I'm sorry, I was the the one who removed the collision on the golden tap. It was used in another level as part of the scenery, and its collision was dodgy.. so i removed its collision and put custom collision in that level. Unfortunately.. i missed the fact that the tap was spawned using our scripting system as a trophy. Sorry.
That's awesome. Thanks for commenting, glad to finally know the reason why. Don't tell anyone but I'm secretly glad it happened because it makes for a really funny story I can tell in a youtube video.
I especially appreciate the fact that youtube feels that this comment is long enough to hide the last line (see also: *punchline*) under a read more button
@@champagnesupernova1839 When he started prying at the pack with his fingers before he read the official spoon recommendation I was thinking "use a knife".
That twist about the expansion pack really got me. All that effort to get it working on hardware, then boom! He hits ya with "I'll just emulate it." Good stuff.
6:25 Hey I was the anon on 4chan. Weird to see that dredged up 6 months later for a Cybershell video, I guess this has been in the making for at least that long? I have no proof but I have had this Space Station Silicon Valley profile picture for years and am a certified N64 autist as anyone who knows me online can attest to. Thanks to Ozidual for identifying the Expansion Pak issue originally on the everdrive64 forum and even creating a hack which fixes the bug.
@Zak Dwyer I think it was mentioned in the video but this is an excerpt from the link Shellshocker shared: "The variable is pulled from a table where it is usually 0x00?? (where ?? is the value expected). Sometimes this value is 0X7FFF though. This causes a problem because that variable is multiplied and added to a variable that is 0x803E0000. This variable in turn is used to load a value, so it was attempting to load a value above 0x80400000. Without an Expansion Pak, the N64 returns 00000000 which is actually the correct response. With the Expansion Pak, the N64 returns the value at that location. Now SSSV does not check for an Expansion Pak and so never clears the old data on the Expansion Pak. The value returned is usually left over from previous games and most of the time is not an acceptable value. "
Even though he’s uploaded 5 videos back to back I’m still not letting myself believe this will be a reoccurring thing. I won’t let Cybershell hurt me again.
@@ExplosiveBolts I mean. I know 3D modeling and rigging. We could always start a indie dev studio and pitch an idea to Rockstar.... *Smiles like Luffy*
This was one of those games I rented as a kid. Played it when i was anywhere from 5-7, and had NO CLUE what I was supposed to do, and thought it was just a vivid dream i was remembering. THANK YOU for this video!!
I had that same experience, never made it past the first level and I convinced myself for years that it was a figment of my childhood imagination because of the art style and how strange a concept it was(my first games were Mario party 2 and Mario 64)
Lol glad to see there’s a lot of y’all with the same or similar experience as me! The game was just running around the space grasslands as the dog, and we called it “Dogman 64” lol
@@dinnaehuv1 And then there's also Body Harvest, a game praised for its non-linearity and big open stages... damn, Rockstar was already making GTA games before they started making GTA games.
I played the PS1 version. It randomly dropped me to negative several hundred orbs. I tried to continue through the but could push through the motion sickness once I got to the jungle.
This is one of those games that could really use an updated, stylized remake. It's so out of left field, that it's kinda worth preserving just on account of its uniqueness.
When I was a kid, I was weirdly obsessed with this game. It was never available at any of the game shops around for purchase, but our local rental shop, Movie Gallery, had it. I rented it over and over again. Eventually, when the shop was selling off all its N64 games, my parents finally bought it for me. Still have that copy, with the Movie Gallery sticker still on it. Looking back, it was very flawed, but it was extremely unique. I guess that's why it stuck with me as a kid. Luckily, I guess the copy there was the second version, because I definitely played it both before and after getting Majora's Mask and the required expansion pak.
I’m not an n64 pro, but I think it’s going through anti-piracy measures. It probably makes a check outside the normal n64 ram. But since the expansion pack EXPANDS the ram, the check succeeds, and it goes through anti piracy measures.
Oddly enough, I can see exactly what you mean, especially near the early-portions of the video. I know back around 2006-2008, people wouldn't bat an eye to this unless he Incorporated him getting angry and raging. Then he'd be considered an "AVGN rip-off."
This is absolutely fantastic, this kind of content is so fucking rare on youtube these days. Well narrated, well researched, amusing delivery and obscure video game and facts about it to boot? Hell yes. I love your Sonic content, but this is what I come to TH-cam for. All of your videos have been great, I'm really enjoying your resurgence. Thanks for the quality content, absolutely ecstatic.
