superplays...

gunbird18 · Post by **gunbird18** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 5:09 am

Thank you for the vid of Sylphia! I've seen VERY few screens and of course no video! Great theme! I can now consider saving up and buying.

Thank you for ESPG2....wow, just...WOW! Much better level backgrounds IMO, and much better boss music!

And finally, THANK YOU FOR THE SITE!

dave4shmups · Post by **dave4shmups** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 5:13 am

gunbird18 wrote:Thank you for the vid of Sylphia! I've seen VERY few screens and of course no video! Great theme! I can now consider saving up and buying.

Thank you for ESPG2....wow, just...WOW! Much better level backgrounds IMO, and much better boss music!

And finally, THANK YOU FOR THE SITE!

Amen to all of that!

Bloodreign · Post by **Bloodreign** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 5:48 am

This is a site I can really appreciate, there's even a Ghouls N Ghosts and a Super Ghouls N Ghosts superplay there, surprised there isn't a Ghosts N Goblins one there too, although I've seen one from Marp where the guy twiddles right before the level checkpoint and milked points off the zombies and assorted bad guys.

Again thanks for the site, and keep up the excellent work you guys are doing on your 1CC replays and such.

dave4shmups · Post by **dave4shmups** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 5:12 pm

Plasmo wrote:
Anyone have (or know of any) R-Type, or R-Type II superplays? I'm referring to the original arcade versions.
R-Type II vid is up now!

Thanks for that,. but could you please put the R-Type II one back up?? I just found it late last night, and didn't get a chance to download it.

Plasmo · Post by **Plasmo** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 5:45 pm

check PM.
oh and this is the last day this month so dl as much as you can.

dave4shmups · Post by **dave4shmups** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 6:17 pm

Plasmo wrote:check PM.
oh and this is the last day this month so dl as much as you can.

Thanks man! It's downloading now! Doesn't matter that it's the first R-Type, I have R-Types for PS1, and you don't see Super Plays of either R-Type or R-Type II every day, so thanks!

Xexyz · Post by **Xexyz** » Thu Dec 15, 2005 4:36 am

Plasmo wrote:check PM.
oh and this is the last day this month so dl as much as you can.

That's nuts! The bandwidth has already been exceeded? Wow, not even halfway through December yet. You guys definately went up in popularity.

snacky · Post by **snacky** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 2:12 am

Xexyz wrote:
Plasmo wrote:check PM.
oh and this is the last day this month so dl as much as you can.
That's nuts! The bandwidth has already been exceeded? Wow, not even halfway through December yet. You guys definately went up in popularity.

Yes, suddenly all of Japan discovered us in a 2-day period or so. We were transferring 100-200 GB of data per day for a while. Not sustainable.

Post by **Icarus** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 3:43 am

snacky wrote:Yes, suddenly all of Japan discovered us in a 2-day period or so. We were transferring 100-200 GB of data per day for a while. Not sustainable.

I had a feeling that the Japanese text on the front page meant something along the lines of "Please slow down! We can't take it any more!" ^_^

At least you know the Japanese know of the site. Maybe they'll start uploading new stuff there. (One can only hope.)

ArrogantBastard · Post by **ArrogantBastard** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 3:57 am

Holy shit. 100-200 GB a day transfer? That's nuts. Can't imagine how much in dollars when the billing arrives.

landshark · Post by **landshark** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 4:39 am

snacky wrote:
Xexyz wrote:
Plasmo wrote:check PM.
oh and this is the last day this month so dl as much as you can.
That's nuts! The bandwidth has already been exceeded? Wow, not even halfway through December yet. You guys definately went up in popularity.
Yes, suddenly all of Japan discovered us in a 2-day period or so. We were transferring 100-200 GB of data per day for a while. Not sustainable.

As much as it would suck, you could put it on a login system and quota people on it. They get like 1G initially and then Xmegs every day/week/month after. But even that can be abused by people creating 20 accounts.

