#Archipelago Multiworld Multi-game Randomizer
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If you can get it to generate then I'm cool with whatever
I used a 1.0 english rom to generate but I don't think there's a huge difference between that and 1.1
I'm sure it'll be fine
Oh Artiks's WW YAML fails. I probably need to update that APworld
did my WW start with items work according to the log
Still calculating playthrough, but I'll check the log
Game: The Wind Waker
Progression Balancing: 50
Accessibility: Items
Local Items:
Not Local Items:
Start Inventory: Wind Waker: 1, Ballad of Gales: 1, Wind's Requiem: 1, DRC Dungeon Map: 1, DRC Compass: 1, FW Dungeon Map: 1, FW Compass: 1, TotG Dungeon Map: 1, TotG Compass: 1, FF Dungeon Map: 1, FF Compass: 1, ET Dungeon Map: 1, ET Compass: 1, WT Dungeon Map: 1, WT Compass: 1```
Oh Flitter, can you pin this?
I wanted to check the unofficially supported games list
And I had to look up for that link
thx
I have a few games that are 'unofficially supported', but I have to check again to see if I want to run any of them
I probably don't want to do, for example, Lethal Company
Yeah, just because a game has an apworld doesn't mean it'll be good to randomize
Bloons TD 6 I don't know if it would be fun, and also I don't want to run mods on my main account so I have to make a mod-account
Brotato and Hades are roguelikes so meh
Factorio
I will think about it if they make it easier to run
The setup looked horrifying
Rabi-Ribi looks promising, but that game is eternally stuck in my wishlist so maybe when it gets a discount
btd6 is in AP? sounds fun for another timer
I'm unsure how you can make BTD6 last a month
well it would be a side game like a short hike
I guess that makes sense
@shy oyster we're starting the new month's game this Wednesday. You said you might join with a Link to the Past. Do you need any help setting it up?
i dont think im gonna play this month
Got it. I'd love to play with you again whenever you feel up to it
But theres Mario games..
I was surprised to see Sunshine in some form of playable alpha
The vanilla sunshine is a playable alpha even without a randomizer
I think I did this correctly.
Seems to generate fine with that YAML added.
We're missing @wet field, @fierce vale and @lament tusk in order to start May's game. Are y'all still joining? I'll need your YAML file by wednesday.
can i put inj the most generic hatty time yaml without testing the new setup method
Do I need to do anything special for item link oot? I wasn't following along
I can do it for you
You just add this block to your YAML (anywhere)
item_links:
- name: GST
item_pool:
- Gold Skulltula Token
local_items:
- Gold Skulltula Token
replacement_item: null```
Thanks!
this has a lot more settings available that last time
True
OK I'll do that later, I'm headed out soon
Have fun
If you want inspiration, here are the YAMLs we're using this month for OoT
I'll probably recycle the one I used this month, sans beehives
Oh yeah beehives were a pain without the autotracker
https://i.imgur.com/gTd4hod.png Save us, Selene. You're our only hope
Turns out magpie does do random entrance tracking, i just had to change a few settings
this should be working
same as last time, but removed beehives, added the item link code
are we just doing oot? if we're doing other games im gonna include subnautica this time because i feel like it
This is a normal game
I have these players so far https://i.imgur.com/dXYQ3BH.png
ok
I don't think we've ever done an OoT-only game
We are getting bigger
unless you count the OoTMM month
We should though
i'd like to do it again, but with less people
idk maybe I will buy controllers
The biggest problem with OOTMM was the lack of progression balancing
exclude_locations: [GF HBA 1500 Points, GF HBA 1000 Points, Graveyard Dampe Race Freestanding PoH]
You said earlier that you wanted to exclude some slingshot locations too
did i?
oh right
what are those checks called so i can add them?
there are two shooting galleries
Kak Shooting Gallery Reward
Market Shooting Gallery Reward
LW Target in Woods
well i dont know what part is broken
that sounds like a whitespace mistake?
Yes, I figured it out.
Line 146 is the item links portion, which has too many whitespaces at the start
ah
I got rid of them and it seems to generate
yeah it did generate with extra whitespace but i figured that wouldnt matter
YAML is whitespace sensitive
No it was having 2 people who hadnt played it
it was fun it just took long
i'd happily do it again
Well for me the biggest pain point was not getting items for the longest time, which is largely the fault of progression balancing
progression balancing was also an issue, i had like a solid week where everyone else was playing and i could do nothing
though i think it turned out that was partially because someone missed one of my core items
i think that might have been me actually? i remember failing to notice i could have gotten a lake skull check as child and it was one of the most important items
still feel bad about that
id do it again but it will be in AP eventually
id also do it again, but i would like something in place to keep it to a single month
we could do it in a weekend if we all knew we had that weekend mostly free for continus gaming
its too big for a weekend
everyone knowing the game is enough for that
Hell yeah, I'm definitely eager to see it coming to archipelago
i just want them to add MM at all lol
maybe someday I'll play MM vanilla
but I wanna mod Outer Wilds more
Wait a minute
https://i.imgur.com/TWMx98B.png I'm missing one YAML file from someone who already submitted
Nope nevermind. Everyone's actually there
My Hogans Castle?
