Great stuff Tyler, seems you could push this a bit farther too still.

Also do you remember a sports torrent website called "sports-scene"? There was a high level user called "SportsGuy" from the USA on there too.

Sportsguy001 wrote on 04/11/21 at 18:54:49:

We all knew you were gonna react though, well done dude!

If yal post some capture devices then i will look into it.  I have a cheap laptop with windows 10. Not looking to spend too much money on something that might never get used.  I'm going to have to take a little break for my fingers to heal up.

Sportsguy001 wrote on 04/12/21 at 05:06:34:


The capture card that I use and recommend is the GV-USB2. Amazon seems to be bugging out so I can't link the actual product page, but here's the review page: https://www.amazon.com/DATA-connection-video-capture-GV-USB2/product-reviews/...
You can get one shipped to the US from Japan for around $50. I find the price/quality ratio to be good, which is why I recommend it. The device itself is all in Japanese, but there are English guides online, such as this one: https://iotku.pw/gvusb2-guide/ It's not exactly plug-and-play, but with a little bit of patience you shouldn't have any issues setting it up.

In order to capture the game and play on your TV at the same time, you'll need to split the signal that's output by your SNES. The simplest/cheapest way to do this is by buying a male-to-male composite cable, and three 2female-to-male Y-splitters (one for each of the yellow/white/red cables). You then hook up the cables from the SNES into one of the female plugs of each Y-splitter, then use the other female plug to run the male-to-male cable to your TV, and finally attach the male plug to the GV-USB2 (which is connected to your PC via USB).
Using Y-splitters will weaken the signal from the SNES and make the game look darker on your TV (since the signal is being split in two). To avoid this (for a bit more money), you can buy a powered splitter box. Just make sure that the box supports at least one input and two outputs, anything beyond that is unnecessary for this use case.

All in all, you should be able to get everything you need for well under $100. Not exactly the cheapest thing in the world, but I'd say it's well worth it for the improved video quality compared to old-school potato cams!

Firewaster wrote on 04/13/21 at 16:54:24:

How dare you

Hahahahhahaa

I wasn't sure if/when it would ever happen, but I got another SMK WR last night, and it wasn't on CI1 5lap!

NTSC NBT:
MC4: 1'28"74*/17"53 https://youtu.be/L15fItW-HD8 / https://youtu.be/uFnu6OEpmDs
Splits: 17"84/"66/"66/"78/"80.



Laps 1-3 were very solid, laps 4-5 less so but I managed to keep it together long enough to beat the WR. I knew I was well on pace going into lap 5, which made me quite nervous (lots of time to think during MC4...) and my palms started sweating.

I'm very glad to have managed to snag this WR, even if it only ends up being for a short time. A trend seems to be emerging where I get WRs on very physically-demanding 5laps. Not sure what to think of that, but I'll take any WR I can get.  



Thanks,
Lafungo.

Lafungo wrote on 04/15/21 at 14:16:42:


Congrats  
As per your statistic, this happened many times back in the day at the Holmiere's house

EDIT: I can't really find evidence of it on mkwrs but pretty sure it happened, especially on KB2 flap when the slideboost was implemented, we might not have published all wr improvements I suppose then.

Lafungo wrote on 04/15/21 at 14:16:42:

I have done this in the same room where Mario86 drove one a couple hours before.

Haha I was gonna ask him exactly the same question. I have a feeling PAL WR is equivalent to 50"40 or so. But since I haven't pushed PAL I'm not exactly in a position to say.  

ScouB wrote on 04/15/21 at 14:41:12:


Thanks ScouB!
That is an excellent point that I had overlooked. How about I modify the stat slightly then: two players from two different countries set a TT WR on the same track on the same day in the same house.  

ScouB wrote on 04/16/21 at 00:30:49:


I find it very hard to establish some sort of "equivalency" between PAL and NTSC for CI1 5lap, because my impression is that there are many more degrees of freedom on PAL, which allows for a lot more potential time save. That being said, I already felt that 50"64 was weaker than 53"55 despite believing that 50"64 was closer to the (human) max than 53"55. Similarly, I feel that 50"49 is weaker than 53"13 (or 53"19 for that matter).
If I had to ballpark an answer to your first question, I'd say that it would take something like a 50"3x to be roughly equivalent to the strength of a PAL 53"1x.

Harvey Kartel wrote on 04/16/21 at 10:58:55:

I don't see how any of us Europeans could be part of that event (same for you Americans coming to a European event).

I think we should spice things up by having all the top4 in TT 1-tries eat a pepper before the semis begin