Heres a trick to make F Zero 40% easier: When making tight turns, keep tapping the acceleration button (A) all while holdind down the shoulder button. You your traction will be sooooooo much better and it makes ghe game so much easier. If you find yourself also bouncing around the track after hitting the bumpers, hold down brake so your car can realign it self. Youll lose speed but youll stop bouncing. Its actually in the tutoral but not alot of people go to a tutoral for an F zero game.
Yeah, it's pretty much required. I cringed when I saw that Jeremy reviewed this whole game without knowing that the control is significantly different than the SNES version and you tap accelerate around corners to not ping pong on walls. Oh well
@@klax001 I actually, coincidentally, started playing this for the first time recently and this helps a lot. As a fan of the SNES original, this game's a lot more slippery and slidey, and I was struggling on the corners.
Louis honestly I think it does. Without blast turns the game is virtually unplayable but with them you have the best racer on the system. He also wasn't holding back on the D-Pad to avoid taking damage and losing his momentum after a jump.
J'ai de très bons souvenirs de l'aigle de guerre ! C'est un très bon jeu. Je ne savais pas que seul la France et le Japon avaient pu en profiter. Merci pour cette belle vidéo ! Thank you for this great video, Monsieur Parish.
Using blast turns (tapping a repeatedly while going around corners) will help a lot with Maximum Velocity. It even helps when you're getting bounced around, it tries to align your direction of travel with the direction of your nose In fact, i'd say it's an essential technique for this game on any difficulty level and almost any track
I got Maximum Velocity with 3DS ambassador program and didn't think much of it initially. Wasn't till I was bored during school breaks that I finally tried it out. At first it was just attempting to complete a few cups with trial and error and not having much success. I gave up and left the game running on the title screen as I was wondering what else to do. It was then that a demo played that showed how to turn corners better by tapping the A button as you're turning. I was amazed that such an important tech was hidden right under my nose. I decided to give it a try and sure enough, I had instant success with it and managed to complete all the cups in a few days. I felt so proud, finally finishing an F-Zero game. But it was then I found out that to unlock the best vehicle in the game you need to complete every cup on the Master difficulty... with every vehicle. I felt like giving up, as learning the cups is one thing but learning the quirks of how every vehicle operates felt like another level entirely. I decided to push on regardless. I kept learning more and more as I played and while it took a few weeks, I eventually had every cup on every vehicle mastered and Jet Vermilion unlocked. Was a really satisfying experience all in all. Still need to get around to acquiring GP Legend and Climax someday...
I'm glad I read this! I used to own it for my GBA back in 2001, but it was stolen out of my dorm room. I was not very good at the game and I'm doubtful I completed many races. I eventually got another GBA but never got into the F-Zero games for it. I've always wondered what was keeping me. Time to track down a copy. Thanks!
F-Zero is my first GBA memory. I didn't even know the GBA was out until someone in my class came to school one day with 4 GBAs, 4 copies of the game, and link cables. He had apparently won a contest in Nintendo Power or some such and suddenly the least popular kid in class was the most popular as he used his new hardware to curry favour with the cool kids by letting them play him at F-Zero.
Yeah, I remember going on a scouting trip the weekend after the GBA came out. (or maybe it was the day of? Or the day after? I dunno) One of the kids had a GBA and this game. We were willing to temporarily forget that he was an asshole for that car ride. And later rides, when he had Advance Wars.
Jeremy, you need to mash to A button to retain traction in Maximum Velocity. Try going around a corner while tapping A repeatedly. You'll hear little rocket bursts each time you press the button, and you'll stop sliding sideways almost immediately.
@@JeremyParish Sorry, I got so distracted by the beginning of the video that I was digging around looking for my original manual during most of the footage. For whatever it's worth, the manual calls this technique "Blast Turns". For anyone without their own copy, here's the description: Blast Turn Control: Tap the A Button By tapping the A Button, your machine's engine will ignite momentarily, allowing you to straighten out of corners more quickly. Use Blast Turns: During cornering or when your machine is off-balance (after colliding with another machine or the guard rail, etc.). *Well-timed Blast Turns will really make a difference on especially tight corners.
I worked for a major US game mag during GBA’s launch. One of our editors proclaimed Super Dodgeball Advance would be the best-selling launch title. We all laughed vigorously at him! 😂
I love F-Zero Maximum Velocity and it's definitely a difficult game; but there's a hidden tutorial movie that shows some tips and tricks that literally change the way you play. Everyone knows about leaning into turns and braking, but there's a mechanic where if you let off the gas and tap it again, you get a little boost that straightens out your vehicle in turns, and it helps control your slide and hover. All those times where you ping-pong between walls? Pressing the accelerator for a quick boost will pull you out of those situations. It's literally the only way to 100% complete the game- a task I managed to do over the course of a few months in my high school library.
