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I got a 5:14 in Rom Check Fail which is probably the worst game of all time. heehee fucked around with this message at 06:53 on Jun 14, 2013 |
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Jun 14, 2013 06:37
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heeheex2 posted:I got a 5:14 in Rom Check Fail which is probably the worst game of all time. Let me try to explain this a little. The very first roll when you start the game actually only picks from a certain group of combinations, instead of being a truely random selection of every possibility. Then if were playing and got a game over, the next round starts with whatever pattern you had when you died. Because of this, "the community" (literally me and one other guy do times, we have a couple others who race us), split the game up into two major category groups. Lacking better ways to describe them, starting the program fresh between each attempt is called "New Game" and purposfully game overing so you can start again with the fast pattern is called "new game plus." This is the time you were really competing with, doesn't use RNG "manipulation" to achieve a better time, got 3:50 This is my run of 2x. Once you beat level 20 the game starts over again, but faster. I don't have a recording of me beating 3x, and once you reach 4x the collision starts failing really hard and it can become impossible to continue. This is that 3:21 you mentioned, Defender+Ghosts(gauntlet) is by far the best combination for speed, and I should actually be able to get much further into the game beating every level before it changes, cutting significant time from this record. Really though keeping track of anything other than NG+ times is a bit silly, but racing to 2x is a ton of fun, as long as you can laugh at poo poo RNG knowing everyone else is getting poo poo on.
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Jun 14, 2013 15:57
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Recently I went back into working on T2 GB and got two PBs in two days, an 8:04 and an 8:02 just this morning. I'm gonna be streaming both runs in a bit to analyze them. http://www.twitch.tv/iastsa
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Jun 14, 2013 16:29
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PJ, Feasel, Duckfist and Mecha_Richter are starting off their Fab Four marathon to get money for SGDQ, starting with Feasel playing Willow. http://www.twitch.tv/pjdicesare
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Jun 14, 2013 17:24
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iastudent posted:PJ, Feasel, Duckfist and Mecha_Richter are starting off their Fab Four marathon to get money for SGDQ, starting with Feasel playing Willow.
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Jun 14, 2013 17:28
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iastudent posted:PJ, Feasel, Duckfist and Mecha_Richter are starting off their Fab Four marathon to get money for SGDQ, starting with Feasel playing Willow. Thanks for posting this! Here's the schedule Check out the other tabs on that spreadsheet for the donation totals on each of the incentives we have. Here's where you can donate To leave a donation comment for us to read: Click the "Add" button next to "Note to seller". This is found under your shipping address after logging in. If you forget to leave a comment, you can let us know via PM (to PJ's twitch account) or email (the gmail account "tssb.triblade") with your name and intended comment and we'll take care of the rest. Make sure you leave a comment and let us know which of the incentives you want to apply it to! Prizes you can win by donating (made by Mecha Richter) SGDQ is "Summer Games Done Quick", which is an annual summer speedrunning marathon hosted by Speed Demos Archive. This year, they're raising money for Doctors Without Borders. Helping us get there indirectly helps raise money for that cause, since we are each playing several games at the event as well. The 4 of us are sharing a hotel room, so this will, at the very least, help pay for that, and if people are generous enough, even cover some of our flight expenses. The marathon started a little over a half hour ago, and will continue for the next 36 hours! Thank you for your support. 
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Jun 14, 2013 18:27
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Duckfist is just finishing up MMX 100% on his block and they're already within $400 of their goal, with yet another day to go. 
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Jun 15, 2013 04:38
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iastudent posted:Duckfist is just finishing up MMX 100% on his block and they're already within $400 of their goal, with yet another day to go. I see a lot of steak and lobster dinners in their future.
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Jun 15, 2013 04:47
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Feasel is nearing the tail end of Zelda 2, then it'll be Duckfist with Ninja Gaiden races and classic Mega Man runs, including Rockman 4 Minus Infinity. 
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Jun 15, 2013 18:05
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If anyone is interested in seeing someone relatively new to speedrunning practice a game that hasn't been run much yet, I'm live practicing Rogue Squadron right now @ http://www.twitch.tv/cannotfindserver
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Jun 15, 2013 18:15
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A new clip was found for Ocarina of Time any%. You can watch two streamers running the slightly tweaked new route here: http://multitwitch.tv/theMakaron/nedeahS Right now they're both at nearly the same spot, so it's kind of like an unofficial race.
