Okay, so I recently played around and made me a signature for the first time in years, and I'm happy with how it turned out.
With the help of the RetroAchievements API it checks for my last played game, checks how many achievements I have acquired for that game and how many total achievements there are. Writes the numbers down where they belong, calculate completion percentage, and draw the progress bar. Yay! It would be fun to add a small image of each game I 100% to my signature, but well... that would be a rule violation! Oh no!! So therefore I'll write this little blog here instead. Writing down what I've achieved, what my current goal is and what I am thinking of doing in the future.
Oh yeah, RetroAchievements have casual and hardcore achievements - they are the same ones, but you have to toggle a switch in your emulator to get the hardcore ones. What does that mean though? Hardcore locks the emulation features, so no save states, no rewinding, no cheating. If you're going for achievements, why cheat? By doing this you get both the casual and hardcore achievements in one go, and you total at 200% completion. In my sig I decided to just count the hardcore ones. So with this intro out of the way, let's go!
First, I just played around with some of the easiest "games" to complete, just for testing purposes and having a bit of fun.
So I've to this date completed:
SNES Burn-in Test Cartridge (SNES)
A test cartridge for service, testing burn-in and controller inputs and stuff. It features a 16-bit rendition of the Zelda 2 theme! That makes it worth it alone!
10 achievements. 10 points.
Mario's Early Years - Fun With Numbers (SNES)
Learning how to count to 10 with Mario, Yoshi, Peach and Luigi... And learning about shapes. Yeah, no, this is nothing to play at all. I just farmed some achievements for fun. It's so mind numbing that I don't have the energy to get the free achievements from the sequel (Letters).
13 achievements. 50 points.
The very first achievements I got however, was when I streamed ActRaiser (SNES) for GBAtempTV. I got all the story related ones, having the "professional" mode to do still (that's all action stages, no simulation. How boring!). There's one achievement I've missed in the regular playthrough, and that's to get maximum population: you need to plan the town building carefully not to accidentally build a bridge instead of a house (by moving to some squares from the wrong direction), and you have to farm high score points in the action stages to be able to get enough people. This is one I've saved for some reason, if I'll stream it some more or something... not sure yet.
20 out of 34 achievements. 180 out of 400 points.
Currently, I'm playing Final Fantasy - Mystic Quest (SNES). I always stopped 3/4ths into the game, so now I'm finally fighting my way to the end! Finally getting it squared away (pun intended).
70 out of 94 achievements. 287 out of 400 points.
Current totals:
113 achievements out of 151: 74.83% completion
527 points out of 860: 61.28%
So what are my future plans? Well, I'm looking into playing Super Mario World. I'll probably start off with the GBA version, because it has quite a friendly set. After that I'd tackle the SNES version, which is way more intense!
This would be a long running one, while playing other games in between.
I also want to tackle Yoshi's Island (not sure which version yet), and Super Mario Bros. Advance (As in Mario 2 for GBA).
That's all for now! Do you have any game suggestions? Opinions on Yoshi's Island versions? Do you use RetroAchievements? Let me know!
With the help of the RetroAchievements API it checks for my last played game, checks how many achievements I have acquired for that game and how many total achievements there are. Writes the numbers down where they belong, calculate completion percentage, and draw the progress bar. Yay! It would be fun to add a small image of each game I 100% to my signature, but well... that would be a rule violation! Oh no!! So therefore I'll write this little blog here instead. Writing down what I've achieved, what my current goal is and what I am thinking of doing in the future.
Oh yeah, RetroAchievements have casual and hardcore achievements - they are the same ones, but you have to toggle a switch in your emulator to get the hardcore ones. What does that mean though? Hardcore locks the emulation features, so no save states, no rewinding, no cheating. If you're going for achievements, why cheat? By doing this you get both the casual and hardcore achievements in one go, and you total at 200% completion. In my sig I decided to just count the hardcore ones. So with this intro out of the way, let's go!
First, I just played around with some of the easiest "games" to complete, just for testing purposes and having a bit of fun.
So I've to this date completed:
SNES Burn-in Test Cartridge (SNES)
A test cartridge for service, testing burn-in and controller inputs and stuff. It features a 16-bit rendition of the Zelda 2 theme! That makes it worth it alone!
10 achievements. 10 points.
Mario's Early Years - Fun With Numbers (SNES)
Learning how to count to 10 with Mario, Yoshi, Peach and Luigi... And learning about shapes. Yeah, no, this is nothing to play at all. I just farmed some achievements for fun. It's so mind numbing that I don't have the energy to get the free achievements from the sequel (Letters).
13 achievements. 50 points.
The very first achievements I got however, was when I streamed ActRaiser (SNES) for GBAtempTV. I got all the story related ones, having the "professional" mode to do still (that's all action stages, no simulation. How boring!). There's one achievement I've missed in the regular playthrough, and that's to get maximum population: you need to plan the town building carefully not to accidentally build a bridge instead of a house (by moving to some squares from the wrong direction), and you have to farm high score points in the action stages to be able to get enough people. This is one I've saved for some reason, if I'll stream it some more or something... not sure yet.
20 out of 34 achievements. 180 out of 400 points.
Currently, I'm playing Final Fantasy - Mystic Quest (SNES). I always stopped 3/4ths into the game, so now I'm finally fighting my way to the end! Finally getting it squared away (pun intended).
70 out of 94 achievements. 287 out of 400 points.
Current totals:
113 achievements out of 151: 74.83% completion
527 points out of 860: 61.28%
So what are my future plans? Well, I'm looking into playing Super Mario World. I'll probably start off with the GBA version, because it has quite a friendly set. After that I'd tackle the SNES version, which is way more intense!
This would be a long running one, while playing other games in between.
I also want to tackle Yoshi's Island (not sure which version yet), and Super Mario Bros. Advance (As in Mario 2 for GBA).
That's all for now! Do you have any game suggestions? Opinions on Yoshi's Island versions? Do you use RetroAchievements? Let me know!
