J@ckrb's Video Topic

Welcome to my Video Topic!
2 new up!
Huh? I have a Video?
Finally, a new video! I had some fraps'd level sitting around, and decided to do 2 more to get the video to a decent size.
Pit of Challenges: This was perfect, but I could of activated the helicopter later, but it only knocks off 0.3x so it went well.
Tornado Stampeding: 3rd best TT catch, only 0.10 improvement at best.
Space Ramp Madness: I abused the fact there were no gems and took a big shortcut, 0.5x - 0.6x improvement.
Slipway: Can go a few seconds faster although it's quite hard to record it with all the fraps lag.
Lern2Play: Shouldn't of jumped at the end so I messed that up it's still a decent time.
Junky House: This was really hard to record under the fraps lag, and still has a lot to improve on about 5+ seconds.
Estate Agent: Can go faster but only with a lucky edge hit bringing your time down to about 5 seconds.
RED: This was really hard to fraps and you need an astronamical amount of luck to get a good time, a perfect run will be about 9-10 seconds, but it wil be very very hard to get that kind of time let alone fraps it under the lag.
Music sometimes fades away way to early in camtasia, hope this doesn't occur in youtube as well.
Music: Mute City Series: FZero
and Vs. Ridley Series: Metroid
Both from Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

Not the best times, but just using up what I had sitting around.
Link:

Sky Mountain sub-1 path without Gravity Modifier

Closest I got to a fraps'd perfect run, there were two glaring mistakes 27 seconds in and the end (I failed bad there lol) but on the plus side the edge hit went really well.

Music: Battlefield (Melee) Series: Super Smash Bros. Melee
From Super Smash Bros. Brawl.
Link:

Cave Story Fraps test

Fraps test of Cave Story.
I was thinking of doing a Let's Play of this and I'm just seeing how it looks of youtube.
To find out all about Cave Story look here: www.cavestory.org/
Link:

Lol Cave story. That game was fun. Played at the beginning and have yet to finish.

Since you've played Cave story before, I guess you have played a no. of RPG Maker RPGs? (Cave story isn't a RPG Maker RPG but is an inspiration). If not, you ought to try!

MBA - Secrets of the Ferry (1:38.89 + 1:36.98)

WR as of 18th September 2010 - Video Proof
Not a great time but w/e WR as for now.

Note - The music glitched lol.

Dungeon Keeper 1 - Level 1 (KeeperFX 0.37c)
Great game by Bullfrog (was taken over and destroyed by EA ...), was released in 1997-8(!) and really deserves more attention (and it's now free, due to the fact EA didn't renew the rights!). You take the evil side, instead of the good side, and build rooms and attract evil creatures and imprison, kill and torture the good guys using all sorts of stuff. You can also use the dead! (Skeleton from dying in prison, Ghost from dying from torture, and Vampire from getting 10 corpses in the graveyard.) The creatures range from, beetles to dragons to horned reapers (whose psyco nature gave the idea for my name psycopath )
Fraps and Camtasia do not record with DK (or at least well) so I have to use the in-game recorder (and has no sound), then view it with QuickTime, while recording that with Fraps, then encoding with Camtasia and finally uploading it. I wish there was an easier way .
KeeperFX (Keeper Fan eXpansion( is a project by Mefistotelis, and is a remake of Dungeon Keeper 1 by recoding it. Newest version is 0.37c as of uploading.
Link to Keeper FX website: keeper.lubie.org/html/dk_keeperfx.php
Download 0.37 + patches (found on page here): keeper.lubie.org/html/dk_keeperfx_dwnld.php
(Download 0.37 then extract each patch (a, b then c) where 0.37 is.)
Link: (excuse the glitches in the vid, the in-game recorder does that )

