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 AGDQ January 3-9! http://gamesdonequick.com http://gamesdonequick.com http://gamesdonequick.com http://gamesdonequick.com old thread Speed Runs/"Real Time Attack" Simply put, speedrunning is the practice of playing through video games as fast as possible. There's a couple different goals a run can have: Any% - Basically means "do whatever you can to see 'The End'/make the credits roll as fast as possible". Glitches and sequence breaks are encouraged. *Super Mario Bros 4:59 *Portal 9:25 Low% - Beating the game with as few items/pickups/progress as is possible to beat the game, as quickly as possible. This is only a separate category when slower than the any%. *Super Mario 64 0-Star 9:11 100% - Completing every game-defined goal or collecting every item in the game as fast as possible. *Quake 100% Secrets+Enemies 48:00 *Super Mario 64 120 Star 1:48:06 Other - Games can have whatever goal is clearly defined and worth competing over. *Zelda: Ocarina of Time All Dungeons 2:45:58 Runs can be segmented (saving to break up the game into pieces, to reload whenever something goes wrong), or single segment (all one unbroken playthrough). Speedruns take a lot of effort, and restarts are really, really, REALLY common. Most of us have really high standards and will reset otherwise perfect runs for messing up some stupid 1-second trick. I say us because I speedrun a couple games. Unfortunately most of the games I like enough to speedrun are comparatively niche/obscure and don't get that much recognition, but I don't care too much cause I do really enjoy speedrunning. Right now I've got the world records for Blast Corps, Armored Core, Fantasy Zone, and Kid Chameleon. The main speedrun community is up at Speed Demos Archive. SDA hosts a ton of speedrun videos and has some really active forums for what might seem like a niche hobby. You might be able to find a couple faster videos on Youtube but SDA is the best overall resource for videos/info. SDA also puts on charity marathons about twice a year, which are loads of fun to watch and a great way to blow a weekend. Also notable is Speed Runs Live, a website encouraging live-streamed races and speedruns on a single attempt. There's no forums or recorded runs -- everything is done through a very popular IRC channel which can be accessed through the site. It's a relatively new site but the admins are constantly working to improve it. Even if you have no interest in participating in the races, the Streams section almost always has something worth watching. Tool Assisted Speedruns TAS runs use emulators or other methods of manipulation to slow a game down, play it frame by frame, reload save states, and enter inputs otherwise impossible for a human in order to "push the limits" of a game. These games are NOT supposed to be compared to real-time speedruns. They are for entertainment. TAS runners aren't "cheating" because the tool assistance is not secret. For the love of God don't argue about this. TAS runs tend to follow the same goals as above. These runs use extreme exploits to beat the game faster than humanly feasible (Rockman any% 12:23.34), or just to entertain (Family Feud, International Super Star Soccer Deluxe, Brain Age). The main website for TAS runs is TASVideos. It has a ton of EXCELLENT TAS videos, including a "recommended" section with the most accessible/entertaining videos. There's also a forum filled with page after page of people discussing ways to shave off that one last frame. I find it really fascinating. Feel free to discuss speedruns in here -- your favorite runs, new runs, which games you'd love to see a speedrun of, which games you'd like to try speedrunning yourself, etc. I'll probably be making GBS threads up the thread with my Kid Chameleon progress for at least the next month  furry drum circle fucked around with this message at 08:20 on Dec 23, 2015 |
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Excellent OP! Looking forward to done quick. I'm kinda psyched for the TJ+E games to get run. It seems like they would be ripe for TAS but I haven't seen it. factorialite fucked around with this message at 18:27 on Aug 4, 2011 |
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Aug 4, 2011 18:25
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Please watch this speed demos archive run of Max Payne, it is ridiculous.
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Strapped in and ready to watch the marathon!
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Aug 4, 2011 18:42
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On the subject of TASes purely designed for entertainment, one of the most famous examples is the Family Feud Glitchfest by Heisanevilgenius.
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Aug 4, 2011 18:44
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Hopefully some awesome poo poo comes out this weekend. Too bad I'll be in the mountains away from an internet connection. Enjoy the show everyone! And donate!
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I completely forgot about this marathon, but happened to check the old speedrun thread with one minute to go before the start 
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Site's set up and ready, go go go! http://speeddemosarchive.com/
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Good luck, UraniumAnchor!
