When I first saw the title I thought you were going to combine load zones so you could leave one area in KH2 but end up somewhere in KH1. Like how some people have don't with Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask. But I guess KH1 and KH2 are too different mechanics wise to do that.
That would be really cool, but yeah unfortunately the game engines are just too different for this to be possible at the moment 😔 I've always wanted to give OoT/MM rando a try
ok, i thought i knew kh1 inside and out. i did NOT know about the chest at 19:13 at all! love that over 20 years later i'm still learning stuff about these games!
this is what i love about kh1. years later and people are still discovering new things about it. there are speedrunners who didn't know about stuff like the secret hotel chest until recently. every time i come back to this game i learn something new
In Kingdom Hearts 2, bounties can land on: Each of the 13 Data Fights Max level (7) for each Drive Form Max level (7) of Summons Last song of Atlantica Sephiroth Lingering Will Starry Hill (Winnie the Poo final level) Transport to Remembrance (the white hallways at the end of Cavern of Remembrance in Radiant Garden) Godess of Fate cup and Hades Paradox cup
40:58 I'm not sure if you knew about this, but Stop actually DOES work on Jafar and allows for a strat that's otherwise impossible in normal play. I usually use Stop on Jafar if I have it in rando to loop him without him being able to move a muscle.
Yes, Archipelago was designed for multiple people to play multiworld with each other! There are even gigantic asyncs that happen with like 30+ people all playing different games, it's really fascinating.
You are so sneaky and cleaver. I moved to skip your ad like I always do automatically when I see them and it took me a minute and I was so confused . Managed to pull me all the way back to beginning of ad. Lmmfao. Great work
The timing of when you said you were attempting to do the most difficult trick in the game and then immediately doing the freezing hollow bastion bubbles is extremely good timing lmao
I've always wanted to try out some form of KH2 randomizer because of your content, and this seems like a great way to do it with friends! Great run as always
50:20 Larxene is the Bane of my existence in this game, i usually grind on lingering Will first, to farm manifest illusion and craft as many shock charm as possible to reach almost 85% lightning resistence and have and easier way with her
i don't really watch KH speedruns, but this is the first video of yours i've seen and i gotta say- i might've hopped the initial segment i thought was going to just be an ad display, but popping into you clubbing Leon over the head and then kind of doing the cleanest 1-2 loop i've ever witnessed has entranced me into watching the full video and then some
vexen gave me PTSD, and 1:04:45 gave me a heart attack, that'd have absolutely ended the fight for me i'm 100% happy with how i spent 1 of the 5 hours i had before needing to open at my workplace, love the commentating and just generally how relaxed you seem to be while still having the confidence of someone who definitely knows their stuff- I'm all for people just having a blast playing a game they enjoy, but it's also refreshing to see someone enjoying something but not being so high energy it's alarming if i happen to look away for 1 minute, big W bossman
For core skip, you can move forward with your jump. Also wisdom fire is a lot safer than final fire because wisdom fire moves you forward regardless while slowing down your vertical velocity. Final fire does nothing (and honestly seems to make you fall faster but that might be placebo) so you only made it because of final form’s jumbo jump. Core skip is obviously safest with master but thought I’d chime in with some personal tech
There are a couple of things wrong with this comment. First off, I didn't have Wisdom Form for CoR Skip, because I found it in Agrabah after already having performed CoR skip. Secondly, Final Form Fire DOES keep you in the air longer, and simply jumping across with Final Form will not make you reach the platform. I appreciate your advice but I'm afraid you're mistaken in your game knowledge lol
Love your videos- learned so many tips and tricks about KH that I had no idea existed. Your content finds ways to make the game feel fresh even after all these years. This definitely makes me wanna try a randomizer run!
I know it's 3 weeks late but final form fire is very good for a lot of bosses cause it apparently doesn't add revenge value or the spinning keyblades reset any revenge given buy fire
@@ViolinSpeedruns But we're not going to get Days or Re: Coded, probably. Although maybe you wouldn't want them. Days might have more checks than the rest of the games combined.
