Ratchet & Clank's addictive fan mod: My new favorite way to play R&C - The Golden Bolt
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This is the story and behind-the-scenes development of Ratchet & Clank's most addictive fan mod, and my new favorite way to play Ratchet & Clank 1.
I didn't expect to come back to Ratchet & Clank so soon after my retrospective series had finished, but then while working on my Rift Apart video, I found a new thread that I had to keep pulling on: The Ratchet & Clank Randomizer mod. A fan-made (sort-of-)mod that technically isn't a mod at all, this Randomizer completely rewrote how I saw the first R&C game, and it took me from not wanting to think about the games after two years of working on videos about them...to not being able to get enough of playing the first game over and over again.
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As a quick note, for whatever reason the contrast ended up being a little funky when I recorded the Randomizer run. The other runs I'd recorded were fine, just the livestreamed one had this issue; outside of the couple stream clips I used, this is all direct capture. I did some correcting where possible, but the most astute viewers may notice that it looks a little darker than normal - that's why!
For more info on the Ratchet & Clank Randomizer mod: discord.gg/vfWjKhbAvR
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My biggest hope for Ratchet and Clank is that someone makes a PC port like Jak and Daxter has.
I'm no reverse engineer (except for not being an engineer), but from listening to the dev commentaries I know that they had a weird sort of scripting language on 2 and 3 and they actually had to use enemies to make events happen. I don't know about rac 1, but even for that reason, there's a high likelihood that 2 and 3 would be horrendous to decompile and reverse-engineer.
@@Anteksanteri jak and daxter’s decompilation was a special case as ND used a custom programming language called GOAL, people managed to figure out some patterns with it and found out how to basically straight translate it
The rac games however use c/c++, which require hand translation, basically, once people think it’s feasible, it’ll take a lot of time to decompile
i wish Sony just started releasing all of their old titles on PC because the PS2 generation was hands down the best in gaming history
@@nefarioustechsupport1243 UYA and Deadlock’s multiplayers are practically already reverse engineered. The private servers have custom maps, modes, skins, weapons, etc. The Rac games are far closer than you think to being completely modded. Hell, in the last few months the community has created a multiplayer wave defense mode like Nazi Zombies, added hover bike races with custom race tracks, and ported maps and weapons between the two games. They’re getting to the point now of increasing the total player limit in the lobbies and working on building a mini battle royale.
Def checkout their discord servers if you haven’t :) super fun stuff
I hope Sly Cooper does too
I’m an OG R&C fan, and I hate that the original game is hardly talked about online and doesn’t have any merch. More of this please!
I mean, we didn't get any merch in the US, for the most part, but Japan did get some, to this day, exclusive manga books from around the release of the first game as a way to market this US developed game to their domestic audience.
I happy that there is another person that loves this game franchise as much as I do. Keep the content coming!
me too man, makes me happy to know there's more R&C fans
Been playing since I could play videogames, these games are my childhood and while the community is relatively small, we all share the same fond memories and all have a deep love for them, it makes me happy to see likeminded people
same, i love this channel. i didn't think anyone on earth could infodump about this series more than i could until i discovered TGB
there are many of us ;)
I listen to the sound traxks of this game on a daily basis. Love to see the OG R&C has a community. I never really knew. Shout out to y’all! 🙏🏽💪🏽
Babe wake up new Golden Bolt
I've got my morning wood fully erect!
I opened the comments soley to like this comment
Let me sleep
Yeye good morning
I personally believe that the only way that the movie and the PS4 Ratchet & Clank game can be considered a part of the series is if you take into account the fact that they are the story of Ratchet and Clank 1 as told by Captain Qwark to a fellow prisoner.
Qwark just had to make himself look better.
That is the actual explanation though, that's why it wasn't a reboot.
@@AbyssalMerc
yeah but not enough people realize/know that
Imagine if we one day could mod the trilogy together into one "game" somehow
this might actually be theoretically possible given how people have already started combing various games for randomizers
ex: there's a randomizer that's both link to the past and super metroid. and another that's both Ocarina of time and Majoras mask (there could be more, those are just the 2 i know of) and they both contain doors that lead to the other game. that being said modding/rom hacking ratchet isnt exactly super advanced yet compared to those, so who knows when it could happen...but it could happen potentially
@@dalekin3177 something even more impressive: there's a Resident Evil 2 Randomizer that adds content from the original Resident Evil, Resident Evil 3 and Dino Crisis, alongside custom made content.
Theoretically possible from how we understand the planet loads, no where close yet when it actually comes to implementation due to current modding capability. There are sure to be a load of other issues to resolve once we prove its possible to make the whole experience enjoyable, But it won't stop us from trying!
