How'd you find the mighty SDA?

2005-11-10 07:39:10 am

I'm addicted to games

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So I started an ICQ chat with Gunnar and Nolan and asked "Hey guys, what do you think if we combined Nightmare Speed Demos and Muad'dib's Speed Run site. We could get it hosted on PlanetQuake and call it...."

You came up with the name?
Because I honestly don't remember.

Don't suppose you logged this chat? Roll Eyes

tangent

2005-11-10 09:18:59 am

I love YaBB 1G - SP1!

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You came up with the name?
Because I honestly don't remember.

Don't suppose you logged this chat? Roll Eyes

Just went through my ICQ logs. I never recorded multi-chats, and it seems ICQ only started logging messages for me around June 1998. Looking back at the logs, quite some interesting things we were talking about back then... teasing Gunnar about Norway's performance in the World Cup, bitching about Justin harrassing me about status of Qd100Qlite, bitching about id not getting us anywhere with Q2 sources.

Went through my email archive too, apparently it only went as far back as March 1999 :/

I do remember being the one who originally brought up the idea of combining the site. I only vaguely remember suggesting SDA as the name, in any case we definitely didn't spend much time discussing it, it was like "Okay, sounds good to me. Let's go ahead with it."

Radix

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Radix: 2005-11-10 09:44:01 am

2005-11-10 09:43:49 am

I'm addicted to games

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I do remember being the one who originally brought up the idea of combining the site. I only vaguely remember suggesting SDA as the name, in any case we definitely didn't spend much time discussing it, it was like "Okay, sounds good to me. Let's go ahead with it."

If only you'd called "Quake demos archive" aarrrrrrgh. :hit:

Mkt2015

2005-11-10 10:42:38 am

MGS for PS1 forever.

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I totally intended to find a site with speed runs, as, after watching the SMB3 TAS video on Ebaums or something, I loquaciously and unrelentlessly explained to my friends that all I ever wanted, from the internet, anyways, was to have a site that displayed videos of games in their entirety.

In college I thought of starting up a business of "Video Walkthroughs" since most guides tell you how to do things...but you still have to do them on your own. I did think about this for quite a while...going

...you'd have to know the game inside and out and there would have to be people dedicated to doing such a thing...

...you wouldn't want many mistakes and the video should show optimum paths...

The thing that really stopped me from even trying this was the thought of many mistakes and optimum paths. A year or so later Nolan branched off of Quake and...tada...

tangent

2005-11-11 04:29:23 pm

I love YaBB 1G - SP1!

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If only you'd called "Quake demos archive" aarrrrrrgh. :hit:

Actually, I think there was another site with that name around on PQ at that time, which was doing general Quake demos.

mike89

2005-11-13 06:48:25 am

SEGA Junkie

Bit of a gradual process for me.

After having joined the Sonic Center in late 2003, I developed a habit of speedrunning just about every game I got my hands on. This process took me across to Banjo Tooie, on which I finished in a very unpolished eight and a half hours.

So I took the discussion to GameFAQs (as I didn't know any better at the time) and some people there suggested the discussion be moved to SDA. So that's basically how I found out about the site. ^_^

Samus_Aran

2005-11-13 06:40:01 pm

Touches Things

I found this VIA Yahoo. I had seen a site long ago, I think metroid2002 (Which I am pretty sure was previously named 2000), I seen runs on their. And like a few years later, I decided I wanted to do a SM run. So I looked for something under Super Metroid Speed Records or something. Then I found this place. Kind of glad, because I can now do dif runs that I couldnt do before. Mostly for my own satisfaction. But, if I come across a game, which I think I have one in mind already, I will do a run on it.

Radix

2005-11-13 08:37:45 pm

I'm addicted to games

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I think metroid2002 (Which I am pretty sure was previously named 2000)

No

Pweisger

2005-11-14 02:19:30 am

PwNzRd!

You don't get a response simpler than that...

PhazonAddict

2005-11-14 01:42:36 pm

I read a magazine called NGC (I think it's only available in the UK). They did this thing called Skill Club which was a group of game-related challenges. One of them was to get a total time of under 3 minutes 50 seconds for 10-Man Melee on SSBM, so I watched the videos on this site for help. I've taken an interest in speedruns ever since.

darkwasabi

2005-11-14 07:30:51 pm

King of hearts

Found this place from a post on 4Chan's /v/ board. Someone posted a link to this place's FFIII run. I was amazed at how quickly it could be beaten. Loved speedruns ever since.

henkie

2005-11-14 07:52:24 pm

Thruthfully, I don't quite remember how I found this place exactly. Which ever way it was, be it via any random search engine, or via some link on PlanetQuake, I do remember the reason I searched for something like this.

