is super-play.co.uk dead?

[brokenhalo]

So what I'm basically saying is I can't do this 100% alone, and a few people like brokenhalo have mentioned helping out with things like cash and running the site. We need to coral all the folk who want to be involved with this, and we need to have a plan. I figure if people here can scrape enough cash together to get a Ketsui board to guru, then maybe we can pull this one off as well. So, anyone officially in or...?

I'll throw in $100, guaranteed. I could probably double that if need be. What do you estimate the set-up and yearly fees on the site to be?

[crithit5000]

What do you estimate the set-up and yearly fees on the site to be?

I need to research this a bit, or maybe someone could point me in the right direction on a more meaty hosting option. I'll look into it this weekend.

Estimated funds so far look to be US$700.

[zakk]

I'd play with the amazon EC2 pricing tools just to see if it's something you think is sustainable. The only problem is your costs are not fixed in that case (they vary based on your storage/bandwidth use) which could be both good and terribly terribly bad. Also while I think Amazon EC2/S3/etc are sexy tech it may be a bit too high end for a site like this.

You could look into a dreamhost VPS, but I don't know how the bandwidth is on those so you might run into the 'need multiple instances' problem.

Long ago I'd had a few dedicated servers here and there, but I haven't done that in a while. However, I remember a few of the places; like here: http://www.burst.net/servers.shtml

Or you could go with their VPS stuff: http://www.burst.net/linvps.shtml

obviously you might be able to find better deals, so it's worth looking around. The good thing with most of these is it tends to be month-to-month so you could try the VPS solution and if the place ends up having crap bandwidth just move on to another.

[rjpageuk]

crithit5000 - sent you a PM with site details etc.

[Dragoforce]

I will defintly contribute money if needed, just let us know crithit!

[mesh control]

I'd chip in a few bucks too.

[crithit5000]

I should have probably posted this earlier:

Currently looking for folk who can help grab and hold onto as many videos in a semi-coordinated assault and then when a server's ready, get them back up probably via FTP. Free time, bandwidth, and harddrive space willing of course. Post or PM me what you've grabbed/grabbing if you can and I'll keep a running list. Hopefully I'll be able to sneak some downloads in during work without the IT guys hassling me...

[crithit5000]

• All 19XX videos - crithit5000 (in progress)
• All AeroFighters 2 vidoes - crithit5000 (in progress)

[Ruldra]

I have all Dimahoo and Truxton II videos with me already. Tomorrow I'll download some more stuff.

I suppose we should write down the description of each video as well, right?

[Aguraki]

I got these(pasting comments here):

battle bakraid:

yk_BattleBakraid_AdvancedCourseALL
1cc
Score: 79,836,000
Uses: Flameviper
289 MB

battle garegga:

T3CYRWIZ_BattleGaregga_Allclear
Ship used: GAIN
Score: J11620
429.1 MB

Player: T3-Kamui
Score: 20,112,090 (K,112,090)
Character: Gain
This Replay even surpasses INH's official superplay DVD and is very close to the world record which is currently at 20,5mill by the same player.
Originally found at: http://www.geocities.jp/garelabo/index.html
121.9 MB/197.1 MB/126.5 MB

dimahoo:

CloverYMN_Dimahoo_1ccMiyamoto
game: Great Mahou Daisakusen aka Dimahoo
score: 89,906,740
using: Miyamoto
108/108 items collected
60.6 MB

donpachi:

ZLK_DonPachi_ALL20MStages14 117.2MB
ZLK_DonPachi_ALL20MStages58 122.6MB
ZLK_DonPachi_ALL20MStages9End 110.2MB
ZLK_DonPachi_22boss No miss, no bomb 23.9MB
ZLK_DonPachi_23boss No miss, no bomb 47.4MB
ZLK_DonPachi_24boss No miss, no bomb 39.5MB
ZLK_DonPachi_25boss No miss, no bomb 48.1MB
ZLK_DonPachi_Truelastboss No miss, no bomb 54.9MB