You haven't submitted any steve jobs yamls
i did a single-player playthrough with my settings, it certainly is interesting. i had to do without bombs for a very long time, and the seed basically forced me to 100% it, which is good because that's kinda what i'm hoping for in the main run
very excited to get started on this!
We can start as soon as Kratta gives me a YAML, or declines to play this month, or tomorrow.
Can't wait for kratta to submit 9 OoT yamls
One is enough
cant wait for kratta to submit the demondarksouls(1-3)eldenring combo randomiser
WIN-
How about Wind Waker + Phantom Hourglass + Spirit Tracks combo randomizer
its too bad two of those are awful
Maybe they are fine if the instrument mechanic is deleted on emulator
OoT+MM+WW+TP+BotW randomizer 🔥
botw randomomizer sounds awful..
i have played the TP one its ok but the game isnt built like OoT where items hinder you, story hinders you
BotW randomizers make additional goals for you before Ganon
Like get Ravioli's gale+, get 4 hylian shrooms, clear Elephant, things like that
but the whole world is open
its not "get boomerang to unlock more stuff" like a good rando
Yeah, it kinda sucks in such way, the only thing that locks world is paraglider
But that's super early game
Can't be worse than Risk of Rain 2
Roguelike randomizer
sucks
I'm not even sure how Brotato randomizer works
RoR, RoR2, Hades have distinct stages
So you can be locked
Brotato is like what
ASH gets away with its giant sphere 1 by being a tiny and chill game
BotW would be oof
what does it do...
I think BotW randomizer by itself isn't bad
But it wouldn't work with Archipelago
yeah, some kind of non-progression randomizer makes perfect sense
just not the metroidvania-style/progression-based/Archipelago kind of randomizer
Archipelago requires the randomizer to be a very specific kind
maybe not require but better be
The standard OoT/metroidvania type randomizer that is
it needs many of the items to block progress, basically
maybe you mean "segmented"? linear is definitely not desirable for a rando, you want different runs of the rando to make you visit the content in different orders, so AP randos for linear games typically de-linearize it with a hub world or extra fast travel or something
Well kinda. I was thinking of "some stuff is better ordered"
yeah
So like a set of linear segments I guess?
I guess you could say progress is more like a graph of paths than a wide open plain?
Probably something like that yeah
God
Now I'm thinking about how rimworld uses a graph of paths to traverse wide open plains
rimworld randomizer (essentially just rimworld)
The algorithm they use breaks the map into nodes and uses some form of path caching to allow hundreds of entities to do pathfinding really quickly
But it's painfully bad when it comes to making your own colonists find the best path to do things
RCT pathfinding mechanism 
RCT pathfinding is not important because you don't want your guests to beeline the most efficient jobs to do and leave
it's kinda fascinating that most games which self-randomize are a poor fit for Archipelago
Yes but also you don't want them to do some insane furry convention in one spot while shouting out "it's too crowded here"
oh flitter can you add song of passing to my WW start items
I'm wondering if any game in my steam library would fit well to Archipelago, regardless of if it has support or not
Sure
Ys series can work I think, maybe
idk if Chrono Trigger works, I haven't played it for long enough
Cave Story...?
I feel like it would be a bit too linear?
How many games do you have in your library? I feel like most people's libraries are too big to effectively do that
My conclusion is that my steam library isn't a great fit for Archipelago
lol
149, including random games I picked up just because it was free
And including idle games
So my library is very tiny.
be careful, that's how I realized Outer Wilds would be a good fit
Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight takes the player on a journey through a cursed land on the brink of eradication. Evil spreads, the dead rise, and corruption reigns. Hope is but a faded memory for all but one: a priestess named Kaho from the village of Lun. If only Kaho could somehow gain audience with the Queen, Her Majesty could surely be...
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I don't buy games very often
I buy only when lightning strikesthere is a game I want to buy and it is also in a discount
Cave Story I agree doesn't work, there's too little rearrangeable content and almost no blocking items beyond a couple of keys
for me it's mostly about when I'm in the mood to play a certain kind of game
some of the stuff I already bought and tried I just never got around to trying a second time as I'm not in the mood any more; I wouldn't enjoy it even if I forced myself
I extremely rarely spend money on stuff.
