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Music Timestamps:
00:00 BfBB GBA - Level 1
00:07 Street Fighter II - Guile's Theme
00:46 OC ReMix - Melee 'S-Tier'
01:35 Metal Fortress - Dire, Dire Docks (Melodic Dubstep Remix)
03:12 Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney - Telling the Truth
04:40 CftKK - Lobster of the Pack
05:19 BfBB GBA - Level 8
06:49 Banjo-Kazooie - Gruntilda's Lair
08:30 Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake - Theme of Solid Snake
10:34 Sly Cooper - High Class Heist
12:21 Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Court Begins
14:11 CftKK - StarFishMan
16:52 Conker's Bad Fur Day - Windy
19:40 Koba - Meta Ridley Battle Theme Remix
20:52 BfBB GBA - Level 3
22:47 BfBB - Goo Lagoon - เกม
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Great video! I just have one correction to make.
Meta doesn’t mean “Most Effective Tactic Available”; that is a backronym.
“Meta” actually comes from a prefix taken from Greek which means “after” or “beyond”. This is where “metamorphosis” and “metalanguage” come from.
Similarly, it is called “metagaming” because you are playing the game “beyond” the actual game, like using advanced strategies and glitches and different hardware.
Thanks for the concise explanation, I'll pin this. When I came across the acronym I knew it wasn't the origin of the term, but felt it would make the concept easier to understand for everyone watching - didn't wanna lose everyone halfway through. Though I understand mentioning that it's a backronym would've been more responsible. If I make a similar decision in future videos I'll be sure to note that either on screen or verbally. Glad you still enjoyed the video despite that slip :)
@@SHiFTss Wow, I didn’t believe you’d actually see this!
I’m glad I didn’t come across wrong. I like learning about the history of different words and wanted to share.
Once again, these videos have been great, and I hope to see more!
I didn't even know that some people thought there was an acronym for it. I guess since I played baba is you and one shot I quickly understood what it might have meant. and for the people that don't know what those games are they are VERY META
@@timothyt666 I didn't know people made up an acronym either, but when I found it I thought it was nifty. Made explaining that section very simple but obviously there should have been some kind of note about the term's origin
The term was first used for denoting the most efficient path in chariot racing, where the inside of a chariot racing colissuem had an gold plated obelisk on either end of the center barrier called "metas", and turning your chariot as close to them as possible got you around the figure 0 track as quickly as possible!
When a video starts with “Dragged his balls across the disc” you know you’re in for a treat
yummy disc
From this point forth, your CD has to be submitted for a "sniff test" before the run is considered valid.
I would pay to hear summoning salt say that.
@@Its_Might I really hope he talks about battle for bikini bottom so he has to mention it
@@derrickjoestar 🤣🤣
"If you show'd me this disc without flipping it over, I'd be able to tell it was a copy of Battle for Bikini Bottom"
Lord have mercy on us all.
Well, guess I'll have to start showering again.
i'm not
Ironic how a speedrunner of a game based on a cleaning utensil never gets clean
@@SHiFTss ewwww great videos tho
@@SoshiTheYoshi WRONG he’s baist of the shift key that makes you faster in most games
@@FanBoyyyyyyyy what.............
"Licking your game disc is illegal on other planets"
liked and dubbed for that line alone
Yea, the new cdvid 21, dude lick cd
Dubdubdub
literally same
war. war sometimes changes. the grease strat must be abandoned
How are you everwhere I go
War, war has changed. -Snek
Speedrunners: "This is the peak. War will never change."
The one speedrunner who found a new strat: "War, war will change again."
"War has changed"
ok cyranek
Happy about the soft modding. Game preservation is something people need to talk about more. This community is absolutely amazing.
Yes!
Ikr
Games deserve to be preserved because people put their time and effort into creating them. Even if some of them are dumpster files, people created it and we should keep them around.
@@theepiclionsaplings5688 when you realize about 80% of games made before 2000 the importance of it becomes apparent
“Surgically applied fingerprints” might just be the most brilliantly stupid thing I’ve heard today.
