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Recorded on FCE Ultra 0.98.12 (thanks to blip) Settings: default, NTSC
  • no warps or passwords used
  • no programming errors used
  • aiming for fastest possible time and score
  • total frames: 78959
Rad Racer is a racing game of the famous producer called "Square" who also made Chrono Trigger and many other top games later. The graphic is pretty nice (for NES conditions) with changing backgrounds even during a race. It also has the best speed feeling like no other NES racing game and therefore requires extremely fast reactions. The opponent cars of each course are different, from Lamborghini, over Porsche till Mercedes (you drive the famous Ferrari or a F1-Machine). This game is extremely hard to beat on normal conditions, since there are no continues at all (if you lose in course 8 you will start in course 1 again) thats why many players couldn't beat this game completely.
This movie shows a complete and perfect walkthrough of all 8 courses trying to finish them as fast as possible.
Here are the times and the final scores after each course: (note that the time is a countdown, so the higher the time the better)
  • Course 1 - 45 sec remaining, total score: 8687
  • Course 2 - 42 sec remaining, total score: 17303
  • Course 3 - 53 sec remaining, total score: 26105
  • Course 4 - 43 sec remaining, total score: 35143
  • Course 5 - 48 sec remaining, total score: 43918
  • Course 6 - 39 sec remaining, total score: 51887
  • Course 7 - 43 sec remaining, total score: 60444
  • Course 8 - 43 sec remaining, final score: 69433
To reach this times in normal conditions is by far impossible since I took so many risk everytime to keep the best speed. 1 Frame later reaction would mostly end with a crash!
In Course 3 and Course 8 I was exactly 1 frame to late to reach a 1 sec better time, in Course 8 I tried to redo everything as good as I could and spended the whole last day by trying to optimize this 1 stupid frame to reach a whole sec faster but without luck. But then I found out that I can manipulate the randomness a bit by pressing pause right before the finish and on this way I still managed to reach 43 sec instead of 42 in Course 8. I'm pretty sure that 44 sec is impossible (even theoretical) at least in the last course. Course 3 was to far away to redo everything afterwards so I let this one be.
Enjoy this crazy race-thrilling!

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Posted: 6/23/2005 10:14 AM
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Bisqwit
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AVI is merely a container, just as OGM and MKV are. They are not codecs - they contain streams compressed with various codecs. I used OGM because it can contain Vorbis sound, which AVI can not contain. Both can contain X264 video stream. As for Windows Media Player, I'm not the slightest surprised if it doesn't support OGM. WMP is Microsoft software, and OGM is a free standard not developed by Microsoft. Microsoft and free standards are often mutually exclusive. I suggest using something else.
Posted: 6/23/2005 10:20 AM
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Nonetheless, I sincerely hope you take my note into consideration... I strongly feel many people share my opinion.
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Posted: 6/23/2005 12:05 PM
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Well, AVI is also a free standard. My guess is that the absolute majority of the sometimes thousands of people who download the videos use WMP and couldn't open OGM files unless they go trough a lot of extra trouble. I have no proof of this of course, just my strong suspicion. Because of that I doubt that a new file format for containing Vorbis sound is a good idea, especially when the current sound system works fine.
Posted: 6/23/2005 12:06 PM
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Well, AVI is also a free standard.
Developed by Microsoft. That's a difference. :P But despair not, I am not going to take OGM as an official format. But I am considering MKV. Maybe the next time I'll experiment with it instead. However now I'm battling a problem with the tracker...
Posted: 6/23/2005 1:08 PM
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I hope that .ogm is usable with media player classic... are the problems of the tracker related with the problem I have : - "tracker response ok" - "tracker returned 0 peers" with BitComet 0.56 ? can't download anymore... every torrent gets me 0 seed/client :( (though the tracker "announce" page is accessible and shows normal info)
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Posted: 6/23/2005 1:09 PM
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This seems to be a problem occuring today. I don't understand what causes it, but I'll try to resolve it.
Posted: 6/23/2005 1:33 PM
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Bisqwit wrote:
This seems to be a problem occuring today. I don't understand what causes it, but I'll try to resolve it.
Okay, I did something.[1] Does it work now? [#1]: I deleted the 'peers' array from the dstate file. Edit: Didn't help. Edit2: Okay. I upgraded Bittorrent, patched it to support the extra statistics needed by BittorrentTracker.html and wrote a program to patch the dstate file to prevent the tracker from reseting it. Then I cleared the peers array again. Now it seems to work. Confirmed?
Posted: 6/23/2005 3:15 PM
Post subject: OGM works in WMP 9/10 for me
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I'm not sure what I installed, I downloaded a number of codec packs and whatnot, and OGMs work in WMP (not just MP classic) for me. Push comes to shove, you can always use VLC. For some reason VLC gives me a black screen on everything though, so I just use WMP.
