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andrewg

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andrewg: 2009-10-20 09:07:13 pm

2009-10-20 12:54:28 pm

Hi! I'm andrewg!

So it's pretty much a definite that I'm coming now. 8) (unless something unexpected comes up...)

EDIT:

Games I can speedrun:
Super Mario Bros. - 6:00
Super Mario Bros. 2 - 14:00
Super Mario Bros. 3 - 15:00 (andrewg vs. frezy race?)
Super Mario Bros. 2J - 10:00
Super Mario World - 15:00
Rush n' Attack - 13:00 (Co-op?)
Marble Madness - 5:00 (2 player dual play?)
Mike Tyson's Punch Out - 25:00
Castlevania - 18:00
Mega Man - 30:00
F-Zero - 25:00

MatrixTN

2009-10-20 03:39:25 pm

You got a deletion wish?

Mike has a tentative schedule written down on the previous page.

BevinKB

2009-10-20 03:40:10 pm

I'm not cheating! I'm playing by my own rules!

Quote from Essentia:

I just thought of something we could do for games that allow you to rename the characters (such as FF6 and Secret of Mana, don't know if there are any others): We could auction off the characters' names. It could be something like, "The next person to donate such and such amount will get to choose the name of the character" or "The person who donates the most in the next 10 minutes will get to choose the name". The Speed Gamers did some of this during their Final Fantasy marathon; someone actually donated something like $1500 to have every character in FF7 named Sephiroth.

My brother MatrixTN showed me this reply and just thought I'd give my two cents.

http://neoslashott.deviantart.com/art/Disney-Fantasy-140898048
Enjoy!

RaneofSOTN

2009-10-20 05:53:31 pm

I want off the ride....

I finally actually took a look at the listing for the marathon; and well frezy man is all over the place, how will the Swede of Speed have any real rest time or.. well anything...
but he is on 18 games over the total 52 hours and accounts for... about 18% of the whole thing...

I dont mean to sound negative but... he has 9 hours worth of the running.. and I kinda wanna be sure that he'll be alright for all of it. Cause its sorta spread out and frezy is the first player on the list..

Now; I kinda helped with the route planning of mm3 but i'm not as fast as everyone (mostly do to issues of not having a cart to really practice the mashing) but.. is there anyone else (in case of a frezy melt down or something) that could take over some of the games listed for him? Now I wouldn't fret if these 9 hours weren't split between 18 games (1 of which has mike as a back up).

Good schedule Mike, but any chance we could try to get some back ups listed in case of something happening?

arkarian

2009-10-20 07:18:37 pm

gamelogs.org

i back up the back up idea (har har). hopefully they won't be necessary, but it's a good plan just in case. we've seen what happens in other video game marathons when a player suddenly isn't able to take their turn.

MatrixTN

2009-10-20 08:49:10 pm

You got a deletion wish?

Quote from RaneofSOTN:

Now; I kinda helped with the route planning of mm3 but i'm not as fast as everyone (mostly do to issues of not having a cart to really practice the mashing) but.. is there anyone else (in case of a frezy melt down or something) that could take over some of the games listed for him? Now I wouldn't fret if these 9 hours weren't split between 18 games (1 of which has mike as a back up).

I would but am not worthy.

mikwuyma

2009-10-22 12:19:36 am

My feelings on The Demon Rush

Okay I revised the schedule again and I put it in Google Documents this time.

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Alb3Dj0u13H7dHpTRE9WVHd1TmNXSTctZzdrbkgyR2c&hl=en

Right now people can only look at the spreadsheet, but I'm considering letting anyone edit it so people can write in when they can do commentary.

I'm really tired but I'll mention the big changes.

-Spreadsheet now has better formatting, IMO.

-I'm now using a formula to calculate the times, I'm not sure why I didn't do that in the first place.

-I cut Mega Man 4 and 5. Sorry, Frezy, but you're doing a lot of games already, and I don't want you to overstrain yourself. Also, Mega Man 4 and 5 are not very popular Mega Man games.

-Added more commentators.

-I added andrewg's games, coop Altered Beast (me and stanski), Sonic 1 race (stanski and mike89!) and altered a couple of times.

Also, I realize a big flaw with the current schedule is that Castlevania and Mario series both have graveyard shift times.

