When the date comes closer, I will update its status.
I would like to talk to everyone coming in for this (A&C, London, etc…).
Please be aware that May 12 is a projected date.
Nothing is officially set in stone.
ggs to all yesterday. A pity the recordings all lack sound. Any idea how to get around this?
Looking forward to the 12th.
my suggestion would be to get audacity, and record the sound in audacity (since the sound IS going through a mic slot rather than the usb) and do the video like you did yesterday. that way you can visually confirm the sound is recording through audacity. and you can pass it on to me to merge the two files afterward.
Thanks for coming again everyone! I always enjoy these meetups. I hope I’ll be able to get my supergun setup repaired before the next meeting.
(I am NOT lookiing forward to doing the diagnostics/repairs, but I love this game too much) Worse case scenario: we use the dreamcast version of ST instead until I finish repairs.
Where you the guy that showed up yesterday and left while I was setting up?! You missed out. Next time say something before you leave. we were all wondering where you went!. Let us know what’s going on!
whoops.
most programs usually let you choose audio input either from the USB device or the mic jack. search your program to see if it has that option first. if not then download audacity. it’s free.
Thing is, when you told me to plug the dothingy in, I couldn’t here you over the noise and thought you wanted me to plug it into the stereo port not the mic port. My bad.
Update on the progress of my setup repair:
Sound works, video doesn’t, inputs work (i can tell by the sound effects) …
Continuity test for video wires inside the box pass…
I may need to purchase and replace the video encoder inside the red box.
edit: i just beat ken and dhalsim and lost to e-honda by playing just with sound.
The you have a stereo line in? that works too. I just have to take off the mono converter. (I only have a mic jack and it’s mono) But if your program can’t pick up the audio with that port, you still may need a separate program.
JED, can you upload the videos anyway regardless of whether there’s sound or not?
Also, while working on my supergun I was thinking our meeting’s here are a little too friendly, and I’d like to start a loose ranking system.
One challenge for peach person per meetup.
Challenges can be made 2 rankings above yourself.
Best 3/5
No shows for challenges automatically lose.
(It’s possible to jump 3 spaces after 1 meetup depending on the order of the challenges made / outcomes of matches)
I’ll try to order the matches so that the above will not happen too much.
First I was thinking place people in the approximate order of their skill. Then I thought, at the beginning there will be little incentive to challenge/no movement up the charts. So after thinking about it a bit more, I decided to place people in an order where I think there will be most salt/movement for the first few meetups.
1 HerroHerro
2.Megaman3D
3.Dogberry
4.Unessential
5.ngu
6.JED
7.Brettchronic
???.redeyeguy (6 of he shows up for the next A&C meeting.)
??? Turbo2Tone
??? (that random chubby black guy that plays a handful of games every time at A&C, I forgot his name, didn’t place him because I doubt he’d want to participate)
The reasoning behind it? Claw’s hard to deal with, and noone wants him to be on/near the top So I stuck him there, Oz’s Fei, is a bad matchup for me so I placed him above me. Dogberry’s there because I need someone who’s likely to beat the claw soon. Then me. Then ngu. (I’ve only played him onine, and that was a few years ago, It’s probably undeserved that I’m above him, so hopefully he’ll want to change that by hitting me and not kevin. and Brett probably thinks he can beat everyone. SO DO IT. So I stuck him at the very bottom. I might swap JED and ngu if redeyeguy doesn’t end up showing up for the next meeting at A&C. just to give brett a harder time for his first match. (so he can’t skip JED by challenging ngu who’s rusty)
Turbo2Tone would probably be either at the very top or very bottom because I doubt he’ll be able to come every meeting. I just couldn’t decide which would probably motivate him to come more. either being on the very bottom. Or putting him at the top and making him watch his rank drop every meeting…
I also tried to spread out both the better and worse players out evenly throughout the board.
We’ll discuss this more at Brett’s place. Please don’t make challenges yet until I’ve made a final decision on the initial ranking, and I’ve decided on which meeting to start this off at.
Anyone who’s run this type of system have any suggestions for the rules? (I’m looking at you people at SA in cali)
another update on repair: I wired my power supply directly into the supergun. bypassing the faulty jack. (The video didn’t work before, but the sound cut in and out…) now the sound is stable, but the video isn’t working… I’ll do a few more tests and stuff, if I can’t figure it out then I’ll try replaceing the video encoder…
Oh, and about the ranking system. would you rather do what I suggested before, and let the rankings settle. or would you all rather do a ranking tournament?
Again, We’ll discuss this more at brett’s place…
edit: just ordered the video encoder. it’ll take 15-21 days for shipping… meaning I won’t be able to get it fixed for the meetup at bret’s place. but Probably for the next meeting at A&C
I think it probably will probably work without any extra program. If not what shall I dl in case?
