Rayman Pirate-Community

PluMGMK wrote: Mon Feb 27, 2023 6:19 pm I don't remember either, I just remember a black screen coming up at certain level transitions asking me to switch from CD2 to CD3 or vice versa. Probably related to those DRM checksum files they loved so much...

Interesting, it may be just that.

Now that I think of it - I don't believe I ever played Rayman 3 without a crack, so that can explain why I never encountered these prompts.

dr_st wrote: Mon Feb 27, 2023 5:52 pm It's a good thing you didn't play Phantasmagoria then.
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/848AAOSw ... -l1600.jpg

ebayimg links can suffer from link rot AFAIK – I’ll reupload the image in case it does eventually become unavailable:

Thanks Fifo. In general, any image link should be assumed vulnerable to link rot, unless it begins with "https://raymanpc.com" or similar. Although I tend to break that rule with Dilbert and xkcd links, since I know they're probably not going anywhere!

EDIT (week and a half later): Well, that's ironic: https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.p ... 1989-2023/ A long time coming, but I didn't expect dilbert.com to just disappear like that

For the 20th anniversary of this game, I made a retrospective about Rayman 3. Maybe its good game, but due to the games direction I guess that the game would be better. the gameplay has better features than Rayman 2 but another isn't. for example the jump physics are slow, the slide controllers where Rayman can't do nothing, the plum it's more useless, and the frustrating crazy shoe. the puzzles mixing platforming it's feeling forced, such as many parts of the longest shortcut. many features of the game that looks some useless to be added like the murfy escape intro, the snowboard, and dive that only appear one time in all the game. the score system proposes are some unnecessarily, the score actual propose it's for contests at the time when the game was released. the reason someone that play like got hi score it's for looking how hi can be and get five stars. but excluding this, the score system no have big impact in the game or a 100% completion in the game unlike others Rayman games that the 100% in the it's more satisfactory. and the minigames are boring using the same things that are used in the main game. with the time that the team were made those minigames would be polish the main game finish levels and other content that was scrapped or shorter in the final. The game focus to the humor with early 2000's humor with voice acting in-game it's annoying, for this I preferred the random noises from Rayman 2 or others Rayman games.
Although this good things that I will considered good are the combat it's solid and more fun than Rayman 2 including many tweaks from that game feeling more smooth. the combat fatigues are fun though would be used better. the graphics are good though the game use the same engine that Rayman 2. the soundtrack it's good though some music are weird for a Rayman game for use rapping like music.
Generally good game but I guess that would be better.

Yeah, I agree with the above. The platforming in R3 somehow feels worse than in R2.

Finding some big secret to get to 100% in a level is satisfying. Practicing crazy combos ad nauseam to improve the score isn't.

Ironically, the thing I replayed the most is that tennis mini-game. Maybe because it has no platforming at all.

The music is awesome, and combat is reasonably well done.

The platforming isn't so great, but combat is a great improvement over Rayman 2. I guess it makes sense, since the game gives it a much more prominent role.

The platforming never bothered me too much... Until I got into scoring, and moving fast enough to keep combos going!

Exactly! That's also when I noticed how simple things such as the ledge grabbing mechanic were just not so great in that game. But still, I feel it plays very well overall.

So then what would a game with Rayman 2's platforming and Rayman 3's scoring have been like? *insert thinking smiley here*

Fantasy: A game with Rayman 2's platforming and Rayman 3's scoring
Reality: Rayman Hoodlums' Revenge

Not a game that has seen many scoring attempts, for sure...

Hunchman801 wrote: Tue Feb 21, 2023 6:12 pm Indeed it is! We're even hosting a special contest to celebrate the anniversary.

Whoa, there was a Rayman 3 scoring competition, and I missed it??? I am appalled

I really need to check the forums more often than once every quarter

dr_st wrote: Fri Mar 10, 2023 10:28 am Fantasy: A game with Rayman 2's platforming and Rayman 3's scoring
Reality: Rayman Hoodlums' Revenge

Reality is harsh.

Man, can't believe R3 is already 20....

The Jonster wrote: Sun Apr 30, 2023 2:07 am Reality is harsh.

Speaking of which, I'm wondering who put this in the Bottom Line:

Rabbids are proof humanity was a mistake

Maz wrote: Sat Apr 29, 2023 9:34 pm Whoa, there was a Rayman 3 scoring competition, and I missed it??? I am appalled

I really need to check the forums more often than once every quarter

Oh, that's a shame! Maybe I should have proactively reached to the scorers I knew...

But yes, you really should check on us more often.

Hunchman801 wrote:Oh, that's a shame! Maybe I should have proactively reached to the scorers I knew...

Given that your only means of reaching out to me is PMs, there's not much of a point if I don't check the forums I'll have to fix that first!

Don't you have email notifications enabled for PMs?

Not sure, I never check my mails

Maybe we should have an RPC smartphone app so that notifications would be delivered in real time there?

I hacked one together in Perl a few years ago, but then I stopped using it because it wasn't very reliable and I wasn't sure how secure it was