How'd you find the mighty SDA?

slYnki

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slYnki: 2005-11-06 06:51:14 pm

2005-11-06 06:50:52 pm

XXY

Since a discussion about this became rampant, and popular here, I decided to just make a thread just about it.

The question is, how did you find this website? For me personally, I saw the url on a DVD my friend was showing me. We were watching Dante beat the crap out of all these dead skull things with scythes, and he noticed something called "speedruns" on the disc. We saw a few clips and at one point my friend Charles just said, "how....?" That's how I found it.

Now it's your turn o.o

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NintenDan

2005-11-06 06:55:03 pm

Oof...can't recall 100%, but I think just through google. I was already in several time attacking communities, so I was bound to type "speedruns" in google and find the site sooner or later

BTW, is there a way to make a poll for this topic?

stx-Vile

2005-11-06 06:58:44 pm

The man made of sticks

I've known about SDA long before it branched out to games beyond Quake, watching QDQ and such.

Polsy

2005-11-06 07:07:34 pm

I'm another 'via metroid2002.com' person. I think I was googling for Metroid Prime tricks, or something similar.

Gorash

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Gorash: 2005-11-06 07:13:37 pm

2005-11-06 07:13:21 pm

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Yup, lurker at m2k2, and when Nate some day announced something would now be hosted here I found my way here. IIRC I resurrected an ill-fated topic about Diablo2 back then...

AquaTiger

2005-11-06 07:14:00 pm

Never give up!

I found it because someone from another forum I went to at the time (and still visit on occasion) linked the Mega Man X4 run. I just decided to investigate further and now here I am.

CannibalK9

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CannibalK9: 2005-11-06 07:18:30 pm

2005-11-06 07:18:14 pm

give me your eyes!!!

Found a link to an old MGS3 run on the comparatively sucky Gamefaqs message boards.

InsaneB4st4rd

2005-11-06 07:22:26 pm

Still alive...

I first found PD-Elite somewhere in the end of last year. i wanted to know how good i am compared to the world records. I suck...

Anyway, after that i got interested in what the RE2 record is. I jumped then over, what must have been 2000 links, to SDA. And here I am. Smiley

VorpalEdge

2005-11-06 07:33:05 pm

welcome to the machine

Radix's 1:37. I lurked around m2k2 and gamefaqs before that, but the 1:37 introduced me to sda (and the irc channel perhaphs, I can't remember).

Mad_Andy

2005-11-06 07:44:42 pm

When i wanted to do a speedrun of eternal darkness a friend pointed me to this site. Then i pretty much stayed here.

DAMURDOC

2005-11-06 07:48:36 pm

The BaldurManiac

I don't know... seriously!

ballofsnow

2005-11-06 07:52:41 pm

I used to play a lot of Q2:WF and heard about Q2DQ.

soteos

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soteos: 2005-11-06 08:16:44 pm

2005-11-06 08:16:31 pm

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Radix's 1:37.

Yep.
I remember another thread like this, but I can't find it now.

Tub

2005-11-06 08:31:59 pm

m00

enjoyed watching qdq, stumbled upon the sda link there, was here when the "other game"-section opened.

Brightstar

2005-11-06 08:47:04 pm

I was there at the creation of SDA (non-quake) as we all chatted there in #metroid

slYnki

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slYnki: 2005-11-06 09:07:30 pm

2005-11-06 09:06:30 pm

XXY

Yeah soteos, I think there was a thread like this before, but you would have to enter the maximum age thingy in the search. Whatever, this is just easier. I left this alone for about an hour, and 13 replies later, and a 2nd page.... @_@;

Surprisingly general answers too. Google, Quake or Metoid. Interesting.

7 0 x 7

2005-11-06 09:18:46 pm

ouch!

searching for mario 64 speedrun on google and found it Grin

InsaneB4st4rd

2005-11-06 09:22:34 pm

Still alive...

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Surprisingly general answers too. Google, Quake or Metoid. Interesting.

What do you expect? Aliens from *insert strange universe here* tell us to got to SDA and register on the Forum?

slYnki

2005-11-06 09:30:18 pm

XXY

Considering this croud, yeah actually @_@;

Tongue

trihex

2005-11-06 09:52:10 pm

Yoshi's eggs are at my mercy!

I hadn't realized but long ago I found the (at the time) 11:08 run of Super Mario World 3. Being stupid and misinformed, I had thought it was done in real time (since at the time I didn't know what TASes were.

I lost my download of it and was in search of it again, so I googled "Super Mario Wolrd 3 [something]" (don't remember exactly), and eventually hit Quake Speedruns or whatever Radix called pre-SDA. I browsed around the "other games" list for about 2 months before bothering registering at the forums. At that time, I would try to mimic David Gibbon's Yoshi's Island runs on my GBA version.

515 posts later, I have 1 impressive run, 2 crappy runs, and 2 rejected runs. That about sums it all up.

Dark

2005-11-06 10:14:43 pm

I was seeking Target Test World Record for SSBM. I know these one are not the best, but heck, they impressed me last year!

slYnki

2005-11-06 10:18:36 pm

XXY

There's better Break the Target videos somewhere? @_@;

How can that be?

-Suzaku-

2005-11-06 10:23:57 pm

Eternal Understudy

Tri hex, don't you mean Mario world 2 or Mario Advance 3?

Anyway, I honestly don't remember how I got here, I just sort of... did. Maybe those aliens that InsaneB4st4rd mentioned had something to do with it.

Dark

2005-11-06 11:30:57 pm

PoCari: Because these (for some of them) are not world record.

trihex

2005-11-07 12:09:50 am

Yoshi's eggs are at my mercy!

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Tri hex, don't you mean Mario world 2 or Mario Advance 3?

Anyway, I honestly don't remember how I got here, I just sort of... did. Maybe those aliens that InsaneB4st4rd mentioned had something to do with it.

Right, I actually meant Bros., Super Mario Bros. 3. >_>; (You lost)