A compilation of George's Marble Blast Mini Marble Mod (GMBMMM) Levels
3 WR's and 1 Joint WR was achieved during the making of this video.
Times not in brackets -- times in video
Times in brackets -- best time if not shown on video
Comments and times:
Beginner:
Moving: Easy. Shock 0.01 improvement surprised me. -- 1.34
Jumping: WR, but awkward to record. -- 2.73 (2.62 WR)
Gem Collection: Easy. -- 10.28
Time Traveling: Easy. Slightly lucky to stay on though. -- 1.51
Super Jumping: Fast as it gets? -- 2.29 Joint WR
Super Speeding: Good run. Awkward to improve though. -- 5.22 (5.14)
Shock Absorbing: Good run. Can improve, but hard. -- 3.04
Flying: Nice and easy. -- 3.23 (3.15)
Super Bouncing: why +0.01 when recording. Good run still though. -- 1.96 (1.95)
Gravity Modifying: Bleh. Awkward to get a good time, decent run though. -- 2.74 (2.63 WR)
Exam: Nowhere near WR, but a path made by me -- 34.05 (33.41)
Intermediate:
Edge Hitting: Good run. -- 7.95 (7.83)
Diagonal Movement: Easy level and good run. Simples. -- 3.10
Wall Hit: Easy path and run. -5.33 (5.22)
Sloping: Stupid tightropes. -- 14.90
Curl: I'm sure there's a shortcut but can't find it. -- 31.66
Advanced:
Missing: After jumping off the start pad, after, it's easy. -- 12.63
Chimney: Easy to record, hard to perfect. -- 24.60
The Broken Construction: Rather easy for an advanced level. -- 28.71 (28.37)
Alpha: Start is hard, and slight mess up at end. -- 12.80
Rearranged: Awkward Jump and SJ is hard + fail at end. -- 18.53
Arranged: Good use of EH, no? -- 12.66 (12.59)
Puzzle: Red: Marble didn't want to fall down at the end. -- 42.90 (did have 40.4x, but did not record due to Georges impossible times.
Hazard: Obstacle Course: Slight time loss at fan part, otherwise, easy. - 34.88
Cubular: ARG ARG ARG ARGGGGGGG! Damn you long, frustrating level. Thankfully no mess ups and another WR. Could easily be beaten though. - 1:51.22 WR
I hope you enjoyed!
Songs:
1. The Angry Mob by Kaiser Chiefs
2. Enter Sandman by Metallica
Linky:

well done!

Dang. Best time for Super-Jumping is 2.39... Good job!

As for the rest of the vid, great job! However, I see room for improvement - Sloping and Curl in particular. As for Sloping, I know exactly how you feel on the tightropes part. For Curl, the shortcut is edge-hitting the platform right after the first tightrope to reach the above platform. Just watch Matan's video.

EDIT: Got 3.03 on Shock-Absorbing. Keep going. You'll get there.

Thanks for the tips. I knew that there could be improvement, just couldn't get it on camera... Still, 4 WR's aren't bad.

5 Level from George's Mini Marble Mod


Time Traveling - 1.48 (Top time 1.45 WR) - IC Level
Shock Absorbing - 2.99 (Top time 2.96 WR) - IC Level
Arranged - 12.23 WR - Just faster than last time
Hazard: Obstacle Course - 31.82 WR - Just faster
Cubular - 1:50.37 WR - The small tweak is much harder than it looks due to the marble's tendancy to stick to the wall.
Song: Supermassive Black Hole by Muse

Great runs!

Speed Twist 31.46
A quick run of Pokko's newest level, Speed Twist. Not the best path (doesn't beat UT) but it will do. Enjoy!
Linky Link:

good run

... why did you bump a topic that is nearly 2 years old? This is not the first time you were told not to do that.

Back to the Future I (13.22)

Back to The Future I by Lonestar. Sometimes it's better to be lucky than good.

Great speed! Looking forward to more. 

Electric Avenue (12.27) + Bloopers

Yes, another quick video, this time, Electric Avenue by smellysock. Teleport initializing sounds fer days. This is obviously a lot harder, as this recording was only my 2nd successful attempt at pulling this path off. Bloopers for lols. Don't ask how I managed to think up this path.

Insane Confusion (16.58)

A quick video, this time a level by Henry. A pretty weird level, as you start inside an interior, but, as usual, SJ + Helicopter always wins.

Damn your videos are very good! I really enjoyed the routes you came up with and the one in Electric Avenue was bound to be hard.

