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wa27: Jan 14, 2007; We must repeat.

Peaches just beat the SDA segmented Quest 64 time in his race (though the actual single-segment record is a minute shorter and not on SDA).

On to one-handed Mario 64!

# ¿ Sep 4, 2011 19:57

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# ¿ May 25, 2013 03:18

wa27: Jan 14, 2007; We must repeat.

Peaches' finale is coming up: 100% Blast Dozer (Japanese Blast Corps) with one hand. It should be... an experience.

# ¿ Sep 5, 2011 00:45

wa27: Jan 14, 2007; We must repeat.

Dr. Dos posted:

Are these being recorded in some way? My family is getting together for labor day today and I'd love to see ZZT and Kid Chameleon

Archives are up here:
http://www.justin.tv/peaches__/b/294253687
http://www.justin.tv/peaches__/b/294285769

# ¿ Sep 5, 2011 05:45

wa27: Jan 14, 2007; We must repeat.

fleshweasel posted:

honestly? it didn't stop tsa from submitting a faked wind waker run. I think the site would ideally be a wiki format where people can pretty much submit youtube playlists or what have you. You can have mods and verification and poo poo while still being able to keep things pretty quick and tied into the community.

I think runs should go up immediately and take as long as it takes to get verified. Who actually thinks they're proving something by beating a video game real fast? I don't think hardly anyone is actually interested in faking their results.

Didn't you just say yourself that a fake run was already allowed through WITH the long-rear end verification process? Seems like there's at least someone out there willing to fake a run.

# ¿ Sep 12, 2011 04:19

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MarkAM posted:

Alright, so, I've been slightly confused about this for a long while.

I'm interested in speedrunning a couple of games (Final Fantasy I, Dragon Quests, etc.), and I have absolutely NO clue where to learn aside from just watching videos. Is there just generally some kind of place that I can look to learn more about these games? How do speedrunners usually learn? I just need a point in the right direction to get some better footing is all...

The really popular games have lots of documentation and tutorials. For example:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/...w/edit?hl=en_US
https://docs.google.com/document/d/...dit?hl=en&pli=1

There's also a wiki here:
http://speedrunwiki.com/Category:Games (there's not much on there though)

For the more obscure stuff, I'd recommend finding someone who runs it and just buddying up with them. Usually people are happy to help each other out.

wa27 fucked around with this message at Mar 8, 2012 around 14:26

# ¿ Mar 8, 2012 14:24

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furry drum circle posted:

We're live! Race is starting soon, and afterwards I'll do a 100%-J to throw down a time for Niedle to compete with. Come cheer on the US http://twitch.tv/peaches__

edit: I messed up a Japanese-exclusive trick that cost me about 4 minutes and wa27 beat me by 11 seconds

And then peaches promptly beat me by two minutes in the rematch. Those races were fun and it's great that the Blast Dozer and Blast Corps communities are coming closer together.

# ¿ Mar 11, 2012 08:37

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HKR posted:

Interest check in a speed run scrub league? General idea is to pick a game, then anyone who signs up has a month to learn it. At the end of the month we post videos of our best times. Ideally games would be fairly easy games to learn with a decent amount of material to study, and also easy to get (Probably wouldn't ban emulators and there wouldn't be intense verification since it's just for fun obviously).

Also suggestions for such games to play would be cool.

I'd probably give it a shot. I've been wanting to learn something and maybe this would motivate me to finally do it.

# ¿ Apr 9, 2012 03:48

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OmegaZultan posted:

Do the people doing SGDQ have all the stuff figured out with regards to donation comments? I vertical scroll at the bottom of the page seems like a good idea because by far the worst part of AGDQ was them reading off comments every two minutes.

Yeah but you know a ton of people wouldn't donate if their comment wouldn't be read out to 1000 people watching.

# ¿ Apr 21, 2012 19:01

wa27: Jan 14, 2007; We must repeat.

furry drum circle posted:

UPDATE: Mike added Typing of the Dead to the SGDQ schedule

So are you doing PC or Dreamcast?

# ¿ Apr 30, 2012 20:42

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OneEightHundred posted:

Most important tip: If you change direction every 3 frames, your animation frame never updates, allowing you to moonwalk.