Ooh, speaking of sales
except gacha (I've stopped buying gacha since like a year ago)
it's easy for me to say I'm not into gacha, but also nobody has ever gacha-fied a game I want to play so it was never a real temptation for me to begin with
im a proud weeb who never played genshin or honky stars
closest I've gotten was watching the Arknights and Umamusume animes
Yeah it's hard to avoid gacha totally when you've been raised with extreme abundance of gacha and anime
Ironically I never played Hoyoverse games.
Although I played like a few dozen games with gacha
I guess if you include any microtransactions at all, I've probably played several and just completely ignored that aspect, like Dead Space 3
ah the third Paper Mario AP update this week maybe I should get it
the dev on that is so crazy active
I'd be more active if I didn't have a day job
You should avoid updating games if you don't have a good reason to
Once we start, the APworld file I have will be the relevant one for the month
(but since we haven't started you can update still, as long as you let me know to update too)
yeah, best time to update is between games
masterpiece game...
Agreed
though I did make it as vanilla as possible so Im going to be in BK mode after 5 minutes of playing until someone finds the hammer.
Can you remind me tomorrow?
y
@midnight depot I think I did the item link correctly
remember to give me song of passing flitter
Good morning
when are we starting? Im off work for labour day and would love to play
Yeah so that's the default tracker
https://aptracker.chrishowie.com/tracker/MQkLLLVbSD6aVOcGniKrhg here's an example async in the other tracker
It has async specific features, you can claim a game and get pings from the website when hints are found that you can action or whatever you choose
We're starting in like twenty minutes
Cheese tracker is nice but I don't like the part where it hooks up to discord
Let's do some last minute checks
With 22 games it's a bit harder to make sure every single YAML is good, https://i.imgur.com/mdWXoB9.png
Hmm
does it matter that my paper mario is a txt and everything else is a yaml
No.
TXT and YAML are processed the same way, but notepad++ doesn't know to color TXT properly
The game is up. https://archipelago.gg/room/gmA9C0FnRo2fbf6uUBweCg
22 Players Multiworld
running on archipelago.gg with port 52031
Pins updated
If anyone randomized their settings, the spoiler log says these settings were the ones picked
Oh wow that's a lot
yeah I wonder where all those come from
wonder if its like HK where its counting stuff I didnt shuffle
Because I did not shuffle overworld coins
Koopa Koot has like twenty rewards

Oh let me ping everyone else so they know they can play
@fresh hill, @clear summit, @cold valve, @fierce vale, @wet field, @lament tusk The game is up! See pins for details
🤘
hm my tracker thinks im starting in toad town and not goomba village
good first check
Looks like in my OoT, I have ```YAML
Rainbow Bridge Requirement: Hearts
Ganon's Trials Count: 5
Shuffle Interior Entrances: Simple
Shuffle Dungeon Entrances: All
Hearts Required for Bridge: 10
MQ Dungeon Count: 2
Gold skulltula tokens are linked properly.
Let's start by playing Monster Sanctuary
triforce shard 😅
Alright, Paper mario in BK mode
looks like Im on 0.8 out of 10 to hint the hammer
I am now leaving my work so I can play soon™️
Im not using steam to play anymore now that I have an xbox controller so my lua shortcut is gone
wonder if theres another way to make connecting faster
Oh, just double click the APZ5 file and it'll load the game and lua at the same time
no it loads bizhawk and the client
Okay
holy crap I already found ETank
FlitterMS sent Powder to Dessy-SMZ3
You could try this option https://i.imgur.com/I2PoqQR.png
ooh
thanks, thats kinda helpful right now with no other means to trigger shrubs
gonna need a wallet for this 1
@wet field megaton hammer 😎
they say that a small key can be found at Dessys spiral cave
@fresh hill is this good
oh, wallet
oh, ocarina
that's one of the relics (passive buffs, like HK charms); it's one I would use if I got it early but definitely not important
(I am currently at work, and have OW stuff to do tonight, so probably I'll just do the opening beach of my ASH slot this evening and leave it at that)
well its horseback archery so its not gonna be early
early boomerang for flitter
Dictionairy 
lol
I was thinking "wow no tree removal is fucking annoying"
I instantly got the tree removal

yoo chip found a partner
That's it for Monster Sanctuary
I play with no music
time to re learn how to launch wind waker
might as well play OOT without the master sword, ever
damn we got 22 games running
didnt realise
awesome
also i just realise i should have called submega meganoughtica instead
huh im having the same issue?
You're not even using dolphin
mines just stuck on this
Have you not tested connecting before?
bk'd (ish, i'm not pom farming this early)
Not since december 
Well it doesn't look like anyone has the same problem as you
Maybe you're not updated?
