Which hat is the best to use with the map, what are the strats for the map, easiest way to beat it?

Hats I am missing:
-Cowboy
-Artifact
-Jellyfish(duh)

Any help would be nice! Thanks.

New way to make a hat remover so it's now horizontal instead of vertical

Also made this for future reference

This has been a highly requested feature in LT Discord especially from @Magniloquent and @bi3liu and I've always wanted this in PR2, so I spent all of yesterday making a little prototype to get the ball rolling and hopefully pique some interest here for this feature. 

Here's a modified client & custom server with rudimentary replaying capability, and switching cameras with the 1234 keys:

I was thinking there could be a "Replay Manager" somewhere with your last 10 replays, and you could save a replay or send someone a replay in a PM etc.

More gifs:
https://gfycat.com/bigheartedaffectionatecarp
https://gfycat.com/enchantingeagerdeinonychus

It seems like a lot of work but it's surprisingly simple to add. Most of the work is server-side (which I heard you like,) the replays are recorded by the server and played back from the server so there's no room funny business, bar hacking the game, which would be on the replay. But you can do it however you like.

Here are my implementation details:

Spoiler

Recording
Upon starting a race the server will add a fake "ghost" racer I call the VCR. This exists only on the server, the client is not aware of it. The VCR has the same interface as a regular client connection, i.e. you can write packets to it, and it will be sent packets about other racers as a normal client would, these packets include `createRemoteCharacter`, `beginRace`, position updates `p` and `exactPos`, and everything a normal racer would receive.
EXCEPT: it will not receive a `createLocalCharacter`packet, this is explained in the playback section.

The VCR will save all the packets received during the race with unix millisecond timestamps prepended (this may be better as a delta timestamp), and once all players have left the race it'll save the replay with a unique ID, I used course ID + version + timestamp as the ID.

Playback
To play back the recording the server will read each packet from the replay file and schedule them to be sent at the appropriate intervals according to the unix millisecond timestamp at the beginning of the packet. I omitted the first 3 packet parameters `timestamp`, `subHash`, and `sendNum` from the packets before sending, you may want to remove `subHash` and `sendNum` entirely from being recorded.
Rather than a `createLocalCharacter` packet, a replay spectator will receive a `createSpectator` packet.
I've made a git diff of the (small amount) of changes made to the client https://pastebin.com/6t3Mzn17
The server is completely custom and in Go, so I'm not sure how useful it will be to see.

Here's the raw replay recording from the video (i.e. what the server reads and parses and sends to the spectating client) https://pastebin.com/CdmT5M1Z.

A note about versioning:
Replay recordings may be saved with a copy of the level to avoid issues with different versions or the level being deleted entirely.
Game versions should not be an issue unless a part/item is removed from the game, which is unlikely.

Hey guys, yesterday was my 22nd birthday! Just wanted to tell everyone who told me a happy birthday, thank you so much. I had such a great day. From a few apartment gifts, visiting some family for dinner, and going out late last night. So thankful to have made it this far.

Also, a huge thank you to those who have been here for me since I joined (as Karlene) back in 2012 when I was only 13 years old. Feels great to have been a part of this community (on and off) for as long as I have. Thanks ya'll for maturing with me, most of you... , through the years. So much appreciated.

Hey everyone!

It's 4:30am where I am, and I can't sleep. I almost fell asleep for a second, but I woke up and can't sleep again.
I know I'm not very active on the forums or on JV as much as everyone else, but here I am

I guess I'm just stopping by to say thank you.

Thank you to PR2 for strengthening friendships and to the community that has stuck around for all these years.

Thank you to the people on the discord who have tuned in for my past couple of DJ sets. I've had so much support from my friends and family, and everyone vibes with it.

Thank you to Ben for his active role in JV, but also for being a brother to me for like 13 or 14 years. I'm so happy that you're in my life, my guy.

This year has been pretty bad for everyone. COVID-19 really sucks and the world feels lonelier than ever before. This summer has been especially tough on me since my dad passed away back in early June. I've had so many mixed emotions about various things.

I feel so confused. I think I just need a hug. I think everyone on the planet could use a hug right about now.

But yeah. Sorry I'm rambling in my sleeplessness. Thank you to everyone who's been there for me ever.

<3,
J

I think this is a client bug. In the first picture, I quit at the beginning of the level during the drawing, then when the countdown started, turned to Nan. In the second picture, I hit a few finish blocks, then closed the tab.

Have the top 1-3 times on a level saved as "ghost data" so you can watch the fastest runs through the level.

Say you click on the "?" next to the level, and there's a "View Replays" button. Which takes you to something like this:



This would be useful for several reasons:

1.) It would act as a mini HOF for each level.

2.) You could improve your strategy on a level by watching the fastest times.

3.) The level creator could see if there's any unintentional glitches in their level from the replays, and patch them.

Although we can filter out what kind of items we could get by smashing the item block, we never could select a specific item for that specific block. 

This would make adventure-style levels easier to make with certain items benefiting several situations

Just looked at PPOY again.

There's so many people on this website that are all varying ages, styles, social cliques, etc. Even though we shouldn't, we often judge people by the way they look, which helps us determine who we hang out with and associate with.

I feel that if we were all together in-person, it's very unlikely that we would be friends, or even communicate with each other. This site allows us to do just that.

And I think thats beautiful.

Hey!

I had a bit of downtime and was trying to think of old internet games to play, so I decided to check and see if platform racing 2 still existed, and discovered somehow that game is still chugging along! I forgot the music in it is full of bangers.

Anyway, I decided to check out to see if Jiggmin’s Village still existed, and it’s pretty wild to me that this is still going too as I had originally joined it over 12 years ago. I wasted so many hours practically doing nothing on this website it’s crazy to think back on it.

Just wanted to pop in and say hi! Hope all’s been well with everyone.