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Jun 16, 2013 20:17
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The Sunday Sequence Break is starting up in a few. This week is Rosenkreuzstilette/Rosenkreuzstilette Freudenstachel with bjw and Hagspam.
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Jun 16, 2013 23:51
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Funkdoc and Withhelde are finally back on, showing how to play Power Grid.
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Jun 17, 2013 22:27
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http://www.twitch.tv/zfg1 Apparently a consistent method for the Castle Escape skip has been found
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Jun 18, 2013 04:49
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dj_de posted:http://www.twitch.tv/zfg1 With that CE skip and the new Gohma clip, OoT continues to surprise me.
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Jun 18, 2013 07:01
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Gamma Nerd posted:With that CE skip and the new Gohma clip, OoT continues to surprise me. Any video for these?
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Jun 18, 2013 07:08
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Sockfolder has a video of the new Castle Escape setup. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLm0mCEpzng I can't find anything on the new Gohma Clip. I don't think it can be used yet; it's still just theoretical.
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Jun 18, 2013 07:15
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Suspicious Dish posted:Sockfolder has a video of the new Castle Escape setup. Does that rely on you being an adult, or can you use it for any%?
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Jun 18, 2013 07:28
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You need bombs for that setup. You can do the skip as child link but its apparently much harder and I don't think there's any consistent setup for it yet. Gohma clip is done in this video http://zeldaspeedruns.com/speedruns/3694 (about 12:30) where theMakaron ties pydoyks's any% run. He does it unbuffered too which is pretty impressive imo.
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Jun 18, 2013 07:35
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And here's sockfolder's fast setup for it: http://en.twitch.tv/sockfolder/c/2427709 Don't know if this trick will actually get incorporated into any runs, considering it's not any faster and adds a bit of RNG due to Gohma's movements.
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Jun 18, 2013 13:01
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Suspicious Dish posted:Sockfolder has a video of the new Castle Escape setup. I have to assume somebody's made the "OOT? More like OOB!" joke before.
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Jun 18, 2013 14:11
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Quite often, yes.
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Jun 18, 2013 18:54
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Everyone's favorite goon who plays glover fast as hell, heeheex2, just beat his WR in a race by less than a second. I imagine he plans on timing it a little closer to make sure its a faster run, but I also assume he wants to beat it legit, seeing as he lost something like 40 seconds over the run.
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Jun 19, 2013 07:05
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gently caress retiming it http://www.twitch.tv/heeheex2/c/2446769 edit: ok yea it was more like 0.5 seconds
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Jun 19, 2013 08:26
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Cosmo is about to do the most difficult (IIRC) superswim in the run, but he's currently ahead by 2:12 at Bombs with some mistakes made along the way. Sub-1:20 Bombs is ridiculous.
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Jun 19, 2013 09:29
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So I'm watching Cosmo right now and it's the first time I've actually sat down to watch one of his runs, save for the marathon a few months back, and I'm really enjoying it. So I'm wondering: are there any past runs in particular of his that anyone feels are worth going back to watch?
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Jun 19, 2013 09:48
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On the 29th of July, me and four other guys are gathering to stream practice runs of most of the things we're going to run at ESA. A schedule is here, though Jinny said there's a possibility he'll be out of town that day so it's with reservation for adjustments.
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Jun 19, 2013 11:23
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Fawf posted:So I'm watching Cosmo right now and it's the first time I've actually sat down to watch one of his runs, save for the marathon a few months back, and I'm really enjoying it. So I'm wondering: are there any past runs in particular of his that anyone feels are worth going back to watch? Catch his super-abusive run of Ocarina of Time from AGDQ 2013, wherein he explains frame-perfect tricks in the middle of pulling them off, then all of a sudden just says "...so Ganondorf's dead now."
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Jun 19, 2013 12:03
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mp5 posted:Catch his super-abusive run of Ocarina of Time from AGDQ 2013, wherein he explains frame-perfect tricks in the middle of pulling them off, then all of a sudden just says "...so Ganondorf's dead now." Here you go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0M7IINwTFVw
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Jun 19, 2013 12:06
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That was amazing- I really wish more streamers could explain their games that effectively while playing. It's fascinating to listen to and incredibly impressive when he just casually mentions "Oh yeah, so this is a frame perfect trick and I have to hit it with the C-Stick. Anyways..."
