This topic is for the purpose of discussing #1154: Randil's NES Solstice: The Quest for the Staff of Demnos in 06:56.94

I can't tell you a damn thing about what happened in this movie. But man, this is the most wicked bassline I've ever heard from the NES music format. Down with famtasia!

There's some kickin treble as well. Its like the programmers were trying to use the widest spectrum possible on the NES or something. Randil gets bonus points for being able to manoever through qbert land

Looks good. This game has some of the most wickedly cool music of any NES game (especially that bass!). I really had no idea what was going on in this movie but it seemed like there must have been a lot of route planning involved. Anyway, yes vote.

haha I love how EVERY shot of the main character during the cutscenes was the exact same "O NOO!*moon*" picture. I played the game for a couple minutes before I watched the movie and that really helped the movie to make sense, so with that I have a better understanding of the yes vote this movie deserves.

I wish this hadn't been done on the PAL version. The whole game runs in slow-motion, including the music.

wow. prolly shoulda played the game before watching this, since i had no idea what was happening. Good enough for a yes from me :) (the music did kick ass btw)

I wish this hadn't been done on the PAL version. The whole game runs in slow-motion, including the music.

Yeah, I agree. The game isn't really fast-paced, and PAL emulation only makes it slower. The music is also better on the U version, believe it or not. ;) Thanks for the kind words everyone, even though the game's music seemed to interest people more than the run. :P (By the way, I too think that the music in this game is really sweet, so don't worry.)

There's a great OCRemix of this music, here. Yeah, great song. :) Also, a firm yes vote.

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For whoever is interested, I recorded the soundtrack of ths AVI using Blargg's NES APU emulation API instead of FCEU's own APU emulation. I configured it to generate PAL audio at 96 kHz and resampled it to 48 kHz using a lanczos scaler. (Yes, I seem to put those everywhere.)

The Solstice TASing has a very long history. The first TAS of Solstice was probably among the first 10 videos ever published in this site. Thus Solstice has a special place in the heart of many of the oldest followers of this site (such as myself). It's certainly one of my favorite TASes.

Well, I hope there is an NTSC version done sometime. It's almost unbearable to watch it move so much slower than it should.

OMG. This is a very nerdy game. The "in your face" style plot, wacky music and the monsters… Those colored worms… just wow. But the best part of it are the cutscenes which apparently were drawn by the best artist on the planet (too bad I don't know his name!), I go laughing every time I see these beautiful faces. <div align="center"> "Oh no, it seems my cerebral palsy is progressing! That, and I'm also terribly drunk! C'mere Shadax, me old pal!" "Sorry Eleanor, I'm too high on acid at the moment! Look into those dilated pupils, they can't lie." I don't even know how to comment that face. It's just terrible.</div>

Host moozooh.weirdwire.ru not found. *Hint* it's not a good idea to embed images from your own machine that is only accessible in the net for <2 hours per day...

Eh, I see… Though weirdwire isn't my server, it's located at my friend's place in Novosibirsk. He provides me some hosting space that I occasionally use. It seems he's experiencing some problems lately… Funny, but my own machine is connected, like, 24/7. I've replaced the pictures.