Posted: 12/25/2008 9:11 PM
Post subject: I'm goin' on a road trip.
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Rick
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Joined: 6/25/2004
Posts: 607
Location: Maine
OK, here's the scoop. I got a 10-hour bus ride from Bangor, ME to New York City on the Greyhound bus. I'm gonna throw some videos onto my PSP. However, I've seen so many TASes in my four and a half years of being here that the decision is difficult. So, can I get some suggestions of runs to see? Also keep in mind that after conversion, the videos are about 2-3 times larger than the AVI, so something like Chrono Trigger would probably take up most of my PSP's 2GB memory. ^^;
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Posted: 12/25/2008 11:08 PM
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Mukki
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Location: United Kingdom
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I travel around the country quite often and will usually upload a few TASes to my iPod to watch during the journey. I don't know about you, but I can be quite a restless traveler so I only ever upload runs that I really enjoy rather than ones I've never seen. The rationale behind this is that I don't want to get halfway through a long ass train ride just to realise that all the runs I've uploaded suck. At least with movies I've seen I know I'll be content and comfortable through the journey. I usually go for runs that I haven't seen in a while. I also usually upload runs in the 20 - 40 minute time range because shorter runs don't really pass any time at all and longer is worse (if journey is dragging on the last thing you want is for the run to drag on too). If I only had 2GB right now I'd probably go for: [712] Genesis Sonic 3 & Knuckles (any) by Nitsuja in 35:19.62 (208Mb) (probably now unavailable) [1119] NES Castlevania 2 – Simon's Quest (USA) by zggzdydp in 29:45.02 (70Mb) [1038] SNES Goof Troop (USA) by Randil & mmbossman in 16:36.57 (52Mb) [741] NES Mega Man 2 (JPN) by Shinryuu in 25:01.72 (46Mb) [1064] Genesis Streets of Rage (any) by AKA & Mukki in 19:45.45 (47Mb) [468] GBA Sonic Advance 2 (USA) by Nitsuja in 18:44.97 (65Mb) Not all of them are my favourite runs, but the mix is important. Even then that's only about 2.5 hours. If that's your best conversion rate then you might have to resort to some good old-fashioned looking out the window. Or if you choose really good movies you can watch them again ;-)
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Posted: 12/25/2008 11:35 PM
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Derakon
Joined: 7/2/2007
Posts: 3960
I'd recommend checking out the Special Stars discussion thread for recommendations; it seems like your goals nicely align with the purpose of the stars.
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