Love love love F-Zero!! Again, as I mentioned on FB, I was really taken with the dual layer mode 7 fields (the track itself and the surface of whatever planet your on, scrolling at a slightly slower pace) being utilized in all the GBA games, the sense of depth was much more authentic vs. the original SNES game. I guess it's a minor detail but from a technical point of view I was very impressed.
To be fair, mashing A lets you regain control of your ship for tight turns and when that bouncing happens. It's in the game's tutorial and Mr. Parish didn't learn about it until the later footage in the video it seems.
I've been loving GBA Works so far! The GBA launched right around the time I got my first job flipping burgers, and as such was the first console launch my friends and I were really able to digest freely with our own money. Konami Krazy Racers and Tony Hawk 2 floated us through that summer!
Still love playing Maximum Velocity to this day, however I have never liked the car designs, they always felt like Tru Value versions of the original F-Zero
I notice Maximum Velocity is the one F-Zero game that Takaya Imamura is not credited on (if nintendo.fandom.com is accurate). Maybe this has something to do with the character cast being different. The Super NES Classic Interviews give more information on his character work in Star Fox and F-Zero and when in development it occurred (also Imamura thinks he designed Captain Falcon as a mascot character for the SNES). The Iwata Asks Steel Diver interview says the other directors reined in Imamura designing characters for that game.
I think having a player unit running around giving orders isn't really a MOBA (those have the player order one unit around and have it fight), it's more of an Action RTS, like Battlezone '99, Uprising and of course the proto RTSes (not just Herzog Zwei but also Rescue Raiders had the basic concept of the player being one unit while ordering other units to take the enemy base). I think beyond its weird name MOBAs can be summed up as competitive action RPG grinding, they're not really in the RTS bucket despite being based on the tech for RTSes.
That Napoleón game only just recently got an English translation patch, too. I gave it a look and I thought it was pretty neat, but I can totally see why virtually no one knows about it.
As a kid with Maximum Velocity I actually thought it was super easy, even tedious at times because once you knew the trick of just tapping the accelerator when going round turns it lost all challenge since that gave you massive corner grip without really losing any speed. As for Napoleon, I believe it was originally slated for a full European release as the Nintendo magazines I was reading at the launch all had reviews of it.
I remember reading about Napoléon/L'Aigle de Guerre somewhere back when the GBA was first launching. I was really disapointed that it never came to the US because it sounded very interesting to me.
What comes to the MOBA-games there are even more games that came before L'Aigle de Guerre. For example Future Cop: LAPD (on PC, PS1 and MAC) which had multiplayer game mode Precinct Assault. Also Famicom Field Command has MABA features except it is single player.
I played Maximum Velocity to death when the GBA first came out, and if anything I'll appreciate it for getting me used to how F-Zero games worked and influencing me into getting into the rest of the series. GX was incredible (minus the ludicrously difficult story mode) and is still hands down my favorite racing game ever. I was even lucky enough to have an arcade with AX nearby which was also really fun. Even if they don't want to try making a new game for fear that they won't be able to top it, they at the very least need to port it onto a newer console. I'm pretty sure the series has been dormant for so long that there's *adults* that only know Captain Falcon as the guy from Smash Bros.
Really loved the GBA and how you could find weird stuff for it from almost day one, things that flew under the radar yet didn't quite reek of being shovelware. I know it's a way off but looking forward to Urban Yeti, one of the weirdest titles I can recall from that time period.
Thank you for the review of Napoleon. I was fascinated by the idea of an RTS on a handheld back in the day, and was disappointed when I couldn't get my grubby hands on it in America. I'm not sure if I'm lucky I didn't spend money on what wasn't *really* an RTS, or unlucky I didn't get to be one of Those Guys who could point out the MOBA's true origins with an obscure, experimental title.
Not pointing out the blast turn mechanic where you Tap A while cornering and to stabilize the machine is a huge oversight. It is a essential mechanic to be able to play the game effectively without sliding all over the place even with the Wind Walker. Master it, and you have yourself easily the best racer on the platform hands down. I know it's hard to notice the tutorial clip but you have to disclose it to have a fair perspective on this classic racer. My favorite game on the system. Also when you go off jumps, hold back on the D-Pad so you don't slam onto the road, take damage and lose your momentum.
Riffing off what Jeremy said about F-Zero lore, it still baffles me that F-Zero had an anime. Of all the Nintendo franchises to adapt for television, they picked F-Zero, where the characters mostly existed in auxiliary material in the instruction booklet. Not Zelda, not Star Fox, not Mother, F-Zero.
