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Have fun, please do your best! :)
(Hmm, I'm not actually sure what is the proper polite encouragement towards good work in English. In Japanese it would be "ganbatte"...)
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References aren't counted from module-generated content.
Users.html is automatically generated.
On which pages is Users.html listed in references? (Except mine - my name is explicitly linked in "Contact Bisqwit".)
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In April, I also got an offer from the Internet Archive (archive.org), speficically the Machinina movies collection, to store the timeattack movies my site publishes.
Figuring it would be too much work for me, I didn't take the offer, but I guess it is still valid.
I quote:
Hey guys,
I've been dealing with some of you with regard to a book I'm working on, and I've posted
everyone's speed run articles on Slashdot Games, since I'm an editor there. So I'm kinda a fan
of the whole speed run concept!
So, here's the deal. I do work for the Internet Archive (archive.org), which is a big
non-profit digital archive based in San Francisco. You may know it for the Wayback Machine
archive of websites. But there are also lots of audio and video items in the collection as
well (there's almost 600 terabytes of data at the Archive's data center in San Francisco, and
we're just starting a new data center in Amsterdam, Holland!), and we're looking to expand.
So right now, we're working with Stanford University, Machinima.com, and Machinima.org, to set
up a Machinima movies collection:
http://www.archive.org/movies/collection.php?collection=machinima
[Please note it's hidden from public view right now - we're waiting for about 50gb of
Machinima.com archive to come our way - actually, I think QDQ is in there as a test.]
But I've asked about a Speed Run collection, and everyone's really excited about the idea.
Would you be willing to upload your content into your own Archive.org SpeedRun collection?
We'd love original replay files (if they exist!) and actual movies, to be put together in the
same item, so they don't get lost.
The advantages you get are as follows:
- people don't have to wait/subscribe to download movies - we have a 500 megabit pipe which
should be expanding soon.
- you get a nice details page for each movie, where you can put extra data about it - it's not
just a file link.
- there's a cool collection page and messageboard so you can keep the community updated.
- if you upload MPEG2 or MPEG4 or AVI (?), you get thumbnail versions of your movie
auto-created, and if you upload MPEG2, you get derivative, streamable MPEG4 versions
automagically created! Quite handy for different bandwidth needs.
I know you handle different speedrunning in some cases, but anyone would be able to upload
into this collection. You can even start right now - upload into the Open-Source Movies
collection by following these instructions:
http://www.archive.org/movies/movies-contribute.php?stage=upload_info
[and don't worry about the directory being the same name as the movie, that doesn't apply any
mire]
..and then mail me and tell me, I'll make a collection to put everything in. You can also
admin the collection yourselves (approve/edit uploads, add info about them) if you're
interested.
Obviously, I know some of you have been using FilePlanet for ages, and others use BitTorrent,
but think of this as an optional mirror for direct downloads? I wouldn't want it to replace
existing sources, but it seems like a cool alternative, and we want to save this stuff for
posterity, so that if FilePlanet ever shuts down, etc, we'll be around forever and ever.
What do you think?
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> Re: lag
It happens when there are many enemies on screen.
I couldn't avoid them, and at the second time I was going to kill some of the monsters so the lag was a little longer than it should have been.
> Re: Damage from a bird
I don't know what you refer to. Every time I took damage I was boosted forward, except in the boss battle.
Edit: In the heavily lagging scene, I got boosted backward, but this was a calculated risk: it allowed me to kill both "birds", which I was aiming at.
> Damage against the last boss
Health was a resource I could use. I took damage when I would have needed to jump far to avoid the projectiles otherwise.
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I don't collect stars.
They come as a side effect.
I kill monsters because it gives tone points.
(Ok, there is one star point I explicitly "collect", but it was a timefiller because I killed more monsters in the same screen.)
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You can always create something that automatically gets the list of valid movies from data.xml. This file contains most of the information you'd need to construct a mirror site, movie descriptions and text page contents excluded.
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Highness wrote:
About version numbers on movies. When makers of the movies makes their runs, they will make it their version number, ie. Zurreco's Mega man speed run V3. If someone else wants to compete it can be rather confusing making it Bisqwit's Mega man speed run V1.
In my oppinion it would be better if there was an offisial version number set by someone who's administrating all of this. Making the last mentioned run Mega man speed run V4 - By Bisqwit or something like that.
I have been thinking this same thing since the first time I forgot what version number to put on an author's comeback movie.
However since the site now lists "obsoletes xxx", "this movie is obsoleted" and such, I don't think there is much need for it anymore.
Highness wrote:
I'm ready to set up an official FTP site were poeple could download without Torrent.
Sure, go on, but please don't keep obsolete movies there unless you also provide the newer versions and show clearly which one is newer.
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Phil wrote:
cool more space disk available.
Those were not the unsupported files :)
It was the IGNORE_FILES setting which you can use to exclude selected files from sharing.
Use it to show your (un)support or just to prioritize your disk space.
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If you use the btfriend program mentioned by Phil, it will never seed movies that have been obsoleted, but it will always seed movies that have the most urgent need for seeding.
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ANGERFIST wrote:
I have 10mbps Bisqwit
Well I don't.
My seed is currently uploading aladdin-timeattackv2-milquetoast.avi at average 3.5 kB/s rate.
(It is also uploading a couple of other files - they sum to average 12 kB/s.)
When I am the only one who possesses the complete file (the only seed), your maximum rate is limited to my rate. You might get individual pieces at 1 MB/s from other peers, but the average rate for everyone is limited to mine until there are more peers with the complete file.
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I'll think of it.
A summary page is a good idea.
I don't like to put people to differing positions. Creating some privileges for certain users means denying those privileges from others.
Another problem with donating is that I don't actually have a set goal for a new server.
It's not even that I don't have money for it. 1)It's that it's my server, and I don't want to spend money recklessly. 2)Providing a free service to the public poses always the question of how much you're prepared to spend for it without getting anything in return.
Donating cancels point 2, but point 1 means that I can't say "how close" until I see what seems reasonable.
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1. You need a binary safe editor that can insert/delete bytes in the file, not just replace them.
2. You need to understand the file format of the movie file you are editing.
3. You need to know which frame you need to edit, and which kind of edit you want to perform.
Everything after step 2 is all about experimenting.
I'm afraid this is all I can say without more experience.
* Binary safe refers to an editor that does not force its views about text file contents, such as the representation of linefeeds or line lengths.
