Thank you so much for having me on! It's always fun to showcase SM64 Speedrumming and we got to try PS1 Drum Controls for the first time ever for Spyro 2 You're officially a Speedrummer If you want to see more Speedrumming, I would say my favorite run to catch is my 16 star WR: th-cam.com/video/0yWc4spNDx8/w-d-xo.html If you want to set up your midi instrument to play games, here's my tutorial: th-cam.com/video/EqOI9xvJrF0/w-d-xo.html
Honestly, as someone who can barely play either musical instruments or video games on their own, the fact there are people out there who can combine the two elements so seamlessly is mind-blowing.
Rob, it's so cool seeing you try your hand at this, a combination of two of my favorite things (music and video game challenges) I would like to also join the chorus of people politely asking you to drop Better Help like a sack full of hammers.
Years ago there was a guy named peekingboo who did speed runs of Mario 64 and other games on a Dance Dance Revolution cabinet. Not just a pad but a full on 2 player cabinet in his apartment. It was one of the coolest speed runs I ever watched. Not sure if he still does it though.
10/10 videos are rare, dude. Constant amazement throughout the video! From the start to the ad and the fact you can make it to the beach alive in Inside?! 😮😮
I will never trust them after they were caught selling customers health data, how on earth are you meant to trust a "counesling service" that has a history of disrespecting such sensitive information?
As someone who's been watching speedruns for 12+ years (longer than I've been watching rob!), I am looking forward to rob's speedrunning career. It just so happens that I've been watching more and more spyro runs, too! (or getting BACK into watching those...ssbm was the only one I watched and he hasn't done runs in years and years)
the fact that rob has played INSIDE makes me so happy, love that game and it’s atmosphere and art direction also rob betterhelp betternotsponsor you cos they’re a very naughty naughty company
fyi in all likelihood he is aware but contracts were signed before anything was well known. feel like every commenter misses that also inside is great i love it
@@peepock7796 It really doesn't matter if you sign a contract to do a YouTUbe sponsorship and do not fulfill on the sponsorship. If the company has a scandal going, it's very likely that TH-camrs will just not do the sponsorship anymore even if they agreed to it. Nothing will happen. No lawsuits or anything. Contracts like that are not binding. Just imagine if they were. Imagine if Betterhelp sued him. That would be way way worse for their public image. So the idea that "contracts were signed before anything was well known" just doesn't hold up unfortunately, especially since the stuff about Betterhelp was known for many many months before this video came out. Rob just took it the sponsorship anyway and that was his choice to do so.
Same! I had to reach out to him immediately haha I had such a blast filming this. Hopefully someday we could get together again and stream for his twitch. I’d love that.
Ok, I might not watch your channel enough to already have known this, but you being a speedrun nerd and freaking Spyro 2 being one of your favorite games?? I can only say welcome to my world! Glad to have you on board :D
I just watched that 70 star sm64 run the other day! Hell yeah! Also love hearing Rob talking about all this speedrun stuff and like knowing about the tech and summoningsalts lol
This is amazing! I've seen people use weird controllers before, but I never thought to use a drumset as a controller, I mean i know guitar hero/rock band has a drum controller but I didn't know you can use a regular e-kit as one. 😂
Look around and you'll be amazed. Things like Skyrim on Potatoes. Dark Souls with the DK Bongos. Dark Souls 3 with a fishing rod. A recorder played by someone's nose. FPS games with flutes. There is such a wondrous world of bizarre in gaming.
you definitely should! coming up with a mapping with some musicality that doesn't get annoying to hear after a while seems tricky, but also a really interesting challenge some ideas that immediately come to mind: using alternative scales (e.g. pentatonic) with less dissonant intervals, using chord variants as macros (e.g. chord add 6, 7, 9 for single, double, triple jump), and creating swappable mappings to fit with the key/style of the in-game music for each level
@@VisionThing Because that's not a pretentious, European endeavor at all....when you ultimately fail, I'm sure you'll blame America for your failures as Europeans always do.