Jeremy Parish Very true, good point. Though the way they rewrote canon so Mute City was just New York in the future, it’s like they never even played an F-Zero game.
It is insane to me that Nintendo will not take another look at what they've got with F-ZERO. Every entry in the franchise has been NES-hard, and we've seen plenty of older series become more widely accepted after a more accessible refresh. Plus, the ridiculous amount of characters and over the top story cry out for a story mode that people can actually witness for themselves without full mastery. If Fire Emblem can do it, so can Captain Falcon.
I really like F-Zero on SNES but couldn't get into this one. The original's controls are really tight, knowing when to drift, when to lay off the gas, or when to combine those things to get around turns. This... I dunno. The cars all felt too loose.
Maximum Velocity was one of the first GBA games I owned that I still have to this day. At some point a couple years back I played the crap out of it and mastered the controls. The problem I’m seeing from your gameplay is that you’re not hitting accelerate as you turn. I’m not talking about holding down the accelerate button either, I’m saying press the accelerate button multiple times as you turn and remember to use the L and R buttons depending on what direction you’re turning respectively. This carries over to all the classic F-Zero games. For F-Zero GX I think you’re just screwed
I recorded from a fan translation here-I'd recommend playing that. Some of the display and incidental text is still in French, but you can figure it out pretty easily.
Oh damn! L'aigle de guerre! I thought I was the only one who had heard of it. I actually did the 2nd translation on romhacking.net (the 2018 one), so it's cool to see somebody talk about it
I’m surprised that Jeremy didn’t compare that Napoleon game to Pikmin since the idea of the main character acting as a cursor to order around NPC units sounds more Pikmin-y than MOBA-y (to me, at least).
As someone who was a kid when the gba came out and also had a GameCube the mode 7-esque titles fell super flat for me. When I had access to true 3d games it was hard to imagine anyone wanting to play them, the environments felt so barren and repetitive
Eh, as someone who grew up on the NES and SNES, I feel about the same way. Once polygons became a thing, I never really looked back to the Mode 7 style games. Hell, even today. I really never go back and play SNES-style racers, even though I will still play other types of older racing games. (These days, I feel like it's the Sega "super scaler" games that held up surprisingly well.)
Did you really call the N64 4 player capability a gimmick? How dare you!! That 4 player capability was the reason why I had so much fun with my friends playing N64, we had endless fun playing 4 player games like Mario kart 64, goldeneye, super smash bros, Mario party 1-3, conkers bad fur day, Mario golf and so many other games…..so you better take that gimmick comment back!! By the way I love your videos!!!
I played the time trials so many times trying to get the Jet Vermillion and never did still sort of salty about that. The second F-Zero GBA game was much better.
The gameplay is vey different from the Snes version. And The "Mode 7" in this title was superior as it multiple independent layers. The Snes only had one. INO the perfect version would have Snes Physics with GBA Tech
I'm torn between references. There's the Hermione "You could be killed! Or worse: disqualified." or the Portal "Contact with the floor will result in an 'Unsatisfactory' mark, followed by death."
As many mentioned already, that's not how you really play "Maximum Velocity"...of course it's very hard to control your vehicle, if you don't actually control it properly.^^ Using the L and R buttons (also in opposite ways), A tapping etc. makes you control the vehicle WAY better and then the game is playable and a lot of fun. The gameplay footage here makes the controls look rather bad, which they aren't.
F-Zero Zero Velocity was my first F-Zero game I found it used in a Gamestop, I'm pretty bad at it though. And... My gram had a crush on napoleon in her youth...
Dude... you should check some Tipps and tricks before recording! In this game you have to held down when landing to avoid taking dmg and losing speed. Also you should spam the acceleration button when taking a curve so you won't drift outwards
Mode 7 was one of 8 graphical display modes built into the Super NES hardware. GBA's tech worked differently and didn't require programmers to use those display modes. It could fake Mode 7 effects decently, but they were not the real thing. That's why Super NES ports like Final Fantasy VI look a little wonky when you hop aboard the airships.
:) Three years later, when is the next Gameboy Works Advance? What a tease, Konami Krazy Racers can be argued as the better kart over Mario given the content, though being third party and most characters obscurities from Japan only may have had a play in that. :D
JUST BLAST DRIFT ACCDJDBS sorry I swear all the reviews I've seen online talk about how hard the game is but don't know this pretty much essential technique (which they tell you about in the manual!). It makes the game far more enjoyable and pick up n playish, as you DON'T need to memorize the courses by any means, even on higher difficulties!
I've long felt F-Zero was ultimately killed by Mario Kart simply consistently being a much better selling series. It is only practical for Nintendo to fund so many games, and if they decide to release a new racing game then it is only practical for it to be a new Mario Kart.