I can always tell that you put in so much work into your craft and watching you grow and improve is the best part! 🤗 This vid is a 10/10 great to watch and chill after a long busy day 😊
The powerwild was completely immune to Thunder, which isn't supposed to happen. As you can see right after I kill that one, all the other ones die in one Thunder cast
what does it mean when phil cup is "on" the cloth? do those items just have certain unlocks attached to them, like the way abilities are attached to keychains/accessories? also what happened in between vexen attempts that you suddenly gained scan, was it on a level or smth
The Destiny Island items always appear in the synth shop, but are always replaced by a randomized item when you synthesize them. KH2's Scan was attached to the keyblade I was using, which I honestly can't remember where I found 😅
I really wanted to like data Xemnas. But his DM is some of the biggest BS I've ever experienced in gaming and I cannot for the life of me avoid the damn thing. He always seems the cast it the instant I'm out of mana so I can't use reflect to block it and the timing on dodging it is too precise for me. Other than Luxord and Demyx, who I deeply hate for similar reasons, I loved every other data fight. Those three are just... eurgh.
I’ve noticed you don’t use magic short cuts in your videos and I’m curious why especially given you primarily do speed runs. I ask as I found myself basically only using the spells I had short cut because I was too slow doing it through the command menu
bruh your level does go down when you die you just keep the rewards from the levels you lost, you still have to get all the levels back before getting to new checks
The Archipelago website has a great setup guide for KH2, and KH1 AP has a good guide on its github page (linked in description). To get both games running at the same time, make a text file named "steam_appid.txt"; within that file type "2552430". Put that text file in the game installation folder. This will allow you to launch KH1FM.exe and KH2FM.exe directly and bypass the 1.5 + 2.5 Launcher. You still need to have Steam running for the games to open, though.
You know, I'd love to play a KH1 rando. And a KH1+KH2 rando as well. But is it just me or do you HAVE to have the Steam/Epic Store version to do so? I own the games legit through the PS3 versions already, and the KH2 rando is available through PCSX2, so it just strikes me as weird that it doesn't appear like the KH1 rando has the same option. I've already basically bought most of the games twice (I got a PSP just for BBS, I have Days and the original 3ds version of DDD, the GBA version of CoM... Only games I don't have two of is KH1, KH2 and ReCoded) so it rubs me the wrong way to have to shell out another $50 just to play a randomized version of KH1 (and maybe KH2). Which is sad because this video makes it look pretty cool imo
As far as I know, AP only supports the PC version. It does go on sale pretty often on Steam so I'd probably wait until then. The PC ports are definitely worth playing if you haven't already
@@ViolinSpeedruns Eh, I'll put it on my wishlist for sure, but I still feel like it's kinda crappy. Unless it's solely because it's way easier for the modders to work with the PC port. Can't begrudge it if so, considering the modders are doing it for free. Also, is the PC ports really that different than the PS3 collections? Well, besides presumably BBS functioning properly, I've heard some pretty poor things about that version haha (never tried it, though, since I have and prefer the PSP version).
@randibillett472 The PC ports run WAY smoother than PS3 as they run at 60fps and have much faster load times, and also less crashes and glitches in my experience. I haven't had any terrible issues on the PC port myself and in fact have had way more problems on PS3, but it varies depending on your setup.
@@ViolinSpeedruns Huh, that's weird. I never really encountered any problems with the PS3 ports, save for the decision to map the special abilities to triangle in KH1, which is also the button to call your allies into attacking and thus making Serenity Power farming way harder than it needs to be. I won't comment on the load times, though, since I'm someone who actually played through the whole of Sonic 06 and was only slightly annoyed by its infamous loading screens lol. Then again, I do notice KH3 on my computer honestly has pretty poor load times...
@ViolinSpeedruns thankies =D. also not someone who follows kh speedruns much (but i love me some rando's) but im curious: years ago i discovered that Sephiroth's current HP value in KH1 (ps2, ntsc version) is set to use the same ram value as Donald's current HP. (this was partly found cause i was playing around with cheat engine to see what would happen if i locked randomly chosen values i.e. a party members hp to 0 or 1 to see what other effects it would have on the game beyond the obvious) im wondering if somehow through some means things can end up getting manipulated such that the ram values dont get changed going into the fight through some form of wrong warp or some such, and thus forcing him to essentially be fought at a much lower health value than normal? (and if it is possible: if its practical to do at all) if your curious as to what happens if this does occur and his hp is set to 1 or 0: he immediately spawns in his final phase and does meteor (still requires a hit to actually end the fight). (i uploaded a video of it years ago...)
