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flatluigi: Apr 23, 2008; here come the planes

I'm not sure what route they're using to unlock and get to the Woods, then.

# ? Sep 28, 2012 04:00

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# ? Apr 23, 2024 07:29

furry drum circle: Aug 7, 2007; Dear... God...

flatluigi posted:

I'm not sure what route they're using to unlock and get to the Woods, then.

In the SDA Thread on BK Any%, Cronikeys says there are note door skips that let you enter CCW early.

# ? Sep 28, 2012 04:13

flatluigi: Apr 23, 2008; here come the planes

furry drum circle posted:

In the SDA Thread on BK Any%, Cronikeys says there are note door skips that let you enter CCW early.

That'd do it! Good stuff, I should look into this.

# ? Sep 28, 2012 04:15

UraniumAnchor: May 21, 2006; Not a walrus.

So here's an awesome thing:

http://forum.speeddemosarchive.com/post/agdq_2013_prizes_103.html

SimonViklund posted:

Hi, I have thought of what I consider a great and unique concept for a prize.

I compose and remix/interpret music for a living, and I dare say my work is very appreciated amongst gamers. Most notably, I did the new version of the Bionic Commando soundtrack for the remake, named Bionic Commando Rearmed, released by Capcom on PSN, XBLA and Steam in 2008.

I love the music of old NES games. My grandmother died of cancer and my aunt recently got diagnosed. I took part of the last AGDQ live stream charity event and donated money without hesitation - the live stream concept it great! I want to see this thing grow and I want to actively be a part of increasing the size of donations. So, for future events I have come up with a way to my skill - making music - a prize for the charity event. Here's the idea:

1) The organizers of the charity event decides on a arbitrary time period - say 12 hours from the start of the event.

2) Anyone who donates money during this period is encouraged to submit the name of an videogame song with their donation (or a link to the song on YouTube - or some other way to identify the song, since NES songs don't really have names.)

3) After the arbitrary time period is over, the organizers determine who made the largest single donation during the time period. Needless to say, only donations that had a song name attached to them are eligible. Maybe these donations aren't eligible to winning other prizes, to not make it possible to win several prizes with one donation - this way, people who submit song names with their donations enter a prize category of their own. But I digress...

4) The winner's name and the song name is announced live on the live stream, and this is where my work starts: I will now start working on a remix/interpretation of this song right there and then.

5) If it's technically possible, it would be very cool if the live stream could cut over to a web camera at my place every once in a while, and show me working on this song. I mean, like a 10 second clip between two games in the marathon, and maybe a "how's it coming along?" sort of question every 1-2 hours. If this is not technically possible, I can register my own channel on, say, Twitch - and stream the music production over there so that anyone can check in on me at any time. However we solve it technically, I think it's important that people really "get" that the music production is happening real-time - that the music production is "live" too. This makes the entire thing a lot cooler. I think a fully produced song would take at least six hours to make.

6) When the song is done, it is sent over to the organizers as an mp3. This mp3 is put up as a free download on the charity event's website along with the winning donator's name and possibly a message from the donator (e.g. why he/she likes that particular song so much), and this is also announced on the live stream - anything to emphasize the prestige it significates to have been the one who chose the song to be remixed, thereby increasing the value of this rather abstract prize. I mean, the mp3 is a free-for-all download - so the winner doesn't get the song for himself/herself: It's the "honor" of getting to choose which song gets remixed/interpreted that is the prize, so it's important to infuse some prestige in this.

The prize concept can be expanded upon: Needless to say, the idea isn't restricted to me. For example: We could hook up with famous game music remixers/interpreters over at OC Remix and have several people contributing songs/prizes. With enough remixers, every 4 hour period there could be a new music remix winner!

The prize concept isn't even restricted to the art of music production: We could get artists from Deviant Art (or some other community of talented CG artists) to contribute - but instead of music that is chosen, created and put up as a free download it could be desktop backgrounds!

What's cool is that we get more people involved from other internet communitys (that are still game related), certainly increasing the crowd interested in the charity event and in turn increasing the number of possible donators. Also, it's cool that prizes get made during the actual marathon, and then get digitally distributed for free! It's very "internet age" and modern, if I may say so. Anyway, I think this could generate a lot of attention - so let's make it happen!

TL;DR: Those who donate the most money wins the prize of having his/her favorite game soundtrack song remixed by me (and possibly other music composers).

# ? Sep 28, 2012 10:40

Suspicious Dish: Sep 24, 2011; 2020 is the year of linux on the desktop, bro; Fun Shoe

Is there a "not doing Wily 1" rule? Because there sort of needs to be.

# ? Sep 28, 2012 10:52

quakster: Jul 21, 2007; by FactsAreUseless

Moonsong and One Winged Angel.

# ? Sep 28, 2012 10:58

iastudent: Apr 22, 2008

Murphagator doing Double Dragon Neon NG attempts - http://www.twitch.tv/murphagator

# ? Sep 28, 2012 17:25

Shadow Ninja 64: May 21, 2007; "I stood there, wondering why the puck was getting bigger...

and then it hit me."