Posted: 6/23/2005 3:24 PM
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The torrent seems to work now. I've downloaded and watched the movie. It played just fine. I am using MPlayer 1.0pre6-3.3.5-20050130 on Linux 2.6.7, for reference. OGM and MKV are commonly used for anime. Seems to work well, especially for the subtitles. (If you switch to using these formats, will you start putting the comments in the subtitle streams?) >I used OGM because it can contain Vorbis sound, which AVI can not contain. That's really weird. It isn't just a matter of marking it with the proper FOURCC? How does it work then?
Posted: 6/23/2005 9:23 PM
Post subject: .OGM -- what can play it?
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I tried all the programs i have to view movies and other files -- DivX, Quicktime, as well as WMP...all of which gave me errors saying that they could not read .ogm file extensions...what program or file would i need to get this to work?
Posted: 6/23/2005 9:38 PM
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I also couldn't make the OGM format to run on any player and I definitely won't search for something that I don't need at all, only to run this format. Bisqwit: If you say it's for a experiment, isn't it a good idea to encode it as a AVI file again and replace it?
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Posted: 6/23/2005 9:44 PM
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Perhaps someone for whom the file worked, would be so kind as to write instructions for others?
Posted: 6/23/2005 9:50 PM
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Finding out myself how to play a OGM file wouldn't be a problem at all. I just meant that I don't want to spam my PC with unnecessary media players and waste time. I guess many would agree if we just make an avi of this instead. It's really a unnecessary problem with this.
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Posted: 6/23/2005 9:50 PM
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Install VLC Player, thats all you need although it should be clearly noted that when you try to move forward in the movie, the picture freezes for a second or the picture is quite fuzzy the first seconds where you wanted to move forward. Stick with avi.
Nitrogenesis wrote:
Guys I come from the DidyKnogRacist communite, and you are all wrong, tihs is the run of the mileniun and everyone who says otherwise dosnt know any bater! I found this run vary ease to masturbate too!!!! Don't fuck with me, I know this game so that mean I'm always right!StupedfackincommunityTASVideoz!!!!!!
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I enjoyed this movie in which hands firmly gripping a shaft lead to balls deep in multiple holes.
natt wrote:
I don't want to get involved in this discussion, but as a point of fact C# is literally the first goddamn thing on that fucking page you linked did you even fucking read it
Cooljay wrote:
Mayor Haggar and Cody are such nice people for the community. Metro City's hospitals reached an all time new record of incoming patients due to their great efforts :P
Posted: 6/23/2005 9:51 PM
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Well Media Player classic is not an unnecessary media player.
Posted: 6/23/2005 9:58 PM
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All right! I added an MKV file! :D Explanation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MKV
Posted: 6/23/2005 10:50 PM
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Now I remember why I forgot this game was created by Square. It's because this game is really AWFULLLLLLLLL and never played that game very much.
Posted: 6/23/2005 11:09 PM
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Aw c'mon man. How can you do a Rad Racer time attack and not having Music 1 playing. Challenging and fighting and fighting the challenge toniiiiiiiiiiiiiight, worldsgreatestfighterifevertherewasafighter Good run though.
Posted: 6/24/2005 2:19 AM
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It [the OGM] works fine in Windows Media Player for me. I'm using version 9, because I haven't bothered to update to version 10. I also tried it in VLC Media Player, since I already had that installed, and as far as I can tell they play it identical.
Posted: 6/24/2005 3:54 AM
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I had inserted a notice that the files wouldn't play in WMP and that you needed another player. Should I remove it? Some other people reported problems playing it. Do you have some sort of plugin, upgrade or some other thing to make it work?
Posted: 6/24/2005 5:38 AM
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Everything, but just not the requestet AVI to make the life easy. Thats the world today...
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Posted: 6/24/2005 11:19 AM
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so i downloaded the thing and it turns out i have to install another useless program for it. right. how about supplying the avi?
Posted: 6/24/2005 1:00 PM
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simple solution (windows) : 1/ get the direct show ogg filter (it's just for audio) at http://tobias.everwicked.com/oggds.htm 2/ install it (uh ?) 3/ play with windows media player, media player classic. you can even rename it to .avi, if you want. tested and working. I didnt test it with other players, but it should work with any (since wmp is the crappiest and it works with it). I second the remark that zapping at some other point in the movie has a longer delay than usual. I don't know if it's related to the filter I use.
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Posted: 6/24/2005 2:30 PM
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Saturn wrote:
Everything, but just not the requestet AVI to make the life easy. Thats the world today...
That's because I could make an MKV file with a single command that takes about 5 seconds to execute. Making an AVI would require re-encoding the whole thing because as I said already a couple of times, Vorbis sound doesn't work in AVI (don't ask me why. I guess it has something to do with that AVI is byte-based and Vorbis is bit-based, but I don't really know).
Posted: 6/24/2005 2:54 PM
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OK I understand, but why using Vorbis? I agree it's a bit better than MP3 but we don't make high quality music-sound of "50 cent" so it's shouldn't be a difference in sound here at all. It's just because I would like to have a standard format so that I can playback the file on my DVD player with DivX support too. It's really too fiddly with this new and not well known format. And if OGM or whatever is really necessary, could you at least make a second choice for the downloaders who don't want OGM but AVI (like me)? Because you said that we haven't switched to OGM yet.
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