Attachment:

SDA Marathon schedule (preliminary).xls

Emptyeye

2009-10-22 05:55:34 am

Talk to the Hand

Erm, this is going to sound lame of me in light of my last post, but yeah, is there a way that I can either not commentate (All of) the Castlevania series, or that it could be moved out of said graveyard shift? If not, then it's cool, I'll deal, but it's going to be some pretty sleepy commentary by that point.

Also, I'll have to practice TMNT again at some point, but I'm not too concerned about the time estimate, if only because I think I've overestimated how long Battletoads will take by a couple minutes, so it'll all cancel out. Smiley

mikwuyma

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mikwuyma: 2009-10-22 08:20:53 am

2009-10-22 08:04:45 am

My feelings on The Demon Rush

Emptyeye: The only reason I put you in for all of the Castlevania games is because you offered. Like I said, the schedule is tentative, and I'm sure I can find someone else who is willing to comment on some games in the series too. I'm sure romscout would be willing to commentate for SOTN, at least.

I could even change the schedule around some so that Castlevania isn't in a graveyard timeslot, but I'd also have to make sure whatever I switch in during that period isn't me or frezy_man (I'm doing SoM early morning and I'm sure I'll want a bit of sleep, and Frezy is just doing a million games).

EDIT: I also updated the first post, though if you've been following this topic, I don't think it has anything new.

mikwuyma

2009-10-22 10:25:36 am

My feelings on The Demon Rush

Quote from XFUBX:

Talking of commentary, are we still having a live feed so other people can watch it? I mean there are no problems if your not, you guys have alot on your hands at the moment.

Yeah of course! It's going to be like a speed gamers marathon, where we stream live with a game screen and a commentator cam. We'll also probably have guest streams like the speed gamers had, so people like tiki can still race Frezy_Man during Mega Man 3 and Mega Man X.

Aftermath

2009-10-22 10:39:38 am

Quits halfway

It's unacceptable not to have Castlevania at night. Shame on you for even considering such things.

RaneofSOTN

2009-10-22 10:46:03 am

I want off the ride....

Quote from Aftermath:

It's unacceptable not to have Castlevania at night. Shame on you for even considering such things.

yeah but doesn't meant i has to be in the early AM's either... I dont know where i'd put it personally but.. *yawns* Looks like i'm up til 3am the first go...

ZenicReverie

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ZenicReverie: 2009-10-22 11:06:56 am

2009-10-22 10:46:28 am

Waiting hurts my soul...

I'm pretty good at getting schedules together. I'll take a look at this later and see if I can help juggle things around and maybe break out a sleep schedule + food time slots. We should get people's preference for a night, evening, day, morning schedule taking into account the popular games/series that we probably don't want at night.

Right now Mike you're getting 4 hours of sleep between TMNT IV and SoM in the morning.

Quote from RaneofSOTN:

Quote from Aftermath:

It's unacceptable not to have Castlevania at night. Shame on you for even considering such things.

yeah but doesn't meant i has to be in the early AM's either... I dont know where i'd put it personally but.. *yawns* Looks like i'm up til 3am the first go...

Actually Rane, with this schedule it'd be better to start sleeping at 6 or 7 to be up by 2 to start running.

Quote from Aftermath:

It's unacceptable not to have Castlevania at night. Shame on you for even considering such things.

but it's supposed to be spooky.

Edit:
I think people prefer blocks of time playing as opposed to it being spread out, but I could be wrong. What does everyone think?

I'm mainly going to take the runners into account, and also some commentators; however, commentators may need to be shuffled depending on the needs of the schedule.

I'm curious how two people are running Link's Awakening.

I'm pretty good at getting schedules together. I'll take a look at this later and see if I can help juggle things around and maybe break out a sleep schedule + food time slots. We should get people's preference for a night, evening, day, morning schedule taking into account the popular games/series that we probably don't want at night.

Right now Mike you're getting 4 hours of sleep between TMNT IV and SoM in the morning.
[quote="RaneofSOTN"]
[quote="Aftermath"]
It's unacceptable not to have Castlevania at night. Shame on you for even considering such things.
[/quote]
yeah but doesn't meant i has to be in the early AM's either... I dont know where i'd put it personally but.. *yawns* Looks like i'm up til 3am the first go...
[/quote]
Actually Rane, with this schedule it'd be better to start sleeping at 6 or 7 to be up by 2 to start running.
[quote="Aftermath"]
It's unacceptable not to have Castlevania at night. Shame on you for even considering such things.
[/quote]
but it's supposed to be spooky.

