27th June 2004, 10:48 PM
One thing I like doing is nailing down the "circles" of weaknesses. In MM3 for example I found there are two circles, with Snake, Needle, and Gemini in one, and the rest in the other.
Thanks for telling me I can push select in the pause menu to exit the game by the way.
I think I figured out what's with those tracks. I was playing the two Arcade games when I realized that the music for a lot of it is EXACTLY like the music in the remade tracks for MM1-3. I think that when first making the collection remakes on PS1 long ago, they actually just threw in the already remixed tunes from the arcade games as an afterthought, and thus didn't even bother with songs that weren't remixed in the arcade games. The two levels with music that isn't even a remix of the original tunes are kinda odd, but they too are from the arcade games. I suppose when they got around to making MM4, they likely had some sort of rave review for the music in Famitsu or something and decided to expand on it by actually remaking ALL the music tracks into original remixes. Honestly, I do kinda wish the tracks in MM1-3 were all fully remixed, but it's no biggy. Yeah, I'd like to hear Spark Man's tune remixed, and Metal Man's as well actually, but oh well. At least Heat Man got the special treatment :D.
Anyway, I don't think I'll ever get tired of this collection. It's something I'll be popping in every now and again when I want to romp through a game or two from start to finish (there's really no other way to play these games than from the very start actually, the save system is just there for those who get stuck long enough they have to stop playing but want their progress kept track of). I'll be playing the original versions of MM7 and MM8 when I want to play those, but for the rest of the series, it'll all be this disk.
Oh yes, EM, I was of the understanding you had yet to play MM8 before this collection, so I must ask, how did you like it?
Thanks for telling me I can push select in the pause menu to exit the game by the way.
I think I figured out what's with those tracks. I was playing the two Arcade games when I realized that the music for a lot of it is EXACTLY like the music in the remade tracks for MM1-3. I think that when first making the collection remakes on PS1 long ago, they actually just threw in the already remixed tunes from the arcade games as an afterthought, and thus didn't even bother with songs that weren't remixed in the arcade games. The two levels with music that isn't even a remix of the original tunes are kinda odd, but they too are from the arcade games. I suppose when they got around to making MM4, they likely had some sort of rave review for the music in Famitsu or something and decided to expand on it by actually remaking ALL the music tracks into original remixes. Honestly, I do kinda wish the tracks in MM1-3 were all fully remixed, but it's no biggy. Yeah, I'd like to hear Spark Man's tune remixed, and Metal Man's as well actually, but oh well. At least Heat Man got the special treatment :D.
Anyway, I don't think I'll ever get tired of this collection. It's something I'll be popping in every now and again when I want to romp through a game or two from start to finish (there's really no other way to play these games than from the very start actually, the save system is just there for those who get stuck long enough they have to stop playing but want their progress kept track of). I'll be playing the original versions of MM7 and MM8 when I want to play those, but for the rest of the series, it'll all be this disk.
Oh yes, EM, I was of the understanding you had yet to play MM8 before this collection, so I must ask, how did you like it?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)