Here is some sort of 'summary video' I made about the CDM 2013:



Enjoy

Harvey Kartel wrote on 10/10/13 at 01:02:36:


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Harvey Kartel wrote on 10/10/13 at 01:02:36:


Maybe :)


Harvey Kartel wrote on 10/10/13 at 01:02:36:


No i found him well over a year ago online and we communicated about CDM / Time Trial etc. I then learned of his GP successes and that was his speciality. Anna met and spoke to him for the first time at CDM. I eventually got him in touch with Matthias Boucher who sorted stuff out with him over email as he speaks Japanese pretty well (having worked there a while some years ago).


Harvey Kartel wrote on 10/10/13 at 01:02:36:


Not sure when she is going, but would be nice. Perhaps some brand new recruits. They are very spread out though. Takashi isnt from Tokyo but i know he is gona try to meet one of the Time Trialers this Autumn at an event (i dont know if that is still going ahead though). Ha Nyan is a good possibility but he lives in Fukuoka. I was glad to meet him last year.


Harvey Kartel wrote on 10/10/13 at 01:02:36:


They will all need the step down (or was it step up?) converter to play it on the Japanese TVs aswell; i gave a PAL snes and SMK to Ha Nyan as a gift last year but he hasn't been able to use it yet. Perhaps same situation for Takashi. I guess they have them as collectors items which is nice at least.


Harvey Kartel wrote on 10/10/13 at 01:02:36:


Don't worry, there's some guy in the UK who will go for that eventually cos he has nothing better to do.  ::)


Harvey Kartel wrote on 10/10/13 at 01:02:36:


I have a friend who recently moved to Japan for some work for short / medium term. I might get him on the case as he has been to a few of my games meets and appears to be making lots of friends there already.

Sami de la SMK wrote on 10/10/13 at 02:25:57:


Hmmm, I didn't know that. I did know however that Julien Chabanis had studied in Japan.

Anyway, who says Anna isn't going to take time and visit other parts of Japan besides Tokyo... (I assumei it's the Tokyo area at least)
I wonder if there's any way she can find out for us if any Karters were lost in the 2011 tsunami. You said we hadn't heard from Soul Kobayashi since the event...

Sami de la SMK wrote on 10/10/13 at 02:25:57:


If Ha wants to play a PAL SNES in Japan, wouldn't he need a step-up to convert from Japan's 100V mains voltage to the UK's 230V supply? He'd need a plug adapter, I do know that! But isn't there also a device that you just connect to your NTSC SNES to run PAL games? (and vice versa)
Anna would need the same in order to play PAL in Japan, but I'd imagine she uses step-down transformers to keep from frying her Jap SNES (and other 100V appliances) on the British mains voltage that would be too high.

I wouldn't touch PAL with a ten foot pole if I lived in an NTSC country.

Nice picture compilation Flo!  

KVD wrote on 10/10/13 at 07:30:20:


I, for one, disagree here; I've spent quite a bit of time playing on a PAL ROM on a ZSNES (using an Xbox-like third party controller) to get a good feel for how PAL handles as well as appreciate the differences between PAL and NTSC. I gotta say, you really can get used to it. I don't think it's as hard or annoying as other people say it is. In fact I think some tracks such as VL2 were "done right" on PAL; NTSC feels cheap by comparison with so much leniency with the water.

Since times driven in emulators can't be submitted, I have less of an incentive to give it my best effort as I would on my NTSC console; still, I took the time to look up each of my times on the PAL charts and average them and I'd currently be #56 / Star A overall with just what I got so far (the "ASR" I calculated was lower than Leyla's, though she still has the better AF). I can't tell you how fucking easy it is to make some of the PAL Top 50s. KB2 NBT, anyone?

NBT is possible on the controller I use but the zigzagging cannot be done as smoothly as on an actual modified SNES controller, more weaving and bobbing, while boosts don't always charge (meaning I can't do all NBT strats); the ZSNES also experiences some jerkiness which can mess you up and on courses like GV2 it's hard to make out exactly where the walls are (which is important on this course)

Koltz has also played emulated PAL. Don't know what all his times are, but I know he drove a 1'02"1x, I think, on MC1 Non-NBT using the keyboard.  

KVD wrote on 10/10/13 at 14:27:06:


That's when you learn not to crash.  
The slower speed of PAL, I'm actually quite comfortable with, you get a few extra milliseconds to plan your next move though most everywhere else it does feel a bit more challenging than NTSC (and it's just not my emulator, I know, though that makes it even more difficult)

KVD wrote on 10/10/13 at 14:27:06:


NBT seems to help a LOT with platform jumps on PAL. I've gotten 2/5 twice on GV1 with it. For me it was more about actually getting the boost to work on my controller. As for RR... I guess I'm not cutting the corners sharp enough on NTSC to begin with or I'd be able to get past the 1'26"xx. Best splits on PAL would get me 1'28"xx (but as I said before, it's not worth all my time to find my full potential if my "PR" doesn't count for anything). Yes the jumping distances, turning angles, and zoomstarts are different between NTSC and PAL but they also are between either version of SMK, and MKSC. You seem to have adapted to MKSC driving just fine, no?

KVD wrote on 10/10/13 at 14:27:06:


Don't forget Alencar Faria, Charignon, Joe Bernier and even Chris Balch. Anna also started with NTSC. I mean, turnabout is fair play, all you Europeans are taking over our NTSC charts...

Not to mention Battle Mode that's so much more enjoyable in NTSC because of the high speed that usually makes it more offensive and eventful. Not that I don't like PAL Battle but I feel like it requires more tactics than skills (which is enjoyable in its own way of course, but that somehow makes it less exciting to play than NTSC).

Champion de la love story...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t19tIIRt_7E

PAL served me well in a sense, since I was stuck on NTSC and it made me feel better (cause I drove lots of PRs).

Tom1 wrote on 10/15/13 at 03:44:57:

Fant0m wrote on 10/15/13 at 23:13:35:




Up to you man if you actually like that... Seriously did you see her man's legs? They were hencher than most of ours!

If I absolutely HAD to choose someone, I would suggest the nice lady helping out with the food over this interviewer. Lots of other guys were queuing up for her I remember lol, Leyla noticed this and said she was very pretty. I didn't speak to her at all though, so maybe missed out on two opportunities (kitchen girl and Sybill Trelawney ). Though I saw on a few pictures the interviewer was really smiling big time at Geo, either he was making her laugh with some nice jokes, or she liked him even more