Very cool idea.
@@dalekin3177 maybe we will get more ratchet and clank fan stuff in the 2030's. i'm very excited about the future!
10:55 I like how he gave you the item that lets you farm bolts on that very same planet.
Loved the video and I’m glad that people can mess with such a “delicately” put together game to make a randomizer. Also your family is safe as long as you play the handheld games ok thank you
Size Matters has issues, but man it has some really sick ideas about Armor Combos.
And the dream/exploding space station level and gadgetbots minigames are just so much fun.
Size Matters DID have real cool ideas like the armor combos, dream sequence, and running around inside Clank but god I can never replay it on PS2 it’s so scuffed lol
And the KICKASS ost
All the minigames in size matter(at least for me) were all peak
Really loved the surfing missions,clan fidget spinner thing lol
Me seeing the infobot for this mod:
“I have GOT to get me one of those!”
Fun fact randomizers for most games have a Logic/No Logic option which let's a casual audience enjoy them without worry of soft lock or use of Speedrun glitches to complete the run making them a fun way to enjoy your favorite games again. It's a good way to get addicted for possibly months or just a good run :)
“Only for me to be rewarded with an actual rock for my efforts and suffering”
Me: IT’S NOT JUST A BOULDER
IT'S A ROCK! A ROOOCCCKKKKK! **sobs**
So you made Ratchet drink so much soda that the vendor could detect that Ratchet was about to piss himself enough to fill an entire swimming pool so it gave him the hydrodisplacer to empty his overflowing bladder into. How nice of that vendor.
Sexy Ratchet icon lol
I don't really have any experience with R&C period, but for what it's worth, that idea of finding a new appreciation for a game's structure and design/thought process is one of the reasons I love Zelda randomizers so much, particularly Ocarina of Time's. I had a healthy respect for OoT beforehand, of course, but playing rando after rando ended making me love and appreciate it way, way more than I ever expected, and it really showed me how different it is from later games.
Like, here's an example. In Wind Waker's forest dungeon, there's a room with a thorn-maze and the thorns only pop up when you get close. You're supposed to navigate it, grab a bomb flower, toss it past the thorns to blow up a wooden barrier, and then go all the way around to get the chest behind said barrier.
But during a recent randomizer run, I had Fire Arrows with me, and thought "oh, hey! why don't I just use those and cut out the middleman"? So I pulled out my bow and launched a fire arrow at the wooden barrier... only for the arrow to bounce off of literally nothing. It turns out that the maze is just made of invisible walls, and the thorns are just for visual indication.
This is a really small thing, and you'd never realize it normally since you can't get Fire Arrows until way later, but it highlights how the devs were focused on making sure you solved puzzles the way they intended.
Compare the Master Quest version of OoT's Water Temple. There's some rooms in that where you have to light multiple torches at once to unlock doors or grates. At that point in the game, your only source of fire on-demand is Din's Fire, and thus it's the obvious solution to those puzzles.
However, during a randomizer run, Din's Fire was out of reach, and so I was forced to head into the MQ Water Temple with just Fire Arrows. I had to light each torch individually, while also going fast enough to hit them all before any one of 'em fizzled out. It's a bit annoying, but certainly doable.
Again, it's a really small thing, but it highlights the difference in mindset. In OoT, those torches are simply objects in the dungeon, and there's nothing stopping you from using a different method to light them all up. The devs never intended it (beating the Water Temple is how you unlock Fire Arrows in the first place), but when put into a randomizer situation, it highlights how malleable and open-ended OoT's design is.
This is fantastic; RC1 was already my favorite in the series, but, if I go through with installing this and trying it out, I'm sure my enjoyment will reach even greater levels, if it's even possible. As usual, great job on the video!
1:05 Just to note: Randomizers that are finishable without advanced tricks or glitches are in fact the standard, not a rarity.
Really happy more people are discovering the R&C randomizer :)
Bordplate's work is great, and they've helped me out too. Props! Great video too 😁
Edit: 16:56 oh I beg to differ 😉
Ayyyyyy I love your content bro! Fancy seeing you all the way down here!
I always get excited when you upload. Always with the quality content 👍
The levels and worlds from these era of games are just beautiful to me. The levels in jak, the levels in ratchet(all of them). Ty the tasmanian tiger.
There really isn't much in them, and I know theres not, but they just feel like there is. I don't even know how to say it, I just feel wonder, and stuff in them. They make my imagination work.
Love to see you taking it back to the series of the channel namesake!
