Cash bounties for speedruns [locked]

2008-01-13 05:56:58 pm

Waiting hurts my soul...

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OK, I remember something with a rather odd name like that now.

I assume that playing emulated games (ala Pitfall II on GBA) will NOT count as new systems.

If you're talking about my bounty, then it only counts as a new console added when a new section is added to the game list drop down menu. GBA has already had some runs, so I won't pay out for any of those. There's already a DS run, so I won't pay for that either. If you have any questions on a particular console just ask about it and I'll let you know.

slowbro

2008-01-15 12:24:46 pm

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I assume that playing emulated games (ala Pitfall II on GBA) will NOT count as new systems.

Oh, heh heh, I just realized that if I bought an Atari 2600 and matched my Pitfall II runs (I think the 2600 versions would be faster because the GBA version has a lot of slowdown), I could get five bucks. Or somebody with a 2600 could get five from ZenicReverie and fifty from me for running Adventure for 2600 on medium or hard.

I'm just thinking out loud; I'm not planning to buy a 2600.

Xarthok

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Xarthok: 2008-02-09 06:48:12 pm

2008-02-09 05:47:10 pm

DOSBox <3

I offer my love very long time for any Blood speedruns on SDA!

And a handjob for any DOS sidescroller run.

tycho102

2008-02-15 02:19:50 am

Some people think they can outsmart me.

I'll put up $50 for Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries, Mechwarrior 3, and Mechwarrior 4: Mercenaries. If it's just an absolutely incredible run, I'll throw in maybe another $25. I'm not entirely sure about Mech 2, 4, Black Knight, or Mechwarrior 1. Possibly, but just not certain at this point.

I can provide an FTP account to for the video. You'd just have to capture the FRAPS/Camtasia video, convert it over to something smaller like Divx/Xvid/H264 at 400KB/sec, and upload it to the FTP. I'd handle all the various intermediate encodings, plus editing. I can help work out "batch" encodes of all the small segments so that it's not so much of a hassle.

Hexrapper

2008-02-18 08:50:41 am

I'd like to amend my Goemon bounty to being simply a run done through the game. Whether or not it's segmented is of no significance. That might open up the possibility of it ever getting done a very slight margin >.>

I'd also like to throw up a few more titles.

- Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 on either PS2, GCN or Xbox. Any%, where that places the run ending can be up for debate in the forums if anyone wants to tackle it. $25.

- Tony Hawk's Underground on either PS2, GCN or Xbox. Any% on Sick difficulty. $25

- Tony Hawk's Underground 2 on either PS2, GCN or Xbox. Improvement over the run currently on the site. SS. $25.

- Tony Hawk's American Wasteland on either PS2, GCN, Xbox or 360. Any% on Sick difficulty. $25.

- Tony Hawk's Project 8 on either 360 or PS3. Any% (makes it into Project 8.) $25.

- Tony Hawk's Proving Ground on 360 or PS3. All story paths complete. $25.

- Tony Hawk's American Wasteland classic goals run on PS2 Collector's Edition, Sick difficulty. 100% goals complete. $25.

- Tony Hawk's Underground 2 classic goals run on PS2, GCN or Xbox, Sick difficulty. 100% goals complete. $25.

Just getting something up there for every Tony Hawk game. TH games have been in and out of getting ran and hopefully this will be added incentive =P. If something's getting done regardless then that's always good too. I'll pay within two weeks of the run being available on SDA, though most likely it won't take that long. If someone wants to contact me about these then the best way to do so would be through e-mail, which I check every day. That would be: hexrapper[at]gmail.com. I'll try to log in here more frequently from now on, but e-mail is definitely the preferred method of communication over PMs.

I'd like to amend my Goemon bounty to being simply a run done through the game. Whether or not it's segmented is of no significance. That might open up the possibility of it ever getting done a very slight margin >.>

I'd also like to throw up a few more titles.

- Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4 on either PS2, GCN or Xbox. Any%, where that places the run ending can be up for debate in the forums if anyone wants to tackle it. $25.

- Tony Hawk's Underground on either PS2, GCN or Xbox. Any% on Sick difficulty. $25

- Tony Hawk's Underground 2 on either PS2, GCN or Xbox. Improvement over the run currently on the site. SS. $25.

- Tony Hawk's American Wasteland on either PS2, GCN, Xbox or 360. Any% on Sick difficulty. $25.

- Tony Hawk's Project 8 on either 360 or PS3. Any% (makes it into Project 8.) $25.

- Tony Hawk's Proving Ground on 360 or PS3. All story paths complete. $25.

