Rayman 1 - Unused Crazy Drummer boss

I restored unused boss behavior for the Crazy Drummer enemy. The game even has an unused save file flag for making it so this level is skipped on replays (like the other boss levels).

[@RayCarrot]

Some information: - His health is set to 200 in the final game (I edited it to 5 for the video), but you can still hit him without modifying the game! The problem is once his health goes down to 0 it is set to go back to 1 due to the object type flags. HOWEVER... that code runs AFTER the main object function. So it is possible to actually defeat him normally, and thus end the level, if you hit him during the very last frame of his animation (I somehow managed to do it once, but then never again lol). - The code for locking the scrolling to the boss arena is unused, but I restored it for the video. It does however do it in a very different way to other bosses, so I think this boss would have moved around more in the level and not be confined to one small area. He has a bunch of movement code. - Once he's defeated the game will just finish the level without a victory animation or anything. No other boss does this. Probably a placeholder, or a leftover from before the victory animation was implemented. - The reason why the boss appears to be defeated before his health is depleted is because there's usually a boss icon covering the left side of the bar. The way the health bar works is by shifting it to the left for each hit.

[@WH15kY432Hz]

What a nice discovery, and thorough analysis! 👍 I indeed counted 5 'yellow teeth'; indicating you'd not even be halfway defeating him ^^ Also makes sense the boss area would have been bigger, because it's boring, and at the same time tricky this way 😁

[@Dante_Sparda_DMC]

Rayman 1 unused content is what I live for

[@RayCarrot]

Last year I was thinking of making a video showing all the unused content I've found for Rayman 1 over the years. Maybe I should revisit that idea.

[@JoeyLeddzDippin94]

@@RayCarrot Yes you should!

[@Eurotool]

@@RayCarrot Please do!

[@muffet1536]

That is very interesting. Nice find!

[@CaesarNeptuneStudios]

Really cool! I had no idea this enemy was supposed to be a boss

[@ivanfrancoextraschannel2005]

It was used for early idea?

[@jackmoon824]

I wonder if this was the first idea of Band Land boss or just was a mini boss as space mama in eraser plains

[@RayCarrot]

Probably the latter since he was still going to appear in the last part of Bongo Hills. This enemy also appears in early SNES concept arts, so could still have been an early boss idea though!

[@FindingsOfAnArmouredMind]

@RayCarrot I went out of my way to search for such "SNES concept art" and found absolutely nothing (none about this "boss" nor the SNES version of this game), so you are either mistaken or plainly lying..

[@RayCarrot]

@@FindingsOfAnArmouredMind Dude, instead of coming into my comment section to accuse me of lying you could just ask where it's from. The concept art in question is in the L'Histoire de Rayman book which includes a lot of concepts from the cancelled SNES version.

[@artey6671]

Maybe every area was supposed to have two bosses? And about the health bar: Is it shifted left for optimisation purposes? Anyway, cool to know, thanks.

[@RayCarrot]

Could be! As for the health bar, it's so it can be a single sprite for the full bar rather than one for each hitpoint. Then it moves it off screen to the left (with the boss icon covering the left part of it) so only the relevant part is shown.

[@mrocznyhb866]

This was a hard game

[@Skypatroller_BenCD]

Interesting Ryemanni reworked him for Rayman Redemption that's nice to know that he were supposed to be a boss cause in Rayman 1 he's "nothing"

[@NotRay1995]

This boss looks like a character from the 2d prototype of Rayman 2

[@zenos02]

I remember the first time I saw this guy, I tried to beat land a hit on him for like 15 minutes

[@ancestrall794]

Do you reverse engineer the game to find these ? I think i'd be great if you make tutorials about how you find your discoveries :p

[@RayCarrot]

I do, yeah. I'm not really good at making tutorials, but I'm always happy to answer any questions about it. These things are also very game dependant and sometimes I find things by pure coincidence.

[@mrwizzardknight]

If only Rayman Redemption included this! :/ Did they? It’s been a long while since I saw it on KZbin! XD And hey RayCarrot buddy? What do think of that Rayman Revolution speed run? It is absolutely mental! 😂😂😂 Being able to fight Razorbeard way too early! 😂😂😂

[@RayCarrot]

Rayman Redemption did actually turn this enemy into a boss, so yeah it basically has this fight restored by coincidence :p Reg. a speedrun I'm not sure which one you mean. I've seen some a while back where they abuse the save system to warp to the end which is pretty fun to watch!

[@mrwizzardknight]

@@RayCarrot This speed run! 😃kzbin.info/www/bejne/jJ2bqZueorhpbas

[@sperrotta91]

So you can actually defeat him as a regular enemy in the PS1 game?

[@TheGoetiaSquirrel]

He was used in mobile version of Rayman 1 and in Rayman Redemption

[@RayCarrot]

The mobile version is identical to the PC version. Like all other versions he was just an obstacle there, not a boss.

[@mariospetrakish1492]

that the crazy drummer boss is in redemption

[@woutidoudfm6618]

uh you can do a tutorial how to use ubi canvas video because ubicanvas don't appear in toolbar in my pc

[@RayCarrot]

There's a tutorial in the readme on GitHub

[@woutidoudfm6618]

@@RayCarrot yeah I know but I tried and ubi canvas don't appear in toolbar after than I opened map viewer solution please ?

[@RayCarrot]

@@woutidoudfm6618 Are you sure you're on the correct Unity version? Otherwise no idea.

[@woutidoudfm6618]

@@RayCarrot yeah I am use unity 2019 I swear

[@RayCarrot]

@@woutidoudfm6618 You need version 2021.3.6f1