Astérix Speedrunning: xxl2

justine1801

Another billion and that number may overflow

martyste

Oh, Justine and Frans, allow me to give you a little funny set of pictures, as a joke from the past. Make it whatever you want.

martyste

I'm hoping to see that happen, it takes hours to grind tho! x3

hesopesomeso

Remainds me of qt creator a bit :obelul:

martyste

haha! except, it was a Jab at Microids and their PR catchphrase

cursedphox

I remember Bugroids

cursedphox

Greedoids

failentin

I liked the coin challenges, they were fun, but many challenges just didn't fit into the level design (worst offender is the one in Helvetia cheese cave, where you switch characters at defined points, which was not considered while designing the challenge)

martyste

Just a snippet of the grind. Displayed helmets on the HUD can't keep up, they count up by 1 per frame. This was to show 120-180fps overclock on PS2 emulation, and how fricking SOLID it was for any game made on K.

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martyste

( i'm managing to progress at what i was supposed to do so i'm still lightly around )

martyste

that reminds me, XXLR caps at 200fps, and looks like you must have had to debug a few things to make it work.

martyste

We did manage to uncap the originals, but it breaks some vfx, such as watersplashes not fading out past a certain point, verified both on PC, PCSX2 and Dolphin overlocks.

justine1801

Possibly? Some stuff was framerate dependant which didn't matter when computers couldn't run the game at more than 30fps

justine1801

We had the same issue with BGE remaster

martyste

Oooooh fun fact, the Switch version of XXLR is now the fastest to load, on Switch 2, because it runs with lighter assets than PC, so even my NVMe SSD can't keep up with the digital copy of XXLR on switch x3

justine1801

half size textures for the win

martyste

And, no matter which platform, you can still hold down L1, R1 and Square to bring up the build version on the title.

martyste

Some Switch textures are lower res in remaster mode than original x3

justine1801

That's all because switch sucks

justine1801

I often hear "if it runs on switch it runs on everything"

#xxl2