Keen5: Shelly/Door Glitch = Bonus level!

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Keen5: Shelly/Door Glitch = Bonus level!

Post by Toomuchsparetime »

I never knew about this until I saw it performed on YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vj-FeSe ... re=related

At 7:25 the glitch is shown. It's an easy way to get to Korath III!

Edit: Fixed the topic title to have '5' instead of '6'. --KR
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Spacy! :crazy
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Post by KeenRush »

That is a very well-known glitch. :)
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Post by Galaxieretter »

Huh... I didn't know about it. But even still I think it's cool to see goofs in games recorded.
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That's true, thanks to DosBox it's now easy, I've been to make a few videos myself... But I guess that has to wait till my new page. :)
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How do you make videos that don't require that weird zbmv codec or whatever it's called?
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Post by Apocalypse Gohan »

Hey you found my how to video.

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CK Guy wrote:How do you make videos that don't require that weird zbmv codec or whatever it's called?
I have no idea. I guess the only way is to convert them somehow after recording, I don't think there's another way in DosBox itself.
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Yup, you just re-encode them with a different codec (or save it as an MPEG file).
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Post by XkyRauh »

Seeing other people play Keen reminds me... one of these days, I'd like to hold a "playtest" of sorts, where everyone is given a small-sized level with a few traps in it, and you video yourself playing it raw--for the first time. Everyone submits a video so we can see hunches and paranoia in action. :)

... From a level design perspective, it'd be awesome to see what percentage of Keeners head left instead of right, or who pursue every last bit of points. :)
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That's an interesting idea. It'd be also nice to know who is, say, left-handed for example. Perhaps it has some effect.
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Picking left or not has something to do with being left-handed, then?

I agree, preferably it might even be something similar to that horror movie Cube.
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Hypercube!
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XkyRauh wrote:Seeing other people play Keen reminds me... one of these days, I'd like to hold a "playtest" of sorts, where everyone is given a small-sized level with a few traps in it, and you video yourself playing it raw--for the first time. Everyone submits a video so we can see hunches and paranoia in action. :)

... From a level design perspective, it'd be awesome to see what percentage of Keeners head left instead of right, or who pursue every last bit of points. :)
Agreed, this does sound like an interesting idea. However, there is always the honesty issue. ;) Oh fucl, that death was embarrassing. Let me start this video over ...
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Post by szevvy »

Traps? Traps you say?

Super Bastard Mario. Best example of traps ever.

Windows version.
http://www.geocities.jp/z_gundam_tanosi ... action.zip

There's also a Java Applet version, runs in web browser. The white screen when it first loads is normal, the game takes 10 seconds or so to load up.
http://www.geocities.jp/z_gundam_tanosi ... /Main.html
However, the music is different and a bit too loud + badly sampled, so if you can do the Windows one.

Enjoy.
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