The playlists have been created with the help of the community over a long period of time and have been improved continuously. The videos shown on this channel are chosen carefully. I only play videos that are explicitly permitted to be used. These include videos that have been released with an appropriate license, videos for which I have the explicit permission of the creator to play and videos I recorded myself.
The TAS videos were released under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 license and were downloaded from the TASVideos.org website.
If something on this channel bothers you or you have suggestions for improvement, feel free to whisper me on Twitch. I also almost always read the whole chat, but sometimes later, because I cannot always be present.
Check out the Tiny Arcade Atari 2600 mini console. It includes a fully functioning 1.5" TV, mini joystick and 10 games: Breakout, Pac-Man, Asteroids, Pong, Missile Command, Centipede, Combat, Warlords, Millipede and Tempest.
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Subscribe to the official RetroLongplay YouTube Channel for exclusive longplay recordings such as the Super Mario Kart and the Mario Kart 64 longplay. There is also a longplay of Doki Doki Panic available. New videos are released regularly.
Tool-assisted speedruns or tool-assisted superplays (TAS) are an important part of the speedrun community. They address and define the theoretical limits of the game. Often they have a major impact on regular speedruns, as they discover new opportunities for optimization.
An emulator is used to perform the TAS. The aim is to achieve a theoretically perfect playthrough. Typically, features such as savestates, re-recording and frame-by-frame processing are used. There are also scripts created to perform actions automatically.
No, not at all. TAS runs follow rules and the use of tools is transparent, no one is cheated. Every single input can be checked and verified afterwards, you can replay the whole run in the emulator. Cheating would be to change the program code of the game. But of course these tools can be used to cheat in games.
For most of the recordings shown on this channel the BizHawk emulator was used. It's a free multi-platform emulator developed by the TASVideos community and it's a recommended all-in-one tool for creating TASes. There is also a full list of accepted emulators.
It's videos played live. It's not a prerecorded stream and it's no replay or rerun. The gameplay is recorded but everything else about this channel is live. For example, all game requests are executed live. The videos can be skipped live using channel points. Polls are performed live and usually have a direct impact on the playlist.
The green playlist shows which game and system is currently being played. The blue playlist contains the full information, such as the name of the player and the type of run. Since this information does not fit on the screen, this part of the playlist is scrolling.
The currently played game is highlighted on the playlists. The playlists are processed game by game.
In the upper right corner of the stream you can see how long the current game will take to finish. The time runs down to 0, then the next game starts.
The games are played with original sound (often emulated). At the time the games were released, there was usually no voice output at all. It was normal that sound was only used for certain parts of the game. Some games were even released completely without sound.
On some systems the number of audio channels was severely limited. Therefore sometimes sounds are missing, because all audio channels are already occupied. Sometimes the cause is instead problems with the emulation.
Arcade games are often programmed so that the sound only starts when a coin is inserted. Thus the demo mode at the beginning of the game is often played without sound. This is to avoid unnecessary noise in the arcade while nobody is playing.
With very old games, arcade games and arcade ports, it happens that games do not have an end, but repeat endlessly. In this case the player plays through the game once.
No, that wouldn't fit the concept of the channel. Most people are here for nonstop gameplay without commentary. It wouldn't make much sense to change that. If I would play live, I would create a new channel for it.
My ISP requires a reconnection once a day. Besides, Twitch streams can have a maximum total length of 48 hours. To prevent a longer interruption, I reconnect the stream once a day.
Internet Points can be redeemed to trigger various actions. With the standard Twitch features, for example, emotes can be temporarily unlocked or modified. For some polls you can also buy additional votes with Internet Points.
With the extremely expensive extended features you can influence the playlist. I have to run the extended features manually. Please ask if I am there before you use an extended feature.
Click on the joystick icon below the chat and then scroll all the way down. Then click on "How to Earn Internet Points" to see all earning sources.
No. But of course all points will be refunded if I do not execute your request.
