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Title: I found Rayman Maps through one site...
Post by: Cyartog959 on May 12, 2025, 02:56:52 am

I know this section of the forums is called "Map Gab", but I do have a good reason to bring this up.

As many of you in the VGMaps community may or may not know, Rayman's 30th anniversary is coming up, and I felt I should share this discovery to honor the long-standing, albeit too long-dormant, series from Ubisoft.

The VGMaps Atlas' PlayStation, Saturn, GBA, DS and PC pages all don't currently have numerous maps from the Rayman series thus far, even though the 3D Rayman games and the Rabbids sub-series do all kinda count(which I may talk about another time), but I found one website that holds them; RaymanPC, the site's name, not the PC version of the first game.

Its a neat community wiki site that keeps track of numerous Rayman information across numerous games, including the games' concept art, screenshots, maps, and so on.

Rayman's games have been through... rather different directions in gameplay formula and art style, even though Rayman 2's been the more well-loved and remembered game in our lives, but the heroic, limbless hero has always come through against numerous evil forces.

I just only feel the series should have a more well-deserved return with a new game having Rayman being less too silly and idiotic from "Origins" and "Legends", but not too serious and dark, and more competent, well-meaning and slightly goal-focused and heroic once again, and, yes, his allies can be with him, including Globox.

I mean, don't get me wrong. I was kinda fine with Rayman returning to his 2D roots, but the tone, story direction and structure from Origins and Legends all kinda veered away from what we've been through before.

Honestly, in my opinion, the series kinda lost some sense, plot cohesion, continuity grasping, and focus after the launch of Origins and Legends. Would be nice if all that would be straightened out.

Well, anyway...

Through my searches, I found uploaded maps from 2D Rayman games across different versions and ports, including the first game's DSiWare port, canned games and prototypes, and though some members at that wiki did their part in putting together their maps, their image quality wasn't sharp, so to speak, but one member was able to do so and provide them in the sharpest PNG quality no prior mapper previously could've thought of, despite that option already available to them.

That member I'm talking about is RayCarrot, responsible for the high-quality maps of many 2D Rayman games... so far. That guy's a huge Rayman fan and has done many map uploads on that wiki time and again. He's quite a chronicler. If and of you'd like to contact him, well, the link I've left here should take care of it.

They were already completed and uploaded by him, and seeing them really helps out to those struggling to get through the game's levels. Even I had such tough times trying to win.

And, let me tell you, you should definitely see many differences between many maps from the first game's different ports, even the GBA and DSiWare ports!

So, if you're looking for Rayman maps, I've got one source that covers it. Here are the site's pages' links as proof...

RaymanPC's site link - https://raymanpc.com/wiki/en/Main_Page
Category: Rayman Maps link - https://raymanpc.com/wiki/en/Category:Maps_from_Rayman
RayCarrot's RaymanPC page link - https://www.raymanpc.com/wiki/en/User:Raycarrot

There's loads of maps to look at, all of which needs to be uploaded to VGMaps. I hope it helps.

Title: Re: I found Rayman Maps through one site...
Post by: yangyin on November 05, 2025, 01:24:43 am

Really appreciate the research you put into this.

Speed Stars (https://speedstarsgame.io/)

Do you think Ubisoft will ever revive the series properly? It’s wild how long it’s been dormant.

Title: Re: I found Rayman Maps through one site...
Post by: Cyartog959 on November 05, 2025, 01:23:11 pm

Quote from: yangyin on November 05, 2025, 01:24:43 am

Really appreciate the research you put into this.

Speed Stars (https://speedstarsgame.io/)

Do you think Ubisoft will ever revive the series properly? It’s wild how long it’s been dormant.

(SIGH...)

Given Ubisoft's... recent, negative decisions and prioritization changes towards their IP treatment and heightened negligence of said IPs, not to mention the series' creator, Michel Ancel previously leaving the gaming industry to dedicate his time preserving wildlife, and the series' complete lack of canonical cohesion with each game, in terms of art style, gameplay formula, and character personality changes, I feel uncertain about that series' future...

I'd honestly feel that if it's actually getting a proper revival, anybody would've thought of saving enough money to commence any video game IP rights transfers from one holder to the other.

Not saying its impossible, but that can be pricey, depending on the matter. ...I'm no expert on this.