Walkthrough Videos

[dr_st]

#4812

Passing the last level of Lost Vikings over and over has been a transient hobby of mine. There are tons of walkthrough videos online, obviously. Here’s mine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO0u1TMrO6I

(recorded from the SNES version – ZSNES running inside of DOSBOX – double emulation, baby!) 😀

[TigerQuoll]

#4814

Wait, does that mean we can consider anything that runs on ZSNES a DOS game now? 😉 😛

But seriously, thanks for sharing! Why the focus on the last level in particular?

[dr_st]

#4815

It felt quite challenging to beat the first time through, although now I feel some earlier levels may actually be more difficult.

Plus, I love the ending.

P.S. I could record the DOS version, but it would require re-encoding as it runs in 320×200 which would be the wrong aspect ratio if you take the recorded video as is. You can find examples of such videos on the web. DOSBox emulates the behavior you would get on a real DOS machine with a 4:3 CRT and makes pixels non-square, but only for the screen output, not for recording.

[Tijn]

#4816

Hey nice, thanks for sharing!

I’ve made it all the way up to the last level, but haven’t been able to beat it (yet).

[Tijn]

#4817

Also no, we’re not going to allow any game that runs in an emulator which happen to run on DOS 😛

[dr_st]

#4850

Got around to recording and uploading the last levels of Lost Vikings II as well. This time there are 5 characters, but since only 3 can appear in a single level – the battle with Tomator had to be split between 2 levels. 🙂

Level 30:
https://youtu.be/1k5_yaJeGx4

Level 31:
https://youtu.be/WEOGe3A7RRc
WARNING: The ending of the last level contains a MAJOR spoiler, so keep that in mind if you haven’t played the game yet. 😛

Getting a clean run of Level 31 (no damage and no wasted attacks against Tomator) is insanely hard (for me at least). I got lucky that it only took a handful of attempts this time, so I decided not forgive myself for a few small blunders, and upload the video “as is”. The other videos also have minor mistakes, so it’s OK. I will not waste hours and hours striving for perfection here. Not now at least. 😀