@Oshabot 16 The protests dont affect most that much so the only massively bad thing would be the pandemic. So the good things somewhat outweight the bad for me at least
[Oshabot 16] Uhh... the whole joke is that while everyone says that 2020 is so bad due to the pandemic and the protests, there’s still good things happening
The timing of the robot dog getting destroyed by a crashing rocket, followed by the game immediately crashing itself, is too good to just not be mentioned
Have you heard of a game called Body Harvest on N64? Its also by DMA but never got much attention. Featuring an open world and ability to drive different cars and explore the world, it was like their first GTA. You play as a Samus like character fighting aliens and have to save the people from getting abducted. It might be up your alley, but I will say the gameplay is a little rough
Do it! It’s pretty rare, or atleast it was when I got my copy, so i’d buy a repro cartridge off etsy or some shit. I ordered one about a year ago out of curiosity for about 30 usd, and it worked perfectly with no issues on my release n64. I also got a Goemon reproduction cart and it works like a charm. If you care about collecting you probably won’t want to do that, but I gave up collecting games and stuff years ago
this game was a big part of my childhood. really cool concept, really amazing soundtrack that i still listen to sometimes. if they remade this i'd lose my mind. also welcome back cybershell.
My sister absolutely loved this game as a kid. I'd want to play something else, but she always wanted to play this. Being the older brother, I usually got my way, but y'know. Can't resist for too long. This was a very difficult game for us as kids, lol. Never got super far.
20:38 Based on that low-quality PS1 port of SSSV, I think that Runecraft deserved to have their Search Results replaced with ,,Runescape in Minecraft" Minecraft Mods.
My game has never crashed ever. Did they fix it in the pal version? Pretty sure I had the expansion pack too unless I took it out randomly last time I played it. Edit: ah you briefly mentioned some copies don’t have that issue. Weird
Yeah sorry this line almost made it into the final video but I cut it because it sounded really boring when I read it out loud: "This bug was discovered before release but cartridges were already being produced. Using cartridge codes to determine dates, the week of September 28th, 1998, was the final print run of the version 1.0 cartridge. A 1.1 version cartridge began production the next week of October 5th, 1998, and was only released in the United States, so both versions were released simultaneously. The PAL version does not contain this bug fix and only has 2 bytes of data which are different. This is why the glitch was only experienced by some players but not others and became such a confusing occurrence for players."
You and Ross Scott. Both of you fill my fascination for obscure games that end up being hidden gems. In this case I’m actually pretty familiar with SSSV. But because it has such a wall for getting into I’ve never really gotten to deep into it. I loved the review though. You summed up everything I fondly and vaguely remembered about the game and then some.
I'm quite grateful this game has been receiving more notoriety in recent times. It was a genuinely unique and innovative platformer of it's era that actually dared to do something different with the standard, 3D collect-a-thon formula that many games with far greater budgets had effectively become complacent with. The concept of taking over enemies and utilizing their abilities to help you progress further throughout levels was quite an interesting one, albeit bizarre and unconventional. The increased focus on combat and the attention to design with each respective animal's stats helps to prevent the experience from becoming too repetitive. Some animals are swift, but possess weak damage output and low armor, but may attack multiple times or possess a unique ability to compensate for their flaws. There are also slower, more powerful animals with stats reminiscent of a tank, with high damage output and powerful defenses. I can also appreciate that this game's collect-a-thon aspects, whilst still holding an important place on traversing each level, do not oversaturate the gameplay as a whole. I also feel this game's visuals, while basic and low poly, do feature a certain amount charm and quirk that meshes well with it's self aware, satirical style of writing. The levels have a fair amount of detail put into them, and the various robot animals blocky shapes do seem more of a deliberate design choice on the part of the devs to make them appear more robotic in nature. Regardless, most of not all of the animals in this game have a charming feature or detail that helps them to stand out from the rest of their peers, like the helicopter bunnies that drop bombs from the air, or the missile shooting walruses sporting sunglasses. Ultimately, while not flawless, SSSV is a true obscure gem of a game in every sense of the word. If one could look past it's bland visuals and weird concept, you'll have found one of the most unique 3D platformers of it's respective era. Just about anything it lacks in visual spectacle, polish, or firm beta testing, it more than makes up for in personality, humor, and an overall fun, unique experience that stands out from the rest of the big marquee 3D platformers of it's era. I give it an 8\10.
