Introduce yourself here

2004-09-03 04:46:27 pm

red chamber dream

Hi, I'm Arkarian. I've been reading these forums and visiting this site for months...never really joined until a few days ago, though. Anyway, Metroid has always been one of my favourite game series, and these forums are the best around so here I am.

nate

2004-09-04 05:38:46 pm

Quote from Arkarian:

these forums are the best around so here I am.

:)

illy

2004-09-05 02:38:43 am

Hi, I am illy. I wanted to join this site to reply to kip's sequence breaking history... I know many people here already. Um.... that's it.... I think....

MonsterERB

2004-09-10 03:27:05 pm

Hi - I'm MonsterERB. I'm a mod over at SCU, but I occasionally lurk here. Glad to join the forum over here, mainly to keep track of what's going on in Metroid Prime speed running.
...
And, illy forgot to tell you... he's a girl. Really, he is. Wink

GreenMamba

2004-09-10 03:37:31 pm

What luck, there's french fry stuck in my beard.

Really? I was still trying to figure that out at SCU.

Sorry, illy. Embarassed

Sam-Mag

2004-09-10 09:55:25 pm

Quote from MonsterERB:

Hi - I'm MonsterERB. I'm a mod over at SCU, but I occasionally lurk here. Glad to join the forum over here, mainly to keep track of what's going on in Metroid Prime speed running.
...
And, illy forgot to tell you... he's a girl. Really, he is. Wink

Hiya!

I usually surf teh SCU forums to look at teh Super Metroid Glitches and in teh MP2E forum on stuff that will be happening in teh game.

I may join teh SCU forums some day. :) :) :)

arkarian

2004-09-10 09:59:15 pm

red chamber dream

SCU forums are generally very good.
You're definitely welcome here, MonsterERB.

Zero

2004-09-11 04:31:21 am

Hello, I'm Zero...I like to speedrun through Metroid games with sequence breaking.I'm currently speedrunning through MZM and
finishing Metroid Prime. I've never played SM or M2:RoS but hopefully Ebay will result in a good price for both..I think that about sums up my introduction...

Oh and I tend to send my sentaces with a line of three dots like this...

I forget how I found this site, but the stuff here is really interesting.
Maybe my first accomplishment should be varialess run in MP..Ah who am I kidding, I'd probably die at the third room in Magmoor (Sorry spelling eludes me) Caverns :) ...

Izo

2004-09-11 06:48:34 am

soaking through

A group of three dots is generally known as an ellipsis. And I'm pretty sure you spelt Magmoor correctly... There's some really random information for you...

Zero

2004-09-11 01:22:39 pm

Yeah I wasn't sure of the order I should put the info so I just decided to put it in a random order.

Izo

2004-09-11 04:35:52 pm

soaking through

No, my information was random. Yours was very relevant.

Chanoire

2004-09-13 07:02:42 pm

I'm not overly fond of intro threads, but I do try to do the right thing when joining a new community, so here goes. As some of you may know from my comments on the GameFAQs boards, I'm an audience rather than a participant, Metroidwise; I'm pretty new to the series (first I ever saw was SM in Dec 02 and I didn't get to play again for eight months or so) and have very poor eye/hand coordination which makes me fairly hopeless at any game which requires dexterity and quick reflexes. However, I love finding out how things work and figuring out what to do, even if I can't actually do it. So I find everything myself, and then enjoy watching the vids of other people playing in ways I never could.

I ended up reading these forums by the slightly devious route of finding brickroad's glitch FAQ and being disappointed by its incompleteness, and when looking over the gfaqs boards in the (vain) hope of finding out the rest of why the murder beam glitch works I saw a reference to speedrunning (specifically, RS's retirement from making vids, the first I'd heard of either speedrunning or recording oneself) which ultimately pointed me over here, possibly via SDA. After watching every little clip that didn't spoil any item locations for me I started reading the boards pertaining to the games I'd played, but didn't register because I have no interesting gaming accomplishments. Couldn't stand seeing no mention of the Ceres asteroid in the Metroid Solar System thread, though, so here I am.

I'm not overly fond of intro threads, but I do try to do the right thing when joining a new community, so here goes.  As some of you may know from my comments on the GameFAQs boards, I'm an audience rather than a participant, Metroidwise; I'm pretty new to the series (first I ever saw was SM in Dec 02 and I didn't get to play again for eight months or so) and have very poor eye/hand coordination which makes me fairly hopeless at any game which requires dexterity and quick reflexes.  However, I love finding out how things work and figuring out what to do, even if I can't actually do it.  So I find everything myself, and then enjoy watching the vids of other people playing in ways I never could.

