u/DonutTheWardog

I've been playing BoI since it was a flash game on Newgrounds and every once in a while when I have to describe it to someone who's never seen it before I find myself being like "oh yeah those are little aborted fetuses and you fire tears because you're constantly crying due to your mom trying to kill you and yes those are indeed poops everywhere where are you going hey come back"

I been playing the game for ages and picked it up on Android about a week ago and I feel like it's gotten a LOT less predictable. I cannot get Prestige 2 because it's just inevitable that on the 2nd run I'll get a situation where I cannot get any kind of favorable bounces no matter how hard I try. I even tried aiming to the exact spot three times in a row as best as I could and the bounces were all wildly different.

RNG and finicky physics are a part of a game like this but when one of the parts I ostensibly have control over feels like I don't then the fun of the game kinda evaporates. Randomness in the peg arrangement and the items makes a challenge, but if I'm dying on level 2 again because I'm doing Goblony and I literally cannot force the thing to hit what I want it to I'm just frustrated.

I've been playing BoI since the flash days and have a few thousand hours into it and I realized that for all the balance and RNG issues it's kind of incredible that pretty much every item has at least SOME use cases, so I was thinking if there are any I'd say genuinely never have any reason to be picked up.

The only one I can think is maybe Curse of the Tower? The only situation where it wouldn't be an objective hazard is with something like Host Hat or Pyromaniac, but even that isn't a benefit so much as "it won't fuck your run now."

Marked is one I absolutely hate but I know it CAN be useful with the right combos.

Dataminer? I feel like it's gonna have some utility but I can't think of it.

Before I got my Key 37 I was an FL Studio user but the MPC is absolutely more my speed for beatmaking but when it comes to taking the beats and doing the final sequencing/etc I'm not sure. My gut says explode everything into individual audio tracks and just load them into Ableton as WAVs but I don't know. Exporting files as Ableton didn't actually seem to be useful, so any input (and software recs, I'm not married to Ableton) would be highly appreciated!

I've been searching like mad for this one and can't find a definitive answer. I'm trying to hook my Samsung into my K37 through the USB to sample off of YouTube and etc, but I've been unable to get it to work. The various Reddit threads and forum posts aren't consistent about whether it's possible or not so I'm not sure if the issue is I'm doing something wrong or if it just can't be done.

USB plugged in, using the USB-A on the back, set the phone to "file transfer" in the settings, monitor on in the Sampler. I notice when I set the phone to "MIDI" in the USB settings it shows up as a device on the K37 but that isn't what I'm looking for.

Any help?