- Tony Hawk's American Wasteland classic goals run on PS2 Collector's Edition, Sick difficulty. 100% goals complete. $25.

- Tony Hawk's Underground 2 classic goals run on PS2, GCN or Xbox, Sick difficulty. 100% goals complete. $25.

Just getting something up there for every Tony Hawk game. TH games have been in and out of getting ran and hopefully this will be added incentive =P. If something's getting done regardless then that's always good too. I'll pay within two weeks of the run being available on SDA, though most likely it won't take that long. If someone wants to contact me about these then the best way to do so would be through e-mail, which I check every day. That would be: hexrapper[at]gmail.com. I'll try to log in here more frequently from now on, but e-mail is definitely the preferred method of communication over PMs.

Enhasa

2008-02-18 07:15:40 pm

everybody wanna tell you the meaning of music

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And a handjob for any DOS sidescroller run.

Oh I see how this is. You will pleasure yourself furiously after each run.

VorpalEdge

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VorpalEdge: 2008-02-19 10:21:39 pm

2008-02-19 10:18:47 pm

welcome to the machine

Oh man, I started playing freespace 2 again and... my bounty is insane. I know that I suck and that my original bounty was probably possible, but...

The revised version is: the same amount of money, $25, for a speedrun of the game that gets on SDA. No difficulty stipulations, no forced 100%. Just play well. I do reserve the right to withhold cash if I feel that the verifiers were too lenient and that the run should not be on SDA, but I honestly doubt this case would come up in a million years.

As per the usual, do contact me beforehand to make sure I'm actually around, etc.

Foetzli

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Foetzli: 2008-02-21 04:06:03 am

2008-02-21 04:05:41 am

i'm offering a 20$ (13,60€) bounty for a single segment no death/hit speedrun of the c64 classic CybernoidII within the next 6 months (21st of august 2008 ). the only condition is to record your keyboard or joystick while performing the run (c64). good luck!

here is a (in my opinion tas) run of this game:

groobo

2008-02-21 09:25:13 am

boss

There's nothing that looks tas in this run.

slowbro

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slowbro: 2008-04-08 08:13:14 am

2008-02-25 02:58:49 am

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I'll put up $50 for Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries, Mechwarrior 3, and Mechwarrior 4: Mercenaries. If it's just an absolutely incredible run, I'll throw in maybe another $25. I'm not entirely sure about Mech 2, 4, Black Knight, or Mechwarrior 1. Possibly, but just not certain at this point.

I can provide an FTP account to for the video. You'd just have to capture the FRAPS/Camtasia video, convert it over to something smaller like Divx/Xvid/H264 at 400KB/sec, and upload it to the FTP. I'd handle all the various intermediate encodings, plus editing. I can help work out "batch" encodes of all the small segments so that it's not so much of a hassle.

Tycho102, does your bounty require that you run Mechwarrior 2, 3 and 4 in order to get one $50? I just want to make sure.

tycho102

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tycho102: 2008-02-26 01:11:20 am

2008-02-26 01:10:50 am

Some people think they can outsmart me.

Slowbro, no -- I'll put up $50 per game. I'll throw in another $25 on certain conditions, which should be very easily worked out with the runner prior to doing the run.

And like I said, I'll handle all the encoding. He (she) would have to do one massive unconstrained join with H264 to knock all that FRAPS video down to something managable (like maybe 8GB or something), but I'd get it all cleaned up and handle the various formats. Technically speaking, I've got plenty of FTP space for 500GB of video. But that's one hell of a upload/download.

Psonar

2008-03-10 06:45:04 am

Long live SF64!

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Oh man, I started playing freespace 2 again and... my bounty is insane. I know that I suck and that my original bounty was probably possible, but...

The revised version is: the same amount of money, $25, for a speedrun of the game that gets on SDA. No difficulty stipulations, no forced 100%. Just play well. I do reserve the right to withhold cash if I feel that the verifiers were too lenient and that the run should not be on SDA, but I honestly doubt this case would come up in a million years.

As per the usual, do contact me beforehand to make sure I'm actually around, etc.

LOL

I'm glad to here you're playing it again... as you may remember, I was in the middle of playing it for the first time when you made that bounty, and I pretty much chalked it up as insane... I just figured you were poor, so you were trying to stimulate some interest without any risk of having to pay it, but now I see your memory just needed refreshing. I'm almost tempted to go for this now, but I'm afraid the Source Code Project version available online wouldn't be accepted since it's not the official release.