Go to surfshark.com/violinspeedruns for 4 extra months of Surfshark.
When I first saw the title I thought you were going to combine load zones so you could leave one area in KH2 but end up somewhere in KH1. Like how some people have don't with Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask. But I guess KH1 and KH2 are too different mechanics wise to do that.
That would be really cool, but yeah unfortunately the game engines are just too different for this to be possible at the moment 😔 I've always wanted to give OoT/MM rando a try
I mean, there's a Link to the Past/Super Metroid Rando with mixed load zones, and those games are wildly different excluding graphics
@@rileymoore7025 Yes, but those two games have enough room in memory to store each other.
yeah i was hoping for the same and got hyped lol.
@@ViolinSpeedrunsKH2 is on the KH engine, but KH1, is on an older engine
glad to see archipelago see love, its such an amazing project, and of course, great video!
ok, i thought i knew kh1 inside and out. i did NOT know about the chest at 19:13 at all! love that over 20 years later i'm still learning stuff about these games!
this is what i love about kh1. years later and people are still discovering new things about it. there are speedrunners who didn't know about stuff like the secret hotel chest until recently. every time i come back to this game i learn something new
KH1 wont be in beta for long- its ready for release and will be included in the next archipelago update!
That's great to hear!
Eugh, integrating the sponsor into part of the video, how evil.
Monstrous, even
I'm calling the cops
It's almost like sponsors pay in order for their product to be seen by people 😮
Its prolly the most evil thing I've seen, and I know the old copyright laws and what happened to them
It was smooth as melted gold.
In Kingdom Hearts 2, bounties can land on:
Each of the 13 Data Fights
Max level (7) for each Drive Form
Max level (7) of Summons
Last song of Atlantica
Sephiroth
Lingering Will
Starry Hill (Winnie the Poo final level)
Transport to Remembrance (the white hallways at the end of Cavern of Remembrance in Radiant Garden)
Godess of Fate cup and Hades Paradox cup
Always love seeing Archipelago getting some recognition and advertisement.
59:45
Sepheroth:All shall be one with me
Sora:Ok!
40:58 I'm not sure if you knew about this, but Stop actually DOES work on Jafar and allows for a strat that's otherwise impossible in normal play. I usually use Stop on Jafar if I have it in rando to loop him without him being able to move a muscle.
I actually didn't know that 👀
Violin fighting Data Vexen, dying multiple times, just to get Bounty The Quicker Picker Upper is hilarious.
This is such an interesting idea 💡 i fw it, can’t wait to see future stuff with this
Bells, frogs, big cherries, feed a bear ham and cheese, sephiroth!
I always sing:
"M, I, C-K-E
Y-M-O, U-S-E
Mickey Mouse!"
That thrown keyblade ending Luxord's fight was perfect lol, was like Sora had one last-ditch effort to win and it worked.
This is absolutely incredible. I have never done a randomizer before, but this makes me want to learn like nothing before!
It would be so cool to see 2 people running these simultaneously
This is actually possible with archipelago!
@@secureb00t39 not only possible, its the idea behind archipelago :D
Yes, Archipelago was designed for multiple people to play multiworld with each other! There are even gigantic asyncs that happen with like 30+ people all playing different games, it's really fascinating.
You are so sneaky and cleaver. I moved to skip your ad like I always do automatically when I see them and it took me a minute and I was so confused . Managed to pull me all the way back to beginning of ad. Lmmfao. Great work
the calm zen violin clutch vexen i think data fight was also incredible wow :O
You make vids on the level of a million sub creator, I'm convinced you'll be there in no time.
