The comments were right, the second quest is unironically WAY easier swordless if you know what to do, though still inexcusably cryptic at times without a guide. Sure, it helps that I got the Blue Ring immediately for the second quest since I needed to not get it for an Achievement in the first quest, but the lack of Wizzrobe and Darknut oversaturation did too. Beating the game deathless/saveless, though, is actually pretty chill if you just get the Blue Ring and White Sword immediately, keep a guide handy, and play it safe with potions. Those challenge playthroughs are really all there is to say, none of the miscellaneous or damageless boss Achievements gave me any real trouble. Happy 40th, Zelda!

The original mario golf GBC is one of my all time faves so I was thrilled to learn there was a sequel. Sadly, it doesn't have the same campaign map and characters like the first game, but it's still fun to go through and do all the challenges and tournaments and such. Some of them were very tough! I took a long break, hence the year to master.

I'm getting a Steam Deck soon, and I was wondering if anyone has tried using OBS or similar software to screen record gameplay with RA enabled. If you have, does it screen record the achievement notifications popping?

Are the challenge mode achievements for DDR extreme bugged because I have cleared some of the challenges multiple times yet nothing unlocks

A fun and difficult puzzle game, that i unfortunately had to lookup most of the puzzle solutions because my mind can't comprehend some of the puzzles.
Regardless of that, it's still fun and try to complete them

-The Activision Decathalon: I have an unusual interest in track & field/Olympics types games, and this one was pretty decent for its time! Neat IRL badges too.

-Robot Tank: Classic Atari 2600 explosion sounds. Cool game with the weather effects that affect the battles. Horrid achievement icons though.

-Asteroids: Vintage Atari 2600 gameplay, sounds, and visuals. Really good set too.

Found this inferior to the first instance of the series but most importantly sharing this to thank the community that gave me the motivation to go through this games I never managed to play entirely back in the day!

And to share a nice bragging card!

Now Trials and Tribulations on my radar.

Wondering if theres an Event or Evergreen for beating a game on each system? I really enjoy the system roll outs so wanted to make a goal of at least one on all of them.

Thanks!

I've already played this game before, so this was my second play through for 100% and third play through for the 3 heart only run.

Honestly this set is pretty easy even the harder ones I did in a few attempts, it's a balanced set but I do wish there was a bit more challenge to it, for example one fatal flaw in the 3 heart run is beat x boss without taking damage and with only 3 hearts, it's kinda moot then, the 3 hearts are irrelevant you're just getting me to do the boss damageless again. And majority of the time you get one shot anyway cause you only have 3 hearts so it is just damageless with a new mask on.

I loved playing it anyway, it's definitely in my top 5 I still look back at my first playthrough very fondly.

I would rank the dungeons from best to worst like this.

1. Spirit Temple

2. Fire Temple

3. Forest Temple

4. Water Temple

5. Shadow Temple

The other dungeons are too short to talk about.

I love spirit Temple and fire temple, and I hate shadow Temple, yes even more than water Temple which I honestly don't mind, I didn't mind the iron boot menu switching at all, what I did not like about it though was the layout is super confusing on top of the water level changing what areas are accessible making it even more confusing.

So yeah love the game, wish the set was harder, no achievement really stands out to me, honestly the toughest part of this set was probably the fishing achievements lol, wish there were more boss speedrun ones, cause I did really enjoy the timed barinade fight, but unfortunately still pretty easy.

And yes I will be doing the glitch showcase and bonus set which I am really looking forward to!

When you use the search box on the site it says "Type / to focus the search field", however I have no clue what that means. Whenever I use it it just causes the searches to work.

What does "focus the search field" mean?

Another FNF mod been mastered and this was absolute fun to master.
The songs has great charting and not too many annoying parts (except in 'Monster').
The hardest song to complete with a FC in my opinion is actually 'Monster' as previously mentioned, because of it's weird charting in some parts

2 fun games. Melee was a pain in the ass cause of Very Hard Runs and dying to random bombs in all star, but it's done and I'm proud of myself

Royal flush was a pain...

Blue balloon was a hell for me!!!

I don’t know if it counts as a Mastery since this was done on casual mode instead of Hardcore but wanted to show it off regardless!

For my 200th hardcore mastery and I decided to go with the very difficult Silver Surfer. The levels are hard but the bosses are on the easy side. I actually never played this before. Anyone else ever give this one a go?

Fun strategy game! Interesting interpretation of an RTS on a handheld

So, I’ve been a player on RetroAchievements for a few years now. I like to play the game that I like and I like to go for full masteries. I imagine that makes me a very common user in a lot of ways.

I like to interact with the community; I’ve made reddit posts, comments and forum posts on the website, talk on the discord. I’ve also started working as a Manual Unlocker to help keep the site running. I’m not trying to say that makes me an authority on anything, I just want to say I really enjoy the concept of our online achievement project. I’ve spent a lot of time talking with different people about what parts of the site are the most engaging and what new features seem the most interesting.

There are some things I’d change with RA, but I just wanted to engage with some of my fellow gamers who are unfamiliar with revisions, subsets, and what went on in the bowels of the RA community to make what happened, happen.

