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nbmudkip · 3 years ago

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pleasepleaseplease do dump about glitches!! im really into video game glitches too, but my knowledge isn't great when it comes to pokemon-related glitches... i would love to hear more :3

HOKAY HOKAY OKAY SO. HOUGH WOW THERES A LOT I COULD GO OVER. i guess for this ask i will simply talk about tweaking and a bit of the void glitch in pokemon DPPT and HG/SS!

alright so. in all gen 4 pokemon games, the overworld map is split up into different chunks made up of 32x32 tiles. each of these chunks is also divided into four quadrants.

[an display of the individual chunks and their quadrants in a route from hg/ss. the black lines represent the edges of chunks, whereas the red/blue lines represent the edges of the quadrants within each chunk.]

in order to keep the overworld transitions seamless but also minimize the strain of loading too much at once, the developers set up a system so that only four chunks are ever loaded at once: the chunk the player is currently inside, as well was two chunks directly next to that chunk, and one chunk diagonal from it. which three other chunks are loaded at a given time is determined by what quadrant the player is in. for example, if the player is in the northeastern quadrant of a chunk, then the chunks loaded will be the ones directly to the north, east, and northeast of the current chunk.

the game determines which quadrant the player is in, and thus which chunks should be loaded at any given time, via a set of invisible lines dividing each chunk into quadrants. these are referred to as load lines, as whenever a player crosses one, the game checks which quadrant they are now in, and loads the correct nearby chunks accordingly.

HOWEVER. there is a weakness in this system that can be exploited for interesting results. if the player crosses multiple load lines quickly and repeatedly (usually using the bike) without ceasing movement at all during the process, the game can’t keep up with the updating chunks and becomes confused as to exactly what should be loaded when and where. at any point where a vertical load line and a horizontal load line cross, the intersection of said load lines makes a perfect point to repeatedly cross over multiple load lines quickly. the process of crossing load lines like this to confuse the game is called tweaking.

[a visual representation of the four tiles surrounding the upper accessible load line intersection in jubilife city. this is a commonly used section of tiles for tweaking.]

in the vast majority of patterns, tweaking simply freezes the game. in others, it loads invisible walls where certain chunks should be, loads black abysses that are covered in invisible collision, or alters the character’s Z-axis position. however, by following specific patterns at specific speeds, it is possible to force the game to either load a certain chunk from one part of the map where another chunk should be, or simply load nothing at all. it took years for people to really understand the load lines and discover multiple reliable patterns for tweaking. some of the most famous reliable tweaking patterns include the zorch tweak (using the fast bike, tile pattern 3124343, unloads the chunk directly to the west of the player), shortzorch (fast bike, tile pattern 42121, same effect as zorch but easier to execute), and basic slowbike (slow bike, tile pattern 12421, fully visibly loads the chunk northeast of the player over the chunk to the northwest of the player). [the numbers in the tile patterns listed hear correspond to the way in which the tiles are labeled in the above image.]

[an example of two commonly used forms of properly executed tweaking. the first shows the northwestern chunk of jubilife city (which contains the pokétch building) having not loaded in at all, resulting in an empty but traversable abyss in its place. the second shows the chunk to the east of jubilife city (part of route 203) loaded over that same northwestern chunk, replacing certain areas like the pokétch building with grass and trees. the first image is an example of a properly executed zorch tweak, while the second is an example of a properly executed basic slowbike tweak.]

improperly loaded chunks like this that are still traversable are known as “abysses”. when abysses are loaded in, the game becomes confused about what is supposed to be loaded, so things like collision and loading zones are usually altered or entirely disabled within them. however, this can be reverted by opening any full screen menu, which refreshes the graphics. by positioning oneself at a certain area of an abyss and then refreshing the graphics to load in the original chunk, the player can access areas that should be off limits or or enter loading zones from directions they shouldn’t be able to.

[a gif demonstrating someone performing a basic slowbike tweak in jubilife city, loading part of route 203 over part of the city, then positioning themself where the door to the pokétch building should be had the chunk loaded correctly. they then open the pokédex to refresh the game’s graphics, loading in the chunk that should be present, allowing them to enter the loading zone for the building’s door from above. when they enter the building, their movement direction is maintained, and they are pushed down through the doorway into the out of bounds area surrounding the building’s interior.]

using tweaking in the above manner to access the out of bounds areas outside of a building’s interior results in the player being pushed into what is referred to as the void, thus triggering what is known as the void glitch. now, it is important to note that the void glitch, while technically existing in all gen 4 games, is only really usable in diamond and pearl. the developers found out about the void glitch due to a glitch exclusive to the japanese versions of diamond and pearl called the surf glitch in which players could access the void by surfing onto and through a statue in the pokemon league. by the time platinum was released, tweaking and the void were not entirely patched out, but the developers added in a vast collection of invisible wall traps, collision, and freeze traps that render the void in platinum, heartgold, and soulsilver virtually untraversable.

it should ALSO be noted that while the void is a thrilling and vast thing, it is also extremely dangerous to mess around in if you don’t know exactly what you’re doing! due to the void not having valid map data, moving around in it acts differently from just traversing the map; you are essentially actively moving your character through areas of the game in which RAM is stored. going far enough out in the void is especially dangerous—especially if you’re traveling to the north for an extended period of time, you run the risk of plowing directly into certain volatile data including pokemon party, trainer name, and id data. accidentally manipulating these in the wrong way can easily corrupt your save file. there are also certain adverse effects that can happen in the void, such as the screen suddenly blacking out, freezes and crashes if you accidentally trigger something that should not be triggered, and Black Screens of Death: areas that, if you save and reload your game in, will cause your game to instantly freeze upon loading, forcing you to reset your save data.

basically, it took over a decade for people to really start to understand how the void works and how to manipulate it constructively, and it is not something to be played around with in a save file with pokemon you care about. (following pre-established routes through the void to do things like catching shaymin, darkrai, or arceus is completely safe however! it’s really only experimentation that can be dangerous, so feel free to follow routes in any save file you like.)

i could keep going on about the void glitch itself, its intricacies, and how you can use it to access the event-locked darkrai, shaymin, and arceus without cheats, but i am quite tired and i would like to get to 600 soft resets for my chimchar before i go to sleep tonight, and this is also getting very long so i am going to cut myself off for now. i will talk more soon in the responses to other asks! i hope this made sense and was enjoyable! also if you want to do more research on your own, i highly recommend checking out some videos covering the void glitch on youtube (PokeTips has a good one i know) as well as the youtube channel RETIRE, which has been documenting research being done on the void glitch as well as other gen 4 glitches for years now!

#answered #ask #anonymous #glitches #me.txt #eheheheoeuegeehogugh my tweaking rant #i barely got into the void glitch st sll i have so much more to say. but its almost 6 am and i have 25 more resets to do before i can sleep

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pinksweatergettingbetter · 7 years ago

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warning, the following has mainly snarky (and possibly furious) opinions on Spirit of Justice. Reader discretion is advised.

Okay folks. this is it. part 1 of the final chapter

here we go.

trial day 2?? oh yeah i forgot they split this game up in the worst, uneven way possible

wow that cutscene was

something alright

wow datz actually managed to hold onto the snow globe. kudos?

what the fuck

i think i heard it wrong but Dhurke’s objection sounds like an old man

I'm pretty sure i heard it wrong

missed the bass

who was that no– oh Garananana

i guess she's gonna be the final boss instead huh

im so tired i cant even snark properly

“is that kosher?”

i like it

oh god

what.... what is she wearing

i mean

fuckin

TALK about madonna-whore complex. oh yeah, time to turn super evil?? bear your midriff! show off dem tiddies!

look, SOJ. theres only one bad bitch in ace attorney who can pull off floaty tendril hair, and its NOT ga’ran.

i cant believe i have to look at this train wreck for the rest of the trial

“heh heh heh. its all coming back now. the feel of my blood pumping through my veins”

this is perhaps because youre actually moving now, your eminence.

can we just dispense with the trial and have a good old fashioned anime fight? cmon apollo, spike up that hair and grab your BFS.

