Still Playing Sunshine

       Most speedrunning sites will tell you that modding is against the rules and disqualifies any official run you do.  One only has to take a look at Speedrun.com to discover that.  To be sure, there are mods out there that absolutely should be avoided for speedrunning- anything that changes the speed of the game or messes with the gameplay shouldn't really be in use because you'd be giving yourself an unfair advantage over other speedrunners who are getting times on a level playing ground.  This could include things like Smash Ultimate gameplay mods or difficulty adjusters/damage reduction for Dark Souls.  These do change things up and allow different experiences, but that experience also changes the core of the game to a degree and therefore would be and is something that disqualifies official speedruns (These rules even apply to things like Games Done Quick and other big events), though it makes very little sense to file cosmetic mods under ...

 It's been a while, hasn't it?  Well, what better way to jump back in than talking about mods again?  I figured we'd start off easy with this by talking about 5 Smash mods since I've been messing with that a lot lately (results vary haha).  I'll add a preface to these sorts of posts just mentioning that there's a wide variety of these to be seen and I of course can't cover these in one post, but perhaps I'll make a series out of it haha.  With that said, let's jump right in with 5 neat mods to start with ( note some of these may be 18+ so use sense and discretion with what you download.) 5. Mitsuru Kirijo-Lucina When it comes to smash mods, the most abundant is going to be character skin mods.  Lucina is a character filed under "single slot" which means that really only on mod can be active on her at a time, unlike others such as Mario or Byleth, so if you get any others for her you'll need to rotate them out periodically.  This particu...

 Mods are a magical thing. They increase the lifespan of a game by almost uncountable measures.  We've talked here before about how there are different kinds of mods. from characters to voices, and this time, we've got customization!  Tekken 7  has a wide variety of mods, and today I thought we'd look at just 5 of them from across the different types.  Let's explore the crazy world of Tekken mods. Josie Becomes Tifa This mod changes quite a few things!  Josie's picture and name on the character select screen are replaced by Tifa, though you'll still need to go and customize her to look like Tifa.  Along with that, the announcer stops saying Josie's name, instead calling out Tifa's.  The mod goes farther than visual changes too, and Josie's voice, aside from a few places, so this is a wonderful mod to explore since it really affects thiings. Bob Becomes Big Smoke It's time to "follow the damn train" with this mod.  With a few customizati...

 I did say last time that I'd end up talking about mods a lot, and here we are again.  This time, rather than talking about custom boards, we're talking about Resident Evil 3 .  Specifically, I'm going to talk about some of the fun ways you can change up the game with various character mods!  There's simply too many for me to go over every one, but I'll try to cover a decent amount here. Most of these will be character mods that change the appearance of Jill, Carlos, or others around, but there are other kinds out there too.  I said last time that mods really bring out the creativity in folks, and it's not a different case here, so let's dive on into some Resident Evil 3  mods. Aerith Gainsborough This is a character mod for Jill Valentine.  None of the dialogue will be affected but Jill's model will change.  Using Final Fantasy VII Remake  as a base, this mod  brings Aerith into the world of zombies.  This mod goes further than jus...

 It's time to talk about something that I've delved deep into over the last few years and even gotten a few articles published on: Mods!  There's a surprisingly large amount of them, whether it's on the internet or the Steam Workshop, and they come in so many varieties.  There's character mods, level mods, and depending on the game, even game mode mods. One type of these I recently discovered was Custom Mario Party boards, where folks create all new experiences in place of the standard boards. When I discovered these only a month ago, I knew I had hit something great to talk about. There's a surprising variety of them for all three original N64 games in the series, and there's 2 ways to even get them in.  These can be made to work on the regular N64 hardware, but since this is a more technical and difficult, the easiest method to use is the Project64 Emulator. But this article is less about that part, though the knowledge of how it all works was necessary...