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Vanilla H is mai waifu
Hi people,

Are you bored of always seeing speedrun marathons ? I think not.
But hey, what about the other games never played in marathons like shmups and rhythm games ?
What if these games could have their own marathon ?

In the past, I organized a french speedrun marathon and I wanted to make something new with new people.
I had the idea to organize a shmup marathon, because shmups, even if they are not THAT popular, are fun to watch for people, and players are not the same.
So, the concept of this marathon is to make an online marathon of good shoot'em ups.
I know that some people here are not good only at speedruns, but can play shmups well too.
I thought it would be more funny to organize such a marathon here and not for example at shmups.com, because I don't want necessary only perfect players on this marathon, some more casual streamers will be welcome.

Here is the Awesome Shmups Marathon (no banners for now).

Date of the Marathon :

Beginning : "17 may 2014" at 10:00 GMT+0
End : "18 may 2014" at around 10:00 GMT+0

If there is a date problem with another event, I can possibly change the date.
Be aware that any time indicated on this topic will be at GMT+0
you can convert time on this link :
http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/usa/central-time/convert/index.htm
for example, France is at "GMT+2", so the marathon will begin at 12:00 in france.

If there aren't enough people to make the entire 24 hours, that's not a problem, the marathon will still be here.
Maybe there will be bonus streams depending of how the marathon occurs.

You have one training month before the beginning of the marathon, use it well.

What games are eligible ?

Every shmups : manic, run & gun, rail, tube, anyone accepted.
Shooters like Doom, Halo, Left4dead, etc... are not accepted, those are not shmups.
Choose preferably good shmups only.
If there are exceptions, that will be case by case, but I'll be really open with game choices.

Where the stream will be hold ?

I'll create a stream for this marathon.
The stream adress will be given in some days.
Each participant will have a streaming key to directly have access to the stream.

How to participate ?

First Step, the easiest part :
Find your games.
For this Marathon, I'll accept only 2 games per player.

Second Step :
what performance will you do if you play this game ?
- Scoring ?
- 1CC ?
- Just Finishing a game in some difficulty ?
- Speedrunning ? (for games who are speedrunnable only).
- other ? precise

Third step :
Send me all the informations.

Who can participate ?

Any player who is atleast enough good (not necessary a hardcore pro gamer), and has already streamed on twitch some times.
Take note that you have to have enough freetime to participate to the marathon.
I mean if you want to participate, try to be really accessible in the marathon's days.
I'll verify if you are able to stream in a good condition.
If you don't want to comment while playing, you don't have to.

Informations needed for the inscription ?

- Your channel on twitch.
- The games you want to run.
- The objectives of your runs (like I said, 1CC? scoring?...).
- A time estimation for your play.
- Your level at this game (Casual ? Pro ? Semi-pro ?).
- Some past replays of the games you want to run (for the verification).
- If commented or not.
- Your time preferences.

Any Rules ?

- Be ready at least 1-2 hours before the beginning of your run.
- Try to not ruin the Marathon with bad behaviour.
- respect other people.
- When you have finished your run, if the next runner is ready, don't take too much time and leave the stream so the next streamer can launch the next game.
- If you ask to participate, you accept to respect all of these rules.

Why are there rules ?

Because it takes so much time to organize a marathon, and sometimes, one person can ruin an event.
Well, normally, there will be no problem, but it's always better to prevent shits happening.
No drama, have fun.

This marathon is for fun, so if you fail, that's not a big deal.
In any marathons there are people who fail their runs, don't be sad, we want to see happy players.

Chat moderation ?

Maybe some help would be good for that.

Inscriptions ?

All the inscriptions are done here on this topic (except if you want to say something in private).
You can ask to participate from today to 3 days before the marathon's beginning.
Confirmations will be asked 1 week before the beginning of the event to verify that you can effectively come on marathon's day.
You can change your game choices some days before the marathon if you want, but don't change too often, because it will be more work for me if you do that.

I'll regularly display a table of the expected runs in this marathon.
The final table will be accessible 2 days before the beginning of the marathon.