The timing of when you said you were attempting to do the most difficult trick in the game and then immediately doing the freezing hollow bastion bubbles is extremely good timing lmao
awww damn, i thought this was gonna be combining games like how they did for lttp and super metroid, still super cool to see
I knew an archipelago rando with kh would be interesting
Those games need a full scale remake imo, they basically masterpieces I their class
That was an awesome watch. i was glued.
Thank you! ❤️
I've always wanted to try out some form of KH2 randomizer because of your content, and this seems like a great way to do it with friends! Great run as always
Love your KH videos, this one was especially interesting.
i love when even randomisers are like "you WILL finish atlantica and you WILL enjoy it"
Super cool video, entertaining, educational, and everything in-between, lol. Nice work man, incredible.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO the forbidden sponsor ad technique!!! I can't skip!
This almost feels like Sora going back and forth in time between KH1 and KH2.
That Vexen victory was freakin' EARNED!
Best way to add a sponsor in a video 😂
50:20 Larxene is the Bane of my existence in this game, i usually grind on lingering Will first, to farm manifest illusion and craft as many shock charm as possible to reach almost 85% lightning resistence and have and easier way with her
i don't really watch KH speedruns, but this is the first video of yours i've seen and i gotta say- i might've hopped the initial segment i thought was going to just be an ad display, but popping into you clubbing Leon over the head and then kind of doing the cleanest 1-2 loop i've ever witnessed has entranced me into watching the full video and then some
vexen gave me PTSD, and 1:04:45 gave me a heart attack, that'd have absolutely ended the fight for me
i'm 100% happy with how i spent 1 of the 5 hours i had before needing to open at my workplace, love the commentating and just generally how relaxed you seem to be while still having the confidence of someone who definitely knows their stuff- I'm all for people just having a blast playing a game they enjoy, but it's also refreshing to see someone enjoying something but not being so high energy it's alarming if i happen to look away for 1 minute, big W bossman
For core skip, you can move forward with your jump. Also wisdom fire is a lot safer than final fire because wisdom fire moves you forward regardless while slowing down your vertical velocity. Final fire does nothing (and honestly seems to make you fall faster but that might be placebo) so you only made it because of final form’s jumbo jump. Core skip is obviously safest with master but thought I’d chime in with some personal tech
There are a couple of things wrong with this comment. First off, I didn't have Wisdom Form for CoR Skip, because I found it in Agrabah after already having performed CoR skip. Secondly, Final Form Fire DOES keep you in the air longer, and simply jumping across with Final Form will not make you reach the platform. I appreciate your advice but I'm afraid you're mistaken in your game knowledge lol
Vexen: "WHY! WON'T! YOU! DIE?!?!"
Sora: "Drive Forms, son!"
This is a wild combo rando. Love it!
Sick video. Made my 60 minute stationary bike ride much more enjoyable 😁
Lurker here, love your content and especially these kind of videos. I've been off for a bit so I'm a bit OoTL, but huge gratz on sponsor!
WAIT WAIT WAIT YOU CAN BEAT LEON?! I never knew that I assumed he was immortal
Love your videos- learned so many tips and tricks about KH that I had no idea existed. Your content finds ways to make the game feel fresh even after all these years. This definitely makes me wanna try a randomizer run!
That's nutty. Well done, I know this must've been quite a challenge to get a decent seed for sub 10. And even then this seed seemed rough XD
Damn it’s amazing how 2 games can be connected like that, that’s hella cool
It's a work of magic for sure
I know it's 3 weeks late but final form fire is very good for a lot of bosses cause it apparently doesn't add revenge value or the spinning keyblades reset any revenge given buy fire
Not gonna lie it would be so cool to have Kh1 Sora as he is into Kh2 and viceversa
Back in my day, core skip used master form, reflect, and all the ethers ever made
LMAO data Xemnas 1 was an anime fight at the end there lool
This is the run that a friend and I do, he does kh1 secret reports, and I do lucky emblem hunt in kh2
bro made the sponsor entertaining 😂
Oh god imagine every KH game in 1 randomiser!
We're getting close to that becoming a possibility! BBS, CoM and Re CoM AP already exist, and KH3 and DDD are slowly getting worked on :)
@@ViolinSpeedruns But we're not going to get Days or Re: Coded, probably. Although maybe you wouldn't want them. Days might have more checks than the rest of the games combined.