Some day we'll look back and wonder how people ever speedran games from discs rather than digital copies. Most speedgames are probably still good for the next couple decades, but discs and disc readers will all degrade eventually.
trey!
nice
The answer is simple: you print more disks.
... Thus making speed running piratical.
@@GygasDistruttore I'd be curious what the legality would be on that, if not the technical issues of doing a reprint decades later would have.
@@GygasDistruttore Boktai speedrunning sends its mostly-emulated regards!
The whole "natural wear and tear" on the disc reminds me of Super Mario Kart Speedrunning. The SNES controller's D-pad has a plastic nub in the center, and by shaving it down or rapid use, it will shrink, allowing for more strategies.
lag clips did that to our start and select buttons too! made it easier to grip them.
Not speedrunning, but in the Guitar Hero community, there's a malfunction with some Guitar controllers that causes the strum bar to flick back up if you hit it a certain way, and we learned to exploit that malfunction in a method called 'rake strumming'. This basically gave you two strums in one motion, allowing one to effectively strum twice as fast. But unlike the gamer gunk method, we always understood that it was a malfunction since the beginning, but still sought after controllers with it for a good while. It wasn't until these controllers became so malfunctioned due our excessive exploitation of this effect that they became effectively unusable, that we began to finally reject this method. So the moral of the story is, don't let the META conflict with the accessibility of the game. I'm glad the BFBB community was able to come to this conclusion before any significant damage was done, and I wish the Guitar Hero community would have realized it sooner.
@@somebonehead haven't been in the gh community recently, are over strumming guitars actually dead?
@@GeometryDashProgam3r read his entire comment dude
@@cirlu_bd "it wasn't until these controllers became so malfunctioned due to our excessive exploitation of this effect that they became effectively unusable"
Seems like they're dead to me, what were you exactly referring to?
So gross, yet so incredibly engrossing. Thanks for part 2 Shift
no problem mate. might i suggest the any% history videos if you're enjoying these :3
hey look ma im famous
Encapsulates my feelings exactly
Number 4
@@FanBoyyyyyyyy Number 5
“So I got Swag to clean his disc with dish detergent”
But now his disc tastes like dish detergent
Cleaning optical discs with dish soap and water is the best method of cleaning, as long as you rinse it properly, not use scrubbing wools, and the disc doesnt have improper labelings (ink markers and paper stickers)
@@WingMaster562 "not using scrubbing wool"
See I knew I was doing something wrong
@@ABusFullaJewz thats because you missed a step if youre using that method. You forgot to also clean the console by putting it inside a washing machine.
@@WingMaster562 Interestingly, I've seen old computer motherboards cleaned in dish washers. Especially 80s hardware. It's a real method used to get decades of dust off of them.
would anyone be interested in a follow-up video sometime from now regarding the new benefits we're seeing through HDD? already a bunch of cool things like practice mods and input readers are being developed.
ye
I would be interested in the version differences between the different console versions for sure.
@@somebonehead we do talk a bit about that in the speedrun documentaries for this game ;)
definetly, seeing this massive change in how the game is ran is very interesting.
@@SHiFTss It's funny, I had BFBB on the GameCube, that was all scratched to hell (to the point where it eventually became unreadable). To think I could have had a copy of the game perfect for speedrunning if things were just a bit different.
Imagine if this gets to the point where they find the best possible fingerprints for lag clips, and this one guy just has the right fingertips for it and everyone wants to send him their disks so he can smudge them
You didn't watch the video. I can just tell.
@@ArnisGoldberg I did watch the video I just commented this before finishing it and afterwards i thought nah I'll leave that it's still a funny thought
@@user-bb2op9he1x have you watched the video? It's not illegal, you're just allowed to back it up now, but you're not required. Because backing it up has faster load times, it's faster than on disk, even with the lag clips on a dirty disk, so even though you're allowed to, there's now a faster allowed strategy so there's no point
From "Can you sign my [object]" to "Can you smudge my SpongeBob SquarePants Battle for Bikini Bottom disc"
I feel sorry for that one guy's kids. He's gonna treat them so badly if they dare watch a cartoon or play a Nintendo game past the age of 12.
