you may not even get the A-rank. I personally find it harder to do that than to actually do the mission normally for the A-rank. But if you're determined to get it that way, good luck on the levels with 500 rings. And good luck doing it on the 4th missions.
6. 100 Ring missions are like Lost Chao missions, based on time only. You have to get 100 Rings before a certain time to get that A-rank. So don't waste your time killing enemies unless they're blocking your path or a threat. Go right for rings fast as possible. These are usually fast and easy A-ranks, except the hunter stages (read more on that below). If you get hit during this, just restart.
CHARACTER TIPS
1. Home attack combo as much as possible. These gain you lots of extra points.
2. Grind every rail you can, they usually give you points, especially when you combo grind rails in a row.
1. Hold down the targeting button and spin your laser target-er around to get as many enemies locked on as possible before releasing the button to shoot them all. These give you huge combos and these large bonus point combos are required for pretty much all their missions.
2. Don't get hit when trying to do a combo. If you get hit during the combo, you won't get the bonus points. This is mostly an issue for Cosmic Wall for Eggman. Those blasted blue enemies have massive range of attack. The fact that the GC version requires you to get 100,000 points as opposed to the Dreamcast version's 50,000 points makes it all the worse.
3. Try to milk groups of enemies for points if possible. As stated before, 2000 is the max bonus points you can get from a combo. If you target the required amount of enemies to get 2000, try to leave any extra enemies alive so you can gain even MORE points after you kill off the first wave. Eggman's Weapon Bed level is a perfect example of this with the stationary enemies you see at the beginning and throughout the level. If you target too many you'll get less points in the end than if you only go for 2000 bonus points at a time.
Note: I refer to the 3 objects you have to get as "items". So just replace item with "shard/gem/key/whatever". Mostly they're shards of the Master Emerald though.
1. The amount of bonus points you get when you find an item depends on two factors. One is time. If you take too long to find it, your bonus points go down. The second depends on how many hints you use. You can use up to 3 hints per item you're hunting. Not using any hints and being fast for each item can give you 2000 bonus points an item. That's 6000 points right there if you get them all fairly fast. And assuming you got all 3 fast, you'll get a nice time bonus too, giving you almost a guaranteed A-rank. Even if you miss one 2000 bonus point, as long as it's a decent amount you can still get an A.
2. Golden Bots do exist on the hunter levels, so go for them. Assuming the Golden Bot isn't too far out of a levels basic path, 1000 points can save you if you happen to have a little trouble finding an item.
3. Don't be afraid to kill enemies in your way. Don't forget you still get points for killing regular enemies. While there really aren't that many enemies in these type of levels, you might as well kill most things in your way to get those points. You never know if you'll have needed them.
4. Hard Mode mission items are always in the same place. The hard part about the Hard Mode missions is finding the items the first time. Once you find them, just Restart the level and speed run your way to them. Don't use any hints and be somewhat fast and you'll easily get 2000 bonus points an item, for an easy A-rank. I personally find the Hard Mode A-ranks easier than the normal ones. Although, finding them initially is the hard part. But you can look up the Hunter FAQ on Gamefaqs if you're totally stumped on where they are.
5. It's hard to find items outside of Hard Mode missions without using hints. I find the best method is to glide around basic parts of the level until you start detecting one. If you haven't detected the first one for about 15 seconds, just restart. After you find the first item, it's a safe bet the second item isn't near you. Try gliding to another basic area.
6. Keep in mind it's still possible to get an A-rank while using a hint or two. So if you've gotten the first two items with 2000 bonus points each, don't ruin it by never finding where the last one is. Just grab a hint and find it quickly. The time bonus may save you if you're under 3-4 mins.
7. Alternately, you can memorize (writing down is easier) what all the hints point to. So going to 3 monitors per item and writing down where they all go to means you can do the A-rank attempt by using only one hint per item. It's a fairly safe method if you don't mind writing things down. Just remember to pause while you're looking up where the hint tells you to go so you don't waste your definite needed time bonus points for this.
8. For 100 ring missions, you are ranked on time. The time is very slim on these. It would be wise to search the entire level for all the rings you can find while recording it. Then watch it and write down the best order to get all the rings in. Also note that you CANNOT dig up rings on the 100 Ring Missions. Alternately, you can look up a FAQ if you don't mind doing it that way. I personally find the Knuckles/Rouge missions to be the hardest of the 100 Ring missions, only because the rings are rare.