Free Space 1 would be fun, but I'm afraid it might not make that great of a speedrun, and it would be very difficult to optimize ... I'd hate to find out that I actually suck at the game because it takes me too long to dogfight a Dragon class ship. That and some missions require lots of waiting, or the fastest outcome might be to lose the mission, which is never fun. Anyway, I'm rambling - glad to see the updated bounty!

[quote]Oh man, I started playing freespace 2 again and... my bounty is insane.  I know that I suck and that my original bounty was probably possible, but...

The revised version is: the same amount of money, $25, for a speedrun of the game that gets on SDA.  No difficulty stipulations, no forced 100%.  Just play well.  I do reserve the right to withhold cash if I feel that the verifiers were too lenient and that the run should not be on SDA, but I honestly doubt this case would come up in a million years.

As per the usual, do contact me beforehand to make sure I'm actually around, etc.[/quote]
LOL

I'm glad to here you're playing it again... as you may remember, I was in the middle of playing it for the first time when you made that bounty, and I pretty much chalked it up as insane... I just figured you were poor, so you were trying to stimulate some interest without any risk of having to pay it, but now I see your memory just needed refreshing.  I'm almost tempted to go for this now, but I'm afraid the Source Code Project version available online wouldn't be accepted since it's not the official release.

Free Space 1 would be fun, but I'm afraid it might not make that great of a speedrun, and it would be very difficult to optimize ... I'd hate to find out that I actually suck at the game because it takes me too long to dogfight a Dragon class ship.  That and some missions require lots of waiting, or the fastest outcome might be to lose the mission, which is never fun.  Anyway, I'm rambling - glad to see the updated bounty!

Prognosis_4

(user is banned)

2008-03-14 08:34:34 pm

I'll give someone 200$ if they can do the following:

-Trauma Center: Second Opinion single segment, XS ranking on every mission, with a time under 3 hours Tongue

Same applies to New Blood.

nate

2008-03-14 11:44:25 pm

is that canadian? if so, all the better ...

VorpalEdge

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VorpalEdge: 2008-03-20 04:36:41 am

2008-03-20 04:35:32 am

welcome to the machine

Psonar:

You are more than welcome to claim my money if you want to. I encourage it. Smiley

But sadly, no, the source code project would not be accepted. It'd have to be done on the original game (frankly, I think the original looks pretty spiffy still, but I haven't ever played the scp). Now freespace 1, that game is so dated I'm surprised it runs at all on my computer, but that's another story.

And yeah, not knowing how good I am is one of the reasons I haven't toyed with thoughts of running the game myself. Well, I have, but I am also quite sure that I would not be able to get anywhere near a decent run time myself, and so I have disqualified myself. Sad

Besides, I'm lazy enough with my projects as it is, so I'd never finish it anyways.

In conclusion, I beg of you to go give me an excuse to spend money.

Psonar

2008-03-23 05:20:53 am

Long live SF64!

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In conclusion, I beg of you to go give me an excuse to spend money.

LOL....

The cogs are turning.... we shall see....

-Suzaku-

2008-03-27 10:02:04 pm

Eternal Understudy

I guess I'll put up a bounty.

$25 - Shatterhand for NES . A clean deathless run. No specific time required, but should be good enough for SDA (Obviously)

Pendrokar

2008-04-02 04:44:38 pm

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Psonar:

You are more than welcome to claim my money if you want to. I encourage it. Smiley

But sadly, no, the source code project would not be accepted. It'd have to be done on the original game (frankly, I think the original looks pretty spiffy still, but I haven't ever played the scp). Now freespace 1, that game is so dated I'm surprised it runs at all on my computer, but that's another story.

And yeah, not knowing how good I am is one of the reasons I haven't toyed with thoughts of running the game myself. Well, I have, but I am also quite sure that I would not be able to get anywhere near a decent run time myself, and so I have disqualified myself. Sad

Besides, I'm lazy enough with my projects as it is, so I'd never finish it anyways.

In conclusion, I beg of you to go give me an excuse to spend money.

Problem with Freespace 2 is that you can speed it up maximum ofl 10 times!!! Well I don't think anyone could even win a mission with 10x, but most probably can with 2x speed!

[quote]Psonar:

You are more than welcome to claim my money if you want to.  I encourage it.  :)  But sadly, no, the source code project would not be accepted.  It'd have to be done on the original game (frankly, I think the original looks pretty spiffy still, but I haven't ever played the scp).  Now freespace 1, that game is so dated I'm surprised it runs at all on my computer, but that's another story.

And yeah, not knowing how good I am is one of the reasons I haven't toyed with thoughts of running the game myself.  Well, I have, but I am also quite sure that I would not be able to get anywhere near a decent run time myself, and so I have disqualified myself.  :(  Besides, I'm lazy enough with my projects as it is, so I'd never finish it anyways.

