SimCity SNES Getting a Megalopolis / NO money trick - Mike Matei Live
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- Going for a Megalopolis in Sim City. Which means getting to a population of 500,000 people. This was done without using the infamous money trick.
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Mike, you're the only streamer I know that I'd sit and watch an 11 hr playthrough of SimCity. Thanks for still streaming and pumping out content for us to watch.
You must be living the most boring “life” that is logically possible.
Hey Mike, some insight for you in case you're interested: rails (or roads) going from residental zones can go 15 units in which a valid destination (essentially the residents' workplace) is searched for. anything longer than that will not register and the residental zone as result won't develop. Valid destinations are C- and I-Zones, PD, FD and an open Stadium (not the closed one for whatever reason).
Have you heard about the NES version of SimCity Mike? It was deemed lost until it was discovered in 2018. It has most of the same features despite running on inferior software. It's truly a programming marvel
That's interesting. No I didn't hear about it.
@@mikematei fake gamer
There was also going to be a sim city and sims crossover for 2002 release. It had a showing at e3 2001
I’ve played it. Miyamoto only had a demo commissioned, so it’s not much of a play.
It's in Seinfeld apartment background for some reason.
Ahhh the avgn game footage factory
I noticed that.
@@jeremiahhester6408 sly is aware
I was so involved in this stream I didn't even mind the 11 hour runtime. Thanks for the time and effort you put into this Mike. 👏
That's a lot to watch haha. At least I finally did it
SimCity was the first game I bought for Super Nintendo. I received my SNES - with Super Mario World as the pack-in game - for Christmas 1992, and a few days later I went into town with my dad and bought SimCity. For a month, those were the only two games I had, so many of the long winter evenings throughout January '93 were spent trying to build the best city I could. I never made it to megalopolis, that's for certain, but I came up with some places I was very happy with. I played it with the aim of constructing something that was beautiful to my eye, rather than intending purely to get the largest population I could. The game has its flaws and its peculiarities, that's for sure, but it still occupies a special place in my memories.
This epic playthrough kept me company all day while I worked, and the only shame is that now Mike has achieved his 500K population goal, I suppose it's unlikely we'll see him tackle SimCity again, at least not this version. I could honestly be happy watching more cities rise from nothing to greatness, accompanied by Mike's musings and anecdotes! 😊
At first glance, 11 hours seemed like a lot, but I must say, this was very enjoyable! Loved Sim City. Thank you Mike for all your work past, present and future!
This awakens early memories of unpacking my S-NES and settling in on this game for the whole night. Megalopolis is quite the challenge, even if most of the levels just happen on their own. Good luck. And I already see rails over roads. Hear that is a good tactic. (Also once read that Los Angeles was started as a rails community where everyone walked, maybe biked and used trains. No cars. But... Big Oil caught wind, moved in, bullied for control and bulldozed almost the entire influence of rail travel into the ground. Survivors of that early idea can still be found to this day. Public rails in the middle of a few miles of freeways.) And isn't it amazing to think that this game was made exclusively for the S-NES. That's why it runs so well with few slow down issues, despite the many calculations going on in the background. After all, they tried for a more traditional port of Sim City 2000 to the PlayStation. What a train wreck that was.
Favorite memory: (Using the money code... as *I* can't achieve it any other way.) Using that near infinite amount of cash to build up the city, keeping crime to 0, taxes to 0, fire, bla-bla-bla to perfection... and STILL getting community feedback. Like one old giezer was unhappy that he couldn't pay taxes! Kind of felt like hitting a practically unreachable event when I saw that. (No way to challenge Mike to uncover that one.)
basis for Dr. Doom's plot in Who Framed Roger Rabbit
I spent so much time on this game when I was a kid, but I never knew about the money code until I was older. I tried playing this a few weeks ago and basically completely forgot everything about this game LOL
Hey, thanks for playing this, Mike. My brothers and I played this a lot back in the day.
I know it's a moot point now but there's a trick we used to do where we crash a plane into the airport and fill in the wreckage with park. Eventually, you can get a fully functioning airport with barely any pollution. You just need the center bit with power lines connecting to it.
@@youtubeis... The airport does.
THIS MUSIC is so relaxing even more than the minecraft songs in my opinion. Lol went back watched the minecraft with gadget stream and it was pretty cool. Havent played that one in a while. Grew up with SimCity 2000 though on PC. Good times mike!
