[TAS] [Obsoleted] GBA Rayman Advance by got4n in

[@artbreeze8286]

Playing This game always had me having an unsettling feel to it, I quite cant describe it… it felt so liminal/surreal and was also very hard to play

[@d3nbg12]

i was looking for this kind of comment. Unsettling is a good word to describe it. Nice to know that other people feel the same about that game.

[@spicybreadproductions1972]

For me, the screen crunch and music is definitely unsettling compared to other versions. Is that the reason why it’s like that for you?

[@livesquad2810]

I got this game for Christmas back when I was nine. I played it everyday because I had nothing else to do. At the time I couldn't read whatsoever so figuring out what I needed to do was quite a hassle sometimes. I remember feeling creeped out by this game as well, it starts off nice and happy but then it gets dark and bizarre. I think it's the music on certain levels. I did eventually complete it but I never played it again. Even watching the play through brings me back. Good memories best left in the past.

[@svenfruiti494]

omg finally I'm not the only one..here a few examples from other games that felt the same way to me - Kirby and the amazing mirror - Catz - SpongeBob SquarePants Movie + Friends in Freeze Frame Frenzy - disneys Magical Quest 3 Starring Mickey & Donald

[@artbreeze8286]

@@svenfruiti494 yeah man I feel what you got here. I always had this feeling also with the first toy story movie and the spyro trilogy on ps1. They gave off those fever dreamish unreal vibes sometimes.

[@GlitchCityMissingNo]

i had this game and remember only doing the first levels in the forest and that was it lol

[@svenfruiti494]

same here...but am I the only one that thinks, all those gba games felt so surreal in some way?

[@Panchyishere]

One part that i love is when rayman makes friends with the mosquito, it really shows that even though you were at odds with someone else, it’s good to forgive and forget.

[@Panchyishere]

Forgot to mention that timestamp is at 2:40

[@iancortescontreras6084]

He beat his ass and went "nah, you seem chill. Wanna be friends?"

[@Rayman-Verse]

5:36 WT* moment coming

[@LowTonin]

Whoever came up with the idea for Rayman must have been on acid. This game is trippy as hell.

[@DarkFrozenDepths]

It's Ubisoft... what do you expect? lol

[@Dante_Sparda_DMC]

There was a processing error that caused his limbs to vanish and they decided to go with it

[@Luckingsworth]

"Durrr creativity = drugz"

[@richardc.mongler1029]

​@@LuckingsworthTHANK YOU. Im glad I'm not the only one who finds people saying that are really obnoxious

[@Whirlwhind1]

This was the only version of the game I could beat because the PS1 version was too hard for me. I lost all of my lives on Bongo Hills...

[@DarkFrozenDepths]

Ah yes, one of the few games where you basically HAVE to 100% to clear... I was shocked to find out that the cages WERE NOT optional...

[@DarkFrozenDepths]

@Victor Ramos I literally got stuck on one last cage until I looked for a guide. Managed to find every last one except for a cage in the 3rd to last stage....

[@DarkFrozenDepths]

@Victor Ramos when I played the original, I was about 12... by then the internet existed. I literally had to go to the library to look up a guide on it, and for games like tony hawk or crash bandicoot.

[@livesquad2810]

@@DarkFrozenDepths I got this when I was nine but I couldn't read so I had no clue what to do at times. I think I spent mounts playing it

[@FigureFarter]

@@livesquad2810 Ouch that sucks, I guess you got bullied quite a lot in school

[@livesquad2810]

@@FigureFarter I never went actually

[@Rayman-Verse]

11:26 WT* moment part 2

[@kaniodon]

As a kid this game was very hard, I also remember it being strangely eerie, all those years I couldn‘t put my finger on it.

[@soko4710]

when I was younger I liked how the cages are bigger and more detailed than they are in Rayman 3 Advance

[@BlueAizu_]

Not sure why the final boss music plays in a lot of these levels, but it's fitting considering how difficult they all are

[@preyter3440]

I always wondered why the music in each level sometimes cuts out. It happened so often where a certain instrument just cuts out from beat then a few seconds it comes back in.

[@astonquintanilla9301]

That’s because video games can only play so many sounds at once, so when a music track is playing too many sounds to make up the music, and the player is making sounds too, it overlaps and removes one of the sounds from the music to fit in. This is due to there only being like 8 sound channels for the gba or something

[@retrochristmas7329]

So a ps1 game runs on a gba at full speed but sonic can't?

[@3ngag3]

What happened to using the glitch that skips the final boss by getting hit on the same frame you touch the final goalpost?