LEVEL TIPS
Description: Metal Harbor can be one of the hardest Sonic missions to get an A-rank on, right up there with Final Rush, if not harder. This is because you MUST get as many points as possible AND be fast enough to get enough time bonus points. And most people don't know all the tricks to it.
Mission 1 & 4 score tips: There are a few overlooked chances to increase your score in this level. The biggest one is near the final part with the space rocket. Instead of going off the bouncer onto the rocket, if you jump off to the left of the rocket when you reach the top, enemies will appear. Homing on them gives you a pretty big combo of bonus points. The downside is that you must do this flawlessly. When you kill the last enemy and fall back on the platform, you take the speed booster up the ramp and you'll see rings that you can Light Dash or whatever it's called up to the Bouncers. Trust me when I say you have to be perfect. You will be down to the last second. But it is basically the only way to pull off an A-rank. You need these points. Practice rushing up to the top without getting caught on any walls.
The other overlooked chance to score some points is right after the Light Dash that brings you onto the platform where the air crafts try to bomb you. As soon as you land on that platform, touch the booster but jump over the second booster. To the left of the second set of boosters there's some enemies that will appear in a line. Home attack them up to the Extra Life. This will give you some much needed bonus points. You may be able to still get an A-rank without doing this assuming you do the trick in the combo above, but I wouldn't personally risk it. This ones much easier to pull off anyway.
Description: This can be quite a frustrating level to get all A-ranks on.
Mission 1 & 4 score tips: Although I can't say this with 100% confidence, it still has always worked for me. In the attempts I've made for A-rank, it always appears as if a key is in each color area. In other words, there should never be a key in the same color area, such as two keys in the red area, or green area. This being said, it makes it much easier to get A-rank by gliding through the red area right away (which is where you start off). If you're lucky you'll find a key right away. If not, glide to the blue or green area. If you went through one of those areas and still haven't detected a key, restart and try until you find your first key in the first two areas you go through (red + either blue or green).
After the first key is found, note where you found it. If you found it in the blue area, go to red or green next. The key should be in either of the other two areas. It's a gamble, but it's a small level, so if it's not in one area you should be able to get to another area rather quick. Once you get the second one, simply search the last color area you haven't yet for that last key. I don't remember, but there's a small chance a key might show up in that center area. But even if it is you should still be okay, as you will most likely go through there anyway as you go through each area, since the center room connects them all. And as you already should know, you have to know this level really well. Getting lost is a good way to not get an A-rank.
Description: The biggest Knuckles level, and perhaps the most annoying Knuckles level.
Mission 1 & 4 score tips: Just like with Death Chamber, there is usually a pattern. I'd suggest immediately going towards the tower structure (where you fought Rouge) and taking the Rocket there up. If you're lucky you'll detect a shard right away. If not, keep taking rockets up until you get to the top. My theory is that only one shard will be at the top (if any). If you get to the top and haven't detected a shard, try Drill Clawing down until you detect one. If you hit the ground without detecting one, restart and repeat. After you find that first shard, chances are the second and third ones won't be near it. So finishing out the top of the level, aka hardest to get to area, makes it much easier to find the others. Again, you might want to do some practice runs to find some common patterns of where the shards may show up.
Description: Eggman's final mission. If you're playing the Dreamcast version, this is probably a cakewalk level. 50,00 points or less are nothing. But for the Gamecube version, the required score has been DOUBLED to 100,000 points. I can see why they raised it, but 80,000 would have been more reasonable for such a long level.
Mission 1 & 4 score tips: Even though they raised the score to about 80,000 (I forget the actual score), it's still not too bad. This level gives you lots and lots of chances to pull off 2000 bonus point combos. Don't pass up too many of them if you want that A-rank. Also be careful about the blue enemies hitting you. It's not so bad here as in Hard Mode, but you don't want to lose 2000 bonus points from a fatass blue enemy hitting you last second.
Mission 5: This is hell. A level that is an average of about 7 minutes long is no fun for an A-rank run as it is. But now you have to get 100,000 points. The GOOD news is there's more enemies. The bad news is it's much easier to die, and 100,000 is pretty difficult to get to without pulling off lots of 2000 bonus point combos. On top of that, there are more blue enemies that try to hit you while you attempt to pull off combos. The only thing I can really say for this is to practice mission 5 until you memorize where most of the blue enemies that can attack you from a distance are. This will prepare you to take them out before they can stop your combos. otherwise, you'll lose lots of bonus points. Also let me state to NOT rush this level. Take it slooooow. You will get NOTHING for time bonus.
