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Alexeythegreat posted:Really gives you (well, me, a 2015 registration) context for how and why the rules that were... were Yeah. I'm glad the subforum is a lot more chill compared to then, and there's not really a need for some of those rules now.
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Actually, I believe they may have been Pokemon LPs. There were a couple completed, but they weren't added for a while because there were too many of them on the archive.
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Xander77 posted:"Access denied for user 'baldurk'@'localhost' (using password: YES)" It looks like all test posts are blocked for the moment.
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 7th Dragon is an JRPG made in 2009 by Imageepoch (the company proceeded to go bankrupt in 2015). It was directed by Kazuya Niinou, who also directed the first Etrian Odyssey game. It's pretty easy to see the influences from Etrian Odyssey here, as it has a lot in common, to the point where it feels almost derivative and doesn't really have its own identity. The later games would be much better about differentiating themselves. However, unlike Etrian Odyssey, it's not a dungeon crawler, just a regular JRPG, where you create your own band of characters and go around slaying dragons. Sounds like fun, huh? Anyways, as mentioned before, it is part of a series, which only consists of 4 games. Unfortunately, only the 4th game got an official English release, where the others never left Japan. That is, until a goon by the name of Pokeytax completed a fan translation of the game in 2014. (And the 2nd game later on.) You can find the fan translation here. If you're wondering why there are 2 patches for the game, well... I won't lie, the game has some problems. It's very rough around the edges, but the two biggest problems the game has are the ridiculously high encounter rates, and the damage tiles. There are damage tiles everywhere, which take off a decent chunk of your party's HP and dealing with them is very tedious. One of the patches just translates the text, and leaves the rest of the game alone. The USA patch translates the game, but also halves the encounter rate, and heavily lowers the amount of damage the party takes from damage tiles, eliminating the two biggest problems with the game. If you plan on playing this game, please play the humane patch. The game is rough around the edges enough as it is. With that said, I did enjoy my time with the game, and hope to show if off to all of you. Spoiler Policy Considering that the only game that was released outside of Japan was the 4th game, and that game spoils all the previous games, I'd appreciate it if discussion of spoilers in any of the games doesn't take place at all. Table of Contents: Update 1: The Road Ahead Test Update Haven't really LPed a JRPG before, only dungeon crawlers, so I want to make sure I'm doing a decent job at this. Not all the characters in the game have face portraits, so I had to make do with resizing their overhead sprites instead. Does it look alright?
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Oct 15, 2016 05:16
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So Oregon Trail was the start of it all. That explains the Let's Play thread icon.
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Oct 19, 2016 20:57
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VagueRant posted:Random question for anyone with archives or a good memory. How far did Hellowinter get in their Phoenix Wright LP? Trying to figure out where to resume with Mors Rattus's LP. (Having previously resumed Hellowinter's where Mega64 left off. What a tangled web we weave.) She only got as far as the opening of case 4. Mors Rattus has reached case 5.
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Oct 22, 2016 20:29
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The LP archive has a 900 px width limit on images, so 2x for 3DS games should be fine. Though 1x is also readable from the 3DS LPs I've read.
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Feb 1, 2017 01:43
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LPix has a 10 MB limit per MP3 file, so that's something to keep in mind. I've been using Clyp to host music links in my LP. It does have a 100 MB limit per file if you don't have an upgraded account.
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Feb 10, 2017 05:48
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Non-EuclideanCat posted:What's the procedure for bringing back threads that fell into archives to finish an LP? Do I just start a new thread and copy over all the important bits? Yeah, you'll have to start a new thread, unfortunately. Outside of really weird tech wizardry, (which was apparently used to bring back one thread in this subforum, dunno which one), archived threads can't be pulled out.
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Dragonatrix posted:If they're below, I think, 10mb you can use LPix for MP3s but there isn't really any one good spot for them at the moment since Tindeck is in a constant flux of dead-not dead-down-not down even moreso than when it was "good." It's pretty much up to whatever you feel most comfortable using but I think the thing I see most used as a non-YT alternative at the moment is something called Clyp though I can't speak for its viability. I find that Clyp seems to be working well for me. They do place a 100 MB limit per uploaded track for free accounts, so that's something to keep in mind if your music tracks have large file sizes.
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Apr 4, 2017 21:59
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Seems to be a change that Google Chrome made with a certain font.