I'm not surprised that it's not on SDA. Doing the game fast is very risky, one mistake and you take a huge time hit, two mistakes in a row and you lose a character permanently and probably have to restart the run because one character (the third) is just so much better than the others.

I am surprised that nobody's done a TAS of it.

There is this one, but it's not complete:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYlAGrTrQGU

# ¿ May 22, 2012 19:55

wa27: Jan 14, 2007; We must repeat.

I'm not sure I could put up with trying to play Sonic Adventure with two guys eating chips out of bags next to me...

# ¿ May 26, 2012 22:07

wa27: Jan 14, 2007; We must repeat.

This Shinobi run has turned into such a trainwreck. I just want to watch some Bomberman already!

# ¿ May 27, 2012 12:07

wa27: Jan 14, 2007; We must repeat.

UraniumAnchor posted:

INCREDIBLY PRELIMINARY game list for AGDQ is starting to get put together:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...MzFrb0EyZDJ6QUE

It's only been live for a couple hours and plenty of people haven't had a chance to offer up games yet (hi peaches) so expect at least half the stuff currently on there to get cut.

I'll be happy to see another Trials speedrun, especially since the Extreme tracks in Evolution are way worse than in HD. Is Pootrain the same one who did Trials HD at a marathon a few years ago?

# ¿ Jun 19, 2012 06:19

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Grawl posted:

Peaches is doing a Blast Corps race right now.

http://twitch.tv/peaches__

He just got a new world record in the last race

# ¿ Jul 1, 2012 00:10

wa27: Jan 14, 2007; We must repeat.

iastudent posted:

How much did he break his record this time?

26:57 -> 26:50

# ¿ Jul 1, 2012 00:38

wa27: Jan 14, 2007; We must repeat.

So is there no way anymore to see everyone who is streaming? It only lists six on /streams/ and I'm not even sure how it picks those six. I used to enjoy going down the list and checking out new speedrunners and other people I don't subscribe to and seeing what they're streaming.

# ¿ Jul 5, 2012 16:56

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Jakuvious posted:

For someone fairly new to the speedrun party, can I get a quick rundown on the acronyms here?

This might help, but it looks like its missing some game-specific terms:
http://www.speedrunslive.com/faq/glossary/

# ¿ Jul 10, 2012 18:45

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Shimrra Jamaane posted:

He says he's going to go for 1:44

When he says that, does he mean 1:44:59 or 1:44:00? Seems like actually cutting 1:44 would be really tough.

# ¿ Aug 6, 2012 00:16

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Alteisen posted:

Speaking of Jman, he won't be going to AGDQ apparently.

Can they at least bring him in for the end so we can see his biannual breakdown? It just won't be the same without him.

# ¿ Sep 19, 2012 02:04

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scrooger posted:

Most new games are really boring when they are speedrun. The only game that's come out recently that is semi interesting to me has been dark souls.

You should check out some Portal speedruns some time.

# ¿ Sep 24, 2012 23:33

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Zeether posted:

Peaches_ is very close to cutting 1 hour in Mischief Makers.

http://www.twitch.tv/peaches__

edit: loving RNG screwed him over

He's close again!

# ¿ Oct 2, 2012 01:25

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Suspicious Dish posted:

It just means "pressed the load state button in the emulator"

Even if you loaded a state every two seconds, it would take 46 full days to do that many rerecords. There must have been a ton of manhours that went into that TAS.

# ¿ Oct 18, 2012 03:25

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chiefnewo posted:

Do you have to hit a button to stop the timer on that speedrun tool? If so wouldn't it make tenths of seconds / hundredths of seconds hard to compare considering how long it might take to reach over and smack the stop key?

That's why he compared the death frames. There could be some discrepancy at the start as well but probably not much.

# ¿ Nov 9, 2012 01:30

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usedpizza posted:

-ffsplit, "Free alternative to xsplit." I've never used it but apparently using more than one thing on stream is really hard.

I'd suggest giving this a try for fullscreen games. Unless you really feel the need to put your webcam on the screen at the same time or something.

# ¿ Jan 10, 2013 19:18

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Ineffiable posted:

furry drum circle

Have you ever given any thought to running Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon (N64)?

