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Ohvee posted:For the longest time I was only aware of SDA, but lately I've just been streaming siglemic's stream on my phone for hours at work. I wouldn't really call it animosity between SRL/SDA since many SDA members complain about the same thing. Most actual rivalry-based hate is directed towards Twin Galaxies for taking even longer and for having asinine anti-glitch rules. You can just go into big streams and say 'twin GAlaxeys' and there's a decent chance people will start flaming some invisible referee. I don't get the hate since TG doesn't even consider itself "a speedrun site", although I have my own reasons for hating them -- they verified an impossible Snowdream score into the SSX leaderboards, which was clearly a score from SSX Tricky under the same course name, and haven't responded to any emails I sent them asking to fix it. My 15 year old self was really proud of that 617k damnit   Anyways, here's siglemic's new 120 record if anyone missed the stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqGL53OsOfY Also here's a new UMK3 playaround video with a ton of golden moments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-NZpzgbQpc furry drum circle fucked around with this message at 19:29 on Dec 29, 2011 |
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Funkdoc practicing CV series for marathon over at Mecha_Richter's place. http://www.twitch.tv/mecha_richter/
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http://www.twitch.tv/cosmowright Cosmo about to beat his new MST WR barring any freak game freezes (oh god hope that doesn't happen again) 2:31:45!! (down from 2:33:08) Third world record in four days 
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Dec 30, 2011 02:45
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Don't worry. He's just setting himself up for a bigger fall when nero publicly announces his next project with the release of his 02:29:53 MST video.
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Trihex just broke the Yoshi's Island 100% world record (and the 'claimed' no-video Japanese record) with a 3:12:11. There's still a good number of major mistakes in there, but still a good run.
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https://www.twitch.tv/cosmowright Cosmo is on pace to beat his MST record yet again. Botched Ganondorf fight led to a virtual tie, maybe next time. SeedyV fucked around with this message at 01:34 on Dec 31, 2011 |
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SeedyV posted:https://www.twitch.tv/cosmowright Looks like they're gonna do a 4 way race now.
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What does MST and RBA mean in regards to running OoT?
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Liku posted:What does MST and RBA mean in regards to running OoT? MST stands for "Medallions, Stones, and Trials", the main category that Cosmo runs. Basically, you have to enter the blue warp for all of the dungeons and complete all six trials at Ganon's Castle, then finish the game. RBA stands for "Reverse Bottle Adventure", a ridiculously complex memory-editing trick that allows for all sorts of shenanigans. This page at ZeldaSpeedRuns has way more info than you'd ever need unless you're trying it yourself.
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Kyrosiris posted:MST stands for "Medallions, Stones, and Trials", the main category that Cosmo runs. Basically, you have to enter the blue warp for all of the dungeons and complete all six trials at Ganon's Castle, then finish the game. Jesus that's intense, but pretty amazing that someone figured this all out. Did Siglemic's commentated run ever get posted anywhere?
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SDA was updated again yesterday. They finally made the official releases for the Quake Done Quickest runs, including the demo packs that you can play with Quake's -game command. There is also a single-segment run of Pokemon blue in 2 hours, 4 minutes, as well as two SM64 runs that are already out of date.
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Not defending SDA's awful verification here, but the SM64 runs are probably still good 'demos' of 'speed' for someone interested in the speedruns. They've only been beaten by a few minutes (not a lot for their length), so it's mostly minor optimization at this point, right?
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Even when a game is verified it still takes an average of 7 months to get posted to SDA. Highly competitive games like that are always obsolete in SDA's records.
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Former Human posted:an average of 7 months to get posted to SDA.  What in the everloving christ? That sounds like a mind-blowing management or technical trainwreck, likely both. Is their whole CMS a single dude writing static html in notepad.exe?
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It's a mix of bad verification (takes way too long), constant backlog, and yes, it's all hardcoded HTML. In other news, Carl_sagan, Yoshi's Island speedrunner/TASer just beat Trihex's world record by about five minutes with a 3:07:45. Just finished the stream, so there probably won't be a video up for a little while.
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I'm not sure how this has gone unreported in here, but if you didn't already know, andrewg has beaten his own unbeatable Super Mario Bros world record. Again. It now sits at 4:58, one godforsaken second short of the tool-assisted record. Let that sink in.
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I'm pretty sure that at this point he's going to get Adam Jensen-style augmentations to increase his speedrunning skill to the point where "tool assisted" for him will mean "used own hands". After that we will reach the event horizon of speedruns as we know it. quick edit: Holy poo poo, this run is basically flawless. How many hours of practice did this take him? Do I even want to know?
