Fan Videos are considered artwork, right?

[zelakzanai]

Okay, I joined this because this is the only StarTropics fansite I know of. Some of you may have heard of Nintendo's Short Cuts Film Contest. To sum it up, you make a video that can be no longer than 5 minutes based off of a Nintendo game. My friends and I were like, "Hey, how about a game nobody knows about that Nintendo made? A game nobody else will do and a game nobody has ever done a video for." So, I was like "StarTropics!"

Now, the five-minute limit put us at a MAJOR disadvantage. I had to cut out all the scenes I wanted. That meant no C-Serpent battle, no Mike becomming a woman, and no Mike getting eaten by a whale. Since so much was cut, we had to add creative storyline to make it flow, and therefore the storyline is not accurate at all. Especially the very rushed, anti-clamatic ending.

If only they allowed 10 minutes, this would have been 10 times better than it is, mainly because it'd be 10 times more accurate to the actual game's storyline, a story that I personally love! However, this is probably the first StarTropics fan video. I hope that it gets all you fans out there making your own videos. Let's take a look at the screen grabs, shall we?


Dr. Steve Jones


Mike Jones


Mike Jones talking to Chief Coralcola even though the name never was revealed


Mike Jones after his ship wrecks.

We didn't have a yo-yo, so we settled for a tee-ball bat, by the way. Anyways, yeah, this is our contest entry. We hope you enjoy it, even though it did murder the original storyline (we apologize immediately!)

StarTropics
youtube.com/watch?v=MlI6_NQqDOw

EDIT: I apologize about murdering Zoda. We were very short on time.
EDIT2: I also apologize for mudering the story behind the cubes. So yeah.

And maybe I should not the spoilers even though it really is off the topic of StarTropics in terms of story.

[Michael Jones]

Welcome to the board zelakzanai!

That was very interesting. It's definitively different to see a Startropics fan video with real people. I understand that you had a very short amount of time and that you didn't have everything you needed but what you made is still very good. Good luck in the contest!

[zelakzanai]

Yeah, you're the main character!
Next time, we promise not to do an entire game in five minutes. Especially one of amazing length like StarTropics.
And we also apologize, Michael Jones, if our depiction looks nothing like yourself.
If we ever do StarTropics II (which means if I buy it and play it, since I've only played the original) we probably will go at a less slow pace and make it more interesting.

Yeah, our friends and myself make video game videos with real people, as well as some original/random works thrown in there.
I'll be sure to stick around a bit. Thank you for the welcome.

[shinigamihedgehog]

Welcome Zelakzanai.

I just saw your video. Good luck with the contest.... although I'm pretty sure it's over by now... U_U

Anyway, it was nice seeing a fan-video involving real people for once!

And it's good to have you onboard. Once again welcome, and I'd like to see what more you come up with.

[zelakzanai]

We didn't win, but since the video that should have one (an amazing Punch-Out video) didn't win, and since more than half of the winners had lackluster videos (seriously) I don't care much. It was still fun to film. Especially since before we began a security guard interrogated us, and then some crazy dude thought we were filming bikini-clad women at the beach (NOT TRUE)

We may do another (better) StarTropics video in the future. For now we like to concentrate on EarthBound as our home game. But since the two are similar, it's natural that EarthBound fans enjoy StarTropics. Most EB fans I talked to who played ST loved both games. And we're no exception.

Thank you for your kind welcomes, guys! Your kindness shall not be forgotten! ^_^

EDIT: By the way, I was Chief Coralcola (with a shirt) and Baboo (with a shirt and good English skills) if you were wondering.

[Coralcola]

*Frowns*

Well, the people who usually judge these things are hired, clueless, tasteless klunks who have no clue about the area of interest they are judging...

Nevertheless, you did more than most of the rest of us have, so you should be commended for that. Hopefully, you'll have more time the next go-around, and it'll be much more like what you originally envisioned. A little practice with this go around didn't hurt either...

[zelakzanai]

The main winner of the contest did a gret video that was artistic and creative, but it didn't capture that "Nintendo" feel like this one Punch-Out! video did. That Punch-Out! video recreated a Nintendo world within the real world and it was amazing. So the fact that that didn't place just made me go "Meh" to the contest. But the video is not all for moot so it's leading us to a new StarTropics video.

This new, better, StarTropics video...You'll hear from us in August about it. And trust me, just from the lack of a time limit and the script, it's much better. ^_^