Releases:
#01: Battle Garegga (T3-神威, 20.39mil ALL, Gain)
#02: Dodonpachi Daioujou BL (Prometheus, 2.52bn 2-ALL, A-Exy)
#03: Battle Garegga (T3-神威, 20.43mil ALL (?), Gain)
#04: Mushihimesama (PS2 Arrange ver. - Smraedis, 1.05bn ALL)
#05: Dodonpachi Saidaioujou (ver1.5 - RSQ, 151.45bn ALL, A-L)
#06: Mushihimesama Futari Black Label (God Mode - NAK, 7.18bn ALL, Reco)
#07: Battle Garegga (T3-神威, 16.63mil ALL, Wild Snail)
#08: Battle Garegga (T3-神威, 20.83mil ALL [WR], Gain)
#09: Rayforce (Jaimers, 8.01mil ALL)
#10: Battle Bakraid (Advanced Course - ciox, 100+mil+, Flame Viper & Buster Lizard)
#11: Battle Garegga (SDD-Kaede, 18.45mil ALL, Miyamoto)
#12: Pink Sweets ver1.00 (Arcade & Score Attack ALLs - Plasmo, Lace-A)
#13: Battle Garegga (T3-神威, 20.95mil ALL [WR], Gain)
#14: Dodonpachi (Jaimers, 638.2mil 2-ALL, Type C-Laser)
#15: Donpachi (SOF-WTN, 71.9mil 2-ALL, Type A)
#16: Gundemonium Recollection (Demonic Mode - BAF, 138.6mil ALL [WR], Eryth)
#17: Muchi Muchi Pork! (X360 ver1.01, Harahara Mode - Aquas, 248.7mil ALL, Momo)
#18: Leiria -Stargazer- (Hard Mode - twilightex, 3.70bil ALL + TLB [WR], Type A)
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I'm proud to announce the release of the Special Demonstrations, what I hope will become a long-running and successful series of replay releases aimed at showcasing some of the best replays by the best players.
I'll give you a quick backstory of how this came about, slightly abridged for speed:
And here we are.Icarus wrote:As you guys already know, I was at Stunfest 2013 this April, and I had travelled to meet the three Japanese players invited to come over and showcase their skills, and meet up with the Western shooting game players who would be at the event. The event itself was hugely successful, and everyone who attended the event had great fun meeting Kamui, NAK and TAC, as well as watching them do their thing on stage.
Towards the end of the final day, I exchanged Twitter details with Kamui and NAK - TAC isn't on social networking sites unfortunately - and I intended to keep in touch with the both of them from then on, to get to know them better, and to share things with them. My first message helpfully translated for me by blackoak, and was of "thanks for coming over such a long distance to France, and hopefully we can keep in touch". A few days later, both of them found me (probably via mutual friends) on Facebook, and sent me a friend request. I accepted, had a chat with them over the next few days. Kamui in particular was interested in the commentary on the video I posted of her 18.9mil run on the Saturday at Stunfest, so we got to talking about it, I explained some of the discussion as she was playing, and she explained some of her strategies she was using, and what differed from her plays released online a while ago.
A couple of days later, Kamui posts a couple of photos of her recent plays at her usual arcade, with the loosely translated comment "I finally got my revenge! K score!", and I thought to myself, "I would have loved to have seen those plays live".
Well, the next day, I got a private message in my inbox, with links to files served on a filesharing site of a series of .vob files taken from DVDs, with the (loosely translated) message, "Here's the replays recorded from the arcade recently. I wanted to send these directly to you. I hope you enjoy watching them. They're unedited raw footage, so feel free to edit them, share them, and add commentary to them as you wish."
While would have been quicker just to rotate, deinterlace and upload the raw footage for sharing, I felt that these plays she kindly sent me deserved better treatment. So I spent three days learning Final Cut Pro X, and put together something that hopefully resembles a commercial replay release. The final exports from Final Cut are in 720p HD at 10Mbps bitrate, with high-quality audio. I decided not to bother with baked-in commentary (as mistakes/changes would take ages to fix via re-encoding), so instead I'm using Youtube's annotations to provide commentary where required.
Hopefully this series will take off somehow. I'd dearly love to get in touch with the other top players of the other selectable ships, probably with the help of adversity1, Prometheus, Erhune and any other Western players who are in contact with the top players, and with the help of Kamui herself if possible. But for now, Kamui herself has assured me that she will try and continue to supply me with footage as she works towards hitting 21mil with Gain. I can't wait to see it when she does.
While I do want to continue to center the Special Demonstrations around Garegga, I am open to working with high-level players of any shooting game. I believe that great players deserve great quality replays, and hopefully this is a step in the right direction.
Enjoy the release! There is more to come. ^_-