In conclusion, I beg of you to go give me an excuse to spend money.[/quote]
Problem with Freespace 2 is that you can speed it up maximum ofl 10 times!!! Well I don't think anyone could even win a mission with 10x, but most probably can with 2x speed!

VorpalEdge

2008-04-02 05:24:12 pm

welcome to the machine

Doesn't the timer also speed up when you do that?

Pendrokar

2008-04-05 09:27:38 am

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I'll put up $50 for Mechwarrior 2: Mercenaries, Mechwarrior 3, and Mechwarrior 4: Mercenaries. If it's just an absolutely incredible run, I'll throw in maybe another $25. I'm not entirely sure about Mech 2, 4, Black Knight, or Mechwarrior 1. Possibly, but just not certain at this point.

Question about Mechwarrior 4: Mercenaries. In options you could turn some stuff on and off such as: Heat On/Off; Unlimited Ammo On/Off; Invincibility On/Off(Don't remember if there was this one)! Would it be allowed for this speedrun if I turn Off heat? Well you most probably then wouldn't think of this as an incredible run no matter how it would have been played!

tycho102

2008-04-12 08:56:08 pm

Some people think they can outsmart me.

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1. Would it be allowed for this speedrun if I turn Off heat?

2. Well you most probably then wouldn't think of this as an incredible run no matter how it would have been played!

1. I would prefer that you did not use that particular "option". I would rather you play the game on "easy" difficultly, rather than using the "no heat", "invulnerability", and "unlimited ammo" options which are available in the retail game menu.

2. My opinion is directly related to the resolution and frame-rate of the captured video, in addition to "completeness". It actually has little to do with game mechanics. However, it would be nice if your speed-run was submissible to, and accepted by, SDA.

mikwuyma

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mikwuyma: 2008-04-13 02:37:49 am

2008-04-13 02:37:34 am

My feelings on The Demon Rush

Those three options Tycho102 mention in answer 1 are not allowed in speedruns, as they were unlockable options/cheat codes in previous Mechwarrior games.

meepers

2008-04-16 07:27:30 am

I love YaBB 1G - SP1!

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Game: The typing of the dead

Goal: any% SS

Prize: $30

Offer by: Ewil

Preferably with no continues=no deaths.

Still valid? I might give it a shot.

Hexrapper

2008-04-20 10:46:17 pm

A recent run of THUG2 was put up on SDA. Though it wasn't an improvement over the old normal run, I had talked with the runner earlier and it was agreed it'd still conform to my requirements for the bounty. I'd just like to post here stating that I have paid this bounty off, and the runner can confirm it =)

I'd also like to offer up several more bounties:

Kengo: Legend of the 9 - just a pure speed run of the main game with any character.

Drill Dozer - any%. I dunno if this one will even work though, does it work fine with a Gameboy Player? I'm wondering if the added rumble affects those things...

Fatal Frame - just a pure speed run.

Call of Duty 3 (360/PS3) - story mode run. Two bounties for this one - an easy/normal difficulty run for $25 and a veteran run for $50. I'd really like to see if a veteran speed run is even possible =P

All bounties are $25 except for the CoD3 veteran run. If you're interested, please contact me through e-mail (hexrapper[at]gmail.com) before PMing me here as I frequently check my e-mail yet am only here every now and then.

A recent run of THUG2 was put up on SDA. Though it wasn't an improvement over the old normal run, I had talked with the runner earlier and it was agreed it'd still conform to my requirements for the bounty. I'd just like to post here stating that I have paid this bounty off, and the runner can confirm it =)

I'd also like to offer up several more bounties:

Kengo: Legend of the 9 - just a pure speed run of the main game with any character.

Drill Dozer - any%. I dunno if this one will even work though, does it work fine with a Gameboy Player? I'm wondering if the added rumble affects those things...

Fatal Frame - just a pure speed run.

Call of Duty 3 (360/PS3) - story mode run. Two bounties for this one - an easy/normal difficulty run for $25 and a veteran run for $50. I'd really like to see if a veteran speed run is even possible =P

All bounties are $25 except for the CoD3 veteran run. If you're interested, please contact me through e-mail (hexrapper[at]gmail.com) before PMing me here as I frequently check my e-mail yet am only here every now and then.

tycho102

2008-04-22 11:19:08 pm

Some people think they can outsmart me.

SLOWBRO:

Please take down the Mechwarrior 4: Mercenaries bounty.
thx