Bfbb is such an insane game. It seems like every month there’s some new discovery that causes chaos. I love it
Same here, that usually happens with ez videos
Why do people care so much about a spongebob game??
@@I_am_a_cat_ It has a great community and it’s still fun.
disk smudging is like reading with dirty glasses, while cartridge tilting is like tearing out certain pages. If the glasses get too dirty its just unreadable. but you can remove 97% of the pages and still have something readable, albeit completely different.
SHiFT: “who can find the fastest stick to stuff in his WiiWii”
Me: fuck it I’ll sub for that
I like how you had to stop yourself from laughing when you said the Wiis native disk space
Nice title reference.
Kendrick the 🐐
@@blackimage2491 Yessir
what is it
@@chainswordcs good kid m.A.A.d city, an album by Kendrick Lamar
@@sognik6299 i thought it was an emplemon reference to his rick and morty video
its over, its finally fucking over
Guys I licked my Switch copy of Rehydrated and can do all the tricks perfectly now go ahead and try it yourselves
I did if!1!1!!1!11!1!! Too bad me tongue is bad now 😔😔😔😔😔😔😔
I really have no idea how I was intrigued enough to watch this entire video with very limited interest going in, but god damn this was interesting
Are we going to be seeing another sequel to this? Such as “To Pimp A Gunky Gamer”?
man who knows.... we thought this was over last time too lol
edit: at least we know gunk strats are permanently dead, but we'll have to see where HDD takes us
@@SHiFTss - As long as nobody uninstalls the RotMG Exalt Client Beta on the HDD, we should be fine ;P
@@camwoodstock jesus christ i hate that i know what youre talking about
@@DroppedMyMarbles At least you do. I'm lost...
@@DraconicDuelist the uninstaller on launch, due to an oversight, uninstalled the game AND the rest of your drive
Now I’ve gotta clean my phone screen because I’ve been shamed for MY gamer gunk
Don't lick it.
Such a clean solution to dirty conundrum.
A good ending.
This is probably the dumbest way I've ever seen speedrunners save time in a speedrun, but I'm all for it!
have you heard of the dragonquest incident where speedruns were saving time and doing their best during hot days? You should check that out lol its pretty ridiculous
Frank Lopez
Is that the one where the Runners heat up the console using a hotplate?
After explaining how disk smudging/scratching and cartridge tilting are different, this video then makes disk smudging/scratching feel closer to cartridge tilting than it did in the last video, what with the random instability and hardware manipulation factors.
I was under the impression that "meta" was short for "metagame", or the game about the game. This is a really common term in D&D for players who use information from the real world to inform game world decisions, as opposed to using only the information available to their characters. In addition to the absurd info from the rest of this saga, you learn something new every day!
Your impression was correct. The 'most effective tactic available' thing is a somewhat common but incorrect folk etymology come up with by people who didn't really understand the term
@@user-ul4vv3mf8p I thought it was a tongue-in-cheek, intentional appropriation of the word. But then again I already know what metagaming and metacognition mean, so maybe I wouldn't believe that if I didn't.
I've always considered meta and metagaming two entirely different things. It's likely just a matter of semantics here.
@@SHiFTss yeah, pretty much just semantics. I like the idea of it as a separate entity and acronym since basically all speedrunning is metagaming in some way.
using the META is often metagaming. (like knowing what characters are popular and how to counter them, or knowing an enemy will spawn at some specific spot.)
That one frame of Dan Schneider around 1:14 had me deceased
I literally just watched the first video and then right after I'm done this came out.
i'm not even a speedrunner but this is a very interesting saga, and a nice silver lining about game preservation. i'm an amateur archivist, so i appreciate when communities come together to save the stuff they cherish for future generations :)
I’m not really into speedrunning or gaming but I really like how much the speedrunning community prioritizes accessibility. I know gamers have kind of a reputation for gatekeeping so it’s really nice to see that this community is so welcoming :)
this is a good ending. i was super worried about the sustainability of straight up scratching the disk
“You can’t tell what’s satire anymore”
Yeah, that sums this whole thing up.