Edit:
I think people prefer blocks of time playing as opposed to it being spread out, but I could be wrong. What does everyone think?

I'm mainly going to take the runners into account, and also some commentators; however, commentators may need to be shuffled depending on the needs of the schedule.

I'm curious how two people are running Link's Awakening.

MatrixTN

2009-10-22 12:03:26 pm

You got a deletion wish?

Quote from MatrixTN:

Mega Man 3
Toy Story
Sonic 1, 2 & 3K

Mike, you missed me on these five for commenting. I can step aside on MM3 since you have EE and BD on that one already.

Aftermath

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Aftermath: 2009-10-22 01:40:03 pm

2009-10-22 01:02:48 pm

Quits halfway

Mike, you definitely need to sing at least a couple of these songs at some point (the first is obligatory):

Title song:

Gerudo Valley:

I know Gerudo's theme won't be in any of the Zeldas being played, but it's pretty much the most recognizable music from the series. Also, not many people will have heard the second song, and you could probably rework the lyrics rather easily to make it advertise SDA or something (the first verse is already pretty fitting).

Possibly this Mega Man:

>_>

ZenicReverie

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ZenicReverie: 2009-10-22 04:26:10 pm

2009-10-22 02:29:34 pm

Waiting hurts my soul...

here's the order of games I made, which I would add as another sheet to the doc for consideration:

1/1
Mega Man
Mega Man 2
Mega Man 3
Ghosts 'n Goblins
Donkey Kong
Toy Story
Kung-fu
Contra
Super C
Contra 3
Contra: Hard Corps
Gunstar Heroes
Jackal
Faxanadu
1/2
River City Ransom
Bionic Commando
Double Dragon 2
Adventures of Lolo
SOS
Super Tennis
Super Mario RPG
Super Mario Bros
Super Mario Bros. 2
Super Mario Bros 3
Super Mario Bros 3 (no flute)
SMB2 (lost levels)
Super Mario World
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
TMNT 2: The Arcade Game
TMNT IV: Turtles In Time
Mega Man X
Mega Man X2
Mega Man X3
Battletoads
Jaws
Monster Party
Castlevania
Castlevania 2
Castlevania: Bloodlines
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
Sonic
Sonic 2
Sonic 3 and Knuckles
Ristar
Altered Beast
Vectorman
Vectorman 2
Earthworm Jim
Secret of Mana
1/3 (happens in the middle of SoM)
Lion King
Aladdin (SNES)
Ducktales
Ducktales 2
Rescue Rangers
Rygar
Rush 'n Attack
Marble Madness
F-Zero
Punch-out
Metroid
Super Metroid
Metroid: Zero Mission
Donkey Kong Country
Donkey Kong Country 2
Donkey Kong Country 3
Dr. Mario
Super Mario Kart
Zelda 1
Zelda 2
Zelda: Link's Awakening
Final Fantasy 3/6

This makes the following schedule for the runners:

andrewg
Day 1
(bed by 9 to wake up at 5:30 am)
Day 2
(bed by 9 to wake up at 5:30 am)

mikwuyma
Day 1
(bed by 1 am to wake up at 9 am)
Day 2
(take a nap, sometime between 2:30 pm and 8:00 pm)
(bed at 4 am Day 3, unless you want to stay up until 6am to commentate, no more to do on Day 3 for you though)

Emptyeye
Day 1
(bed by 10 pm to wake up at 6 am) (this is more to get into the schedule for tomorrow)
Day 2
(bed by 8:30 pm to wake up at 4:30 am)

breakdown
Day 1
(bed as early as 12 am, but you only have afternoon games)
Day 2
(same, doesn't really matter as long as you're up by 1 pm)

Kareshi
Day 1
Run from 7:53 pm to 8:26 pm (GnG), take a break and come back from 8:53 pm to 9:00 pm (Kung Fu)
Day 2
Setup to play pianotoads by 1:00 pm, run starts at 2:11 pm
Run from 2:41 pm to 3:06 pm (Jaws then Monster Party) then you're free

Enhasa
Day 1
(bed as early as 2 am, although I suggest 3 am) 1:24 am to 1:39 am (Super Tennis)
Day 2
(sleep during the day sometime) 9:48 pm to 3:33 am (Secret of Mana)
Day 3
You only have Super Mario Kart vs Frezy_man, so if you're awake, then you can do it early, but I scheduled it at 1:30 pm to 2:00 pm for now. Of course, you could push it off until after Zelda as well.