THERES NO WAY MY MAN IS TALKING ABOUT MY FAVOURITE N64 GAME RIGHT NOW!! YES! I rented this game twice as a kid, then forgot about it for 10 years, then spent the next two or three tracking it down.... it is truly amazing. A one of a kind experience on the N64. It suffers from a lot of super hard missions and a few nasty bugs, but there's just no other game like it in my opinion. I'll never forget the journey to find it again, and all the people that looked at me weird when I asked them if they remembered an N64 game where you were a microchip that infested the brain of other robot animals to solve platforming challenges. Finally I typed the right combination of words into Google (on the nthteenth attempt) and saw that beautiful box art. What a moment! It was like a slight headache I'd had for years went away all in one moment. I love this game.
This game is super wierd. I remember trying it out at a local game store back in the day. I didn't buy it though, cuz it was too wierd. Glad you're talking about it. And glad you're back man!!
I loved this game as a kid. In particular I really enjoyed that each stage feels like a sandbox. You have several tools and get to use them to finish the stage. Also the music slaps
Little Nemo for NES has "body swap" mechanics. The main character can immobilize enemies by throwing candy at them to make them go to sleep, then collision with the enemy causes Nemo to transform into a mixture of himself and the enemy. Granting him their powers. But you probably already knew about this game and forgot.
A game called "Metal Arms Glitch in the System" had an awesome body switch mechanic It's a 3rd person shooter much like Ratchet and clank. You play as a Robot in a whacky Robot World and you can hi-jack enemies.
Lol I remember having a dream the night before I got this game and it was almost like a premonition of the game itself. It was so weird. Universe works in mysterious ways...
I remember I had a dream where I was playing a game where I was standing on a window and jumped out, then had my character enter a canned "falling asleep" animation during the fall. Like 6 or 7 years later, when I was playing a game I had that exact thing happen to me in the game, just as it played out in my dream.
I had this game as a kid (got a second production run copy so I was blissfully unaware of all that Expansion Pak nonsense) and man it was fun, though the jungle rail shooter was always goddamn impossible for me. And I have to thank you for doing all that extra research on this goofy game, it's good to know someone's out there doing the digging on old gems like this.
7:38 "Dead scientists." Gordon Freeman must have been here. Welcome back again buddy. I feel like I should have grown up a lot by now since your classic LPs but I haven't lol
This game has always been one of my favourites, and I played it obsessively as a kid. I’ve developed a strong love for games with multiple characters/forms that play completely differently as a result. Now that I think of it one of my other favourites, Gotcha Force, has a similar feel in that it’s swapping characters, each one has two special moves and there’s a lot of variety. Though the Tokyo Jungle shoutout at the end makes me want a survival game where you play a body swapping parasite in a dangerous environment, possibly with co-op where you form an unlikely squad of different body types for different roles in the group.
Wow, I remember this game. I played it when I was like 5. It's 10 years ago and I had fun. I remember in 1 level there is a hyena which is laughing. Thx for the video and for the memories!
I never owned SSSV, but vague recollections about it have haunted the back alley of my memory for the better part of twenty years. Thanks for helping me remember it!
Had the game as a kid and I used to play this every time we would go skiing as a family because as a kid I couldn't figure out how to move one in the game so I would try asking my cousin's for help and eventually we would advance. I have fond memories of this game and I'm happy someone is talking about it
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I'm sorry, I was the the one who removed the collision on the golden tap. It was used in another level as part of the scenery, and its collision was dodgy.. so i removed its collision and put custom collision in that level. Unfortunately.. i missed the fact that the tap was spawned using our scripting system as a trophy. Sorry.
That's awesome. Thanks for commenting, glad to finally know the reason why. Don't tell anyone but I'm secretly glad it happened because it makes for a really funny story I can tell in a youtube video.
@@Cybershell13 Well at least some good came out of it ^_^ All I got was "bug of the year" award at dma ^_^
*Producer:*
*Jerry Seinfeld*
Never thought a guy that was helping to make this game to actually comment on this video interesting and if you do see this how is your day
does this mean that there’s gonna be a cybershell reference in space station silicon valley 2?