Ah, NdCube, the developers that can make things look good but play bad... Seems like this could also be the case here? I dunno, I'm not good at F-ZERO but the tracks here seem way too thin and unforgiving.
Hey Jeremy, love the work that do. Probably one of the best writers in game journalism today. If you could make one minor tweak to your videos, I ask that you please stop showing the endings of these games. Yes I understand these games are 20 years older and then some, but some of us have have yet to drive into them. I have to skip some of your videos in fear of spoiling the ending for myself. Anyhow, thanks for all the time & effort you put into your content 👍
I would never spoil the story of a recent game, but to suggest I'm ruining someone's game experience by (in this case) showing a still character portrait that also appears in the game manual is utterly ludicrous.
Sometimes I play GBA games on my phone using a VR viewer (which lets me see the games in 3D) and think to myself "This is what the Virtual Boy was supposed to be if Gunpei Yokoi had been allowed to finish it." Sigh. What could have been...
Jeremy, I love you but... I don't see the corrolation between Napoleon and MOBAs. I don't know if you've ever actually played League or DotA, but your character in the game doesn't command your side's creeps/minions. In fact, despite the genre being born from an RTS, NOBODY commands them; they're completely autonomous. The only thing you have direct (or even indirect) control over in a MOBA is your own individual character. That or I've been playing league WAY wrong all these years!
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Heres a trick to make F Zero 40% easier:
When making tight turns, keep tapping the acceleration button (A) all while holdind down the shoulder button. You your traction will be sooooooo much better and it makes ghe game so much easier. If you find yourself also bouncing around the track after hitting the bumpers, hold down brake so your car can realign it self. Youll lose speed but youll stop bouncing. Its actually in the tutoral but not alot of people go to a tutoral for an F zero game.
Yeah, it's pretty much required. I cringed when I saw that Jeremy reviewed this whole game without knowing that the control is significantly different than the SNES version and you tap accelerate around corners to not ping pong on walls. Oh well
Reoko it’s actually how the game is supposed to be played. The attract mode has a tutorial about it
@@klax001 I actually, coincidentally, started playing this for the first time recently and this helps a lot. As a fan of the SNES original, this game's a lot more slippery and slidey, and I was struggling on the corners.
Tetriscide it almost invalidates his review of the game in my opinion. Almost. It was still a good review.
Louis honestly I think it does. Without blast turns the game is virtually unplayable but with them you have the best racer on the system. He also wasn't holding back on the D-Pad to avoid taking damage and losing his momentum after a jump.
I admire the politeness and grace with which you handled the interruption of that pesky hypothetical strawman. You are truly a bastion of patience.
_>Racer dies in car explosion_
Judges: *_Disqualified!_*
Harsh but fair.
J'ai de très bons souvenirs de l'aigle de guerre ! C'est un très bon jeu. Je ne savais pas que seul la France et le Japon avaient pu en profiter. Merci pour cette belle vidéo ! Thank you for this great video, Monsieur Parish.
Using blast turns (tapping a repeatedly while going around corners) will help a lot with Maximum Velocity. It even helps when you're getting bounced around, it tries to align your direction of travel with the direction of your nose
In fact, i'd say it's an essential technique for this game on any difficulty level and almost any track
I got Maximum Velocity with 3DS ambassador program and didn't think much of it initially. Wasn't till I was bored during school breaks that I finally tried it out. At first it was just attempting to complete a few cups with trial and error and not having much success. I gave up and left the game running on the title screen as I was wondering what else to do. It was then that a demo played that showed how to turn corners better by tapping the A button as you're turning. I was amazed that such an important tech was hidden right under my nose.
I decided to give it a try and sure enough, I had instant success with it and managed to complete all the cups in a few days. I felt so proud, finally finishing an F-Zero game. But it was then I found out that to unlock the best vehicle in the game you need to complete every cup on the Master difficulty... with every vehicle. I felt like giving up, as learning the cups is one thing but learning the quirks of how every vehicle operates felt like another level entirely. I decided to push on regardless. I kept learning more and more as I played and while it took a few weeks, I eventually had every cup on every vehicle mastered and Jet Vermilion unlocked. Was a really satisfying experience all in all. Still need to get around to acquiring GP Legend and Climax someday...
I'm glad I read this! I used to own it for my GBA back in 2001, but it was stolen out of my dorm room. I was not very good at the game and I'm doubtful I completed many races. I eventually got another GBA but never got into the F-Zero games for it. I've always wondered what was keeping me. Time to track down a copy. Thanks!
