Lets racing time

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EDIT: Eh, this won't work for unlisted videos, I think, unless you're comfortable invoking it from the command line.

In fairness I was totally going to google it before asking.
This is good though. Thanks guys!

Man, I gotta admit I'm curious to see how what you can do with the Mega Man footage, Torgo.

I know we have a lot of folks who race Thursday earlier in the day.

Just curious if a Wednesday at similar times would be good for people?

Wednesdays are typically a total no-go for me. Tomorrow Wednesday, however, is a different story. I'd be available pretty much any time after 7pm Pacific.

I'm still waiting on Sovan's Disney footage, argleblargle.

Mike, can you do a Friday night race of Bionic Commando? I'm sure starting at or after 9pm won't be a problem, and would love to get you in a race.

I'm warning you though, Dan and I have clocked ourselves at about 25 minutes. This won't be a race for the faint of heart.

I'd love to let you slaughter me (seriously 25 minutes jesus christ), but I've kind of got this PAX thing this weekend, so I'll be in Boston. If you can wait another week, then I'm definitely down, but it's totally cool if you just want to get 'er done while I'm away.

Lord almighty, 25 minutes? You two could finish the game three times before I was done, I think.

Next Friday is good for me. (I think Dan is at PAX, too.)

I'll use the time to practice the Area 10 spike tunnel. I watched the AGDQ run this week and the guy goes through it without using the moving platform. Double boss.

Sounds like I'm going to need a training montage.

wowwwwww look at all these dirty practicers

Anti-fuuuuun.

But no seriously even if you don't run the whole game beforehand, even a quick hour refreshing yourself on mechanics can be a huge boon. I don't mind being the dude that sucks and drops out, but after doing Mega Man 2 I honestly recommend it if you can make the time.

Speaking of, I have all the surviving MM2 footage. I'm going to try to start cobbling it together probably tomorrow or Saturday.

Brick, when you pull a video using keepvid, what format do you take, and what do you use to play it? .mp4 is the only format I recognize, and even then I don't have any appropriate codec to play it, much less getting it to cooperate with Virtualdub.

I grab them as mp4, since that's the quickest download. I honestly don't know what codec I use to play it back, though. I have so many codecs from years of blind experimentation that I hardly have compatibility issues anymore.

narcodis turned me on to Format Factory, which can convert anything to anything. I haven't been able to get VirtualDub to accept mp4 either, but converting to avi first does the trick.

MP4 is generally Quicktime, as it's an Apple format.

I vote you make a slot for Umby that says "Umby lost his video, and that's why there's no sound." before replacing it with the Duck Hunt Dog :P

Two of my GDC volunteer buddies randomly complimented us on our Aladdin race. I figured I should let you guys know.

Umby told me last night that his race footage wasn't lost, so we at least have everyone's video, even without audio.

Oh man, now you get to see just how bad I was at old NES games.

What happened to you at the 1 hour mark?

Hello Peoples! I like just met Red Silvers after posting a comment on the Disney Race video, then stuff, now I'm here. ^_^

So then, I'm Narishm and I make video LPs for Youtube. Yup, and I just read this thread, (also like 3 others) and wanted to introduce myself. I didn't see a place to do that (maybe I missed it?) so since this is the most relevant thread I figured I'd do it here.

I'm aiming to throw my hat in with your races and whatnot if you need an additional person!

In what way? I have issues with the sound card on my laptop which I use for Skype often, so I had to move back over to my desktop. I think I mention that in the audio...

After that point, your audio is slightly out of sync, so everytime we're talking to you, it sounds like we're constantly interrupting you while you're talking.

That was a fun race.

Well maybe you were.

Er. I mean.

Since I had 2 audio files, I had to do some time jiggering to sync things up myself. Apparently I was a slight bit off.

Unfortunately I didn't notice Umbaglo was off until I had already mixed the audio streams, otherwise I'd have fixed it on my end. Hopefully it wasn't too distracting.

But yeah, that race was a blast. I especially liked how everyone got stuck at at least one spot that nobody else got stuck at.

Watching the race makes me doubly-sad I didn't get in, because... I'd like to think I wouldn't have game overed in Rescue Rangers or DuckTales.

It seems like the LP curse is hitting a lot of these guys. If you've never done live game play while attempting to talk simultaneously, you usually don't realize how much of an impact your gaming ability suffers. ^_^

How does the curse apply to Umbaglo, who only thought he was talking to people, but was actually talking to himself?

Surely I can't be the only one who's recorded an entire episode of something and forgot to actually record anything. XD

I dunno, best I got. ^_^

I still think the worst the LP curse has done to me is the game losing my save file THREE DIFFERENT TIMES.

In a game where everything was randomized.

ARGH.

You know, thinking back I'm not sure if I've ever beaten Rescue Rangers on NES. o.O

Mike, are you free next Thursday (4/4) or Friday (4/5) for Bionic Commando?