Worldwide Biomes:
- Ice
- Desert
- Jungle
- *EUROPE*
I especially appreciate the fact that youtube feels that this comment is long enough to hide the last line (see also: *punchline*) under a read more button
@@champagnesupernova1839 oh, really? Cuz for me it shows up just fine
@@orignialname4983 I think it makes it funnier
For some reason I misread it as world wide boners
It's the Final Countdown
A signature of quality: The main font is Comic Sans
I hate women
I don't get the hate for Comic Sans. I really don't.
Sonic Adventure 2 case in point, very suitable and thematic, really reinforces the dramatic storytelling.
TheNewRobotMaster A lot of the hate is really due to the massive misuse of the font from people over the years.
@@TheNewRobotMaster misused, and overused. It's actually a pretty okay font, very easy to read.
"You may use a small spoon to-"
**Grabs biggest spoon he can possibly find*
"I recommend using a knife instead" gee I wonder why the spoon didn't work
@@champagnesupernova1839 When he started prying at the pack with his fingers before he read the official spoon recommendation I was thinking "use a knife".
@@Diwasho I was just straight up dumbfounded. I don't even have an N64, and even I know not to use your fingers for shit like that.
**pulls out comically oversized spoon**
@@dreadfulroses **pulls out comically oversized N64**
Thanks for the shoutout friend, and thanks for spreading the good word of SSSV!
yeeee
Hi
mcill I’m glad I watched this, cause I found you
Yo
I gave this video a like immediately just for him covering it.
That twist about the expansion pack really got me. All that effort to get it working on hardware, then boom! He hits ya with "I'll just emulate it."
Good stuff.
It’s weird how an expansion doesn’t really work with a game. It reminds me of the Sega Saturn with a few games
I've still had this game crash with an expansion pack in. However, it crashes at the on-rails shooter level.
Daily uploads... this is a dream
Dreams don't last forever tho...
It'll be nice for as long as it happens
I know right
@@giacomo_9815 Yeah, as long as he enjoys making videos we'll enjoy watching them.
I love this
6:25 Hey I was the anon on 4chan. Weird to see that dredged up 6 months later for a Cybershell video, I guess this has been in the making for at least that long? I have no proof but I have had this Space Station Silicon Valley profile picture for years and am a certified N64 autist as anyone who knows me online can attest to. Thanks to Ozidual for identifying the Expansion Pak issue originally on the everdrive64 forum and even creating a hack which fixes the bug.
Now that's cool
How'd Ozidual manage to find and fix the issue? Is the forum post still up?
senpai noticed you wuw
@@shellshocker1884 Thanks!
@Zak Dwyer I think it was mentioned in the video but this is an excerpt from the link Shellshocker shared:
"The variable is pulled from a table where it is usually 0x00?? (where ?? is the value expected). Sometimes this value is 0X7FFF though. This causes a problem because that variable is multiplied and added to a variable that is 0x803E0000. This variable in turn is used to load a value, so it was attempting to load a value above 0x80400000. Without an Expansion Pak, the N64 returns 00000000 which is actually the correct response. With the Expansion Pak, the N64 returns the value at that location. Now SSSV does not check for an Expansion Pak and so never clears the old data on the Expansion Pak. The value returned is usually left over from previous games and most of the time is not an acceptable value. "
Even though he’s uploaded 5 videos back to back I’m still not letting myself believe this will be a reoccurring thing. I won’t let Cybershell hurt me again.
You know what they say, Enjoy it while it lasts.
WHAT IS CHAO
CYBER DON'T HURT ME
DON'T HURT ME
NO MORE.....
@@arcadejaguar409 "You know what they say love. Love is blind."-Tommy Wiseau
Fair enough
And you were right
Imagine if out of nowhere rockstar against all odds just decided to make a sequel to this game
That would be amazing.
Oddesy
This and Body Harvest, not in this timeline though.
@@ExplosiveBolts I mean. I know 3D modeling and rigging. We could always start a indie dev studio and pitch an idea to Rockstar....
*Smiles like Luffy*
@@ZigealFaust *commits war crimes against a civilian population*
"The game features dead scientists in some levels."
DAAARGH NO STAHP HEUGH
GORDON NO!
"OH MY GOD WE'RE DOOMED!!!"
"OPEN THE SILO DOOR THERE COMING FOR US ITS ARE ONLY WAY OUT"
Shut up
"Now why is this guy dead? He wasn't dead a minute ago! He was screaming about silo doors like a possessed farmer."