“meep”

WHATS WITH THE MEEPING

BONNY DID THAT TOO

SOJ ITS 2016 ...ACTUALLY ITS 2028 YOU HOLES

everyone in the court: :O what??? whats wrong with rayfa??? why is she sad???

oh i dunno maybe because her fucking Father just got brutally murdered?? maybe??

what the fuck is up with SOJ characters being dumb as a bag of bricks when it comes to other peoples’ feelings regarding death of loved ones???

phoenix: shits fucked, thats why?? apollo: OHHHHHHHHHHHHH

“seems like she's worse off today than she was yesterday”

hey game you'd better not be implying any shit

“discipline”

soj

alright, back after another longass break. i can do this.

( That’s oddly compassionate of him, all things considered )

I was about to defend Nahyuta because what kind of person wouldn’t try to spare a child from witnessing that kind of trauma... but then again, this is the Sadmad who purposefully tried to trigger someone into losing a trial so

(shrug emoji)

grana’s gone into full HORHORHOR BITCH MODE

partially I'm totally numb because i dont have any stakes in her newfound ebilness, and partially I'm tired of this weird new trend of child abuse in the new games

“Barbed head.”

oh my god

the first person she goes to after realizing that her caretaker is gone is fucking Phoenix

im gonna cry

“ive been reduced to “royal robe remover”” NO NICK YOU’VE BEEN UPGRADED TO DAD BY SOMEONE WHO’S NOT YOU

( ‘It’s like she’s grooming Mr. Wright to be Nayna’s replacement’)

I know this game is all about confusing bullshit for heartwarming moments and vice versa but guys

good lord

my heart

i really needed that

(sigh) they really couldn’t get someone who sounded like a fucking 14 year old to do her voice?? really???

rayfa: (looks like she's going to die and collapses)

apollo: this is not good...

gee apollo you really think so?

wait a fuking second

we went through the whole dance cutscene and we’re not even going to see the pool??? does that mean the priestess has to be conscious and present for the images to be visible? ...and how does that work, anyway?

i just realized, a medium could use a pool to see the dead, but how the hell could they project it for others to see?? does she literally open a portal to hell???

(sigh) i just regret sitting through that cutscene again

“cabal of traitorous lawyers”

i love that

(Seriously Dhurke? This is no laughing matter.)

this basically sums up Dhurke’s entire personality

...yknow, i know what they were trying to do with his character– i really do. i know he’s supposed to come off as a dashing, cavalier rebel who laughs in the face of danger.

but they overshot endearingly irreverent and ploughed straight into fuckwaddome. if you want a character to be charming, they need softer moments too. Dhurke isn’t a bad person, but he’s kind of an asshole when you get right down to it, and nothing so far is proving otherwise.

ok ive heard Dhurke’s Objection again and it doesn't sound like an old man– it just sounds about as overblown and ridiculous as Manfred von Karma’s (not to mention about as deep)

LET DHURKE SAY BITCH

... i guess

another perfect example of Dhurke being kind of a fuckwad: he keeps needling the queen and baiting her in ways that could get himself killed, which would be all fine and dandy if he were the brave resistance leader being tortured for information in the bowels of a dungeon.

...but here’s the thing.

IF YOU DIE, DHURKE, APOLLO AND PHOENIX DIE TOO. DID YOU FORGET ABOUT THE GODDAMN DC ACT? ITS NOT JUST YOUR DEAD ASS ON THE LINE HERE SO SHUT YOUR SASSY TRAP AND THINK ABOUT SOMETHING OTHER THAN YOUR *AMAZING WIT* FOR ONCE.

you’ve got 2 extra lives on the line here.

...3 if my suspicions are correct.

stop calling him son please you abandoned him in an orphanage and didnt contact him for 14 years.

...and if he can’t call you ‘dad’ you have no right to call him ‘son’

coming back to this after ghost trick has convinced me that one of ga’ran’s lackeys miiiiiight be related to Cabanela, baby

“Wright... I can see we are kindred spirits, you and I! Hah-ha ha ha ha ha!!”

FUCK YOU DHURKE

“It’s pretty easy to spot the difference between a soulless man and the soulless shell of a man”

ok that did get a laugh out of me, good job dhurke.

apollo: pls dont get us killed dhurke: mmmm ok ill try but I'm not promising anything lol

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“But remember, son, if you truly believe in me, you should be able to prove my innocence.”

do i even have to list how many reasons thats wrong and a shitty thing to say

“Such Insolence”

You’ve been beat out, Not So Fast

Ga’ran used Gust!

Apollo flinched and couldn’t move!

“I could behead you at any time”

she's got a point; she’s a fucking despot, there’s no reason to actually hold a trial. i mean i guess she wants to shut up the rebels but just killing them would be a lot easier and its not like she has any qualms about murder

“Aw shoot, ya got me.”

again, not an appropriate reaction for whats going on buddy

lol get fucked kjudge

DGFUFUS OH COOL

WE GOT GUILTY (excited cheers from the audience)

the applause and the shots of everyone with :O faces is making me feel like i just won a gameshow

wheres my cheesy jingle

also i love how Dhurke’s like “oh shit!! my assholishness has directly resulted in my son’s death!!! did NOT see that coming!!!!!!!!!”

again the sound mixing is drowning out the background music (sigh)

“your benevolence? I’d be happy to lend an ear if you’d like to talk!”

>this is it, this is why he leaves the series guys. Apollo is too good for these sinful games.

DAMNIT DHURKE, YOUR SHIT MOUTH IS RUBBING OFF ON YOUR SON

hmm

we’ve got an april may here

“Rayfa, I shall buy you a new servant”

so Kooraheen practices slavery..? I mean, she.... she said ‘buy’, not hire.

“she would have left shoeprints”

do you know what evaporation is your malevolence

wait wait wait

that doesn't make any sense

the only prints leading out are from Inga, but the prints inside the building are from Nayna? how did she avoid leaving prints leading inside, then?? did she just long-jump over the dirt path???

the guards are not fanboying, apollo, they’re toadying. there’s a difference.

apollo: maybe the place he was stabbed and the place he died were different

(the game only continues after you carefully explain what dying of blood loss is three years later)

to be completely fair, there are actually stories of people who were unaware of being stabbed

furthermore, when you get stabbed, you’re not going to be the most rational human being on earth.

phoenix, don’t give sadmad that point, especially when he’s currently assaulting your protege

now, as i was saying, Apollo’s suggestion that Inga was stabbed in the back and then ran into the temple is perfectly plausible; running to shelter from an attacker is probably the first thing you’d want to do when injured, and the tomb was a pretty safe place, i’d wager.

tbh i really don’t know why they’re arguing about him feeling the pain as that wouldn’t really impair his movement considering he was stabbed in a place that wouldn’t affect his ability to walk???

but yeah apparently he was doped up to shit so

...i highly doubt back pain medication is strong enough to negate a stab wound. on the other hand, if it is and your back pain is THAT intense, Inga, you need to see a fucking doctor pronto.

...yeah shots straight into the spine is one step away from surgery; not to be an asshole but I'm not sure Inga was doing so well anyway before he went

huh. are they really gonna give us an actual choosable choice to abandon Dhurke and save our own skin? Cause that would be interesting; a lot like the old games where you could “”choose”” to defend a client or not.

to be clear here, though, i wouldn't choose “no” even as much as i dislike dhurke. we know (sigh) that he’s innocent, and even if i dont like him it’s our duty to defend his shitty ass

OH HOLY FUCK

THERES THE CHOICE

wow. y’know SOJ, i dont much like you, but you fuckin Did That. well done.

also thank you for the Justice pun it is much appreciated.

