lol i just noticed I linked to '.hml' instead of.html. At least apache mod_spell fixes it. And I mispelled sponsor too. Can you tell I got 5 hours of sleep last night?
Any companies out there willing to sponser the first live speed running tornament? Considering the dedication some people put into making their runs top-notch, I think they'd definitely qualify as "pro" gamers.
I moved my site off planetquake eight months ago because it was outgrowing it, but I also didn't like gamespy much. I hate to think how bad it will get now. Not just because of 'news corp', but when you're hosted on site X which is owned by Y which is owned by Z which is owned by A... well, it's just a nightmare.
The article isn't saying that Doom was the first game to get speed ran - this obviously isn't true. It's saying it's the first game to have an online community/site dedicated to tracking the records on it: compet-n. I dont think you'll find any websites from pre 1994 dedicated to metroid 1/2 runs...
You can skip nearly every cutscene in prime 2 and re4. The only ones you can't in prime 2 are elevators & portals which are loading. I can't think of anything in re4.
Prime 1 on the other hand, just had a bunch of needlessly unskippable cutscenes. In Wind Waker you can't skip anything... which is my biggest complaint about the game, or just about any game that pulls that crap.
What I'd like to know is why archive.org, king of bulk data transfer, doesn't automatically provide bittorrents of all of their larger files.
I asked them this very question recently.
Here's your answer:
Too cpu intensive unless we dynamically start and stop trackers dynamically for popular shows... Its physically impossible for each of our collections machines to run a tracker and be a seed for all shows that fit into a 1.6tb node....
For specific shows or new content it could work, and it would work especially well if we ran the trackers on a really high powered node and had the collections machines just be seeds... I would love it.
For time attack and speedrun movies bisqwit's site is even better
Are you aware that everything on that site uses the emulators for numerous save states and slow down? Or do you just like to leave that out when you link people to it?
My 3+ year old tv is experiencing problems with its built-in tuner. Sometimes it'll just lose the 'lock' on the channel I have it on and go to snow. I can up/down to get it back usually, but sometimes I have to go to a farther away channel for it to fix itself. Has anyone ever replaced a tv's tuner or would it be easier/safer to just deal with it, buy a new tv, or just use my capture card to watch tv...?
Of course, my parents have a tv from the 70s that works fine... go figure.
Some highlights from this year in speed running games:
Half-Life in 0:45:45 Half-Life 2 in 2:14:58 Super Mario 64 in 0:20:56 (only 16 stars) Zelda: A Link to the Past in 1:44:45 Zelda: Ocarina of Time in 5:04 Pikmin in 9 days with only 50 pikmin Super Metroid 100% in 0:55 Metroid Prime 100% in 1:28 Metroid Prime 2: Echoes in 2:11 Mega Man X 100% in 0:41:36
The only problem is that Microsoft's Sunshine puzzle is huge, and I've not seen any solutions for it online yet, never mind a calculated minimum. Any klotski addicts out there want to help me out?
Head to my homepage URL to find it. You'll need to go to the competitions section and download the old competitions, sunshine was the first one. The outside is slightly different than the MS version because in Bricks you can't have pieces starting on floor elements (the destination in this case). The barrier is cleared at 361 moves, and finished at 746 moves.
There's a bigger puzzle that takes 2269 moves! Well... can probably be done in a few less, but that's the best that the best Bricks players have managed.
See my URL for a version with hundreds of puzzles, adding new elements like magnets, magic blocks, holes, eliminators etc etc. Pretty addicting if you like puzzle games.
It's easy to say "just press a button" but you still have to wait 5 seconds, and when you're reseting a game hundreds of times to try to do a speed run, it's gets annoying REAL FAST.
There was a treasure in Pikmin 2 worth 666 Pokos in the Japanese version and changed to 670 in the US. What's far worse is that all new games (only in the US) now have a 5 second health warning EVERY TIME you start them because of that stupid lawsuit earlier this year.
I've just had to dump the icq client, because they no longer allow connections from version 2000a. I had hacked the ads out of that version so it was quite nice, and later versions would randomly eat messages from people not on my list with no explanation (i didn't have any censors or ignore lists), so now I use trillian to connect.
How about someone who does it intentionally? Morale of the story: never give root to people you only know online, because if you give it only to real life people, you can promptly kick their butt. In this case we just had to take 3 weeks to bring everything back and we've never heard from the psycho again.
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Seconded!