Best bet might be bandwidth throttling and not allowing multiple connections from the same IP.

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 5:42 am

I had a feeling that the Japanese text on the front page meant something along the lines of "Please slow down! We can't take it any more!" ^_^

No bandwidth warning in Japanese (although the what is there is written perfectly!). I would hate to see this site die. The accounts thing is pretty much the only way to do it if you can't keep up with the bandwidth, and even then, you'd have to manually confirm and monitor them.

Good luck w/ all of that.

zakk · Post by **zakk** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 6:10 am

landshark wrote:
snacky wrote:
Xexyz wrote: That's nuts! The bandwidth has already been exceeded? Wow, not even halfway through December yet. You guys definately went up in popularity.
Yes, suddenly all of Japan discovered us in a 2-day period or so. We were transferring 100-200 GB of data per day for a while. Not sustainable.
As much as it would suck, you could put it on a login system and quota people on it. They get like 1G initially and then Xmegs every day/week/month after. But even that can be abused by people creating 20 accounts.

Best bet might be bandwidth throttling and not allowing multiple connections from the same IP.

Not allowing mutliple connections from the same IP is never a good idea. There is not a 1:1 relationship between IP address and 'users'. On one hand you have fairly large networks behind proxies and/or NAT (and you would be surprised at how LARGE these networks sometimes are). On the other hand, people who are out to actually leech with reckless abandon aren't really deterred by single connections. It's somewhat of a losing solution all around. Not to mention it's kinda hard to track correctly. Ever try to download from Hameko and get that error message sometimes? That's because they limit you to one connection per IP, and it's misfiring and counting your initial connect to the file list as still active.

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 8:52 am

Not allowing mutliple connections from the same IP is never a good idea.

It's a fantastic idea when you have people milking your site. True that the web is connectionless, but when you're downloading a file, it is 1:1. Also allowing only 1 connection per IP (like hameko does) keeps people from using download accellerators. What are the chances that people from the exact same IP are downloading shooter superplays at the same time? Very small, and if they are, they should probably get back to work anyway

That's because they limit you to one connection per IP, and it's misfiring and counting your initial connect to the file list as still active.

Solved by clicking the link again. I'll take that over nothing at all.

I would highly recommend the accounts, validated by a valid email address (cutting freemail accounts out) w/ download limits. THat's really the only way to keep it under control.

Post by **Icarus** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 3:54 pm

How do I go about uploading to the site? The FAQ isn't incredibly detailed, and my FTP client wants some kind of ID and password before it'll let me log in. -_-;;

Got some new replay footage to distribute, too. ;_;

rjpageuk · Post by **rjpageuk** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 9:03 pm

You can login anonymously.

You can do it via any ftp client you should have a separate option to login anonymously - which piece of software are you using?

Or you can do it via explorer by simply going to ftp://super-play.co.uk and dragging and dropping the file in there.

Post by **Icarus** » Tue Dec 20, 2005 10:49 pm

rjpageuk wrote:You can login anonymously.

You can do it via any ftp client you should have a separate option to login anonymously - which piece of software are you using?

WS-FTP LE. Tried the anonymous login, and it wouldn't let me -_-;;
Can I drag and drop using Firefox? Or do I have to use Internet Exploder?

rjpageuk · Post by **rjpageuk** » Wed Dec 21, 2005 11:50 am

Icarus wrote:WS-FTP LE. Tried the anonymous login, and it wouldn't let me -_-;;
Can I drag and drop using Firefox? Or do I have to use Internet Exploder?

I think Firefox auto opens the file in the browser if it can when you try to drag and drop I am not sure.

Anyhow I installed WS-FTP LE to have a look.

If you type "ftp://super-play.co.uk" into the address bar at the top and then press enter it will connct to the FTP fine. You can then drag and drop files into the space using the software.