“And while I can’t say I’m used to it, this isn’t exactly my first rodeo”

FWHAT

>game flashes back to the Ahlbi case

DSKJFLS THIS IS LITERALLY THE “at second rodeo: this isn't my first rodeo” POST

YES OK WE’VE SEEN THIS CUTSCENE TWICE NOW ALREADY

WE GET IT, RAYFAS GOT COLD FEET ABOUT BEING QUEEN

MAYAS IN THE GAME

phoenix: allow me to mansplain how rayfa is feeling despite how fucking obvious it is. after all, we know our players have the mental and emotional capacity of goldfish!

oh hey mansplain is a legit word in the dictionary

cool!

why are they building this up?? just fucking tell Rayfa to do her stupid dance again and get on with it; we already did this at the beginning of the trial

“Hmm... Indeed. It would be problematic.”

ohohoooohohohhhihgjhgo

oh her nails are actually tiny pen

thats neat

thank goodness Kooraheeneese is an up-and-down written language– otherwise they’d have to make a whole new animation for the english game teehee

“....................But... Horn Head needs my help”

oh my heart

dan she just straight up begone’d her

see the one thing that falls flat here is that, during a regular trial, the prosecution saying “oh, ok, have it your way; you can try to prove your theory” holds up a little more since they... you know. don’t have absolute power.

where as, with Garananana, its more like she's just a huge posturing pushover. especially since every other minute she's saying “ok, I'm gonna kill you for REAL now.”

rayfa: b but if i fail you'll be killed!!! i dont get it...

apollo: i literally just finished explaining that I'm 100% ready to die for my shitty job that was like 5 minutes ago

it is sweet to see that he’s cheering her on though. good big bro

I'm finding small solace in this beautiful moment of “your foreign dad and bro are here for you babe reach for the stars”

Athena’s probably flashing a double thumbs up from the gallery too

“But... I finally know now. I know in what I can trust”

Bobby, from the afterlife: YOU’RE DOING AMAZING SWEETIE

Garan: What??? my tiny 14 year old daughter is going to do a thing i don’t want her to??? fuck there’s no way i can shut her up. not even with all of my large adult man guards who could easily just escort her out of the courtroom without any resistance because they’re my fucking royal guards and I'm the Queen

oh shit she took off her own cape

im so glad i muted the game so her awful voice actress couldn’t ruin this cool moment

and now as this long ass cutscene plays out again, i simply cannot help but wonder about the poor choir and how long they’ve been on standby

where do they keep the choir during trials

whats it like singing the dance of devotion song every trial

oh finally here we go. alright, lets see what the magic party pool has in store for us this time

...o ...ok then

OH! OH SHIT

Inga’s face blind?!

Y’know I did have a few thoughts about that when we discovered his notebook but I didn’t think they’d actually go that route... though, thinking about it now, it is pretty convenient.

...ok everyone’s freaking out. maybe they’ve never heard of face-blindness? ...or maybe its not face blindness after all

im pretty sure it is though

i dont know why but everyone being like FUCK ITS GOD and phoenix being like “whoops shits trippy now” made me laugh pretty hard

ok i gotta say I'm actually a little invested now, even if its just because i think face-blindness is an interesting thing to incorporate into a murder case. again, a convenient thing, but an interesting thing all the same.

ahh fuck i keep forgetting how the stupid seance works

welp, there goes one of my souls... (sigh)

..apollo you dont need to show her the picture of her dead father to say “he had a cell phone”.

the voice was coming from INSIDE THE PHONE

RAYFA HAS A PET FROG????

WHAT

SHOW US THE FROG SOJ

SHOW US THE FROG! SHOW US THE FROG! SHOW US THE FROG!

...why would Rayfa interpret the sound of the warbaa’d (something she’s familiar with) with a lion’s roar (something she’s unfamiliar with) ??

oh i see thats why Vore Machine is an idiot

for plot convenience

Datz Are’bal, a man who throws fire crackers at children.

...sounds like an are’bal guy.

bahdum-tshh

“The joker who got a kick out of startling Ahlbi with his Dragon Snot Snaps”

...something tells me that if Datz found out about Youtube, he’d be one of those “””prank””” channels.

also WHY ARE THEY CALLED SNOT SNAPS

WHAT DOES THAT MEAN

“happy-go-lucky”

i think you mean vaguely sociopathic

(sigh) ive finally been worn down to the point where i need a walkthrough. ive... been beaten...

boy ahlbi’s just a font of knowledge isn't he

DID SHE JUST BREAK HER NAILS OFF

PLEASE SAY THOSE WERE STICK ONS

HOL SHIT

MMMM LAY IT ON ME NICK

face blindness

... i mean theyre not calling it that but thats what it is

yeah yeah channeling blah blah come on! youre in the LAND of channeling !

shduhjahdjk

I'm picturing Inga running into his own dead body and flipping his shit

oh man. thats the end of Trail 2 part 1.

guess i’ll see you guys on the other side... heheh.

#soj spoilers #sulking over SOJ #ooc #its a LONG one]

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survivorinternational · 5 years ago

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Episode 6 - "Thank all gods, even the weird ones." - Stephen

Thank all gods, even the weird ones. I was not ready to go home pre-jury again. Although I’m still wondering if theres a hidden redemption island twist because most merges happen at 11 not 10. I also need to be careful of Clash. I trust him now, but he’s a strong player. I need to be able to have my own game apart from his, and be ready to vote his ass out when he starts getting too close to ftc.

Um so I have to vote one of my 3 closest allies which sucks but if I vote Allan that’s the best it won’t upset pat or randy and keep Stephen with me as well I hope I win this game I will IA

Liana won immunity which sucks because she was the easy vote and puts me in a terrible position. So far Ginger and Emily/Vilma are possible votes

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Everyone's so cautious about saying names this tribal council, I definitely needed that immunity. If I don't hear anything from Liana/Ginger/Emily, I'm going to put Ginger's name out there and see where it gets me

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Looking quite bad here, Emily did tell me I should be safe, but just incase that was to mislead me, I attempted some very poor guilt trip/flattery. :(

i’m like pretty okay with going to tribal tbh because i trust the four in my alliance with me? like the only one i’m a bit weary about is ginger just bc she’s like a lil weird in general lol and she could turn on a dime :/ but i do think that if she did choose to turn on me, vilma, and michael, she wouldn’t choose me to vote out this round. she’d probably go for michael? but that’s only IF she chooses to flip. idk if she will. i have high hopes that this round will be pretty smooth. if i had it my way, we could vote tyler out now because i think he’s not as invested in this game as jacob. and it’s hard to play with people who are invested. if tyler or jacob don’t go this round, at least from our tribe, i’ll be very confused? also looking forward to merge! i’m worried but at the same time i’m content. like it’ll be a small merge which i love and i have pretty good relationships with a lot of the people left. so! that’s cute! i think i’m in a good position right now. well liked, in a somewhat powerful position, and under the radar for the most part. i haven’t really done much (or gone to many tribals for that matter) that have made me feel like a threat. yes, i was a leader on the saolatoga tribe and i was the one that brought up daniel’s name at first, but it was like an easily agreed upon decision. i don’t think people were too shaken or surprised by it. it’s something on my resume for me to see, not everyone else. and that’s exactly how i like it! i’ll read my list of doings at final tribal council. and i’ll wow the jury. but it won’t be obvious to them what i’m doing until they look at the game more objectively. i think that’s a good way to play. always on people’s minds, but not too much. positive opinion, involved in big decisions, but never the ring leader to the point where it’s dangerous. i think i’ve figured out a good balance! i’m hoping this takes me far. to the end!!!

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so there's a lot of stuff going on so im going to try to organize my thoughts. here we go. liana is immune, so that's hard on the rest of the tribe who... pretty much all wanted to vote her out but that's fine. honestly liana being immune is better for me than it is anyone else, so I am fine with it. it is making waves though, but they're fun waves. so the alliance of ginger, michael, vilma, and myself mentioned either tyler or jacob because they're the only options not in our alliance right now, but the thing is, ginger went CRAZY and was pushing for us to NOT VOTE TYLER WHATSOEVER! and they just kept pushing for jacob instead. I was very weary about this, but I didn't say anything at first until michael messages me saying that tyler is gunning for ME. and then vilma messages me saying that Michael told her this too, only he said that the reason tyler was gunning for me was because she and I were so close. SO! this means that tyler is aware of vilma and I being in an alliance. and ginger was probably the one to mention it to him. and then GINGER MADE A GROUP WITH VILMA AND TYLER SO THAT VILMA WOULD WANT TO PROTECT TYLER MORE. anyway, once this got out, michael and vilma and I made a group to talk about the vote and I think we're leaning towards ginger for the following reasons 1. way too protective over tyler for no reason. how the fuck are they so close? 2. tyler somehow knows about vilma and i's connection even though we've been extremely low key and I have never talked game with him 3. ginger is just actually crazy I think we can get liana and jacob on our side way easier than we could tyler. we're planning on telling liana and jacob about the vote, but leaving tyler and ginger in the dark. we just need to make sure none of this gets back to ginger like for real! they leak literally everything. I literally JUST messaged them saying that Tyler had thrown out my name and not even two minutes after I get a message from vilma saying that ginger had asked her about tyler throwing out my name. like ginger gets information and RUNS WITH IT. I truly cannot trust them. and it would create less waves to vote ginger out than it would anyone else on the tribe I think. like... after all the craziness that's going down, we need to send ginger home. I could kind of tell that ginger was a little weird, but I didn't expected them to be so cracked like genuinely cracked. lmao

Annoying Lyana HAD to win immunity, getting your lazy-social ass in multiple ORGs make u slay the physical game...and now I feel my ass is in danger! Im gonna do everything in order to stay here and Im already making plans. Not resting for a sec.