I ended up reading these forums by the slightly devious route of finding brickroad's glitch FAQ and being disappointed by its incompleteness, and when looking over the gfaqs boards in the (vain) hope of finding out the rest of why the murder beam glitch works I saw a reference to speedrunning (specifically, RS's retirement from making vids, the first I'd heard of either speedrunning or recording oneself) which ultimately pointed me over here, possibly via SDA.  After watching every little clip that didn't spoil any item locations for me I started reading the boards pertaining to the games I'd played, but didn't register because I have no interesting gaming accomplishments.  Couldn't stand seeing no mention of the Ceres asteroid in the Metroid Solar System thread, though, so here I am.

nate

2004-09-13 10:25:48 pm

rotflmao. scarlet brings 'em in even in death.

welcome to the world of sequence breaking, chanoire.

Red Scarlet

2004-09-14 12:32:53 am

I('d) like to watch (some MP3 runs)

Well, once you find all the items, hopefully my vid will be an ok watch.

I'm not dead! :?
I just don't record vids anymore.

nate

2004-09-14 10:36:18 am

it's weird though, when you come on irc, you're like this freaky ghost scarlet.

"nbmb sssssixty-sssssix ... "

*shin~~~*...

"one hundred per cent!!!!!!!"

*everyone runs*

Chanoire

2004-09-14 03:46:16 pm

To clarify, the thread I read was (I think) before the 0:55 was posted, or right around then? It did start out sounding like a eulogy, though.

And yes, the first thing I did after finding the last SM powerup was watch that run, even before finishing my own game. (Just as well I didn't wait; the next time I turned on the SNES my save was gone and I had to start over.) And I enjoyed watching it very much, though I should take the time to get the high-quality version -- I was so impatient that I got the LQ one and some things are kind of hard to appreciate. Kind of wish you'd written up the "neato things [you] did" that you mention in the program notes; as you say, most of it speaks for itself but I'm sure there are things I'm missing due to inexperience.

Speaking of which, was there once further commentary on these runs posted on the main site? I see things in the threads that suggest that there had been additional interesting comments along with the runs, but since the links all point to archive.org now I have no idea if there was anything extra before then.

To clarify, the thread I read was (I think) before the 0:55 was posted, or right around then?  It did start out sounding like a eulogy, though.

And yes, the first thing I did after finding the last SM powerup was watch that run, even before finishing my own game.  (Just as well I didn't wait; the next time I turned on the SNES my save was gone and I had to start over.)  And I enjoyed watching it very much, though I should take the time to get the high-quality version -- I was so impatient that I got the LQ one and some things are kind of hard to appreciate.  Kind of wish you'd written up the "neato things [you] did" that you mention in the program notes; as you say, most of it speaks for itself but I'm sure there are things I'm missing due to inexperience.

Speaking of which, was there once further commentary on these runs posted on the main site?  I see things in the threads that suggest that there had been additional interesting comments along with the runs, but since the links all point to archive.org now I have no idea if there was anything extra before then.

Red Scarlet

2004-09-14 04:07:20 pm

I('d) like to watch (some MP3 runs)

Unless of course, if my "life/existence" at this place was just for making vids, then I guess I am dead.

I don't think there was anything extra in the commentaries when they got transferred over to archive.org.

Main reason I didn't want to type up about all that stuff was that I was going to for my 1:00 run and just the first segment commentary was a couple of pages. Became too long and blah.

Someone threw out the idea of vocal commentary, but meh.

As for others, dunno..probably the same reasoning.

CALFoolio

2004-09-21 05:57:27 pm

r.i.p. bulleta

Toozin

2004-09-22 12:27:35 pm

Not impossible

just highly unlikely

What the fuck did you people do to my thread? Evil or Very Mad

KennyMan666

2004-09-22 03:19:46 pm

Viking

Precursor

Quote from Toozin:

What the flickerbat did you people do to my thread? Evil or Very Mad

You don't want to know. Really.

...I don't think I have ever written in this thread before.

I use one single word to describe myself: Forumite (Or Forum Whore, as I have started to entitle myself ^__^). I'm a member at too many forums for my own good.

The four most important things there is are food, anime/manga, games and sleep.

GreenMamba

2004-09-22 04:22:39 pm

What luck, there's french fry stuck in my beard.

They killed it Toozin. They killed it dead. Weep for the once useful topic. Or not. Whatever.

GameAddict

2004-09-22 08:15:19 pm

GreenMamba

2004-09-22 08:23:42 pm

What luck, there's french fry stuck in my beard.

Yes, but who's fault was it?

Wassup Dawgs

2004-09-22 08:24:27 pm

:)

Stop derailing topics.

CALFoolio

2004-09-22 09:39:05 pm

hi, my name is cal foolio, and i'm an alcoholic.

*sits back down*