ESP RA.DE:

esprade_Clover-TAC_Irori_Stage5-2r 52.9MB
(not sure its from superplay)

Giga wing:

CloverYMN_GigaWing_ALLclearWiderstand
Score: 259,774,404,484,020
Intentional suicide in first stage.
214MB

Gradius:

BenShinobi_Gradius_NoMissLoop1CompleteRun
One life replay
Saturn system
Normal difficulty
Score: 382,400 pts
56.5MB

Shiner_Gradius_Loop1nomiss
This is a no-death run of the first loop of Gradius for the NES.
There are a couple of stupid subtitles thrown in in place of actually interesting audio commentary.
Final score is 571,500. There's a short remix and an analysis at the end too.
38MB

gunbird 2:

GODHAND_Gunbird2_NomissNobombALL
A no miss/no bomb ALL clear using Aine.
All gemheads are triggered, and coin chain is not broken until 2-5, max 168.
5,322,600 points.
274.1MB

TripleLei_Gunbird2_Onecredit
Triple Lei one credits the first loop of Gunbird 2 with a score of 1,230,800.
60.1MB

In the hunt:

Ruldra_InTheHunt_NoMiss
A no-miss run through the arcade version of 'In the Hunt'.
Final Score: 1,108,600
262.1MB

SpaceBomber ver.B:

Osaru_SpaceBomberVerB_All
Score:11,225,500
TAD Corporation(Doujin) 1999.8.13
354.8MB



I can help with those if needed but I don't have a great connection so the uploads could take a while.
But I got these anyway.

[zakk]

Why not just get shell access to the server and rsync the entire video directory somewhere else?

[mesh control]

We should copy the players/superplay's comments as well (did not know if that's Aguraki was talking about) and paste them in a text doc to keep track of them, unless there is a easier way.

[rjpageuk]

Why not just get shell access to the server and rsync the entire video directory somewhere else?

Yes this - crithit5000 has shell access to the server now.

He also has access to the mysql database so has all the comments etc. for the videos so there shouldnt be any need to record the description of the videos.

[Aguraki]

Why not just get shell access to the server and rsync the entire video directory somewhere else?

Yes this - crithit5000 has shell access to the server now.

He also has access to the mysql database so has all the comments etc. for the videos so there shouldnt be any need to record the description of the videos.

ah obv there was a simple way
gl with that,very cool site.

[brokenhalo]

i already had most of the videos for the following games. i'll make sure i have everything for those and then i'll start at Z and work my up through the alphabet.

armed police batrider
battle garegga
dangun feveron
donpachi
dodonpachi
dodonpachi campaign version
dodonpachi doj
dodonpachi doj bl
espgaluda
gigawing
gradius 5
gunbird 2
guwange
ibara
ketsui
mars matrix
mushihimesama
mushi futari bl
pink sweets
progear
psyvariar revision

[VorpalEdge]

Player: T3-Kamui
Score: 20,112,090 (K,112,090)
Character: Gain
This Replay even surpasses INH's official superplay DVD and is very close to the world record which is currently at 20,5mill by the same player.
Originally found at: http://www.geocities.jp/garelabo/index.html
121.9 MB/197.1 MB/126.5 MB

Try this instead. I spliced them together, and while I was at it I cropped out the ridiculous borders and resized it down to 240x320. Since the source used blend deinterlacing it's still not going to look all that good (hit pause when gain's options' sword shots are on screen - you'll see doubles), but there's nothing I can do about that.