I had already found the Quake done Quick and Quake done Quicker on a site hosted on PlanetQuake some years ago. I also found a Halflife run somewhere, and I loved the tricks and general cheese with which the runners abused the game. Somewhere in June, or July of this year, I thought that perhaps somebody had abused Doom 3 and/or Halflife 2 in a similar manner as their respective predecessors. So I went on a search for them and ended up on this site, which also held a myriad of other speed runs. Kind of stuck around ever since.

pyurrhia

2005-11-14 09:55:06 pm

like cranky kong, but not as nice

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Searching for the Half-Life speed run after seeing the 45 minute video at a lan held at UCF (I believe it was segmented). I've been an absolute pain in the ass for Radix since then, not to mention a bandwidth leach, a source of completely useless information, VGcats comic links, insincere enthusiasm for other people's projects and have only contributed to the forum spamming by my own mass bumped threads with myself as the sole contributor that only exist because I like to listen to myself talk and think I'm intelligent.

is he having a go at me? Wink

Samus_Aran

2005-11-15 05:41:07 pm

Touches Things

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I read a magazine called NGC (I think it's only available in the UK). They did this thing called Skill Club which was a group of game-related challenges. One of them was to get a total time of under 3 minutes 50 seconds for 10-Man Melee on SSBM, so I watched the videos on this site for help. I've taken an interest in speedruns ever since.

You mean when you kill the 10 computers? Im not quite sure, but I am pretty positive you can beat that easily. Its been a while for me.

CannibalBob

2005-11-16 06:15:27 pm

Google IIRC. Was a little difficult to find, I got a taste of speedruns from some other games (ie. Quake) and wanted more, but couldn't really find any good sites.

Bp_

2005-11-16 08:36:28 pm

one of my friend when i was at cegep show me 2 TAS speed run. One of mega man2 and one of mario bros3.

then i was OMFG ( i didnt know what TAS was Shocked

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i really like that so i wne to google and typed

speed run in google and i founded the bizkwit ( whatever its spelled ) and a bit latter i founded SDA.

YautjaElder

2005-11-17 09:16:04 pm

Speed is the key.

I was a Diablo II geek back in the day and on one of the D2 sites there was a link to the Diablo II speedrun made by David Gibbons, i clicked that link and found myself here. I watched the run and liked it, so i wondered if there was more of these "Speedruns" ( I had never even heard the word). I found the gamelist and I was like, Wow. Then i found my way to the forum and so on.

Kubelwagon

2005-11-18 04:54:42 am

I read it in a magazine that mentioned the link.

I surfed around on the site for about a year and waited and waited for someone to do a Call of Duty run. I finally got tired of waiting and decided to do one myself, so I registered on the forum and... tada... here I am.

Apathy

2005-11-18 07:00:28 am

King n00b!

I was kind of hoping someone would have said "I was looking for hot male strippers, and here I am" Shocked

Petrucci

2006-01-06 10:59:23 pm

Change of Seasons

Was reading the wikipedia article on Pure Pwnage (the web show) and it said something about in episode 4 when teh_masterer is playing 4 games at once on his comp it was pre recorded runs from www.speeddemosarchive.com and I checked it out. That was this summer.

getter77

2006-01-06 11:43:24 pm

100% runs=great to watch

Posted on the barely existing comments/forum bit on the archive.org section...somebody mentioned here in a post...and thus the addiction was born.

Lam6ch0p

2006-01-07 12:07:23 am

$inner

wired showed me the site

nate

2006-01-07 12:40:46 am

i met a guy called radix in #metroid on espernet in july of 2003. i agreed to compete against him running metroid prime 100% in august.

and the rest, as they say, is history.

Lam6ch0p

2006-01-07 04:33:26 am

$inner

I'm deaf so I'm not for sure what the hell they say.

DLH112

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DLH112: 2006-01-07 04:43:13 am

2006-01-07 04:40:43 am

Some time late summer or fall of '04 i completed Ocarina of Time in 8.5 hours and thought it was pretty good. I googled to find the world record, and found a forum topic that TSA started, I think, or was at least posting in. From the sig in one of his posts, I found the link to his old site, zhq2.com. That was my first time actually going to sda, I just looked around the site for quite a while though. I didn't join until I wanted to start a Majora's Mask single segment run back in last February.