Japanese equivalent of SDA?

2015-01-18 05:47:38 am

NL EN DE JP

Hey everyone,

I wasn't sure where to post this question, but since it's kind of SDA-related, I'll put it here. Feel free to move it anywhere more appropriate.

As you can read in the title, I'm interested in finding the Japanese equivalent of SDA. I've tried searching for Japanese speedrun forums, but (afaik) the Japanese term for [speedrunning] is making it kind of tricky to find (and I'm pretty fluent in Japanese), so I thought I'd ask the biggest speedrunning community, since you guys probably had at least some contact with Japanese speedrunners.

Or maybe you can get me in contact with some Japanese speedrunners, so I can just ask them?

Any help is very appreciated.

- Niddy

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philosoraptor42

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philosoraptor42: 2015-01-18 08:22:39 am

philosoraptor42: 2015-01-18 08:21:18 am

2015-01-18 08:20:19 am

Dapper as fuck.

I think http://www.nicovideo.jp/ is their equivalent basically (or at least is part of it since there seems like more stuff than speedrunning on the front page)? Someone can correct me if I'm wrong.

presjpolk

2015-01-18 08:43:49 am

HELLO!

There isn't one. SDA is unique.

moooh

2015-01-18 08:52:44 am

Exoray

Most of the speed running stuff seems to exist on nico. Speed runs are often referred to as RTA so you should be able to search using that term.

KennyMan666

2015-01-18 12:52:22 pm

Precursor

Quote from philosoraptor42:

I think http://www.nicovideo.jp/ is their equivalent basically (or at least is part of it since there seems like more stuff than speedrunning on the front page)? Someone can correct me if I'm wrong.

Nico Nico Douga is more like Japanese Youtube. But yeah, it's where JP speedrunners generally post their videos. They also have a (bad) streaming service.

nideco

2015-01-18 02:09:02 pm

NL EN DE JP

Ok, then that kind of confirms my suspicion

I've also heard from another Japanese RTA guy I contacted that there isn't any real general hub like SDA in Japan where speedrunners come together. They pretty much have small pockets of runners per game and communicate mostly on twitter.
I knew about nicovideo, but like KennyMan666 said, it's more like youtube. I was looking for something similar to SDA.

Efreeti

2015-01-19 02:08:16 am

They/them

Maybe you can start it. You could be the aaroninjapan of speedruns.

PinkPajamas

2015-01-20 11:17:26 am

This site is actually pretty good. It's a leaderboard site instead of actual links to videos or discussion so not quite the SDA of Japan. If you're looking for runs of more obscure games or Japanese records then this will help quite a bit.
http://niconamarta.sakura.ne.jp/recent_record.php
Have fun navigating it if you can't read Japanese though.

Alko

2015-01-20 03:47:45 pm

Caution: This user contains Kana ^_^

Thanks. Found that for my obscure game, no more runs ~~are~~ seem to be known than those I already know of ^^

presjpolk

2015-01-21 07:06:37 am

HELLO!

That wiki is good for finding times but a) registration is IP locked to Japan only and b) it's just leaderboards and rules, no discussion. So it's not really an SDA equivalent.

Great for finding times (and sometimes videos), not so great for finding out how they were made.

puwexil

2015-01-21 08:48:58 am

Professional Second Banana

Another downside to that wiki is that it only tracks runs that were streamed live on Niconico (which has no means of saving VODs past 1 week, and even watching those requires a paid premium membership) - even streaming a recording of an offline attempt doesn't count.

Always seems odd to me that their community prioritizes live streaming so much over having lasting recordings of runs.

presjpolk

2015-01-21 12:20:07 pm

HELLO!

I've seen non-Nico recordings on that wiki in the past. The FDS Zelda 2 WR that was posted there was streamed on livestream, though oddly the creator eventually deleted the account. But yeah it's mostly nico there. Nico or no video at all.

Riskbreaker Y

2015-01-21 04:55:52 pm

berserker status

I've found some speedrun-related material on youku and fun.tv as well. Not knowing Japanese or Chinese really sucks :/

nideco

2015-01-22 05:43:30 pm

NL EN DE JP

Random question: Is there a aggregated list of record times for western speedruns similar to the one PinkPyjamas mentioned the Japanese use? (http://niconamarta.sakura.ne.jp/recent_record.php)

presjpolk

2015-01-23 09:06:47 am

HELLO!

Mostly it's per-game. though a few games have moved onto speedrun.com