See (hear?) Bangai-O Spirits' sound loading in action

by Justin McElroy { Aug 12th 2008 at 11:00AM }

We know that we we've already told you about Bangai-O Spirits' wonderfully ludicrous way of sharing custom level designs between friends, but we don't think you really get the full impact until your see it performed live. We witnessed a demo at E3 and, frankly, it changed our lives.

Also, if you like to keep track of this sort of thing, you should know that "sound loading" has taken the lead on our list of "Things We Most Hope That A Time Traveler From The Past Sees and Has Their Mind Blown to Smithereens." Congrats, D3. You did it.

Tags: bangai-o-spirits, treasure

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Fernando Rocker @ Aug 12th 2008 11:07AM

Very nice. And very quickly. This is a nice addition for people who doesn't have WiFi.

I wonder wnat happens if I scream at the mic... maybe I would generate the most awesome stage.

PSN & GAMERTAG: jorojoserojas - Wii FC: 0749-8609-3752-6926 @ Aug 12th 2008 11:09AM

LMAO!!!!!

Well done Fernando. That was already the best thing posted today!

Zertoss @ Aug 12th 2008 12:01PM

I bet the internet will have a tone generator that makes random levels online pretty quick.

Also, the thought of someone screaming into their mic and generating an awesome stage made me laugh. Good one Fernando.

PSN & GAMERTAG: jorojoserojas - Wii FC: 0749-8609-3752-6926 @ Aug 12th 2008 11:10AM

What?! That's crazy.

How in the hell do people come up with this stuff?

Gotta admit, though...it's pretty awesome.

Fernando Rocker @ Aug 12th 2008 11:13AM

It's pretty awesome. And the game looks very good (developed by Treasure... how can it be bad?).

I think the release date is today, right? I need to pick this game today.

cwhitely @ Aug 12th 2008 11:11AM

wow. mind blowing. when that lady said ta-da, it made me think of the joker :D

WiNG [Life in a Game] @ Aug 12th 2008 1:29PM

DO YOU KNOW HOW I GOT THIS STAGE?

When I was a little boy, my father liked to play DS. He would play all night, as my mother sat by, bored to death. One night was especially bad; he had finished an eight hour session of Nintendogs, and he burst into my room. I was studying Calculus.

"WHY SO SERIOUS? Why don't we put a smile on that face?"

Then he pulled out my DS and forced his level into my Bangai-O. The sounds.. I will never forget the sounds.

Ben @ Aug 12th 2008 2:42PM

I'm so glad the phrase "he forced his level into my Bangai-O" is in context.

Joe @ Aug 12th 2008 11:19AM

This was done for the Atari over 20 years ago. And many PCs at the time loaded off of cassettes, as well :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starpath_Supercharger

monchi-kun @ Aug 12th 2008 6:53PM

maybe some of you guys are too young to remember the sound of a fax machine sending data over phone lines...but that's basically the system that Treasure emulated

PhoenixGeek @ Aug 12th 2008 11:40AM

Wow, they took technology that was used by modems for the past few decades and implemented it into a hand held game, impressive.

It could, however, be impressive when someone decodes how it works and makes a program to do this on the computer.

shMerker @ Aug 12th 2008 11:45AM

That is the most ghetto tunneling I've ever seen. I wonder why there isn't just some mode that let's you save to and load from your computer using wi-fi. That would replicate nearly all of the functionality here but with decidedly less data loss. Is there at least a mode for transfering directly to another DS via wi-fi?