R&C randomizer or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb Glove
18:34 "There I am, Gary! There I am!"
I have been dying for some hardcore difficulty mods for the R&C series. Something ball breaking like Super Metroid Impossible, Ascended Souls mods, or Superstar mode. Something ball breaking.
Imagine they made a version of the randomizer that threw Goldenbolts into the shuffle
Or Gold Weapons 😏
@@ZanicaKnight uh oh
@@ZanicaKnight Yeah. Turns out the infobot for Veldin is stuck on one of the Gold Weapons stands on the moon station... That sounds like fun actually.
Trust me, Ratchet and Clank is honestly the most replayable game ever made. Right now, I have no idea why, I'm literally having this ridiculous R&C nostalgia burst, I'm literally going to get a new PS3 just to play them, as my PS2 either isn't compatible with my TV, or it doesn't work, who knows. I know the HD collection on the PS3 isn't great, but it's definitely the easiest way to play it, and it's all three games in one anyway, simple enough.
God I love these games
How do you feel now
Glad you rekindled your Ratchet love! I just got an upscaler to use on an actual ps2 so I dont have the HD glitches and Im pumped to see it as good as it used to be (hopefully better) and on a bigger screen :)
Great, this just awakened a compulsive need in me to play RaC 1 for like the 50th time
I remember thinking a RaC1 randomised would be great a few years ago.
I'm so glad someone was able to pull it off, I need to try this.
19:55 *WHAT!?* My jaw hit the floor there.
20 years and I never noticed there was a second part to that shortcut!
I'm a fake fan...
24:54: "I love the fear and challenge of having to do the second hoverboard race without the platinum zoomerator"
Me, who usually skipped the Rilgar hoverboard race and therefore rarely got it: Wait, people use the platinum zoomerator?
That impromptu ad placement was genius!
20:03 that's how I found out that the Infector in Ratchet 3 is actually busted. Two shots and enemies just die, no cap
Really interesting video. I've just finished 4 playthroughs of the first game on PS Plus and was just mind numbingly going through by the end, this mod makes it seem so much more interesting.
Also, very glad that someone else gets annoyed with the default camera controls. Mad that you have to change them at the start of every play through
Didn't quite know what I was getting into watching this one, but man that was a super fun watch
I love you rac videos they are very intresting and well made I watch them more then one time
as someone who extensively plays randomizers of both metroid and pokemon, an R&C randomizer is very awesome for me
Can't believe Kevin TheGoldenBolt is talking about Ratchet & Clank again. I hope he talks more about Ratchet & Clank like [redacted]
Love this video happy to see some more rac when I thought you were done with it until the next game also lmao alados shoutout
Yay! More R&C content!
This was a great look into the game. I'm always fascinated by randomizers and honestly wish that games started having them built in from the get-go without fans having to force one in. Granted I realize it would probably inflate the scope of game design to a ridiculous degree, but I feel like it would help give developers either a good look at their games design in the "intended" way, or just give a fun way to play their game. It FEELS like it would be a simple thing, but then be a surprise of "oh no this is massive".
Also for the PSP Ratchet, I will always say I feel like Size Matters' best contribution is how it went about armor. Honestly I wish it was in more of the mainline games, we're close to it in Rift Apart, but it's only cosmetic and is only 3 slots (helmet, chest (which is combo-ed with gloves), & boots) whereas in Size Matters it's 4 (helmet, body, gloves, & boots), and each armor piece adds a neat passive status effect to your loadout. Although you need specific combos of armor to get some effects rather than the effects being a result of whatever piece you have on, not sure if that's a good or bad thing. I can see the reason behind it, but I feel like it should be the case of you get a certain kind of bonus no matter what armor piece you have on. Granted you could have the best of both worlds by comboing the two iterations where you can have a certain armor piece set as your cosmetic look while you can have the function of another.
i can resonate with how easy one can burn out from this massive series such a good series of games
I love that this is getting mor recognition. Bordplate did so good on this mod
I love how you said that you sound like finding out randomisers exist for the first time but the entire rest of the video is also explaining the point of randomisers like someone who found them for the first time.
Yeah baby reinvent that pizza that's what it's all about we stan randomisers in this household.
I remember hearing about this from speedrunners, but never thought much of it, but seeing you're playthrough made me want to play it so bad! I wish it worked with RPCS3, needing a PS3 with custom firmware, connected to a PC, running specifically a PAL version of the game is some arbitrary bullshit.