There are only two mayors who have my complete respect, Mike Haggar and Mike Matei. 🏆
Such a throw back, my heart just melted into being in the past simply seeing the box cover art, then the city scape scroll by...the good ol' days.
I got a bag of chips. Ive got a wawa coffee. Ive got a new can of Pledge, and a shampoo bottle. I am going to watch this entire video today start to finish.
Cheetos. To have cheeto dust on your fingers. Then wipe it on your tshirt.
@@mikematei Cool Ranch Doritos actually. The zesty sting of Cool Ranch dust the shampoo bottle gives on internal skin contact is to die for.
10:29:39 - The Bar for the R
10:31:18 - Rocky Balboa Bar 4 R
God damn this music brings back memories. The only way I was ever able to hit 500k pop was with that scenario mode with no water on the map. Sadly you didn't get any rewards in scenario mode so I didn't get a Mario Statue when I hit 500k.
I never owned this myself but I used to watch a friend play it all the time.
At first it was relaxing but things got a little tense when the rest of us colluded to sabotage his cities when he left the room.
Hey Mike. I was recently inspired by your videos to go back and finally beat The Legend of Zelda. I'm pretty terrible but beat it.
I wish this game hit the virtual console. I did this one time on the actual cart. The entire map was filled and it felt awesome. My city was ready for any and all disasters which the game is not shy to destroy your file with.
Sim city but the narrator is inspector gadget
Love this game!!! The music is 🔥
Simcity 2000 was my intro, and I still play it from time through time. I love that game
Godzilla for mayor lol
"Look at this map! It's Gotham City for godsake."
I'm falling asleep to this game...lol. It is relaxing music
Even though i love the SNES, knowing and playing SimCity on the PC since decades, the SNES version is significantly inferior. It is amazing that they managed to port that game in the first place, and that they were able to make it into what it is, but after several tries, i never enjoyed playing it.
It has its charm, but if i would want to play the old SimCity, i would never think about playing it on the SNES.
But amazing you did for that long, props for that.
a Cities Skylines 1 stream would be hilarious I can already tell 😂😂
I've been playing since the PC game came out. I'm a couple hours in and I'm not sure if it's been figured out by anyone else by the end of this stream, so I'll say it. The less rails, the less density. If you notice when the rails connected, the buildings would build up way bigger and even connect some together. You could see the parking lots and such too. With just the single rail touching each zone, they don't get very big and never connect together into the largest buildings. Basically, the better the traffic routing, the bigger the capacity. I can't remember if 4X4 zones connect together like the 2X1's anymore. Finally, a few residential's got put together to see if they'll connect. Oh wait, there's not enough rail to find out, or to ever make the megalopolis this way.
Oh yeah, and I think what's going on with the "random" power outages is this: With the limited rails, the capacities of each zone is limited and not as desirable either. When these residential zones begin flashing, it is when they are partially filled with small houses. It may be sort of a limbo between vacant and almost vacant, before they all disappear and it just becomes a blank. There is a way to check the power plant's output. You can select the magnifying lens, then one of the power plants on the map and it will show what's up so you can plan properly when to build new ones. They only last 50 years if I remember correctly.
I don't mean to keep adding, but I believe the idea behind not having water to put a seaport is to add to the challenge of not having a large industrial ability in the long run, forcing you to rely on commercial which takes longer to get going at a much greater expense. I don't think it's broken. The traffic tiles reach three tiles in each direction in SC2K, so I imagine it's the same in this game. That's why you can get away with one road or rail per zone, properly spaced.
I just bought SC3K for my PC a couple months ago, being my first time playing it after watching it here. Same with Dome Keeper, I had to get that one too! Despite enjoying the complexity and personality of SC2K and SC3K, this stream reminds me of the simpler times that were pretty amazing too. I never cared about the SNES version back then, but my PC game is long gone, however I've got SNES rom and an emulator. I'm going to load up and play this myself after I get done with the rest of this stream to see if I can beat this scenario myself. I hope these comments are useful instead of deleted.
Sad to say little of what you said is how SimCity 1 works.
Sea Port does not need to be built on water. Neither Sea Port nor Airport needs power, either. Unpowered, they don't launch their vehicles, which makes a safer, but more boring, city.
