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00:05 (glass shattering)
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00:22 (glass shattering)
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01:12 (glass shattering)
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01:41 (glass shattering)
01:48 (dramatic music)
01:51 - All right, all right, all right.
01:56 I love this music.
01:57 I just love it.
01:58 Oh, and I found that somebody actually recorded
02:03 the original soundtrack for this video game
02:07 on a Roland.
02:09 For those who don't know what Roland was,
02:11 Roland was a several thousand dollar sound card
02:16 that very, very few people in the world owned.
02:20 I mean, it was a soundboard, not a sound card.
02:23 It was an actual soundboard.
02:25 It was used primarily,
02:29 it was used primarily by heavy duty musicians
02:33 and people who were rich.
02:34 But all of these old video games,
02:37 all of them had Roland sound boards,
02:41 you know, sound cards listed as an option
02:44 next to the Sound Blaster 16.
02:46 And I think that Roland actually paid them to do that,
02:50 to produce music, MIDI sound files
02:55 compatible with the Roland.
02:56 So, like nobody knew what Roland sounded like.
03:04 Then some YouTubers managed to get a hold of Rolands,
03:07 like $5,000 to buy a frigging Roland.
03:10 And adjusted for inflation back then,
03:14 it was about $5,000 now.
03:17 Rolands were super expensive, the nice Rolands.
03:21 And you listen to them, it sounds almost orchestral.
03:24 Although I do wanna say,
03:28 I hate the Blood soundtrack on Roland.
03:31 I really do.
03:33 I hate the Blood soundtrack on Roland.
03:36 And Doom isn't that great.
03:38 It's okay on Roland, it's not that great.
03:40 But games like this, however, are fantastic on the Roland.
03:45 And so I'm just gonna burn the audio file
03:51 or just rip the audio file from that guy
03:54 who made the Roland recording on YouTube
03:57 and just have it on my computer.
03:59 It's amazing.
04:01 Although I loved, I loved,
04:03 Ravenloft 2 was a superior game.
04:08 I love this game, it's fun, but the sequel was superior
04:12 and you carried your characters over,
04:14 which was almost unheard of.
04:17 Even today, games don't do that.
04:20 And they should, they just don't.
04:22 Very few games do.
04:25 Some do, but very few don't.
04:28 Very few do.
04:29 But in the 90s, it was the thing of,
04:32 we now have the technology,
04:33 let's carry the save game information over,
04:35 which encouraged people to buy the previous game.
04:38 But you could still make a new character
04:40 if you didn't wanna carry your characters over.
04:43 And that was, that's great.
04:44 It was fantastic.
04:45 So, but it had much better music.
04:51 I wonder what it sounds like on the Roland.
04:53 I'm gonna have to look and see if somebody did a version,
04:56 a Roland version of that.
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05:51 all of the places where I put videos.
05:54 So anyway, yeah, let's go ahead and...
05:56 Oh, where should we start off?
06:03 I'm just gonna go methodically from upper left on over.
06:10 Okay, so teleport one.
06:13 I'll just do it like before, 1A, 1B.
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07:02 Oh, that's right.
07:03 Okay.
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19:30 - All right, so that was a little bit easier
19:36 than the first area.
19:38 Now I think I'm going to mark for the second area,
19:40 I'm gonna do the teleports backwards.
19:43 I'm gonna do alphabet, then numbers, okay?
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20:52 It looks like I need to jump cut.
20:55 Jump cut!
20:56 All right.
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26:17 - You know what?
26:35 I'm gonna go ahead and jump cut to
26:38 when I finish mapping out.
26:40 All right, all right, all right.
26:43 Some of these portals from both sides of the map
26:46 lead to the same place.
26:47 And this is basically it.
26:52 Oh, I've got one left that I need to do.
26:55 All right, let me go ahead and get that one done ASAP.
27:00 See here, 8A, all the way over in the northeast.
27:12 8A is, oh, and I accidentally hit the wall.
27:16 Jump cut, all right, jump cut back.
27:20 There we go.
27:24 And where is M?
27:28 Oh, that's right.
27:31 Okay, so here's the problem.
27:35 The teleports,
27:41 they're in the wrong place when you swap maps.
27:44 That's what's funny about this.
27:47 So when you swap maps,
27:49 the teleports don't appear correctly.
27:52 So I forgot about that.
27:56 Of course, now I remember.
27:57 So, you know, like, look at this.
28:02 When you go down,
28:05 see, it shows the teleports in the wrong areas.
