Func_Msgboard: Quake Speedruns On SDA

Posted by Stubgaard on 2009/04/05 16:55:37

I get the idea that quite a few Quake mappers love to watch speedruns on their own maps, and us speedrunners have always liked new (and old) maps to speedrun, and we've all been fairly good at supporting both communities, but I also get the idea that most mappers aren't really checking for news at SDA, at least not very often. Maybe I'm just completely wrong here, but I was thinking it was a good initiative to put a post here whenever we did an update. Just listing the map name, the mapper, and the demos without all the text that usually goes into an update on SDA. If one wants to read the entire update, one can go to the news page on SDA:

http://speeddemosarchive.com/quake/

Also, a quick explanation regarding the use of "demo tags" (for those that aren't into the SDA-termology) like ER, NH, EH2, etc etc.

- ER is short for "Easy Run", meaning a pure run through any given map on skill 0 (easy) without having to kill any monsters or find any secrets.

- NH is short for "Nightmare 100%", meaning a run through any given map on skill 3 (nightmare) getting ALL kills and finding ALL secrets.

- EH2 is short for "Easy 100% 2 player", meaning a cooperative run with 2 players through any given map on skill 0 getting ALL kills and finding ALL secrets.

I think you get the picture...

Let's do a quick roundup of the latest update on SDA (April 2nd, 2009):

e4m6 - The Pain Maze by Sandy Petersen
Map: http://speeddemosarchive.com/quake/mkt.pl?level:e4m6
NH: http://speeddemosarchive.com/quake/demos/NH/e4m6_153.dz

hip1m3 - The Lost Mine by Hipnotic Interactive
Map: http://speeddemosarchive.com/quake/mkt.pl?level:hip1m3
ER: http://speeddemosarchive.com/quake/demos/ER/h1m3_045.dz

hotel - Welcome to Hotel Kique-Asse by Andrew Turner
Map: http://speeddemosarchive.com/quake/mkt.pl?level:hotel
EH: http://speeddemosarchive.com/quake/demos/EH/hot_036.dz

wrld11 - World 1-1 for Quake by Mattias Berggren
Map: http://speeddemosarchive.com/quake/mkt.pl?level:wrld11
EH: http://speeddemosarchive.com/quake/demos/EH/wr11_038.dz
NH: http://speeddemosarchive.com/quake/demos/NH/wr11_038.dz

msacro - Manslay's Acrobatics by Dmitry 'Manslay' Dementjev
Map: http://speeddemosarchive.com/quake/mkt.pl?level:msacro
EH: http://speeddemosarchive.com/quake/demos/EH/mscr_117.dz

tchak - The Tomb of Chak Toh Ich'ak by Rui 'Trinca' Neto
Map: http://speeddemosarchive.com/quake/mkt.pl?level:tchak
NR: http://speeddemosarchive.com/quake/demos/NR/tcha_115.dz
NR2: http://speeddemosarchive.com/quake/demos/NR2/tcha_012.dz

e3m2 - Vaults of Zin by American McGee
Map: http://speeddemosarchive.com/quake/mkt.pl?level:e3m2
NR2: http://speeddemosarchive.com/quake/demos/NR2/e3m2_015.dz

dragon - Lair of the Dragon Ogre by David 'Death Method' Duncan
Map: http://speeddemosarchive.com/quake/mkt.pl?level:dragon
EH2: http://speeddemosarchive.com/quake/demos/EH2/drag_047.dz

e4m7u - ynogA eruzA by Jaakko 'NahkahiiR' Alakopsa
Map: http://speeddemosarchive.com/quake/mkt.pl?level:e4m7u
EH2: http://speeddemosarchive.com/quake/demos/EH2/7m4e_115.dz
NH2: http://speeddemosarchive.com/quake/demos/EH2/7m4e_137.dz

ALL DEMOS DOWNLOAD:
http://speeddemosarchive.com/quake/sda_02_apr_2009.dz

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#1 posted by Trinca on 2009/04/05 19:06:42

I always check a watch the demos :) they are great... petty i suck in speed :|

Stubgaard

#2 posted by spy on 2009/04/05 19:26:16

just watched the DofG movie it was very funny, to watch you're chasing that spider

#3 posted by Ankh on 2009/04/05 19:27:43

good initiative Stubgaard

Stubby maybe SDA should think about changing to zip packing of demos. Dzip issues were discussed here a lot (someone provide the link please)

btw. everyone should watch my EH demo on my hdn map even if it was beaten long time ago :P
http://speeddemosarchive.com/quake/demos/EH/hdn_242.dz

Great Idea

#4 posted by ijed on 2009/04/05 21:38:12

Stubgaard:

#5 posted by metlslime on 2009/04/06 01:12:17

nice idea; I think it will help raise awareness to cross-post news like this. One suggestion: you don't need to fully replicate all the links, it would probably suffice to list a bullet-point summary and then provide a link to the SDA news post/page (and maybe the "all demos download" link too.) LvL does this, seems to work well, for example: http://www.celephais.net/board/view_thread.php?id=60270

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