Frezy_man
Day 1
(bed by 10 pm to be up at 6 am)
Day 2
(bed by 7 pm to be up at 3 am)

Essentia
Day 3
(up by 10 am)
10:30 am to 11:30 am (DKC2)
12:50 pm to 1:30 pm (Dr.M)
5:55 pm to 11:55 pm (FF6)

Feasel
Day 1 (2?)
run from 12:00 am to 12:34 am (River City Ransom and Bionic Commando)
if you want to break up the running you could shuffle the games with sinister1 or Zugzwang

sinister1
Day 1 (2?)
run from 12:34 am to 12:47 am (Double Dragon 2)

Zugzwang
Day 1 (2?)
run from 12:47 am to 1:12 am (Adventures of Lolo)
Day 2
run from 3:06 to 3:24 (Castlevania)

MatrixTN
Day 2
run from 10:34 am to 11:29 am (TMNT 2)
Day 3
you have runs you want to commentate on that start at 5 am, so rest accordingly

Mike89
Day 2
run from 5:39 pm to 6:09 pm (Sonic 1 race stanski)
run from 6:35 pm to 7:50 pm (Sonic 3 + Knuckles)
run from 8:33 pm to 9:08 pm (Vectorman 1 and 2)
Day 3
run from 11:30 am to 12:50 pm (DKC 3)

Molotov
Day 1
(nap during the day and start your sleep at around 4 am the next morning)
run from 1:12 am to 1:24 am (SOS)
Day 2 (into 3)
run from 9:48 pm to 3:33 am (Secret of Mana)
run from 3:58 am to 4:23 am (Aladdin)

RaneofSOTN
Day 1
(nap during the day and start your sleep at around 4 am the next morning, make friends with Molotov)
Day 2
run from 3:24 pm to 4:19 pm (Castlevania 2)
run from 4:49 pm to 5:39 pm (Castlevania: Symphony of the Night)
(take a short nap between 6 and 9, 2 or 3 hours will do)
commentate and alternate between 9:48 pm to 3:33 am (Secret of Mana)

romscout
Day 1 (2?)
either sleep early from 5pm to 1am, or nap and stay up until 6am.
Super Mario RPG is scheduled from 1:39am to 5:55am

stanski
Day 1
(bed as early as 9 pm)
Day 2
run from 4:19 pm to 4:49 pm (Castlevania: Bloodlines)
run from 5:39 pm to 6:35 pm (Sonic 1 race, and Sonic 2)
run from 8:25 pm to 8:33 pm (Altered Beast)

tjp7154
Day 3
run from 9:40 am to 10:30 am (DKC)

tri-hex
Day 2
run from 8:04 am to 10:04 am (SMW 2: Yoshi's Island)

Vorpaledge
Day 3
run from 7:42 am to 8:42 am (Super Metroid)
run from 4:10 pm to 5:55 pm (Zelda: Link's Awakening)

Tigger77
Day 3
run from 4:10 pm to 5:55 pm (Zelda: Link's Awakening)

There's room to move things around, but I think this works well, where most of the RPGs are around the same times, so anyone that wants to watch those can adjust their schedules for those days. I took into account some of the commentary, but not all of it.

here's the order of games I made, which I would add as another sheet to the doc for consideration:

[spoiler]
1/1
Mega Man
Mega Man 2
Mega Man 3
Ghosts 'n Goblins
Donkey Kong
Toy Story
Kung-fu
Contra
Super C
Contra 3
Contra: Hard Corps
Gunstar Heroes
Jackal
Faxanadu
1/2
River City Ransom
Bionic Commando
Double Dragon 2
Adventures of Lolo
SOS
Super Tennis
Super Mario RPG
Super Mario Bros
Super Mario Bros. 2
Super Mario Bros 3
Super Mario Bros 3 (no flute)
SMB2 (lost levels)
Super Mario World
Super Mario World 2:  Yoshi's Island
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
TMNT 2:  The Arcade Game
TMNT IV:  Turtles In Time
Mega Man X
Mega Man X2
Mega Man X3
Battletoads
Jaws
Monster Party
Castlevania
Castlevania 2
Castlevania: Bloodlines
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
Sonic
Sonic 2
Sonic 3 and Knuckles
Ristar
Altered Beast
Vectorman
Vectorman 2
Earthworm Jim
Secret of Mana
1/3 (happens in the middle of SoM)
Lion King
Aladdin (SNES)
Ducktales
Ducktales 2
Rescue Rangers
Rygar
Rush 'n Attack
Marble Madness
F-Zero
Punch-out
Metroid
Super Metroid
Metroid: Zero Mission
Donkey Kong Country
Donkey Kong Country 2
Donkey Kong Country 3
Dr. Mario
Super Mario Kart
Zelda 1
Zelda 2
Zelda:  Link's Awakening
Final Fantasy 3/6[/spoiler]

This makes the following schedule for the runners:
[spoiler]
andrewg
Day 1
 (bed by 9 to wake up at 5:30 am)
Day 2
 (bed by 9 to wake up at 5:30 am)

mikwuyma
Day 1
 (bed by 1 am to wake up at 9 am)
Day 2
 (take a nap, sometime between 2:30 pm and 8:00 pm)
 (bed at 4 am Day 3, unless you want to stay up until 6am to commentate, no more to do on Day 3 for you though)

Emptyeye
Day 1
 (bed by 10 pm to wake up at 6 am) (this is more to get into the schedule for tomorrow)
Day 2
 (bed by 8:30 pm to wake up at 4:30 am)

breakdown
Day 1
 (bed as early as 12 am, but you only have afternoon games)
Day 2
 (same, doesn't really matter as long as you're up by 1 pm)

Kareshi
Day 1
 Run from 7:53 pm to 8:26 pm (GnG), take a break and come back from 8:53 pm to 9:00 pm (Kung Fu)
Day 2
 Setup to play pianotoads by 1:00 pm, run starts at 2:11 pm
 Run from 2:41 pm to 3:06 pm (Jaws then Monster Party) then you're free

Enhasa
Day 1
 (bed as early as 2 am, although I suggest 3 am) 1:24 am to 1:39 am (Super Tennis)
Day 2
 (sleep during the day sometime) 9:48 pm to 3:33 am (Secret of Mana)
Day 3
 You only have Super Mario Kart vs Frezy_man, so if you're awake, then you can do it early, but I scheduled it at 1:30 pm to 2:00 pm for now. Of course, you could push it off until after Zelda as well.

Frezy_man
Day 1
 (bed by 10 pm to be up at 6 am)
Day 2
 (bed by 7 pm to be up at 3 am)

Essentia
Day 3
 (up by 10 am)
 10:30 am to 11:30 am (DKC2)
 12:50 pm to 1:30 pm (Dr.M)
 5:55 pm to 11:55 pm (FF6)

Feasel
Day 1 (2?)
 run from 12:00 am to 12:34 am (River City Ransom and Bionic Commando)
 if you want to break up the running you could shuffle the games with sinister1 or Zugzwang

sinister1
Day 1 (2?)
 run from 12:34 am to 12:47 am (Double Dragon 2)

Zugzwang
Day 1 (2?)
 run from 12:47 am to 1:12 am (Adventures of Lolo)
Day 2
 run from 3:06 to 3:24 (Castlevania)

MatrixTN
Day 2
 run from 10:34 am to 11:29 am (TMNT 2)
Day 3
 you have runs you want to commentate on that start at 5 am, so rest accordingly

Mike89
Day 2
 run from 5:39 pm to 6:09 pm (Sonic 1 race stanski)
 run from 6:35 pm to 7:50 pm (Sonic 3 + Knuckles)
 run from 8:33 pm to 9:08 pm (Vectorman 1 and 2)
Day 3
 run from 11:30 am to 12:50 pm (DKC 3)

Molotov
Day 1
 (nap during the day and start your sleep at around 4 am the next morning)
 run from 1:12 am to 1:24 am (SOS)
Day 2 (into 3)
 run from 9:48 pm to 3:33 am (Secret of Mana)
 run from 3:58 am to 4:23 am (Aladdin)

