The video goes on to show JoshDub playing other GameCube games in virtuality reality with mixed success, including Super Mario Sunshine, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Pikmin (which clearly doesn't want to play nice with the user interface), TimeSplitters 2, and F-Zero GX. Still, it's cool to see how the movement of the camera mimics the movements of JoshDub's head in real life, or how the booger-green guts of the aliens he shoots splash up on the visor. Virtual reality has never translated well onto the flat screen it's larely something you have to experience rather than watch.

'If Nintendo doesn't release a VR version of this game one day then they're missing out.' 'I can't believe how much that actually feels like you're wearing a helmet,' he says early on in the video, which depicts the UI the protagonist Samus Aran would see in her own helmet. Thank you for making and submitting the run, itsPersonnal.JoshDub, who's using Dolphin with his HTC Vive, is apparently quite a fan. Even if it can't be accepted, it brought a lot of entertainment to a lot of people, as I'm sure it will continue to do even after this. Submitting it ensures that it is publicized, spending the time to put together the encode ensures that people can watch it easily, and it will remain here as the gold standard of what a publishable Metroid Prime run should look like in the future. It's an incredible piece of work through and through. As I said earlier, this is a standout run, a run that many people have waited years to be able to watch, a run that was the result of over a decade of research by many, many people, as well as the patience and skill of one very talented TASer. I originally thought that this run should not have been submitted, but thinking about it over time I now think that it was the right decision to do so. We call this bunny hopping.įor my final words, I just have to be honest for a moment. One last thing to mention about jumping is that while in the air, holding R and L will lock your speed, doing this the frame before landing and then jumping first frame will carry over all the speed from the previous jump into the new one (terrain plays a roll in this though, uphills tend to take some speed away no matter what).

We call this dashing and it can be done on all scan points or enemy lock ons on the 0-00 release of this game, in later releases it only works on enemy lock ons. If you strafe and release the target at a certain point, you'll maintain the speed. When you lock onto a target and jump left or right, you do a quick strafe which builds high speeds and then removes those speeds shortly after. You can also abuse the strafing mechanic to build an initial speed much faster than simply jumping forwards. You do still have some influence over your jump angle by turning left and right also, just not very much. There are obvious limitations to this, you lose speed changing your facing angle to directions other than sideways, which is required to do when turning and shoot and open doors, or to avoid walls in rooms that aren't a straight line. Since you can turn sideways in the air without losing your initial velocity, you can jump forwards to set a trajectory and then turn sideways and hold up to “infinitely” build speed. For some reason there is no sideways cap. but only for going forwards or backwards (and upwards). You also gain speed holding forwards in the air, though there is a speed cap. When airborne, if you release the analog stick, you will maintain your velocity instead of slowing down like you'd expect in most games. You switch between the aiming or moving/turning by holding the R button, and can lock your facing angle by holding L. Metroid Prime is a very odd first person shooter/first person platformer in terms of controls, there is only one analog stick which handles both aiming and moving around.

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