🎉 This was a basic overview of my atlas videos workflow, but there is so much more to go over! What should I cover next? Lua or expressions scripting? Parallax scrolling? Finding relevant RAM addresses? Leave a comment and let me know what you would like to see next!

Love the content. Please keep going. I'm an 80's kid. I have a career, a family, and plenty of obligations. Being able to come back to see and her my favorite games again makes me happy. Not to mention, some of the technical demonstrations is just mind blowing that those things were there all along since the beginning, we just didn't know it. There is always another princess in another castle to find on this channel. Thank you for everything.

I love all of these videos. Seeing the entire map on these NES games is like seeing the game for the first time all over game. It's so cool. Now learning how you do it is like the cherry on top the cake. I would love to watch more on how you do this. Thanks for everything!

This video, your past videos, and potential future videos excite be greatly. Thank you for your time and efforts in this journey.

Wow that's very clever! Obviously there's a lot more detailed effects and little things you can add like you mentioned, but the basic idea is surprisingly simple! Very cool to see how the sausage is made.

Incredible video @NESAtlas! So well said and presented! Thank you for taking the time to put this together and give us all a look behind the curtain. Great work! 👏👏👏

Omg I havent watched this channel in so long, but I remembered seeing the notif for this one. The "behind the scenes" style videos are the greatist. A paralax explanation sounds like a fun time :) I'll stay subscribed incase there are more of these

Nice, was always really curious how these were made. Would love to see more videos like this.

Skill Source!! I appreciate all the work you did in all your videos! Keep it up man, it is wonderful always!!

What an excellent overview!! Couldn'tve explained it in simpler terms. Tooting my own horn here, but I had lots of fun doing the Umihara Kawase Atlas vid with your help years and years ago, and although doing a some sort of a postmortem on it could be fun, there are so many things I'd do differently today that I don't think it's worth it. Something that was integral to making the video was rendering all the layers as separate passes so I could reintegrate the HUD in a nicer way. Doing separate layer passes is also necessary for many SNES games if one wishes to have stricter control over the background/foreground layers, so going over that could probably warrant its own video. I still really really want to make a PSX Atlas vid one day, but until the lua problems are sorted out, I can't do much. Dangit!

That Basket Case joke killed me.

brilliant video and of course, brilliant outcome as always! such wizardry.

What an absolute legend for sharing this workflow! great video, very concise, and my boy BELIAL

Informative, very nicely put together, and lovingly edited (Breen popping up gave me a laugh)! Well done!

Castle Quest on NES is a nice candidate for your tas videos, it has an actual full castle layout.

Just discovered your channel, awesome concept, love the videos! I would definitely enjoy seeing more of how you make them.

So cool! Learning behind the scenes of how these made was awesome. Would love to see more if possible. Great work!

This was awesome, thanks so much for sharing! I'll watch as many of these types of videos as you can make.

I love the Time Lord music!!!!

Stellar vid buddy, primo stuff you got going on here.

Love this channel !!!

I've always wondered how much was done. Thanks for the tutorial, would love to see more. I'm also thinking of experimenting with non-Adobe workflows, but that will require a lot of free time [from] me. The Lua scripts means we are off to a good start here.

Love your content! Many kudos from a small coastal town in Brazil!

Dude, I remember that we spoke before about your methods on doing this a few years ago. Even then you were really transparent about your workflow. Now it fills my heart with joy that you kept on trying to find new ways to make the process of frame-by-frame keyframing easier by just using CSV files. As a designer (who sometimes has to produce a lot of content within a certain time) I've worked with Excel-sheets in AE before (or TSV's for that matter). Also have I used Bizhawk before, to record gameplay of some console games - but never used any TAS or LUA tools. But this video made me want to try it out myself. This video was really interesting, thank you for sharing this with us. Maybe some day I might give this a go too. And yes, I would be interested in seeing how you take it to the next level and implement paralax scrolling too. Bart.

