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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7nX5e9aBRA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZewUagwPa4M Honey just took both the 70 and 120 star world records.
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Your avatar is appropriate, and Sig's probably livid.
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Mar 3, 2012 11:44
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The Mario64 records change hands pretty frequently. Why would he be livid?
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Mar 3, 2012 11:53
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Because the record beat what Sig was even targeting.
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Mar 3, 2012 13:03
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Why is it that the Super Meat Boy runs, the ones I want to see most, either never go up or take the longest to go up? Dumb errors! There any update on the still-missing runs from AGDQ'12?
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Mar 3, 2012 14:10
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ChibiSoma posted:Why is it that the Super Meat Boy runs, the ones I want to see most, either never go up or take the longest to go up? Dumb errors! I eventually caved in and watched the Ocarina of Time run on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouY-QhN1Mh8
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Liku posted:Because the record beat what Sig was even targeting. I noticed that it looks like another Japanese player knocked 4-5 minutes off of the WR that Trihex was chasing in Yoshi's Island.
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I don't know if I already posted about that with Yoshi's Island, but... Trihex is a very technical player. He's great at pulling off tricks. But he's very inconsistent, taking deaths, making major mistakes (redoing levels), and trying to go for tricks that will just waste time if they aren't pulled off within a few tries. Kaede (Japanese WR holder) is not very technical. He plays it very slow and safe, but makes few mistakes. He hardly ever shoots eggs, takes no risks, and makes some choices that are sort of frustrating to watch when you know something can be done better. The next issue is the bonus games. Kaede is good at avoiding them, but Trihex hasn't quite gotten it figured out. It's not an easy thing to avoid, so it can't really be helped without a ton of practice. Over a 100% run, bonus games add a lot of time to the run. 3:00:00 is simply a bad time. I'm not saying this to offend anyone--because the US runners know that Kaede's run isn't exactly a good speedrun. If and/or when Carl or Trihex get a good run, it'll knock that time out of the water. They've been knocking off 5 minutes over and over again for the past... year? It'll still take a little while until the runs get near the level of other games (like Mario 64).
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Mar 4, 2012 08:20
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Trihex also showboats too much. It's entertaining, but more than once I've watched him hover right over water or lava at the end of a level only to fall in and have to restart.
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Mar 4, 2012 09:21
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I'll never forget this one speech Trihex gave where he talked about the first time he saw a Yoshi's Island TAS and compared it to loving the TV. He then wanted to do all those tricks for real and he went out and did it.
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Mar 4, 2012 09:35
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That's Trihex's thing and the viewers seem to love it. I think it's pretty cool but at times I wish he'd stop loving around and just do tricks where need be.
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ChibiSoma posted:There any update on the still-missing runs from AGDQ'12? Short answer: Trihex's DVR hates us. Three burns now it's given us hosed up copies of the footage that we know is there. It either cuts out early or starts loving up like it was a scratched disc. I'm tempted to just have Trihex ship his DVR to me so I can try to figure it out.
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Mar 4, 2012 18:51
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Holy poo poo someone was really insane enough to do a Homeworld speed run. I had considered trying one a long time ago but in between resource management compared to time and figuring out the bare minimum fleet you'd need to beat each mission and harvest resources afterwards I never got around to trying. And he did it in almost 2 hours. e: He's getting a surprising amount of use out of that battleball. RBA Starblade fucked around with this message at 01:35 on Mar 5, 2012 |
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Mar 4, 2012 19:41
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Time again for the sunday sequence break. http://www.twitch.tv/thesundaysequencebreak
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"Temporary" Super Meat Boy and Ocarina of Time encodes are available for download now so watch them.
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Glass Eater posted:"Temporary" Super Meat Boy and Ocarina of Time encodes are available for download now so watch them. Yeah, each of these are missing about 15 minutes of high quality footage (OOT in the middle, SMB at the end), but I fell back on the xsplit stuff for the missing bits, so the runs are watchable in their entirety. When I manage to get a good copy from Trihex (probably going to have to spend some quality time with him on Skype) I'll upload new copies. I should have just done this to start with, but I didn't realize the DVR was going to give us so much grief. On the plus side, I can go ahead and get started on the compilation reels too...
