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Hello friends and subscribers, how are you? This weekend marks a very special moment, both in my life and on this channel. After years, I reached the 100,000 subscriber mark, a milestone I never imagined I would achieve when I started making longplay videos here on my channel, just like I was already doing on World of Longplays. I've been working with computers since 1993, when I started using an MSX that my cousins ​​had at home and then Windows 95 arrived and in 1998 I got my first computer, but at that time there was little talk of recording videos (except with the NESTicle emulator, but in the 90s it was very limited). I started recording longplay videos in 2012. At the time, I was a college student and going through difficult times in my life. However, with effort, I managed to buy a PC with a Core 2 Duo processor and a GTX 750 video card, which offered reasonable performance for games, but which allowed me to record retro games. This led me to enter this field, even though I wanted to record modern platforms one day. Time went by, things evolved, I got better computers and learned new encoding techniques. With the advent of 60fps, which YouTube started to allow, I started recording for my channel, in order to always leave the videos with high image quality, sound and fluidity. I started slowly, but with consistency, my small channel grew and developed.

Many people were crucial in the process, such as ‪@worldoflongplays‬ , ‪@HenPlay‬ ‪@hackgameslongplaychannel‬, ‪@AmyRoseLongplays‬, ‪@Jogandoasaudade‬, ‪@TheLegendofRenegade‬, ‪@OldSchoolGamer1984‬, ‪@TIOJOHNGAMESREAL‬, ‪@IgorOliveira666‬ and more.


Many people look at others and think that everything was easy, that they started out ready and without worries. But the truth is that no one is born perfect. Everyone makes an effort, grows and evolves along the way. There were many paths, mistakes and successes. I was hacked twice and almost lost my channel, but thank God I recovered and came back even stronger.
Many people look at others and think that everything was easy, that they started out ready and without any worries. But the truth is that no one is born perfect. Everyone makes an effort, grows and evolves along the way. It's been a long road to get here and of course, I will continue to be even more determined in my goal of recording game videos for this channel, always valuing quality and giving my best. I admit to being a bit of a perfectionist, but I try to give my best and, even if I forget something in a game, I'm happy if someone liked the video and I can even re-record it without forgetting anything (I've done many 100% videos and those make me very happy).

Thank you very much and may God bless everyone who follows my channel. I will always continue recording and posting here. As the song from the game I chose for the 100K says: "the best is yet to come".


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1 month ago (edited) | [YT] | 185

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Hello friends and subscribers, how are you? You may have noticed that I've been missing from the Community tab, but I'll explain why: I've been dealing with personal issues, but I've always been paying attention to the channel and posting content. You may also have noticed some new game videos that were posted years ago, and there's a reason for that: a few years ago, YouTube changed its player (which had black bars) and I thought that these bars should remain, which made me encode them at 16:9, when older games, in general, use 4:3. It was my channel's biggest mistake to insist on these encodings, since they greatly harmed the experience of those who watch my videos on cell phones, but in this life we're here to learn. I've been encoding my videos for a long time, as I've always done since I started posting on my channel, and it will always be that way: videos with great image and sound quality and correct resolution, always respecting the game and the time it was released. Several videos with incorrect encoding, when they receive a new version, are receiving the subtitle "Old Recording". As for the videos with correct encoding, I ask you to watch and appreciate them. This post is also to thank everyone for the 98K subscribers. My sincere thanks to all of you who follow me. Soon, news on the channel, more polls and more posts here.
Have a great night everyone and may God bless you always.
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1 month ago (edited) | [YT] | 133

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I had barely recovered when I was just the victim of another hacking attempt. Fortunately, thanks to the reinforced security system, the damage was minor and will not result in any losses. I will be redoing the playlists, publishing new videos and updating my channel. I count on everyone's understanding and I thank you from the bottom of my heart.

4 months ago | [YT] | 125

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Hello everyone, how are you? After a few days, I'm finally back on my YouTube channel. Those who follow me noticed something very strange on my channel: it was November 13, 2024. I woke up and went to check my YouTube channel. When I realized that I had been disconnected from it, I tried to log in but couldn't. To my dismay, I was hacked. Yes, hacked. My account was hacked, which caused me a huge headache, followed by severe stress that almost put me in the hospital. I spent several nights unable to sleep, struggling to recover my account, which contains work from many years ago. In light of this situation, I received support from several people, both family members who live with me personally and people from all over the world, who contacted me on X (formerly Twitter) and Discord. After a few days with my channel suspended, to the joy of those who love me, I'm back.

I sincerely thank everyone who worried about me, because it was a very difficult time, when I felt like we could end up losing many years of work in the blink of an eye.

And I'll say something that applies to anyone who produces content here or on other platforms: if you like a content creator, watch and share their videos, interact and have fun. If you don't like that creator, respect them, because there's no shortage of good content with varied themes here, you just have to know how to find what you like. Never be happy to see someone lose their channel the way I almost did, because celebrating that someone lost their source of income is a very dirty trick, because you don't know if that money pays for food, medicine, or supports a family. You can't celebrate the loss of a source of income, someone who isn't a millionaire or anything like that. I am a person like any other, who does not have a rich life nor can afford to not work for months. I work every day, because our lives are made up of battles, days of struggle and days of glory, but the days of struggle will remain with us until the day we depart for eternity with God.