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Apr 18, 2017 07:00
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nine-gear crow posted:Really? Because I'm on Firefox and I can see that it's changed. Huh, didn't hear about Firefox as well. I guess it really is on SA's end.
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Apr 18, 2017 07:10
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Bydoless posted:So I guess here's a draft of the intro post for the Pokemon Reborn LP. You poor bastard, I wish you luck with this. One update in, and the game already looks like a huge trainwreck. The update itself looks good, though.
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May 29, 2017 11:55
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Yeah, I don't think it's really necessary. If it's been 2 months, it'll likely be bumped by the OP already if they really intend to continue it. And if they forget about a thread for that long, they probably had no intention of continuing it anyway.
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HGH posted:I always thought Tindeck would go first. I'm amazed Tindeck is still hanging on at this point. It seems to be showing a lot of signs of going on the way out.
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Not sure how many of you are aware of this, but if you want to make use of Clyp now, be warned that free accounts are now limited in how much they can upload. You only have 6 hours of storage space on there.
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Kanfy posted:Outside of it being slightly more cumbersome, I wonder if there's anything preventing you from simply making multiple free accounts to bypass the limit. I just checked, there isn't. Though given the limit was imposed so the site could pay the bills, it's a bit unethical.
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Jul 16, 2017 10:00
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Artix posted:As an addendum to that, I don't know when that decision was made but if you were using it before that, you should have gotten an email saying you were grandfathered in to the unlimited account, so if you've been using it for a while it should still be business as usual. Are you sure? I'm afraid I got no such email. But if there was a cutoff point it was sometime before 8 months ago. The decision was made at the end of May. Araxxor fucked around with this message at 21:59 on Jul 16, 2017 |
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Jul 16, 2017 21:54
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Huh, I guess there was a cutoff point, or something? I've been using my account for 8 months and got no such thing.
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Putty posted:I wanna play Super Paper Mario because i am super, roll joints, and am mario, but I remember the game having really long cut-scenes like really drat long. Super Paper Mario doesn't have voice acting, so I doubt that would be necessary.
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Xander77 posted:Rock paper scissors had one of the best LPs in forums history. Seriously. If any of you haven't, give it a read.
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All the games I've LPed were ones I had no intention of playing again anyway, so that's not a big loss for me there.  Then again, I don't really have a lot of time to be playing games these days, so there are barely any games that I feel like touching again after beating them. So I personally view LPing them as a chance to revisit them.
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Fedule posted:Clyp rules but costs money per month for anyone who wasn't heavily using it from the beginning. I think you get six hours before you gotta cough up. And even some veterans were forced to pay. I was one of the unlucky ones who didn't get grandfathered in.
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Feb 16, 2018 00:36
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Right now, it looks like the last archived thread had its last post happen on November 19th. No idea if it the limit accidentally got extended, or if archiving broke yet again.
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Feb 27, 2018 22:36
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Jamesman posted:I've said it earlier in this thread, but I feel like SSLPs, by nature, provide a trimmed down experience for the viewer/reader. You're picking and choosing parts of the game to show and deciding on what's most important to share, and trying to convey the most information possible in an efficient manner. I would think that cutting out or summarizing dialogue would go along with that. Some SSLPs do summarize. It really depends on what the LPer wants to focus on and is ultimately up to them how they want to present the game.
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Mar 4, 2018 20:42
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Once a day is usually the fastest I've seen an LP update. Any faster, and the update pace tends to get overbearing, SSLP or VLP.
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I wouldn't bother with bestiary entries if the RPG isn't significantly gameplay based. I did it for Etrian Odyssey 2 and 3 because the random encounters in that series can be utterly vicious compared to most other RPGs, and actually knowing how to defuse them is a very important part of the gameplay. And even then I still point out the important stuff because I genuinely do not expect everyone to read everything on there. I especially wouldn't bother if it's heavily story based, because that's likely not what your audience is there for. (Granted in your case, it's Dragon Quest, and that's not exactly a series known for being doorstopper novels.)
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Mraagvpeine posted:I think the forum archiving might be back. It has been for a while. It's been set to 4 months instead of 2.
