Dragon Warrior II - NES playthrough part 14 (recorded 2009)
0This take was played on an original NES console, probably model 1. It would have been either a standard controller or dogbone (NES model 2) controller, and probably played on my Magnavox console TV.
It was recorded on VHS then transferred to a DVD recorder around what records in my files seem to point toward July or August 2009, but the exact date is not known. I had just started using a DVD recorder for the first time and didn't know what I was doing quality-wise so I set it to SLP mode to make the discs last longer. Consequently, the quality of the video is not very good.
To figure out roughly when this was recorded, I only have dates for a few other gaming videos from July and August 2009 that were ripped to my old PC in 2009 with my first capture card that did not have very good audio capture capabilities, which led me to give up on the capture card and stick with DVDs for a while.
In my 2009 game recording video set there are some videos like this one that were first recorded on VHS then recorded onto DVD then taped over, some that were only recorded directly to DVD-R, some that were only recorded on VHS then transferred to PC with my first capture card then taped over, some that were recorded onto VHS and recorded onto DVD but also left on the tapes, and some that were recorded on VHS but never copied after all these years. There are also a select few videos that managed to be copied with the capture card, copied to a DVD-R and also still remain on the tape.
This is just a full playthrough with the game's audio only and no commentary.
I did not finish the end of this save file on video. I ended up starting a new file and completing it later, but it was not recorded. I still make it very far in these videos. I was so close to the end and didn't realize it!
During this part I continued from the town of Beran and made it through the Cave to Rhone. Once I made it there and saved after an hour and 50 minutes, I continued leveling up for another 2 hours and 39 minutes without stopping the tape. In that time, my characters reached levels 29, 27 and 22.
This was the longest part out of all of this Dragon Warrior II playthrough's videos. Only two more parts were recorded after this. These final three parts might have slight additional quality loss because I did not stop the DVD recorder when transferring this tape as I did with the rest, so they had to be edited before uploading them.