Sluggy voted out... saw that comming, him cheering on Stephen may have screwed us a bit At least its not Merge Double Tribal is gonna suck though. FreeRice is a great challenge, while im not 100% comfortable in my position atm but I am going to throw this challenge a little to reduce my threat a bit. Oh yay... the only one we didnt want to win immunity, and they win immunity, this is gonna make tribal fucked. I dont know what we are gonna do atm but i will to figure something out.

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Pre Double Elimination Tribal: I may have done it. It was messy bjt with the order of events, I may have been able to pull the strings to get Ginger voted out. Its going to have to keep Tyler in the dark but its going to have to be a risk we take. Ginger it too full on and too wild. He can't be trusted come merge 100%. Tyler i think we can work with a bit at least

Double tribal? No thank you. I’m hoping it’s allan that goes home, I never thought I’d say that. I’d really like to survive this tribal idk if I am though. I’m v nervous

Uhhh so apparently we didn't merge and we have a double elimination round instead (Again???? I wonder if it's a redemption type thing this time). I couldn't compete in the immunity challenge due to a busy weekend irl so I'm vulnerable and really just hope I make it to merge. This round ended up being quite an emotional rollercoaster for me, here's a recap of some of my thoughts: 4:16 AM So ngl I would've wanted to go for Liana had she not won immunity She seems very sweet but I have chatted with her the least out of everyone She might've felt she was in danger Now I'm a bit lost and hope at least someone would tip me off if my name's thrown around 5:14 AM There's no way Ginger is voting Tyler out 8:26 AM Hmmm Jacob wanting to vote for Ginger I think Tyler I bet doesn't want that I'm trying to imagine whether I'd be willing to sacrifice Ginger or not if it came down to it I'd rather not I think Because he's been very open with me about his relationships and stuff So I feel I have a good read on him atm He still hasn't revealed he knows Clash though And I know he is capable of being messy Very good socially So I'm definitely scared of him But he is one of my closest bonds here atm so losing that would suck Of course if it comes down to me or him I have to go for it This really sucks because I like everyone on this tribe Jacob said he's closest to Emily and Tyler Tyler saying he wants to work with me and Ginger These relationships are so complex it's gonna be hard to find a common target And I don't even know what's my own preference I change it every three seconds 2:05 PM I tipped Michael off that Tyler and Ginger have become pretty close And he made a point that betraying that trust could cause us problems at merge Which I agree with So that leaves us Jacob I like Jacob a lot he is super nice but I agree he would probably be the 'least problematic' boot besides Liana As long as Emily is fine with it God I really just want to make merge and jury I've never not made them so my heart would break a little if I didn't Although my heart will break a little having to cast a vote for someone on this tribe tonight Everyone's so nice ugh 3:33 PM Um Okay so Michael told me Tyler is gunning for Em??? Apprently because her and I are close Soooo he wants to take a stab at me too? Not stunned by that That's not the best thing to hear right after establishing an alliance with someone Kinda feeling uneasy about Tyler and Ginger now People I am not voting for 100%: - Emily - Michael - Liana (she's immune lol) I feel Emily and Michael are being 100% with me So that makes me feel good about them 4:50 PM So looks like it'll be Ginger going That kinda sucks and kinda doesn't (mostly does) I'm partially okay with it because I've honestly been spooked by him since the very first day, he is very strong socially and he likes to be controversial sometimes which I like to stay away from as much as possible BUT That guy trusts me And he is genuinely very nice I like talking to him I'm gonna feel super super super dirty voting him out My heart will be filled with sorrow and I'm kinda scared of his anger afterwards He has been super honest with me so far But others are being put off by his aggressive playstyle Ughh it breaks my heart to lie to Ginger But I’m not gonna go out of my way to save him here I just don’t think that would be smart plus the numbers just wouldn’t be there Plus I feel more secure moving forward with Emily and Michael 0:04 AM I feel really really bad about this, haven't really been able to eat all day I understand why I took a six month break from orgs My mind is just not built for these I feel too bad about betraying people Plus I just think this move isn't quite ideal for me I'm betraying someone who trusts me so much and leaving out Tyler who also wanted to work with me, at least if I was alongside Ginger But I really just feel more comfortable staying with Emily and Michael I'm so sorry I'm a pussy and don't want to go out of my way to save an ally It's on me 0:57 AM I might have just messed up because I just talked to Liana assuming she had already heard about the plan but turns out NO ONE had talked to her about it yet... Two hours before tribal???? God if she lets Tyler or Ginger know I am going to be in massive trouble Also I don't think I can attend the tribal live I feel sick and disgusted at myself because of this vote, it's too much I hate myself Ginger I'm so sorry you were nothing but a good friend to me and I'm doing you so dirty I feel absolutely horrible having to lie to your face

Did I already make a confessional about this? idk. I won immunity! yay! this is good on two ends: I cant get blindsided and; I can maintain a fiction with my Ala Mai boys that I would have been next to go most likely if I need to. Right now the target is Allen, because if we vote Randy out Pat will be miffed. My only issue with that is it gives Pat a lot of power, especially if its not an American who gets voted out from the other tribe.

So that immunity didn’t go well. The one person we couldn’t have winning the challenge, won the challenge. Now the 4 are going to have to cannibalise ourselves and I definitely fear that eyes are on myself and Clash. Our only hope is to try and get Stephen on our side but I’m really not sure if we’ll be able to do that

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Arg hi. Just woke up and we’re gonna thrive today. That’s a lie I never actually thrive it’s a facade. Anywho we’re going to tribal cause of the double tribal twist hooray. Everyone was down to vote liana but oh no she won immunity. Right so I like ginger and Jacob but these rats are going after eachother. Everyone is extremely quiet I wouldn’t be surprised if it was me going. It looks like we don’t have enough votes to save Jacob idk, I just don’t want to be voted out ok bye

Nothing is cooking like im so bored Stephen own the individual immunity challenge so now the four of me pat clash and allan have to vote out im voting allan out, hope they do

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Totally valid for you guys to still enjoy flip side. It maintains a lot of the original games aesthetic, and although the flaws outweigh any enjoyment i can really get from the game, i can see how some people like it. I only saw a playthrough, so the things i have to say will mostly come from an outsiders perspective. Mostly, my issues with the mechanics were about what the options we were given said. In choice-based games, the outcomes of the choices you make says a lot about what the game is trying to say.

In co09, when playing as nicole, the player was often forced to pick between two shitty options- egg a boy about to jump off a roof on, or let him down and maybe cause him to kill himself, date a girl you dont like back and manipulate her, or make her cry, etc. in the first game, usually the option that results in the best ending is being a terrible person, like doubling down on lies, or manipulating people. Meanwhile, if you try to be nice to people, you get some of the worst endings in the game. Through these mechanics, the game truly does get you to ‘see things nicole’s way.’ The re-up is a little different, but lets just jump to the flip side already. Maybe ill do a dissection on the reup another post.

Lets take a look at the choices in the flip side. The first choice you get is whether to play the home route or school route. Little confusing, given the timeline fuckery, but alright. 3 of the endings branch from the home route, and 2 from the school route. If you pick home, the next choice is whether to indulge jeffreys.. foot thing. If you choose not to (because why would you, honestly?), you get the ending where jecka gets trafficked. Great. Not mention that all the wild shit that goes down there has nothing to do with the initial choice. What is this trying to tell us? In the original co09, nicole entertaining the advances made on her resulted in the suicide ending, considered to be the worst ending of the first game (imo). This tells us that being nice to people will only bring nicole suffering.

Jump back to the flip side, which tells us that.. not indulging in other peoples fetishes and/or selling your body for money.. results in… terrible suffering?? Being trafficked??? Theres a significant disconnect between the choice we made and the consequences. In a game like this, its hard to strike a balance in the routes. You dont want too much predictability, but the path the story took needs to make sense in hindsight, at the least. Something that flip sides overuse of shock value throws out the window. If there was even one more choice to be made between the choice and the ending, the storyline would have been significantly easier to follow.