@@VisionThing betterhelp had to pay a $7.8 million dollar settlement last year for selling users data after explicitly saying they don’t sell user data, they don’t do background checks on the therapists so literally anyone can pretend to be a therapist, leading to gay and trans people being forced to deal with homophobic and transphobic “therapists” who’re only on the site to basically push conversion therapy on clients, the actual therapists on the app are treated shitty too, they’re constantly overworked because if they don’t take like 7 clients per day they’ll make no money, and the creator of betterhelp is an ex idf soldier and when Israel started attacking the people of Palestine last year betterhelp decided to give 6 months of free therapy to “those affected by the war” (Israeli people/soldiers). So no, don’t pull this “holier than thou” bullshit because people are calling out creators from taking money from literal scumbags, because we’ve been the people supporting these creators from the beginning, if we give them our time, money, and energy we deserve a say in whether or not they get supported by the worst possible people, go fuck yourself and quit using the same copy-pasted “argument” against everyone you disagree with
12:00 Holup, you can get the boy to the beach without turning into the blob monster? Is there another secret ending?! Or is it just another scene somewhere in the middle of the game I don't remember...?
Dude, I've been frantically searching the internet for ANY mention of that ending being possible and I've found NOTHING! Where did the footaage at 12:04 come from? How is this video the only place on the whole internet to hint at that ending? What is going on?
The fact he's better with a drum kit than I am with a controller is astounding. I still haven't even beaten Super Mario 64 and this guy is doing speedruns!
I know your heart is in the right place for taking the BetterHelp sponsor but I really can't get behind promoting a therapy company that sells the user's personal often traumatic data for extra profit.
Thank you so much for having me on!
It's always fun to showcase SM64 Speedrumming and we got to try PS1 Drum Controls for the first time ever for Spyro 2
You're officially a Speedrummer
If you want to see more Speedrumming, I would say my favorite run to catch is my 16 star WR: th-cam.com/video/0yWc4spNDx8/w-d-xo.html
If you want to set up your midi instrument to play games, here's my tutorial: th-cam.com/video/EqOI9xvJrF0/w-d-xo.html
Thanks for sharing your absolute mastery with us CZR :)
You're so cool czr!
And Rob is cool as always
Legends getting together, ya love to see it!!!
That was amazing! :D
I wonder if you could do a song with the recorded drums after you finish a level on Super Mario 64 or something 😂
Cincinnati!!!!!!
The little sting and zoom every time the camera pans past Moneybags is fantastic
The world of midi is amazing. For the most part its been unchanged since it's release and we are still finding tons of uses for it today.
Totally! It’s particularly remarkable when you think about in that way
Take 1: nailed it!
Now we need it with keyboard/piano. I would get that program since i have a keyboard collecting dust.
@@TheStickCollectorIt should be possible with the same program. Since it just remaps MIDI to other things.
@@Jeff-ss6qtYep. I used it to play piano as a bard in FFXIV.
Now how will you and your new dad combine church organ MIDI, MIDI drums, and Spyro? The world needs to know
Rob knowing what cannonless is makes me unreasonably happy
He knew a ton of speedrunning stuff tbh
i bet czr could do salt cannonless
Dude for real I love the fact that Rob is also a video game nerd and into speedrunning and stuff, I could watch videos of them doing this all day lol
But never saw a n64 controller, so confusing to me :)
The editing around Moneybags was on point 😂
friends dont let friends take betterhelp sponsorships
Fr It’s always such a jump scare. “Oh sick he’s gonna ska- OH FUCK…ew”
@@alijahlloyd6754rollerblades are cooler than skates
They sold personal user data, massive fine last year.
+++
its a scam
we need a full band with a drumkit and 2 guitar hero controllers
I'd love to see a co-op game beaten like that, maybe Portal 2?
0:43 feel good ~
This took me a second 😂
Yooooooooooo!
shaka shaka kashaka kash
Honestly, as someone who can barely play either musical instruments or video games on their own, the fact there are people out there who can combine the two elements so seamlessly is mind-blowing.
You should look up the people who play dark souls on a guitar hero guitar, they're cool af
They both are skills based on rhythm and timing, so they do cross over...that being said, this is pretty high level gameplay AND musicianship.
Rob, it's so cool seeing you try your hand at this, a combination of two of my favorite things (music and video game challenges)
I would like to also join the chorus of people politely asking you to drop Better Help like a sack full of hammers.
Years ago there was a guy named peekingboo who did speed runs of Mario 64 and other games on a Dance Dance Revolution cabinet. Not just a pad but a full on 2 player cabinet in his apartment. It was one of the coolest speed runs I ever watched. Not sure if he still does it though.