Good luck on this one, it was the last stage A-rank I went for. It took me only 4 attempts, but when you're doing a 7 minute level while freaking out at every jump and combo, you tend to dread it. I still think 80,000 would have been more reasonable for such a lengthy level.
Here are some tips on how to get A Ranks on levels, as well as tips for specific characters and levels. This may be added onto.
For more information, go to www.gamefaqs.com and look up FAQs for Sonic Adventure 2. There is an A-rank FAQ, but it does not offer tips/strategies, only requirements for scores and times. There are also FAQs for Lost Chao and 100 Ring levels (most of them).
Last Updated: 11/8/07
SCORE EXPLANATION
Scores are calculated by a few different factors. Each time you preform certain actions, your score is increased. The time you finish a level also affects your final score. Dying anytime in a level resets your score to 0. Needless to say, if you want an A-rank, don't die. There are very few exceptions (Lost Chao missions, for example).
Your score is raised whenever you kill an enemy, grab a ring, or preform certain tricks (such as grinding on rails or doing a trick off a ramp). Whenever you get the chance to do a trick, do it. Some levels depend on this for getting A-ranks.
Doing enemy combos and trick combos give you bonus points. These bonus points get added onto the points you already earned. For example, home attacking 2 enemies in a row with Sonic gives you 100 extra points on what you already earn for killing them. But if you only kill one at a time, you don't get that extra bonus.
A-RANK TIPS
1. Always kill the Golden Bot. These guys are worth 1000 points. They only appear once in every level, though. And they only appear when you are close to them. They also disappear if you take too long to kill it, and won't come back. Their positions are the same on each stage, except on some occasions on Hard Mode missions. So before you attempt A-ranks on a mission, find where the Golden Bot is so that's 1000 less points you have to worry about.
2. For Lost Chao missions, your rank depends on your time, rather than score. Use this to your advantage. It means you can die and still get an A-rank. Note that the time you have to get the Lost Chao in for the A-rank is different for each stage.
3. Go for combo attacks and tricks. These basically come into play with everyone except Knuckles/Rouge missions. For Sonic/Shadow, using the Homing Attack on multiple enemies in a row give you a nice big bonus ontop of the enemies normal score points. For Tails/Eggman, hold down the targeting button and get as many enemies locked on as possible before letting it fire. As for tricks, these mainly apply to Sonic/Shadow. Grinding on rails one after another can give you nice bonus points. The max amount of bonus points you can earn in one combo move is 2000 (called "Perfect"). These tend to only show up on Tails/Eggman missions though.
4. Be more concerned with your score instead of your time. Although you do get bonus points for completing a level fast, if you rush through levels too fast, you may miss ways of getting even more points. In some missions, you can get an A-rank even if you get 0 points for time bonus. A perfect example of this is Hard Mode missions for Tails/Eggman (Cosmic Wall and Eternal Engine as a perfect example). I personally got an A-rank on Crazy Gadget Hard Mode with a 0 time bonus, because I killed every enemy I could and preformed enough combos. So before you worry about speed, find out how large you can get your score without a time bonus. Who knows, you may even get an A-rank while doing that. If you've looked for every possible combo and score points you can earn without a time bonus and still fall short, then try to speed yourself up. Because sometimes you do have to rely on being somewhat fast (hey there Metal Harbor).
5. An alternate way to get A-ranks for any mission is to get all the rings on that mission. You will get a "Perfect" count for the rings and it'll give you the A-rank. While this may seem not too bad, keep in mind most levels have massive amounts of rings. You usually can't backtrack easily either, so if you miss ONE ring you may not even get the A-rank. I personally find it harder to do that than to actually do the mission normally for the A-rank. But if you're determined to get it that way, good luck on the levels with 500 rings. And good luck doing it on the 4th missions.
6. 100 Ring missions are like Lost Chao missions, based on time only. You have to get 100 Rings before a certain time to get that A-rank. So don't waste your time killing enemies unless they're blocking your path or a threat. Go right for rings fast as possible. These are usually fast and easy A-ranks, except the hunter stages (read more on that below). If you get hit during this, just restart.
CHARACTER TIPS
***Sonic/Shadow***
1. Home attack combo as much as possible. These gain you lots of extra points.
2. Grind every rail you can, they usually give you points, especially when you combo grind rails in a row.
***Tails/Eggman***
1. Hold down the targeting button and spin your laser target-er around to get as many enemies locked on as possible before releasing the button to shoot them all. These give you huge combos and these large bonus point combos are required for pretty much all their missions.