If you entertain the foot stuff, the next choice is whether or not to let nicole in on the profits. If you dont, nicole ruins your life. If you do, nicole saves your life (on this level, nicoles actions are incredibly in character. If only the actual revenge she enacted was too…). This, i actually dont have many complaints with. Its a decent storyline, though i wish the choice wasnt centered on nicole, given this game is supposed to be about jecka. That issues pretty small in comparison to the shitshow that is the FYE ending. Honestly, if it wasnt for the fact that nicoles revenge was wildy ooc, and that the only decent ish ending forces you to sit through an hour of foot fetish content, and all the other ways this game fails in the execution, its fine.

With school route, the choices start (and end) with jecka making the decision to flirt with her history teacher. It feels like a weird choice, given the fact that it would normally be the time for player input, and that lying to get out of situations is absolutely a nicole thing, and jeckas been established to be a bad liar. But she does that, and either saves her future or her friendship. This is the first and ONLY choice that matters in the school route. The other choice leads to the same ending, so it hardly matters.

Firstly, its just not a lot of content. A lot like the FYE ending, these routes feel like they could benefit from more options. Maybe less so for the nicole suicide ending, given i think its supposed to play out like a terrifying movie, as the characters recreate dialogue that we, the player, have heard before, from a different perspective, knowing where the story ends. I guess i dont have any complaints with that, given it mostly accomplishes its goal. The B plot of jeckas fallout with the teacher date thing is mostly just boring and forgettable.

The car crash ending does kinda suck though, for the same reasons as the FYE ending. Its just so random. Your choice doesnt matter, the ending is a shock value coincidence, and the game tells you nothing. Theres no subtext, just the random death of a side character (bury your gays? Maybe, maybe not, but this wouldnt be an analysis without a buckwild claim, eh?). Its just disappointing. Even jeckas ending monologue acknowledges that the ending had no impact on anything, cuz this ‘wasnt her fault.’ Isnt the whole point of class of 09 to see what the consequences of you actions are?

In games like that, you can absolutely break your own rules, but it has to have meaning. In the original nicole suicide ending, it doesnt matter whether you go to your counselor or not, the endings all the same. This worked because it showed how fucked up the system was, how useless the adults there to help were. It meant something. Made the ending work better, hit harder. In flip side, it doesnt matter whether you choose to drunk drive or not. Why? It doesnt elevate the ending in any way. All it does is deprive us of a sixth route. Ari’s death doesnt even have meaning. Its a one-off joke. Which also breaks the rules. Co09 ending monologues are one of the few serious moments in the story. A few, like the valedictorian ending, are kinda goofy, but in a game that is otherwise just misery porn, the inversion doesnt really work. Just makes it seem like all the suffering leading up to the ending was for nothing. The joke wasnt even funny. Breaking the rules established by the storytelling formula cant be done willy- nilly. It needs intention.

5 endings is also just not enough for 15 dollars of content. Theres just not that much substance in the game. Too few choices, too few endings, too little effort put in. I was supposed to talk about mechanics, but like half of this rant turned out to be about storytelling anyway. Oh well, its a visual novel, what can you do?

sick of seeing people complain about the flipside

it was SUPPOSED to be uncomfortable

that was the fucking POINT

to show how fucked up jeckas life is

also to the ppl complaining about nicole being ooc are you fucking blind??? she was always like that???

#when you take a step back and dissect the game like this #you realize just how much potential the game had #multiple times while writing this i had to stop and think #‘wait shit this was actually pretty clever’#on the planning side anyway #shame the execution turned out the way it did #the foundations for a good game were buried somewhere in the dumpster fire that is the flip side #class of 09 #the flipside #class of 09 the flip side

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I havent been feeling myself for the last few days. So I am back here and writing. I don’t know exactly when it started, I have been a bit harder on myself of late, but I thought that was helping and giving me direction, and the feeling of accomplishment of goal completeing/pursuing. But that is more and overall scope. My current goals are to save my money so I can look to purchase somewhere so I can stop paying rent. I can’t go back and live with my parents, that I know. But I’ve agreed to go back there on weekends, what is that about. I know i need to show gratitude, they are letting me stay there, but do i want to? I did start looking for jobs in that area even, I’m not sure, I think i would prefer to be on my own all the same.

My grandfather passed away a few weeks ago, just before my mothers birthday, and that was a sad ocassion, but I thought I had got through that. I am gratefeul for how Gab rescued me from it at one stage.

I thought i ad got through that OK, i had reminded myself I wasnt to see him again, and thats what death is, an inability to someone ever again no matter how much you may want to. Similar is choosing not to see someone ever again, which also is a thing.

So that was all through, and i was working on saving my money, I think at that time I may have been a bit busier, I was doing guitar straight away after work, and that was giving me some release, and i was getting head space at work which was nice, of late i have been rushing a bit, and it can be difficult coming down from that doing doing doing. So i would play guitar for a bit and that was good, becaus ei have decided i would like to play guitar, and thats one of my goals. Nothing but that. And I am branching into blue which suits me fine, as many of my favoiurite artists hang out in that genre, and i can still spill back out into rock if that is what i choose.

Ok so saving money, and guitar. And I;ve also been training my running so i can look to compete in a half marathon. I was going to go away to the hunter valley with a guy from work, but there is little talk in that front, and i am hesitant to bring it up, so i wont. But i am still training for it. Well I was, but then i got injured at soccer around 9 days ago and have injured my groin, which i am working at repairing, but it means no training in running, which i was taking to quite well. I’m not sure where i will compete for the half marathon, but i will keep training for it, well at least get a 5km base 2-3 times a week. But it would be good to get it done this year. I would say Hunter Valley is unlikely to happen, but there is one in the city coming up, which i can lookin into, well i have looked into it, but i still havent decided if i will enter. That is something i need to decide upon. Which apparently i have designated for the end of this week.

Other than that I cam training my brain for some reason using a nintendo ds game, i have noticed when i feel good i perform pretty well in this game, so this would be a good way to test my mental health. I feel foggy by the way. And lethargic and unmotivated, and i am worried i will lose my mind and memory, i feel like a husk. and i still feel, but all i want to do is be alone, which is a dangerous thing.

On Thursday night past, I went to get my glasses, and i was getting eyes from one of the girls, but wouldnt do anything to secure her advances.

At that time, my only thought was to get my glasses, obviously i didnt want to go, but i might as weel go because there is a time. I guess i have been doing that at work the last few days, and it has started to take a toll. Anyway there was this girl giving me eyes and i was aware of here, she was making it easy for me, but i wouldnt talk to here, i didnt know what to say, and i didnt want everyone to see me talking to her, so i proceeded to blank her, finding oblivious ignoring the easier thing for me to do. But still at this stage i was still mentally working, i was still there, and now i feel like im not. At this very moment i feel okay, but over the course of the last few days i have not.

SO that was Thursday, Friday was a little different I worked, and I was usng this computer program to generate diagrams, i am still learning it, as it is a good skill to have. So i worked hard on Thursday so i would be able to work on this program. And there i am told by Dave that Mitch has asked hm not to let me use the program. So that’s not very good thing to hear, when i am desparate to get better at this program, so i can become better and more confident with designing, so i can look for a future possible in designing. This is my current aim for at work beyond doing enough not to get fired, and do a good job. I also have the aim to relarn a bit of the chemical engineering things in Perrys when i find time. My current plan is to only use that program once a week for a few hours. and then otherwise when i finish my work to get into that book. I just seem to be fucking around on a whole bunch of half arsed stuff that i can’t really get my teeth stuck into, or a whole plan to get done. Im more working at the rate things spill onto me, from other people, and i have been finding it a bit overwhelming. Nothing is being communicated to me about changes. I’m just working on my feet, and doing a bit of other peoples work. Now that was today, yesterday i can barely remember, i was very tired is all i know in the morning, and i slowly got to work, but i remember feeling a little off, and having many teas. I was like its a Monday, and i normally feel a little off Mondays. Again it was a bit of a weird one, but when i spoke with Ryan yesterday I think i was still a little on, as i tried to help him find this contract for this flow meter i am looking to get supplied. And i spoke with Scott while we had to check on the glue that wasn’t filling quickly enough, but i think theres a permanent fix on that now, but all that was holding me up. I managed to get some physicals cut, so i will have time hopefully Thursday to do some work on Solidworks. I guess that means it was only today when i felt a lot off.