I'd love to try an AP for Days and ReCoded in the future as well, I can definitely see that being a possibility
@@ViolinSpeedruns ahh that’s super exciting! I love watching your runs I will be so excited to see the result!
ARCHIPELAGO SPOTTED RAHHHH 🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥🔥
I can always tell that you put in so much work into your craft and watching you grow and improve is the best part! 🤗 This vid is a 10/10 great to watch and chill after a long busy day 😊
This looks line a fun idea!
Super tight gaurd armor fight
Damn You are a keyblade master
What exactly was the glitch at 38:37? I've relayed it a bunch of times and don't know what I'm looking at?
The powerwild was completely immune to Thunder, which isn't supposed to happen. As you can see right after I kill that one, all the other ones die in one Thunder cast
Another banger video! You can really tell a lot of effort goes in these
Excellent video my dude! And that was one of the best sponsor integrations I've ever seen. Love ya, violin
Thank you Sabrina!
The way you integrate the sponsor is actually so clever
im happy youre well and on a spree. Love your videos man. See you around. Less/noname
Wow, you actually made watching an ad..... bearable.
That was a run and a half.. Or actually TWO?!
the game
Ⅱ.５
what does it mean when phil cup is "on" the cloth? do those items just have certain unlocks attached to them, like the way abilities are attached to keychains/accessories?
also what happened in between vexen attempts that you suddenly gained scan, was it on a level or smth
The Destiny Island items always appear in the synth shop, but are always replaced by a randomized item when you synthesize them. KH2's Scan was attached to the keyblade I was using, which I honestly can't remember where I found 😅
Could you do a coop randomizer with Archipelago, so one player is doing KH1 while the other is doing Kh2?
Yes, Archipelago is actually intended to be played co-op like that
Its crazy bad rng not to get scan for either game for as long as it took. You didnt really need it but dang
Oh no, don't give Nomura any more ideas!
KH 12.9 Birth by Dream Dropping for 358/2 Days Chain of Re:Coded Memories
"in kh1 you can't open chests in combat" someone didn't read through his yaml all the way
I disabled that setting in my YAML because I enjoy the skill required to get around enemy spawns
I never knew about the chest above the emblem door! Is that in the regular game???
Yes, it normally contains an AP Up in the normal game
I really wanted to like data Xemnas. But his DM is some of the biggest BS I've ever experienced in gaming and I cannot for the life of me avoid the damn thing. He always seems the cast it the instant I'm out of mana so I can't use reflect to block it and the timing on dodging it is too precise for me.
Other than Luxord and Demyx, who I deeply hate for similar reasons, I loved every other data fight. Those three are just... eurgh.
another banger from my goat!!!
I’ve noticed you don’t use magic short cuts in your videos and I’m curious why especially given you primarily do speed runs. I ask as I found myself basically only using the spells I had short cut because I was too slow doing it through the command menu
Ignore this I just noticed you using the shortcut nvm
that sponsor reading was really good not gonna lie haha
damn i cant even get just kh2 rando to work since the patch and bro has both working 😭😭😭
Kingdom Hearts 1. Kingdom Hearts 2.
Surf shark
Amazing sponsor integration, looking forward to the rest of the video!
Would you be able to do one with KH1, KH2 and KH3?
KH3 isn't available for AP yet but it's getting looked into, once it's available I'll definitely want to do one!
@@ViolinSpeedruns Ah! Okay! I can’t wait for it to become available then.
bruh your level does go down when you die you just keep the rewards from the levels you lost, you still have to get all the levels back before getting to new checks
Ah my mistake, I saw that my level up pop-ups weren't appearing so I assumed I was already at level 26 after I died
btw can you do a setup tutorial for this kind of multiworld?
The Archipelago website has a great setup guide for KH2, and KH1 AP has a good guide on its github page (linked in description). To get both games running at the same time, make a text file named "steam_appid.txt"; within that file type "2552430". Put that text file in the game installation folder. This will allow you to launch KH1FM.exe and KH2FM.exe directly and bypass the 1.5 + 2.5 Launcher. You still need to have Steam running for the games to open, though.
