the only videogame recording you need

[egypturnash]

Super Mario Brothers: Crazy God Technique (98m AVI, encoded in some format Quicktime barfs on - fellow Mac folks will need MPlayer, anyone still on OS9 is out of luck, I think.

Normally recordings of videogames are pretty boring, aside from "holy shit that's fast" or the occasional "I played this, how'd he skip that part", but this one's... um... different. This guy doesn't just take advantages of bugs and glitches to get through the game faster, he takes advantage of them to... dance.

Comments

[pathia.livejournal.com]

The link is so dead I can't even click on it anymore. Any known mirrors???

[spengler.livejournal.com]

Doesn't look like it.

And for others who missed unciaa's original post about these things, there's a bunch of them at http://home.comcast.net/~arcthelad/.

[ultraken.livejournal.com]

I've had to restart it several times, but it is downloading for me. (Fortunately, WinXP seems to be resuming downloads.)

[baxil.livejournal.com]

For a file this big, I really wish they (or some kind downloader) had thought to set up a BitTorrent seed or two.

... and, blargh, DivX. At least a few minutes of web searching got me pointed at FFDshow (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow); I can't install spyware on the work computer here, and I don't want to pay money just to get a codec to watch a frickin' video file.

[kiala.livejournal.com]

Er as a note, the DivX decode only codec is free ;>

[ultraken.livejournal.com]

I agree with you on BitTorrent. :)

You can get the DivX codec by itself--assuming, of course, you run Windows. It's not exactly prominent on the download page, but it's there. I don't know how good the free Mac version is, but it's there too.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

The main hassle with DivX on a Mac is files like these - they're AVIs with the DivX encoding, and while there's a Quicktime plugin for DivX, it's not able to say "hey, I can play some of these AVIs". So stuff like this involves the annoyance of Some Other Player - I can't just double-click, I don't get a preview in the Finder, I have to drag-and-drop onto a specific tool. Blah.

This, by the way, is one of the reasons I don't bother BitTorrenting video for the most part. It may be something I want to see, but it's probably going to be a case of codec hell.

[ultraken.livejournal.com]

It'd be nice if Apple would just make Quicktime play AVIs.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

It does. But AVI's got a plugin architecture that Quicktime just doesn't deal with completely.

I just installed the DivX codec, for instance, and that file now plays in Quicktime-using apps... but without sound. Likely because the audio's in Windows Media codec, though Quicktime claims it's MP3. This crap happens all the time with AVIs I get off the net.

[ultraken.livejournal.com]

Ah, lovely. :)

On Windows, the file summary claims the audio is 128kbps MPEG Layer-3. Who knows what's going on with Quicktime...

(Now I see the hassles you face with AVI.)

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

I think it might be some glitch in the Divx codec. Who knows? I think it's doing some sort of thing where it's 'stealing' AVI... Blah.

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

In fact, I'm sure it's a glitch in the DivX codec, because before installing it, I either got a Quicktime complaint message, or sound-but-no-video. Siiigh!

[ultraken.livejournal.com]

It's DivX, by the way.

[prickvixen.livejournal.com]

It's 100 megs. Do you still have it on your machine?

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

Yes. Bug me later today and I'll show it to you.

[neillparatzo.livejournal.com]

OT, I approve wholeheartedly of your choice of music. Although it seems right now I am the only person on LJ who lists "die!!die!!color!!!" as an interest anymore.

[kiala.livejournal.com]

Repeat after me.

VideoLan (http://www.videolan.org/vlc/).

[shatterstripes.livejournal.com]

I've seen that mentioned as better than MPlayer, which is certainly awkward. This sort of thing's usually a case of "it works and I don't wanna go digging through twenty-seven programs to see if one works better"...