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Focus
Joined: 04 Dec 2006
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 Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 3:31 am Post subject: A blurb, a thought. |
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Has anyone made a Mirror Mode for left to right platformers?
Mirror SMB3 would be something.
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guest253
Joined: 05 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 10:28 pm |
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that'd be interesting...
some monitors allow mirroring, and if you'd then swap left and right in an emulator.... kinda hard to read i guess, but... |
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Gironika
Joined: 05 Dec 2006
Location: Dragon Range
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| Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 9:58 pm |
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I don't know why, but I've noticed today, playing SMW2 "Yoshi's Island", that I tend to run immediately right instead of left when a level starts.
Donkey Kong Country had ... three or four levels that gave you something if you did so, but for whatever reason, it's something that I'm doing now whenever I'm playing a plattformer.
So, a mirrored SMW would be ... weird in a different way for me!
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SplashBeats
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| Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 10:14 pm |
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| The first level of Gunstar Super Heroes? |
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Scofflaw
Joined: 19 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 12:03 am Post subject: Re: A blurb, a thought. |
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| Focus wrote: |
| Mirror SMB3 would be something. |
This is the best idea I've heard in a while. How hard would that be from a hacking perspective?
Man. I'd play the shit out of mirrored SMB3.
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Focus
Joined: 04 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 1:16 am |
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| Joe wrote: |
| The first level of Gunstar Super Heroes? |
Yeah, the pulled that off pretty well. The circular aspect of it was enjoyable, at least.
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Cryo
Joined: 06 Dec 2006
Location: Columbia, MD
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| Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 2:17 am |
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| Gironika wrote: |
I don't know why, but I've noticed today, playing SMW2 "Yoshi's Island", that I tend to run immediately right instead of left when a level starts.
Donkey Kong Country had ... three or four levels that gave you something if you did so, but for whatever reason, it's something that I'm doing now whenever I'm playing a plattformer.
So, a mirrored SMW would be ... weird in a different way for me! |
You mean run left instead of right, correct?
Because in DKC, they had a DK Coin hidden a few feet to the left of the beginning, which is what started the backwards beginning for me.
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Gironika
Joined: 05 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 11:55 am |
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| Cryo wrote: |
You mean run left instead of right, correct?
Because in DKC, they had a DK Coin hidden a few feet to the left of the beginning, which is what started the backwards beginning for me. |
Exactly that kind of thing, the only thing missing in DKC1 were the hidden coins.
Nevertheless, you could short-cut half a stage if you went left in one particular stage ... I think it was that stage right before that [edit] the first [/edit] lorry-stage.
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option
Joined: 06 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 12:03 pm |
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metrovanias have a good amount of back-tracking...
Once you get to Zebes, Super Metroid even forces you to go left. Maybe thats what the designers had in mind? Like forcing the mindset of exploration on you by going against the standard "left to right" as the first action on the new planet. |
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Joined: 05 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2007 6:01 am |
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| Gironika wrote: |
| Nevertheless, you could short-cut half a stage if you went left in one particular stage ... I think it was that stage right before that [edit] the first [/edit] lorry-stage. |
It was after Mine Cart Carnage, and it was the only level where those genuinely freaky claymation Kremlings appeared. |
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FortNinety
Joined: 04 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 10:47 am |
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Yeah, I've always wondered why you run left to right in Japanese platformers since the language is right to left... right?
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boojiboy7
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Joined: 04 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 1:26 pm |
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| FortNinety wrote: |
| Yeah, I've always wondered why you run left to right in Japanese platformers since the language is right to left... right? |
is it tied to timelines? I mean, I don't know how they work in Japan (if timelines are written any differently), but yeah, it might have a bit to do with that. |
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Joined: 06 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 4:55 pm |
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| boojiboy7 wrote: |
| FortNinety wrote: |
| Yeah, I've always wondered why you run left to right in Japanese platformers since the language is right to left... right? |
is it tied to timelines? I mean, I don't know how they work in Japan (if timelines are written any differently), but yeah, it might have a bit to do with that. |
I could also be that "jump man" sarted running right first thing in Donkey Kong. SMB was an extension of that, and after that came out people just copied it. |
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dmauro
Joined: 04 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 5:01 pm |
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| FortNinety wrote: |
| Yeah, I've always wondered why you run left to right in Japanese platformers since the language is right to left... right? |
| Wikipedia wrote: |
Traditionally, Japanese is written in a format called tategaki. In this format, the characters are written in columns going from top to bottom, with columns ordered from right to left. After reaching the bottom of each column, the reader continues at the top of the column to the left of the current one. This copies the column order of Chinese.
Modern Japanese also uses another writing format, called yokogaki. This writing format is identical to that of European languages such as English, with characters arranged in rows which are read from left to right, with successive rows going downwards. |
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Moogs
Joined: 06 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 5:08 pm |
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Thank you.
I couldn't remember where I read the word origins for "tate" and "yoko." |
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dmauro
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| Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 5:46 pm |
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It's not actually from the words for the writing styles. 縦 (ta te) means vertical and 横(yo ko) means horizontal.
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