[brokenhalo]

armed police batrider
battle garegga
dangun feveron
donpachi
dodonpachi
dodonpachi daifukkatsu
dodonpachi campaign version
dodonpachi doj
dodonpachi doj bl
espgaluda
gigawing

gradius 5
gunbird 2
guwange
ibara
ketsui
mars matrix
mushihimesama

mushi futari bl
pink sweets
progear
psyvariar revision
terra cresta 2
tetris the grand master
the new zealand story
the red star
the revenge of shinobi
thunder blade
thunder force 2
thunder force 3
thunder force 4
thunder force 5
thunder force 6
tiger heli
time crisis 4
toki
tokimeki memorial 2
touhou 6
touhou 7
triggerheart exelica
trizeal
truxton 2
undeadline
under defeat
varth
viper phase 1
winds of thunder
w-ring the double rings
zanac neo
zero gunner 2

updated. the stuff thats bolded in the middle of the list im still working on. everything else listed i have all videos for. 22.5 Gb so far.

[Aguraki]

Player: T3-Kamui
Score: 20,112,090 (K,112,090)
Character: Gain
This Replay even surpasses INH's official superplay DVD and is very close to the world record which is currently at 20,5mill by the same player.
Originally found at: http://www.geocities.jp/garelabo/index.html
121.9 MB/197.1 MB/126.5 MB

Try this instead. I spliced them together, and while I was at it I cropped out the ridiculous borders and resized it down to 240x320. Since the source used blend deinterlacing it's still not going to look all that good (hit pause when gain's options' sword shots are on screen - you'll see doubles), but there's nothing I can do about that.

this comment is from superplay,I just copied everything in case they disappeared.

[crithit5000]

Busy week; currently transferring my donation towards a hosting plan to my PayPal account. Those who have expressed interest in contributing to this can send to crithit5000@yahoo.com or should probably contact me in case that's not a viable option. Thanks,

[brokenhalo]

Busy week; currently transferring my donation towards a hosting plan to my PayPal account. Those who have expressed interest in contributing to this can send to crithit5000@yahoo.com or should probably contact me in case that's not a viable option. Thanks,

sent you some cash. hope it helps.

[crithit5000]

Update in case you were wondering: In about a week or two I'll most likely have the new server ready-ish to at least host the videos. Basically just waiting til payday (Friday) to dump another 100 or so dollars to my funds. Going with what looks to be a pretty good dedicated solution.

[CHI]

crithit5000... you have PM

[brokenhalo]

bump. how's it coming along, crithit5000?

[JigsawMan]

I have 80GB of replays that I can upload to someones FTP if they want. Most are from my old scoreattack FTP but I have got a few GB more since then.

[crithit5000]

Server's been paid for (US $800+ sweet lord =/), awaiting for them to set it up and from there, we'll get properly rolling. Hopefully.

[Limbrooke]

Server's been paid for (US $800+ sweet lord =/), awaiting for them to set it up and from there, we'll get properly rolling. Hopefully.

Good news. I'd like to contribute, perhaps I'll be able to in the future. Thanks for your effort up to this point in helping the migration.

[crithit5000]

More updates: Server is up and running, and I just configured Apache/PHP/MySQL. No domain to hit at the moment, but I will begin transferring videos soon-ish and at least have those somewhere accessible until I get the UI up and running. Keep watching

[moozooh]

Awesome!

[rjpageuk]

More updates: Server is up and running, and I just configured Apache/PHP/MySQL. No domain to hit at the moment, but I will begin transferring videos soon-ish and at least have those somewhere accessible until I get the UI up and running. Keep watching

If you want super-play.co.uk you can have it, but it might be a good idea to get a .com address

Many thanks for your hard work, please let me know if you need anything else from me.

[crithit5000]

If you want super-play.co.uk you can have it

This will help, and if you want paid for it rj just let me know.

but it might be a good idea to get a .com address

Bah, somebody's squatting all the good stuff like superplay.com, super-play.com, sp.com, s-p.com, etc.

In case anyone's wondering: hi. I haven't checked to see if every single video got copied over, but it's a durned massive list. Will be working on the actual site soon, but just letting folks know (especially the contributors who help make this all possible) that SuperPlay isn't dying anytime soon.