[@Rayman-Verse]

I love this game

[@slxcks1077]

The last level I remember was fighting the scorpion but the game glitched out for example I defeated the scorpion and nothing happens

[@Luximoz]

That's because you have to free every single cage to unlock the last level

[@av4010]

jesus christ that screen size lol. must be bumping into shit all time in the gba version of this game

[@GlitchCityMissingNo]

i have this game and can confirm screen size is a nightmare to deal with

[@Luckingsworth]

It does make mosquito easier. So thats something.

[@Lordy-Lord]

Honestly the screensize wasn't that bad for me

[@Adrikurosaki]

Got4n is a young french guy for 14 years old (in 2013) he has been invite on the YT channel "Nesblog/Speedgame" for comment this TAS in an old video if someone want to see but its in french for sure 😬, i think its not so hard to understand the essential (Sorry i don't write english very well, i am french too)

[@michasj9]

This is how this game could look if it was released on the SNES. SNES like GBA was capable to run almost all graphical content from original PS1/Saturn/Jaguar/DOS Rayman and only thing where SNES and GBA PPUs were not enough were 255-color tiles. Only significiant change that Ubisoft had to make if it wanted to release Rayman on SNES is just reducing 255-color tiles to 15-color tiles. I know that the real SNES Rayman prototype was completely different game than the most common version of Rayman, but i am sure than SNES also could run whole this game and only part of the game's content which had to be reduced (if Ubisoft released PSX Rayman on SNES) are number of colors per one tile and number of all colors which could be displayed on the screen at once - just reduction the palette to 254 colors on the screen (127 colors per active tiles (sprites) and 127 colors for 127 colors dummy tiles) (from all 32768 colors possible) and every tile internal palette from 255 to 15 colors! PSX Rayman 1 from 1995 was not an exetremely heavy game for the SNES hardware - it was easier to render than: -Donkey Kong Country trilogy by Rare, -Toy Story by Traveller's Tales, -Mickey Mania by Traveller's Tales. If these games were successfully optimized to fit in these tight SNES restrictions, why PSX Rayman was not?! If this game was released on the SNES (in 1995 SNES was still more popular than PSX and even in year 1995 or later (1996 or even 1997) almost half of the top SNES titles were released - early SNES games made until 1993 were usually very poor) THIS COULD BE ONE OF THE MOST MEMIORIABLE AND BEST RATED SNES TITLES! This game's graphics and audio content fits almost perfectly to the SNES hardware. If it was released along with very similar PSX/Jaguar/Saturn and DOS variants in 1995, this SURELY could be one of the mostly remembered and bestly rated titles along with DKC trilogy by Rare, Yoshi's Island by Nintendo, Kirby's Dream Land 3 by HAL Laboratory and Toy Story and Mickey Mania by Traveller's Tales! What a shame that Ubisoft skipped SNES while releasing Rayman!

[@DanielaDaHomie]

I remember playing the forest levels while I was walking on a busy sidewalk in the rain with my parents idk why that’s such a clear memory for me lmao

[@astonquintanilla9301]

This game shouldn’t have been ported to the gba for all the large sprites and all the graphical issues that came with it

[@beaniegee5129]

Love that game!!

[@KaguyaH]

It's a surprisingly solid engine port, but good lord those are some crusty MIDIs, lmfao. Love how they used the final boss theme for Band Land too

[@psychosoma5049]

I feel like the music has given me a nosebleed lol

[@beaniegee5129]

Classic!!

[@SRPC21]

Why did you skip the gorgeous intro music? 🥺

[@EberHeim22231]

I LIKE RAYMAN HE'S THE HERO

[@BMN_Prime]

The music kinda reminds me of The Smurfs for some reason lol

[@KingOfGerudo]

I prefer the original soundtrack

[@hectorcalsina]

QUE NOSTALGIA

[@eglebaltute169]

Backwards Jump!?!?!?

[@Ruefuluxy]

It's happend when you hold ← + → together (hold left and right dpad)

[@booman3138]

1:12:00

[@Machiate]

Señoras y señores

[@hertz477]

43:48

[@randysanchez6252]

E

[@RandomFella745]

They fucking ruined my favorite song

[@MoisesCharles]

Rayman is one of the most hideous major video game characters ever. Leave it to Europe to make butt-ugly cartoons. Also sometimes Canada.

[@AlastorAltruistGaming]

Ugliness does NOT count for how iconic they are. And Rayman is just that: Iconic.

[@tomasluegger9629]

ALSO, DIESES RAYMAN-GAME IST ECHT DER TOTALE FLOP UND GEHT ABSOLUT GAR NICHT - 👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎👎

[@Rayman-Verse]

13:13 WT* moment part 3

[@Rayman-Verse]

1; I don't speak English 2; I censored

[@hertz477]

35:48