Despite some awful bomb drop RNG ruining a 2 minute lead in Majora's Mask any%, zfg regained a 1:40 lead thanks to a good fight against TwinMold. He's at the final battle now: http://www.twitch.tv/zfg1

Edit: 1:47:09, good for a new WR (the previous was 1:47:47 by Japanese runner SVA). He's not really happy with it, though.

Shadow Ninja 64 fucked around with this message at 19:39 on Sep 28, 2012

# ? Sep 28, 2012 19:34

kaschei: Oct 25, 2005

They're never, ever happy with their own runs until they're tool-assist perfect.

# ? Sep 28, 2012 21:25

Lord Chumley: May 14, 2007; Embrace your destiny.

Suspicious Dish posted:

Is there a "not doing Wily 1" rule? Because there sort of needs to be.

Yea, Wily 2 is the better one anyway.

# ? Sep 28, 2012 21:57

Shadow Ninja 64: May 21, 2007; "I stood there, wondering why the puck was getting bigger...

and then it hit me."

Cosmo is -4:27 on his splits from his 4:57:04 Wind Waker any%J run and just beat the Wind Temple. If he maintains that pace, he'll beat Demon9's WR time by a little under two minutes. He also has like 2500 people watching him right at this moment, which is pretty wild. http://www.twitch.tv/cosmowright

# ? Sep 29, 2012 00:36

pksage: Jul 2, 2009; You are an experience!
Make sure you're a good experience.

Shadow Ninja 64 posted:

Cosmo is -4:27 on his splits from his 4:57:04 Wind Waker any%J run and just beat the Wind Temple. If he maintains that pace, he'll beat Demon9's WR time by a little under two minutes. He also has like 2500 people watching him right at this moment, which is pretty wild. http://www.twitch.tv/cosmowright

~~I tuned in just in time to see the +27 after Savage Labyrinth~~

Sorry, should have known better, I've watched Cosmo for long enough to know about split weirdness.

pksage fucked around with this message at 01:19 on Sep 29, 2012

# ? Sep 29, 2012 01:16

evilalien: Jul 29, 2005; Knowledge is born from Curiosity.

pksage posted:

I tuned in just in time to see the +27 after Savage Labyrinth

He's doing things out of order compared to the splits from his old run. That +27 is meaningless at this point though he did lose some time in the Labyrinth.

# ? Sep 29, 2012 01:17

Suspicious Dish: Sep 24, 2011; 2020 is the year of linux on the desktop, bro; Fun Shoe

pksage posted:

I tuned in just in time to see the +27 after Savage Labyrinth

I knew somebody would say this.

_{He changed the route midrun but didn't update splits, so it's not that much time lost}

# ? Sep 29, 2012 01:18

evilalien: Jul 29, 2005; Knowledge is born from Curiosity.

Wow that new WR is ridiculous: 4:50:46. The previous record was 4:54:25 by Demon9 for comparison.

# ? Sep 29, 2012 02:04

Shadow Ninja 64: May 21, 2007; "I stood there, wondering why the puck was getting bigger...

and then it hit me."

4:50:46, what a great time.

# ? Sep 29, 2012 02:04

Jakuvious: Mar 15, 2011; Stealth mode

Crazy thing is there was still about 5 minutes worth of screwups in that run.

# ? Sep 29, 2012 02:12

Shadow Ninja 64: May 21, 2007; "I stood there, wondering why the puck was getting bigger...

and then it hit me."

GoronGuy is over 4 minutes ahead of his personal best time for Majora's Mask 100% (Eng. version) late into the run. His PB is only 1:20 behind the world record time itself, so this definitely is WR potential. If he can save another 1:30 or so he could get the sub 6 hours: http://www.twitch.tv/goronguy

Edit: 6:01:07, beating the previous 100% eng record by over three minutes!

Shadow Ninja 64 fucked around with this message at 23:24 on Sep 29, 2012

# ? Sep 29, 2012 23:08

Shimrra Jamaane: Aug 10, 2007; Obscure to all except those well-versed in Yuuzhan Vong lore.

Does Poodle still have the MST WW even after so many months?

# ? Sep 30, 2012 22:11

E-Tap: Jan 4, 2004

Sunday Sequence Break starting once again, today's focus seems to be another records-focused show. If you haven't seen the current speedruns for NES Boy and his Blob and Octodad, it's just as good a time as any to start.
Here's the link database for video links to the runs that get covered on the show: http://kb.speeddemosarchive.com/TSSB

# ? Oct 1, 2012 00:17

Suspicious Dish: Sep 24, 2011; 2020 is the year of linux on the desktop, bro; Fun Shoe

Shimrra Jamaane posted:

Does Poodle still have the MST WW even after so many months?

WW doesn't have an MST. Just 100%

Maybe that will change soon, though.

