marathon web page

arkarian

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arkarian: 2010-11-27 11:25:21 pm

2010-11-27 11:24:23 pm

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mike asked me to do a page for the marathon again this year: http://speeddemosarchive.com/marathon/

since people seemed to like last year's i've used the same design again. obviously the banner is just a placeholder until we have a real one made.
haven't done the schedule yet but it will be automated this year -- it's just going to leech the google spreadsheet.

you might notice there's a link to last year's schedule as well. i thought it would be cool to keep an archive of schedules/run vids from years past so i redid the directory structure to support that.

you might also notice i left a bunch of last year's information up -- i need yall's help with deciding how to update it:

which big games do you think should go under "games to look out for" on the right? (let's keep this under 15)
what special events do we have planned this year?
should anything more be said about prevent cancer foundation and if so what?
is there anything else you can think of that should go on the page?

mike: not sure if we need to talk to pcf about using their logo. if so i'll let you handle that again i guess.

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mike asked me to do a page for the marathon again this year: http://speeddemosarchive.com/marathon/

since people seemed to like last year's i've used the same design again. obviously the banner is just a placeholder until we have a real one made.
haven't done the schedule yet but it will be automated this year -- it's just going to leech the google spreadsheet.

you might notice there's a link to last year's schedule as well. i thought it would be cool to keep an archive of schedules/run vids from years past so i redid the directory structure to support that.

you might also notice i left a bunch of last year's information up -- i need yall's help with deciding how to update it:

which big games do you think should go under "games to look out for" on the right? (let's keep this under 15)
what special events do we have planned this year?
should anything more be said about prevent cancer foundation and if so what?
is there anything else you can think of that should go on the page?

mike: not sure if we need to talk to pcf about using their logo. if so i'll let you handle that again i guess.

mikwuyma

2010-11-27 11:33:15 pm

My feelings on The Demon Rush

Games we should mention:

-Chrono Trigger
-Ocarina of Time
-Portal
-Metal Gear Solid
-Halo
-Devil May Cry
-Super Mario games including 64
-Mario Galaxy 2
-Kingdom Hearts 2

And of course, Myst!

I asked PCF about the logo, they said they would give me one this week.

BTW, is there a way to keep last year's marathon page too? I know it was small, but it would be nice if it was still there.

arkarian

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arkarian: 2010-11-27 11:38:56 pm

2010-11-27 11:34:26 pm

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sure, i've got it on my hard drive. just have to figure out the best way to organize it on the server.

edit: meh i'm too lazy so i just threw it up at http://speeddemosarchive.com/marathon/old/2010/

BioSpark

2010-11-27 11:46:22 pm

fusion's not on the games to look out for list? Tongue

arkarian

2010-11-27 11:47:06 pm

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oh ummm ... maybe next year ...

arkarian

2010-11-27 11:48:28 pm

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super and prime should probably be on there though

arkarian

2010-11-27 11:48:39 pm

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and definitely resident evil

PJ

2010-11-28 12:45:24 am

Is PJ

I don't see Mohawk & Headphone Jack listed for headliner bonus stream games.

mikwuyma

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mikwuyma: 2010-11-28 01:22:23 am

2010-11-28 01:10:06 am

My feelings on The Demon Rush

Ark: Agreed on all of your choices. The look out list will be big this year.

Biospark: lol. I'm actually replaying fusion right now and the game is actually pretty good when you get past the fact the exploration is bad for a metroid game.

PJ: That's because we haven't prepared the appropriate motion sickness warning.

PJ

2010-11-28 01:55:00 am

Is PJ

Fair enough.

Pootrain

2010-11-28 04:52:01 am

train kept rollin

Thought I would let you know the link to the old marathon page in the features page no longer works.

Heidrage

2010-11-28 05:43:37 am

Willing to teach you the impossible

Any chance of a "Featured Speed Runners List" or something like that? I know some of the runners have big names/followings such as Frezy (I know he is not gunna be there but still it is a good example).

BioSpark

2010-11-28 12:27:17 pm

Quote from mikwuyma:

Biospark: lol. I'm actually replaying fusion right now and the game is actually pretty good when you get past the fact the exploration is bad for a metroid game.

you should do a 1% single-segment.

mikwuyma

2010-11-28 01:02:05 pm

My feelings on The Demon Rush

Oh yeah, special events. Andrewg will probably do blindfolded Mario again. On top of Pianotoads, there's now Pianovania (for Castlevania 1), and there's a lot more races this time.

The blurb for PCF is probably fine as is. I (or someone else) can look on their site later to look up the specific research and advocacy they do.

arkarian

2010-11-28 01:59:11 pm

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will add pianovania and blindfolded mario. could someone give me a list of some big games that will have races?

Quote from Heidman:

Any chance of a "Featured Speed Runners List" or something like that? I know some of the runners have big names/followings such as Frezy (I know he is not gunna be there but still it is a good example).

hmm i guess i'm not sure how big any of our names actually are. is random joe really going to recognize anyone from sda? maybe andrewg ...

Quote from Pootrain:

Thought I would let you know the link to the old marathon page in the features page no longer works.

not sure what you mean.

moooh

2010-11-28 02:26:20 pm

Exoray

Quote from arkarian:

Quote from Pootrain:

Thought I would let you know the link to the old marathon page in the features page no longer works.

not sure what you mean.

The first link in the videos section of this page: http://speeddemosarchive.com/features/

mikwuyma

2010-11-28 02:31:21 pm

My feelings on The Demon Rush

Big Races:

Battletoads
Castlevania
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past

arkarian

2010-11-28 03:34:35 pm

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Quote from moooh:

The first link in the videos section of this page: http://speeddemosarchive.com/features/

ohh. someone might want to change that to http://speeddemosarchive.com/marathon/schedule/2010.html which is now the permanent link to last year's schedule. after this marathon, this year's will be http://speeddemosarchive.com/marathon/schedule/2011.html.

Flip

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Flip: 2010-11-28 03:46:57 pm

2010-11-28 03:46:35 pm

1-Up!

fixed. Thanks moooh and arkarian.

cyghfer

2010-11-28 06:51:51 pm

uh, the 4-person oot race isn't considered a Big Race?

arkarian

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arkarian: 2010-11-28 07:14:23 pm

arkarian: 2010-11-28 06:54:14 pm

2010-11-28 06:53:53 pm

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the schedule is now up at http://speeddemosarchive.com/marathon/schedule/

should be totally finished on my end. this time, it just uses the google spreadsheet so i won't have to make every change manually.

arkarian

2010-11-28 07:16:02 pm

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mike:

The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask or sm64

you might want to fix that. Wink

mikwuyma

2010-11-28 07:18:48 pm

My feelings on The Demon Rush

Fixed, it's really going to be determined by donation. I should probably mention that Super Mario 64 is 120 star.

Breakdown

2010-11-29 05:28:14 pm

Haters gonna hate

Page was awesome last year. This year's page looks a lot like last year's. So, the transitive property tells us that this year's page is awesome.

Good stuff ark. Thanks a lot.

arkarian

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arkarian: 2010-11-30 11:08:20 pm

2010-11-30 11:07:48 pm

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np. thanks to a bit of help from nate the schedule now auto-updates every time you load the page which means i don't have to do anything at all this year. just update the google spreadsheet and you'll see the changes on the schedule page instantly.