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Re: Rayman 1
Yeah it is. But there are several odd things about how the game handles it:

1. The game save has two special flags for the level which it saves, something which is very unusual. Usually the game just does this for if you've beaten a boss. There's a flag which gets set when you "accept" the mission from Joe (when the image of Joe giving Rayman the firefly appears) and then another flag when you "complete" the mission by hitting the switch. Neither of these flags are necessary since you can't leave the level once you enter it, so why does the game save them?
Now let's see how the game uses them. In the function DETER_WORLD_AND_LEVEL which sets the level to load, the game does this:
DETER_WORLD_AND_LEVEL.png
"finBosslevel[1] & 2" is the flag for if you've accepted the mission. So what it's doing is this:
If you're trying to load Eat at Joe's 1 and have already accepted the mission then the game loads Eat at Joe's 2 instead and also gives you the firefly ("RayEvts[1] = RayEvts[1] | 4").
If you're trying to load Eat at Joe's 2 in the demo mode then the game gives you the firefly only if you've accepted the mission. Why would that check need to be there? Probably a leftover from how the code used to be structured. To make up for this the function InitDemoJeu actually sets the flag saying you've accepted the mission (along with one other flag):
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2. Now what about the second flag I mentioned? Yep the game does indeed save when you hit the plug:
DO_POING_COLLISION.png
What is this used for? Well this determines several things. First it determines if the UFO objects should move when Rayman lands on them. So if you managed to get to the next map without hitting the plug then none of the UFO objects would move! It also determines if Joe should spawn in the last map, the beach one. If you get there without hitting the plug then Joe isn't there. Obviously both of these scenarios are impossible in the final game, yet the game has checks for them.

3. Eat at Joe's 5 and 7 use the same maps:
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This is probably nothing new, and makes sense from a story perspective. But you won't really notice this when playing the level. So why go through all this trouble of making them the same? Maybe they were originally one map? If say the UFO has been there in map 5 and it wouldn't function because you hadn't hit the plug yet then that'd make sense. You'd then enter a side-level, the one with the plug, and return here afterwards. Then it also makes sense why map 4 loops back to the start since you go back the way you came.

Now it's also worth mentioning the game does something sort of similar with the super-helicopter potion. You actually have to help the Musician for any of them to spawn. So if you went to Pencil Pentathlon without helping him then the potion wouldn't spawn!

Re: Rayman Control Panel (Rayman PC tools & utilities)
emkay wrote: ↑Wed Mar 22, 2023 7:57 pm Ah, okay, thanks. DX+ uses version 1.12. Setting that as the version in RCP seems to almost-but-not-quite work - the stdout.txt file in the TPLS folder records a "Activating custom Rayman soundtrack" whereas it didn't do that when the RCP version was set to auto... but it still seems to be stuck using the PC soundtrack rather than the PS1 soundtrack.
Just to double check, did you try all three 1.12 versions in RCP? When I was going through the known versions of the game for this I found 3 different versions of 1.12, so it can be any of them used here.

Re: Birthdays and ages
Happy birthday to payopayo and Matyuv!

Re: Birthdays and ages
Happy birthday to payopayo, Matyuv and Thebananacrafter! :partyhat: :hips: :teuf:

Re: Rayman Control Panel (Rayman PC tools & utilities)
PluMGMK wrote: ↑Wed Mar 22, 2023 10:04 pm A large Rayman.exe? Must be decompressed and modified! I must look into this, I'll try to remember to do it over the weekend!
Yeah, the file that came with the GOG install is 419 kB, whereas the one in the Rayman DX+ download is 906 kB, so that struck me as a notable difference, although I don't know if it's necessarily significant.

Re: Rayman: Revenge of the Dark
Looks great, always love to see some progress on my favorite fangame.

Re: How's the weather?
We've been seeing rainy days lately. From early in the morning to late afternoon.

Re: Rayman: Revenge of the Dark
New video my children https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKV00-f8TCo

Re: Rayman 1
I felt like the premise is that Joe is asking Rayman to go into the caves and reconnect the power, Rayman does so, then retraces his steps and goes back to Joe.

Re: How's the weather?
It's been getting warmer lately but stil raining a lot, and it's been pretty windy the past few days too.

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Ubisoft have released a web based mini-game for this festive season, in which Rayman features as one of many playable characters. Lums can be seen celebrating Rayman's 25th anniversary!

