Posted: 5/3/2005 9:23 PM
(Edited: 5/12/2005 5:09 PM)
Post subject: Most improved Player.
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Nach
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Which player do you think did the best job of goind from bad to excellent? A healthy amount of players (even Ninjas) have been nominated: FODA Frenom Genisto Phil Walker Boh
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Posted: 5/3/2005 9:45 PM
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Nach
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I'm going to nominate Genisto. I don't know how many people were here long enough to remember Genisto's first runs, but they weren't that great. Contra anyone? But if you look at all the games he did since then, Castlevania, Battletoads, Arkanoid and more, you see he's one of our best movie makers now.
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Posted: 5/4/2005 4:26 AM
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Walker Boh is the obvious choice. His first runs were... well, bad. Now he has risen to godly levels. I would also like to point out the fact that this category penalizes players who were good from the start.
Posted: 5/4/2005 5:04 AM
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My first thought for this category is obviously Walker Boh, but I have to check better.
Posted: 5/4/2005 5:05 AM
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Truncated summed up my thoughts perfectly. I say Walker, by far. -Josh
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Posted: 5/4/2005 8:56 PM
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I'd have to say Walker Boh also.
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Posted: 5/4/2005 10:46 PM
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Mlandry
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I think ill nominate Frenom.. i only remember him making tons of super metroid runs and getting better each time heh.. i think he improved a lot making those.. i would say Walker Boh but this is nomination right? cant have just 1 person up there =p
Posted: 5/5/2005 8:07 AM
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Nach
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Unless I'm mistaken Frenom only did one Super Metroid run.
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Posted: 5/5/2005 8:10 AM
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[136] SNES Super Metroid (JAP/USA) by Frenom in 53:40 (2004-07-21) [146] SNES Super Metroid (USA/Japan) by Frenom in 53:10 (2004-07-28) [165] SNES Super Metroid (Japan/USA) by Frenom in 51:52 (2004-08-16)
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Posted: 5/5/2005 8:17 AM
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Nach
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Okay, so I only saw the last one. I wasn't very impressed by the movie, so unless the first was pretty bad, I don't think he can compete with other improved players we've seen on the site.
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Posted: 5/5/2005 8:53 AM
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That's not to be decided yet though... this is only nominations..
Posted: 5/5/2005 12:19 PM
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Nach
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BoltR: Of course, I'm just arguing my viewpoint. Which others will probably take into account when they vote.
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Posted: 5/5/2005 1:47 PM
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Oh, and I just thought of FODA too. I wasn't very impressed with his early videos but he has gotten a lot better and made some really impressive ones, for example Battletoads and Excitebike.
Posted: 5/5/2005 1:57 PM
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Truncated wrote:
Oh, and I just thought of FODA too. I wasn't very impressed with his early videos but he has gotten a lot better and made some really impressive ones, for example Battletoads and Excitebike.
Very good point.
Posted: 5/5/2005 2:07 PM
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We've had quite a few people try to submit movies that were skilled based, but slowly realized to use the features of the emulators to make a better movie. Vatchern was one of them, but he's not elligible for this year's competition. Who did we have like this past year?
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Posted: 5/5/2005 6:03 PM
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Zurreco
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How about Neofix? He started off with some pretty 'blar' movies, and now he has a few published runs and a few queued for the same fate. Plus, his work with Strider is commendable, but I am unsure if that meets the deadline.
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Posted: 5/5/2005 6:13 PM
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Nach
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"Posted: 2005-04-10 00:27:17 Post subject: #619: Neofix's Genesis Strider in 07:57" Not eligible to use that movie as evidence of a player's improvement. But I see 3 of his earlier submissions had ~60% ratings, while later on before April 1, he got a 92% and 100% rating.
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Posted: 5/5/2005 11:00 PM
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Truncated wrote:
Oh, and I just thought of FODA too. I wasn't very impressed with his early videos but he has gotten a lot better and made some really impressive ones, for example Battletoads and Excitebike.
Yes Especially Excitebike. And I will go for Walker Boh as well... Because he submit most accurate submission. Just look at his submission's list. 90% of his submissions are published here.
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Posted: 5/5/2005 11:28 PM
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Yes Especially Excitebike. And I will go for Walker Boh as well... Because he submit most accurate submission. Just look at his submission's list. 90% of his submissions are published here.
Thank you ;) But I've also submitted runs that wasn't good at all, and runs that I found improvements in the day after I've submitted em ;) I'll hope to learn this someday though.
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Posted: 5/5/2005 11:38 PM
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Nach
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Walker Boh wrote:
But I've also submitted runs that wasn't good at all
That's the whole point. If you only submitted good runs the whole time here, you can't win this award.
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Posted: 5/6/2005 12:13 AM
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That's true. And also I learned stuffs on the way, which is good I suppose.
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Posted: 5/8/2005 4:21 AM
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Well, I haven't seen a lot of people's earlier movies, so I can't comment on most of them. However, I feel safe in nominating Phil. One of our resident ninjas started out with movies like this disaster. (please don't take that personally)
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Posted: 5/8/2005 4:37 AM
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ok ok don't humiliate me with one the worst movie that Bisqwit had received but now, my theory is, do it once, well I always hope so, and do it good. Even Genisto had made very miserable movie. If you had saw his Adventure of Bayou Billy on NES using VirtuaNES or Renegade using Famtasia you'd say " That sucks" ;) But well, that GI Joe and adv. Island 1 movie doesn't deserve a star :P I still agree that some of my 1st movies, I will not name them, adv. island 3, Double Dragon 2 etc.. :P, are currently imperfect. Give me some time and they will be improved. I am currently working on DD2. After stage 1, it's some seconds faster. Note that I wasn't aiming for fastest time bit now with FCEU, I am aiming for faster time probably not fastest since I don't want to make it boring to watch. I am pretty sure that Dragon's Lair and Goonies can't be improved. If someone can beat one of them, it will certainly deserve a star.
Posted: 5/9/2005 11:23 AM
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My man Wälker Böh is the choice here.
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Posted: 5/12/2005 5:09 PM
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Let the games begin!
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