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Syobon Action: Mario Parody for Masochists

FoodFood Registered User regular
edited January 2008 in Games and Technology
Now with new and improved, less 'weird' OP!

So recently there was a Let's Play thread at Something Awful featuring this game called Sayobon Action. It's a tiny Japanese game that basically takes the first few levels of mario brothers and gets a crazy sadist to redesign them. Blocks will collapse, mushrooms will make you so heavy you crash through the floor of the stage, pipes will take off like rocket ships and blast you into the sun... the ways of dying are endless and hilarious. You have to overcome some pretty clever puzzles to get through the game.

Download it here: http://www.geocities.jp/z_gundam_tanosii/home/Main.html

Use the second link from the top.

And I assure you, this is not a virus. :| I don't know what it was about my original OP that made people think that, but it's not. This is a game that anyone who's played Mario will appreciate and enjoy. I've been a member here for a while and haven't done anything to make the mods angry, if that gives me any more credibility. I don't know what else to say.

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  • LegacyLegacy Stuck Somewhere In Cyberspace The Grid(Seattle)Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited December 2007
    Hmmm.

    More like surprise virus.

    AKA: The OP just seems so...weird.

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  • SirToastySirToasty Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    Videos on Youtube are stange. Doesn't look like something that I want to play.

    And the OP is very...strange.

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  • vegeta_666vegeta_666 CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited December 2007
    Legacy wrote: »
    Hmmm.

    More like surprise virus.

    AKA: The OP just seems so...weird.

    I downloaded and did a quick virus scan on it. Norton didn't find anything, then again, it is Norton.

    The whole folder is filled with strange letters and such so I'm not unpacking that ZIP/RAR file anytime soon.

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  • gilraingilrain Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    It's not like Food just joined, you guys. I doubt he's trying to give you a virus. He probably wants to play a game with you. :P

    That said, not my thing. I really dislike games that frustrate me with cheap difficulty.

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  • FoodFood Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    sir_michael7 wrote: »
    Legacy wrote: »
    Hmmm.

    More like surprise virus.

    AKA: The OP just seems so...weird.

    I downloaded and did a quick virus scan on it. Norton didn't find anything, then again, it is Norton.

    The whole folder is filled with strange letters and such so I'm not unpacking that ZIP/RAR file anytime soon.

    Well it's a Japanese game... that's your computer trying to understand moonspeak.

    Food on
  • SimBenSimBen Hodor? Hodor Hodor.Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    I downloaded it and ran it, it's legit, not a virus.

    It's also a lot less frustrating than I Wanna Be The Guy and that ASCII game, though still pretty frustrating. It's funny. I like playing i.

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  • GilderGilder Aw snap Macaroni PartyRegistered User regular
    edited December 2007
    I got this a few days ago and I can't play it. Why? Because I can't make the music work. I can't play in silence and I don't want to open up the song in a media player and set it to loop. Even if I can't quit listening to the cave music.....

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  • LorkLork Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    Is this dongs.exe? That looked like the polar opposite of fun in the SA thread.

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  • vegeta_666vegeta_666 CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited December 2007
    Food wrote: »
    sir_michael7 wrote: »
    Legacy wrote: »
    Hmmm.

    More like surprise virus.

    AKA: The OP just seems so...weird.

    I downloaded and did a quick virus scan on it. Norton didn't find anything, then again, it is Norton.

    The whole folder is filled with strange letters and such so I'm not unpacking that ZIP/RAR file anytime soon.

    Well it's a Japanese game... that's your computer trying to understand moonspeak.

    That would explain it, I assumed as much.

    I'll install this quite soon then and give it a try.

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  • BallmanBallman Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    Well, I played it and got through the first level and jumped on the flag pole, and then
    an enemy dropped down and hit me from above when I couldn't control my character.
    ...is that it?

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  • Zealous OneZealous One Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    Heh, the videos of the game are pretty funny alright. Doubt I'd want to try this myself, but it's great to watch for a laugh. Still, in terms of hilariously tough gameplay, it's hard to top the "Asshole Mario" vids on youtube...some of those are even worse, because almost all of it actually works logically (minus a few invisible blocks) but is just insanely hard to do.

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  • SimBenSimBen Hodor? Hodor Hodor.Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    Ballman wrote: »
    Well, I played it and got through the first level and jumped on the flag pole, and then
    an enemy dropped down and hit me from above when I couldn't control my character.
    ...is that it?

