I LOVED this game with a passion and played it to death - still do from time to time. No, never finished it! I can get 3 gold discs but I always run out of time before I get the fourth one!!
I've often wondered the same thing. As itsallgood said, I can get three discs, but by that time it's around November, and there's just not enough time to get the last one. There must be a way to do it though, surely...
how do you even get 3 gold discs?,if you can remember the method?,anyways it has a feature in this months rg mag and one of the staff writers have kindly passed on my question to the coder to see could he finish or had a method to finish game himself,hopefully he reply :).
I always played the stadiums and charged ?10 a ticket. That brought in as much money as it was possible to get. With that money hire the most expensive recording studio and when you release a single spend the most amount that you can on the video for it.
If you have a band (rather than just a single artist) buy them stuff frequently (clothes, food etc...) that way they won't make stupid demands and leave the band when you say no to them!
I think that's basically it - it's been a while since I played it but I can't think of anything else that I used to do.
Give that a try and if you manage to get 4 gold discs, please let us know :)
Oh yes - one more thing - don't release too many singles. Wait until the current one has gone out of the charts before you release a new one. And give it time - it sometimes takes a few weeks for your single to get into the top ten. Don't think it hasn't made it and just release another one as they will cancel each other out and you won't get either in the charts at all!!
I've been playing The Biz and Starmaker lately, thanks to them getting mentioned on the forum. I quite like both of them, but I'm crap at any of these games. RSAMH is too damn hard for me, as you can imagine. I still like it. Doesn't it have a lot of random elements though? Or is it just that I'm crap that things seem to go amazingly wrong at the worst times?
I also LOVE The Biz - I was always crap at that, too. I did ONCE get a number 1 single but I think that was just pure fluke. I loved the fact that it has no ending - I have an emulator snapshot of it that I have been playing for years - released about 150 singles!!
personally mate,i think you should upload it to youtube,the game has alot of following in forums after all these years,people driving themselfs mad to get even as far as you have :),but appreciate your offer thanks though no need to go out of your way,i think if its on youtube people will awe and respect it :).
personally mate,i think you should upload it to youtube,the game has alot of following in forums after all these years,people driving themselfs mad to get even as far as you have :),but appreciate your offer thanks though no need to go out of your way,i think if its on youtube people will awe and respect it :).
Come to think of it, I couldn't upload an RZX to the RZX Archive anyway, as it's a denied game. :-(
I could do a YouTube video. But at 10 minutes a pop, I'd probably need to do it in 6 parts or so. I don't mind having a go though, it's been a while since I played it. :-)
I'm SURE I finished this just once back in the day! Getting the 4th disc right in the last week. Dick Splatsley is the artist to go for, he never complains about gifts and never gets into trouble. The most dangerous random element is the publicity, so use it sparingly. 10/tkt in stadiums is the best way to go. And pick your own song titles. I would love to try this again but operating those menus would be so tedious... needs a macro.
Is there anything you can do in Rockstar to make singles and albums go to number one for sure (at least I managed number 2 with my single)? As soon as I released, the gig money halved too!
Is there anything you can do in Rockstar to make singles and albums go to number one for sure (at least I managed number 2 with my single)? As soon as I released, the gig money halved too!
There's no sure-fire way of getting a single to number one, as far as I know. But with the album, as long as you have a single in the top ten, the album will increase by one position every week. So, keep your current single in as long as possible (don't just release another as soon as it starts dropping places), and release another while the album is still a few places into the top ten.
well folks there must be an ending,the coder emailed back rg mag this morn and heres the reply
"Yes there was an end screen/message, I can't remember what it was though. The game was very tricky to complete, but I would have done it without a cheat mode at least once. I seem to remember spending quite a while trying this, but it was only fair to the players."
I think I only managed to get 2 discs before my band got narked up. I think I got the second one just after someone died. And he died just after someone got fired :lol:
I think I only lasted another month before another scandal screwed everything up and I was down to one!
Oh, no. Every time you turn up something monumental and terrible happens.
I don’t think I have the stomach for it.
--Raziel (Legend of Kain: Soul Reaver 2)
I've just this minute finished having a go. Only got two discs this time, one for a single getting to number one, and another one for (I presume) the album getting to number one (the disc didn't light up until the album had dropped from the top spot, when a single reaches number one it lights up immediately).
I've noticed that the album begins to drop a place a week once the single drops past number six. So, once that happens, it's best to get a new single in there right away.
I'm gonna keep trying, I forgot how much I love this game. :smile:
Yep - me too, GreenCard. I've just finished playing it again but only managed 2 gold discs this time. Good excuse for another go, me thinks :)
I'm gonna try a few different things to see what makes a difference and what doesn't (if that makes any sense). For example, I tried the last game with four cheap rockstars and chose all my own song titles, so I'll try the next one with one expensive rockstar and let the computer choose all the track names etc., and see how far that gets me.
I am totally cheating though, using the Rollback feature (in ZXSpin) whenever the phone rings for a charity gig or whenever I try some publicity. :smile:
i got three number ones,very close to four but due to album staying on top along with single not staying long enough to num one it denied be the last one i needed,anyway heres my methods-
1-i choose bill colins
2-since the time allowed is 12 months,i didnt bother practising and took the record deal that was offered me the quickest,so i took the 5% royalty,lucky i had the money cheat
3-always use the most expensive director and the videos with smutty themes
4-do the charity gigs,i notice even the bad publicity out of it can help your records to number one
5-ignore the offers for sponsorship as they usually backfire.