2. Don't get hit when trying to do a combo. If you get hit during the combo, you won't get the bonus points. This is mostly an issue for Cosmic Wall for Eggman. Those blasted blue enemies have massive range of attack. The fact that the GC version requires you to get 100,000 points as opposed to the Dreamcast version's 50,000 points makes it all the worse.
3. Try to milk groups of enemies for points if possible. As stated before, 2000 is the max bonus points you can get from a combo. If you target the required amount of enemies to get 2000, try to leave any extra enemies alive so you can gain even MORE points after you kill off the first wave. Eggman's Weapon Bed level is a perfect example of this with the stationary enemies you see at the beginning and throughout the level. If you target too many you'll get less points in the end than if you only go for 2000 bonus points at a time.
***Knuckles/Rouge***
Note: I refer to the 3 objects you have to get as "items". So just replace item with "shard/gem/key/whatever". Mostly they're shards of the Master Emerald though.
1. The amount of bonus points you get when you find an item depends on two factors. One is time. If you take too long to find it, your bonus points go down. The second depends on how many hints you use. You can use up to 3 hints per item you're hunting. Not using any hints and being fast for each item can give you 2000 bonus points an item. That's 6000 points right there if you get them all fairly fast. And assuming you got all 3 fast, you'll get a nice time bonus too, giving you almost a guaranteed A-rank. Even if you miss one 2000 bonus point, as long as it's a decent amount you can still get an A.
2. Golden Bots do exist on the hunter levels, so go for them. Assuming the Golden Bot isn't too far out of a levels basic path, 1000 points can save you if you happen to have a little trouble finding an item.
3. Don't be afraid to kill enemies in your way. Don't forget you still get points for killing regular enemies. While there really aren't that many enemies in these type of levels, you might as well kill most things in your way to get those points. You never know if you'll have needed them.
4. Hard Mode mission items are always in the same place. The hard part about the Hard Mode missions is finding the items the first time. Once you find them, just Restart the level and speed run your way to them. Don't use any hints and be somewhat fast and you'll easily get 2000 bonus points an item, for an easy A-rank. I personally find the Hard Mode A-ranks easier than the normal ones. Although, finding them initially is the hard part. But you can look up the Hunter FAQ on Gamefaqs if you're totally stumped on where they are.
5. It's hard to find items outside of Hard Mode missions without using hints. I find the best method is to glide around basic parts of the level until you start detecting one. If you haven't detected the first one for about 15 seconds, just restart. After you find the first item, it's a safe bet the second item isn't near you. Try gliding to another basic area.
6. Keep in mind it's still possible to get an A-rank while using a hint or two. So if you've gotten the first two items with 2000 bonus points each, don't ruin it by never finding where the last one is. Just grab a hint and find it quickly. The time bonus may save you if you're under 3-4 mins.
7. Alternately, you can memorize (writing down is easier) what all the hints point to. So going to 3 monitors per item and writing down where they all go to means you can do the A-rank attempt by using only one hint per item. It's a fairly safe method if you don't mind writing things down. Just remember to pause while you're looking up where the hint tells you to go so you don't waste your definite needed time bonus points for this.
8. For 100 ring missions, you are ranked on time. The time is very slim on these. It would be wise to search the entire level for all the rings you can find while recording it. Then watch it and write down the best order to get all the rings in. Also note that you CANNOT dig up rings on the 100 Ring Missions. Alternately, you can look up a FAQ if you don't mind doing it that way. I personally find the Knuckles/Rouge missions to be the hardest of the 100 Ring missions, only because the rings are rare.
LEVEL TIPS
**Metal Harbor**
Description: Metal Harbor can be one of the hardest Sonic missions to get an A-rank on, right up there with Final Rush, if not harder. This is because you MUST get as many points as possible AND be fast enough to get enough time bonus points. And most people don't know all the tricks to it.
Mission 1 & 4 score tips: There are a few overlooked chances to increase your score in this level. The biggest one is near the final part with the space rocket. Instead of going off the bouncer onto the rocket, if you jump off to the left of the rocket when you reach the top, enemies will appear. Homing on them gives you a pretty big combo of bonus points. The downside is that you must do this flawlessly. When you kill the last enemy and fall back on the platform, you take the speed booster up the ramp and you'll see rings that you can Light Dash or whatever it's called up to the Bouncers. Trust me when I say you have to be perfect. You will be down to the last second. But it is basically the only way to pull off an A-rank. You need these points. Practice rushing up to the top without getting caught on any walls.
