A new shmup superplay group is now available on YouTube!

Adigun A. Polack · Post by **Adigun A. Polack** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 7:49 pm

Just now, I have started an interesting and brand-new scene on YouTube that welcomes your own original presentations of die-hard, no-holds-barred shmup superplays (you know, the impressive 1CCs and full-game no-miss plays and what have you!

). This scene here is called the Shmups Superplay Starbase, and you can find it at:

http://www.youtube.com/group/shmup

The two main reasons for this are because there was not ONE group on YouTube in which shmup superplays are featured, ever; and also because I want to be such a blessing to you shmup community and and to pay great homage to classic arcade shmup players everywhere showing off their remarkable feats!!!

=b !

So with all of that in mind, any of your own superplays of arcade/PC/console shmups (2D or 2.5D) stand a more likely chance of being accepted by me, so come on in and let’s come out blasting in such grand style!!!

See you there!!!

DJ Incompetent · Post by **DJ Incompetent** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 7:55 pm

Good call.

And now the question. Doesn't the Tube have a 10min 100MB cap on uploading vids?

ASK · Post by **ASK** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 8:20 pm

I didn't think enthusiasm dials went past 10, but this guys cranked up to 11.

DJ I: Yes, only "Director's" (aka people who pay) can upload videos longer than 10 minutes. Not to mention the fact that videos on YouTube are heavily compressed and generally look rather shit.

What's wrong with just using www.superplay.co.uk ?

freddiebamboo · Post by **freddiebamboo** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 8:24 pm

Triple lei posted his DOJ video on youtube stage by stage and it looked good.

Blade · Post by **Blade** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 9:05 pm

The reason many of us simply no longer want to download is because streaming is like 10x faster than downloading, plus you don't have to worry about not having the right video codecs or somesuch.

dai jou bu · Post by **dai jou bu** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 9:13 pm

Blade wrote:The reason many of us simply no longer want to download is because streaming is like 10x faster than downloading, plus you don't have to worry about not having the right video codecs or somesuch.

And hard drive space.

Adigun A. Polack · Post by **Adigun A. Polack** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 10:52 pm

To be dead-serious here on that, Blade and dai jou bu, I agree 100% with the both of you.

On a number of downloadable shmup superplays these days, it will very likely require you to use a certain codec (i.e. DivX, FFshow, XviD, stuff like that) in order for them to be played properly, which I think is a disadvantage for some people (

). However, with YouTube around, at least you get to see them streaming without *ever* having to use a codec to play them right! Man, isn’t the internet amazing or what!?

!

And as well, I thought that it is an excellent idea of mine to start a shmup superplays group on YouTube as a way of being such a blessing to die-hard shmuppers like you. Not bad, eh?

CodeMonkey · Post by **CodeMonkey** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 3:07 am

Awesome idea for a youtube group.

neorichieb1971 · Post by **neorichieb1971** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 9:55 am

It doesn't stream that fast, I just tried downloading a file and its quite slow and interupts the playback.

I'm at work on the fastest network on the planet. RFJ looks weird stretched out like that.

Post by **Icarus** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 10:11 am

For shits and giggles, and to test out how good the playback quality is on YouTube (read: how much it'll mangle the video compression of my replays), I've uploaded a G-Darius first stage replay, getting 2.3mil using only two Capture Balls throughout the stage - one at the start, one for the Captain.

Although I still prefer to release all-in-one replays at super-play.co.uk to verify my records, if the quality is good, I might do stage replays on YouTube. ST-related material will still be hosted as direct download at my filespace at ikaruga.co.uk.

This could be the start of something interesting. ^_-

Now to work out how to add side borders to vertically oriented games...

EDIT: Hmmm... looks like video playback is limited to 30fps speed. Fugly. -_-;;

Triple Lei · Post by **Triple Lei** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 3:32 pm

Icarus wrote: Now to work out how to add side borders to vertically oriented games...

No worries there... I already did the hard part:

In VirtualDub, just add the resize filter and...

