@RashReflection: Anything I can do to avoid calling down the wrath of SomethingAwful on my head is good. :P It appears DC did indeed do an LP of Power Blade, so that’s out for now. I’ve never actually played Power Blade II, though I did read about it in an old Nintendo Power…that could be interesting I suppose. I have a number of old obscure games I could do too, if one of them strikes my fancy.

As for the commentary being a separate MP3, as I mentioned, for now I did it mainly because this commentary was a sort of pilot for the idea; if this one is bad, any longer ones are certainly going to be even worse, so if it bombs, at least I haven’t invested major time in long commentaries and learning how to integrate the audio with the video and the like.

As far as recording the audio separately, I think there is a way to integrate it with the existing video (Besides “capture the window with the run in something like CamStudio and talk over it as you watch it”), but it isn’t exactly easy, hence why I’m waiting to see if people like this commentary before I invest the time and such to do more of them. I do plan to do probably two versions of the commentary per speedrun; the full start-to-finish commentary, plus some shorter versions for breaking up the run and putting it on YouTube or somesuch (Whether I’ll call them Let’s Plays or just something like “Game X speedrun/walkthrough with commentary” is yet to be seen).

So with that, I should probably make a post here advertising the Rygar commentary, eh? Guess I’ll do that now…

For the above idea to work, I think you would have to open your run in the media player and record that window while talking.

And yes, even though you’re performing commentary after the fact, it can still qualify as an LP. Diabetus did this with his LPs of Battlemaniacs, Little Nemo, Captain Novolin, and probably others I’m forgetting.

DeceasedCrab on Youtube/Somethingawful already did a Power Blade LP, and it’s usually considered bad form to repeat a game. Power Blade 2 is still out there, though! =P

Actually, I think you could offer up your commentaries for everything you’ve run except Battletoads as LPs. Nobody has done those games yet IIRC, and there have been a few skill-oriented LPs in the past.

Thanks again,
Josh.