Dolphin just updated when I launched it
Updated dolphin 3 days ago and there was another update now
Are you connecting to the right room?
im 99% sure i am, but ill retry that in a sec
No I mean updating the APworld and the game
decided to get oot working instead incase it was a server issue and it needed to be done anyway
yeah I got all the newest stuff 3 days ago.
It's not a server issue. The server is working fine for everyone else

This is normal and part of what you can expect from the game. You might need to restart the scenario or give it a few minutes or save and load or close the shop window and reopen it.
wallet, lense, one death from ice traps, gold rupee, bombchus, GTG and water temple key
great start from everyone, thanks
a server issue on my side i meant
But the server is not on your side. You're a client
im gonna save and quit oot and try subnautica again then
maybe i have internet problems!
or firewall issue
i dunno
OoT connects
No it's the same. It says zero out of zero because it already got all it wanted
Nothing will show up correctly until it's done
ok subnautica connected
you were probably right that it was the wrong server
thanks for making me check
oh i forgot to include beehives, sorry we gotta restart everything
im working on it
lol, im holding the propulsion cannon in the opening cutscene
oh this... actually might have broken the game
uh yeah
it did
i cant switch to the fire extinguisher because that ability hasnt been unlocked yet
Oh, also is it fine that I see two debug options
Not sure. Do you have two copies of the plugin installed?
i had to restart the game but now i dont have the propulsion cannon at all? i dont think i got any of the checks
oh no
It should be fine
Alright I got it working
ok phew i fixed it
I put the lib folder into the lib folder instead of the content of the lib folder into the lib folder
You really gotta make sure games work before you submit them for a month long game
i restarted the whole game, not just started a new save file. it rechecked the checks
Now everything should be fine as soon as my RCT check shop works...
That looks a lot better
It's shocking that Colby thought OpenRCT2 is in a good enough state to make a pull request so it's included in the official list of games
The check shop keeps failing every single time
It did work during our test game, so it should eventually work
Yeah, it's fine but it's really annoying
Oh yeah
There's been an update you can try
Also! That thing where your games get stuck at 8/8 or whatever should be fixed, at the expense of some items appearng in game as "undefined"
Interestingly, my game already shows some items "undefined"
lol
(It was 3D Cinema)
OoT works. Thanks for gerudo membership card, Nayru's love, ocarina, boomerang, water temple key ring, forest temple boss key, shadow temple key ring, deku shield
oh shit weird egg
WEIRD EGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! From Tingle
thanks arti
what does that mean..
I don't have any food stall
A Short Hike also works fine
You're likely to spend the whole game without a food stall because it's not technically required
everything in this run is a progression item
Pretty much everything in sphere one is a progression item
My game hasn't recieved it yet
oh it is?
You might need to restart again
i just got a sphere 0 normal item
Sphere 0 is what you start with
Sphere 1 is items that don't require anything to get.
when I read spoiler logs for ootmm, sphere 0 was everything you could do with nothing
Ok then I got a sphere 1 normal item
OoTMM uses different conventions
So it's possible for you to get junk in sphere 1 but you must get at least enough items to reach sphere 2.
lets see if I can win the 40 rupee auction
Does the unlock shop show that you can get items now?
Archipelago defines "sphere 0" as your starting inventory, before anyone has checked any locations yet
since there are several games which give you random starting items, and the generic start_inventory option
No.
Then you should probably focus on that first
and then "sphere 1" is technically everything you can get with the starting inventory
I tried save-load, restarting OpenRCT2, restarting OpenRCT2 Client
Did you try starting a new scenario from scratch?
It takes half an hour or so of trying everything to get OpenRCT2 to connect, but once it does it's fine.
This sort of error is not actually critical
huh, all my hours of this game and I've never seen this before
techincally a spoiler if you've not played subnautica but not much of one
its ||a peeper actually carrying the cure enzyme, i've just never actually seen one do it||
neat!
lol
He's just bad at writing errors
Great!
lemme see if it works for my park now
No, the new scenario is your park now
Here's a list of rides you should have access to:
Wooden Wild Mouse, 3D Cinema, Toilets, Car Ride, Ferris Wheel, another Wooden Wild Mouse.