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Mar 5, 2012 07:14
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If the approval process for speedruns is so complicated and slow, why even bother with a game as recent as Super Meat Boy? Won't any run be obsolete by the time it gets up on the site? Or am I underestimating how often new records get posted for all games? I remember seeing repeated new Mario 64 times which kind of boggles my mind. Sorry if this is a dumb question, I'm not really familiar with the behind the scenes parts of speedruns. I just like watching them. 
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Mar 5, 2012 10:08
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The backlog at SDA right now averages seven months. There are a lot of records that are beaten by the same runner before their first run is ever posted. http://forum.speeddemosarchive.com/board/speedrun_verification.html
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zachol posted:If the approval process for speedruns is so complicated and slow, why even bother with a game as recent as Super Meat Boy? Won't any run be obsolete by the time it gets up on the site? Those more popular speedrunning games move so fast it just doesn't make sense to constantly keep submitting them to SDA.
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Mar 5, 2012 11:20
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Former Human posted:The backlog at SDA right now averages seven months. There are a lot of records that are beaten by the same runner before their first run is ever posted. Someone should make a competitive site that actually loving updates quickly. 7 months? What's the point? Though, there's a certain irony to the whole thing that I love.
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This comes up like every two weeks and it's the same story: When the redesign finishes, the lag time will be a lot shorter. Like, two or three weeks if the game gets verified quickly. Trust me, we're painfully aware of how annoying it is.
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UraniumAnchor posted:This comes up like every two weeks and it's the same story: When the redesign finishes, the lag time will be a lot shorter. Like, two or three weeks if the game gets verified quickly. Oh, you're doing a redesign? When did you guys start that? It'll be nice to see the site spruced up a bit.
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As I've said on my own stream a few times, SDA always makes a point of saying "we're not a world record site, we're a video site." I think a good idea would be an actual WR-tracking site with a Shoryuken-style front page - updating with whatever new records appear, linking streams, etc. You'd need a decent-sized staff and people fluent in Japanese to check Nico etc. every day, but I think it could work if the right people got together. Anyway, glad to hear SDA is doing something at least!
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Mar 5, 2012 18:54
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Peaches_ streaming Blast Corps!
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I was watching the Blast Corps LP not too long ago and I'm always amused at how well Peaches_ manages the world map now. Listening to vitriolic rants on how bad the controls are is way funnier when he's bouncing around the world map like an idiot now.
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Have you guys started keeping video at its actual resolution? The diablo 2 run for instance is devastatingly ugly. The dude put all his WIPs on YouTube and you can see it so much better. Is the redesign going to ditch the black background/white text for something more modern and readable? This post reads a bit rudely I think so I must apologize. I really do enjoy and appreciate SDA and it's a lot of work you guys are doing just because you like to.
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http://www.twitch.tv/srkfunkdoc More CV3 Grant runs.
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fleshweasel posted:Have you guys started keeping video at its actual resolution? The diablo 2 run for instance is devastatingly ugly. The dude put all his WIPs on YouTube and you can see it so much better. Are you watching the high quality versions or the embedded flash versions? The high quality stuff should be at the native resolution, but the flash version is "medium quality", which is almost always scaled down. If it's not that, then I have no idea, because I remember watching the D2 runs and thinking they looked fine.
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iastudent posted:http://www.twitch.tv/srkfunkdoc I literally turned it on for the first time ever, he broke his Grant record. Pretty cool.
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FUNKDOC BROKE HIS RECORD. 30:46:95
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Funkdoc nails it! 30:46! 
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Alteisen posted:FUNKDOC BROKE HIS RECORD. It was fantastic.
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drat, the stream kept lagging for me so I closed it right before the record  congrats funk 'rashreflection' doc
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gently caress yes, first time I've seen a record broken live. This was incredible! Congrats funkdoc!
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I just got back from my shower and saw it happen. Way to go Funkdoc!
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When he made it up those stairs without getting hit by either bird, you knew it was to be.
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Yeah that was amazing. He had quite a few near perfect levels.
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Didn't even know this was a thread, good poo poo! First run I've seen done as well, and after watching for some days now it was a great end to the journey.
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Bonus stream time for Funkdoc: Maximum Carnage If you haven't seen him play this in action, you're in for a treat.
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Congrats, Funkdoc! I just wish I coulda been there to watch it live.
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