If you use the connection manager you have to specify connection type (ftp), a server address (ftp://super-play.co.uk) and a username and password. You should specify the username "anonymous" and no password. This works fine also.

Let me know if you have any other problems.

SamIAm · Post by **SamIAm** » Mon Dec 26, 2005 4:53 am

Hey guys, thanks for all your hard work at providing replays for everyone so far. I hope this effort doesn't die out. I think it' wonderful.

I do have a request: If anyone has a superplay of Cotton 2 (NOT Cotton Boomerang) I would love to see it. I've heard that it's possible to get 30 million points in the game, but by all of my most optimistic estimations that seems impossible. I fear I am missing something.

neorichieb1971 · Post by **neorichieb1971** » Mon Dec 26, 2005 6:24 am

Just watched the anonymous mushimesama superplay hoping to learn a thing or two.

I learned in level 1 that its possible to survive more than 50% of the level 1" from the top of the screen.

I learned that this guy can weave bullets all day long, taunts boss's even in the most congested playfields. Even goes inside their mouths and can dodge boss bullet spreads 1" from the shooting area.

The last thing I learned, is that Cave can make games that no joystick manufacturer in the world is going to help me 1CC.

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 8:57 am

Uploaded a 3 trillion point clear for Mars Matrix. I'll have to check out the other clear for MM once it's available.

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 11:15 am

Rob wrote:Uploaded a 3 trillion point clear for Mars Matrix. I'll have to check out the other clear for MM once it's available.

i have a counterstop MM 1CC video.. maybe its thatone? otherwise ill upload it straight away

Plasmo · Post by **Plasmo** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 11:45 am

yes its exactly that one.player is ACR

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 2:11 pm

Plasmo wrote:yes its exactly that one.player is ACR

im proboably one of those selfish leeches then, just downloading and never uploading, i was going to upload all my superplays but theyre all up there now anyways.. i really like the site and the idea tho

Gemant · Post by **Gemant** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 5:25 pm

SamIAm wrote:Hey guys, thanks for all your hard work at providing replays for everyone so far. I hope this effort doesn't die out. I think it' wonderful.

I do have a request: If anyone has a superplay of Cotton 2 (NOT Cotton Boomerang) I would love to see it. I've heard that it's possible to get 30 million points in the game, but by all of my most optimistic estimations that seems impossible. I fear I am missing something.

COTTON 2 video is super rare, I not have. But exist, is 26mil.

rjpageuk · Post by **rjpageuk** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 7:32 pm

Files are back up for a bit to use up the remaining bandwidth for the month.

Be quick!

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Fri Dec 30, 2005 12:04 am

sven666 wrote:
Rob wrote:Uploaded a 3 trillion point clear for Mars Matrix. I'll have to check out the other clear for MM once it's available.
i have a counterstop MM 1CC video.. maybe its thatone? otherwise ill upload it straight away

There has to be multiple counterstop replays though, right? It's not hard. ACR does it with 3.9m exp and I think it's possible to get at least 9m exp.

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Sat Dec 31, 2005 4:38 am

Replay dudes:

Does anyone know why 16-bit (Genesis) games don't capture properly? Haven't had a problem with anything but trying to transfer a recorded (to tape) speedrun of Thunder Force 2.

Kiken · Post by **Kiken** » Sat Dec 31, 2005 6:12 am

Rob wrote:Replay dudes:

Does anyone know why 16-bit (Genesis) games don't capture properly? Haven't had a problem with anything but trying to transfer a recorded (to tape) speedrun of Thunder Force 2.

What connection are you using to the TV? RF will look like garbage no matter what. I've never had issues though recording my MD games since I'm using the A/V cables.

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Sat Dec 31, 2005 7:41 am

I use A/V for all, which has just been DC, PS2 and Genesis games. I had multiple games on one tape, some TF2 and Mars Matrix. As I test I tried transferring a stretch of tape that went from TF2 -> MM and it went static & noise -> crystal clear. Both looked fine on tape.