YouTube says it's better if the vids were already 320x240; I would usually have the values doubled. And of course, if the videos weren't already tated, just add the appropriate rotate filter first. To replace the standard black borders on the sides, make your pics 70x240 and use the logo filter (twice), justifying accordingly.

EDIT: Hmmm... looks like video playback is limited to 30fps speed. Fugly. -_-;;

Sooo spoiled! (Although I would like to know where you got your 60 fps capture card...)

Post by **Icarus** » Tue Aug 15, 2006 3:54 pm

Ahh, thanks! I forgot about the other VDub resize filters (I usually just use the plain and simple one). Although the vert replays might look a little tiny on a 320x240 display, I'd prefer it to a stretched wide display. And thanks for the tip on replacing the borders. ^_^

(At least I don't have to use Adobe Premiere. Thank god.)

As for my capture card, I'm using a Pinnacle/Miro DC30 MJPEG capture card with unofficial stable WinXP drivers. I picked it up off eBay quite a while ago for under £30, and it was a bargain.

There's a bunch of them on eBay at the moment. ^_-

EddyMRA · Post by **EddyMRA** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 1:39 am

I already have shmup replays there too. I am JudgeSpear over on YouTube.

Post by **Icarus** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 1:47 am

I know, I saw your RFJ Phase 2 replay. Very impressive, although it looked like you were riding your luck a bit during the true last boss. ^_^

Triple Lei · Post by **Triple Lei** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 6:30 am

Okay, folks... not to bump this thread with every vid I post, but I just uploaded an old Batrider vid I had lying around:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAbbLS25VdQ

I resized it to 320x240 and made the borders on the sides plain white. I think it all looks pretty good, and considering this is a Raizing game, the only really, really hard-to-see bullets on this YouTube upload are the fast blue shots fired by Sobut... and that whole stage is hard to see anyway.

What do you all think...?

zakk · Post by **zakk** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 6:42 am

Youtube replays are ok for getting a sense of what's going on. But forget it if you want to do anything like read the score mid-game or make sense of some specific high-motion spot. It all disappears into a mass of compression artifacts.

So..one can probably pick up general strategies; but comparing your own personal performance against such videos can be hard. Like..how's my score compare to yours at some arbitrary point in the video? I dunno, I can't read it.

Kiken · Post by **Kiken** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 2:02 pm

Adigun A. Polack wrote:To be dead-serious here on that, Blade and dai jou bu, I agree 100% with the both of you. On a number of downloadable shmup superplays these days, it will very likely require you to use a certain codec (i.e. DivX, FFshow, XviD, stuff like that) in order for them to be played properly, which I think is a disadvantage for some people ( ). However, with YouTube around, at least you get to see them streaming without *ever* having to use a codec to play them right! Man, isn’t the internet amazing or what!? !

Well, that's because Flash is supported by just about every browser on the planet. All the video files on YouTube are swf.

And as zakk stated, they're ok for a general look at something, but there's too much pixelation to really use them as teaching tools. That, and you can't full-screen anything.

RippleScythe · Post by **RippleScythe** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 4:39 pm

ASK wrote:
Yes, only "Director's" (aka people who pay)

Director Status is free. I tried to sign up for it myself, and I think YouTube is bullshittin', I suspect they disapproved me. Or is it possible to upgrade a current basic account to Director?

I get stumped on those formal questions the registration form asks like how many hours do I record and how many hours of edited footage or some shit like that.

BTW I'm that Toneman guy from YT.

zakk · Post by **zakk** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 7:46 pm

Kiken wrote: Well, that's because Flash is supported by just about every browser on the planet. All the video files on YouTube are swf.

And as zakk stated, they're ok for a general look at something, but there's too much pixelation to really use them as teaching tools. That, and you can't full-screen anything.

You can come close to full screen by clicking on the rightmost button under 'size'. However, if you thought stuff looked bad in your browser window...

dave4shmups · Post by **dave4shmups** » Wed Aug 16, 2006 11:10 pm

As long as shmups get increased attention, as a genre, through this effort, then I support it. Besides which, I hadn't even heard of Major Stryker before I got on there, and, AFIK, there aren't any videos of it anywhere else.