    Nope. I'm up to the 3rd level.

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  • flammiebcflammiebc Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    <3 mushrooms in the second stage; both for intended and unintended hilarity.

    A lot of the tougher parts require some precise timing to pull off, but there wasn't really anything mindbogglingly difficult; not that it didn't take me to about -100 lives and a few hours to complete. Awesome music choices throughout though, great diversion.

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  • FoodFood Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    Yeah, once you figure out what needs to be done, the game isn't really that difficult.

    And just a hint, there is a real ending to this game. One that doesn't involve you dying. You'll know when you find it because the end credits will roll.

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  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    edited December 2007
    If you want to just see it, there's a link in my sig to a video... I thought it was hilarious. :-)

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  • GahazakulGahazakul regular
    edited December 2007
    How do I get passed the enemy that falls from the sky at the end of lvl 1!!!

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  • GahazakulGahazakul regular
    edited December 2007
    Arrrgh!!! Still stuck at the end of lvl 1! How do I get past the flagpole!

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  • 0blique0blique Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    You have to jump over the flag pole first (make sure to trigger the yellow flag thing first), and then trigger the falling cloud thing. Then you can touch the flag pole. It's all in the video in ShadowFire's sig.

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  • GahazakulGahazakul regular
    edited December 2007
    I can't get him to jump the pole! :(

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  • GahazakulGahazakul regular
    edited December 2007
    my little, uh, "Mewrio" can't make it over the pole. I make it most of the way and then wing the backside of it and, well you know, die. (Think I can patent "Mewrio"?)

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  • GahazakulGahazakul regular
    edited December 2007
    Yay! Level 2! And by the way, I hope the characters that pop up next to an enemy when they kill you translates into things like "You suck!!!" "Screw you!!!" "suck!!!suck!!!suck!!!"

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  • BlueBlueBlueBlue Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    Food wrote: »
    Yeah, once you figure out what needs to be done, the game isn't really that difficult.

    And just a hint, there is a real ending to this game. One that doesn't involve you dying. You'll know when you find it because the end credits will roll.

    WHAT
    Damnit. I thought after I died after beating "bowser" that it was done.

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  • FoodFood Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    BlueBlue wrote: »
    Food wrote: »
    Yeah, once you figure out what needs to be done, the game isn't really that difficult.

    And just a hint, there is a real ending to this game. One that doesn't involve you dying. You'll know when you find it because the end credits will roll.

    WHAT
    Damnit. I thought after I died after beating "bowser" that it was done.

    Nope.

    hint:
    You need to find a way onto the 'roof' of the level

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  • BlueBlueBlueBlue Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    As if I could possibly click on that spoiler. It kind of goes against the whole spirit of the game!

    Now, time to play it from the beginning and then die a million times trying to figure it out.

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  • harvestharvest By birthright, a stupendous badass.Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    Oh god! Devil Star Man!

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  • BlueBlueBlueBlue Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    And now I recall that getting past the level 3 pole-beams last time was a complete fluke, so I guess this is the part where I'll be stuck for a while.

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  • GilderGilder Aw snap Macaroni PartyRegistered User regular
    edited December 2007
    Please, someone tell me how to make the music work when playing the game. I have to hear Spelunk while I torture myself.

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  • harvestharvest By birthright, a stupendous badass.Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    There's nothing to it. It just works. Try using some compatibility modes on the .exe maybe that will help.

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  • PuddingSenatorPuddingSenator Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    In level 2...that thing that pops out of the pipe...is that...
    Pedobear???

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  • harvestharvest By birthright, a stupendous badass.Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    Yes, it is.

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  • GilderGilder Aw snap Macaroni PartyRegistered User regular
    edited December 2007
    Argh, I still can't make the music play. I've changed the windows compatibility and changed the sample rates and stuff in control panel down to the minimum like I had to do with Cave Story. Nothing.

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  • BlueBlueBlueBlue Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    Woo I beat it, hooray~

    As for the sound...well if you really want to hear it, they're just mp3s in the bgm folder so you could just open some player and play it in the background.

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  • FoodFood Registered User regular
    edited January 2008
    Gilder wrote: »
    Argh, I still can't make the music play. I've changed the windows compatibility and changed the sample rates and stuff in control panel down to the minimum like I had to do with Cave Story. Nothing.

    That's really weird. I would try re-downloading it just in case, and then if that doesn't work give up go cry while masturbating. That's just me, though.

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