# ? Oct 1, 2012 00:30

brap: Aug 23, 2004; Grimey Drawer

did he perhaps mean the WR?

# ? Oct 1, 2012 00:50

Shimrra Jamaane: Aug 10, 2007; Obscure to all except those well-versed in Yuuzhan Vong lore.

fleshweasel posted:

did he perhaps mean the WR?

Yes I did. Opps

# ? Oct 1, 2012 02:02

Suspicious Dish: Sep 24, 2011; 2020 is the year of linux on the desktop, bro; Fun Shoe

Shimrra Jamaane posted:

Yes I did. Opps

In that case, leaderboards show Poodle still has it.

# ? Oct 1, 2012 02:10

eleven extra elephants: Feb 16, 2007; Menschliches! Allzumenschliches!!

Never seen any Batman: Arkham City runs before but watched one today, really impressive and looks great too.

http://www.twitch.tv/robo_sparkle/b/333335507?t=9m

# ? Oct 1, 2012 02:41

iastudent: Apr 22, 2008

Heidrage just got a 10:12 in Contra and is replaying the run against the previous record!

http://www.twitch.tv/heidrage

# ? Oct 1, 2012 04:46

kaschei: Oct 25, 2005

The Contra 10:12 run is here and starts at 1:14 or so.

# ? Oct 1, 2012 05:48

Rascyc: Jan 23, 2008; Dissatisfied Puppy

Hearing the relief that he is done with the game is the highlight.

# ? Oct 1, 2012 19:04

UraniumAnchor: May 21, 2006; Not a walrus.

He had the run replaying on loop for a while and now he's convinced he wants to push it below 10:10.

Pretty much the entire chatroom was telling him to work on something else for a while instead. :v:

# ? Oct 1, 2012 19:40

Zeether: Aug 26, 2011

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

http://www.twitch.tv/peaches__

edit: loving RNG screwed him over :argh:

Zeether fucked around with this message at 00:12 on Oct 2, 2012

# ? Oct 2, 2012 00:00

iastudent: Apr 22, 2008

Zeether posted:

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

http://www.twitch.tv/peaches__

Final boss RNG :negative:

# ? Oct 2, 2012 00:12

wa27: Jan 15, 2007

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 02:25

Rascyc: Jan 23, 2008; Dissatisfied Puppy

He got RNG'ed again. That's a pretty soul crushing speed run to what amounts to a penalty kick.

# ? Oct 2, 2012 03:39

Shadow Ninja 64: May 21, 2007; "I stood there, wondering why the puck was getting bigger...

and then it hit me."

59:31!!!!!

Edit: Just in case it wasn't clear, that's Peaches' new Mischief Makers record.

Shadow Ninja 64 fucked around with this message at 07:14 on Oct 2, 2012

# ? Oct 2, 2012 06:08

furry drum circle: Aug 7, 2007; Dear... God...

After 12 hours of streaming and at least 4 runs blown by RNG on the last boss, I finally did it :toot:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMujnvcmpEA

# ? Oct 2, 2012 09:59

Shadow Ninja 64: May 21, 2007; "I stood there, wondering why the puck was getting bigger...

and then it hit me."

SRL member Almolicious is doing a Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door attempt to try and beat his own world record. Thanks to some relatively new tricks and skips, he's 6:30ish ahead at the end of Chapter 5. There's still a lot of run left, though: http://www.twitch.tv/almolicious

Edit: He enede up getting 6:34:42, beating his old record of 6:43 solidly.

Shadow Ninja 64 fucked around with this message at 20:46 on Oct 2, 2012

# ? Oct 2, 2012 18:09

meat on a Friday: Dec 9, 2010

furry drum circle posted:

After 12 hours of streaming and at least 4 runs blown by RNG on the last boss, I finally did it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMujnvcmpEA

Nice work, peaches. Looking forward to seeing this game at the next AGDQ

# ? Oct 2, 2012 19:09

emdash: Oct 19, 2003; and?

http://www.twitch.tv/siglemic sig fixed something that was wrong with his internet and his stream title is "1:43 attempts in October." You know you want to watch :unsmigghh:

# ? Oct 2, 2012 19:24

ThatsMyBoye: Nov 21, 2006; I wish that I believed in fate
I wish I didn't sleep so late
I used to be carried in the arms of cheerleaders

TheQat posted:

http://www.twitch.tv/siglemic sig fixed something that was wrong with his internet and his stream title is "1:43 attempts in October." You know you want to watch

"I feel like gay people shouldn't be offended when I call something 'gay.'" Annnnnd that'll do it for me.

# ? Oct 2, 2012 21:48

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# ? Apr 23, 2024 07:29

mfcrocker: Jan 31, 2004; Hot Rope Guy

ThatsMyBoye posted:

"I feel like gay people shouldn't be offended when I call something 'gay.'" Annnnnd that'll do it for me.

Was that Sig or chat idiocy?

# ? Oct 2, 2012 21:51

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