RaneofSOTN
Day 1
 (nap during the day and start your sleep at around 4 am the next morning, make friends with Molotov)
Day 2
 run from 3:24 pm to 4:19 pm (Castlevania 2)
 run from 4:49 pm to 5:39 pm (Castlevania: Symphony of the Night)
 (take a short nap between 6 and 9, 2 or 3 hours will do)
 commentate and alternate between 9:48 pm to 3:33 am (Secret of Mana)

romscout
Day 1 (2?)
 either sleep early from 5pm to 1am, or nap and stay up until 6am.
 Super Mario RPG is scheduled from 1:39am to 5:55am

stanski
Day 1
 (bed as early as 9 pm)
Day 2
 run from 4:19 pm to 4:49 pm (Castlevania: Bloodlines)
 run from 5:39 pm to 6:35 pm (Sonic 1 race, and Sonic 2)
 run from 8:25 pm to 8:33 pm (Altered Beast)

tjp7154
Day 3
 run from 9:40 am to 10:30 am (DKC)

tri-hex
Day 2
 run from 8:04 am to 10:04 am (SMW 2: Yoshi's Island)

Vorpaledge
Day 3
 run from 7:42 am to 8:42 am (Super Metroid)
 run from 4:10 pm to 5:55 pm (Zelda: Link's Awakening)

Tigger77
Day 3
 run from 4:10 pm to 5:55 pm (Zelda: Link's Awakening)[/spoiler]

There's room to move things around, but I think this works well, where most of the RPGs are around the same times, so anyone that wants to watch those can adjust their schedules for those days. I took into account some of the commentary, but not all of it.

Emptyeye

2009-10-22 05:57:38 pm

Talk to the Hand

Mike: Fair enough. If I'm up all night, then I'm up all night. It just may be some strange commentary is all.

Also, do I necessarily have to be there from start to finish for FFVI? I don't know that I'm necessarily up for that, though I'll definitely do some of it.

mikwuyma

2009-10-22 07:39:22 pm

My feelings on The Demon Rush

Zenic: I'll fit your schedule onto a separate sheet tomorrow and see how it fits. The schedule looks pretty good, except the games seem to be in a less coherent order (e.g. Mega Man and Mega Man X games being far apart from each other).

Good to hear you're being a trooper Emptyeye, though I'm sure I can get someone else to at least commentate for Symphony of the Night. And no, you don't have to be there the whole time for FFVI. All of the RPG commentators should either be rotated between people or have at least two people at once.

mikwuyma

2009-10-23 09:11:31 am

My feelings on The Demon Rush

Schedule updated with Zenic's version (check the second sheet at the bottom of the page): http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Alb3Dj0u13H7dHpTRE9WVHd1TmNXSTctZzdrbkgyR2c&hl=en

I'm honestly liking it better than mine, the only problem I have with it is the placement of a couple of games (X series, Donkey Kong), but it's good and sensitive to most people's schedules overall.

Yes, if you look really closely I made 2 or 3 minor modifications to his schedule, they make almost no difference.

Attachment:

SDA Marathon schedule (preliminary).xls

ZenicReverie

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ZenicReverie: 2009-10-23 10:32:57 am

2009-10-23 10:23:33 am

Waiting hurts my soul...

My thinking was to break up mm from mmx to give Frezy some breathing room, and I was also thinking maybe not everyone that's interested in mmx is also interested in mm, but I'm probably wrong.

You could switch the three TMNT games with the MM games for nearly no change (everything before mmx will be moved forward 2 minutes), but then we're not leading with a very strong series. However, maybe it's better that way, if people start hearing about the marathon they might be sad to know they've missed a strong series like Mega Man.

Donkey Kong can really go anywhere, it's only 2 minutes, and in fact if you move it after MMX and switch as I suggested above there will be no change time-wise to the schedule up to MMX. In that case I was trying to lump stanski's runs together, but if you want it back with DKC, I suggest after it so he's starting at 12:45 instead of 9:30; unless he's a morning person, in which case before would work too. Also, after the DKC series would be a nice lead-in back to the 8-bit Dr. Mario. I really didn't work too hard on the flow for console generation, but I did try to keep Genesis games together.