(also allow tree removal)
If you're missing any of those, you can just cheat it into the game through the OpenRCT2 cheat options (the shovel menu)
Things should work fine from here on out. Just stay on that scenario, remember to save before you quit
I probably shouldn't be laughing at these as much as I am
Just don't tell him I said that
Now that I have put out most of the fires, I'm going to do schoolwork because apparently they're closing down the blackboard system for three days of maintenance during the most busy time of the semester
Please ping me if you run into issues
I'll be sure to test both of my slots when I get home even if I only play one
I find it so funny how Ferris Wheel is literally useless if height limit is enabled
I can't build it at all
Scenarios that have a height limit just don't have a ferris wheel normally
That's why I don't randomize ride stats
It can literally result in impossible shop completion
Car ride still sucks though
of course WWM is making like 3.5 times more money
Oh Car Ride profit just bumped
Now it's like 2.5 times
At least I have my kiosk now, so I can make trillion dollars
nvm
Car Ride is crushing WWM
Progressive Scale for Mega, I had to kill people for that
nice
aight done with subnautica for the day. not BK, just been there for a few hours and have a base set up
I mistook in ASH and pressed continue instead of new game
f...
The savefile was 131/131 savefile and instantly sent everything away
I guess you can't play this month
Didn't even realize that it does that
I don't mind me losing one game, but I am a bit worried that this will make other games slightly less fun
Nothing we can do about that
I can see that some of those checks are major progression items. I'm so sorry
it would be annoying to start again, but this is literally the best time to do it if we were going to
Don't worry about it. Mistakes happen.
I do not want to go through another attempt at getting OpenRCT2 to work
nope nothing important
🙇♂️🙇♂️🙇♂️
a few but most of my progression checks need 3 finds before they unlock, still a nice boost in progression
2 partners and ultra boots in paper mario 🫠
just minor things
oh well
at least its only one out of 22
just boring to get so many big things at once
Yeah it's unfortunate
kokiri sword, scale, another icetrap death, spirit key, deku stick upgrade
actually not many for me, the sword and scale were before this
oh and the aformentioned weird egg
I really thought it would automatically synchronize to Archi progress
Might be worth complaining about on the channel
Paper Mario might be playable now if Kooper can break hammer blocks
dont think so though
Also the last month's randomizer was my first ever ASH playthrough so I didn't even realize what I was doing
jay its fine, ok?
its just a game
you didnt break anything, just made things easier
just means its probably going to be a shorter game
none of us are mad
well arti is mad, but not angry
Yeah I just feel awful

If you'd like we can definitely try to restart the game. It should go a bit better now that you know what to expect in OpenRCT2
@lament tusk @midnight depot @clear summit @fierce vale Do you want to restart?
I was gonna do the normal poll
i do not mind
Did anyone else play?
No
I just got up 30 minutes ago and am about to go to work. XD Doesn't matter to me if there's a restart.
Well that is a strong yay
Let's just stick with the Artiks poll since we can end it faster and see the results
i can manually end it
there was 3 yay votes, i'd say just do it
You got it!
You can see the result without ending a poll
alkso that
I'm going to start a new game with the same settings
Even though I have to redo the Wind Waker mail game
And the same seed
same seed? i guess that m,akes sense
Sorry for the inconvenience
jay you're fine
does same seed mean items are in the same spots
Yes!
hm..
Unless you'd like to change things, but then I'd have to generate a new room
if this happened tomorrow, we'd be more annoyed, but this is the best time for an issue if there was going to be one
Are you fine waiting fifteen minutes for that?
id rather just get a new game than retracing knowing whats there
I guess making a new room would make sense as my ASH is 100% spoiled
Plus I would know that Jays short hike has 3 very important things for me in two games
thats true
Oh, does anyone want to change settings before I do that?
uh
you should turn his beehives on
Good idea
I get to open Midos chests twice in one day? Its like christmas
i want to rename my yaml
thats it lol
We need an OoT randomizer that replaces all interiors with Mido's house
lol
I don't think renaming yourself is necessary. You can just use the nickname functionality
but it looks like Flitter started the generation before you asked
yeah it doesnt matter at all
New room is up https://archipelago.gg/room/rZfmpyX_Qgq8j74ydnTwyw
22 Players Multiworld
running on archipelago.gg with port 64677
for not being a robot its actually very hard to hit the required 25
Sorry for the delay. Here are the new files you need to start playing
@dawn wigeon, @tender pelican, @weary lagoon Use these files instead. We had to start a new room.