YouTube is a source of entertainment and knowledge, but it is also a job that generates income and support for many people around the world.

Fortunately, the videos were not deleted, but I lost my banner, my profile picture and all the playlists and I will have to redo them all in order to organize my work. Before the channel went down, I managed to upload Chrono Trigger and soon there will be more epic games here on the channel. Thank you very much to everyone and may God bless you!

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5 months ago | [YT] | 146

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Sometimes I use this space to reflect, to celebrate something, but this time the space is simply to interact with you. These days I recorded a lot of NES and Famicom stuff and tomorrow there will be a video of an extremely difficult game, having been one of the most insane games I have ever recorded in my life. The video is scheduled to be published tomorrow, October 19, 2024. Anyone have a guess? I bet most of you will be right.
Have a great night everyone and may God bless you.
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6 months ago | [YT] | 164

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Hello friends and subscribers, how are you? It's been a long time since I've been here in the Community tab, but I'm back, after some difficult periods. Today is the day to celebrate another milestone reached by my channel. Thank you very much to all 93,000 subscribers. Those of you who comment, request videos, interact with me and share your memories with me, you are part of this story, not only my story but also the history of games.


For the month of November, I have some videos ready for a while, just of epic games, which I dedicated many hours to recording and many more to uploading, as they will be quite long videos and by then I hope to finish many others (including Playstation) and start other platforms. I'm also re-recording several videos that I had previously made with the wrong encoding (Contra III, X-Men Mutant Apocalypse, Batman Returns, Animaniacs, E-Swat, etc.) and they will receive new uploads with the correct aspect ratio, while these old ones (which had the 16:9 aspect ratio) will receive the Old Recording in the title. Mistakes are part of life, but we must always overcome them.

I also haven't been able to access X (Twitter), as this network is blocked in my country. Even so, I ask that you follow me there (x.com/xRavenXP).
I hope to count on your audience.

6 months ago | [YT] | 141

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Hello friends and subscribers. I'm here to celebrate with you another goal achieved by this channel: I reached 90k subscribers. Every day I thank God and all of you from the bottom of my heart for the support you give me, always encouraging me to grow and create better and better content. Thank you very much to everyone who comments, shares my content, makes requests and so on, because it's thanks to you that I receive the motivation to always create more and more content for you. May God bless you all.
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9 months ago | [YT] | 142

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Hello to all my friends and subscribers. I'm here to wish you all a wonderful July 4th, the United States Independence Day. Yes, my friends, I'm not from the United States, but this country is the one that has the largest audience on my channel and, since I received several messages today about the holiday, I decided to make this post to wish all the North American people a great day. May you all have a great day to celebrate with a good barbecue and hot dogs with family and friends, to rest and have fun with a true patriotic spirit.

This post is a thank you to the nation that most honors my work here on YouTube. Have a great day everyone and may God always bless you.

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9 months ago (edited) | [YT] | 153

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Hello friends and subscribers, how are you? It's been a long time since I wrote here, but I always have reasons to smile, celebrate and thank you all for all the support you give me here. This is also a post to celebrate reaching 89k subscribers.

There are many people who made the decision to click the "subscribe" button on my channel. I can't even project a dimension in my head.

To those of you who are here sharing this same dream with me, I would like to say a big thank you to those who trust my work, by asking for videos, for comments and for being my daily motivation. Never forget: video games are one of the best things in life.

Have a great night and sweet dreams everyone. God bless you!
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10 months ago (edited) | [YT] | 156

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Hello to everyone who follows my channel, whether through the games or the reflections I post here. I hope you are all well. I thought a lot before saying this to you, but I will say what I have in my heart: here on digital you often see me, many other YouTube channels, other people and we only show the good part, things working , things are going well, we often don't show the difficulties, the problems that we suffer and go through every day on the other side of the screen. I'm saying this because I went through it.

Recently, you may have noticed that I needed to reduce the number of videos posted a little, but it is temporary and for a good cause, as I am dedicating myself to doing more elaborate work, which takes up a lot of my time, but at the same time I needed to take time to rest and have quality time with my family so I could clear my head and adjust my ideas, as this work I do is also for my family. Since I started recording longplays, my routine has always been quite extensive, working practically from Sunday to Sunday, editing and rendering videos until late at night, responding to comments and planning what to play. There are some moments when we need to slow down a little, reflect on life, get some fresh air. This is also to say to everyone: don't think that only you have problems, that other people's lives are wonderful and yours is bad. No! What happens is that people on social media don't show their bad side! And I want to thank you very much for the support you have given me, whether by commenting on the videos, sharing them, asking for game videos or sending me messages. I read everything you write to me.

Sometimes I brought the word of God, and it was not just for you, but also for me, because I wasn't feeling good and I always needed to share good things with you, even though I knew I would never please everyone, but the the majority are always positive comments. I'm preparing several cool things and whoever follows me here won't miss out on waiting. Thank you very much to everyone who follows me! May God bless you always.
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1 year ago | [YT] | 219