F-Zero is my first GBA memory. I didn't even know the GBA was out until someone in my class came to school one day with 4 GBAs, 4 copies of the game, and link cables. He had apparently won a contest in Nintendo Power or some such and suddenly the least popular kid in class was the most popular as he used his new hardware to curry favour with the cool kids by letting them play him at F-Zero.
Yeah, I remember going on a scouting trip the weekend after the GBA came out. (or maybe it was the day of? Or the day after? I dunno) One of the kids had a GBA and this game. We were willing to temporarily forget that he was an asshole for that car ride. And later rides, when he had Advance Wars.
That's amazing!!!
So what you're saying is he went from a F-Zero to a F-Hero
**sheds a single tear of happiness at Jade Cocoon being acknowledged**
Anybody who knows anything about the GBA knows every game released on it is somehow inspired by heiankyo alien
I have never before agreed more with a comment anywhere.
And Heiankyo Alien, Xevious, and Tower of Druaga were all spin-offs of the classic NBC show Supercomputer.
I LOVED Jade Coccoon as a kid. Nice to know that little bit of history behidn the MOBAs and that strat game. Genki had an ace under their sleeve
Jeremy, you need to mash to A button to retain traction in Maximum Velocity. Try going around a corner while tapping A repeatedly. You'll hear little rocket bursts each time you press the button, and you'll stop sliding sideways almost immediately.
Yeah, I was doing that in the later footage.
Thanks, I'll try that when I decide to play it again..!
@@JeremyParish Sorry, I got so distracted by the beginning of the video that I was digging around looking for my original manual during most of the footage. For whatever it's worth, the manual calls this technique "Blast Turns". For anyone without their own copy, here's the description:
Blast Turn
Control: Tap the A Button
By tapping the A Button, your machine's engine will ignite momentarily, allowing you to straighten out of corners more quickly.
Use Blast Turns: During cornering or when your machine is off-balance (after colliding with another machine or the guard rail, etc.).
*Well-timed Blast Turns will really make a difference on especially tight corners.
I worked for a major US game mag during GBA’s launch. One of our editors proclaimed Super Dodgeball Advance would be the best-selling launch title. We all laughed vigorously at him! 😂
A Kunio stan at a major U.S. magazine in 2001? I'd have guessed you were at GameFan if it hadn't been shuttered right before the GBA hit.
I love F-Zero Maximum Velocity and it's definitely a difficult game; but there's a hidden tutorial movie that shows some tips and tricks that literally change the way you play. Everyone knows about leaning into turns and braking, but there's a mechanic where if you let off the gas and tap it again, you get a little boost that straightens out your vehicle in turns, and it helps control your slide and hover. All those times where you ping-pong between walls? Pressing the accelerator for a quick boost will pull you out of those situations. It's literally the only way to 100% complete the game- a task I managed to do over the course of a few months in my high school library.
Please make more GBA works videos. It's my favorite handheld system and my second favorite system of all time. These videos are great
Sorry, I don’t foresee more GBC or GBA videos in the near future.
Love love love F-Zero!! Again, as I mentioned on FB, I was really taken with the dual layer mode 7 fields (the track itself and the surface of whatever planet your on, scrolling at a slightly slower pace) being utilized in all the GBA games, the sense of depth was much more authentic vs. the original SNES game. I guess it's a minor detail but from a technical point of view I was very impressed.
Man, I was clenching up just watching that F-Zero footage. Such rage. Whoever decided the ship should be able to pinball like that was a sadistic SOB.
To be fair, mashing A lets you regain control of your ship for tight turns and when that bouncing happens. It's in the game's tutorial and Mr. Parish didn't learn about it until the later footage in the video it seems.
Jason Blalock only if you dont play it properly
I've been loving GBA Works so far! The GBA launched right around the time I got my first job flipping burgers, and as such was the first console launch my friends and I were really able to digest freely with our own money. Konami Krazy Racers and Tony Hawk 2 floated us through that summer!
You could argue that the Mobile 21 service met its Waterloo in 2002.
The footage of the original F-Zero at :57 going over jumps without holding down on the D-Pad to maintain speed makes the Baby Jesus cry.
Still love playing Maximum Velocity to this day, however I have never liked the car designs, they always felt like Tru Value versions of the original F-Zero
I remember reading previews for Napoleon prior to the GBA launch. Glad to finally see the game in action
Great video. I hadn’t heard of the Napoleon game before. It looks like something I could get into.
Just watching this video flares up my hand cramps from playing GBA F-Zero back in the day lol
I notice Maximum Velocity is the one F-Zero game that Takaya Imamura is not credited on (if nintendo.fandom.com is accurate). Maybe this has something to do with the character cast being different. The Super NES Classic Interviews give more information on his character work in Star Fox and F-Zero and when in development it occurred (also Imamura thinks he designed Captain Falcon as a mascot character for the SNES). The Iwata Asks Steel Diver interview says the other directors reined in Imamura designing characters for that game.