Haaaaai
Lets play Paper Mario sphere 1 before gym
looks like games are back on the menu boys
Looks like this time, I have
Ganon's Trials Count: 6
Starting Age: Adult
Rainbow Bridge Requirement: Vanilla
Starting Age: Adult
Shuffle Interior Entrances: Off
Shuffle Grotto/Grave Entrances: No
Shuffle Dungeon Entrances: Off
Shuffle Overworld Entrances: Yes
MQ Dungeon Count: 0
Much easier settings. Thank you, @clear summit
this doesn't really help since the mod has no way of knowing whether two different connection infos are "the same game" or not; it just has to trust that the player wouldn't be asking to Continue and changing connection info at the same time unless their multiworld really did change ports
Paper Mario BKed
(unless you're saying the port was exactly the same as last game so Jay didn't change connection info, which would be astronomically bad luck)
What the game can do is check the state of the save and compare it with the progress in the room
imo the real solution would be for archipelago.gg to rely on urls to unique room ids so the connection info simply does not ever change within a single multiworld, but I can't talk anyone into that
And if the save is further along than the room, it can throw out a warning
The mistake here was that Jay assumed it would start over if you just press A to continue and insert the new details
oh man i desparatlely need 2 wallet upgrades for arti
the problem is that's not a warning situation at all; normally that just means someone played the game while the network was down, or someone played one of the other slots in the multiworld
every AP game assuming that is a normal state to end up in is the entire reason async games are possible at all
But the entire progress of the save is before the archipelago game started
Surely that is easy to detect
well, the mod has no way of knowing when "the game started"
afaik that's not a thing AP servers expose
and of course it wouldn't prevent this when people play multiple asyncs concurrently
Oh, I guess it's only something the game administrator has access to
oh a bottle? wow
It exposes that data to me in the form of a date and time for each message. https://i.imgur.com/Fpakl0j.png
I know it sucks, but this is one of those situations where the user really does have to get it right beacuse the software can't read our minds and this shitty situation is indistinguishable from the completely ordinary situation that happens dozens of times every day in every async and we'd all blindly click through any warnings on
except ^
we just need to impliment AI into our hobby randomize game
(fwiw, I made a similar mistake with one of my OW slots in a previous month, and that was a "multiple concurrent asyncs" case where start time wouldn't have helped)
huh
deku tree was fire temple
can i even get into the deku tree as adult? i dont recall
You can get into deku tree as an adult under specific conditions
I think you need to first enter or finish deku tree as child
now that you have entered as child its open as adult
ah ok, thanks
Arti found their Kokiri Sword (KF Kokiri Sword Chest)
Why does the game track this?
If it's not randomized it shouldn't be an item
This time the first thing I am going to do is start a new game in ASH
From what I've seen, if there is a randomizable item that isn't randomized, then it just shows
well you see that every month with zeldas letter
Well that backlog was an adventure
there are a lot of games with a shuffle option for only one or a few items, so the impact of having them always exist as items/locations even when unshuffled is pretty small (even my mod does this for 1 item/location)
i cant belive that my strgth upgrade was 20 rupees in the kokiri shop
is this important?
at least I'm assuming Kokiri Sword is part of something like shuffle_sword rather than shuffle_fifty_thousand_grass_tiles
I can't play until i get off work anyway
may as well get it at 30
yeah
I don't know how you can play A Short Hike with the pixellated format
im suprised that there was 2 affordable essential items this early
idk it feels...authentic
Maybe if it looked a little sharper than that
@ancient harness post the reaction please

Thank you so much


this is da waey
bombs! yey
well, bombchus
same thing
Great news, my OpenRCT is instantly working
instantly unlocks 50 checks
also is this important? its affordable but annoying to get:
Ive played enough final fantasy to know that Bahamut is important
oooh thats that that means, final fantasy 6
Blessed seed
It's Final Fantasy 6 Worlds Collide
A mod that makes it open world
aaah
(and a randomizer)
well done Jay
Does anyone know if the Archipelago app needs to be running in the background when using Retroarch for SNES games?
the client sending items needs to be open
Yes. You need to have the SNI client running.
1- Emulator.
2- SNI client
3- Archipelago client
All three need to be open and connected to each other before you can send or receive items
do you automaticly hint double defense and biggoron in your oot
Yes
Funny how your Biggoron sword ended up in my RCT both times
I added these two items as automatic hints because I'd hate to finish the game without them but they don't count as progression
That's why I have the self imposed restriction of rides being unique
lol
Yeah I prefer unique ride parks too
I may end up destroying it for a more appropriate bigger corkscrew later on
But rn honestly I don't have great designs to make with current limitations anyway
Yeah
I just killed 200+ people for 5 rupees
Oh there's this plugin I like. It shows the arbitrary metrics you have to get in order to avoid penalties for each ride type
Huh
I think I've been checking one reddit page in r/MarcelVos for that
It would be very handy yeah
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Crazycolbster and Smitty for allowing use of their ride type enum map linked here!```
Okay. I think I'm prepared for the planned three day outage, so let's play some videogames
I will start with OoT.
The newest update to the apworld makes it so rides that have a track will never be required in numbers more than 3
Thank you for a heart container, thieves hideout key
Hmmm
Wasn't I supposed to start as adult?
Aha, I think I finally got it to work. I don't think I can get it working in Steam Deck game mode for now though, so have to run it on desktop.
