I would be very interested in boss-fight runs. Im not into 10h runs with 7h+ of storyline tekst-talk. But seeing different strategys for bosses and the fastest times to get them down would be interesting. Anyone in on that? Or are there already recorded runs of boss fights on other sites? Anyone knows?
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I love YaBB 1G - SP1!
The other day I made a runthrough of this game for the hell of it. Right now I'm about to head into the temple and my time is at about eight and a half hours. There are a number of things I could have done better, because I really wasn't trying to get the absolute fastest time ever, so if I had done everything better, I could have slimmed off maybe an 1/2 hour to an hour. However, GarlandG had himself at 4:00 at this point so clearly I have much to improve on.
I want to do a recorded speed run of the game for SDA, and I want to do it on an emulator, because it's easier that way, but I hear alot of talking down about emulators. What's so bad about them? They make the process much easier in terms of save states and recording video. If emulators are used for NES and SNES games, why not PS games as well?
Edit: I just read the FAQ on this site, and the reason it gave for not using emulators is a pretty good one. That's fair, I'll just have to get something to allow me to record video. However, were all the speed runs I saw of Super Mario Bros 3 and stuff done without emulators? Cause that would be nuts.
I want to do a recorded speed run of the game for SDA, and I want to do it on an emulator, because it's easier that way, but I hear alot of talking down about emulators. What's so bad about them? They make the process much easier in terms of save states and recording video. If emulators are used for NES and SNES games, why not PS games as well?
Edit: I just read the FAQ on this site, and the reason it gave for not using emulators is a pretty good one. That's fair, I'll just have to get something to allow me to record video. However, were all the speed runs I saw of Super Mario Bros 3 and stuff done without emulators? Cause that would be nuts.
I love YaBB 1G - SP1!
That's fair.
Another question: obviously this run can't be done all in one video shoot. A couple of videos will need to be edited together. What's the policy on that? I saw nothing in the FAQ.
Edit: I've done some searching around the site, and I've gotten a pretty good idea of what a segment is. Videos are broken up into segments, which go from save to save. Sorry for all the noob questions.
Another question: obviously this run can't be done all in one video shoot. A couple of videos will need to be edited together. What's the policy on that? I saw nothing in the FAQ.
Edit: I've done some searching around the site, and I've gotten a pretty good idea of what a segment is. Videos are broken up into segments, which go from save to save. Sorry for all the noob questions.
I love YaBB 1G - SP1!
OK
I went out last night and bought all the equipment to record my run, and this afternoon I ran the first two segments. I have videos, they are 2.3G and 6.8G uncompressed.
Question: Would SDA prefer them in divx format or can I compress them as binks? Pros and cons:
Divx:
- More people have it and like it
- con: Requires the player for those who don't have it already.
Bink:
- I like it.
- Much better quality at the same compression rate.
- Doesn't require a player -- has a self-playing executable.
- Is free with no watermarks.
- con: You can't control the movie, you can only play and pause.
I couldn't find any information about this on the site.
I went out last night and bought all the equipment to record my run, and this afternoon I ran the first two segments. I have videos, they are 2.3G and 6.8G uncompressed.
Question: Would SDA prefer them in divx format or can I compress them as binks? Pros and cons:
Divx:
- More people have it and like it
- con: Requires the player for those who don't have it already.
Bink:
- I like it.
- Much better quality at the same compression rate.
- Doesn't require a player -- has a self-playing executable.
- Is free with no watermarks.
- con: You can't control the movie, you can only play and pause.
I couldn't find any information about this on the site.
Sleeping Terror
Well, I have my media player set up just the way I like it. If I'm watching a video, I want to watch it in my media player, not in some weird separate executable that probably won't act the way I want it to. And I certainly don't want to install a new media player.
Personally, I'm fine with anything that I can download a codec for (except RealMedia - they need to die). But I don't know how Radix feels.
Personally, I'm fine with anything that I can download a codec for (except RealMedia - they need to die). But I don't know how Radix feels.
I love YaBB 1G - SP1!
Sure they can, with wine. Bink works perfectly with wine, I know from experience. But don't worry about it, I'll do divx.
The reason I suggested bink was because at the same 100:1 compression ratio, in divx the words that people say and the numbers in battle were all almost too blurry to read, and with bink they were crystal clear and sharp. The low quality videos will benefit as well because they will be much smaller and probably still legible, but if I tried to make the divx version any smaller it would be totally incoherent and discombobulated (ooh big words!)
How about this, at great expense to myself, I'll upload both videos to my server, and SDA can choose which ones to distribute.
The reason I suggested bink was because at the same 100:1 compression ratio, in divx the words that people say and the numbers in battle were all almost too blurry to read, and with bink they were crystal clear and sharp. The low quality videos will benefit as well because they will be much smaller and probably still legible, but if I tried to make the divx version any smaller it would be totally incoherent and discombobulated (ooh big words!)
How about this, at great expense to myself, I'll upload both videos to my server, and SDA can choose which ones to distribute.
It's-a me, Raven!
A shame this topic died, really... I watched Advent Children this week, and my FF7 spark got re-kindled. I'm not much of a speedrunner myself (let alone that I even have the time or resources to do so), but I'd love to see ANY run online, really... Whether if it's four, fourteen, or forty hours.
bink is not good for this, you should do xvid.
emerald weapon beaten with tifa on level 7:
http://n.ethz.ch/student/wmartin/videos/FFVII%20(US)%20LV7%20Tifa%20vs.%20Emerald%20Weapon%20(Solo%20Victory).wmv
emerald weapon beaten in 1 minutes and 20 seconds:
http://n.ethz.ch/student/wmartin/videos/FFVII%20(JP)%20Beating%20Emerald%20Weapon%20(in%201.18%20min).rmvb
http://n.ethz.ch/student/wmartin/
emerald weapon beaten with tifa on level 7:
http://n.ethz.ch/student/wmartin/videos/FFVII%20(US)%20LV7%20Tifa%20vs.%20Emerald%20Weapon%20(Solo%20Victory).wmv
emerald weapon beaten in 1 minutes and 20 seconds:
http://n.ethz.ch/student/wmartin/videos/FFVII%20(JP)%20Beating%20Emerald%20Weapon%20(in%201.18%20min).rmvb
http://n.ethz.ch/student/wmartin/