I think having a player unit running around giving orders isn't really a MOBA (those have the player order one unit around and have it fight), it's more of an Action RTS, like Battlezone '99, Uprising and of course the proto RTSes (not just Herzog Zwei but also Rescue Raiders had the basic concept of the player being one unit while ordering other units to take the enemy base). I think beyond its weird name MOBAs can be summed up as competitive action RPG grinding, they're not really in the RTS bucket despite being based on the tech for RTSes.
This one ^
That Napoleón game only just recently got an English translation patch, too. I gave it a look and I thought it was pretty neat, but I can totally see why virtually no one knows about it.
I've recently built a portable emulation system so I'm absolutely LOVING your content. Please keep it up! :)
That Napoleon game looks pretty interesting for what it is. I'm actually sort of surprised they didn't bother to localize it for a USA launch.
As a kid with Maximum Velocity I actually thought it was super easy, even tedious at times because once you knew the trick of just tapping the accelerator when going round turns it lost all challenge since that gave you massive corner grip without really losing any speed.
As for Napoleon, I believe it was originally slated for a full European release as the Nintendo magazines I was reading at the launch all had reviews of it.
I remember reading about Napoléon/L'Aigle de Guerre somewhere back when the GBA was first launching. I was really disapointed that it never came to the US because it sounded very interesting to me.
Remember, hold down on the d-pad when making contact with the track after making a jump, otherwise you'll lose all speed as Jeremy does here ;)
Fantastic work with the video title again, Jeremy
I can't think of a single show on tv that i'd rather be watching than this video xD Somehow just so fascinated by these vids
I like the increased Retronauts branding on this one.
From a crazy race to another Krazy race.
What comes to the MOBA-games there are even more games that came before L'Aigle de Guerre. For example Future Cop: LAPD (on PC, PS1 and MAC) which had multiplayer game mode Precinct Assault. Also Famicom Field Command has MABA features except it is single player.
Great video, Jeremy. By the way, I noticed some footage from Napoleon had english text. Do the japanese or french releases have english text?
Paulo Joffily Oh sorry, I forgot to mention-that’s a fan translation available at romhacking.net!
I played Maximum Velocity to death when the GBA first came out, and if anything I'll appreciate it for getting me used to how F-Zero games worked and influencing me into getting into the rest of the series. GX was incredible (minus the ludicrously difficult story mode) and is still hands down my favorite racing game ever. I was even lucky enough to have an arcade with AX nearby which was also really fun.
Even if they don't want to try making a new game for fear that they won't be able to top it, they at the very least need to port it onto a newer console. I'm pretty sure the series has been dormant for so long that there's *adults* that only know Captain Falcon as the guy from Smash Bros.
Really loved the GBA and how you could find weird stuff for it from almost day one, things that flew under the radar yet didn't quite reek of being shovelware. I know it's a way off but looking forward to Urban Yeti, one of the weirdest titles I can recall from that time period.
So many memories with this game I own 2 boxes copies still lol
Good morning to you too!
Never expected to hear Pendulum sneak into a Jeremy Parish video! 8:59
Nice catch!
Thank you for the review of Napoleon. I was fascinated by the idea of an RTS on a handheld back in the day, and was disappointed when I couldn't get my grubby hands on it in America.
I'm not sure if I'm lucky I didn't spend money on what wasn't *really* an RTS, or unlucky I didn't get to be one of Those Guys who could point out the MOBA's true origins with an obscure, experimental title.
Not pointing out the blast turn mechanic where you Tap A while cornering and to stabilize the machine is a huge oversight. It is a essential mechanic to be able to play the game effectively without sliding all over the place even with the Wind Walker. Master it, and you have yourself easily the best racer on the platform hands down. I know it's hard to notice the tutorial clip but you have to disclose it to have a fair perspective on this classic racer. My favorite game on the system.
Also when you go off jumps, hold back on the D-Pad so you don't slam onto the road, take damage and lose your momentum.
Riffing off what Jeremy said about F-Zero lore, it still baffles me that F-Zero had an anime. Of all the Nintendo franchises to adapt for television, they picked F-Zero, where the characters mostly existed in auxiliary material in the instruction booklet.
Not Zelda, not Star Fox, not Mother, F-Zero.
In fairness, F-Zero was a lot more of a blank slate than those other games. No concerns about misrepresentations of the characters or mythology.
Jeremy Parish Very true, good point.