Amazing video and incredible research. This is the reason why I love speedrunning, you guys managed to circumvent a hardware limitation, avoid and endless combo possibility (making getting the correct disk an irl rng event) and the preservation of the game in a solid form. I also like the fact that you were able to quit using lag clips for "the greater good" (maybe I'm exaggerating a bit there, but you get the point). Will definitely be subscribing.
That's a great title. Love Emplemon.
kendrick did it first doe
what? That's the title of a kendrick lamar album lol
@@luke4502 Emplemon made the same reference, that's why
It's really nice to hear that the community decided to move away from disc destruction!
“dragged his ballsack across his disc in an attempt to make his lagclips better” is the best shit i’ve heard all month
I dont usually sit through videos this long but I enjoy how you don't just take a surface level approach to the questions
Keep on keepin on mate
I always thought meta was talking about how you have strategies, and metastrategies, strategies about strategies. Things like doing something sub-optimally to throw a opponent off guard or similar.
That's probably because using knowledge gained from outside of the game (such as, in a fighting game, "I'm going to pick this character because I know you personally suck against him") is often referred to as "metagaming". Same word, but slightly different meanings.
Anyone else surprised that "META" was an acronym? I always thought it was short for metagame/metathinking, where strategy is focused on thought around tactics and not just performance. But the acronym also makes sense
The acronym is much newer..
It's not an acronym. No idea where that idea came from but it appears on urban dictionary around 2015. Meta is short for the metagame.
The meta acronym he references in the video is something that is very new to gaming and came as a result of people not knowing where "meta" came from and inventing their own meaning.
“The stinky gamer ketchup disc extravaganza had opened up a can of gamer worms” is one phrase I never thought my ears would be blessed with
This video was great Shift, your editing gets better and better!
Great video dawg ‼️ Gotta put out more bangers like this
Hey man I haven't seen your videos before (except the precursor to this) and I just want to say that this is an excellent video. Well edited, paced, and explained. Keep up the great work :)
I've never speedrun this game because I've never played this game because I've never played any of the games on any version of any of the consoles it's available on...and yet, I've still sat through two lengthy videos on the subject. Congrats on making such captivating videos!
I knew I was right about strategically scratching the disc to help make lag clips more consistent
These two vids have been insanely well done, thank you for the entertainment and gl setting new records brother (=
Damn I just watched the last video and you've already got a new one from an hour ago. Good work!!
10:07 damn, hitting hard on the remake/remaster or whatever it's called, i do enjoy rehydrated, it was something that let me revisit something from my childhood, but i understand if people don't entirely care for it
Speedrunning is such an in-depth and interesting thing to learn about. I love learning about all the different strategies and controversies. I know loads about speedrunning without ever having to dedicate the time to playing
This is a nice discussion and one that could easilly happen again in the future for other games.
This will be mentioned as an example of what could be done, whenever another game is discovered to have different performances if the disc is scratched or not. :P
Thanks for the awesome videos man! Very well done!
I guess you could say that the optical meta was on a... downward spiral
When the HDDs start dying, will the next switch be to SSDs? Or has this not even been given proper consideration yet? The firmware/mobo available on the original Xbox will probably have limited read/write speeds relative to SSDs, so it's very likely that pretty much any off-the-shelf SSD would be able to max out that connection. This means it should be an accessible mod, of course barring any special adapters necessary to actually connect the SSD.
afaik it's ide so 133MBps is the max, and that's what a good hdd can read at.
even then, I'm not sure its ide reads at 133MBps, so the difference might be like 30% faster loads, but that'd be like a second of time save.
The Xbox used IDE to communicate with the HDD so an SSD's speed would be completely wasted. Even modern conventional HDD's will max the read write speeds. That's not even getting into the challenge of finding and SSD that is even compatible with the Xbox. The problem is that you can't just slap any old HDD into an Xbox, it must be a specific model, and there are spreadsheets listing which models work. Then, once you find one that is compatible you'll need to buy an IDE to SATA adapter.
The short of it is that replacing or upgrading the HDD in an Xbox is not plug and play.