"Most beta footage of this obscure N64 game can be found in this music video by a German EDM band"
This is the kind of juicy trivia i want!
2:24 Imagine being so happy you're jumping around, then boom. A ship comes outta nowhere and hits you so hard it crashes the game.
This was one of those games I rented as a kid. Played it when i was anywhere from 5-7, and had NO CLUE what I was supposed to do, and thought it was just a vivid dream i was remembering. THANK YOU for this video!!
Same, it was the weirdest game to me, but I would rent it a lot lol never completed it though
@@kingdoge69 I quite literally never figured out what to do, ever. I just ran around as the sheep and thought thats all there was to it
I had that same experience, never made it past the first level and I convinced myself for years that it was a figment of my childhood imagination because of the art style and how strange a concept it was(my first games were Mario party 2 and Mario 64)
Lol glad to see there’s a lot of y’all with the same or similar experience as me! The game was just running around the space grasslands as the dog, and we called it “Dogman 64” lol
Nintendo: only a spoonful
Cybershell: comically large spoon
Wow, at this rate we're gonna have enough Cybershell videos to last till our extinction
Well thanks a lot, now you gave me a reason to ugh stay alive. Hope you're happy now
I think he's actually going to release a video for every month he received Patreon money...
He should address that soon
Oh...
I was joking about that. But it might become a reality.
@@whatuh991 he wont lol
So about 33 videos?
Huh, I guess this is the new most obscure Sonic game...
I'm sure this is probably a meme for the channel, but it's a hella obscure GTA Game... DMA is Rockstar before they became Rockstar :P
@@dinnaehuv1 ...Yeah. He said that in the video dude
@@Narutass43 Welp shoulda watched it all the way through looool woops
@@dinnaehuv1 All it means is that we need to find a way for GTA V to stop printing money so that they have to make Space Station Silicon Valley 2!
@@dinnaehuv1 And then there's also Body Harvest, a game praised for its non-linearity and big open stages... damn, Rockstar was already making GTA games before they started making GTA games.
Ah, that one game we’re you can’t even 100% it.
Wrong were
@@datboijoey9587 Just in the PS1 version.
@@PauloM6414 the ps1 port fixes that bug but that version runs horribly
@@luckybeast1234 Its a small price to beat the game 100%
I played the PS1 version. It randomly dropped me to negative several hundred orbs. I tried to continue through the but could push through the motion sickness once I got to the jungle.
9:18
*rats, rats, we’re da rats*
We really living in Cyber Hell
This is one of those games that could really use an updated, stylized remake. It's so out of left field, that it's kinda worth preserving just on account of its uniqueness.
How to make your scorned fanbase forgive you for your 3 year going out for a pack of smokes absence in one easy step:
Daily uploads
*going out for a pack of rayman pissing promo on twitter
Instead of uploading videos, he spent his two years away just making videos so that he can release them back-to-back
Did you know: Super Mario Odyssey actually copied the code for Space Section Silicon Valley
No way? No way!
Where are the receipts?
where
Nobody asked, this is a Sonic channel Mario is a rip-off (joke btw)
@@Darekmot _oh my h*ck!!!! mario came before sonic!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you're wrong!!!!1!11!1!!!_
When I was a kid, I was weirdly obsessed with this game. It was never available at any of the game shops around for purchase, but our local rental shop, Movie Gallery, had it. I rented it over and over again. Eventually, when the shop was selling off all its N64 games, my parents finally bought it for me. Still have that copy, with the Movie Gallery sticker still on it. Looking back, it was very flawed, but it was extremely unique. I guess that's why it stuck with me as a kid. Luckily, I guess the copy there was the second version, because I definitely played it both before and after getting Majora's Mask and the required expansion pak.
I remember when protonjon did a small series titled “you should play/don’t play”
hehe
Imagine getting a notification on a cybershell video while watching a cybershell video
relatable
The Chao video came out a minute after I watched the dx one
2020 is a weird fucking year
@@blacksunshine7485 Stephen King called it
I’m not an n64 pro, but I think it’s going through anti-piracy measures. It probably makes a check outside the normal n64 ram. But since the expansion pack EXPANDS the ram, the check succeeds, and it goes through anti piracy measures.
That totally makes sense given that it only does this a couple times near the beginning of the game
The years of cybershell's inactivity were really just him trying to play this game
This new content feels like classic AVGN. I love it so much.
Comfy
Oddly enough, I can see exactly what you mean, especially near the early-portions of the video.