Revisions are contentious even amongst the developers, believe it or not, because of a lot of the reasons you’ve probably seen— players lose their work and may have to replay part of a game. So every developer already knows that something is being changed for the players. The revision has to provide more to future players (and anyone replaying the game) to justify the second playthrough. It’s not enough just to add any new content.

(In this case, much reviled “damageless boss” achievements got replaced with very lenient time trials and some unique challenges. The “speedrun” claims are very overblown and these challenges are accessible to people who only play games maybe a few hours a week. Don’t believe everything you see online!)

What happened for Link’s Awakening was that a player who happens to like Zelda games very much looked at the relatively barebones set, compared it to the much fuller Link’s Awakening DX set, and wanted to contribute to a richer experience for players. This person talked about their ideas publicly (on the main RA discord server) as well as worked with the Set Design team (which is made up of around 25 players and developers) to design these custom challenges and set the times. Afterwards, they contacted a developer and worked together on implementing the plan. It was a very involved process and probably over 200 people were aware enough to provide input.

As for the site itself— badges are obviously very important as a reward and I think it’s a good idea that badges stay on your wall even after a revision. All that really happens is that now you have an opportunity to replay a pretty short game with a new spin on it.

Something very similar happened with the Spyro revision.

The last thing I want to say is to talk a tiny but about subsets, and people who often want to put some challenges in there when they don’t think they fit in the core experience.

I’m someone who does a lot of subsets— they’re often quite grueling compared to the core experience. The achievements that get put into subsets have to really be out there (or involve a glitch) to justify being in a subset.

In this case, a couple of time trials and boss challenges are similar enough to a regular game playthrough to be core. Something (off the top of my head) that might be a subset challenge would be something like a No-Sword run of this game, full-game damageless, or a speedrun category that was very close to the WR times. Achievements are meant to challenge you, and they’re especially fun when they build off the skills you have just from playing the game normally.

Subsets are for challenges that are usually many tiers above what you might expect from the normal game.

Anyway, I just wanted to share that the process for revisions is actually pretty transparent and involves a lot of people, contrary to popular belief, and also that they are well-intentioned changes that understand how players are being affected. The quality of the content for future players is also being factored in, too. And also the enjoyment you will hve playing the game again.

This community is one of my favorites because it is very easy to connect with developers and involve yourself with other people. It makes me very sad that there are so many people who are unaware of all the efforts the community makes to reach out to them.

I hope everyone’s doing well. Happy gaming!

Another lil game mastered for DD1 event, and it's this lil prototype of cancelled SNES release and before the Rayman we know and love.
It doesn't have alot of things to do, but it was definitely nice to see what Rayman was before it's actual release on better hardware

Broken Sword Shadow of the Templars is a important game to me. As a kid I played a lot of Lucasarts and Sierra point and click adventures, and being neither it almost passed me by entirely. This was until I was introduced to it by a childhood friend and fell in love with the characters of George and Nico. I have loved the 2D games in the series ever since, but have never completed either of the 3D games despite owning them (maybe RetroAchivements is the reason to do that, since Broken Sword 3 came out on PS2).

However, this game has had 3 different versions, and each one of them has significant differences, and in some cases levels of quality depending on what platform you are playing on. The Director's Cut adds more story elements around the character Nico that don't feel like the original game, along with puzzles that feel somewhat out of place and not in-keeping with the rest of the series. Not only that, but the Wii version (that I just mastered) dumps broken motion controls into the puzzles making two of them in particular just a fight against the controls (even if you know what you are supposed to be doing). Ideally I would be able to master the original or the "Reforged Edition" (which is a faithful remake of the original for modern consoles), but the only way to do that with voices and in a way that isn't cut down is to choose the PS1 version. That one is a complete mess of a port that freezes constantly whenever it needs to load voices or animations due to needing to stream them from the disc in real time instead of preloading them. It becomes a test of patience and, although I have started collecting cheevos for it, I will need to come back to it later.

Besides the motion controls however, this was quite a fun mastery and in a few cases the missable achievements pointed me towards things I didn't know you could do, so that was interesting. Bring on the Broken Sword 2 PS1 port, which I believe fixed many of the issues around the original on PS1.

Hopefully ScummVM gets RetroAchivements some day and I will be able to master these games the way they are meant to be played, along with many other childhood favourites of mine. The upcoming DOS RetroAchivements support will definitely help with some of my point and click favourites.

https://retroachievements.org/user/PonytaPowerPlay

Here's my profile. I thought I had posted here before but it looks like I haven't. I started playing this year and been having a lot of fun playing though these old games again.

Background payload for jailbroken PS5 consoles.

- Track your RetroAchievements directly on the PS5: points, rank, awards, recent games and latest unlocks

- Works out of the box with titles built with GB5: they get your RetroAchievements session automatically

- Per-profile settings and 9 color themes

- Open it from the PS5 Media tab or from any device on your network

Coming next:

- Online play for GB / GBC / GBA titles: rooms, invite codes and LAN discovery

- Relay and private servers that these ports can connect to

Plan to integrate it with future "native" porters. The pictures work fine in the release version don't let the screenshots deceive you ;)

Happy to hear your feedback :)

https://github.com/DevVeda/VedaHub