NoLife: French show with Superplay strategies & explaination

[DJ Incompetent]

I didn't find this in any forum search.

I ran into this Gradius 5 superplay strategy clip from some show called NoLife. It appears to be a geek and Japan culture show for the French. Going from the title intros, the program also seems to indicate they have very good gaming taste. From what I read, this show has a segment once a month called "Superplay Ultimate" which I guess walks a player through a game with relevant commentary and significant details, going as far as to explain when to bullet hoard, drawing hitboxes, inserting tooltips, and arrowing movement directions almost at the detail Icarus or Twiddle would provide. It's rather impressive demonstration for a clip segment without being able to understand french. I always wanted somebody to make legitimate strategy video on the hardest games, instead of fuckin' Jessica Chobot or that godawful Cheat G4 show turning the hobby into a joke.

I've poked around with babelfish for awhile. I haven't been able to uncover much besides dedicated Gradius V and Mushihimasama segments, and I never found the search button for french shmup.com. I'd like to know if the french users or somebody happened to know of a list of all the superplay ultimate strategy guides NoLife has created, if there was ever a movement to translate them, and...er...you know...PM me a little somethin'-somethin' if subtitled versions exist.

Known List:
Gradius V
Mushihimesama
Radiant Silvergun
Metal Slug
Ketsui (?)
Dodonpachi Daifukkatsu (?)
Beatmania IIDX (?)
Super Monkey Ball 2 (?)

Other stuff:
Bumper/Intro for the Superplay Ultimate Segment
NoLife Superplay official blog
Neo-Geo Fans forum w/discussion
Wiki about the show
Autoplaylist of random bumpers and NoLife show segments

I kinda sorta recognize the interview intro lines along the bottom. Was this the show that did that famous French STG documentary awhile back?

[Aru-san]

Nice name for a show. The name says all, I suppose, considering that they go into so much detail with tips, tricks, and other doodads. I sort of wish we could have these sort of shows, but noooo...America just has to be the dumbass where everything's a damn joke.

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Wait, does that mean that Icarus and Twiddle have "no life" as well?

[unsane]

Wiki about the show

That's actually translating the article defining what a "no life" means. The french wiki you want to translate is here. Alternately there's a shorter english version of the page on English wikipedia. I'll dig deeper a little later.

[max.faraday]

Nolife is a french tv channel, superplay and superplay ultimate are a show host by radigo, one of shmup.com contributorand it is not only dedicated to that genre.

There were shows with metal slug X, pop'n music, shinobi, etc...

The official website : http://www.nolife-tv.com/
And the superplay blog : http://blogs.nolife-tv.com/superplay/

It's kinda hard to found the show on the net, the channel being really vigilant.

[DJ Incompetent]

Wiki about the show

That's actually translating the article defining what a "no life" means. The french wiki you want to translate is here. Alternately there's a shorter english version of the page on English wikipedia. I'll dig deeper a little later.

sooo many tabs open. -_-
Thanks. My bad.

[jpj]

yeah that's ben and radigo doing the shmup stuff.

ben is a legend i just wish my french wasn't so bad

[max.faraday]

Ok, there was a superplay show tonight and this one was on Dodonpachi.

Classic ?

Well, not at all, the guy was playing with a guitar hero Xplorer guitar.

[Aru-san]

Classic ?

Well, not at all, the guy was playing with a guitar hero Xplorer guitar.

Crazy, man. Makes me think about hooking up my Beatmania controller to a computer and playing shmups with that.

[Keade]

There is a list of the superplays there :
http://www.nolife-wiki.com/index.php/Superplay_Ultimate (also linked from French Wikipedia)

Shmup.com forums page has the search button only if you're registered, that is why you couldn't find it, DJI

[moustache]

Known List:
Gradius V
Mushihimesama
Radiant Silvergun
Metal Slug
Ketsui (?)

If I remember well the following superplays were done by :
Mushihimesama by A-M
Radiant Silvergun by Ben Shinobi
Metal Slug by Ben Shinobi
Ketsui by SWY it is not a real superplay it's a kind of "normal-play" by SWY who was interviewed while he played

and there was also
Rtype delta by Ben Shinobi
Splatter House by Ben Shinobi

___EDIT___ Thanx to Keade for the link! _____

[jefflev13]

Stumbled across a 30 minute episode here (Superplay Ultimate - DDP Dai Fukkatsu)...
http://www.vimeo.com/3364102

[unsane]

Stumbled across a 30 minute episode here (Superplay Ultimate - DDP Dai Fukkatsu)...
http://www.vimeo.com/3364102

French, no subs, if anyone was wondering.

[unsane]

Stumbled across a 30 minute episode here (Superplay Ultimate - DDP Dai Fukkatsu)...
http://www.vimeo.com/3364102

I watched it, it covers the summer 2008 Cave Matsuri.

This stuff is probly common knowledge but i'll post some of what they said. They saw MMP Special Version: difference is after each boss you get a Pink Sweets boss.

The tournament was played on DDPDFK Taikei Version: 20 lives, stage select, loop select (even ura loop). Teams of 3 with 20 lives total, power mode only. When one teammate dies, he gets off the machine and the next teammate runs 4 feet to it to continue with the next life. It was a chain competition, not a score competition - in that version the chain can't actually be dropped. Finals were played on level 2-5, winning team was SWY, GFA2-ISO, Clover-TAC.

[gs68]

I remember NoLife doing a thing on Tetris: The Grand Master. It was pretty cool, seeing the players explain the game mechanics, how it's different from the other 7 trizeallion Tetris versions out there, and how to get the GM rank in each game.