Another AI voice singing test. This time, the voice is 100% clear and has no artifacts at all. She is singing in a higher pitch than her regular voice but that's just because the song calls for it to be in the right key. It's still well within her normal voice range.
I was going to animate it better but I figured that's not the point so I just left it mostly on an idle loop and didn't even clear the placeholder start. That's why she's jumpy at first. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vQq5Zcb-d4
Okay, NOW it felt a little better. Obviously room for improvement, but at most like 5~6 seconds. I don't think I'll be getting 80 seconds. It may even be possible, but I sure as hell ain't trying.
On hindsight, maybe Noelle's side CAN improve by 10 seconds all of her own. Damn that bit when the mushrooms spawned was messy af. Who knows... I might shoot for 80 seconds after all. No promises, quite happy with this time already.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld0jkBMz9L8
I made the character in my visual novel sing along with the "I'm a believer" song from shrek as a test. Her voice is AI-generated. The singing voice is a different neural network than the speaking voice. The singing one tends to have a lot of artifacts, that's why i made her sing along with the song and posted a phone recording of the screen instead of the raw video. both cheap cheats to mask the artifacts as much as i can without going through the effort of fixing them :P
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBZ_APhUTto
update: I have made this fight significantly harder and flashier after this. I love it so much but it's soooo hard, i don't know if people will like it (i like it BECAUSE it's hard now). but i don't want to change it! watdo!?
You might want to watch this on an oled screen. It's pretty dark.
After a, I don't know, 5 years hiatus, I'm back to work on my megawad. Reworked this boss a little bit to be less of a bullet sponge and way more aggressive and agile. It's a lot more fun to fight now!
Still needs some tweaking. His spin attack is way too strong as is.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhc4ggACr0A
I played this game a LOT back then, but as every good kid, I just fooled around in the first level and only visited other levels with cheats. After almost what, 30 years? Heck, actual 30 years! --- I'm properly finishing this gem start to finish. The gameplay unironically holds up - I'm having fun playing it. I wish more modern games were all business like this. I really don't have the patience for story-heavy games anymore.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Gst1YnfvWg
Not a super optimized run but it works.
Funny thing it would probably be better if i just used gorou and noelle. The other two are kpm (kills per minute) loses lol.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4dp-yLK8XI