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UraniumAnchor hasn't even been live for a half hour and there's already been several hundred dollars in donations!  factorialite posted:Excellent OP! Looking forward to done quick. I'm interested in watching it too, but mostly because there's just SO MUCH that can go wrong. The bloopers video for the SDA run is hilarious. Shadow Ninja 64 posted:On the subject of TASes purely designed for entertainment, one of the most famous examples is the Family Feud Glitchfest by Heisanevilgenius. Oh poo poo, how did I forget that? It's one of my favorite TASes. OP'ed
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furry drum circle posted:I'm interested in watching it too, but mostly because there's just SO MUCH that can go wrong. The bloopers video for the SDA run is hilarious. I know, it's ridiculous how difficult it is to perfect it.
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furry drum circle posted:UraniumAnchor hasn't even been live for a half hour and there's already been several hundred dollars in donations! Already over 1000 bucks and it's not even an hour in. 
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And Blaster Master is done! Good job UraniumAnchor!
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Wow, this is actually a really cool schedule of games. Only a couple on there I'm not interested in. Disappointed they're not doing Deadly Premonition.
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XboxPants posted:Wow, this is actually a really cool schedule of games. Only a couple on there I'm not interested in. Disappointed they're not doing Deadly Premonition. They would skip all of the cutscenes!
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I'm half-tempted to stay up for the Castlevania: Harmony of Despair and Demon's Crest runs later tonight.
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Aug 4, 2011 20:34
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I'm going to put some beer in the fridge and wait for Snake Rattle n Roll and Ninja Gaiden. This is going to be great.
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Donations seem to be on a steady $1000/hr pace.
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Am I the only person in the world who finds babies annoying rather than adorable?
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pumpinglemma posted:Am I the only person in the world who finds babies annoying rather than adorable? No, I'd mute the stream every time it'd start making noises.
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It really depends on what the baby is doing. If a baby starts crying, then things get annoying, which is a pretty natural response. Otherwise I don't really care much. Essentia seems pretty good at leaving the room if the baby gets upset.
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What's this "nesbot" thing I just saw in the stream window as I came in the door?
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iastudent posted:What's this "nesbot" thing I just saw in the stream window as I came in the door? A bot that can play back some TASes on a real console.
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It's a device that loads TAS data so it plays on an actual NES.
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Any idea if either of the Zelda games being played are going to have donations for filenames? I want to get the word out well in advance that everybody should donate money towards getting the filename to be Lunk. The bid war for OOT last marathon was amazing and I'd love to see a ton of money get raised again and for "Mom" to be defeated.
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I was so excited when I saw wizards and warriors on the display and so saddened when it turned out to be wizards and warriors 3.
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Looks like we're still some ways away from being made obsolete by robot gamers. "How do I beat this guy!?"
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Popo posted:Looks like we're still some ways away from being made obsolete by robot gamers. No, NESbot just wanted fries and refused to kill the Burger King.
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 It's Duckfist time! He's running MM9 Buster Only and MM10 normally, and I consider both to be must watch runs.
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Anyone else getting video (but not audio) lag during Duckfist's MM10? e: It was great, looking forward to DLing the replay. Heran Bago fucked around with this message at 03:21 on Aug 5, 2011 |
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It buffered on occasion for me but wasn't anything too bad. Edit: Oh god I'm not going to get any sleep this weekend. VVVVVV, Cave Story, Quake 2, Portal, and then L4D2 all in a row.
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Arrow's running Donkey Kong '94 (the Game Boy one) now. If you haven't seen this game or his run in action you need to.
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Anyone else think this thing would be better with a "Stream the game only" option? At least visually? I really don't need to see a guy with a controller and 5 guys resting their head on their hands.
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Gharbad the Weak posted:Anyone else think this thing would be better with a "Stream the game only" option? At least visually? I really don't need to see a guy with a controller and 5 guys resting their head on their hands. I don't mind that but I do wish they made the actual game screen size on the Super Game Boy (assuming that's how they're playing it on a TV) larger. The game itself is a bit hard to make out with the black border around it.
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This is still my favourite speed run. http://youtu.be/5gwbMv29Fhg Super Mario 64 in 1:52:02. On an actual N64. It just feels so much more authentic that way.
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I'm really looking forward to the recordings this time. My internet connection seems to be working great otherwise but the stream isn't getting to me in a way that makes Castlevania watchable. 
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Shadow Ninja 64 posted:On the subject of TASes purely designed for entertainment, one of the most famous examples is the Family Feud Glitchfest by Heisanevilgenius. I love it when TAS techniques are applied to poo poo like this.
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One of my favorite TAS videos has got to be this run, which breaks the original NES Mega Man completely in half. The whole this abuses every possible glitch in the game, but poo poo really gets real in Bombman's stage. After that, the slow decent into absolute madness begins, with stages less and less resembling their original versions. As a grand finale, Dr. Wily is defeated in just two shots (using a pretty cheap and obvious trick, but whatever).
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