@@darkhanzo from a test I've seen you gain 15-25% on loads from switching to an ssd or a faster hdd.
so it seems the original hdd doesn't fully saturate the ide link.
@@darkhanzo But there's more to loading data than continuous block read speeds.
Xbox hdds are paired. Good luck figuring out how the hell to add a new hdd (if I’m wrong, how do you do it? I would love to know)
i was so happy when you mentioned soft modding the xbox, i was thinking this in your first video. i have tons of experience modding all of the versions of xbox's and the cd/hard drives all seem to kill themselves.
This is amazing. Hacking on an extremely abstract level, i'm impressed. I'm not interested in speedrunning per se, but i immensly appreciate the level of technical manipulation of software and hardware i get to see because of this community / hobby.
You wanna talk about meta? I used to assembly line mod my friends XBOXs circa.. I dunno... 2003? So much so that if you live in Columbus, Ohio and have one I have often found that it traced back to me or at the very least, one of my friends. If you could speed run console modding, I would like to see someone who was faster than me at it. I didn't use any stinkin' memory cards! All I used was my PC, like a REAL turbo ner..MAN DOES! Also, it meant that I didn't have to buy shit. No more hard modding with my rear window heater repair kit. This is as barebones as you can get ... and it was technically also dangerous so naturally my girlfriend got pregnant.. for a week or two thank god.
So anyway, you can do it with NOTHING but a screwdriver and PC that still has support for IDE hard drives. The xbox unlocks the hard drives when it starts up so.. you start your PC, hit the physical pause button on your keyboard on the screen that says "Detecting drives...." during start up. Then, you turn on the xbox and have it boot to the stock menu. I always then go to the file select screen and back to the front a few times to make sure it's unlocked the drive. Then you unplug the IDE cable and replace it with one in your PC while keeping the power on. That is, you hot swap it after the XBOX has done the work to allow it to be read. ... Then it's as simple as booting the PC and accessing the drive and copying over the few files needed to do the exploit.
This sounds possibly more complex, but trust me.. I literally got to the point that I could line up 5 consoles, unscrew them all, and then per each one get it done within like 1.5 minutes with my own super slimmed down Linux distro that JUST booted to a file manager where I selected the drive and hit copy... Could be done ever faster.
Boot xbox and pc.. hit pause on pc. Access drive on xbox clickity clickity.. swap cables... hit enter to continue drive detection... Done, booting linux.. done, copy and..... complete.
I am so cool. 😎
But yeah, somewhere I have this disc for fast soft modding, although I guarantee it looks like the gross discs used in this video as I'm pretty sure I spilled a can of coke on spindle of discs containing it but was literally going to be late for work so I just said fuck it and left. ... I know this spindle.. Removing discs from it is terrifying. You can't just soak it in water, I've tried. ... Every time you remove a disc it either comes off clean or ... parts of it stick to the next disc. .. All my coding and computing history is on this spindle. SHHHHHhhh DONT TOUCH. As it stands it's all there and I don't wanna lose it.
... Without it, am I cool? ='(
Go outside
One thing is clear.
This guy hates the Thomson drive.
Great video and more importantly great decisions for the community and for game preservation!
If a DVD is scratched in just the right spot, then the data will remain intact, but the tracking laser will detect the scratch and overcompensate, causing the video to skip during normal playback. However, you could rewatch the skipped bits of video by rewinding. Again, the data was still there, the laser was just skipping over it because it shifted to dodge what it thought was a dust particle.
This video title is absolutely phenomenal thank you for the laugh and both informative videos
the hard drive load should have entered meta much sooner, modifications are a must to keep this aging hardware functioning in a competent fashion, when i heard about the dirty disk trick i knew it would be impossible to enforce anything about it but now its damaging the disks and probably harming the drives by placing greater stress on the laser, i guess thats a self moderating tactic
this is the equivelant of cartridge tilting for discs weird stuff happens sometimes good if your precise
but it damages it
What if you try putting window tint on the discs? I don't know what percentage opecity/tint you could get away with before making the disc too darkened to read, but it would be more consistent than fingerprints or scratches by far, and possibly it will make the discs last longer in the Samsung A drives as well.