How convenient https://i.imgur.com/lrCtq8X.png
oof, thats really expensive
that moment when you finally get to the skultula at the end of zoras river but it becomes daytime just when you get in front of it
That's why they're not in logic
they are for me
thats why I start with the song that passes time
in both my zelda games 
They should have made partners progressive instead of letting you get the partner upgrade before the partner
Its still 3 items to find
its just that now im going to get 2 at the same time
Wind Waker has the same problem where you can get bomb upgrades before bomb bag
and yes its in alpha
they will probably change those things later
A perfect opportunity to stop and meditate
nice to see you kratta
Remember when I told you I got you the megaton hammer?
It's gone now
It was nice while it lasted
Getting repeatedly screwed over by the day/night cycle is an integral part of the oot experience for me
exactly!
theres a check where you just have just stand around for 12 minutes waiting for a door to open
which one? the couples mask check?
That's so cool
I don't remember what that mask even does
it does exactly one thing
its another check
you talk to the mayor while wearing it
waiting for kafeis house to open on day 3
ooh yeah that one lol
btw the couples mask is the longest quest in the game, taking the whole 3 day cycle
Yeah it's one for the real gamers
Doesn't it take like the whole game almost to get what you need to do the whole thing?
close
I remember it being something you sort of do incrementally before going "oh fuck I need something else"
you can do it as soon as you have epona so halfway through
Wtf I have zero memory of epona being in that game other than the first cutscene
wait what? i dropped the bugs directly ontop of the hole they need to go down to get a skullula and they all dissaoeared immidiatly! i didnt have time to grab another one
i still needed that!
It's fucked up that Epona is not ridable as child link in OoT but is in MM
MM Link is older
you need her to access two of the four major areas because they have horse fences around them
Im sure OOTMM has an option that lets you ride epona as child link
it has options for everything now
you can shuffle in roll, climbing ladders, jumping, and talking to people now
I should probably actually replay this game before embarking on a ootmm, huh
you can have every OoT exclusive item in MM
wow
Oh yeah I did that last game
you can make it so having the ocarina of time lets you turn between adult and child anywhere so it actually has a purpose its so good
that's not real gamers
Well, I am now mostly at the point of waiting for people to send progression items to me. Oh well. :P
Lots of people are going to get a lot of items when they finally log in.
Excellent
yes very much so
I think I sent you space jump for one of the SM runs.
well you got it
I need to set up a button for alt-tab so I don't have to have a keyboard connected.
Or, I can connect to the archipelago server to see what's going on without connecting a game, can't I?
yeah
yep, I often connect a tracker to one of my slots just to check what's reachable without intending to play more yet
Cool, I can have it running on a my laptop then to see what's on the tracker.
You can connect using the text from a different computer entirely, but not for the purpose of sending items
I think it was me? Maybe. I sent a bunch of stuff. Perks of playing a traditional RPG. :P
Incredible
Treasure chests everywhere.
Someone sent me the sand coin first thing which opened up the second area. That was very helpful.
Now if I could just get an axe or bombs. XD
Or a claw.
That is one of many goal items but I don't need it right away
i got it too
it wasnt hard, i just needed to wait for day then night again
without sun song
There must be some different setup with that other ff6 world I can't get it to patch
@midnight depot
I'll look into it
I grabbed the patch file off the tracker page.
Did you grab the old file? We had to remake the game
I pinged you again with a new file
Oh excellent
arti that icetrap you gave me sent me into the gerudo valley river
i was trying to fly to the crate
My setup btw, nothing like real hardware 😄
Very nice
wow, you can rando on real hardware?
Too bad only snes works for that
With the correct hookups
know its a flashcart or somehting, but thats awesome
I would do that but I can't spend $230 on the cart right now.
There is no N64-computer interface
I usually opt for cycle accurate emulators over real hardware for convenience
And apparently the Everdrive would need some updates for that to happen
omg 
nothing like traps while actually being synch
@dawn wigeon You may have to show me this FF6 hack.
took me a whole 3 mins to get back here
Also wish they had support for FF4.
do you know how mildly inconvenient that is?
Support for FF4 Free Enterprise is coming
I wouldn't say they have "support" for FF6WC (it is marked unsupported)
Also the world ignored all of my yaml settings
So playing a different setup than I intended
Awesome. <3 FF4 is my favorite.
That's not supposed to happen
I think they've been using flagstrings, I've already asked about it
problem is I'm not a normal FF6WC player so I don't really know how to configure them
What if you just generate a normal randomizer flagstring and use that?
too late you have to put the flagstring in the yaml
Oh I see
done with oot for the day
not in BK mode but everything i got left is scrubs, that means money grinding
Bahamut seems decent though
Hope you have MP.
Lets play Wind Waker before I get even more rupees that dont fit in my wallet
Warm underwear for @midnight depot !!!
