New Speedrun Thread - I have gained the critical extra second by refusing to have fun

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Ohvee: Jun 17, 2001

Holy crap, he did it!

# ¿ Dec 28, 2011 17:26

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# ¿ Apr 20, 2024 07:25

Ohvee: Jun 17, 2001

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 noticed that in the chatroom that there seems to be some animosity between the various speedrun sites. Mostly stemming from the huge (and constant) backlog of runs on SDA. Is that pretty much the main reason?

# ¿ Dec 29, 2011 18:08

Ohvee: Jun 17, 2001

Dr. Stab posted:

SwordlessLink's 2:04:45.22 Ocarina of Time MST TAS is now uploaded to youtube. It's quite a treat if you like zelda.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVBqIeFqxbI

It's one of the top comments, but the "Green Hill Zone" theme on ocarina is awesome.

# ¿ Feb 25, 2012 22:38

Ohvee: Jun 17, 2001

Cosmo is running through Wind Waker right now. It's kind of nice to see what can be done in this game (doesn't seem like a whole lot) instead of constant OoT.

# ¿ Apr 25, 2012 17:17

Ohvee: Jun 17, 2001

HKR posted:

Yeah, MM has enough people running it. WW is still somewhat new territory since this is the first time people have been seriously digging into it.

It's a wonderful time for speedruns. I dug out my Wind Waker disc tonight just so I could replay it (even thought I've been watching it being beat once every few days).

# ¿ May 24, 2012 04:39

Ohvee: Jun 17, 2001

Is there going to be any bonus stream action going on?

# ¿ May 29, 2012 03:06

Ohvee: Jun 17, 2001

Looks like some streaming might start up soon, but in the meantime you can watch UA sleep.

# ¿ May 30, 2012 17:00

Ohvee: Jun 17, 2001

How does the new superswim glitch work? I like watching all of this stuff but I never know where to look for glitch explanation.

# ¿ Sep 5, 2012 14:05

Ohvee: Jun 17, 2001

It looks like Cosmo is doing an actual run of Banjo & Kazooie. He's running it against the splits from the last time he tried (I think) which took something like 14 hours. So, I'd expect some improvement!

# ¿ Oct 5, 2012 16:44

Ohvee: Jun 17, 2001

...I kind of want Sonic Generations now. The looks a lot more fun than I expected.

# ¿ Oct 26, 2012 20:49

Ohvee: Jun 17, 2001

It's probably been explained already, but what is the speed glitch in Doom64?

# ¿ Nov 5, 2012 19:30

Ohvee: Jun 17, 2001

Well, that's pretty much perfect.

# ¿ Dec 20, 2012 19:47

Ohvee: Jun 17, 2001

furry drum circle posted:

Amazing scooter tour.

Are you going to do more of this? Behind the scenes stuff is great.

# ¿ Jan 7, 2013 18:32

Ohvee: Jun 17, 2001

It's kind of hard to think of games that don't already have dedicated runners. I'd like to see more people doing Mystical Ninja and Diddy Kong Racing.

# ¿ Jan 25, 2013 15:52

Ohvee: Jun 17, 2001

Alteisen posted:

He got the WR on a game he started like a month ago?

I don't think it's been that long yet, has it?

# ¿ Feb 5, 2013 17:19

Ohvee: Jun 17, 2001

FedoraDefender420 posted:

Does anyone have a link to the AGDQ dark souls speedrun?

It doesn't look like it's been encoded and uploaded to archive.org yet, so this will have to do.

http://www.twitch.tv/speeddemosarchivesda/b/355843975?t=7h23m30s

# ¿ Feb 8, 2013 16:08

Ohvee: Jun 17, 2001

For a while now I've been trying to figure out the best way to watch some streams without being constantly tethered to the computer. My first thoughts were to use the hdmi out on my videocard and run a cable to my main tv. This works ok, but isn't quite what I was going for. I've experimented with a few different DLNA servers and have had mixed results. I think that I finally found a good way to do this though.

So, serviio has been my go-to DLNA server at home for a while now and it's been a long wait for someone to write a twitch plugin for it. But finally, one popped up recently: http://forum.serviio.org/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=9216. It basically will tunnel the video from twitch (among many other things) to whatever DLNA compliant devices you have on your network. It isn't just a straight feed as everything runs through FFmpeg first. So, I've been watching streams on my tv in the living room (through either the PS3 or 360) and in the bedroom where there is a Bravia internet tv.

As of right now the plugin has only been downloaded a handful of times, so I'm assuming not many people use it. But, if anyone has a more efficient way of doing this I'd love to hear it.

# ¿ Feb 8, 2013 17:19

Ohvee: Jun 17, 2001

Sinister1's split tracker seems super accurate when he's running MTPO. Does it hook into the game so he doesn't manually have to change to the next split or something?

# ¿ Feb 19, 2013 17:21

Ohvee: Jun 17, 2001

SeXReX posted:

I'm not 100% sure, but I think it is someone editing them for him on a fancy spreadsheet with math and stuff. The MTPO community uses the gametime of each fight added up because of how much sitting around waiting to punch stuff there is in the game, so traditional split timers would be really complicated to use.