I'd like to hear some other people's thoughts though and see how commentators feel about it because I tried to be sensitive to them too, but some things I don't think I could take into account. I did try to put Feasel near Lolo for backup and possibly commentary, but I really didn't know what other sorts of games people would like to commentate on that weren't already there.

My thinking was to break up mm from mmx to give Frezy some breathing room, and I was also thinking maybe not everyone that's interested in mmx is also interested in mm, but I'm probably wrong.

You could switch the three TMNT games with the MM games for nearly no change (everything before mmx will be moved forward 2 minutes), but then we're not leading with a very strong series.  However, maybe it's better that way, if people start hearing about the marathon they might be sad to know they've missed a strong series like Mega Man.

Donkey Kong can really go anywhere, it's only 2 minutes, and in fact if you move it after MMX and switch as I suggested above there will be no change time-wise to the schedule up to MMX. In that case I was trying to lump stanski's runs together, but if you want it back with DKC, I suggest after it so he's starting at 12:45 instead of 9:30; unless he's a morning person, in which case before would work too. Also, after the DKC series would be a nice lead-in back to the 8-bit Dr. Mario. I really didn't work too hard on the flow for console generation, but I did try to keep Genesis games together.

I'd like to hear some other people's thoughts though and see how commentators feel about it because I tried to be sensitive to them too, but some things I don't think I could take into account. I did try to put Feasel near Lolo for backup and possibly commentary, but I really didn't know what other sorts of games people would like to commentate on that weren't already there.

Enhasa

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Enhasa: 2009-10-23 01:22:20 pm

2009-10-23 01:15:15 pm

everybody wanna tell you the meaning of music

I can't help hearing this problem without instantly thinking about CPLEX (btw this is a joke).

Zenic: I think people definitely would prefer blocks. Prioritizing runners over commentators makes a ton of sense.

XFUBX: Hate to burst your bubble, but we need to make sure that the people there aren't missing anything. Just like how no run can be purely offsite, it wouldn't make any sense to have an offsite commentator either. It would be very offputting to people there.

I don't know if I should be looking at Mike's or Zenic's schedule, but Mike's would have been extremely favorable for me, heh. Going by Mike's schedule, it sets up perfectly for me to commentate or play nonstop from say, Monster Party all the way through Rescue Rangers (that's Monster Party, SOS, Super Tennis, Secret of Mana, Faxanadu, Rygar, Marble Madness, F-Zero, Duck Tales, Duck Tales 2, Rescue Rangers). Then I can do Ristar, Earthworm Jim, and Altered Beast later.

Since nobody has offered and they will all be blocked together, I can commentate for all Donkey Kong games. I can also do all of the Marios, but I'm probably going to sleep or do something else during RPG, and Yoshi's Island is very long so I'd rather bow out before that too. I could do Jackal through Gunstar Heroes before that, but that would be too much in a row for me.

With Zenic's schedule, I could do Contra through Faxanadu. Same Mario as before. Again, miss TMNT due to unfavorable scheduling. Maybe Altered Beast, Ristar, Earthworm Jim as before. Then Duck Tales through F-Zero or Punch-Out. Then DKC through Mario Kart.

Also like to add, I can fill in whenever necessary, like SOTN or for bits during the longer runs. My main personal concern is I do want some time to sleep and do other Magfest stuff like challenges, but we're all gonna have this difficulty.

Edit: BTW lol, stanski is not a morning person. I'm not either, graveyard shift would be preferable to morning actually. Last year at Mike's house we would all be waking up at like 3pm. Except Nate, he's a morning person (which means unfortunately I didn't really see him much, lol). Although, since he's staff but not tied to any of this, I figured he would be hanging around the whole time and helping out technically if needed. That's just an assumption though, I made that up.

I can't help hearing this problem without instantly thinking about CPLEX (btw this is a joke).

Zenic: I think people definitely would prefer blocks. Prioritizing runners over commentators makes a ton of sense.

XFUBX: Hate to burst your bubble, but we need to make sure that the people there aren't missing anything. Just like how no run can be purely offsite, it wouldn't make any sense to have an offsite commentator either. It would be very offputting to people there.