Runners for the Marathon :

Lecorbak :

Channel : http://www.twitch.tv/lecorbak

Touhou 7 :
Objective : Finish Lunatic difficulty with 2 continues usable max.
Run time : ~40m
level : casual
Replay : http://www.twitch.tv/lecorbak/b/500495404
Commented : yes

Mushihimesama Futari v1.5 :
Objective : Finish Arrange mode on Ultra difficulty
Run time : ~35m
level : casual
Replay : http://www.twitch.tv/lecorbak/b/496467114
Commented : yes


I have no name :

Channel : twitch.tv/ihavenonamesda
Time preferences: from 8 AM to 10 PM EST

Touhou 8 :
Objective : Finish Lunatic difficulty in 1CC
Run time : ~35m
level : casual/semi-pro
Replay : http://www.twitch.tv/ihavenonamesda/c/3743778
Commented : yes

Touhou 7 :
Objective : Finish Extra stages
Run time : ?
level : casual/semi-pro
Replay : ?
Commented : yes


RocketPineapple :

Channel : http://www.twitch.tv/rocketpineapple
Time preferences : between 9am GMT+10 and 11pm GMT+10

Touhou 10 :
Objective : Speedrun (difficulty normal + extra)
Run time : ~15m (+10 extra)
level : casual
Replay : http://www.twitch.tv/rocketpineapple/c/3810681
extra : http://www.twitch.tv/rocketpineapple/c/3984984
Commented : yes



Any questions are welcome.
Thread title:  
Please note the clash between this marathon and the Bad Games Marathon:

https://forum.speeddemosarchive.com/post/bad_games_marathon__game_submissions_pushed_back_to_may_910._confirm_availability_in_this_thread.html
Edit history:
lecorbak: 2014-04-11 01:03:43 pm
lecorbak: 2014-04-10 11:57:11 pm
Vanilla H is mai waifu
ow, then it will be 1 week later
date changed
Obscure games ftw
I don't see any specific place to sign up, should I PM or post things in this thread?
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lecorbak: 2014-04-11 01:04:00 pm
lecorbak: 2014-04-11 12:43:39 pm
Vanilla H is mai waifu
Quote:
Inscriptions ?

All the inscriptions are done here

here on this topic

Quote:
Informations needed for the inscription ?

- Your channel on twitch.
- The games you want to run.
- The objectives of your runs (like I said, 1CC? scoring?...).
- A time estimation for your play.
- Your level at this game (Casual ? Pro ? Semi-pro ?).
- Some past replays of the games you want to run (for the verification).
- If commented or not.
- Your time preferences.
Obscure games ftw
ahhh, so that's what you meant by inscription.

- twitch.tv/ihavenonamesda
- Touhou 8, Imperishable Night
- Lunatic 1cc (possibly without bombs, if I can get that consistent)
- ~35 minutes
- I guess casual/semi-pro: I'm not serious about these games, just playing for fun but I'm pretty good despite that.
- Here's a no focus run I did somewhat recently.  The last run I did just playing through had 2 silly deaths on Stage 2, one on Stage 5 and one on Stage 6 (having 5 lives to spare).  If I start going for no bombs and it starts going downhill, I'll start bombing to make it through without continues.  I don't have a video of this (nor the replay, it was on a friends computer).
- Yes, commentary.
- Time preferences: anywhere from 8 AM to 10 PM EST works for me.

I would be able to offer TH12.5, Double Spoiler (speedrun), but my laptop is bad and lags the game when I stream it.
If need be I can also consistently 1cc Perfect Cherry Blossom lunatic, possibly no bombing that as well, or play the extra stages of those games (add 10 minutes to estimate if so).
Vanilla H is mai waifu
I added touhou 8 lunatic 1cc and touhou 7 extra stage for now.
I swear that there will be no "80% of touhou games" in the marathon. :V
Vanilla H is mai waifu
wow, this is TEH HYPE. :V
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KentaKurodani: 2014-04-13 04:05:15 pm
KentaKurodani: 2014-04-13 04:05:12 pm
KentaKurodani: 2014-04-13 04:05:11 pm
Metroid 2 Ho!
I wouldn't mind trying to do something for this, though I can only clear some hards Tongue I can do normal relatively consistently on most touhou games, haven't played many other shmups. Maybe I could do EoSD extra or something, I'd feel bad about doing boring normals
www.twitch.tv/sebrings_

Games: Halo 3 & Splinter Cell: Conviction

Objective: Halo 3: Complete Campaign on Easy
                Splinter Cell: Complete Campaign on recruit

Time: Halo 3: 1:40:00  SC: 2:10:00

Level: Halo 3: Semi-pro SC: noob (for now)

Both PB's are up on my twitch channel

Both are commentated, i can commentate the runs

I can run pretty much whenever on saturday/sunday, monday-friday is a little less open.

Pick me pls
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lecorbak: 2014-04-14 03:39:10 pm
lecorbak: 2014-04-14 03:38:36 pm
lecorbak: 2014-04-14 03:36:15 pm
Vanilla H is mai waifu
Well, sorry, but halo and splinter cell are not shmups at all, they are shooters, which is not the same thing (shmups are shooters, but shooters are not all shmups).

EDIT : I've edited the rules to precise that.
my hat is my friend
Oh man, this is right up my alley.