I know back around 2006-2008, people wouldn't bat an eye to this unless he Incorporated him getting angry and raging. Then he'd be considered an "AVGN rip-off."
This is absolutely fantastic, this kind of content is so fucking rare on youtube these days. Well narrated, well researched, amusing delivery and obscure video game and facts about it to boot? Hell yes. I love your Sonic content, but this is what I come to TH-cam for. All of your videos have been great, I'm really enjoying your resurgence. Thanks for the quality content, absolutely ecstatic.
wait, Cybershell is doing daily uploads now?
damn 2020 really isn't so bad.
@Oshabot 16 The protests dont affect most that much so the only massively bad thing would be the pandemic. So the good things somewhat outweight the bad for me at least
[Oshabot 16]
Uhh... the whole joke is that while everyone says that 2020 is so bad due to the pandemic and the protests, there’s still good things happening
HE CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIS!!!
scam?
??????
The timing of the robot dog getting destroyed by a crashing rocket, followed by the game immediately crashing itself, is too good to just not be mentioned
Cybershell, thank you for giving my life purpose again.
Have you heard of a game called Body Harvest on N64? Its also by DMA but never got much attention. Featuring an open world and ability to drive different cars and explore the world, it was like their first GTA.
You play as a Samus like character fighting aliens and have to save the people from getting abducted.
It might be up your alley, but I will say the gameplay is a little rough
I don’t care about the sonic content anymore. I just love hearing this dude’s voice again after so long. Welcome back for sure
I've actually considered buying it 👀
Do it! It’s pretty rare, or atleast it was when I got my copy, so i’d buy a repro cartridge off etsy or some shit. I ordered one about a year ago out of curiosity for about 30 usd, and it worked perfectly with no issues on my release n64. I also got a Goemon reproduction cart and it works like a charm. If you care about collecting you probably won’t want to do that, but I gave up collecting games and stuff years ago
22:45 that feel when your own base form is also the weakest, least desirable state to be in
There's also a possession mechanic in Geist, a GameCube exclusive FPS.
Just leaving a comment to help push the video out.
The contempt and bewilderment in Cyber's voice when he mentions the 'RAM BUS BUS' tickles the hell out of me.
loving the new videos cyber. glad youre putting the spotlight on other games and series. keep it up and its good to have you back
Damn I’m so early I can’t think of a joke
I KNOW
Packet the real joke is that being early would be impossible
I also love Tokyo Jungle. Here's to hoping Rockstar makes a new SSSV game soon.
That was a good game back in the day. I’d play it before school every morning
this game was a big part of my childhood. really cool concept, really amazing soundtrack that i still listen to sometimes. if they remade this i'd lose my mind. also welcome back cybershell.
My sister absolutely loved this game as a kid. I'd want to play something else, but she always wanted to play this. Being the older brother, I usually got my way, but y'know. Can't resist for too long. This was a very difficult game for us as kids, lol. Never got super far.
Wait, THIS GAME IS SUPER MARIO ODYSSEY BEFORE IT EVEN EXISTED!!!
Yeees
20:38 Based on that low-quality PS1 port of SSSV,
I think that Runecraft
deserved to have their Search Results replaced with ,,Runescape in Minecraft" Minecraft Mods.
This is a really comprehensive, informative, and entertaining video. Great job covering a great game
My game has never crashed ever. Did they fix it in the pal version? Pretty sure I had the expansion pack too unless I took it out randomly last time I played it.
Edit: ah you briefly mentioned some copies don’t have that issue. Weird
Yeah sorry this line almost made it into the final video but I cut it because it sounded really boring when I read it out loud: "This bug was discovered before release but cartridges were already being produced. Using cartridge codes to determine dates, the week of September 28th, 1998, was the final print run of the version 1.0 cartridge. A 1.1 version cartridge began production the next week of October 5th, 1998, and was only released in the United States, so both versions were released simultaneously. The PAL version does not contain this bug fix and only has 2 bytes of data which are different. This is why the glitch was only experienced by some players but not others and became such a confusing occurrence for players."
@@Cybershell13 cool
@@Cybershell13 cool
@@Cybershell13 cool
@@Cybershell13 cool
Aw yeah! This is happenin’!