Adigun A. Polack · Post by **Adigun A. Polack** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 11:16 pm

dave4shmups, on your entire reply here, you wrote:As long as shmups get increased attention, as a genre, through this effort, then I support it. Besides which, I hadn't even heard of Major Stryker before I got on there, and, AFIK, there aren't any videos of it anywhere else.

Well about the increased attention part, man, so far, it has been doing a mighty damn good job because the count of the superplay videos in my Shmups Superplay Starbase is now at least 36 videos, including amazing plays from G-Darius, Ray-Hound, Shikigami no Shiro 2, and so much more!! And yes, that count will continue to grow and grow in the days to come, and THAT is where I get so delighted to see the wonderful shmup plays like that from this very community ever more!!! d=

=b

About Major Stryker, dave4shmups, it was originally an MS-DOS shmup classic created in the vein of Raiden and some other late ‘80s shooters, and a *finely* done one at that, I think!

! Also, it was created by Apogee Software way back in 1993. I recorded videos of it using DOSBox, edited them using VirtuaDub, and presented them to YouTube as part of my group there, and I will present even more of them as the days go by, you know what I mean now?

See you later, and thanks for your reply, man!

!

Post by **Icarus** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 11:28 pm

Adigun A. Polack wrote:G-Darius, Shikigami no Shiro 2

Yeah, those were mine. ^_^

Just going through my collection of captures at the moment, seeing if there's anything worth putting up on the 'Tube. Might put up some old Espgaluda and Dodonpachi Daioujou stuff later this week.

dave4shmups · Post by **dave4shmups** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 12:32 am

Part of the problem I have with Super Play is that there are videos that people have had ample time to download that have been up on there for AGES. Granted, they have removed some videos, but, IMO, not enough. And as far as video quality goes, I don't think Youtube is that pixliated; cripes, I've watched Spectrum and Atari ST game footage on there and it all looks great.

EddyMRA · Post by **EddyMRA** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 2:45 pm

I applied for a Director account and was approved three days later. I just started dabbling with video editing and I used the content I created to help me with the approval process. It is indeed free.

There is still a 100MB size limit per video, but now they can be any length you want. I have a 49-minute MUGEN video there.

SFKhoa · Post by **SFKhoa** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 2:58 pm

I would like to join ... when I get back from school.
I'm just SFKhoa from Youtube. I have a couple Samidare replay vids uploaded there.

DJ Incompetent · Post by **DJ Incompetent** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 3:43 pm

Adigun, thanks for bending the rules for the Zoradius

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 10:50 pm

dave4shmups wrote:Part of the problem I have with Super Play is that there are videos that people have had ample time to download that have been up on there for AGES.

They're there for people to download at any time. I think that is the point.

RippleScythe · Post by **RippleScythe** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 12:24 am

As a relatively new member of Shmups, I thought it's time I posted my shmup videos in this thread myself.
As mentioned before, all YouTube regulars might recognize me as "Toneman". These may not be much as I play on just 2 stages, but if y'all want me to push it further, hey I'll go for it!

Armed Police Batrider
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spPX6rtaCic

Dimahoo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExCmVittw6o

Guwange
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nnw6r-tzFg

Recca Summer Carnival '92 for Famicom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5tu5MfPKGw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t_Ve4Ljs8I

zakk · Post by **zakk** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 12:49 am

dave4shmups wrote:Part of the problem I have with Super Play is that there are videos that people have had ample time to download that have been up on there for AGES. Granted, they have removed some videos, but, IMO, not enough. And as far as video quality goes, I don't think Youtube is that pixliated; cripes, I've watched Spectrum and Atari ST game footage on there and it all looks great.

Why should they remove videos? I don't even understand why this would be desireable...

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 1:21 am

Because dave has them all, so why are they still around?

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A new shmup superplay group is now available on YouTube!

A new shmup superplay group is now available on YouTube!

In a nutshell, I will say this:

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Let’s chat a bit about this, dave4shmups.

Re: Let’s chat a bit about this, dave4shmups.