Channel: http://twitch.tv/rocketpineapple

Game: Touhou 10: Mountain of Faith

Objective: SPEEDRUN HYPE. (Marisa B glitched%, beat the game as fast as possible)

Time: 20 minutes, 30 if you'd like me to play the extra stage as well as the main game. (Main game is roughly 15 minutes, Extra stage is roughly 8 minutes)

Level: casual as fuck lol

Replays: I don't have a video of my most recent PB but I have the final boss from my most recent stream: http://www.twitch.tv/rocketpineapple/c/3984951
Old 15minutesomething PB is here: http://www.twitch.tv/rocketpineapple/c/3810681
(Current PB is 14:39, most recent stream was a 14:45)

Commentary: hell yeah I never shut up

Time: I live in Australia and have a regular sleep schedule. I wouldn't be able to start until after, say, 9am GMT+10 and I wouldn't want to start a run later than 11pm GMT+10 (also I can't do maths for shit I'm sorry)

also a rhythm game marathon would be hype to see too but I'm super hype for shmupathon! <3
Vanilla H is mai waifu
I've added you RocketPineapple.

Well, we aren't actually enough to make a marathon at this point, 3 people aren't enough.
We should be at least 7 or 8 to make this marathon.
The ideal number would be 12-15 people.

If you are interested to participate, don't hesitate.
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Plasmo: 2014-04-17 02:53:19 am
Plasmo: 2014-04-17 02:53:02 am
I love YaBB 1G - SP1!
Quote:
I thought it would be more funny to organize such a marathon here and not for example at shmups.com, because I don't want necessary only perfect players on this marathon, some more casual streamers will be welcome.


What.

Why don't you try to organize a speedrun marathon at shmups.com. There are lots of people who aren't that good at them.

Anyway, good luck with your Touhou-thon. I'm probably going to watch it.
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lecorbak: 2014-04-17 05:12:20 am
Vanilla H is mai waifu
Plasmo, you didn't understand the point of the marathon.
It's not to make a totally casual marathon.
There are less shmup players here that speedrunners, so it's normal to be not as restrictive as a speedrun marathon.

Anyway, I'm not a part of the "shmups.com" community and I will be surely never, that's actually a good reason to make it here.

Quote:
Anyway, good luck with your Touhou-thon.

Well I swear there will be not touhou players only.
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Sebrings: 2014-04-17 07:23:32 am
WELL SINCE HALO AND SC AREN'T GOOD ENOUGH.

Twitch: www.twitch.tv/sebrings_/

Game: Fable 3

Objective: Finish Campaign

Time Estimate: 4:20:00

Level: n00b

Ya this is a shmuppy game
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lecorbak: 2014-04-18 12:41:01 pm
Vanilla H is mai waifu
Sebrings, go read that =>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoot_%27em_up

fable 3 looks like an Action-RPG for me
my hat is my friend
Yes, I am doing normal difficulty, also yes I can do the extra stage as well, here is a replay of it: http://www.twitch.tv/rocketpineapple/c/3984984
Sad cries bc i don't run a shmuppy game
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Potato Handle: 2014-04-20 01:16:06 am
Plays games quickly. Eventually.
I'd love to do a casual% run of Tyrian for this; it's one of my favourite games ever, but the dates don't suit unfortunately, any week after this I could make work, but I'll be on holiday until then. I'll keep an eye out on the thread though and I'll sign up if anything changes. \o/

Tyrian is an amazing old DOS shmup which would be 60-90 minutes long for the full game at a guess, or about 15-20 minutes for a chapter; I'm Australian so I can fill really crappy timeslots. I'll do a proper submission if the dates change. \o/
Vanilla H is mai waifu
I will not change the dates.
If you need some casual play I can offer:

The "why are these games so expensive and why did I buy them" submissions

Hyper Duel for sega saturn
Batsugun for sega saturn

I can post time estimates the next time I play through them, and If there are more qualified players I can withdraw these submissions. I can only run the saturday evening (work during day) after 1am GMT (7CST) until 7am GMT (1am GMT) because I am doing a 24h stream of my own on that sunday
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lecorbak: 2014-04-21 01:44:16 am
Vanilla H is mai waifu
what objective are you attempting with these runs ?
scoring ?

do you have any replays of any runs of these games ?
Vanilla H is mai waifu
well sorry everyone, but there aren't enouch people to make a marathon.
so, this marathon is cancelled.

thanks for all the answers.
Metroid 2 Ho!
Why wouldn't you just push it back a few months and try to organize more people? I mean, it's near impossible to setup a marathon in only a month or two, they usually requite half a year at least of planning.