Someone was beating it just recently, in under 6 minutes: http://speeddemosarchive.com/Jaws.html
lol i just noticed I linked to '.hml' instead of .html. At least apache mod_spell fixes it.
And I mispelled sponsor too.
Can you tell I got 5 hours of sleep last night?
Any companies out there willing to sponser the first live speed running tornament? Considering the dedication some people put into making their runs top-notch, I think they'd definitely qualify as "pro" gamers.
I moved my site off planetquake eight months ago because it was outgrowing it, but I also didn't like gamespy much. I hate to think how bad it will get now. Not just because of 'news corp', but when you're hosted on site X which is owned by Y which is owned by Z which is owned by A ... well, it's just a nightmare.
The article isn't saying that Doom was the first game to get speed ran - this obviously isn't true. It's saying it's the first game to have an online community/site dedicated to tracking the records on it: compet-n. I dont think you'll find any websites from pre 1994 dedicated to metroid 1/2 runs ...
In my defense, the word 'sport' doesn't appear anywhere on my site... "grep sport *.html" only brings up three cases of 'transport'.
It's not like you can speed run a football game or anything.
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You can skip nearly every cutscene in prime 2 and re4. The only ones you can't in prime 2 are elevators & portals which are loading. I can't think of anything in re4.
Prime 1 on the other hand, just had a bunch of needlessly unskippable cutscenes. In Wind Waker you can't skip anything... which is my biggest complaint about the game, or just about any game that pulls that crap.
I asked them this very question recently.
Here's your answer:
Are you aware that everything on that site uses the emulators for numerous save states and slow down? Or do you just like to leave that out when you link people to it?
Actually, 'Red Scarlet' is a girl. :-p
You mean the present? Quake speed running is alive and well @ http://speeddemosarchive.com/quake/ !
Until Slashdot strikes...
At my website... it wouldn't exist at the size it is now without archive.
My 3+ year old tv is experiencing problems with its built-in tuner. Sometimes it'll just lose the 'lock' on the channel I have it on and go to snow. I can up/down to get it back usually, but sometimes I have to go to a farther away channel for it to fix itself. Has anyone ever replaced a tv's tuner or would it be easier/safer to just deal with it, buy a new tv, or just use my capture card to watch tv...?
Of course, my parents have a tv from the 70s that works fine... go figure.
Some highlights from this year in speed running games:
Half-Life in 0:45:45
Half-Life 2 in 2:14:58
Super Mario 64 in 0:20:56 (only 16 stars)
Zelda: A Link to the Past in 1:44:45
Zelda: Ocarina of Time in 5:04
Pikmin in 9 days with only 50 pikmin
Super Metroid 100% in 0:55
Metroid Prime 100% in 1:28
Metroid Prime 2: Echoes in 2:11
Mega Man X 100% in 0:41:36
I wonder what next year will bring?
Head to my homepage URL to find it. You'll need to go to the competitions section and download the old competitions, sunshine was the first one. The outside is slightly different than the MS version because in Bricks you can't have pieces starting on floor elements (the destination in this case). The barrier is cleared at 361 moves, and finished at 746 moves. There's a bigger puzzle that takes 2269 moves! Well... can probably be done in a few less, but that's the best that the best Bricks players have managed.
See my URL for a version with hundreds of puzzles, adding new elements like magnets, magic blocks, holes, eliminators etc etc. Pretty addicting if you like puzzle games.
It's easy to say "just press a button" but you still have to wait 5 seconds, and when you're reseting a game hundreds of times to try to do a speed run, it's gets annoying REAL FAST.
There was a treasure in Pikmin 2 worth 666 Pokos in the Japanese version and changed to 670 in the US. What's far worse is that all new games (only in the US) now have a 5 second health warning EVERY TIME you start them because of that stupid lawsuit earlier this year.
Uh yeah, how about with the axe? On Nightmare skill? Without getting hit? I've done that many times.
I've just had to dump the icq client, because they no longer allow connections from version 2000a. I had hacked the ads out of that version so it was quite nice, and later versions would randomly eat messages from people not on my list with no explanation (i didn't have any censors or ignore lists), so now I use trillian to connect.
How about someone who does it intentionally? Morale of the story: never give root to people you only know online, because if you give it only to real life people, you can promptly kick their butt. In this case we just had to take 3 weeks to bring everything back and we've never heard from the psycho again.
That's the most important question... would my p3-450 with a voodoo2 break 1 fps or not?