28:09 Now, I just want to say one of the cool things,
28:11 you see good level design.
28:13 There was some bad level design that we saw,
28:15 like getting lost in Strahd's castle.
28:18 But then there's some good level design.
28:23 Like on this particular teleport map,
28:25 you see the things, right?
28:27 You know that there are seeds lying around.
28:30 And then on the next other teleport map,
28:32 you actually see a tree in the middle.
28:34 So you get the idea that seeds equal tree.
28:39 And all of the teleport areas,
28:41 all of them,
28:43 eventually lead to seeds.
28:47 So even if you get a little bit lost
28:49 and you're not making maps,
28:51 you will find a seed.
28:53 So I'm going to go ahead and mute myself.
28:56 I mean, you would eventually find all four seeds
28:58 is what I'm trying to say.
29:00 And this is kind of, I like this area.
29:02 Just the giant evil trees are just murder, murderville.
29:07 They have crushing blows, by the way,
29:10 which is why you saw my characters
29:12 take so much damage so quickly.
29:14 So let me mute myself and we'll go ahead
29:16 and watch the rest of the game.
29:18 (soft music)
29:21 (soft music)
29:23 I must not be doing this correctly.
29:43 (laughs)
29:45 Maybe I have to rest or maybe I have to
29:48 put the seeds elsewhere.
29:49 So let me rest.
29:53 Nope.
29:55 Let me see if I can put the seeds elsewhere.
29:57 Jump cut, jump cut back.
29:59 Oh, look, Abbey finally gets to cast spells.
30:02 Yay.
30:02 All right, all right, all right.
30:05 Figured out what to do.
30:08 You have to go to the place where the tree's already grown.
30:13 So it almost feels like a backwards hint,
30:18 but let's go ahead and play it.
30:19 And yeah, I tested it out first and reloaded the save
30:28 so I could redo it.
30:32 (soft music)
30:35 (soft music)
30:38 - Engulfed in a bright halo,
30:52 the one good straight arc radiates an aura of power,
30:55 of grace and blessing no mortal can ignore.
30:58 The seeds of the morning world fall in place
31:02 and the land grows still.
31:04 It is as if time itself must bow before the event.
31:08 From trembling earth, four hands arise
31:12 and in their grasp, each of the seeds are held secure.
31:15 (fire crackling)
31:22 Lightning, a swift and brilliant stroke shatters the tree.
31:26 As the oak splits in twain,
31:30 the long sought holy symbol of raven kind
31:32 is at last revealed.
31:34 No greater promise for victory and freedom
31:37 exists in the land.
31:38 (soft music)
31:52 - You know what?
31:55 I didn't realize that I was killing the sound
31:58 with how low I had my audio.
32:00 So I'm gonna go ahead and,
32:04 and replay that.
32:05 Just for clarity's sake.
32:09 (soft music)
32:13 (soft music)
32:16 - Engulfed in a bright halo,
32:37 the one good straight arc radiates an aura of power,
32:41 of grace and blessing no mortal can ignore.
32:43 The seeds of the morning world fall in place
32:47 and the land grows still.
32:49 It is as if time itself must bow before the event.
32:53 From trembling earth, four hands arise
32:57 and in their grasp, each of the seeds are held secure.
33:00 (fire crackling)
33:07 Lightning, a swift and brilliant stroke shatters the tree.
33:11 As the oak splits in twain,
33:15 the long sought holy symbol of raven kind
33:17 is at last revealed.
33:18 No greater promise for victory and freedom
33:22 exists in the land.
33:23 (soft music)
33:33 (fire crackling)
33:36 (fire crackling)
33:42 (fire crackling)
33:50 (fire crackling)
34:00 (fire crackling)
34:03 - So yeah, I keep forgetting that my volume controls
34:19 the volume for the game.
34:21 So I know some of my videos, the music's really loud,
34:25 others it's not that loud.
34:27 And I mean, the rule of thumb is if I can hear it,
34:31 you definitely can hear it.
34:32 And that's why I had to re-record it.
34:35 So sorry out there for you Videoland,
34:37 but I'm glad that I got a good recording for you.
34:40 So I've got the holy symbol of raven kind now.
34:45 And I believe that we are just one,
34:48 one little fight away from beating the game.
34:54 But I'm gonna end it here.
34:58 So I have enough time for a half an hour episode.
35:02 I've got enough for a half an hour episode later
35:04 and things are getting a little noisy
35:05 as if you couldn't hear.
35:07 I hope you guys have a wonderful day.
35:09 Take care, love y'all, bye.
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