Dizzy walkthroughs/longplays

And today I recorded a walkthrough of that Spellbound Dizzy "Lite" edition!
Part 1
Part 2

Something I noticed while playing all this Spellbound Dizzy was that not only does the Commodore 64 version divide up some of its music between the title screen and the gameplay, but the title screen music contains a piece that wasn't in the original Spectrum and Amstrad theme... How to describe it, you know that part where it goes into the key of E and then has the arpeggios that step up and down and up? That part seems to have originated with the Commodore 64 versions, then the 16-bit versions mixed it all into one longer loop. So again the Commodore 64 music sets the standard for later systems... But for some reason the Atari ST version was transposed back down a whole step, so it sounds more like the Spectrum music.

Im a complete novice at this.
Where do I start if I want to record my own playthrough of a Dizzy game I'm playing on STeem?

I think some emulators have screen recording capabilities but I've never done them myself so can't be sure.

There are screen casting programs available:-

Windows
camstudio- http://camstudio.org/
Free

camtasia - http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia/
Expensive but very good!

Mac
Screen-Flow - http://www.telestream.net/screen-flow/overview.htm
$99

There are loads more, just a quick search in Google if you want to see any more

I don't know, does Steem have video recording? I mostly use SainT for Atari ST games, as it skips the whole operating system and just loads the games, and it has savestates, WAV recording, and AVI recording. I did use sound recording in Steem once for Crystal Kingdom Dizzy though, as SainT failed to produce the sound of the dinghy flying away, and I was mixing extra sound into the video anyway. Also, as with many TV-based systems, SainT includes a large border for "overscan", so I have to figure out the true dimensions of the actual game graphics and crop the border out when I edit the recording in VirtualDub for online video.

Well, I haven't committed to making any new longplays yet, but I just wanted to point out that if anyone's considering recording Fantastic Dizzy for PC on DOSBox, I think it would be a good idea to go into the configuration file and set "cycles=max", as otherwise the game will slow down a lot whenever there's a lot of moving objects (a la Dizzy The Ultimate Cartoon Adventure). We all like swift gameplay, right?

Also, I didn't even know DOS had a 320x223 mode, but that's apparently what the main game runs in as that's what DOSBox outputs. The company logo is a separate executable that runs at 320x200 though, so even if you run dizzy.bat, you'll still have some work to do to combine the resulting videos afterward if you want to include that logo animation.


Now, if you're recording the AGA version of Fantastic Dizzy for Amiga/CD32 and want to get really fancy, you could try rendering the video at quadruple resolution to better show off the "quarter pixel scrolling" of backgrounds it features. It might not be very noticeable, but for "high-definition" viewers it should make it a tad nicer.

When I was tidying up the videos page and adding more YouTube vids to the list, I also came across more longplays, so here's how it goes now.

The titles in blue are the ones we've got listed on the site. :smile:

Dizzy:
Amstrad CPC
Commodore 64
ZX Spectrum

Treasure Island Dizzy:
Amiga
Amstrad CPC
Atari ST (split into parts)
CD32
Commodore 64
NES
ZX Spectrum

Fantasy World Dizzy:
Amiga
Amstrad CPC
Atari ST
Commodore 64
PC DOS
ZX Spectrum

Magicland Dizzy:
Amiga
Amstrad CPC
Atari ST
CD32
Commodore 64
PC DOS
ZX Spectrum

Spellbound Dizzy:
Amiga
Amstrad CPC
Atari ST
CD32
Commodore 64 (Lite)
Commodore 64 (Original)
ZX Spectrum

Prince of the Yolkfolk/Dizzy the Adventurer:
Amiga
Amstrad CPC
Atari ST
CD32
Commodore 64
NES
PC DOS
Sega Master System (split into parts)
ZX Spectrum

Fantastic Dizzy:
Amiga
CD32
NES (Blue)
NES (Red)
PC DOS
Sega Master System
Sega Mega Drive

Crystal Kingdom Dizzy:
Amiga
Amstrad CPC
Atari ST (split into parts)
CD32
Commodore 64 (split into parts)
ZX Spectrum

Fast Food
Amiga
Amstrad CPC
Atari ST
Commodore 64
PC DOS
ZX Spectrum

Kwik Snax:
Amiga
Amstrad CPC
Atari ST
Commodore 64
PC DOS
ZX Spectrum

Panic Dizzy:
Amiga
Amstrad CPC
Atari ST
Commodore 64
Sega Master System
ZX Spectrum

Bubble Dizzy:
Amiga
Amstrad CPC
Atari ST
Commodore 64
PC DOS
ZX Spectrum

Dizzy down the rapids:
Amstrad CPC
Commodore 64
ZX Spectrum

Go! Dizzy Go!:
NES
Sega Master System (split into parts)

Others:
Christmas Dizzy
Dizzy Three and a Half
Dizzy TUCA Crash Special Edition
Easter Eggstravaganza (On Fast Food Amiga Longplay)
Treasure Island Dizzy Crash Special Edition

If there's any I've missed, please let me know. :smile:

Hmm, here are all the existing longplays I didn't see in blue after a quick search of YouTube.
Dizzy: Amstrad CPC
Treasure Island Dizzy: Amstrad CPC - Part 1 - Part 2
Treasure Island Dizzy: Commodore 64 - Part 1 - Part 2
Treasure Island Dizzy: NES - Part 1 - Part 2
Fantasy World Dizzy: Amstrad CPC - Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6 - Part 7
Fantasy World Dizzy: PC DOS - Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3
Magicland Dizzy: Amstrad CPC - Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6 - Part 7 - Part 8
Magicland Dizzy: Commodore 64 - Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6 - Part 7
Spellbound Dizzy: Commodore 64 (Lite) - Part 1 - Part 2
Prince of the Yolkfolk: Amstrad CPC - Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6
Prince of the Yolkfolk: Commodore 64 - Part 1 - Part 2
Fantastic Dizzy: CD32 - Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 (more of a speedrun, though; I skipped catching Pogie for Dylan, for instance, and I don't believe I viewed the inventory screen at all)
Fantastic Dizzy: NES (Blue) - Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5- Part 6 - Part 7 - Part 8 - Part 9 - Part 10
Fantastic Dizzy: NES (Red 1) - Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6 - Part 7
Christmas Dizzy
Dizzy TUCA Crash Special Edition

I couldn't guess which ones are up to the standards of this site, though.

