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...And holy crap, this minigame's controls in that version just suck.

RayGamer99 wrote: Sat Feb 21, 2026 9:29 pm I agree with the two of you; even as someone who loves the heck out of the UbiArt games and their soundtracks, I think that trying to move past games closer to that sort of vibe is not the right move. Doing that with the soundtrack alone robs newer generations of part of the magic that made Rayman 1 what it is to us, and that just doesn't sit right with me.


While the track doesn't entirely fit the vibe of Picture City or Rayman in general, at least the Jaguar version makes the song (and the OST in general) more bearable by sparing us the UbiArt instruments!

Chilistudios wrote: Sat Feb 21, 2026 10:22 pm I wanna ask. Is the level editor from Designer in the 30th collection? Or at the very least, in the collection's files?

Mortamon Saturn wrote: Sun Feb 22, 2026 4:09 pm I've just realized the Jaguar version was the origin for the idea of the Golden Fist being lost after taking three hits with it in Rayman 2!... Except here, you lose it after ONE hit, and so they decided to get extra stingy with lives to replace them with a ton of fist power-ups!

It also gives me an excuse for running out of Continues when I normally never even have to use them!

Mortamon Saturn wrote: Sun Feb 22, 2026 4:09 pm First off, I had 37 lives while I was backtracking to the Dream Forest after beating Mr Stone... Then when I returned to Bongo Hills, the counter decreased to 0 lives upon launching the level! And I never got them back, what the hell?!
Was it a known issue in the original, like some overflowing thing!?

Mortamon Saturn wrote: Sun Feb 22, 2026 4:09 pm I decided to take a break right when I made it to Candy Château's door in the Switch Jaguar version... and when I reloaded the game, ALL of my save was gone! Both the original and new system, which I both used consistently! Nothing!
COME ON, I just had one more level to beat, and it's one of the collection's few versions where you can't use cheats!

Mortamon Saturn wrote: Sun Feb 22, 2026 4:09 pm This game needs to be patched ASAP, come on, this is embarassingly incompetent!

Mortamon Saturn wrote: Sun Feb 22, 2026 4:09 pm However, this allowed me to discover that they did account for that regarding Ray Breakout, as there's a special command to trigger it from the main menu!

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("SECRET GAME. Press during the game's opening to open a secret game!")

Mortamon Saturn wrote: Sun Feb 22, 2026 4:09 pm If only they thought of the same thing for Ubi Cliff in the GBC version...

Mortamon Saturn wrote: Sun Feb 22, 2026 4:09 pm I really hope that for whatever next game Héral will get to compose for, that they will give him more time to cook and that he will take the opportunity to update the contents of his "Rayman bag", as most of the instruments he's using are just not doing it anymore... It would be terrible to reduce Rayman's music identity to that when he already has experience with more serious and atmospheric soundtracks like the original Beyond Good and Evil, Héral is genuinely capable of producing masterpieces, comedic or not.

Mortamon Saturn wrote: Sun Feb 22, 2026 4:09 pm And yes, I've got hardly any complaint about the Jaguar versions of these tracks, I certainly would have been nostalgic over these renditions if I would have grown with them!

Mortamon Saturn wrote: Sun Feb 22, 2026 4:09 pm If there's anything bad I'd have to point out, is how random the track selection becomes mostly from unlocking Twilight Gulch onwards... Like you got The Hard Rocks in Gong Heights, Bzzit/Moskito tracks jumpscaring you in some Blue Mountains maps (like PluM pointed out), some Picture City music in the Cave of Skops (if I remember that correctly)... it's even more random than OG Rayman Advance here!

Mortamon Saturn wrote: Sun Feb 22, 2026 4:09 pm

Chilistudios wrote: Sat Feb 21, 2026 10:22 pm I wanna ask. Is the level editor from Designer in the 30th collection? Or at the very least, in the collection's files?

I couldn't find it inside the game's folder, so unless it's an internal thing, it's clearly not there and there's no legitimate method to use it...
Yet another missed opportunity, at least for the PC version...
At worst, if you really want the mapper, you can easily get it for almost nothing by grabbing Rayman Forever on GOG when it's on sale.

RaypersonNikol wrote: Sun Feb 22, 2026 11:36 pm *hides away from ya'll* Can't catch me from here, your words can't reach me!

Okay maybe they can but

I don't think I should say my opinion here without fear.

PluMGMK wrote: Mon Feb 23, 2026 12:15 am OK now I'm curious Are you afraid of sharing your opinions about the rerelease, or about the Jaguar version of Rayman?

Either way, you really shouldn't be!