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Mon Dec 21, 2020 4:55 pm:
 
I am pleased to announce that the Pirate-Community's Rayman 3 Hall of Fame is once again fully functional, after over a year's hiatus! Now, as before, you can submit your score by entering the "Lums Race" code that the game gives you at the end. If you have finished Rayman 3 and your score is not yet in the Hall, please don't hesitate to submit your code now!

The algorithm for decrypting codes has been reverse-engineered, meaning that the Hall now functions without any reliance on an external service. Thanks to Steo for helping to get it working with codes on platforms other than PC!
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After many years in the video game development industry, Michel Ancel has decided to retire.

What could this mean for the Rayman series? Only time will tell.
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Tue Sep 01, 2020 8:56 pm:
 
Hi Everyone it's James from Rayman Together!
Happy 25th Birthday Rayman! I am delighted to announce Rayman Together is now affiliated with the RPC. I have always admired RPC and it's a great platform of information, forums and discussions. I look forward to sharing more information in the future about our collaborations. If you haven't heard of Rayman Together it's a Twitter community celebrating everything Rayman bringing together fans across the World. if you aren't already please check out @RaymanTogether on Twitter.

I am delighted to announce the Rayman Together and RPC Discord server which will be available very soon and is the first of our partnership collaboration. It's providing a safe community where you can meet new friends and share your passion for Rayman. It's a wonderful community and I can't wait for everybody to join our server. Please stay tuned for more information and look forward to a video in the future. I look forward to seeing you all active on the server soon.

I am also currently holding a competition on Rayman Together to celebrate the Rayman series 25th Anniversary. It's officially the Glade Of Dreams Bake Off.

To Enter:

1. Design Rayman a Birthday Cake.
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Winners will be selected on September 30th. The competition is available World Wide and there's plenty of opportunities for prizes including a £25/50 credit for a platform of your choice and a Rayman Game. Good luck!

I look forward to working more with RPC in the future and I can't wait to see you all on Rayman Together on Twitter and on our affiliated Discord server soon. Hope you're all well during these troubling times and I wish you all the very best for yourselves and your families and friends. Stay Safe!

Kind Regards, James M & Rayman Together.

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Today, Pirate-Community celebrates its seventeenth birthday. While there hasn't been much Rayman news besides the release of the Rayman Mini spin-off, our community is still thriving, with many discoveries being made regarding the early development and the mechanics of old Rayman games, lots of tools being released to mod them and improve them, as well as partnerships such as the one with Rayman Together on Twitter.

Over the last year, 17,104 messages were posted on the forum, adding to a total of 1,336,695. It's not a lot, but it's still very much alive! Most of our growth was fueled by that of RayWiki, with 424 new articles last year, and a total of 5,728 articles in 8 languages today. Both places are still the reference for Rayman discussions and Rayman knowledge, while RayTunes, with the recent addition of the Rayman Mini, Rayman Raving Rabbids 2 and the official Tonic Trouble soundtracks, as well as new tracks and FLAC versions from various educational and mobile games, is indeed the reference for Rayman music.

Thank you all for your continued support: you made it possible for this community to keep going for seventeen years, and we will keep going for many more.

Long live Rayman, long live Pirate-Community!
by Hunchman801
Fri Jun 12, 2020 9:48 pm:
 
A fanmade game named Rayman Redemption has been in the works for the past three years, developed by Ryemanni. The game will be a complete remake of the original Rayman game, and it will feature additional content, such as new worlds and new powers.



Rayman Redemption is scheduled to be released on June 19th, 2020.
by Steo
Sun Jun 07, 2020 6:18 pm:
 
I'm delighted to announce that we are now affiliated with Rayman Together, a vibrant and welcoming community run by James McKenzie that is the one place to go for Rayman fans on Twitter.

Rayman Together also recently launched their YouTube channel, Rayman Together Play, and I'm proud to present their first video produced in partnership with Pirate-Community, a top five of Rayman M race tracks:



Hope you enjoyed it, and stay tuned for more collaborations in the future!
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The Pirate-Community would like to wish everyone a Happy New Year! Of course, this also means that it's time for a new round of the Favourite Rayman Games Survey!

You can find last year's results here, 2018's results here, and 2017's results here.
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