Half-Life - November 7th, 2012

2012-11-07 09:07:49 pm

1-Up!

Game Page: http://speeddemosarchive.com/HalfLife.html

Half-Life (Any %) (Segmented)

Verifier Responses

Summary-
This run was on PS2 and the runner submitted videos with loading screens edited out. This sort of editing is not allowed on console runs at SDA. The runner no longer has the originals to re-encode. After some discussion between myself and the verifiers and IsraeliRD (our timing expert), it was determined that we had no choice but to reject this run. I recommend a download and hope the runner will consider resubmitting.

Decision: Reject

Reason: See above

This run will be available for a month. After that this link will no longer work.
http://queue.speeddemosarchive.com/queue/verificationfiles/149

Thread title:

S.

2012-11-07 10:06:55 pm

Nice one on cutting our awesome discussion out Sad

:p

Shame we had to reject this

oasiz

2012-11-08 01:58:49 am

Iha paska

It's a real shame that it came to this.
I seriously hope that the runner will have motivation to finish a submittable run in the future because this run breaks a lot of expectations for a console/controller run in a game that has been pretty much PC-only for a long time.

Still recommend any HL1 fan to check it out as the play quality is high and some of the things has to be done differently due to fixed bugs.

Superfrizzio

2012-11-08 07:22:13 am

I'm a Ps2 runner

I hope my single-segment speedrun will be accepted, I didn't cut any loadings.

djcj

2012-11-20 08:10:04 am

That's why you should always keep your original recorded footage until the run is through verification.
Anyway, great someone ran the PS2 version, since it's quite unpopular afaik.

AdamAK

2012-11-20 08:38:59 am

Totally rad

Sorry to hear your run got rejected for technical reasons. Hope you'll find the motivation in doing it again, some day!

djcj

2012-11-24 04:36:23 am

Watched the run. Really nice work.
What difficulty was it? Looks like easy.
I hope the rejection won't stop you from working on a new run.
However, the audio is desync (and IMO the volume should be normalized too).
You can fix the desync with this AviSynth script (found on the SDA Wiki):

Code:

stretch=-550
TimeStretch(tempo=(last.AudioLengthF/(last.AudioLengthF+(stretch*(last.audiorate/1000)))*100))

Maybe the clips where appended with an unaligned splice via VirtualDubMod, which causes desync.
The next time someone should keep an eye on that. Fixing desyc audio is not impossible.

Attachment:

Half-Life (PS2) audio track fixed.mp4

coolkid

2012-11-24 07:42:33 am

It was done on hard but the amount of health and armor you get from pickupz/rechargers got increased on the PS2 version.

Superfrizzio

Edit history:

Superfrizzio: 2012-11-24 02:37:04 pm

2012-11-24 02:35:11 pm

I'm a Ps2 runner

Quote from djcj:

Watched the run. Really nice work.
What difficulty was it? Looks like easy.
I hope the rejection won't stop you from working on a new run.
However, the audio is desync (and IMO the volume should be normalized too).
You can fix the desync with this AviSynth script (found on the SDA Wiki):

Code:

stretch=-550
TimeStretch(tempo=(last.AudioLengthF/(last.AudioLengthF+(stretch*(last.audiorate/1000)))*100))

Maybe the clips where appended with an unaligned splice via VirtualDubMod, which causes desync.
The next time someone should keep an eye on that. Fixing desyc audio is not impossible.

Just like Coolkid says the amount of health/armor you get from batteries and medikits got increased on Ps2. I found new cool tricks and an improved route for some levels so I'll probably make a new segmented speedrun with over 3 minutes better than the currently run and with SDA rules... and I'll try to synchronize the audio Smiley

S.

2012-11-24 04:26:10 pm

[quote="Superfrizzio"]

Quote from djcj:

Watched the run. Really nice work.
Just like Coolkid says the amount of health/armor you get from batteries and medikits got increased on Ps2. I found new cool tricks and an improved route for some levels so I'll probably make a new segmented speedrun with over 3 minutes better than the currently run and with SDA rules... and I'll try to synchronize the audio Smiley

Hype. Go for it Superfrizzio!

quadrazid

2012-11-24 06:14:26 pm

Svart Lyser Tronen

Yea. I'd like to see the angle jump glitch used. Would be really nice.

DJS

2012-11-25 01:49:58 am

torch slug since 2006

i loved this run, i was very impressed by how one can move so fluently with a ps2 controller. good luck on your next run!

Superfrizzio

2012-11-25 07:03:57 am

I'm a Ps2 runner

Thanks guys Smiley