He did an elden ring playthroigh recently
@@FrankFurther in the DDR machine!? That's insane
Peekingboo's still streamin yeah
Cut to 20 years from now, where this becomes so popular that Summoning Salt makes a video about Drumming speedruns. A SpeeDrum video!
You must not realize people age out of speed running
@@Ottophilyou must not realize people don't care for your snarky replies
Yeah he’ll definitely spend 20 (!!!) years on it just so some TH-camr makes a video about him. What dreamworld do you live in?
@@aliasfakename2267 But he’s right. Just because you might not like it doesn’t make it so.
@@VisionThing how exactly does one age out of speed running?
10/10 videos are rare, dude. Constant amazement throughout the video! From the start to the ad and the fact you can make it to the beach alive in Inside?! 😮😮
So glad you liked it :)
Had a blast filming!
Really appreciate you 🙏
Considering that the Spyro OST was written by Stewart Copeland, playing the game with drums is somewhat poetic.
I'm so sick of seeing better help as sponsorships, they're an absolute scam, and it's actively harmful, please consider dropping them.
50% of all ads dog
most things are scams. you gotta learn to become smart
Please re think using Better Help (aka not an actual counseling service)
Yeah I’m disappointed to see how many people are still taking their sponsorships. I’m sure Rob certainly has other options
@JesterWDE he is probably stuck under a contract for multiple videos but yeah needs to change if that is the case once it's done
@@palucina6518 that makes sense
[citation needed]
I will never trust them after they were caught selling customers health data, how on earth are you meant to trust a "counesling service" that has a history of disrespecting such sensitive information?
Bro this is probably my favorite video ever PERIOD. Watching this is so fricking fun
1:52 How do you hold down a button?
Fred Durst: I'm so glad you asked.
underrated comment
😂
How chill and nice is CZR?
What a cool guy!
As someone who's been watching speedruns for 12+ years (longer than I've been watching rob!), I am looking forward to rob's speedrunning career. It just so happens that I've been watching more and more spyro runs, too! (or getting BACK into watching those...ssbm was the only one I watched and he hasn't done runs in years and years)
This is so much joy to watch. Thank you both for this video 😊
I'm a casual speedrunner that picked up the drums a year ago. Seeing Rob do these skips makes me want to buy an e-kit rn
the fact that rob has played INSIDE makes me so happy, love that game and it’s atmosphere and art direction
also rob betterhelp betternotsponsor you cos they’re a very naughty naughty company
fyi in all likelihood he is aware but contracts were signed before anything was well known. feel like every commenter misses that
also inside is great i love it
@@peepock7796 It really doesn't matter if you sign a contract to do a YouTUbe sponsorship and do not fulfill on the sponsorship. If the company has a scandal going, it's very likely that TH-camrs will just not do the sponsorship anymore even if they agreed to it. Nothing will happen. No lawsuits or anything. Contracts like that are not binding. Just imagine if they were. Imagine if Betterhelp sued him. That would be way way worse for their public image. So the idea that "contracts were signed before anything was well known" just doesn't hold up unfortunately, especially since the stuff about Betterhelp was known for many many months before this video came out. Rob just took it the sponsorship anyway and that was his choice to do so.
Little late to this but the first First of October album has a song about Inside!
@ WHAT WHICH TRACK
@@eden9186 “Spoilers for Playdead’s Inside”
Yes! Massive respect for CZR! Thank you so much for featuring him!
That was insanely fun to watch! 😊
So glad you enjoyed it!
It was really nice discovering this passion of yours Rob! And CZR is amazing, keep at it you both, this is inspiring :)
the horn hit every time a pixel of moneybags was on screen lol
This is so wholesome! Love watching Rob replay some old games!
Have two of the most chill, secure and joyful people sharing awesome moments playing video games together
sponsor : Better Help !
I was not expecting Rob to be a drum speed runner. Hope he does it more!
Or shredding the skatepark in roller skates.
The dramatic horns around moneybags got me more than I would expect lol
Selling the music that is produced is actually a genuinely genius idea🏆
Found CZR from his 16 star run at GDQ and was mindblown. So glad Rob sought him out for a video
Rob you gotta beat all of Spyro 2 on drums!