TeensieKing wrote: Mon Feb 23, 2026 10:38 am PSX version completed with all trophies! This is my first time 100%ing Rayman 1, aside from Redemption. It didn’t feel as daunting as it used to, even without the quality-of-life features. That said, I didn’t restrict myself at all with the rewind. I might dive into the MS-DOS or Jaguar versions next, but there’s no rush. Those extra level compilations are calling me. I was so focused on the “main story” that I completely forgot about the developer interviews and bonus levels.

By the way, someone here asked about the level editor from Rayman Designer. With all the fuss about the new soundtrack, I barely see anyone talking about it, but that’s some serious wasted potential. Can you imagine how cool it would be if the editor were fully integrated with online features and crossplay? The Rayman community would be more alive than ever.

That’s another reason why the 30th Anniversary Edition is, in my opinion, the best way to play Rayman 1 today, though by no means the definitive version. There’s no such thing as a definitive version of this game. There’s always a trade-off.

PluMGMK wrote: Sat Feb 21, 2026 8:07 pm No, the PC/PS1 engine was a complete rewrite from the ground up, whereas the Jaguar one evolved from what was used in the original SNES prototype. The Jaguar version runs on a completely different engine from all the other versions, so it's not surprising that it feels completely different to play.

TeensieKing wrote: Sun Feb 22, 2026 12:43 pm That said, Héral’s new soundtrack feels like a middle ground between his Origins-esque style and a more serious, immersive tone. And if nothing else, that at least makes it an interesting experiment. It does makes me wonder if he’s boxed himself into a specific sound.

PluMGMK wrote: Mon Feb 23, 2026 11:56 pm Honestly, the base level editor tools from Designer were pretty nerfed anyway. So many tiles and objects were removed, and some took us decades to figure out how to put back in…

PluMGMK wrote: Sun Feb 22, 2026 7:47 pm It's actually in there, fairly well hidden. If you use Cowabunga to convert assets.pie to a ZIP, then extract the file "/roms/DOS/dreamm.ifs", that in turn is another archive which contains the full contents of the Rayman Forever CD-ROM (plus some stuff that I think is related to the new music), including the Mapper! Haven't checked if it works though…

Pirez wrote: Thu Feb 26, 2026 7:19 am That's because you didn't try to convert them to Jesus (L3 on playstation, shift+f7 on a keyboard)

In Rayman Advance (and on DSi) there's a bug where you can make Skops disappear, or even crash the game...!

I'll explain below how it works. As it turns out there's quite a lot at play here!



For starters, and what made us discover this, is that there's a weird thing that happens in this boss on GBA/DSi. Each time Skops throws his claw it moves faster. Eventually it's so fast you don't even see it lol

Here's a video with invincibility which showcases it:

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I was confused for the longest time as to why this happens. The code for the claw's movement is identical to other platforms, and seems correct.

It starts with a speed of -128 (so to the left), adds 2 to the speed each frame so it slows down to 0 and then re-accelerates up to 110 (to the right).



The issue as it turns out isn't in the claw's code at all. It's how the game handles which objects are currently considered "active".

The game has a list of the IDs for these active objects, which are objects currently on screen, as well as spawned objects (such as the claw).



Each time an object is spawned it adds itself to this list. The claw does this as expected. Then when the object has finished doing what it should then it despawns and removes itself from the list. But this is where we start getting into the issue...



In fact there are multiple bugs at play here, but the most important thing, and why this only happens on GBA/DSi, is that they updated the code for despawning objects to NOT do so if the position is -32000 (default position) or if the object is of type "SKO_PINCE" which is... well, the claw.



Why they added this code I have literally no idea. Maybe they thought the screen size was too small so the claw would accidentally despawn after leaving the screen on the left and it'd break the boss? Either way this is what causes the bug. The claw spawns each time it's thrown, but never despawns.

You may think this means there will now be multiple claws in the level, but there is only a single claw, so what happens instead if that the same ID for the same object gets added to the list of active objects over and over... Then each frame of the game it now processes the object multiple times.

For example, say the object should move 2 pixels to the left during 1 frame, but the object has been added to the list of active objects 5 times. Then what happens it it moves 2 pixels 5 times during that frame, resulting in it moving 10 pixels! So this now explains why the speed keeps increasing.

Having the speed increase is pretty funny in of itself, but the boss fight is quick so it never really causes any issues. But how fast can the claw move? Well this list of active objects has a hard limit. After 200 items it runs out of space, and there's no bounds check besides logging an error.



So what ends up happening after 200 times is that the claw keeps spawning and extending the list beyond 200, thus overwriting other data in memory.

At this point almost anything can happen. Usually the game just crashes/freezes, however you can end up with a situation where Skops disappears



You can very easily try out this glitch for yourself by turning on invincibility (Right, Up, Right, Left, Right and R on the pause screen) and leaving the game for a while. Be warned that the game will lag a lot towards the end as it'll be processing the claw over 100 times each frame...!