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SMB speedruns are dependent on this rule where every X number of frames you can go slightly faster. This was demonstrated with the NESbot failing in the last marathon that had it. So does he use luck to get the frame rule right or can he actually tell the difference between every 20 or so frames?
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Yea nobody is emulating that run ever again, that was insanely precise, almost machine like in how perfect it was, good lord.
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I'm deriving more entertainment than I perhaps should from listening to OriginalDib's impotent bitching in the comments section of that video.
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Are there any good sites out there for speedruns of DOS games? SDA's selection is really small, probably because their rules about emulation (official emulators only) interact badly with DOS games (the only official DOS emulator out there can't actually run most programs). I ask partly because I'm half-seriously planning a System Shock speedrun, but mainly because I was wondering if there were any speedruns of classic Apogee platformers out there.
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ToxicFrog posted:I was wondering if there were any speedruns of classic Apogee platformers out there.
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That run is so good you could pass it off as the TAS and I don't think anyone is picking up the difference. That's insanely perfect.
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Somebody should overlay it with the TAS to so how they match up. How do they verify runs anyway? How do they know things aren't done on emulators or anything?
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http://youtubedoubler.com/?video1=h...2=9&authorName= Hmmm...I can't seem to get the timing perfect, unlike andrewg amirite (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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ToxicFrog posted:Are there any good sites out there for speedruns of DOS games? SDA's selection is really small, probably because their rules about emulation (official emulators only) interact badly with DOS games (the only official DOS emulator out there can't actually run most programs). The rules are sort of in flux right now when it comes to DOSBox, right now the consensus seems to be "if there's an official release that uses dosbox and you can film yourself playing in addition to the game footage", but the second part might not stick. Nothing's official yet, of course.
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I'm almost considering turning in early on Thursday to be awake in time for Awful Games Done Quick, now that I see that it doesn't start until 2AM EST on Friday. You can keep your spindashes and mega busters, I want to see the speedy adventures of Nasir and his butter knife.
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Doc Hawkins posted:http://youtubedoubler.com/?video1=h...2=9&authorName= The guy in the TAS could've significantly improved the run using some of Andrew's tricks - the wall jump up the pipe in world 8 alone saved so much time in Andrew's run.
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hieronymus posted:The guy in the TAS could've significantly improved the run using some of Andrew's tricks - the wall jump up the pipe in world 8 alone saved so much time in Andrew's run. I'm pretty sure there's nothing in the live run that isn't in the TAS run. There are also some other tricks in the TAS run that are pretty much impossible to do in real time, like the 8-4 "moonwalk". Note that the TAS is actually significantly faster than the RTA - TAS timing begins at power on, not when the player gains control of Mario. In case anyone hasn't seen it, here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn9p59U5OKE edit: oh looks like the moonwalk isn't used in this version Violently Car fucked around with this message at 06:25 on Jan 4, 2012 |
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~6 1/2 hours until the SDA marathon starts! Here's the schedule as a reminder. I don't know what most of today's runs will be like but Tri-Hex's Yoshi's Story needs to be seen if you haven't already.
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iastudent posted:~6 1/2 hours until the SDA marathon starts! I'm so sad I'm going to miss it due to sleeping for work (graveyard shift).  I'll have to catch the recording after, Tri-hex's runs are always a thing of beauty.
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I can't wait to get my Lunk on. Oh man there are 5 Zelda games being played, in a truly perfect world the filenames would be Lank, Lenk, Link, Lonk, and Lunk.
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Dr. Dos posted:I can't wait to get my Lunk on.  I'm pretty hype about this. Gonna watch as much as possible.
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Kyrosiris posted:I'm so sad I'm going to miss it due to sleeping for work (graveyard shift). Same here. Hopefully they dont have a million people talking over it like during Trihex's last marathon run. Really looking forward to DX:HR and System Shock 2, and the Earthbound glitch run, too.
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Woa, wait what? Today? Starting with a Psychonauts run? Hell loving yes.
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Is this worth its own thread, do you think? I could work a good OP up. Or at least, maybe it'd be an idea for peaches to PM a mod and get the title changed temporarily, and edit a link to the marathon in the OP. Awareness, yo! We need as many people available to watch trihex dominate Yoshi's Island as possible.
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I'm ready to watch that Human Revolution run. I loved the game and am interested in seeing someone absolutely destroy it.
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iastudent posted:~6 1/2 hours until the SDA marathon starts! SDA seems borked at the moment. Yoshi's Story was such a cute game. Way too easy, but it was adorable as hell. Also, back then, I thought the Yoshis were singing "The apples" instead of "Be careful." To be fair, their singing is pretty incomprehensible.
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