Same! I had to reach out to him immediately haha
I had such a blast filming this.
Hopefully someday we could get together again and stream for his twitch. I’d love that.
his run was my favorite this past agdq, so cool to see you do a vid with him!!!!!
im so proud of czr's son
Ok, I might not watch your channel enough to already have known this, but you being a speedrun nerd and freaking Spyro 2 being one of your favorite games??
I can only say welcome to my world! Glad to have you on board :D
If in a year Rob doesn't have the drum speedrun record for Spyro then I will be amazed.
Can't wait to see Rob at the next GDQ event doing a drum% run of Spyro 2!
Fuck yeah Rob is now familiar with this side of the gaming musical internet. It's actually insane how immediately you got the hang of the controls
17:44
The gag with the camera zooming in whenever Moneybags is on screen is phenomenal
I used to bring street fighter and dance pads to parties and it was always a hit. Now it's time to try fighting games with drums. This is so rad.
Loved that vid! Seeing you play one of my fav speedrunning games Spyro 2 on drums made my day! Let the grind begin
After seeing the GDQ run I really hoped there would be more exposure for how wildly impressive this is!
so glad you're still making videos after so much time
i love that rob has taken basically the same trajectory of interests as me: metal, more general interest in music, then video game speed running.
One of my favorite vids you've done. Combining a lot of my interests here and czr was so chill.
Didn't know Rob was into speedrunning! Or at least watching it. That's super cool!
Awesome video Rob. Remember to love yourself and not be too hard on yourself my dude
I just watched that 70 star sm64 run the other day! Hell yeah!
Also love hearing Rob talking about all this speedrun stuff and like knowing about the tech and summoningsalts lol
Oh hell yeah and knowing all this Spyro tech? Awesome
Wow. That guy is amazing. This would be extremely hard as is, but with drums? Absolutely amazing.
This is amazing! I've seen people use weird controllers before, but I never thought to use a drumset as a controller, I mean i know guitar hero/rock band has a drum controller but I didn't know you can use a regular e-kit as one. 😂
Look around and you'll be amazed. Things like Skyrim on Potatoes. Dark Souls with the DK Bongos. Dark Souls 3 with a fishing rod. A recorder played by someone's nose. FPS games with flutes. There is such a wondrous world of bizarre in gaming.
Always nice to see a supportive father helping his son pursue new hobbies.
This was the most entertaining media I've consumed in so long! It'd be awesome if you stayed over for a weekend to try to beat the whole of Spyro!
I love the running gag about the drum kit being fed through like 9 programs is a better controller than the N64 controller lmao
This is why I do love MIDI. The granularity over minute control is so much more sophisticated than you might imagine at face value.
As a piano player and gamer... I am so going to try this with my keyboard. 88 keys - 88 ways or more to control movement!!!!!
you definitely should!
coming up with a mapping with some musicality that doesn't get annoying to hear after a while seems tricky, but also a really interesting challenge
some ideas that immediately come to mind: using alternative scales (e.g. pentatonic) with less dissonant intervals, using chord variants as macros (e.g. chord add 6, 7, 9 for single, double, triple jump), and creating swappable mappings to fit with the key/style of the in-game music for each level
Such a good video. Love speedrunning and drums. Never seen it at the same time before, but I want more.
Gonna need Rob to do a Spyro playthrough showing off all of his tricks.
Man the Greg was wasted on the betterhelp sponsorship
So American, holier than thou. You wouldn’t turn down a paycheck would you?
@@VisionThing You gonna go through and say the same thing on every comment about betterhelp? So European....
@@Teajryan I am on a mission to call out the Americans who think they are on a crusade for justice, while being absolute asses.
@@VisionThing Because that's not a pretentious, European endeavor at all....when you ultimately fail, I'm sure you'll blame America for your failures as Europeans always do.