This is fascinating, thank you
Not a speedrunner but super entertaining nonetheless. You have a real talent for storytelling. I love the amount of rigor that you and the community use -- both to find the best strat and also to govern which strats should be considered viable. Great work!
2021 is going to be a very long and entertaining segment on the BFBB speedrun history.
I've never understood how it was even a question whether it was hardware manipulation. It had intent, physical manipulation and exploitation of unintended hardware and software interaction.
Are you currently working on the BFBB documentary Part 3? I'm just asking because I recently rewatched Part 1 & Part 2 and I still really enjoyed it. I just can't wait for more video from you :)
probably gonna work on it later this year if the pandemic winds down so i can travel and shoot 4k video for the skits :3
@@SHiFTss Oh that's really cool, can't wait for the final product! I wish you good luck man :)
never been into speedrunning. dont know why im here. i find putting this much effort into a game i remember playing on Saturday mornings after spending the night at my friends house makes it all worth watching lmao
i think the future of speedruns is emulation. its way easier to repair a pc compared to a video console and you also have a much easier controlled environment if your looking for glitches. of cause you have to make sure that the emulation is accurate to the console and game like mario 64 which has lag reduction as a necessary strat, that makes running the game way harder to run, and could fall away with "bad" emulation thanks too to much power for the emulated console. it should always be possible to technically get the best possible time on emulator on real hardware in perfect condition. this way you make sure that on the one side you don't get weird times thanks to faulty hardware of which its hard to find the reason where the difference comes from but also don't get impossible times thanks to basically a steroids version of a console which is basically just the same as modifying the console.
This is a really interesting video. I came here from part 1. I was initially disgusted, but it seems like a really interesting, and very niche hobby within what is already considered to be a very niche hobby, and I can respect that. I find it very interesting that the community goes so far as to not allow consoles to be opened at all, if that is what I can correctly gather from this. It's all the more reason I personally prefer digital preservation, and when I play original Xbox games, I do so off of a hard drive. I'm honestly surprised that a community such as this hasn't agreed upon a standardized set of modifications for a console if playing off of a hard drive. For example, using a very specific model of hard drive, with a very specific set of cables/adapter boards. It would help with preservation of the copies of the games that you enjoy so much, and you wouldn't be wearing out your physical media, and could instead display it if you so chose.
Holy shit thank you for the Paul Blart example you used for your analogy. I was fucking rolling lmao... I miss that era of memes.
Squeaky Clean Gaming™
dammit! Here goes my clever plan to sell precisely scratched discs to speedrunners at unreasonably inflated prices :(
Endlessly fascinating but I am also slightly bothered by turning "meta" into an acronym when it already had a meaning and etymology that meant something applicable.
I always assumed "meta" was shorthand for "metagame" anyway.
Bacronyms (a portmanteau of back or backwards and acronym) are popular for pushing ideas, often to make fun of something (school - six cruel hours of our lives) or those really annoying inspirational posters. The bacronym for meta is useful in explaining metagaming, the way the game is played. In this context it works but your trouble comes in that "meta-", the idea of self-awareness used in other words such as metadata isn't covered in this bacronym... I'm not really sure where I was going with this...
I’m So Meta Even This Acronym
The conversion of the word meta to an acronym, specifically the one mentioned in the video, has existed for video games for years. It's even extended out of just video games, and even into chess communities, and various other surprising groups. Frankly, its less weird its meaning has been altered than you not knowing the acronym.
@@stupidiot3779 I didn't even know meta ever got turned into a backronym at all. I always took meta for its literal meaning.
I absolutely love how far I fell down this random rabbit hole lmao
I have both WD and Seagate drives from old pc's and I can tell you that hard drives (spinning rust) degrade over time as well
I loved this arc
I think that making everyone speed run on same version, hardware ect. is something that is totally viable with digital storage. It will completely change how runs are done, but it will force runners to actually play the game in a regular sense. I think this will make speed running more open to others, as it allows newbies to have a chance. You won't have to learn a crazy 359 degree lag switch turn jump to even be able to compete. Now, you can purely just get really good at the game and let that define who is best. That, in my opinion, is how speedrunning should have always been. Pure skill.