Though the way they rewrote canon so Mute City was just New York in the future, it’s like they never even played an F-Zero game.
If you're interested in a modern game which plays like Napoleon, tooth and tail is a very competent RTS in the same style.
Funny you should mention Virtua Racing, there's footage on RUclips of a pitch to Sega for a GBA port of the game and it's most impressive.
More or less impressive than Halo DS, would you say?
@@JeremyParish What about Star Wars on 32X?
This series needs more videos...
All things in their time.
Alright!!
I love the video title.
Cheers.
From France.
It is insane to me that Nintendo will not take another look at what they've got with F-ZERO. Every entry in the franchise has been NES-hard, and we've seen plenty of older series become more widely accepted after a more accessible refresh. Plus, the ridiculous amount of characters and over the top story cry out for a story mode that people can actually witness for themselves without full mastery. If Fire Emblem can do it, so can Captain Falcon.
I really like F-Zero on SNES but couldn't get into this one. The original's controls are really tight, knowing when to drift, when to lay off the gas, or when to combine those things to get around turns. This... I dunno. The cars all felt too loose.
Been waiting for this one.
Maximum Velocity was one of the first GBA games I owned that I still have to this day. At some point a couple years back I played the crap out of it and mastered the controls. The problem I’m seeing from your gameplay is that you’re not hitting accelerate as you turn. I’m not talking about holding down the accelerate button either, I’m saying press the accelerate button multiple times as you turn and remember to use the L and R buttons depending on what direction you’re turning respectively. This carries over to all the classic F-Zero games.
For F-Zero GX I think you’re just screwed
I never heard of Napoleon. I need to check it out!
I recorded from a fan translation here-I'd recommend playing that. Some of the display and incidental text is still in French, but you can figure it out pretty easily.
Totally. It's not as short as everyone says it is, either. About average for French GBA games of its time.
Oh damn! L'aigle de guerre! I thought I was the only one who had heard of it. I actually did the 2nd translation on romhacking.net (the 2018 one), so it's cool to see somebody talk about it
From the footage, it looks like he's using the original translation :(
I’m surprised that Jeremy didn’t compare that Napoleon game to Pikmin since the idea of the main character acting as a cursor to order around NPC units sounds more Pikmin-y than MOBA-y (to me, at least).
As someone who was a kid when the gba came out and also had a GameCube the mode 7-esque titles fell super flat for me. When I had access to true 3d games it was hard to imagine anyone wanting to play them, the environments felt so barren and repetitive
Eh, as someone who grew up on the NES and SNES, I feel about the same way. Once polygons became a thing, I never really looked back to the Mode 7 style games. Hell, even today. I really never go back and play SNES-style racers, even though I will still play other types of older racing games. (These days, I feel like it's the Sega "super scaler" games that held up surprisingly well.)
Jason Blalock agreed outrun looks and plays great but f zero not so much
I'm curious why the map of the track is constantly flashing in F-Zero
It's a little pervy
Remind me what Game Boy Advance games Nintendo DID develop internally?
Blitz Wagner is just Vinny Caravella in football gear.
Hey this might be my favorite series of yours. Any plans to return to it
Sure.
@@JeremyParish that's pretty vague but thank you for responding. big fan of the works format in general.
That's because my plans are also vague...
@@JeremyParish sorry didn't mean to come across as rude
Nor did I!
The bottom line is if it were initially a console release and became available for a portable device, it was generally worth it.
Was the footage of Napoleon an English fan translation or did it have a native English option?
It's a fan translation-check romhacking.net!
I can't believe Jeremy has the audacity to call me out for my sincere appreciation towards Mr. EAD.
We all get canceled sooner or later
I'm a lot more insulted by this than I think you had intended, but I probably deserve it.
You really shouldn't be, honest.
I know, I know. You'd think I'd be used to being made fun of on the Internet by now!
Did you really call the N64 4 player capability a gimmick? How dare you!! That 4 player capability was the reason why I had so much fun with my friends playing N64, we had endless fun playing 4 player games like Mario kart 64, goldeneye, super smash bros, Mario party 1-3, conkers bad fur day, Mario golf and so many other games…..so you better take that gimmick comment back!! By the way I love your videos!!!
I played the time trials so many times trying to get the Jet Vermillion and never did still sort of salty about that. The second F-Zero GBA game was much better.
F-Zero was always a bit too much for me to handle, but that Napoleon game looks legit.
The gameplay is vey different from the Snes version. And The "Mode 7" in this title was superior as it multiple independent layers. The Snes only had one. INO the perfect version would have Snes Physics with GBA Tech
I hope f-zero comes back.
Napoleon GBA, the self-proclaimed "this is the true story" game, where you fight off people that should be dead well before the era.