Lol
sm64 backflip is shufled?
are all the other moves too
Warm underwear makes me able to swim in icy water
lets do an oot sphere 1 runback
Good luck
this just happened to me and also the GST didnt spawn 
it did the little jingle and the spider just never came out
ok this is silly
WEIRD EGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
oof
Yay sun coin! I can go to the next area just after I cleared this one. XD
id forgot i planned to always start with a hat pin after the like 3rd hat in time run where i never got one, lets hope i get one this time
i knw where that is but i cant get into it right now i think
need a ranged weapon to triger his tonsil switch thing
Let's play a Short Hike
you'll probably last longer than I did
3rd ice trap death
You can do it with a bomb!
you can do it with a bomb but you probably wont get far in
bombchus?
Regular bomb
sure thatll work
i dont have actual bombs
bombchus will go up the wall and hit it
Oh a bombchu can work but isn't necessary is what I was saying
small key for key cavern sounds important
Hm, fire coin is the 4th area, not the third. Out of sequence now! XD
Power bracelet is an early item for me
well i need another wallet for this flitter, sorry
yeah, I figured strength/gloves/braclet/whatever lets you lift heavy rocks is a big deal in every Zelda game that has it
Thanks for coins. Here's your scale
Yup, same
This is why duping bugs is always ethical!
4th ice death
I have to stop because we're apparently breaking in
5th death
youd better thank arti for sending arti their bombette
Are you not randomizing enemies?
hes super vuulnerable to sleep
randomized enemies isnt implemented
I see
guess ill pay his one time fee of 50 coins
thats a boss you fight after chapter 7 
I thought I didnt randomize badge cost but apparently I have 1 cost power plus
well damn
cyclops engine fragment for meganoughtica
Oh nice, time to make an omlette
I'm stuck until I get certain progression items.
Next time I'll know to do multiple games.
I was in bk mode with oot when I finished earlier
I could do more in subnautica but I got disheartened after dying and loosing my seaglide
Gotta make a new one, just don't wanna
Only do that if you can commit to it! I normally only do one, but subnautica is a comparatively short game, that's very simple to play (especially if you've finished it 12 times)
Maybe I'll look into DS3 for next time. I should also run Secret of Evermore again so I can do that one. I was going to do it, but I think the last time I played was over 20 years ago.
You can run a solo game to practice and make sure new games you want to pick up are good for a monthly async
True.
ok, i'm practically BK'd now. i got a good set of starting items from people that made my first couple spheres huge
also several dungeons are in easily accessible places it turns out
i'm only gonna call out items that i think/know are big deals in here
i don't know anything about monster sanctuary or a few others so i won't be able to discern the apparent impact
I only had a chance to play FF6 and SM64 today, but both basically to BK
I'll grab a little more later
I expect SM tobk pretty quickly as it's that sort of game
Dessy-SM's Gravity Suit is at Stockade 13 - Slip of Paper in Ixlily's World. (not found)
Dessy-SMZ3's Morph is at Old Building West Chest in FlitterASH's World. (not found)
Those are some pretty big ones for those games. FF6 and SM64 I don't have clear items to look for at the moment
Oh yeah that guy who made the apworld we used did come back and say he screwed it up. Now we have a new one to use for next time
What should have been ~350 checks is only 62 now. ah well
ds3 is a fun game to run, the only problem is it has very few key items, so you basically unlock the game in like 1/8ths
maybe 1/5ths
I got
some items
The list includes but not limited to:
Lakilester for Artiks
Progressive Magic for Artiks
Ocarina for Artiks
Grappling Beam for Dessy
Ocarina for Flitter
Odd Key for Artiks
Also Varia suit for SMZ3
i will, yes
i did, yes
thats 6 btw
*7
*8
*9
i still only have 4 hearts btw
i had to buy one of those myself
this is the most useful item from my skull tokens
that and 200 rupees for kratta, which i already got for them
It's probably better to die multiple time at once right after loading than getting ice trap mid-game
...right?
it is more entertaining tbh
that has fortunatly only happened to me once
hmm, i dont seem to be able to sell the skull mask to the skull kid?
do i need a quest?
You need to sing Saria's song to him first
ah, the wiki doesnt mention that
thanks
well, weird egg gave me bolero of fire, serenade of water and artiks a deku sheild
not a lot i can do with that right now
time for subnautica
traps in general are probably better in a sync game or in your own world where they can impact your gameplay, not just your "login steps"
holy crap THE Lakilester?
Nicely done
What a start https://i.imgur.com/iCYLiKV.png
4 eggs but none of them are weird? L
They're all weird
FlitterMS sent Executioner's Hook to Ixlily (Mountain Path - East Vertical 1)
welp