Montgomeryshire, WalesWhat is InstaSpeedathon? InstaSpeedathon is an online speedrunning marathon with the aim to showcase games and speedrunners. We may also raise money for charity, though this is still to be decided.
Where will this marathon take place? For InstaSpeedathon 2018, the marathon will be taking place on my personal Twitch Channel (https://www.twitch.tv/instasim), although if the marathon proves successful this time around, I may consider making a dedicated channel for future InstaSpeedathon marathons.
When will the marathon take place? The current proposed dates are 26-28th of February 2018, though please bare in mind these are currently only provisional and are subject to change closer to the event itself. Best practice is to keep an eye on this page in case of any changes to the schedule of the marathon. We may change the dates to host the event earlier (though this is unlikely), later or to make the event longer depending on the demand for spaces.
How do I submit a run? Submissions will open on the 16th of October (at 12pm GMT). At which point, you may submit a run for the marathon. Submissions will close on the 17th of December (at 12pm GMT) so that I (and other moderators if there are more) may review the submitted runs and set up the schedule, therefore please make sure to submit your run as early as possible.
Which games can we submit? Generally, I have no restrictions on which games you can submit, though I do have time restrictions which I will make a note of in another thread about Game Submissions.
Do I need Discord to take part? You will need Discord to take part in this marathon. This way I can speak to the marathon runners directly and the runners may to others they wish to have on stream with them as well. This way you will also be audible during the stream. I will be posting a link to the Discord in due course once everything is set up for the marathon.
Can we submit races? For this year, I am afraid to say that I cannot allow races, though this does not mean that I am ruling out races completely. I really like to see a good speedrunning race, though it will not be possible for me to host a race for this year's marathon.
So now I've read this entire thread, what should I do now? A lot of speedruns :P If you are interested in taking part in this marathon, practice, practice, practice. Though I'm not really on the lookout for the best of the best of speedrunners, I am looking for progress and consistency, so make sure to practice your speedrun before you submit your run, and definitely before you are due to take part in the marathon itself.
Following your "Some unfortunate news" thread, will the marathon still go ahead? Yes. As far as I am aware, the marathon will continue, however, due to issues with my setup which are out of my control, I may not be able to stream the marathon. The original plan was to have myself capturing the runner's stream of their own run, or, if necessary, to stream a pre-recorded run by the runner. If I am unable to stream, however, then I will, instead, be hosting the runner on my Twitch Channel. I will, probably, still be able to use Discord in order to communicate with the runner, however the stream itself is still uncertain, although I will keep everyone up to date with news
So there you go, all (or most) of everything you need to know about the InstaSoeedathon. If there is something I have missed or something else you want to know, feel free to leave a reply to this thread and I will try my best to answer :) Good luck to you all with submitting your runs :)
I would like to request the "InstaSpeedathon 2018" marathon. This will be an Online Marathon with the purpose of just showcasing speedruns and for a little fun. The marathon may be used to raise money for a charity, though this will be confirmed at a later date closer to the actual marathon itself. I'm hoping to host this marathon between the 26th-28th of February, though this is just a proposed date for now and this date may change closer to the event though I will notify in advance (if accepted) if there are any changes. This event will be broadcast onto my own Twitch Channel (InstaSim). If this event proves successful, I may consider making a dedicated channel for future InstaSpeedathon events. Submissions will open around Mid-End of October and will carry through to Mid-December / Early-January (depending on popularity). I will currently be the only moderator of this event, though I may add more if the need arises.
I, personally, wouldn't mind a 5 second penalty (that can be easily set up on LiveSplit) for using the emulator to compensate for the lag spike on M.O.O. Then again I suppose this would need to be agreed by other people as well. Either that or it could be possible to set up a sub-category (like is currently present with PS2 and PSP) for the emulator.
Just as an addition to this, I have managed to do a proper Any% run of SM. Maybe it'll help to see the differences between Emu and Regular PSP.
yes it is possible to sort with slower times, but what I was wondering was if it would be possible to have the points (say 1000) be what would sort the leaderboard, but have the fastest time with 1000 points at the top, then that is sorted by all the fastest times (because there will be some people with 100 points who have faster times than others), then if someone has 900 points, then that would be underneath all the 1000 points regardless if they are faster than some of the people with 1000 points, then the 900 pointers would be sorted by fastest time, and the same continues for below 900 points.