Awesome concept
I'm torn between references. There's the Hermione "You could be killed! Or worse: disqualified." or the Portal "Contact with the floor will result in an 'Unsatisfactory' mark, followed by death."
As many mentioned already, that's not how you really play "Maximum Velocity"...of course it's very hard to control your vehicle, if you don't actually control it properly.^^ Using the L and R buttons (also in opposite ways), A tapping etc. makes you control the vehicle WAY better and then the game is playable and a lot of fun. The gameplay footage here makes the controls look rather bad, which they aren't.
I expect a 2 hour epic for Konami Krazy Racers, in line with my childhood overestimation of the game. Thank you in advance.
F-Zero Zero Velocity was my first F-Zero game I found it used in a Gamestop, I'm pretty bad at it though. And... My gram had a crush on napoleon in her youth...
When is the next episode coming out?
Good news: It's not!
@@JeremyParish It was great while it lasted. So many amazing GBA games I’d love to hear the history of and your thoughts on.
The games are just too big and too time-consuming for me to be able to manage, unfortunately.
Dude... you should check some Tipps and tricks before recording! In this game you have to held down when landing to avoid taking dmg and losing speed. Also you should spam the acceleration button when taking a curve so you won't drift outwards
Actually, Maximum Velocity would be the FIFTH F-Zero Game if you count the Sattelliview Game
So...when's Napoleon coming to Smash, then?
I mean, pop culture made him a cartoon a _long_ time ago.
Cinnamon Noir I don’t know about him specifically but one of the general characters from that game is definitely a Spirit in Ultimate
Wait. GBA can't mode 7?
Mode 7 was one of 8 graphical display modes built into the Super NES hardware. GBA's tech worked differently and didn't require programmers to use those display modes. It could fake Mode 7 effects decently, but they were not the real thing. That's why Super NES ports like Final Fantasy VI look a little wonky when you hop aboard the airships.
:) Three years later, when is the next Gameboy Works Advance? What a tease, Konami Krazy Racers can be argued as the better kart over Mario given the content, though being third party and most characters obscurities from Japan only may have had a play in that. :D
Sorry, don’t see it happening. I’ve refocused the channel into more of a linear chronology and 2001 is a long way away…
JUST BLAST DRIFT ACCDJDBS sorry I swear all the reviews I've seen online talk about how hard the game is but don't know this pretty much essential technique (which they tell you about in the manual!). It makes the game far more enjoyable and pick up n playish, as you DON'T need to memorize the courses by any means, even on higher difficulties!
I will play F-zero: maximum velocity. 😀👍🎮
Oh no, he doesn't know how to play F-Zero :( Still great coverage of it though.
I've long felt F-Zero was ultimately killed by Mario Kart simply consistently being a much better selling series. It is only practical for Nintendo to fund so many games, and if they decide to release a new racing game then it is only practical for it to be a new Mario Kart.
Ah, NdCube, the developers that can make things look good but play bad... Seems like this could also be the case here? I dunno, I'm not good at F-ZERO but the tracks here seem way too thin and unforgiving.
Hey Jeremy, love the work that do. Probably one of the best writers in game journalism today. If you could make one minor tweak to your videos, I ask that you please stop showing the endings of these games. Yes I understand these games are 20 years older and then some, but some of us have have yet to drive into them. I have to skip some of your videos in fear of spoiling the ending for myself. Anyhow, thanks for all the time & effort you put into your content 👍
I would never spoil the story of a recent game, but to suggest I'm ruining someone's game experience by (in this case) showing a still character portrait that also appears in the game manual is utterly ludicrous.
FARUCON
*_PAAAAAAANNNNNCHI_*
I love Fzero, but the controls in this game always frustrate me. Great review
I’m changing my online handle to “theoretical straw man “.
eh. Maximum velocity is easier than the original.
Especially when you get to unlocking the more capable racers...
I'm really not okay with this video title.
Sometimes I play GBA games on my phone using a VR viewer (which lets me see the games in 3D) and think to myself "This is what the Virtual Boy was supposed to be if Gunpei Yokoi had been allowed to finish it." Sigh. What could have been...
Jeremy, I love you but... I don't see the corrolation between Napoleon and MOBAs. I don't know if you've ever actually played League or DotA, but your character in the game doesn't command your side's creeps/minions. In fact, despite the genre being born from an RTS, NOBODY commands them; they're completely autonomous. The only thing you have direct (or even indirect) control over in a MOBA is your own individual character. That or I've been playing league WAY wrong all these years!
*Pushes up glasses*
ACKTUALLY JEREMY Herzog Zwei for the Genesis is the first proto-moba game, you uncultured ruffian
Oh no