I don't know if I should be looking at Mike's or Zenic's schedule, but Mike's would have been extremely favorable for me, heh. Going by Mike's schedule, it sets up perfectly for me to commentate or play nonstop from say, Monster Party all the way through Rescue Rangers (that's Monster Party, SOS, Super Tennis, Secret of Mana, Faxanadu, Rygar, Marble Madness, F-Zero, Duck Tales, Duck Tales 2, Rescue Rangers). Then I can do Ristar, Earthworm Jim, and Altered Beast later.

Since nobody has offered and they will all be blocked together, I can commentate for all Donkey Kong games. I can also do all of the Marios, but I'm probably going to sleep or do something else during RPG, and Yoshi's Island is very long so I'd rather bow out before that too. I could do Jackal through Gunstar Heroes before that, but that would be too much in a row for me.

With Zenic's schedule, I could do Contra through Faxanadu. Same Mario as before. Again, miss TMNT due to unfavorable scheduling. Maybe Altered Beast, Ristar, Earthworm Jim as before. Then Duck Tales through F-Zero or Punch-Out. Then DKC through Mario Kart.

Also like to add, I can fill in whenever necessary, like SOTN or for bits during the longer runs. My main personal concern is I do want some time to sleep and do other Magfest stuff like challenges, but we're all gonna have this difficulty.

Edit: BTW lol, stanski is not a morning person. I'm not either, graveyard shift would be preferable to morning actually. Last year at Mike's house we would all be waking up at like 3pm. Except Nate, he's a morning person (which means unfortunately I didn't really see him much, lol). Although, since he's staff but not tied to any of this, I figured he would be hanging around the whole time and helping out technically if needed. That's just an assumption though, I made that up.

Essentia

2009-10-23 01:39:19 pm

Everything's better with Magitek

If we're going with Zenic's schedule, I was wondering if it would be possible to move DKC2 and Dr. Mario to a different day. As it is now, I'm playing all my games in one day, which would be almost 8 hours total for me. To me, that seems like a lot, especially since 6 hours of that will be continuous. Also, that day is Sunday, and I'd been hoping to go to church sometime that morning. (I found a church meetinghouse about 7 minutes away that has services starting at 8:00 or 11:30 and lasting for 3 hours.) Mike's schedule is more preferable to me, although it'd mean I'd be staying up pretty late the night before, so I might be kind of out of it the next day.

Anyway, if it doesn't work out, I'll go with whatever you decide, but I'd appreciate it if you could take this into consideration.

Emptyeye

2009-10-23 03:17:55 pm

Talk to the Hand

I actually liked the Battletoads into TMNT of the first schedule, if for no other reason than it flowed a bit better thematically. This may be overruled by me now being able to watch all of Kareshi's runs without having to stay up all damn night. Tongue

So no big loss.

Swapping MM for TMNT...I'll be honest, without even taking games into account, I don't think I'm the sort of top-tier runner who should be leading this thing off (I'm presuming the order of the TMNT games themselves won't actually change). Andrew yes, Freddy yes, me...probably not.

RaneofSOTN

2009-10-23 03:36:24 pm

I want off the ride....

Honestly as much as we would want to keep runs together categorically what we should really try to do... is focus the big MEATY awesome runs in the "strong" blocks of time where we will (by highest percentage chance) will get the most viewers. We want them to least one big title played awesomely in this time so they can tell other people and get more in... Thus we need to take that into account.

The current method of keeping the games together by grouping/runner would be good but... we are doing this for charity and we want to gather in people. So if we end up (in key hours) doing obscure or lesser of the more known titles they may be astray. But if we string them in between big titles, people might want to watch more.. ya know?

ZenicReverie

2009-10-23 04:42:51 pm

Waiting hurts my soul...

Quote from RaneofSOTN:

Honestly as much as we would want to keep runs together categorically what we should really try to do... is focus the big MEATY awesome runs in the "strong" blocks of time where we will (by highest percentage chance) will get the most viewers. We want them to least one big title played awesomely in this time so they can tell other people and get more in... Thus we need to take that into account.

The current method of keeping the games together by grouping/runner would be good but... we are doing this for charity and we want to gather in people. So if we end up (in key hours) doing obscure or lesser of the more known titles they may be astray. But if we string them in between big titles, people might want to watch more.. ya know?

Do you have examples of which titles should really be in the limelight?