6- play stadiums for tenner.
7-choose 48 track studio
8-i notice if you record the tracks and pick the ones that are mentioned in the chart already but recorded by you,they seem to go up in the charts,instance you might record "the house of the rising rent" which someone else also did,but if you release it anyway it goes up the charts,now maybe it was just luck on my part.
I'm gonna try a few different things to see what makes a difference and what doesn't (if that makes any sense). For example, I tried the last game with four cheap rockstars and chose all my own song titles, so I'll try the next one with one expensive rockstar and let the computer choose all the track names etc., and see how far that gets me.
Try the expensive stars with the same titles you used for the cheap ones and see how that goes. That'll hopefully give you an idea which stars to go for.
Oh, no. Every time you turn up something monumental and terrible happens.
I don’t think I have the stomach for it.
--Raziel (Legend of Kain: Soul Reaver 2)
Anybody hacked in to see exactly how the game works?
I had a bit of a look around the code last November when trying to learn a bit about assembler.
It appears you get a gold disc when your cumulative album sales pass 40, 100, 170 and 250 units, with a units being awarded for each place above 10th, so 9th would be worth 1 unit and 2nd would be worth 8 units. I didn't see the singles as having any effect at all (but I could very easily have missed something)
Then I got bored and just added loads of album sales to the cumulative total at BED5 each week to win the game. Not a very satisfying way to get the 4th disc, but it does look close to impossible otherwise.
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If you have a band (rather than just a single artist) buy them stuff frequently (clothes, food etc...) that way they won't make stupid demands and leave the band when you say no to them!
I think that's basically it - it's been a while since I played it but I can't think of anything else that I used to do.
Give that a try and if you manage to get 4 gold discs, please let us know :)
Anybody got any tips for The Biz?
There are tips for The Biz in the Tipshop...
They're a bit on the cheaty side ;)
I don't mind recording an RZX of me getting three discs, if it'll help you at all? :-)
Come to think of it, I couldn't upload an RZX to the RZX Archive anyway, as it's a denied game. :-(
I could do a YouTube video. But at 10 minutes a pop, I'd probably need to do it in 6 parts or so. I don't mind having a go though, it's been a while since I played it. :-)
You mean he never gives you up, and never runs around and deserts you? :-)
There's the granddaddy of them all; It's Only Rock 'n' Roll:
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0002559
There's also one called Chart Topper that I know very little about:
http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0000901
Starmaker.
There's no sure-fire way of getting a single to number one, as far as I know. But with the album, as long as you have a single in the top ten, the album will increase by one position every week. So, keep your current single in as long as possible (don't just release another as soon as it starts dropping places), and release another while the album is still a few places into the top ten.
I've gotta give this another go now...
Can the game be completed at all or not? what should be done to complete it?
Maybe it's time to look into the code and solve this 25 years old mystery once for all.
Bandit, are you here ? :)
I think I only managed to get 2 discs before my band got narked up. I think I got the second one just after someone died. And he died just after someone got fired :lol:
I think I only lasted another month before another scandal screwed everything up and I was down to one!
I don’t think I have the stomach for it.
--Raziel (Legend of Kain: Soul Reaver 2)
https://www.youtube.com/user/VincentTSFP
I've noticed that the album begins to drop a place a week once the single drops past number six. So, once that happens, it's best to get a new single in there right away.
I'm gonna keep trying, I forgot how much I love this game. :smile:
I'm gonna try a few different things to see what makes a difference and what doesn't (if that makes any sense). For example, I tried the last game with four cheap rockstars and chose all my own song titles, so I'll try the next one with one expensive rockstar and let the computer choose all the track names etc., and see how far that gets me.
I am totally cheating though, using the Rollback feature (in ZXSpin) whenever the phone rings for a charity gig or whenever I try some publicity. :smile:
1-i choose bill colins
2-since the time allowed is 12 months,i didnt bother practising and took the record deal that was offered me the quickest,so i took the 5% royalty,lucky i had the money cheat
3-always use the most expensive director and the videos with smutty themes
4-do the charity gigs,i notice even the bad publicity out of it can help your records to number one
5-ignore the offers for sponsorship as they usually backfire.
6- play stadiums for tenner.
7-choose 48 track studio
8-i notice if you record the tracks and pick the ones that are mentioned in the chart already but recorded by you,they seem to go up in the charts,instance you might record "the house of the rising rent" which someone else also did,but if you release it anyway it goes up the charts,now maybe it was just luck on my part.
I don’t think I have the stomach for it.
--Raziel (Legend of Kain: Soul Reaver 2)
https://www.youtube.com/user/VincentTSFP
I had a bit of a look around the code last November when trying to learn a bit about assembler.
It appears you get a gold disc when your cumulative album sales pass 40, 100, 170 and 250 units, with a units being awarded for each place above 10th, so 9th would be worth 1 unit and 2nd would be worth 8 units. I didn't see the singles as having any effect at all (but I could very easily have missed something)
Then I got bored and just added loads of album sales to the cumulative total at BED5 each week to win the game. Not a very satisfying way to get the 4th disc, but it does look close to impossible otherwise.