So last night i got in and had to ice my thighs, and i read a bit through this time, then i ate some dinner, and started to complete my guitar practice and lesson. And it all went pretty well. I did comple coitus inturptus. and at the end of which i was still annoyed at myself for not completing re-evaluating life goals, which i wanted to look at, after being challenged first by myself for skipping out of plans that didnt line up with my current goals, but also challenged by my sister, who made me feel the way in which i avoid social interactions is bad, while i do it becasuse i value my own time more. I dont know, so i havent reevaluated. So post coitus interputus i thought about it, and came up with make up early and no coitus inteutus for a month, which was a long standing one from when i got back from NZ. i have already failed on the second one, as i dont know why i have it, and i understad i have it to increase desire, but withough a resource to relocate that energy i though it not the best option in my current mind, which is at a somewaht battle over it, not its first battle but a battle all the same.

So last nigh i listened to Stevy Ray Vaughan play his guitar, and he is quite talented on the old guitar, different from B.B. King though, whose guitaring i could follow, which left me feel a bit overwheled and underwheling as a player. But its somewhere to aim for. And im unsure if i want to learn blues, as it isn’t my favouite variant of music, but as i said before i can use it as a stepping stone for rock. And i am getting better.

So i woke up early this monring, and felt a little foggy, got to work a bit early because i was hungry, and thats where food is located, got to eating, and got to meeting, and it all went quite well. But it was around this time i started to feel a bit weird, and im still unsure exactly what created it, but maybe i am a bit overwhelmed by everything and i need to take a step back for a little bit, so i can get back to normal. Because i have also been slowly neglecting texting my friends, putting it off until all my stuff is done, which i cant get all done and yeah.

Now after all this i still feel a little overwhelemed. and a bit off. and i still am unsure what to do. Other than wait, and hope to feel better. Without recognizig the true cause, but i suspect it is overwhelming.

Until later,

Which i think will be soon

Upon rereading this, i fiure i am being anxious and putting too much pressure on myself to be someone i am not, yes i can work well, but i need to do it my own way, and then when i notice i am not feeling flash i scracth at the wound and make it all worse. Its when i stare at my thiughts trying to see fi they are normal, where i need to step back and just let me be. Its this odd balance of goals and not scrutinizing myself.

Okay anxious reducing time.

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Passing The Blue Comic

To beat the the blue comic is a long jump at the end if blue mario is close to the star do the long jump you will go over him and you will win. Anley do this when he is close to the star. I tried it work for me.

Infinite 1-Ups

If you grab any 1-Up Mushroom at the CometObservatory, you can then head into any dome, backout, and arrive back at the Comet Observatorywithout having played any stage. This will makethe 1-Up Mushroom you acquired reappear.

How To Defeat Boos Under Water

When you get a shell under water there is a lightbeaming out of it then shine it on the boos.

Stylish Ground Pound

While in the air do a spin and then instantly after ground pound, it will look like a ballerina version of a ground pound. Theres really no point in doing this except it looks really cool.

How To Beat Bowser

Just make bowser jump on the blue thing and spin when he is about to hit you. Then spin by him and do that 3 or 4 times!

Red Flying Mario

When you get the 5th grand star you’ll unlock two domes. Ones called the garden and ones called the gate. Go through the gate and get on top of the Coliseum. Now talk to Rosalina and a red luma will appear. Talk to it and purple coins will appear. Collect all of them and go back to where you found the red luma. A red star will be there. Collect the red star and go to the garage. A red power-up will be there. Get it and start flying!

How Too Be Ghost Mario

Go to the haunted house and and see a white thing go too it be it and how too go over prees a and shake.

How To Defeat Bugaboom

Galaxy:Honeyhive galaxy mission:third mission big bad Bugaboom. To defeat Bugaboom get on top of him and ground pound. Now turn into Bee Mario and fly onto the honeycomb wall on the tree master your timing. When he gets under you GET OFF AND GROUND POUND! Now repeat but DO NOT ground pound when he turns. AND AVOID BOMBS!

Easy Way To Defeat Fire Dino Piranah

As soon as he is free of his shell, he will begin chasing you. He is always faster than you. The best thing to do is turn around and go around him. He has a one track mind. When he starts running, he can’t do a full 180. If you try to gradually turn around him, he has enough time to react. Just turn around and pass him. Watch which side the tail goes out on, and the next time you hit the tail, it will go out no the other side. If you do this, its a cinch.

How To Beat Fire Dino Piranah

In order to beat the piranah you must first wait until the falame on his tail goes out. Then, continue to do that but remember that he/she runs faster after every time you hit his/her tail. HINT:his/her tail will light on fire faster and faster.

Star In Golden Chomp

When you get the mystery coins in gusty garden, level 3, there will be a rainbow star. Get it then go to the golden chomp; after that a star will come out.

Hidden Star In Beach Bole

Did you know there is a hidden star in beach bole? Grab a sheel go to the pangin that’s running. Go down more and there will be a chest. Hit it with the sheel. A sling pod will appear. Go in it do the rest. And that how you get a secret star.

Flying Ability

Go to the gate talk to lady Rosalina then talk to the red luma then use red star to fly and collect all 100 purple coins. Then after go to the top of the bedroom or the garage and use the red star.

Freezing Opponents (Only Able With 2 Players)

In 2 player mode, you can actually FREEZE opponents! The Star Bit collector simply clicks the “A” button on an opponent or rock or.anything (except bosses)! This will let you be able to hit them while they are freezed and just kill them that way!

Smashing Rocks

In the first level of Good Egg Galxy, complete the level up to the part with the rolling rocks and weird sticky green stuff. You need two players to do this. The Star Bit collector has to press the “A” button when positioned on one rock. This rock will freeze and the next rock will smash into it, causing a lot of Star Bits to come out of them. Do this with every rock until it is cleared. It will be a good way to earn more Star Bits and easier to get the pieces of the Launch Star.

Megaleg

To defeat megaleg, get to the top of him and make the bullet bills smash into the dome with the grand star in it.

The Last Star

After you have Mario and Luigi with 120 stars and defeated Bowser to get the Grand Finale Galaxy go there to collect 100 purple coins and get the last star (the 121 star).

Passing Sea Slide Bonus

To pass the sea slide bonus (Hurry, he hungry), first you need to feed the luma star bits. Then before you go into the cannon, grab the Bee Mario that way you can fly over the holes and not get sucked in to death.

Breaking Into The Battlerock

When you give a luma 40 star bits you get a new plant. You only get 30 sec to blow up all the junk. A faster way is to get a bomb and jump on it. Be careful lose lives.

Extra Lives

Because you start each game with only four lives(after shutting the game off and turning it backon), you might be in need of some extra lives uponrebooting the game. You can usually get five rightoff the bat from Toad (he’ll run around with aletter above his head, symbolizing a letter fromeither Luigi, or more likely Peach). There arefour more strewn around the Observatory that youcan acquire, however: * 1.) On the moving green platform below the core. * 2.) Under the stairs leading to the kitchen. * 3.) Right at the top of the observatory.(Once the Red Star is unlocked) * 4.) Underneath the entrance to the gatewayto the stars. (Once the Red Star is unlocked) * 5.) Next to the StarShroom (in a crate)

Second Player

If you have a second Wii controller, you can havea friend play along with you. While there won’t bea second player on-screen, you will have a secondcursor to use. This means that Coins, Star Bits,and the like can be collected by the secondplayer. There’s also some functionality incontrolling Mario’s jumps.

Super Stomp

If you want to do a specialized stomp with Marioor Luigi, try the following. When you jump, beforeyou press the Z button to do the Ground Pound,spin by shaking the Wii controller. As you arespinning, you can then press the Z button. Theresult? A stronger stomp that will actually trackthe enemy and follow it, kind of like aheat-seeking missile!

Homing Attack!

In order to perform the Homing Attack in Super Mario Galaxy, execute Mario’s SpinAttack while in midair, quickly press Z. Mario will do the Homing Attack on thenearest enemy or target.

1-up

There is a one up on top of the garden center. (need flying star)

How To Defeat Dino Piranah

You hit him with a spin attack on the tail to crack him in egg form and hurt him in regular form. But after the first time you hit him in regular form you better be fast or done for.

