I wanted to redo my longplays of the Rock Raiders PlayStation games because I wasn't happy with the originals. They were very low-quality, as I didn't really know how to emulate PS1 then, I skipped a bunch of the 2 player levels in the PAL version, and there were some editing errors in the NTSC one. At the time I'd just used BizHawk's mednafen core, as it was the only really accurate emulator I could find besides Mednafen itself, which is very user-unfriendly. But now there's a new emulator called DuckStation which is really great, very much like Dolphin which I love. Not only does it let you upscale the game like ePSXe, but it even lets you fix the affine polygon wiggle that plagued the PS1! I used this as an excuse to just completely redo these games and do them better this time. I know PS1 games don't look that great to begin with, but hopefully these will at least be much sharper looking and won't have so much blur whenever there's lava onscreen. And yes, this version of the game was the one that got delayed. I know that one email from David Upchurch said the opposite, but it's not impossible he got them mixed up. I have both versions of the game, and the files date Aug 1999 for PAL and Feb 2000 for NTSC, as well as the copyright dates on the disc. Plus, a studio called Gameworld Seven is listed in the credits of this version for level design. And finally, the recent DDI hard drive dumps by Obscure Gamers have included some documents talking about Sony America rejecting the game and Stewart Green hiring Gameworld Seven, to make new levels for the US version. All the changes I noticed in this version: - All languages other than English have been removed. - All the levels have been replaced with new ones by Gameworld 7 (which are more boring imo). I know the NTSC game had more development since Sony thought it was too bad to be released, but why did it need new (inferior) levels? Why couldn't they have gotten DDI to make new levels instead of some other studio? - The three bonus levels have been removed; getting all gold medals only gives the player the better ending cutscene. - There are only 6 two-player levels now, all original, instead of 5 original ones and 13 recycled one-player levels. - Ending the game with all gold medals causes all of the cutscenes to play before the outro and credits. - Cutscenes end a little earlier than they should, likely to let the closing black bar animation play at the end. Some cutscenes have a few black frames at their end, so in the PAL version, the black bars would close over an already-black screen for those cutscenes. However this change now leads to some cutscenes ending way too soon. Why didn't they just cut those black frames off? - Music plays during the credits. - All of Chief's text has been rewritten (and has no personality any more, just dryly tells you what to do). - Level loading screens have slide puzzle minigame, rather than repeating the mission objective. - Loading screen graphics have been cleaned up. - All levels now require red crystals for silver and a time limit for gold, rather than a variety of requirements like before (where some levels were timed for all medals or none of them, and different amounts of red crystals would give you different medals). - The player now has an animation for teleporting at the beginning and ending of each level. - Levels mostly now involve the player starting at the left side of the map and travelling to the Teleport Pad on the right side; there are no longer levels where the player starts at the Teleport Pad and has to travel across a more open map, or where the level ends without the Teleport Pad (except for some two-player ones). - Lava-themed levels are now rare for some reason, with only four total in the whole game. - Lava monsters do not appear anywhere. - Pillars appeared in a few levels in the PAL game, but they're much more common now. - Crates appear in some levels. You can push them around and they make awful noises. Why are these here? - Cave-ins occur in some levels. - The camera starts set to "combined", where it is rotational when the player uses a vehicle, rather than starting at "directional" by default. - The camera now zooms in when you drill with a vehicle. - The "effects volume" setting in options uses a new sound effect, rather than the sound of running water the PAL game used for some reason. - Green energy crystals now make the sound red ones used to, and red energy crystals have a new sound. - Sound effects in general feel louder. - Radar booster packs no longer exist, and the radar now shows all entities from the start, instead of Docs being the only character who could naturally use the radar fully. - Ammo and health packs now respawn, making Sparks's double-pickup and Docs's health regeneration abilities pointless. Dynamite also respawns. - Dynamite no longer runs on a timer, the player must press the use tool button again to set it off. - Large vehicles can roll over spiders and scorpions (the best change).

This game feels like some unearthed memory from the back of my mind. I can't believe I was like 6 years old playing this and spyro on those Saturdays.

Still remember the mission briefing song lol

Ps1 music is on another level.

duuude wow thank you for uploading this!! i forgot about this somehow, but now all the memories from my childhood are coming back.. especially the music from the mission select oh my god..

This video brought so much good memories. Thank you for uploading this video. The intro video in the beginning was as epic as it was back in the days! ❤️

49:09 "seen reports of something large down there" That's what she said xD LOL me and my brother used to do this game Coop on ps1 back in the day, Great game we jsut weren't very good at it xD

Man this takes me back, for those who are curious: no you can't skip the opening cutscene, was a horrible reality because when your parents said you could only play video games for 30 minutes firing up the Trinitron & PS 1 took 3 minutes then another 5 minutes just to enter this game. Didn't play it much just because of that, did complete 5 or 6 missions though.

The manic miners team should remake this version and call it Manic miners adventure or something and also include an online mode that plays up to 4 players.

The video quality is really great! Did the game have 16:9 support? So the PSX version was a pure "action" game with no RTS elements? I can't believe that there are different versions of this release like you wrote in the pinned comment! Which PSX version do you recommend?

Nice walkthrough! I've had this US NTSC PlayStation 1 version since early 2016. But didn't you already upload it alongside the one for the UK PAL version of it to KZfaq before?

why does this version get so many more views than the European version? with my old uploads this had 25k vs 5k for the euro one, and it looks like these new uploads are heading the same way with more than twice as many views here so far. Did the US version just sell way more copies even though the EU one had nearly 9 extra months on the market? I know neither version is popular but I'd expect them to be more even.

i'm trying to find out who made this amazing soundtrack! is there anyone credited?

haha wow, the laser cutters are a joke in the pc version, they seem crazy in the ps1 version

Kann es davon nicht mal ein Remake geben!!!

Okay I'm gonna ask it here, how on earth does one save in this game?? I don't have the time to play this game in one go...

Wait there's a new one???