One thing I was possibly thinking of was maybe just have the variables that if someone gets 1000 points then they use 1000 in the variable selection, then 900 - 1000 would be 900, etc, but this is not really preferable for me.
so in essence, the ship loading would cancel out the time saved from Save/Load. Also I didn't really see an ATB run until yesterday so didn't know where they were. 100% isn't really a category I'm planning to do either (maybe not until there's a run of the category at least)
What do you mean by backup time and load the part? I assume it's Save and Reload, but then that's not really needed in SM runs anyway right?
LiveSplit, imo, is the best Splits Program anyone can use, but Auto Splitters and load removers wouldn't work on consoles regardless. I know someone in another community has tried to make a load remover for a console game, but it's confusing. Best thing to do to remove loads is as the Moderators have suggested, to just count the load times and remove them.
As far as I am aware (I've reached up to Luna) loads seem faster than Disk (but that's to be expected) but compared to download I am unsure. I had a look at the Current WR run, and I did see the load into the Kallidon race appears to be faster on Emu than it does on PSP, though the ship loads don't look to be faster on Emu, though I am not too sure of this.
From my testing, I've been getting a constant 30fps when playing SM, though it sometimes drops to 15-20 during loads however this doesn't appear to be an issue.
Weezl has also said on Discord that apparently Poki loads 2 secs slower on Emu
As far as I am aware, you can't use a Load Remover on console. The load remover will only work properly on PC. Hope this clears things up for you :)
Not sure if this is possible at current (I do not believe it is) but would it be possible to implement a way that your leaderboard position is affected by certain variables.
For example: If a level has a certain amount of points you can get (let's say 1000) and someone gets 700 points, then their leaerboard position would be lower than someone who gets 1000 points, but if someone who has 700 points has completed a run in 30 minutes would be higher up the leaderboard than someone who has completed in 35 minutes.
I'm unsure if it would be possible to implement something like this, but it's just a suggestion if it isn't currently a feature
I'll try that setup to see if it'll work for me :)
Thank you for the help
I was wondering if you could change my name to "InstaSim". Since this is the name I use on most of my social sites, it'll help make things clearer to people who watch my speedruns who to look for on Leaderboards.
Thank you :)
Ok, thanks for clearing that up for me :)
Ye there is progression elements in Ratchet & Clank, but once I get a good run I shall try to submit it to show. Just out of curiosity though, is this marathon going to be hosted at a venue which will require me to travel anywhere or will I just need to be streaming to my own Twitch Channel (or the Marathon Channel) to take part?
I'm thinking of maybe submitting a Speedrun at the end of this month (when I get a good run :P ) but I'd like to just ask some questions:
- Would Ratchet & Clank be a viable game to submit? It is an Action-Adventure kinda RPG game. It has weapons and a sort of leveling up system (at least from RaC2 onward) but you're the boss of submissions.
- Does this marathon require me to travel anywhere? If not, then I can submit a run. If so, then I won't be able to.
If you ever find out how to do this again that'd be really helpful for the speedrunning community as it would then skip Pokitaru completely. Only thing is, however, don't we need to O2 mask for Gemlik Base, so we would still need to get the O2 mask since Clank would not be able to go through Gemlik Base
After doing a bit of digging around, I found out that my TV doesn't have Overscan, instead uses Aspect Ratio. I would assume that setting this to 1:1 would do the trick, though, if my memory serves me correctly, since RaC1 only runs in 720p for me, I think the image will look letter-boxed in 1:1 (which is a little strange) though I will have a look to see if this fixes the issue and respond as necessary
Well that is quite strange, I will admit. When I was practicing earlier, I was using a fairly large widescreen TV, but I do have a small monitor at my disposal which I can connect my PS3 to. I will attempt with a smaller screen to see if it works better at some point :) thanks for the advice