@@VisionThing betterhelp had to pay a $7.8 million dollar settlement last year for selling users data after explicitly saying they don’t sell user data, they don’t do background checks on the therapists so literally anyone can pretend to be a therapist, leading to gay and trans people being forced to deal with homophobic and transphobic “therapists” who’re only on the site to basically push conversion therapy on clients, the actual therapists on the app are treated shitty too, they’re constantly overworked because if they don’t take like 7 clients per day they’ll make no money, and the creator of betterhelp is an ex idf soldier and when Israel started attacking the people of Palestine last year betterhelp decided to give 6 months of free therapy to “those affected by the war” (Israeli people/soldiers). So no, don’t pull this “holier than thou” bullshit because people are calling out creators from taking money from literal scumbags, because we’ve been the people supporting these creators from the beginning, if we give them our time, money, and energy we deserve a say in whether or not they get supported by the worst possible people, go fuck yourself and quit using the same copy-pasted “argument” against everyone you disagree with
And just like with everything Rob dabbles in on this channel, he totally kills it.
What a great collab!! 👍 I knew there must be a better way to do these games than with controllers... 😂 The best of both worlds. 😉
🙏👏
It was only a matter of time. After I saw this man practicing his 16 star run...I had a feeling Rob would get his camera on him.
Holy shit lol. People take a while to learn a lot of this stuff on controller, to do it with drums is INSANE. That’s too sick
I felt so happy when you made the last jump! 🎉
12:03 How do you get to the beach with the Boy alive 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮
This is the coolest thing ive seen in speed running
I didn't realize how much of a gamer Rob is!
Watching him do the Spyro skips with a drum set is probably the most amazing thing I've seen in a while 😅
12:07 Rob literally invented a new way to play Tetris and that doesn't even get HM of his greatest gaming achievements 😂
This is just so joyful. Thank you.
Too awesome! Mario party with multiple players/set would be rad!
❤ great video, I love Spyro so this got me sooo hyped. How fun
I've never played Mario or Spyro (it was before my time) but this was one of the coolest videos ever
I think its really fitting playing spyro on drums since Stewart Copeland did the soundtrack for one of the games. Great video
I hope he watches this video
Waiting room for Rob and CZR's Spyro speed drummer race here ❤❤❤
There's NO way I just left a comment on this dudes page about his blast technique and now he's on Rob Scallon hours later lmao
I saw this dude at agdq and immediately hoped this collab would happen.
this gave me alternate dimension afterschool bonding with a classmate vibes
The amount of passive learning and cognitive leveling up that this must do for the creative part of the brain is insane!!!!
i look forward to your videos. thanks for posting
Hey Rob, just curious on the state of Wrath of Riffson? Really excited, I LOVED the demo and just left me wanting to binge the while game !
Had no idea Rob was such a nerd 😀 Playdead's Limbo and Inside are such good games!
Damn, this is awesome. What a meeting of minds.
Playing a game scored by the most legendary drummer of all time Stewart Copeland with a drumset is such a nice coincidence
Uh, can you tell me how you got to the beach alive in Playdead's INSIDE? It looks impossible but I really wanted to try it.
I would do anything to see Rob play Spyro on drums at GDQ
Castlevania SoTN would be an INSANE work out like this and I love the idea of it.
Shield dashing would be nutts.
As a big fan of Rob, Spyro, Drums and Speedrunning - this is a great video
12:00
Holup, you can get the boy to the beach without turning into the blob monster? Is there another secret ending?! Or is it just another scene somewhere in the middle of the game I don't remember...?
I want to know too, i havent found a video of it yet
Strangely I remember getting that ending too and just thought that was the game… didn’t know there was an ending with the blob monster
Dude, I've been frantically searching the internet for ANY mention of that ending being possible and I've found NOTHING! Where did the footaage at 12:04 come from? How is this video the only place on the whole internet to hint at that ending? What is going on?
i guarantee that your channel will be used in virtual history books in the future for our generation and music
This reminds me of that streamer who played a FPS game he controlled with a recorder
Love watching nerds be nerds together. Especially on two topics at once!
As a fellow Spyro kid, I could watch this for hours.
There's also a glitch in Spyro 2 where you can swim in the air and get to crush that way too. But that's for a 100% run.
This was stupid amounts of fun
The fact he's better with a drum kit than I am with a controller is astounding. I still haven't even beaten Super Mario 64 and this guy is doing speedruns!
Now Rob has to set the speeddrum record for Spyro 2. I'd watch a full stream of that
i love drums. i love speedrunning. therefore, i love this
I know your heart is in the right place for taking the BetterHelp sponsor but I really can't get behind promoting a therapy company that sells the user's personal often traumatic data for extra profit.
This video is amazing!