With Jak and Daxter getting a fan made source port on PC now, with Jak II, and Jak 3 on the way, I can only hope and pray that one day some talented fans will be able to port these old games to PC as well. The mods would be insane!
that auto weapon randomizer mod is a great idea. Deadlocked with a random weapon + mod every 5 seconds would be chaos
Wasn't that an actual mode in the R&C3 and possibly Deadlocked Arena stages? Pretty sure that could be done on account of already being in the game.
@@PlebNC Yeah, that's what I meant. So that sounds like just having the entire game that way, but with random mods added.
That was exactly what I'd submitted and pushed for with Rift Apart, when Insomniac put out their little "submit an update idea/request" form. After the hotfix to allow for a true wrench-only run, I was hoping there was a shot in the dark that somebody would go in on their own and turn that arena parameter into a gamewide setting for Challenge Mode - maybe next time!
I spiritually need those versions of Ratchet games with weapons that randomly switch like in the arena challenges. I always wanted this.
Love that single frame of Ty the Tasmanian Tiger lmao
16:02 loved the ty reference
26:00 Baby expirience his first randomizer.
It is so different, if you play a randomizer for a Game you like, or if you play one, for the game you LOVE!
10:58 That was very funny
Great video by the way, that looks like a very fun mod, I whish I could try it out
Man, I'd love to play this mod, fingers crossed it comes to rpcs3 would be amazing!!
New to channel love the contents bro. Have you done a review/retrospect on the PSP games?? If so couldnt find em if not please make:) Id love to hear your opinion on those games
this man has one of the most hype intro jingles on youtube.
love the ratchet content
I'm gonna have to do a run of this now, seems great. I hope someone is working on a RAC:GC and UYA randomizers.
I laughed a bit in that part in Kerwan where you could buy Magneboots from the vendor for free!
Magneboots in the vendor, one of the funniest things I have seen.
Great mod!
First game my all time favourite, the fact you can't starve makes it even more fun with the arsenal of weapons you get, each of them has their pros and cons on different encounters. This kinda got lost is the sequels and beyond.
after replaying all the games in the series, something about the first one keeps me coming back for more playthroughs. This looks fascinating!
What rad way to spend Valentine’s Day .
The Rachet ride never ends.
This community makes me proud to be a gamer, rac will forever be the goat of platformers
When we getting a retrospective for the movie?
THIS GAME IS WHY I STILL PLAY ON INVERTED! Has turned me into the lefty of the controller world
This is super cool. I love randomizers. Hopefully we get one that's not Digital PAL only and supports emulators
18:46 was just brilliant
Hey i haven't seen many of your videos, but have you ever talked about Ratchet & Clank on PC? Made me think about it even more eith tbis video about the randomizer mod as I would think it would be easier on PC
With regards to the PAL vs NTSC thing, it's my understanding that by the N64/PS1 era, games didn't run slow any more, they just ran at the slightly reduced refresh rates. So while you were now playing at 25/50fps, the game was still running at the right speed.
TV hasn't really standardised fully yet though. PAL TV broadcasts are still at 50hz to this day, it's just that all our TVs can also handle NTSC standards too, so we can watch American stuff or plug in consoles without issues.
PSP video when? Seriously Size Matters is what got me into the series and other Sony games, it blew my mind back then and will always be special for me for this reason
When the world needed him the most, he returned.
Dude I lwould love more Ratchet and Clank mods
R&C1 is probably the game in the series I've returned to the most because of those differences from the later games. I still really enjoy the later games, I'll even say some of those are better than 1. But I like getting a new weapon and not feeling like I HAVE to use it, even if it sucks or just does not vibe with my playstyle, because otherwise, be it using the Wrench or a weapon that's already fully upgraded, if I don't use a weapon in need of upgrading then you are basically wasting XP.
I've seen people occasionally bring up resource management in these games when talking about Bolts and Ammo, but never about XP in the same way. Cleared out the level using your maxed out weapons? Well now the enemies that spawn in during revisits don't give out XP to prevent grinding out your health, but you can't level up that weapon now either. Next level has enemies that are too strong for that fully upgraded weapon to take down without dumping the entire ammunition reserve into it? Should have thought about that on the previous level.
I think the only other R&C game to not have this problem, without completely scrapping the "less/no XP on revisits" mechanic, is All4One by making weapon upgrades something you buy with bolts. I like that game but you gotta buy weapon upgrades on a per character basis and you can't share Bolts between characters. This introduces a whole new mess of issues however.
I know it's not gonna happend since the R&C "remake" didn't succeed but a TRUE remake of R&C 2 and 3 would be a dream (don't freaking change the dialogues tho). They already have a lot of ennemies/characters done in Rift Apart and the First trilogy wasn't as complex on the level design part as the future trilogy.