Power plants last forever in SC1. Rails are the same as roads except they cost twice as much to buy and to maintain, but do not cause traffic. A sim leaving a R zone travels down a road or rail about 20 tiles looking for a zone that is not of its own type. I zones just need one road or rail piece touching because of a bug or balancing hack. C zones can travel to another C zone as well as any other zone.
A complicated flood fill like algorithm determines if a zone tile is powered or not. It starts at where the first power plant is located. Subsequent power plants don't even need power lines connected. Yes when R zones remove houses they inexplicably get set to unpowered until the power line path finding hits it again, which can take months. There are bugs in the power line routine where zones can get missed or double counted, especially in large complicated cities. Power line tiles themselves each consume power like developed zone tiles, which is baffling.
@@whickervision742 I know the seaport doesn't need water, but I figured it would just reduce it's boost to Industry, like setting a water well/pump away from water. I guess the game is older than I remember, or the PC game was more "realistic" from SNES than anyone notices.
😊❤ miss those good ol days
Yep, that's how I played it as a kid. Industrial at the map border, nuclear power only, rails, and parks around all the residential.
I’ve been gradually watching all your completed games. I’m 9 hours 10 minutes into this particular video. Your insanity keeps me insane.
Thanks for the 💰
@@mikematei paypig gives cashmoney
Zelda 2 hoverbat edition! The GOAT Mike Matei game play through
Sim City is one of my favorite franchises. The Snes version was the first i played. I have many hours into this game in my child/teen years. The best way to get money is to just get your city going and walk away. I would just leave my Snes on while i was sleeping. Wake up to thousands of dollars the next morning.
i love james and mike mondays
simsity episode so good
Mike, did you ever stream Alisia Dragoon for Sega Genesis?
I hope to soon
@@mikematei Amazing, can't wait!
Hey Mike! I just finished the video (listening while at work yesterday and today). I really enjoyed it, and felt/remembered all of the frustrations that you were feeling. Even the “bad” advice we would get at school from other kids, and getting pissed when nothing makes sense nor seems to work. I don’t recall ever making it to 500K, I would have remembered the music.
Thanks for doing this, and congratulations!
I loved the way you went nuts when you saw 499. I once had a city I got up to 490 but couldn’t clear the last 10 no matter what I did. Had to restart from nothing but finally got it not too long after.
Getting Megalopolis in one sitting is pretty crazy, nice job
The way you approached playing this game makes me think you would like the game Caesar 3 on PC from back in the day. It takes a lot of the same type of thinking, like about where/how to place buildings and when to demolish residential areas since the buildings were poor, etc. If you check it out, then consider using one of the source ports for it.
Thats weird it started in the year 1991. I could swear it starts you at 1901 usually
I was half wrong. 1900
@@shaunbernard7083 Scenario.
Never heard the music for Mega, til now. Awesome.
11 hours of pure Matinee madness
I just discovered synthwave artist Perturbator and I'm loving it.
7:52:22 😂🤣🎉
I played this growing up and every several years in life I will revisit it. I played it on switch a few years ago and now I just downloaded an emulator and I’m currently playing on my iPhone 👍
I just made a Metropolis on the practice map 😁
Just got back, did he get the stadium yet?
Maybe its an unpopular position but I really enjoy a stream like this every once in a while. I appreciate your variety in gaming. I have two questions: 1. You played this on easy (thats very unlike Mike Matei...) will you ever try it on difficult? 2. Would you ever do a stream on Sim Earth?
I wanted to be able to do it at all. The freeplay has all that water. I tried it and made it to like 400k and got kind of stuck. I could probably do it if i spent enough time at it. But i’m kind of sim cited out.
Hi Mike, greetings from Canada, Big Fan of your work guys! Keep the good work
In the manual they advise you to make doughnuts with special buildings in the miiddle
just finished my third playthrough ov Dragons Dogma 2. normally I don't buy a game till its been out a year. but I feel in love with the first one and bought the hype ov 'he got to fulfill his vision'. director has said in interviews that the first game was rushed and there was cut content and 2 was his 'full vision ov his game world'
director ov the game is a goddamned liar. its the exact same game with better graffics. 3 tit sliders for character creation. cat people to increase sales with a certain part of the population...
worst yet? its not finished. its very clearly not finished. i know you don't like cutsceans and plot and such but I am a roleplayer so I am deeply engrossed in lore, story, plot, and immersion. i found DD2 lacking in that regard. gameplay is 10/10. graffics are stunning and engaging. world exploring is fun. story 1/10. plot 1/10. quest 2/10. I'm torn. i want to like the game but.... there is no way I can say its finished. the story is wrote by a drunk toddler who is petting their cat.
sad rule in modern gaming. 'dont buy anything until it goes on sale the second time after launch' that way you have time for the bugs to be worked out and I don't know maybe after a year or two ov release the game will be finished.
thanks for keeping me company old man. your hatred keeps me warm in the winter.