Ah ok, that makes sense. I was wondering why I never hear the tell-tale CLACK of a keyboard being pounded when the times are updated on his stream.

# ¿ Feb 19, 2013 17:30

Ohvee: Jun 17, 2001

Wow, Adam_ak really exploded recently, huh? He has more viewers than Sig or Cosmo at the moment.

# ¿ Apr 2, 2013 22:01

Ohvee: Jun 17, 2001

It looks like Feasel is streaming a bit again (maybe it's been going on for a while, but I haven't seen him on much lately). And he's doing TMNT. Pretty cathartic to see this game destroyed since I rarely got past the dam section. I kind of wish I had one of those dazzle things to start running this game myself.

# ¿ May 15, 2013 14:35

Ohvee: Jun 17, 2001

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.

http://www.twitch.tv/pjdicesare

Oh awesome, that's a good lineup!

# ¿ Jun 14, 2013 17:28

Ohvee: Jun 17, 2001

TheGreatGildersneeze posted:

This highlight from last night should tell anyone all they need to know about why to watch the worms matches.

Aaaaaaaaaaand now I'm the proud owner of a copy of Worms Reloaded. I was initially bummed to see that it's $20 on steam but I found it on Amazon for $5 (Game of the Year edition, too!).
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B009H7QEFC/

# ¿ Aug 29, 2013 18:24

Ohvee: Jun 17, 2001

Adam_ak is doing some kind of race in Vice City labelled as "Chaos%" and it's pretty great.

# ¿ Oct 1, 2013 19:24

Ohvee: Jun 17, 2001

iastudent posted:

Adam_ak is starting another go at Vice City chaos%

http://www.twitch.tv/adam_ak

Chaos% is turning into a huge highlight for me. I hope he continues to do this from time to time.

# ¿ Oct 9, 2013 19:49

Ohvee: Jun 17, 2001

ArfJason posted:

I think either of the GDQs from the past year had it.
EDOT: here we go http://fr.twitch.tv/speeddemosarchivesda/b/355284288?t=01h32m01s
Haven't seen the whole thing so it might be repetitive.

They have all of the runs on youtube as well
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQP7hv117jo

# ¿ Nov 10, 2013 04:11

Ohvee: Jun 17, 2001

Photex posted:

The editing on the whole probably didn't take that long, cut at the beginning and end of each run, name clip, batch export.

I don't know, the process seems to be pretty complicated due to the numerous different recording methods.
https://forum.speeddemosarchive.com/post/sgdq_2013_sync_thread.html

# ¿ Nov 27, 2013 18:52

Ohvee: Jun 17, 2001

UraniumAnchor posted:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7x9PI7wcvveAODirtiferDzJWMDWT1mE not sure why I didn't do this before, but have 13 hours of compilation reels from various *GDQs

Just checking out the first years' highlights and I totally forgot about how entertaining the Battletoads runs with live piano accompaniment were. I wonder if there would be any chance of that returning sometime in the future.

# ¿ Feb 13, 2014 16:23

Ohvee: Jun 17, 2001

Jeffrey posted:

lol this one is even funnier: http://pastebin.com/Q7JWJk0q

The first one is definitely real, dunno about the second one.

Wow, it didn't take long for their(sic) to be SGDQ orgy fanfiction.

# ¿ Jul 2, 2014 16:30

Ohvee: Jun 17, 2001

After watching the Encyclopedia Bombastica Mega Man 2 entry, I thought that it might be time to rewatch a real Mega Man 2 run. But, for some reason the run that Cyghfer did at AGDQ2014 on youtube doesn't allow mobile streaming. I went to his youtube channel and found a more recent run... but that doesn't allow mobile streaming either!

Why would anyone restrict youtube videos from mobile? I don't get that.

# ¿ Jul 16, 2014 14:20

Ohvee: Jun 17, 2001

Scholtz posted:

there was also that thing where he told his girlfriend he loved her, and then she said that she loves him back, but then he made her repeat it into the microphone

SAY YOU LOVE ME.

# ¿ Jan 13, 2015 16:31

Ohvee: Jun 17, 2001

halfcoordinated posted:

Moderately speedrun related, KevinDDR of tetris grandmaster fame and myself (as well as FGC player Kayane) are featured in a video Kotaku posted yesterday. They left out a lot of stuff and it's overall pretty short but they did a pretty good job with what they kept in.

Anyway, here's the link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woTiFxL2KvQ

This was cool. I do wish it was longer, but it's still a nice watch.

# ¿ Sep 16, 2015 02:50

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# ¿ Apr 20, 2024 07:25

Ohvee: Jun 17, 2001

Sucks about duckfist, I like his contributions (to speedrunning and this thread occasionally). The work put into the current overlay stuff was put on youtube at some point. It's pretty interesting, if not completely over my head. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAzj9Zddogs

# ¿ Sep 21, 2016 17:03

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