June 05, 2003
Yoshi!...

Uhh... yeah. Instead of sleeping, I ended up finally finishing the GBA version of Yoshi's Island...

Though, I beat the game, but I'm not done yet. I have to finish Extra 6, then the six new "Special" levels they added for this version. Then, I can claim somewhat mastery of the game all over again. ^^;

The levels don't seem to be all that much different - one of the only in-level changes I've noticed is that if you get door #3 in Bowser's Castle, they changed the music in the chase scene from the boss music to the pre-boss music. Odd change. They also changed the name of Extra 6 - it is now "Ultimate Castle Challenge" rather than "Castles - Masterpiece Set".

A lot of the in-game effects are kinda off, though... platforms that shifted up and down on a sinus wave no longer do so smoothly like they did on the SNES, and morphing effects are really slow - this is painfully apparent during the staff roll when the animation is going a whole 4 fps. -_- I had previously noted that Yoshi does not take as long to recover from a hit - I've also discovered the counter runs down slower.

Though, I'm not sure why I'm talking about Yoshi's Island rather than sleeping...

In about 12 hours is the big group dinner with Sarah, Mary, Dave, Kevyn, Josh, Jeff, Bill, and carpy (because it's more fun calling him carpy than by his real name)... that'll be interesting, especially since it appears half of us have never had Brazillian barbecue before...

Posted at 06:40 AM
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