Yay, you were able to add this to RUclips! Thank you Mike, you're the best
Man, I'm about 5 hours in after watching on and off for the past couple days, and I have had that map music stuck in my head the entire time. Better than a track from the SNES Wizard of Oz game, I suppose.
Best stream ever😅😅
Just like me playing this for hours mike gets angry and screams at the TV 😂😂😂😂.
Love it
1:34:30 Mike resets and starts a new game.
1:44:25 Mike resets and starts a new game.. Again. 😂😂
I miss you and the nerd doing vida together. I swear you made me bust out laughing so many times 😅
Man, hats off to you…This was a great stream. Good job, Mike. This makes me wanna play some city builders bad. Just curious, have you played any other city builders?
ok the problem is that using these broken rail system is a glitch, so this is not a full 100% legit run 😥
I want this soundtrack playing wherever I go forever 😂
I saw this whole thing live. Time to watch it for sleep aid
The music is stuck in my head 😆😆😆
I used to play this game so much but i could never hit 500k even on easiest settings. It was a pretty tough game in that regard.
Amazing. None of my friends ever reached megalopolis
An all scenarios stream would be cool. Maybe I missed it.
I played it first on an Amiga. Not sure if it was on ms-dos before amiga?
Where can I watch the other streams where you attempted megalopolis?
After watching the whole 11 hours video: Hey Mike! Why the train's track is not connected?
😩
Dude if I get to the end of this and find out there’s a part two
It would be cool if the SNES mouse 'controller' worked on this game- But I think it only worked on Mario paint.
Never got 500k but I also haven't played the game in 30 years.
Mike, if it still feels like the 90's then you should feel that there is time for KLAX.
It would have been nice for Sim City to explain thise RCI bars. I've been playing this game wrong my entire life too
The game came with an 80 page instruction manual!
It means demand for each of the sectors Residential, commercial, industrial, what don't you know?
Had this one back in the days
I couldn't play this game. I suck at it. It's too hard for me.
Try to keep it going and max out the counter. I'm sure it could be done. The game was asking if there was room for growth and rezoning.
Never accomplished this In this game but I did it on sc2000,
Love the music for this game.
Yay! Now Mike can finally go outside and work on that tan!
man I miss when sim city games were good. sim city 3000 still holds up to this day.
11 hours later... I'd like to extend an offer as you being my running mate 🗳
1:19:25 this was so funny XD
So many hours I put on this game as a kid. I remember doing the money cheat on accident 😆.
There are a lot of inputs you have to put in specifically to do that. I doubt it was an accident
@@mikematei It really was an accident I swear. It was before the internet. Or before I knew how to use it.
@@blazers4life994
Just watched your first sim city video recently
Me too I got a bunch of questions for that director
I always wondered, why does the simcity guy have a giant green ballsack on his head?
I’m only 50 minutes in, but I wonder when Mike figured out he can turn the game speed up 😅
1:29:18 😅
I’ve been turning up the speed since the 90s. It’s not that I dont know that it does that. Its that I dont remember
If ever there was a chat stream, here it is.
Aaah another 11hr stream ❤
Congratulations Mike!
Mike, if you want a game like Hotline Miami but more modern and Sci Fi you want to give JYDGE a look.
Mike loved the stream. I kno you like playing doom. Can you play duke nukem id love to see that.
I love this game so much
Now just to hope for a power washing simulator part 2.
Is it even possible to get a Megalopolis without cheesing in some way?
When are you doing Sim Theme Park?
This is the real deal, experience games avoiding the temptation of abusing exploits 🤘🤘
Snes sim city should re-release with a speedup button
Well there was a speed up in the game. It's just not nearly fast enough.
11:05:48 Celebrates by shitting his pants.
Can you do it on Amiga?
one of my favorites.
Well done Sir!
6:44:27 nuh uh i never make mistakes I'm absolitly prvect.