Amazimg Thasnk you

Love seeing how things are made. I say keep it up with the tutorials. I'd love to figure out how to do this in davinci resolve. Thanks for all the hard work and amazing videos.

Very cool video man! Keep up the good work and only the sky will be the limit

I just love it when the face behind a formerly "faceless" channel is revealed to be just as pleasant as the content itself.

Your work here inspire me a lot, so it's really nice seeing your workflow! Since I don't have Adobe, my workflow is done entirely on BizHawk, by drawing the map directly there with the Lua script, and even handling fading transitions and custom HUD display. I see you use VGMaps, but did you ever had to make the game maps yourself to make a video of an "unmapped" game?

Please fo more of this! Ot would also be interesting to replace AE with free software, but I guess that's for us to experiment with.

NEAT!

This is great to see, but a little bittersweet to be honest! I've always wondered how you made these (I didn't realise you actually shared some videos of the process 10+ years ago!) and always thought it was some fancy emulator you'd made (but refused to share!). Potentially Gens-Atlas but I could never get it to work! Now I know! I thought the output of them had increased a lot recently, certainly faster than the manual edits you used to make! Anyway, I say it is bitter sweet because now that your technique is out there, I worry a 'bigger' channel will snatch it up and pump out videos at a rate you can't dream to compete with, or use their already massive fanbase to drown you out. I really hope this isn't the case, but modern KZfaq is kinda terrible like that, so I guess we'll just have to wait and see. Thanks for sharing though, finally I can sleep at night without wondering about it!

Woohoo I thought it was Burnie Burns who was in front of the camera. It turns out it's his brother... Micheal Burns.

Very intermeeting video and always wondered how. Do you make money with this? Maybe it sounds easy for you but for many do not want to put an effort even though they would like to. Most would play the game bad but I assume you got someone else speed run? Another idea is a gif animation of a map that shows how it goes though each room. Lets say Zelda 1 if it animated how to go though each room as a walk though at a glance. But then again making maps makes no money. If it did then more maps would have been made. I would figure your way in a way can make maps faster if you made another code? AI helps make a lot of code for non programmers. The structure of VGMaps has both positive and negative aspects. On the positive side, it provides maps and showcases variations. However, there are some drawbacks. For instance, the “Map of the Month” feature sometimes includes maps that are both labeled and unlabeled, which necessitates further editing as they are not perfect. Additionally, the site lacks a structure for viewing certain statistics and does not provide links to suggested comparisons when examining a map. For example, when looking at the map for Contra on NES, it would be helpful to have a link comparing it with Contra for arcade or other systems. Despite being aware of other sites that offer complete maps, VGMaps does not provide links to these resources, although it does link to other sites. Lastly, many contributors who create maps for the site seem to do a significant amount of work without receiving any rewards. This could potentially be improved to encourage more participation and contribution.

ah... the master reveals his secrets

now get out there and make some vids everybody

It's really that simple?!! And here I thought we had to make a Yoshi sacrifice to make what I thought was a complex video. THX Mario for saving our Princess... wait if the map can see the end of the cattle stage and already know it's Toad then why bother and skip that world

Hello handsome! 😍

If you wish to make an Atlas Video from scratch you must first invent the universe

Idea Make short video showing off your iPhone scrolling swiping everything from the Y and X axis

I thought he was wearing his unreleased brand new 100% leather cotton made in China channel logo on his shirt. I guess we are going to wait at a later date to get that dreamy shirt that comes in 4 iPhones colors shirt for only 3 small payments of $19.65 in the upcoming years

You seem like a mellow fellow, and I've been enjoying your content for years, so I'm going to be as polite as possible. A face in my space is intrusive. It's a trend I've seen that makes browsing KZfaq psychologically painful for me. Thumbnails are filled with the most fake reaction faces, and videos are filled with somebody staring at me. It's *intrusive.* "But it's what the algorithm wants." That's what makes you stand out? Looking like everyone else? Panoramic views of video game stages; _that's_ what made you stand out. Please, keep up that good work. I thank you for what you've done.

thank you dude .and hello from russia