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baldurk posted:I believe I got all the tindeck audio backed up from archived LPs this weekend. They're available on lpix with a substitution of https://tindeck.com/listen/<id here> → https://lpix.org/tindeck/<id here>. So for example https://lpix.org/tindeck/gpqj.  You do a lot for the archive, and for that, we thank you!
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LordHippoman posted:Does anyone in the Screenshot LP biz know of a good resource for scripts to games? I'm looking at LPing a text-heavy DS game, but the sheer amount of screenshotting and transcribing I'd have to do is weighing me down. Psycho Knight posted:In terms of script files, I'm not sure how easy it is to pull scripts from a DS game directly. Chances are, unless you are lucky enough that someone else somewhere on the internet transcribed it already, then you will need to do it manually. It depends on the game. There's no universal resource, and not all games have dumps. Though depending on the game, it might be possible for someone to hack in and rip out the script (Assuming there's no custom encoding shenanigans like some games employ.) I was able to rip out scripts for Rune Factory 2 and 3 easily since those were just stored in plaintext, but other games like Etrian Odyssey use a different encoding format (Just Shift-JIS from EO3 onwards, but 1 and 2 used their own proprietary format), that it might just be easier to transcribe in that case unless someone makes a dedicated tool for that sort of thing. Araxxor fucked around with this message at 15:37 on Nov 8, 2018 |
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Oublietteer posted:I'm already doing an LP, but I'm thinking way ahead to others I might like to do, and have a question. vilkacis gives some good advice. Probably one of the best things you can do is just to throw your hand in the ring. I'll be honest, the EO2 LP was like the first time I delved into that sort of thing (or any form of a long running serious writing project and it shows. There are several things I'm not really proud of in there) but it did teach me several lessons that made things a lot better for the EO3 LP when it came to the narrative front there. Your writing style will be your own, but if you're starting off, there's no shame in using something else as a base. I started off emulating 100percentjesusfree's style when I first did the EO2 LP, before finding my own voice.
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FairGame posted:I have a completed LP that I sent a note to Baldurk to about a month ago. He will get to it when he has time, no worries there. You do not have to worry about the thread falling into the forum archives for Baldurk to get to it. He'll archive it either way. (And in case you need to do something to the thread, you can ask a mod to pull it out of the forum archives.)
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Oh geez, I was under the impression that the method to necro archived but not in the archived section of the forums was still available. That's going to be very hairy to fix on my end since there were a ton of edits I wanted to make to one of my LPs before I sent it off for archival. But I had to put it off since my life got busy. I was hoping to at least get the bbcode from my LP posts so I could store those for later to edit on my own time, but that might not be feasible now?
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Tech Support is fine on its own. I agree with keeping New LPs stickied and its own thread. Good for letting people know since new LPs aren't like super high traffic on this forum. Recommendations and request I can see overlapping nicely, so I think combining those can work. Don't see the need to keep streaming stickied.
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The archival time tends to vary when it actually works. Though it hasn't been 2 months in a while for the LP subforum. Believe for a while it got extended to sometime longer than that, though it seems to have been broken for the moment.
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There's also the fact that the LP archive doesn't support images that are over 900 pix wide. So timg has to be used in the case that gigantic images are used.
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I thought it just shrunk the image and turned it into a hyperlink to view the full sized image instead of being able to click on it to blow up the image, like on the test poster. Does it really not work at all there?
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An entire update of timgs would be completely tedious for the reader to read through. Find a way to either shrink down the images (900 pix wide is the most the archive accepts), or get the information in them across in another format if that's not a measure you can take for whatever reason. An occasional use of the tag can be fine if there really is no other choice. Constant usage will drive off readers.
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The old PMD2 LP spiraled out of control into something creepy with the thread participation. Helldump also got involved after the creepiness kept spiking, and the LP went down in flames. It wasn't the sole reason for the Pokemon ban, but it was one of the straws that broke the camel's back. The other real issue was that there were a ton of low effort copycat narrative style Pokemon LPs popping up, which is clearly not happening now. As far as I remember, the LP itself didn't get too bad until the thing kept crumbling down, so it's not of much interest iirc. it was the thread participation that kept getting out of whack. The OP proceeded to make normal LPs afterwards that did not go down in flames like that. Araxxor fucked around with this message at 03:57 on Jul 3, 2020 |
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There have even been LPs of game books here. As long as the audience can interact, or it's something you just wanna showcase, feel free.
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