mr_roberts_z wrote:This was interesting reading, because it presents things that should be improved in the site. How could be improve the information value in order to avoid misguiding slightly ignorant people like you? :)
Theoretically the best way to attract more members is to upload every run to archive.org, but that would take too long. I didn't know how any of the bittorrent stuff worked around a year ago so I downloaded the SM64 run from archive.
Actually SMB3 was the first tas I saw (April 2006) but I considered it little more than a novelty so I still really wasn't drawn to tases. However the SM64 tas absolutely floored me as I spent hundreds of hours on that game and had gotten used to all the slow methods, and that movie snapped me out of it.
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I was seaching for cool speedruns and somehow I found some strange site that explained what a TAS is. However lots of the links there were dead, so I decided I had to find another site. I then found this site and the first thing I downloaded was SNES9x with rerecording, thinking to myself that I dislike this community because playing games sucks and nobody should do it as much as I and lots of you have.
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Before watching any of the movies I started to try recording me playing Parodius slow downed with save states. I disliked the concept of slowing the game down however, I wanted to decide when to advance to the next frame myself. Then I discovered the frame advance button, yippie! And after defeating the turkey boss I experienced my first desync, so I got pissed and bored and looked at the movies on this site.
First movie I downloaded was Mega Man X & X2 by DeHackEd. I thought it was cool, but I also thought it was kind of too easy (too unextreme) because whenever one of the games stayed paused for some kind of movie sequence, it's just playing one game at once again.
I then started recording me playing 4 Sonic games at once as an attempt to cure me from being bored 24/7. I started some side projects, but they all got me bored again too fast. After a while, even the 4 games at once thing got me bored, so I quit.
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SMB3 by Morimoto was the first step for me as well. I suspect I stumbled upon it on IRCNet. It's notoriously quick on spreading "cool" stuff around.
I think I found the site somehow from that, since I recall being amazed at a megaman / megaman2 TAS.
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Bisqwit wrote:
feitclub wrote:
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 20:08:15 -0500
From: Tensai <...>
I don't have Famtasia! Where can I find it? All I can find is something called "famtasia
tester version" which doesn't mention movies.
Any ideas?
Feit (dan)
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Don't know where you found the site either.
After you got Famtasia, the next time you contacted (day after that) was to inform that the Rygar TAS works only on the European version.
And the next day after that, you submitted Bionic Commando (it was your fourth attempt already). I commented that it doesn't look very optimal, but published it nevertheless.
Four-year old e-mail...that is hot. Thanks for that, Bisqwit. And in hindsight, my movie was definitely far from optimal. But hey, back then we needed all the movies we could make.
Was looking for how to do the BLJ in SM64, and googled mario tricks. Took the first result on the list, and went from there.
It still took me forever to find out how to BLJ, though.
Sometime in 04 I stumbled onto the site to watch the "amazing smb3" movie by Morimoto that someone posted in one the IRC channels I frequented. The rest is history.
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A few years back, soon after the run's completion, I read a small article in a video game magazine I collected at the time. It was about Radix' 100% Metroid Prime in 1:37, a game I had played a few times and this time I found to be absolutely astounding. There was a reference to SDA and I took a mental note to check it out. I quickly forgot about it but over the coming years I often reminded myself of my interest to investigate speedrunning (once after hearing the same Metroid Prime run mentioned on a video game television show, as an example of 'over-gaming') and finally in summer '06 I did.
I'd long since sold the magazine to some foolish individual on ebay but after some googleing I found SDA. I dived straight in and saw times for many of my favorite games that I would never have thought possible. SM64 completed with only 16-stars impressed me but a 4:56 completion of OoT (both judged by their covers) didn't, it just didn't seem as brilliantly short a time as the others.
From there I decided to search for speedrunning in wikipedia and after not reading the article I found a link to this site at the bottom. I then saw a 2:33 completion of OoT, exactly what I'd been looking for, and Spezzafer's SM64. I then watched movies of other games from my childhood; Tetris, SMB3, Megaman 3, Golden Axe and the Genesis Sonics. I registered soon after (almost a year ago now) and my enthusiasm for TAS has grown ever since.
Someone at one of the forums I used to actively goto posted a link of Morimoto's SMB3 run. I saw that and the RM2 run, and the discussion that followed that. Shortly after, I decided to see if there was any more awesome to be found. Stumbled upon Arc's site, then onto here, where I learned they were tool-assisted (which didn't bother me any — after all, it takes quite a bit of time and effort to achieve "perfection").
Some months later, I decided to register on the forums, and ended up sticking around. (I think this was around the time when that Super Metroid TAS was submitted to SDA, and everyone was all ":0 wtf cheatingz!!?!") Although, as you can see, I haven't done much since.
I watched my first TAS years back.
Rockman - Morimoto.
When I first watched it, I thought it was a speedrun, and I tried to beat his time speedrunning.
After I figured out there was a url on the video, i visited the site, and voila. I never tried to beat morimoto after that.
I got a link to the River City Ransom movie on YouTube, which I found to be very amusing. I then saw that there were TAS for Megaman games, which I'm a big fan of. I didn't really like the quality of the videos, so I went to tasvideos.org to see if I could get better-quality ones, where I rather quickly figured out how to play the movies on the emulators.
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It was late night and I had nothing to do. I decided to play something, and chose Megaman X. Then I googled for some tricks/glitches, and I ended up at the game resources page. When I finished reading and was about to leave, I noticed the name of the site was "NESVideos", and I clicked the links on the left and found the forum.
It was November 2005, I guess.
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Bisqwit wrote:
Aww, I'm number 36... ;_;
I actually don't remember why I came here.. my first introduction to TASing was some Japanese site with superplay videos for VirtuaNES. I guess I came from google searches after that?
someone is out there who will like you. take off your mask so they can find you faster.
I support the new Nekketsu Kouha Kunio-kun.
Morimoto SMB3 on fark.com ... after that I think I might have googled my way here seeing if he did anything else? Its kinda a blur.
I've remained a permanent lurker ever since.
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My brother said when he came home from school oneday that they watched a guy beating a link to the past very fast. he showed me thhe site (bisqwit.iki.fi) and voila :D
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I got my own internets last year, & lurked for some gameplay vids on YouTube.
Don't exactly remember which was the very first seen TAS, one of these: NES Tom & Jerry, NES Darkwing Duck, Genesis X-Men 2, NES Battletoads...
I laughed, i came, i wtf'd 9000 times, & went to X-Men's Submission page to get some info of such a speciffic gaming. Obviously i thought, that were real-time speedruns at first!
Then i hardly understood info about using some tools, but still couldn't imagine what tools. I was kinda noob even in emulation too, so my amazement was unlimited when i discovered TAS as a phenomenon.
After watching FODA's Bt tas, i got a wish to see Bt&DD one too. As no movie were ever published for this game, i'd like to record mine, but have no time, lol.
So i started with encoding :)
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I saw Nitsuja's first S3&K run linked on the GameFAQs private board Life, the Universe, and Everything; upon further inspection, I saw the URL for TASVideos near the beginning of the video, and the rest is history.
A Let's Play of Super Metroid which got me interested into the game itself. Being interested in speedruns in general, I looked at a few and eventually ended up here, I guess.