I know next to nothing about uploading to youtube.
Do I have to chop up the vids myself or just upload them in one big vid each?
I approve of the above sentence very much.
The idea and system should work out well for a group our size. It would require regular attendance though. This is hauntingly similar to my idea from last year which didn’t pan out. At least we’ll be able to try it on a smaller scale here.
I have no problems with the current rankings as is. Mind you any excuse to run a tourney is always good.
to upload videos longer than 15 minutes you just gotta do SMS verification. (unfortunately , I found that out AFTER trying to upload my 20 minute video =( )
If you don’t want to use your actual cellphone number to verify you can just use pinger.com. (then on the side bar go to textfree web) That’s what I did. Then you can upload the entire video without splitting it up.
Regular attendance for the ranking board shouldn’t be a problem. Worse case we only do it at A&C meetings. (Everyone’s pretty diligent for those)
What was your idea from last year?
It’s buried somewhere in pages past from last year, I forgot the thread name. It was bad. Let’s just say that I had gone mad with the realization that sf is gonna consist of only sf4 from now on. This was last year mind you.
Let it remained buried though, it was so stupid it’s not even funny. Desperation does funny things to people.
It was pretty much a ranking system too. A little more elaborate tho.
http://forums.shoryuken.com/t/3s-cvs2-a3-mvc2-ce-hf-st-regional-ranking-system/118624page-3
It wasn’t that hard to dig up. (you haven’t started too many threads) I remember that (wow. I posted a lot there…) I went through it all again. It’s a good Idea, just a bit disorganized and spread a little bit too thin. I think the main thing wrong with it was that there wern’t any “official” meetings. There was not enough contact between you and the players other than posting the results on the board. and a few too many games. Screw the decay because anyone not showing up will move down on the rankings anyway. and there were a few too many games.
If we just stick to ST. and keep it at the biggest gathering (for now, @ A&C unless brett’s place becomes big). This should work out. I wonder if many of the players who posted are still around? (who’s mihai yellows4 and hisham? the ame “eric hai” comes to mind. no idea who that is or why…
RSX is just vincent right?
I think having an “official” meetup and having a physical piece of paper (even if it is scrap paper) with names on it has a mental effect that makes it seem a bit more relevent than just a forum post with the rankings…
Maybe every month I’ll make like 5 or 6 copies of the list and post it around A&C world. Nobody will care except for us. but It’ll be nice. Any information about past attempts at something like this is appreciated. Thanks for reminding me of it.
RXS is Vince.
Hisham is… hey Brett is that his real name or a nic? I know that he’s a Sauga player but I don’t know if he still plays games.
Mihai is an old school London player who played many of the older games like CVS2 and 3S. Nowadays he tries to convince the newer London brood to play hard so he can enjoy himself and maybe return London to the glory days.
YellowS4 is Jay from the Richmond Hill area I believe. I know that he is generally very good at fighting games notably 3S and his HDR Zangief wasn’t bad either. Nowadays I think he may have retired iono you’d have to ask the TO guys. I remember that he threw a Dudley Rose at J. Wong instead of finishing the match or something like that at T8. “I PLAY FOR THE PEOPLE!”
On a side note T8 was my first major. Seems like a century ago.
Eric Hai is a very good SF4 player last time I saw him playing. I don’t know anything about him or what he’s up to as well.
It’s a shame we couldn’t somehow mind control all these great players and make them play ST too. I guess the only way to do that is to put a lot of money into the game. Which may yet happen…
I’ll try uploading the footage from last Wednesday tonight. Luckily the footage is already automatically cut up into pieces no longer than 15 min so I should be able to upload to youtube with no probs. This will be my first youtube upload ever lol.
Hello all! I just arrived back from Civil War 4 and just started this new job. I just wanna say thanks a lot to all of you guys for the practice as I placed 1st in the high stakes tournament:
1 - PJS Brettchronic (Chun-Li)
2 - WA Vortex (Guile)
3 - Dsinnie (Chun-Li)
4 - Caliagent#3 (O-Ryu, Zangief)
As for what’s going on the 12th, I should make a FINAL decision on Monday. I just started this new job (night-shift, possible 6-7 days of the week) and I wanna see how it goes so do not be surprised if I say no.
Nice! Congrats!
Good shit man.
I don’t recognize the first two but I’m familiar with Caliagent. I think.
Btw, is there a way to lower the quality of the vids we recorded last Wednesday so that the file sizes aren’t so big. There’s no way I’m uploading 15Gigs on my shared internet.
you can use any video editor to reduce the resolution and change the format…
Wow. my video encoder was expected to come in 2-3 weeks but it arrived today! which means I can get my supergun fixed within the next week!