I might have missed it, but how did he combone the two games together?
I explained that at the very beginning of the video
@@ViolinSpeedruns half deaf
But ill rewatch it and see if i catch it
No worries, most of my videos have closed captions available
You know, I'd love to play a KH1 rando. And a KH1+KH2 rando as well.
But is it just me or do you HAVE to have the Steam/Epic Store version to do so? I own the games legit through the PS3 versions already, and the KH2 rando is available through PCSX2, so it just strikes me as weird that it doesn't appear like the KH1 rando has the same option. I've already basically bought most of the games twice (I got a PSP just for BBS, I have Days and the original 3ds version of DDD, the GBA version of CoM... Only games I don't have two of is KH1, KH2 and ReCoded) so it rubs me the wrong way to have to shell out another $50 just to play a randomized version of KH1 (and maybe KH2).
Which is sad because this video makes it look pretty cool imo
As far as I know, AP only supports the PC version. It does go on sale pretty often on Steam so I'd probably wait until then. The PC ports are definitely worth playing if you haven't already
@@ViolinSpeedruns Eh, I'll put it on my wishlist for sure, but I still feel like it's kinda crappy. Unless it's solely because it's way easier for the modders to work with the PC port. Can't begrudge it if so, considering the modders are doing it for free.
Also, is the PC ports really that different than the PS3 collections? Well, besides presumably BBS functioning properly, I've heard some pretty poor things about that version haha (never tried it, though, since I have and prefer the PSP version).
@randibillett472 The PC ports run WAY smoother than PS3 as they run at 60fps and have much faster load times, and also less crashes and glitches in my experience. I haven't had any terrible issues on the PC port myself and in fact have had way more problems on PS3, but it varies depending on your setup.
@@ViolinSpeedruns Huh, that's weird. I never really encountered any problems with the PS3 ports, save for the decision to map the special abilities to triangle in KH1, which is also the button to call your allies into attacking and thus making Serenity Power farming way harder than it needs to be.
I won't comment on the load times, though, since I'm someone who actually played through the whole of Sonic 06 and was only slightly annoyed by its infamous loading screens lol. Then again, I do notice KH3 on my computer honestly has pretty poor load times...
Skibidi hearts
💀
Don't know if u would but how about the trinity rando do this but kh1 2 and 3
KH3 doesn't have AP support yet but it's slowly getting worked on
@ViolinSpeedruns when it does do u think u will do it?
Maybe! I'm not sure how long it'll take for it to be finished or where I'll be in my life so it's hard to plan that far ahead 😅
@ViolinSpeedruns ya but even if it takes long who says it has to be in one sitting lol
No no I meant I don't know how long it'll take for the randomizer to be developed haha
vod?
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@ViolinSpeedruns thankies =D.
also not someone who follows kh speedruns much (but i love me some rando's) but im curious: years ago i discovered that Sephiroth's current HP value in KH1 (ps2, ntsc version) is set to use the same ram value as Donald's current HP. (this was partly found cause i was playing around with cheat engine to see what would happen if i locked randomly chosen values i.e. a party members hp to 0 or 1 to see what other effects it would have on the game beyond the obvious)
im wondering if somehow through some means things can end up getting manipulated such that the ram values dont get changed going into the fight through some form of wrong warp or some such, and thus forcing him to essentially be fought at a much lower health value than normal? (and if it is possible: if its practical to do at all)
if your curious as to what happens if this does occur and his hp is set to 1 or 0: he immediately spawns in his final phase and does meteor (still requires a hit to actually end the fight). (i uploaded a video of it years ago...)
How can I do this??
I cant watch now because i am in school 😪
redrum
That ad transition though 👌
Seems like you forgot a rule maybe😅
that ad though, has to be the smoothest I have ever seen
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Love how the sponsor segment was integrated into the vid
You know that this ISNT realy combined right? Its JUST playing both games sepperately... got clickbaited...
The pool of checks are combined between the two games so it's combined in that regard :P My intention wasn't to clickbait people