You and Ross Scott. Both of you fill my fascination for obscure games that end up being hidden gems. In this case I’m actually pretty familiar with SSSV. But because it has such a wall for getting into I’ve never really gotten to deep into it. I loved the review though. You summed up everything I fondly and vaguely remembered about the game and then some.
Heck yeah! I missed your content, and I'm so glad you started uploading again!
Daily uploads huh? I'm proud of you
CYBERSHELL IS BACK ON THE GRIND WE LOVE YOU CYBER!!!
I'm quite grateful this game has been receiving more notoriety in recent times. It was a genuinely unique and innovative platformer of it's era that actually dared to do something different with the standard, 3D collect-a-thon formula that many games with far greater budgets had effectively become complacent with. The concept of taking over enemies and utilizing their abilities to help you progress further throughout levels was quite an interesting one, albeit bizarre and unconventional. The increased focus on combat and the attention to design with each respective animal's stats helps to prevent the experience from becoming too repetitive. Some animals are swift, but possess weak damage output and low armor, but may attack multiple times or possess a unique ability to compensate for their flaws. There are also slower, more powerful animals with stats reminiscent of a tank, with high damage output and powerful defenses. I can also appreciate that this game's collect-a-thon aspects, whilst still holding an important place on traversing each level, do not oversaturate the gameplay as a whole.
I also feel this game's visuals, while basic and low poly, do feature a certain amount charm and quirk that meshes well with it's self aware, satirical style of writing. The levels have a fair amount of detail put into them, and the various robot animals blocky shapes do seem more of a deliberate design choice on the part of the devs to make them appear more robotic in nature. Regardless, most of not all of the animals in this game have a charming feature or detail that helps them to stand out from the rest of their peers, like the helicopter bunnies that drop bombs from the air, or the missile shooting walruses sporting sunglasses.
Ultimately, while not flawless, SSSV is a true obscure gem of a game in every sense of the word. If one could look past it's bland visuals and weird concept, you'll have found one of the most unique 3D platformers of it's respective era. Just about anything it lacks in visual spectacle, polish, or firm beta testing, it more than makes up for in personality, humor, and an overall fun, unique experience that stands out from the rest of the big marquee 3D platformers of it's era. I give it an 8\10.
Videos like this make me quite happy. Thanks mate.
you know cybershell is just that special when his non-sonic content is just as interesting to watch as his sonic videos :)
THERES NO WAY MY MAN IS TALKING ABOUT MY FAVOURITE N64 GAME RIGHT NOW!! YES!
I rented this game twice as a kid, then forgot about it for 10 years, then spent the next two or three tracking it down.... it is truly amazing. A one of a kind experience on the N64. It suffers from a lot of super hard missions and a few nasty bugs, but there's just no other game like it in my opinion.
I'll never forget the journey to find it again, and all the people that looked at me weird when I asked them if they remembered an N64 game where you were a microchip that infested the brain of other robot animals to solve platforming challenges. Finally I typed the right combination of words into Google (on the nthteenth attempt) and saw that beautiful box art. What a moment! It was like a slight headache I'd had for years went away all in one moment. I love this game.
This game is super wierd. I remember trying it out at a local game store back in the day.
I didn't buy it though, cuz it was too wierd.
Glad you're talking about it. And glad you're back man!!
I loved this game as a kid. In particular I really enjoyed that each stage feels like a sandbox. You have several tools and get to use them to finish the stage. Also the music slaps
So this is basically the Simpsons hit and run mixed with Mario Odyssey
One of the few games that you'd literally be better-off playing on an emulator or an Everdrive with a patched ROM to eliminate its game breaking bugs.
alternatively don't have an expansion pak :)
I played this game from 1998 til around 2005 almost every single day, lol. only bug I encountered was the non collectable trophy.
Little Nemo for NES has "body swap" mechanics. The main character can immobilize enemies by throwing candy at them to make them go to sleep, then collision with the enemy causes Nemo to transform into a mixture of himself and the enemy. Granting him their powers. But you probably already knew about this game and forgot.
hell yeah dude, glad to see you uploading so much lately
And talking about stuff you love like always
damn daily uploads!!
i give him another week befire he hibernates
I don't have an N64.
Or a computer.
Or any emulator.
Sounds like a nice game though.
if your on a android you can download emulators but ios is difficult
But you have a phone clearly so play it on that
Dreamcast Dazia he could be on a smart fridge
@@dreamcastdazia4753 who said I wasn't using the Nintendo Switch?
