Some people have too much time on their hands

[Jobber of the Week 0]

This has been going around the internet the past few days, but since not everyone keeps up what's popular, I thought I'd link it here:

http://www.hcn.zaq.ne.jp/cabic508/rsf/SF6-2i.swf

 

You're going to need to know Final Fantasy III (SNES) as well as way too many failed and little-known systems to get all the humor, though.

[Guest CronoT]

That is one fucking sweet flash movie.

[AndrewTS 0]

Thanks. I actually got most of the jokes. Nice touches were the PS2 death, the "Naomi" joke, finding the Real2's body, mentioning the PS1/SFC connection, Morphing into the PSOne, many of the attacks (especially the Pac/Mario summons), X-Box as Umaro, etc.

 

Apparently the music was ripped from one of the soundtrack CDs. Sounded better than ever.

 

Very nice.

[Guest Vitamin X]

THE XBOX CANNOT BE STOPPED! GRAGH!

Gameboy: Fear not Gameboy Advance, for my hardware lives on inside you!

 

Man that actually was pretty cool. I never thought I'd be that much of a video game geek to actually get most of that.

[chirs3 0]

Apparently the music was ripped from one of the soundtrack CDs. Sounded better than ever.

Nope. It was good quality, to be sure, but worshipping the FFVI soundtrack for as long as I have, I can tell it's not the soundtrack.

 

Sorry, just had to geek out for a second.

 

As for the movie - favorite joke would have to be the X-Box acting as Umaro.

[AndrewTS 0]

Apparently the music was ripped from one of the soundtrack CDs.  Sounded better than ever.

Nope. It was good quality, to be sure, but worshipping the FFVI soundtrack for as long as I have, I can tell it's not the soundtrack.

 

Sorry, just had to geek out for a second.

 

As for the movie - favorite joke would have to be the X-Box acting as Umaro.

Okay, but sounded better than in the game, and since the CT CD that came out here was just the SNES music crisper and clearer, thought it was the same.

 

It had to have been remixed or something, though.

 

Oh, minor gripes--sometimes you'd see Mog's Dance list as it is in the original game during the fight scenes, and X-Box was a character that inexplicably became a weight when Jaguar was trying to drop it on "Naomi." Neat punchline for it, though.

 

The only system there that I'd never heard much of was Playdia. Apparently they didn't have a good joke for it either. (googled info for it here: http://www.vidgame.net/BANDAI/playdia.htm )

 

The PC-FX (the PC Engine 32-bit system that came out during the 32 bit era, I believe) I even heard of, since Gamefan would cover it, and even had a snazzy feature on Battle Heat.

 

What were the stand-ins for the Goddess statues, though? I recognized the Mega Drive, obviously, but the other two I wasn't sure about. And unfortunately, rewinding it didn't take me all the way back to the beginning.

[Jobber of the Week 0]

The only system there that I'd never heard much of was Playdia.  Apparently they didn't have a good joke for it either.  (googled info for it here: http://www.vidgame.net/BANDAI/playdia.htm )

Kind of like John Lennon and his infatuation with the number 9, Konami has some love affair with the numbers 573 (which was Beatmania in the Flash.) It's a code for unlocking previous Bemanis in later machines, but I don't really know the full details since I try and stay away from that scene. But suffice it to say it's all a bunch of DDR/Bemani gags.

 

Wikipedia has a pretty good write up to the PC-FX.

 

As the PC-FX struggled NEC started being far more liberal than most companies with regard to the type of titles that it allowed to be released for the platform in an attempt to get whatever development support they could. As a result the PC-FX has gained quite a reputation for hentai and other adult themed games. The main genre of game released for this system was Japanese Dating Simulation games because of their lenient licensing.

[Guest Vitamin X]

Oh, minor gripes--sometimes you'd see Mog's Dance list as it is in the original game during the fight scenes, and X-Box was a character that inexplicably became a weight when Jaguar was trying to drop it on "Naomi." Neat punchline for it, though.

It didn't "become" a weight, Jaguar says he wanted to drop the STATUE of the Xbox on "Naomi".

[yankovic fan 0]

That was very time consuming, but awesome!

 

 

Thanks for finding it.

[Jingus 0]

I didn't get some of the jokes, "Naomi" being the biggest example. Guess its just been too many years since my EGM subscription ran out.

[AndrewTS 0]

Oh, minor gripes--sometimes you'd see Mog's Dance list as it is in the original game during the fight scenes, and X-Box was a character that inexplicably became a weight when Jaguar was trying to drop it on "Naomi."  Neat punchline for it, though.

It didn't "become" a weight, Jaguar says he wanted to drop the STATUE of the Xbox on "Naomi".

Oh, my bad. Again, I didn't get to watch it but once, so I missed that part.

 

I didn't get some of the jokes, "Naomi" being the biggest example. Guess its just been too many years since my EGM subscription ran out.

 

I was hoping somebody would ask...

 

http://www.system16.com/sega/hrdw_naomi.html

[Jingus 0]

Well, those technical specifications are cool 'n everything, but what the fuck is it and why was it supposed to be funny?

[AndrewTS 0]

Well, those technical specifications are cool 'n everything, but what the fuck is it and why was it supposed to be funny?

There was a layman's terms description there.

 

Basically, the Naomi (arcade hardware) is more powerful than the Dreamcast, but tons of Naomi titles were ported to the Dreamcast so well that visual compromises weren't too apparent. Hence, the Setzer stand-in's opinion that it was "more beautiful" than Naomi.

 

As for funny--well, if you have to explain something, then it isn't funny. If you already knew, though, you might find it funny.

[Jingus 0]

Ah, okay. I didn't realize that so many vastly different arcade games ran off the same hardware, but I get it now.

[Jobber of the Week 0]

And, as most the jokes go in this Flash, if you can't remember FF6 well or never played it some of the choices don't make sense.

 

In FF6, that scene was that Celes took the place of an opera singer who looked exactly like her. Thus the Dreamcast/Naomi thing.

[Renegade 0]

Best part was trying to mug the 32xCDdrive, "not worth stealing".