It's another quirky semi-obscure game for the N64, and I'd love to see how people would react to it at AGDQ/SGDQ.

Am I crazy or didn't someone already run this at a marathon once? Maybe in a bonus stream.

# ¿ Jan 15, 2013 15:19

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Cloverfx posted:

I can confirm this, for sure. I had two EZCaps purchased from Amazon- both turned out to be fakes. I think the problem with the "fakes" is that they don't work with Win7 or OSX 10.6+. I think they work with xp, though. Have a Dazzle now and it works great.

I got my $8 knockoff (though it was "easycap" branded, not EZcap) working on Win7 64 bit. You just need to google around for the drivers. Shows up as a source in X-split, too.

It's actually surprisingly decent for video, but unlistenable for audio. I just route the audio separately to my line-in and it's much better. It also has a tendency to bluscreen my PCs when I unplug it, so I really wouldn't recommend it unless you can deal with that stuff.

# ¿ Jan 16, 2013 19:12

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Equilibrium posted:

The YSG thing makes sense, because it wasn't clear at all at first that people weren't just making fun of him, or that by the end of the event everyone would be embracing Blueglass as a hero of the people, so I get the staff erring in favor of his protection. What I do know though is that Mike was behind most of the 3-7 hour long chat embargoes, because that guy doesn't get how twitch works at all, and so I don't really blame people for thinking the guy hates fun.

They should have disabled twitch chat the entire time and put a small message in the stream directing viewers to the official chat.

# ¿ Jan 22, 2013 20:41

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Keyboard Kid posted:

This is a very reasonable requirement. SpeedRunsLive is primarily about racing video games. If you aren't racing video games, say, once a month, should you really be on the streams page? Nonetheless, people will do some more races if they aren't on the streams page and want to be.

If you're seeing literally zero or one people on the page then this has nothing to do with the requirement (probably 80-90% of the people on the team race with some regularity if they stream), but probably had to do with a problem in the Twitch teams that made this change necessary. I really doubt there will be less than 10-20 on at any time.

You can always go on the Twitch team pages for SDA or SRL to find new streams if you want. I have no clue if this is permanent, but I like the idea.

Sometimes it can be tough to find people to race once per month if you don't do Mario or Zelda.

# ¿ Feb 20, 2013 16:39

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getitoffgetitoff posted:

What the gently caress is this

edit:

This is great. I love that he has sections planned out for the next four years.

quote:

Blast Corps was the longest active I ever played, it lasted for 12 years. This game is very strange but fun at the same time. While I never made an impact on the Global Championship, I did make a huge impact on the State Championship. My reign lasted 2,211 days, from 2003-2009. By far my longest championship reign of all time. The game is very fun, but hard. I would suggest everyone give this game a chance, even though it is 12 years old.

If only there were Blast Corps state championships.

# ¿ Apr 10, 2013 20:27

wa27: Jan 14, 2007; We must repeat.

You can buy it here for $7. They also have an FPS called The PrayerWarriors A.O.F.G. I can't find much about that online but I bet it has potential to be a hot game.

# ¿ Apr 15, 2013 14:32

wa27: Jan 14, 2007; We must repeat.

Large Blast Corps unlock plat race about to start!
http://www.twitch.tv/peaches__/

# ¿ Apr 28, 2013 02:03

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Suspicious Dish posted:

Figured I might as well throw in that I was that Jasper guy, and practiced along with you guys, despite being absolutely terrible. Still, it was fun, and I might actually join in a real race at some point in the future.

You should! Any% is actually pretty easy to get into once you are at the point that you don't fail any levels. Not too much to remember as far as routing.

# ¿ Apr 28, 2013 06:36

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# ¿ May 25, 2013 03:18

wa27: Jan 14, 2007; We must repeat.

SGDQ typically pulls in like 1/3 of what the preceding AGDQ does. This year's marathon is larger in scope (and timed better) but I still wouldn't expect it to get nearly as many donors as AGDQ 2013 did. The current donation system will be fine, but they're definitely going to have to do something about it before AGDQ 2014.

# ¿ Apr 29, 2013 19:55

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