@@Jake_Josh Switch has a browser? Because you can't comment on the console YT app.
A game called "Metal Arms Glitch in the System" had an awesome body switch mechanic
It's a 3rd person shooter much like Ratchet and clank. You play as a Robot in a whacky Robot World and you can hi-jack enemies.
My friend had an old 64 that he’d bring over sometimes when I was a teenager and this was one of the games we’d play together. Very cool concept.
HE DID IT. THE MAD LAD DID IT. HE UPLOADED AGAIN
I feel a shame of the people that don’t know that he’s back...
I hate edits
Ironically, you edited your comment.
@@ozziesmith7696 hehe you funny
@@ozziesmith7696 yes you found the joke
I had damn grammar errors...
man i had this game as a kid and i am SO glad you're talking about it
so weird how little coverage this games got
I'm happy you are back! I did miss your content! :D
Lol I remember having a dream the night before I got this game and it was almost like a premonition of the game itself. It was so weird. Universe works in mysterious ways...
I had a dream that Cybershell returned the day before he actually did.
I remember I had a dream where I was playing a game where I was standing on a window and jumped out, then had my character enter a canned "falling asleep" animation during the fall.
Like 6 or 7 years later, when I was playing a game I had that exact thing happen to me in the game, just as it played out in my dream.
It’s a trap, he’s gonna upload daily and get us all cracked out, then disappear forever like my father. 😭
I had this game as a kid (got a second production run copy so I was blissfully unaware of all that Expansion Pak nonsense) and man it was fun, though the jungle rail shooter was always goddamn impossible for me. And I have to thank you for doing all that extra research on this goofy game, it's good to know someone's out there doing the digging on old gems like this.
7:38 "Dead scientists." Gordon Freeman must have been here. Welcome back again buddy. I feel like I should have grown up a lot by now since your classic LPs but I haven't lol
I’m starting to wonder if you spent the last two years working on these videos.
Other games where body swapping is a main mechanic: Messiah (PC)
Mario Odyssey too!
Geist on the GameCube was possession more specifically, but that's pretty close right?
Kind of a jank game at times but I remember it being fun.
This game has always been one of my favourites, and I played it obsessively as a kid. I’ve developed a strong love for games with multiple characters/forms that play completely differently as a result. Now that I think of it one of my other favourites, Gotcha Force, has a similar feel in that it’s swapping characters, each one has two special moves and there’s a lot of variety. Though the Tokyo Jungle shoutout at the end makes me want a survival game where you play a body swapping parasite in a dangerous environment, possibly with co-op where you form an unlikely squad of different body types for different roles in the group.
I have no idea who you are as youtube randomly suggested your DX video but I dig this. Keep this coming man!
it has this awesome concept but tbh I dont think it has aged well. I would love to see a sequal and try to improve on the first games flaws
Let's ask Rockstar games to make the sequel!
STOP UPLOADING ITS WEIRD
don't listen to the guy above me
DONT STOP HIM
I have never heard of this but you have sold it to me. Great video!
I like that the gorilla is purple.
I'm going to assume they had Bonzi Buddy on the mind when making that.
Wow, I remember this game. I played it when I was like 5. It's 10 years ago and I had fun. I remember in 1 level there is a hyena which is laughing. Thx for the video and for the memories!
i wholeheartedly support you just becoming a youtuber focusing on obscure shit
there aren't enough of the kind that put in as much research as you
As a British person, I can confirm that extracting the severed heads of dead scientists is the funniest thing I’ve ever seen.
This has been in my mind for years and now I finally sound the game
I never owned SSSV, but vague recollections about it have haunted the back alley of my memory for the better part of twenty years. Thanks for helping me remember it!
Had the game as a kid and I used to play this every time we would go skiing as a family because as a kid I couldn't figure out how to move one in the game so I would try asking my cousin's for help and eventually we would advance. I have fond memories of this game and I'm happy someone is talking about it
Such an under appreciated game! Nice work, CyberShell.
I CANT FORCE THE CONCEPT OF DAILY CYBERSHELL UPLOADS INTO MY HEAD IT DOESNT MAKE SENSE BIGGER DEAL THAN LIFE ON MARS WHAT EVEN IS
So nice to have you back
I’m overwhelmed by these uploads
I've been trying to remember the title of Avenging Spirit for years, thank you so much.
Whenever I hear the track `Snow Joke` from this game, it stays in my head for at least a week.