really stupid idea i had years ago but only believed i had the means to execute this year and it still took longer than was remotely reasonable.
years before that I messed around with ripping my own spc music out from super nintendo games, and observed that I could play save states from the emulator “zsnes” as if they were spcs, even though sometimes there was stuff wrong with them, such as tunes playing with the wrong instruments loaded. That is is how I ended up with the screwy mario paint music which reminded me of dopes. somehow or another i ended up with a version of this options screen tune from the super nes game sparkster which only had this single sound channel active, and it made enough of an impact on me that I continued to dwell on it for long afterward. I thought for certain it must be an error, but the snes plugin for winamp allowed me to disable individual sound channels on a properly created SPC of the tune, and indeed that corny organ is in there just like that, buried under the audible instruments. I hadn’t run winamp in years but I had to dig it out again to export the different layers of the tune for this dumb cartoon. Imagine, if winamp had only been more shoddily coded and unwilling to run on windows 7 this whole mess might have been prevented.
the yeep and meteor were added late when I realized someone might assume this was just a dumb loop of the first pose and turn it off early if I didn’t show something else non-cyclical happening. they need to see that it is a dumb longer sequence than that.
but i also have to consider the organ grinder’s situation: you are trying to encourage people to give you money but then some dumb DOPE comes along and starts doing some STUPID DANCE. it is hard ENOUGH to attract customers when your only skill is spinning a handle to make corny music come out of a box, but NOBODY is going to come with a DOPE there, even WITHOUT the horrible dance.
what are you looking at? me? do you think i am going to bail you out of this? it is not my fault that the music is corny and decided to degrade to its base corniness. if YOU choose to degrade and TRANSFORM into a regular dumb old corny animal that should not be my problem.
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pindopossumump sez:
For once, I believe I know what your title is referencing! And man, that video’s got one hell of an unexpected ending to anyone who watched it without reading the explanation! Reminds me of a Twilight Zone episode, but then again, most things do ;v But it’s an entertaining little video, the rocket knight was plenty cute and the background was cool. Was that reddish sky in the game? It looks great!
Yeah, I agree the music track is a pretty good tune, I especially liked the twangy bass part that sounds like a jew’s harp, ~byoing byoing byoing~ Well, I’ve never listened to any of this series’ OST before, but your video has convinced me to give it a try :”)
Frimpinheap sez:
I have no recollection of where I took that title from or when! I have a document called “quotations.txt” full of silly lines that I compile for this purpose, usually without bothering to note where I found them. if I had searched it for sword instead of possum I might have found
“Undergoing plastic surgery and now empowered with a rocket-powered peg leg and an electrified sword he battled Iron Man.[3]”
curiously I also had one specifically about “one who eats the rocket” meaning the plant but it isn’t in there so maybe I used it years ago.
I have difficulty posting nonsense like this without talking about it. My hope is that the boring text looks dull enough that nobody reads it before perusing the colorful material it accompanies.
the reddish sky is in the introduction sequence to the US version of Rocket Knight Adventures, in place of a scene showing some child-opossum-folk dorking about then getting chased off by pig-folk soldiers, possibly to make the game seem less “cute,” same as having the title character frown instead of smile on the box art, but they failed. The Japan edition also features a band of creatures dressed similarly to the hero’s fate in this video, though that is a complete coincidence! I am surprised no nerd has attempted to educate me on that yet.
I remember that when I saw it was composed by Akira Yamaoka, one of the Sparkster music people, I tried to listen to the Silent Hill music, hoping for a similar energy, and I was very incorrect.
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