1ups On The Start Area

1. In a box in the garage.2. Under the stairs on your way to the kitchen.3. Under the platform with the gate on it. (need the fly star.)4. Along the rotating green path near the terrace.(need the fly star)

Grand Finale Galaxy

Grand Finale Galaxy isn’t really a galaxy. It’s the level in front of the castle where you start the game with Mario. To unlock it, you have to get all 120 stars with Mario, then do it again with Luigi. When you do this, Princess Rosalina will ask you to go to Bowser’s Galaxy Reactor. Say yes, fight Bowser. Then she will bring you back home. It has one star, The Star Festival. You have to collect 100 purple coins. When you get them all, go to Mailtoad and he’ll send a congratulatory message to your Wii Message board. You have just beat the game 100%!NOTE: You have to beat it with both Mario AND Luigi to beat it 100%!

Where To Find 3 1up Mushrooms

There is 3 1up mushrooms. 1 is in the crate in the garage. 1 is under the stair at the kitchen. And 1 is under the library (note you must get on the green thing after it is under it).

Get 5 1up Mushrooms From Peach

Sometimes peach will send a letter with 5 1up mushrooms.

How To Beat Bowser

This is simple. Make him jump on the blue circles it will bust and make lava burn his butt.

Get A Longer Life

When first starting the bee galaxy. Walk backwards and there should be a sign. Just to the right of that should be a little cliff. Jump on that and you will get a boost in life. (*note: may not work on all bee galaxy levels)

Get A1up

Go under the stairs at the kitchen.

Flying Mario Ability

To get the Flying Mario ability go to the Gate, which is located on that flying island. You can get there when you unlock the Garden observatory. First, go to the castle thing on the planet you appear on. Then a scene will appear and then a red Luma will tell you to get all 100 the purple coins. He will let you use the Flying Mario ability. Then, when you get all the coins, you can go to the red Luma which is located on top of the Bedroom observatory. I hope you enjoy flying!

Easier Bigmouth Galaxy

When you enter the area with the two hemispheresof water, there is no need to collect the starpieces to make a boost star. Instead, get near thewall when you surface, then jump out of the waterand perform a wall jump followed immediately by aspin. You should be in the upper hemisphere.

Better Jumps

When jumping, shake the wii remote to stay in the air for better jumps.

Cheats

Start Fast

When racing Cosmic Mario in Super Mario Galaxy, before the race starts press andhold forward. Then press Z when the starting clock is at 2 and then press A whenthe race starts.

Unlockables

Unlock More Mario Costumes

Bee Mario – Get the Bee Mushroom. With this, Mario can fly for short periods oftime. Rainbow Mario – Get the Rainbow Star. This makes Mario temporarily invincible. Boo Mario – Get the Boo Mushroom. This allows Mario to pass through solidobjects. Ice Mario – Get the Ice Flower. This allows Mario to freeze water by walking onit. Fire Mario – Get the Fire Flower. This allows Mario to shoot fireballs. Flying Mario – Get the Red Star. This allows Mario to fly in the game. Spring Mario – Get the Spring Mushroom. This allows Mario to bounce higher.

121st Star

There’s actually 121 Stars in the game, not 120.To get it, you must first have all 120 Stars. Thisunlocks Luigi. Beat the entire game with Luigi,defeating Bowser at the end. After this, a newgalaxy will be unlocked. Finish this final galaxyto get the 121st Star.

Play As Luigi

Collect all 120 stars and fight bowser. After the credits you will get a message that luigi is a playable.

Death Count

The Grand Finale Galaxy, which is the secretgalaxy that can be unlocked after 120 Stars aregathered with both Mario and Luigi, holds anothersecret. Once the final Star is acquired with bothcharacters in this galaxy, you will be able to seeyour death count on your save file. This willallow you to see how many times you died whileplaying the game with both Mario and Luigi.

Luigi

Finish the whole game (Which means to get all 120 stars), then go back to the Comet Observatory and talk to Rosalina and ask to fight Bowser one more time. Once you defeat Bowser, Luigi will become available.

Easter eggs

Currently we have no easter eggs for Super Mario Galaxy yet. If you have any unlockables please feel free to submit. We will include them in the next post update and help the fellow gamers. Remeber to mention game name while submiting new codes.

Glitches

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RIP Wii U: Nintendo’s glorious, quirky failure

Nintendo has ceased production of Wii U less than five years after its launch. What went wrong, and what will be its legacy?

In late January it was announced that Nintendo had ceased production of the Wii U console. The follow-up machine to the hugely successful Wii had sold fewer than 15m units worldwide since its launch in 2012. PlayStation 4 sold more in a year. Wii sold more than 100m in its lifetime.

What happened? How did Nintendo, one of the oldest and most respected companies in the video game industry, get it so wrong? And did anything good come out of the Wii U era? How will the machine be remembered, if at all?

Certainly, some believe the console was cursed from the start right from the first announcement at the 2011 E3 video game conference in Los Angeles. Before that, Nintendo had made vague references to Project Cafe, a new piece of hardware deep in development at the companys famed R&D labs, but the nature of the device was unclear. The E3 presentation was supposed to be the big reveal.

Then, there it was at the Nintendo press conference, in front of the whole games industry. Wii U. Reggie-Fils-Aim, head of Nintendo America, gave an obtuse introduction and showed the unique GamePad controller, with its built-in display. After this, came a showreel of gaming moments, then nothing. The crowd whooped, but when the lights went down, a few expressed confusion: was the Wii U GamePad an extension to the original Wii? Was it an entirely new console? That evening, in an interview with the Evening Standard, the late Nintendo president Satoru Iwata stated: Because we put so much emphasis on the controller, there appeared to be some misunderstanding.

The PS4 and Xbox One, high-powered machines arrived and changed the gaming landscape. Composite: Xbox One S v PS 4 Pro v PS4 Slim v Project Scorpio

A masterpiece of understatement. In some ways, that misunderstanding never went away. Even when it became clear that Wii U was a whole new console, with a unique motion-sensitive screen pad, consumers were nonplussed. There had been rumours that, with its custom AMD 7 series graphics chipset and IBM multicore central processor, the machine would be more powerful than the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 especially as it was arriving years after those machines debuted. But before the launch, developers were already whispering to news sources that this was not the case driving the second-screen would eat up the graphics processing power and the CPU wasnt that special. It was all academic anyway: barely a year later, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One arrived to completely change the technological landscape.

But Nintendo wasnt competing with PlayStation and Xbox, and never really had. Instead, it needed to convert the tens of millions of Wii owners whod rarely bought consoles before; whod been seduced by the Wii Remote controller and the immediate, social experience it promised. Those people were now quietly migrating to other platforms: smartphones, tablets, set-top boxes … Thats who the Wii U was aimed at.

In the months following E3, it was at least picking up interest from the development community. I had done work on the N64, Gameboy, GameCube and Wii and I still maintain they were my favourite systems to work on, so when the WiiU was announced it had me excited, says Byron Atkinson-Jones of Xiotex Studios I wanted to see how far we could go in game design terms with the two screen setup. Were we going to get new game paradigms like we did with the Wii and its controllers?

However, even before the launch, the games media was complaining about a lack of compelling first-party content. The machine would arrive with only two major Nintendo titles, the mini-game collection Nintendo Land, and New Super Mario Bros U, a decent side-scrolling platformer, but by no means a major Mario title with with little involvement from Miyamoto. There were intriguing moments: Nintendo Land has the clever asymmetrical multiplayer action of Luigis Ghost Mansion and the boisterous arena-battler Animal Crossing: Sweet Day. But there was also nothing as immediately compelling as Wii Sports or Wii Play nothing that completely crystallised the idea of the GamePad.

Veteran developer Rhodri Broadbent once worked for Q-Games in Japan, and met Shigeru Miyamoto while making Star Fox Command. He felt there should still have been a role for the Wii Remote in the new era. The fact that Wii U did not come bundled with a Wii Remote was really disappointing to me, he says. I felt that the identity of the Wii Remote was worth continuing, and that combining the jump to HD visuals with the jump to HD motion control of the Wii Remote Plus would have been a smart play. In terms of marketing, the Wii Remote was iconic from the get-go, whereas the GamePad sadly didnt really get to find its identity in either software, nor marketing. There were some truly excellent, best-in-class games released for Wii U, but very few of them gave life or character to the GamePad.