Bag, how you managed to run CD32 games with music and gameplay at same time?

I cant do it :sad:

Hey, if you prefer to see The Fantastic Adventures of Dizzy as a single video, I just found a play of version 1 by Spolan and a play of version 2 by kireev20000, which was also submitted to the official Longplays Project!

Hi, I just uploaded a play through attempt for Fantastic Dizzy. It's not perfect but have a look and comment. It's 3 hours divided into 15 min segments. Recorded from hardware. {yolkfolk}:joy:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL28903AA8ACA4AD50

Good work, Jimmimak! I'll try to watch the rest of it this weekend.

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Thanks! I noticed you did a Dizzy speed run or something on Youtube, I'll have to look at that at some point.

In my playthrough video I think the pace of play is slow in places, so sorry about that - I was rusty. I will have to practice a bit more, and work out the most efficient order to do the tasks. For now, it can act as a reference or reminder for people as there's not much GG/MS Dizzy footage out there. I'm glad I managed to memorise the mine cart route this time. Zacks tower is just cruel though, how it changes to the NES game mechanics after you have been learning how to run and jump on the Master System version for 3 hrs :wall:

I once played through the Game Gear version of Fantastic Dizzy in a really slow way at first to take advantage of a glitch to maximize my score early on. :lol:

It's possible to do the same thing in the Game Gear version of Dizzy the Adventurer, but it's a much shorter game with more ways to mess up the sequence you need to take, so I eventually gave up on winning a perfect score for that one.

Yahtzee from Zero Punctuation plays through Fantasy World - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ4qvmUQDGg&feature=related

Warning - it's less than affectionate :teethy:

I just saw that XGamingPhunX made a longplay of Fantastic Dizzy for PC! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUXeNXMZH9o XGamingPhunX also made a video of the original NES version just before that.

I'm gonna re-post the list.

Added a few more things to the videos page.

The titles in blue are the ones we've got listed on the site. :smile:

Dizzy:
Amstrad CPC
Commodore 64
ZX Spectrum

Treasure Island Dizzy:
Amiga
Amstrad CPC
Atari ST (split into parts)
CD32
Commodore 64
NES
ZX Spectrum

Fantasy World Dizzy:
Amiga
Amstrad CPC
Atari ST
Commodore 64
PC DOS
ZX Spectrum

Magicland Dizzy:
Amiga
Amstrad CPC
Atari ST
CD32
Commodore 64
PC DOS
ZX Spectrum

Spellbound Dizzy:
Amiga
Amstrad CPC
Atari ST
CD32
Commodore 64 (Lite)
Commodore 64 (Original)
ZX Spectrum

Prince of the Yolkfolk/Dizzy the Adventurer:
Amiga
Amstrad CPC
Atari ST
CD32
Commodore 64
NES
PC DOS
Sega Master System (split into parts)
ZX Spectrum

Fantastic Dizzy:
Amiga
CD32
NES (Blue)
NES (Red)
PC DOS
Sega Master System
Sega Mega Drive

Crystal Kingdom Dizzy:
Amiga
Amstrad CPC
Atari ST (split into parts)
CD32
Commodore 64 (split into parts)
ZX Spectrum

Fast Food
Amiga
Amstrad CPC
Atari ST
Commodore 64
PC DOS
ZX Spectrum

Kwik Snax:
Amiga
Amstrad CPC
Atari ST
Commodore 64
PC DOS
ZX Spectrum

Panic Dizzy:
Amiga
Amstrad CPC
Atari ST
Commodore 64
Sega Master System
ZX Spectrum

Bubble Dizzy:
Amiga
Amstrad CPC
Atari ST
Commodore 64
PC DOS
ZX Spectrum

Dizzy down the rapids:
Amstrad CPC
Commodore 64
ZX Spectrum

Go! Dizzy Go!:
NES
Sega Master System (split into parts)

Others:
Christmas Dizzy
Dizzy Three and a Half
Dizzy TUCA Crash Special Edition
Easter Eggstravaganza (On Fast Food Amiga Longplay)
Treasure Island Dizzy Crash Special Edition

I know there's still a few more I've missed out from the links that Bag of Magic Food provided, It's just the time is kind of against me at the moment and dealing with the walkthroughs that are split into parts are quite time consuming, I will try to get the rest of them listed on the site soon. :smile:

Haven´t been here for while, but Im glad to see that people have played and completed more of these games : )

Maybe I should update the main list too...

But anyway, keep it up!

I see last year we got longplays of Kwik Snax for Commodore 64, Dizzy Down the Rapids for Commodore 64, Fast Food for Commodore 64, and Bubble Dizzy for PC-DOS! Weren't there already a few longplays for the C64 MagicLand Dizzy, too? I would also like to know more about Kwik Snax's bonuses and how the difficulty setting affects its length.

I STUPIDLY used the dry ice instead of using the chain cutters to go across teh ruver...what is the other way to get the amulet please?