10 Seconds or Less (Marble Blast)

10 Seconds or Less is a themed compilation, where levels are finished, in less than 10.00 seconds. A quick-ish compilation that I recorded over a couple of days. Also, this was meant to have captions but I use a video converter, which cuts them out, and after tweaking Camtasia to try and format the video the same way, it didn't work either. Basically, Camtasia is a suck.

List of levels and notes.
Spiral - Quick and easy(-ish), could go faster but 5.13 is good imo.
The Secret Room 1 - An IC-esque level, 1.54 was the fastest I could do.
2 - This took the longest to record, getting 4.61 was lucky but I never managed to get close again, thus me uploading a part where I completely fail afterwards...
3 - N/A, lika an IC level again.
Creeper - Lucky edge-hits FTW!
Invisible Maze - For some reason, there's no reflection so this level is just white. Lots of guesswork to find the wall.
Ordeal. OR IS IT?!! - More screwing up yet getting lucky.
Scale the skyscraper, yadda yadda this level's name is way too long - Recorded on first try, heh.
Simple Course - N/A.
Space Ramp Madness - SLINGSHOT!
Super Simple Course 1 - N/A.
Tube Path - Colmesh blocks the way going directly forward BTW, thus this round-a-bout path.
Where's the Finish? 2 - How the hell I managed to shave 0.03 seconds by doing the same thing I've no idea.
DA HOUSE - Put at the end for being so long, best TM catch is 0.71. It's hard to finish before the time restarts though, I only had 1.5~1 seconds left of TM bonuses.

I always enjoyed watching swift runs like these. That last level seems like a nightmare though.

The REAL Ordeal (33.85)

Another 'let's skip 90% of the level' video, a level by Kurt. Also note, the StartHelpText says 'NO SHORTCUTS UNLESS PUT IN BY ME'. Did Kurt intend this? Probably not.

Another (almost) 2 year bump.

MBPU Level Compilation

A few levels from Marble Blast Powered Up.

Winding Madness (Winding Road Challenge) - 12.29 - Isometric view is cool, except when you're actually trying to finish

Super Marble Galaxy - 17.06 - skillshot!!!1!111!1oneone

Illusory Limbo - 22.68 - Just a matter of memorising where the invisible/fake platforms are initially. Can still go faster imo.

Tic Tac Toe - 3.79 The 'mine' player will play differently in the same situation sometimes, however there seems to be recurring patterns meaning you can quite easily create one and just replay until you win.

Friendly Flat - 46.76 - "Friendly". I'll just leave it at that.

Wow, very swift runs, the risky (sometimes blind) jumps in Illusory Limbo are indeed impressive. My favourite of the bunch is definitely Friendly Flat, nailing all those tight spaces at such a high pace is no easy job. There's no doubt to say that your skills are officially back.

jackrb how did u record all of these and made a compilation?

legenda1236 wrote: jackrb how did u record all of these and made a compilation?

I used FRAPS to record the levels (in .avi format) and used Camtasia to put in each FRAPS video then export it as a single processed video (mainly because FRAPS records unprocessed and so reaches GB size very quickly - processed reduces the filesize massively)

Sprawl 234 No Powerups (Apart from Blast)

My first FRAPS'd video of multiplayer (and probably my last - most likely stream future matches - FRAPS loves to drop 30 fps randomly )

A playthrough of solo multiplayer (self-hosting for ping reasons) using no powerups except blast.
I got close to 250 (Ultimate Score) and could easily be managed (especially if you get luckier spawns / you're better than me ).

Blast4eva.

Morass of Misery 5.450 (WR)

My first world record to be up on youtube!

This was a fun level to do, and beats Powerjohn's time (6.79 on video, claims to have 5.68), although the bloopers will show I failed every part of the run at least once. (Lots of bloopers for emphasis )

It still could definitely be improved (sub-5 I think is possible), especially with a couple of more difficult tweaks (e.g. EH to get to 15s TM faster) but this run was hard enough

Song: Forest Funk (Chapter 1 Light World) - Super Meat Boy OST (Danny Baranowsky)

Nice! But you typed 4.450 instead of 5.450

Very impressive run! The level sure is nasty to speedrun, considering I had a lot of fails too even for my 8.xx