How'd you find the mighty SDA?

2006-01-07 05:02:38 am

Let's fight to computer!

I just realized I can't even remember anymore. There was probably a link from QdQ, which I'd been following off and on since late '99.

Funny that I've been a speedrun fanboy for six years and have still never even come close to attempting one myself. Just lazy, I guess.

Lam6ch0p

2006-01-07 05:04:47 am

$inner

Hmm, sounds familiar, I've been meaning to get my homework done the day it's assigned for around 6 years, but, it never seems to happen

acxy500

2006-01-07 12:51:31 pm

My friend told me that this site existed.. I came running home and recistered Grin

Enhasa

2006-01-07 08:26:43 pm

everybody wanna tell you the meaning of music

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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.

I honestly had no idea that anybody had ever used espernet outside of Unofficial Squaresoft Homepage (and RPGamer and GIA from that) people and Ragnarok Online people.

nate

2006-01-08 01:29:38 am

you've never heard of protoman.com? ;(

we were actually there probably because of tim's mega man network, another mega man community. (the channel was supposed to be that of metroid online/metroid hq, another project of tim's.)

Yoshi348

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Yoshi348: 2006-01-08 02:37:48 am

2006-01-08 02:37:37 am

dinosaur from the past

Was it really Tim's MMN at the time, or did he take it over later?

Gibbatizer

2006-01-08 02:39:49 am

I got like 5 hours in Banjo-Kazooie and thought I was shit hot, so I started searching for any kind of world records site and found this, also finding that my time was anything but hot...

EJO9876

2006-01-08 06:13:31 am

*Insert witty comment here*

on a different forum someone posted a link to one of the segments of a half-life run. after watching that i got interested in watching other runs and seeing some of the nice tricks.

nate

2006-01-08 06:37:25 am

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Was it really Tim's MMN at the time, or did he take it over later?

have to ask him. i know he was at least in some kind of administrative position.

slYnki

2006-01-08 06:38:37 am

XXY

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I got like 5 hours in Banjo-Kazooie and thought I was shit hot, so I started searching for any kind of world records site and found this, also finding that my time was anything but hot...

LOL, I can relate to that situation so well with so many games. Those games are lost to me at this time of course, but it has happened.

kwinse

2006-01-08 06:54:54 am

I got interested in the speedrunning community at http://highimpacthalo.org, and somewhere along the way I was linked here.

slYnki

2006-01-08 08:11:34 am

XXY

Submit some runs there, kwinse, instead of helping out all those trickers :).

Mitsukai_Hawke

2006-01-08 09:37:56 am

I found SDA through a bonus DVD in one of EGM's Magazines.

Patricio

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Patricio: 2006-01-08 04:12:13 pm

2006-01-08 04:09:48 pm

MarioKart64.com biotch!

I found SDA from that legendary EGM that had an article on speedrunning and the planetquake link. Way back when we had to type in a bunch of stuff to get to the actual SDA page. Wink

Edit: I didn't register on the forum for a long time. I kind of lurked in the shadows for awhile.

VorpalEdge

2006-01-08 04:49:52 pm

welcome to the machine

www.planetquake.com/sda/other/ !

biff777

2006-01-08 11:31:28 pm

Hello

I came for the 007 goldeneye speed run (back when Marshy held the title)

Serious_Cacodemon

2006-01-08 11:35:52 pm

Obey the Daleks or be Exterminated! Riiiiiiight...

Been here a couple of times. I've only truly discovered it whole after following a link from Starmen.net. Apparantly someone linked to the Battletoads speedrun as proof that it's possible to beat.

This site is what also got me into speedrunning as well.

Enhasa

2006-01-09 08:10:20 am

everybody wanna tell you the meaning of music

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you've never heard of protoman.com? ;(

we were actually there probably because of tim's mega man network, another mega man community. (the channel was supposed to be that of metroid online/metroid hq, another project of tim's.)

Well, the reason for my thinking that it was an Unofficial Squaresoft Homepage/Square Net thing was because espernet was at least co-founded by one of those administrative people on the site. The other guy might be too, and googling for him gets something called RPG World, so it wouldn't surprise me, but I don't remember. I like Mega Man and I like Metroid, but not enough to know about those sites I guess.

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Been here a couple of times. I've only truly discovered it whole after following a link from Starmen.net. Apparantly someone linked to the Battletoads speedrun as proof that it's possible to beat.

I sure hope whoever posted that as "proof" was being tongue in cheek about it. Although since you came here from starmen.net, I like you by default.

[quote]you've never heard of protoman.com? ;(

we were actually there probably because of tim's mega man network, another mega man community. (the channel was supposed to be that of metroid online/metroid hq, another project of tim's.)[/quote]
Well, the reason for my thinking that it was an Unofficial Squaresoft Homepage/Square Net thing was because [b]esper[/b]net was at least co-founded by one of those administrative people on the site. The other guy might be too, and googling for him gets something called RPG World, so it wouldn't surprise me, but I don't remember. I like Mega Man and I like Metroid, but not enough to know about those sites I guess.

[quote]Been here a couple of times.  I've only truly discovered it whole after following a link from Starmen.net.  Apparantly someone linked to the Battletoads speedrun as proof that it's possible to beat.[/quote]
I sure hope whoever posted that as "proof" was being tongue in cheek about it. Although since you came here from starmen.net, I like you by default.

Aresake

2006-01-09 08:25:39 am

Glowy eyes of DOOM!

I'm another SMB3 person. There was a sub-11 tAS video circulating around my college and I was determined to find more such videos. (I also originally thought it was done in real time). I think that sums it up.

Enhasa

2006-01-09 09:23:08 am

everybody wanna tell you the meaning of music

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I'm another SMB3 person. There was a sub-11 tAS video circulating around my college and I was determined to find more such videos. (I also originally thought it was done in real time). I think that sums it up.

I agree with you. I think many people underestimate the influence that a single TAS had on SDA's popularity. Although I am proud to say that the first time I was shown morimoto's smb3, I deduced that it was done on emulator with slowdown and rerecording, even though I didn't even know that rerecording existed at the time. This is even though everyone that showed it to me insisted that it was legit. It was like I was questioning something they had done, sheesh.