Great video. I don't speedrun, play SpongeBob, or have a high level of computer skills, but I learned a lot and was entertained the whole time.
Also, bonus points for calling out Nickelodeon's problems with toe-loving pedos.
"He's the best, he had the best ballsack" Rich Evans referring to bfbb speedrunner
I'm not a speedrunner but I really enjoy these videos. While watching this video I had an idea. Maybe the glitch could still be possible while using the game downloaded to the HDD. By strategically saving and deleting files on the HDD you could force a fragmentation of the specific data sections needed for the glitch over different parts of the HDD. Thus causing the read/write heads of the HDD to be forced to travel longer distances and thus increase load time for these specific data sections while keeping fast load times for the rest of the game.
I know you said the hard disks were barely used in the Xbox, but it still worries me - those hard drives are nearing 20 years old themselves and could fail quicker than would perhaps be expected due to their sheer age and possible past rough handling. I will admit I have nothing to back this up, but it may be worth checking the SMART data on some of these drives as they are used to get a good idea of how old they are and how they progress as they are used for BfBB. Maybe allowing hard drive loading onto non-official IDE hard drives will become a consideration if this turns out to be the case.
great story with a happy ending. you love to see it
Mum: What are you doing to that disc!?
Me: it... it makes the game run faster!
Mum: right... what are you doing though.
Me: covering it in ketchup.
Mum: …alright. okay, nevermind.
some of the music in this video is from Spongebob Squarepants: Creature From The Crusty Crab, specifically the Patrick (Starfishman) area. I know this because I have good music memory and played through it.
The whole scratch vs smudging thing kinda reminds me about things like using performance enhancing drugs in sports. Where as smudging it is just kinda like the pair of shoes an athlete chooses to wear. While the drugs would give you a momentary advantage in a one or a few contests eventually it’s going to damage your body and wear it out. Besides it’s physically altering the thing that’s being judged, the athlete’s body in the metaphor but the game in this case. Where as smudging it is more like the athlete using an old pair of reliable shoes that might be worn in just the right way to give them an edge. Nothing is majorly altered in an unfair way and it might be mostly replicable but it’s only gonna be kind of a good option and there’s still many more that are better.
About the hate comments on speedrunning. YES, this is an odd video and a very odd strat. And YES, as someone who doesn't do speedrun, I can't relate to the amount of work and dedication you put into it.
It's hilarious, in a good way, the extent you guys went to optimize your game. More power to you; it's your hobby, and it's pointless for me or anyone to criticize you for it.
Thanks for the content. It's weird and hilarious. Love your dedication.
“In the last video I lacerated my perineum with a spongebob disc.”
*AND NOW THE CONCLUSION*
be happy that the game you are running has an active community and is accessible
9:40 /Burnout Paradise/. Twice on my Xenon-model 360, and then once on a slim PS3.
Dude thanks so much for making this video! It’s amazing how the original Xbox can allow you to download games onto it much like the modern Xbox consoles can.
If you want the game to be more available to people to run, you could always start subtracting the load times and only count the playtime, so there wouldn't be any issues running a slower drive and you could start allowing newer drives.
It’s not load times though. It’s lag clips.
@@bennythegreat1943 They want faster drives for the load times. But the smudging was for lag clip. Slower drives helped with the lag clip too but increased load times.
If they where to subtract the load times from the runs there wouldn't be as much of a need for faster drives. And there by they could either do lag clip with slower drives or ban lag clip and allow even faster drives for convenience and availability.
It should be noted that the Xbox will actually install certain bits of data of a game disc onto the cache partitions on it's hard disk, helping both loading times and saving the disc drive's laser. I believe Halo 1 and 2 use the hard disk's caching capabilities quite extensively so there's that. I wonder if battle for bikini bottom caches certain files that may be related to the speedrun...
This needs to become an actual Spongebob Squarepants episode. Like if they can make Red Mist Squidward canon (in original runs of Spongebob in Randomland), then I see no issue with them making that canon.
I love the "Good Kid, m.A.A.d City" reference