Gladiator/Deadlocked would be a great remake too as a standalone fun game.
The fact that, as a RaC fan, you can't really feel this 1st experience is very true
And that's whhy I'm thinkin about challenges like a nuzlocke for a Pokemon game
For RaC 2, I tried a "economic run"
Where you can't buy ammo for your weapons (besides Killanoids and Shield Charger, where I considered you can buy 1 ammo (4 for Killanoids and 1 for Shield Charger) per vendor you see in a level, without abusing it
That was a very very cool challenge
It matches a lot with the spirit of the game
And omg, I love it because it forces you to use ALL of your weapons
And it forces you to not simply spam your favourite weapons or the best
You have to think before using the weapon
You have to play with weapons lvlups for ammo
And you don't have the "you're missing experience" when you're using lvled up weapons
Because you don't care, you need to use ALL WEAPONS because of ammo
I highly recommand trying it !
when i was a kid i had an E01 with the replacement ps2 chip... i had a scratch up disc for the first game and thought it was the disc as to how it played
Now I wanna play R&C again
I just wish it was possible to do this on an emulator...Because it sounds great
Really wish for an enemy randomizer as well that would be fun
So lit theyre all free on stream for ps+ members. As a kid, i played each one tens of times through. I think 2 or 4 was my favs, but then i didnt get into the future series, but now i bought rivet and bolts, man this is a great game. Maybe a bit too easy on the most hard difficulty.
I'm a shorty tea pot, little and stout
cool video yet again GB! now even more people will learn about the randomizer! hopefully sony won't get mad
Shame there aren't plans to make this randomizer work for PC emulators, with how easy the R&C games are to play on a computer.
Sony dev watching the video like:
I shouldn't approve of this....
But like ratchet 1 mods bruh that lits.
Randomizers have become such popular mods, that you would think developers would add a randomizer mode for completing the main game one time.
setting everything up for this is a surprisingly painful process and I kind of wish you had explained some of it because wow actually finding info is a pain. tbf, I am purposely avoiding the discord because I am a firm believer that if a discord is necessary you have utterly failed at preservation and documentation. on the other hand, I still haven't even made it that far because modding the PS3 is causing enough problems by itself thanks to the exploit website being down
Edit: finally got it all working and while painful, it was absolutely worth it this is so much fun
honestly i think it'd be really cool if rac 2 and 3 got mods that made them play like rac 1; no strafing, no leveling, decreased damage curve. rac 1 and deadlocked are some of my favorites to replay because the entirety of your arsenals remain viable throughout the entire game and it'd be fun to play those other 2 games like it.
Devs should make this a new game plus feature after you beat it the first time. Like you can replay it normal or replay it randomized
Funny thing, Japan has several different power grids. Some of it is 60 and some of it is 50. But they standardised at least video/TV to be universally 60.
Edit: it was a good video
The fabled second Pizza that Pineapple belongs on, so to speak.
This sounds awesome. I really wanna grab a PS3 for messing around with mods on older games. I would be keeping it offline thou.
There's a randomiser for everything nowadays. I'm sure you can make a randomised child if you got with the right person.
I always knew a ratchet and clank rougelike could work.
Looks like I have to buy ratchet 1 for the 10th time to play the randomizer. Money well spent
I wonder how difficult it would be to add the standard dual-stick shooter control scheme that ratchet 3 has and ratchet deadlocked has standard.
>Pays 150k for the RYNO
_>Gets the Taunter instead_
…The joke writes itself.
I want someone to try to incorporate that randomizer into the Archipelago Multiworld system. If you think it's chaotic getting weapons for one game everywhere, imagine if there's two or three other games to get items for as well!
Though you would 100% have to emulate the game. There is no way that you'd be able to get that to work on an actual PS3.
I feel like a randomiser would work better on later games, assuming you can adjust the addresses for damage and health variables
cause in R&C 1, I tend to use the bomb glove and wrench for 90% of the game anyway, and not even as a challenge but just cause after years of playing the games, I find them to be that game's two most comfortable weapons if oyu know how to use them properly (Ie, using jumps and flips to position ratchet's wrench strikes), I don't think changing the weapon order would substantially alter how I play that game too much, besides getting softlocked on wrench killing helicopters
like if there weren't any helicopters or bombships, I'd probably forget that there are other weapons in most playthroughs
Not all pizza is equal. Some is pepperoni, like Ratchet and Clank 1 or ToD. Some is meat feast stuffed crust like Going Commando and A Crack In Time. But then some misguided individual puts pineapple on it, and that's when you get Size Matters.
A randomizer might be cool for deadlocked