The other overlooked chance to score some points is right after the Light Dash that brings you onto the platform where the air crafts try to bomb you. As soon as you land on that platform, touch the booster but jump over the second booster. To the left of the second set of boosters there's some enemies that will appear in a line. Home attack them up to the Extra Life. This will give you some much needed bonus points. You may be able to still get an A-rank without doing this assuming you do the trick in the combo above, but I wouldn't personally risk it. This ones much easier to pull off anyway.
**Death Chamber**
Description: This can be quite a frustrating level to get all A-ranks on.
Mission 1 & 4 score tips: Although I can't say this with 100% confidence, it still has always worked for me. In the attempts I've made for A-rank, it always appears as if a key is in each color area. In other words, there should never be a key in the same color area, such as two keys in the red area, or green area. This being said, it makes it much easier to get A-rank by gliding through the red area right away (which is where you start off). If you're lucky you'll find a key right away. If not, glide to the blue or green area. If you went through one of those areas and still haven't detected a key, restart and try until you find your first key in the first two areas you go through (red + either blue or green).
After the first key is found, note where you found it. If you found it in the blue area, go to red or green next. The key should be in either of the other two areas. It's a gamble, but it's a small level, so if it's not in one area you should be able to get to another area rather quick. Once you get the second one, simply search the last color area you haven't yet for that last key. I don't remember, but there's a small chance a key might show up in that center area. But even if it is you should still be okay, as you will most likely go through there anyway as you go through each area, since the center room connects them all. And as you already should know, you have to know this level really well. Getting lost is a good way to not get an A-rank.
**Meteor Herd**
Description: The biggest Knuckles level, and perhaps the most annoying Knuckles level.
Mission 1 & 4 score tips: Just like with Death Chamber, there is usually a pattern. I'd suggest immediately going towards the tower structure (where you fought Rouge) and taking the Rocket there up. If you're lucky you'll detect a shard right away. If not, keep taking rockets up until you get to the top. My theory is that only one shard will be at the top (if any). If you get to the top and haven't detected a shard, try Drill Clawing down until you detect one. If you hit the ground without detecting one, restart and repeat. After you find that first shard, chances are the second and third ones won't be near it. So finishing out the top of the level, aka hardest to get to area, makes it much easier to find the others. Again, you might want to do some practice runs to find some common patterns of where the shards may show up.
**Cosmic Wall**
Description: Eggman's final mission. If you're playing the Dreamcast version, this is probably a cakewalk level. 50,00 points or less are nothing. But for the Gamecube version, the required score has been DOUBLED to 100,000 points. I can see why they raised it, but 80,000 would have been more reasonable for such a long level.
Mission 1 & 4 score tips: Even though they raised the score to about 80,000 (I forget the actual score), it's still not too bad. This level gives you lots and lots of chances to pull off 2000 bonus point combos. Don't pass up too many of them if you want that A-rank. Also be careful about the blue enemies hitting you. It's not so bad here as in Hard Mode, but you don't want to lose 2000 bonus points from a fatass blue enemy hitting you last second.
Mission 5: This is hell. A level that is an average of about 7 minutes long is no fun for an A-rank run as it is. But now you have to get 100,000 points. The GOOD news is there's more enemies. The bad news is it's much easier to die, and 100,000 is pretty difficult to get to without pulling off lots of 2000 bonus point combos. On top of that, there are more blue enemies that try to hit you while you attempt to pull off combos. The only thing I can really say for this is to practice mission 5 until you memorize where most of the blue enemies that can attack you from a distance are. This will prepare you to take them out before they can stop your combos. otherwise, you'll lose lots of bonus points. Also let me state to NOT rush this level. Take it slooooow. You will get NOTHING for time bonus.
Good luck on this one, it was the last stage A-rank I went for. It took me only 4 attempts, but when you're doing a 7 minute level while freaking out at every jump and combo, you tend to dread it. I still think 80,000 would have been more reasonable for such a lengthy level.
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Metaknight Officially Banned!
Yes, that's right. Metaknight is officially banned in Brawl. Well, the official ban starts January 9th so that it does not interfere with Apex. Until then, TOs can choose whether or not to keep MK legal at their tourneys. This is pretty good news for my YT videos, since everyone always complains about MK. The URC (Unity Ruleset Committee) voted 14-0 for banning with 1 abstaining. It'll be interesting to see where this takes Brawl. Will it be for the better? Or for the worse? Stay tuned...
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