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Jun 19, 2013 16:56
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It's kind of tricky to decide when to commentate over the actual game if you're streaming attempts. Do you explain everything, every time? Do it once per session? Only once? The OoT run is at a marathon, so a majority of people watching are unfamiliar and it's a good time to explain as much as you can. Wind Waker is really long, and has a lot of cutscenes, so it makes sense to bring up some of the big points during the run ("now here's a really tricky superswim that requires blah blah and saves 50 seconds"). A lot of games don't have that. There's also the fact that most speedrunners play for their own sake; the main purpose isn't to entertain viewers. For a lot of speedrunners, it comes down to what makes them play best, and trying to constantly talk to the viewers who haven't seen their run before (even though they stream it very often) isn't high on the priority list.
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Jun 19, 2013 17:53
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Ufouria just got more broken. The jump I do in that video, recorded from console, was previously thought to be TAS-only. I love it and hate it at the same time because calling it the single most ridiculously precise trick in the game is kind of an understatement. I managed it on emulator twice after a ton of tries, then switched to console, got it once after a ton of tries, then started recording and recorded for 50 minutes before getting it the one time in that video. This pretty significantly changes the routes for both any% and 100%. I just hope that I can find a way to get it consistently... the light switch skip I found a visual cue for, but finding a sweet spot for this currently looks like a bit of a pipe dream. Aglar, who's doing a new TAS of this game incorporating the light switch skip, was the one who put me on the road of doing it on console, but I ended up not using the method he suggested, since it involved not one but two frame-perfect jumps in succession... Is there a word for something you think is absolutely amazing in every possible way but at the same time wish had never come to exist?
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Jun 19, 2013 18:45
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"gently caress that" Pretty sure that's how mike89 feels about the Metro 3 skip, given how much he's been banging on Sonic 2 lately.
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Jun 19, 2013 19:36
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abahbob uploaded his Wind Waker TAS unfinished. It's unfortunate he lost motivation because of the super-swims, because everything he had finished looked incredible. Hopefully someone will finish the project because that would be a fantastic TAS to watch.
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Jun 19, 2013 20:32
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Maybe I'm ADD but I wish Zelda runners would start putting cutscene skip annotations or even trim cutscenes out of their videos. It's not until like 5:45 that the game really starts.
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Jun 19, 2013 20:37
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Duckfist is doing a birthday stream where he plays through a bunch of Mega Man romhacks and rates them on a scale of Doesn't Work to Minus Infinity: http://www.twitch.tv/duckfist
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Jun 19, 2013 21:37
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Shadow Ninja 64 posted:Duckfist is doing a birthday stream where he plays through a bunch of Mega Man romhacks and rates them on a scale of Doesn't Work to Minus Infinity: http://www.twitch.tv/duckfist And here's a thing that happened in one hack named MegaFag  this just in case
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Jun 19, 2013 23:11
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Pfft, Vagina Man and Pussy Man is just being redundant.
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Jun 20, 2013 05:39
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Keyboard Kid posted:It's kind of tricky to decide when to commentate over the actual game if you're streaming attempts. Do you explain everything, every time? Do it once per session? Only once? The OoT run is at a marathon, so a majority of people watching are unfamiliar and it's a good time to explain as much as you can. Wind Waker is really long, and has a lot of cutscenes, so it makes sense to bring up some of the big points during the run ("now here's a really tricky superswim that requires blah blah and saves 50 seconds"). A lot of games don't have that. I've pretty much only watched videos from ADGQ as far as speedruns go, but I really liked the sort of co-commentator effect from the other people on the couch with the runner. Even if the runner is concentrating, or just isn't a great public speaker, there's somebody to keep the audience in the loop at all times. I really enjoyed the Metroid Prime 1/2 videos because the commentary is what really keeps it interesting as opposed to just looking up someone's runs and watching that. Similarly, the Mario 64 has a pretty much silent runner but since there's a crowd you're still getting what you need to know. But outside of a marathon like that, I can't imagine someone doing commentary. I mean, if you're streaming the same stuff you've done time and time again, I don't think you'd want to have to explain it every time too.
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Jun 20, 2013 05:56
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I'm pretty much in the same boat. I enjoy watching speed runs on twitch, but its usually as background while I do something else, or while I am trying to sleep. The AGDQ, and other marathons however become a primary source of entertainment. I watched AGDQ for pretty much every hour that I was not working. The commentary is what really does it for me. I understand why the everyday streams don't have that level of commentary, but I am grateful that the marathons do.
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