The channel should always remain relaxing. Constant changing of the playlist, especially skipping videos, could be disturbing. The features are a reward for viewers who spend a lot of time here.
Request levels are not precisely predefined. Some requests are more expensive than others. It depends, for example, on popularity, length and when the video was last played. I only accept requests that are entertaining for a large part of the community. If I don't accept your request, you will get your Internet Points refunded.
Some of the videos shown on this channel contain intense flashing lights. This can trigger seizures for people with photosensitive epilepsy. For further information please visit the Epilepsy Foundation.
system① game_name [info]② type③ [category]④ by player_name via platform_name version time⑤ (system_name_long) {developer&publisher releaseyear genre_code}
3ds -> Nintendo 3DS 32x -> Sega 32X a2600 -> Atari 2600 a7800 -> Atari 7800 apple2 -> Apple II arcade -> Coin-Operated Arcade bsx -> Satellaview / Broadcast Satellaview X c64 -> Commodore 64 cdi -> CD-i (Compact Disc-Interactive) channelf -> Fairchild Channel F coleco -> ColecoVision dos -> MS-DOS PC ds -> Nintendo DS dsi -> Nintendo DSi fds -> Famicom Disk System flash -> Adobe Flash gb -> Game Boy gba -> Game Boy Advance gbc -> Game Boy Color gc -> GameCube genesis -> Sega Genesis / Mega Drive gg -> Game Gear intv -> Intellivision jaguar -> Atari Jaguar jaguarcd -> Atari Jaguar CD linux -> Linux PC lynx -> Atari Lynx mac -> macOS / Mac OS X msx -> Microsoft MSX n64 -> Nintendo 64 n64dd -> Nintendo 64DD nes -> Nintendo Entertainment System ngp -> Neo Geo Pocket ngpc -> Neo Geo Pocket Color o2 -> Magnavox Odyssey 2 / VideoPac G7000 pc98 -> PC-9800 series pcfx -> PC-FX pico8 -> PICO-8 ps1 -> PlayStation saturn -> Sega Saturn segacd -> Sega CD / Mega-CD sg1000 -> Sega SG-1000 sgb -> Super Game Boy sgx -> PC Engine SuperGrafx sms -> Sega Master System snes -> Super Nintendo / Super NES sv3x8 -> Spectravideo SV-318 / SV-328 tic80 -> TIC-80 tg16 -> TurboGrafx-16 / PC Engine tgcd -> TurboGrafx-CD / PC Engine CD ub -> Uzebox ultimax -> Commodore Ultimax / Max Machine vec -> Vectrex wii -> Nintendo Wii windows -> Microsoft Windows PC wswan -> WonderSwan wswanc -> WonderSwan Color zx -> ZX Spectrum
If it's a ROM hack, a fan game or a homebrew game, this information is shown here.
At this position the type of video is displayed, for example tas or longplay. The abbreviation tasv2 means that the same player made another TAS before and this is an improved version of it.
This is left blank if it's the default category, a fast as possible playthrough of the game, also known as any%. All alternative categories are displayed at this position. Superplays that are not speedruns are labeled playaround.
The total playing time of the video is displayed here (hh:mm:ss). Time measurement in speedruns ends with the last input. Therefore, the speedrun time is different from the total video playback time.
!amazon shows a link to the retro gaming products page on Amazon.
!betterttv shows the available channel emotes of the browser extension BetterTTV.
!freeprime shows a link to the free 30-day trial of Amazon Prime.
!levels explains the meaning of request levels.
!subs shows the current number of subscribers of this channel.
!tasvideos shows a link to the official TASVideos website. You can also use this command to link to any page of the TASVideos website (Example: !tasvideos 3220S).
!uptime shows how long the current stream has been online. RetroLongplay is a nonstop stream but needs to reconnect once a day. Therefore this indicates the time since last reconnection.
!youtube shows a link to the official RetroLongplay YouTube channel.