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The GamePad, as a unique selling point, was also a unique curse, an albatross around the neck of the whole project. Designers struggled over its multifaceted nature: should they support it as a standalone screen, a second-screen for the TV, or as a device to allow asymmetrical multiplayer experiences (the player with the GamePad is able to have a different experiences to others using Wii Remotes). It was a tough business proposition too. Games publishers like to be able to transition their projects freely between different machines most modern game engines are platform agnostic making this process easier. But Wii Us controller demanded a different approach, so including the console on multiplatform projects was complicated and expensive even if they were just going to use the GamePad as a mini-map, which many did.

Of the third-party games available at launch, most were quick conversions of familiar PlayStation and Xbox titles: Call of Duty, Batman, Fifa… few of these exploited the GamePad feature-set in truly innovative ways. The best was perhaps ZombiU, a fascinating survival horror title with a neat permadeath mechanic, set in a post-apocalyptic London that made inspired use of the GamePad as both an environment scanner and a cellphone. With its tense, gory action, it also brilliantly subverted expectations of a Nintendo launch title. But it wasnt enough.

The problem is, mainstream game development is all about confidence. Console manufacturers have to be certain that third-party publishers will support the device; third-party publishers have to be sure that consumers will buy it, and draw confidence from first-party titles; and consumers wont commit until they know there will be great titles from both first- and third-party studios. Its a vicious circle of reliance, and it often all depends on that launch week. Nintendo just didnt come up with the goods to inspire consumers, and because of this, the likes of Activision, Electronic Arts and Ubisoft were all backing off right from the outset.

Meanwhile, Nintendo was trying to make things easier for independent developers, noticing the huge influx of excellent indie titles on the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. After the success of the 3DS eShop in attracting experimental games, the company set out to improve its digital store for the home console experience. However, its legacy was not good. On the Wii, support for smaller studios was patchy: the submissions process was, according to some studios, extremely lengthy, and there were sales thresholds that made it risky to commit to offbeat projects. Even after these problems had been addressed, Wii U had no support for the important multi-platform games engine Unity until much later in the consoles lifespan, strangling its potential with the indie community.

[The Wii U dev kit] was clunky and far more difficult to setup than its predecessors, says Atkinson-Jones. I remember opening the box it came in and there was a warning saying it was very easy to brick the machine so getting it setup was a terrifying prospect. Id love to say I got further than this but the reality is that even though Nintendo had signed So Hungry to appear on WiiU, Unity would not actually be ready for another year its because of this my other game Blast Em! came about and thankfully that game has kept my studio running. Once you got past all the problems of setup and getting a working build of Unity, it was just that much harder than doing any kind of cross platform work – the big difference being the two displays of course.

Nintendos Wii and revolutionary remote. Photograph: Andrew Parsons/PA

So the Wii U had a lot to contend with: a poorly conceived debut, a unique selling point that was difficult to describe, and a hesitant development community unwilling to commit resources to a quirky machine. But it did provide moments of genuine brilliance. The defining first-party titles Super Mario 3D World, Mario Kart 8, Super Smash Bros, Splatoon and Pikmin 3 may not have been top tier Nintendo originals (theres no Miyamoto Mario, no new Zelda), but they were excellent games, filled with interesting ideas and classic moments of design genius.

Pikmin 3 is one of the greatest games I have ever played on any system, says Broadbent. Its mission mode is so tightly balanced, with so many tricks and techniques to optimise battles, find new routes and shave seconds off your time that I can and often did replay the same mission for entire days without noticing that the my weekend had disappeared. Im a big fan of the oft-overlooked, but to my mind never bettered, New Super Mario Bros U, especially the challenge modes. And keeping with Mario, Super Mario Makers musical, whimsical user interface is a masterclass in hiding complexity and infusing character into menus the way the sound effects harmonise with the background music as you place objects on the screen is endlessly charming to me.

There were beautiful third-party games too, sparsely spread out though the machines lifespan perhaps, but certainly there. Cult Japanese studio PlatinumGames, best known for its demanding brawlers, was an unexpected hero producing two masterpieces for the machine: the extravagant Bayonetta 2, and the kookie super hero puzzler, Wonderful 101. Warner Bros brought us the excellent Armored edition of Batman Arkham City, but also the ludicrously overlooked Lego City Undercover, a hilarious Grand Theft Auto pastiche, which is now rightfully being remade for current consoles.

More importantly however, there were indie developers who truly embraced the idiosyncracies of the system and its development environment. We enjoy letting the quirks of specific hardware inspire new ideas and features here, so from a design point of view, Wii U was a lot of fun, says Broadbent. Gyros, a camera, a touch screen there was a lot there to use. For Scram Kitty, I had the idea of making the titular cat appear as a sort of sports commentator on the TV while the player focused on the GamePad action, and although in the end that element didnt turn out to be an essential feature of the game, it was a great source of personality for the game, and one which kept throwing up new ideas throughout development.

Highlights included DrinkBox Studios crazed platformer Guacamelee!: Super Turbo Championship Edition, the lovely retro platformer Shantae and the Pirates Curse, and the intriguing puzzler Art of Balance. Most were multiplatform, but lots used the Wii U capabilities in interesting ways. A key example was the engrossing Affordable Space Adventures from Danish developer KnapNok Games. In this interstellar puzzle game, the GamePad was used to monitor and interact with your crafts primary systems, including engines, anti-gravity controls and scanner, providing a great Star Trek bridge experience.

There were also thoughtful conversions of iOS titles, including Dakko Dakkos translation of the spooky narrative adventure Year Walk. We took a much more all-in approach to the machines feature set, combining the gyros, touch screen, separate displays, and even subtly altering the audio between the gamepad and the TV, to create very satisfying controls and puzzles, says Broadbent. The end result feels uniquely suited to Wii U.

Its also worth remembering Nintendos unique attempts to create friendly online communities around the Wii U. The Miiverse is a family-friendly social network in which players can chat about what theyre playing, draw and share pictures, and seek gaming advice, all within a safe, charming environment populated with customised Mii characters. It was a much more warm, human approach to networked play than Xbox Live or PlayStation Network and, as Jennifer Schneidereit, co-creator of luscious historical adventure Tengami discovered, it allowed unique relationships between developers and players:

It was possible to post to Tengamis Miiverse from within the game, to show level progress or ask other players for help, she says. As a developer I was able to interact with people in Tengamis Miiverse and help with puzzles, answer their questions and listen to their feedback. Because Miiverse posts are not only textual, players can also hand draw and incorporate stamps, it was a real delight to watch players using our stamps to create artwork of their own.

Wii U had a difficult start, with a difficult idea in a difficult era. The E3 presentation blurred what the machine actually was, and the GamePad was never an easy proposition to market unlike the Wii Remote that people could see was fun, just from the adverts. Meanwhile, with Xbox and PlayStation continuing their graphics arms race, and competition coming in from smartphones and tablets, the gaming audience seemed to be stratifying into two groups: the sorts of players who bought consoles and high-end PCs, and the sorts whod quite as happily play Candy Crush Saga for free on their phones. The idea of a console as the central focus of a party or family event, which had peaked between 2005 and 2010 with both the Wii and the rise of music games like Guitar Hero, had drifted out of favour.

Nintendos Shigeru Miyamoto. Photograph: Evan Agostini/Invision/AP

Now here comes the Nintendo Switch, a regeneration of the Wii U concept where the GamePad effectively becomes the console, with its own built-in controllers. If anything, it is a more flagrant attempt to seduce casual players away from their phones, while tapping into the family living-room appeal of the original Wii. Broadbent sees Switch as a reconnection with that machine: Im very happy that the joy-cons have so many little tricks in them, and encouraged to see games like ARMS push forward higher-fidelity motion controls right out the gate. But Im mostly happy that Switchs identity as a home console thats not tied to your TV is being communicated so clearly.

Communication, it seems, is key. The Wii did its own communicating: you just watched people playing Tennis or Bowling and you knew it was fun. Nothing Nintendo has done with its hardware since then has been quite so alluring. But to write off Wii U as a creative failure would be a gross disservice. The GamePad actualised a lot of vague entertainment industry hype about the second screen, and lots of games truly illustrated the magic of the concept. And lets not forget that Wii U also saw Nintendos entry into the toys to life market with its Amiibo characters little figurines that could be placed on the screen to interact with games. They sold over 40m of those.

In years to come, people will pick up the console second-hand, with a few games Super Mario 3D World, Bayonetta 2, Mario Kart 8 and theyll realise what it was that Nintendo had in mind, theyll understand the appeal of the hardware. Much too late, of course.