Insane Difficulty: Mini-Contest Idea - Insane Difficulty

Hmm...I just thought of something random that seems like it could be interesting...

My idea was to post a specific save for others to download (to play on a base FF6 ROM probably, but maybe even a hack if I feel so inclined). Then I'd give players a specific task to complete starting from that save, as fast as possible. Everybody submits a YouTube video, which is unlisted until the mini-contest period ends (Although please send the link to me at least!). If you're interested and can't record to .avi (or something similar) well, I'd be happy to record it for you. Just use ZNSES's movie recording feature and send me the files.

The nature of the challenge would probably be a mostly casual, take a gander or two at it sort of thing, not "UBER-HARDCORE GOTTA MINIMIZE THE FRAMES" precise. I just think it would be more fun for everybody to just let it roll and see what people come up with. The tasks should be things that anybody can do, but a strong player should be able to do faster.

I'm mostly posting this to see who might be interested in doing this sort of thing. If you think you might want to do something like this, then drop a message here. I'm just worried about starting something like this and having nobody post anyways.

Are you sure that challenge is the best section of the site in which to create this topic? contest and challenge are quite different...

I ran a similar event sometime last year that I plan on running again soon.

http://www.insanedif...cs-submissions/

Nice to know it, but i think Lockirby2 would be more interested at listening if you want to partecipate or not

Tenkarider, on 15 June 2014 - 02:54 PM, said:

Yeah.

Tenkarider, on 15 June 2014 - 04:52 PM, said:

I never noticed Lockirby had a 2 at the end of his name untl now.

Tenkarider, on 15 June 2014 - 02:54 PM, said:

I think that this makes the most sense of the sub-forums available. If there was a contests sub-forum, I'd gladly use it, but this was the best fit IMO.

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This is pretty neat. I've played Battletoads once before, but I never made it past the second level, even though I was co-oping (I'm not very good at beat-em-ups...).

I've also taken one attempt at R-Type, and Aura's right that it's hard to continue after dying once. I made it three quarters of the way through level 3, but after I lost that one life all the rest easily followed suit...

Never played the others at all.

I'm planning to make the tasks I'm giving out a little weirder than these ones. The task, the save file, the FF6 ROM, or a mixture will probably be something unexpected.

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Lockirby2, on 15 June 2014 - 05:18 PM, said:

I've heard Coop makes it harder. I think Stage 3 has a level where your attacks are hard to control, and you end up mudering the shit out of each other.

And I have spent so much time on the internet I just subconsciously ignore numbers at the end of names.

Kjata, on 15 June 2014 - 05:15 PM, said:

The truth is that i joined this site only for make notice to all the others that Lockirby has also a 2 in his name!!!(the Czar challenge was only a cover XD)

Lockirby2, on 15 June 2014 - 05:18 PM, said:

Wait, you're telling me that you aren't good at beat 'em up??? quite unexpected... about me, the streets in which i went with Blaze of Streets of rage are still burning

I would be willing to give it a try!

Thunen, on 15 June 2014 - 06:08 PM, said:

Cool, that's four so far for sure. I'll give it a day for people to see, but since I figure this will have a month long time period, people should have plenty of time to join in even if they first see it a week from now.

If you do something that isn't ff6 i might be interested. I've never played ff6

Kjata, on 15 June 2014 - 08:58 PM, said:

It's never too late in the life to play ff6

Tenkarider, on 16 June 2014 - 12:37 AM, said:

Yeah, I just started BNW.

Kjata, on 16 June 2014 - 01:49 AM, said:

Then you should be qualified for try this event, just pratice a bit with BNW/FF6

Tenkarider, on 16 June 2014 - 02:43 AM, said:

Well, I'm just past Figaro... So no, not really.

Kjata, on 16 June 2014 - 03:26 AM, said:

For that reason i said with some pratice... pratice makes perfect!!

PS. for some reason, each time i post something in a topic, that topic's view meter always goes up, at least of 10 views... interesting...

Tenkarider, on 16 June 2014 - 05:37 AM, said:

Regulars are used to reading all posts of all forums, so expect that. That usually changes when irrelevant stuff starts being posted. I stop following the threads there.

Following that rule, now this topic should have about 180 views, but they are less than 120...
PS. my previous post rose the views of 8, one second after the post, your post rose it just of 4 views, so i think people check the last post according to who wrote it(if this topic wasn't of Lockirby2 i wouldn't even here )... who cares, anyway! XD
Let's return to the subject of the topic XD

I look at every post on the forum, and decide whether to read it afterwards. >.>