Amazing use of 3D software in this video. However, in the end I feel like too much time was spent showing cool 3D effects than showing and advertising the Speedruns on SDA.
Obviously this is an old video now, just for future advertising though, I think up to the SDA wall was great then the maze and domino effect was advertising the software more than SDA. Still amazing job, I know this must have taken ages.
The song is called "Speed Demos Archive" (originally enough). I composed and recorded it, since I didn't want to use copyrighted music. You can download it from the page linked at the bottom of the video description.
please help me!!! i went to speed demos archive webpage but i cant see any video of the speed runs where can i see them or how can i see them????? please help me
Thanks for running the site guys. Reminded me of hours and hours of joyful playing. You got all the classics that I used to play. Really great to see those games are still there.
Great editing, but very little substance. It didn't advertise the best part about SDA well - that is, the speed-runs. It showed 2 seconds clips from a couple games, then you couldn't decipher what games you were seeing from then on. They all were like flashy domino blocks.
It was made primarily, as mentioned earlier, as an intro for the SDA exhibit at PAX. Once this part ended it transitioned into about 20 clips from actual speedruns. The whole exhibit lasted about 50 minutes.
I did watch the Insane Quality video first but since this has a comments system and all hehe; great job. I follow SDA and TASvideos religiously and not only is anything anyone does to promote these awesome - I read through your entire "making of" and you have my respect man.
I think that if you just had videos playing it wouldn't catch too many eyes. They'd just glance at it and go, "Oh, that's neat. Someone's playing the game."
This is a more eye-catching thing, and I can see why you made it for PAX. It's like a car commercial. You don't want to talk about how the miles-to-the-gallon work. You want to have it flying down the streets and banking sharp corners to some Paul Oakenfold. Get people pumped up so they can check out the boring stuff themselves.
I love SDA, but this is incredibly boring. Instead of promoting your ability to turn screens into dominos, you should be showing what makes SDA special. It's not your 3D render talents. It's the runs. You should be showing people gunning through various scenarios. Think of how many games we could see in 4 minutes! It would absolutely get people interested in SDA. I showed this to a few people here and they said " What does that have to do with speed runs? It's the slowest video in the world."
rofl, anyone notice that the thumbnail for this video is from that ancient Turok 1 speedrun by Marshmallow? Really great run though, I've always wanted to try one myself...
Awesome vid, though as other people said you should have concentrated more on showing cool tricks from various games. Also you should've added captions to each screen that say which speedrun it is.
awesome video, and I completely appreciate all the hard work that you guys put into this. Although, like other people have stated, I would've liked to have seen more impressive speedrunning moments in there.
Has ZWEI a deeper meaning or were you just 'oh, I'm looking for a german word that sounds archaic and nerdy', like the Japanese do with words like Ehrgeiz or Bismarck?
Also, it's not actually called zwei; it's called 'Speed Demos Archive'. Zwei was just its working title, although we'll probably continue to call it that out of habit.
Great work, but like some others here, I'm not sure it fulfills it's promotional duties as well as it might. How about some of those vids being serious insane moves, then a freeze-frame with the lowest time on record for that game... do that for a few famous games. That would be a real attention-getter.
Gotta concur. The most eye-catching things would have been big tricks and total game times for big famous games:
Super Mario in 5 minutes, Super Mario 64 in 20 minutes. Sonic 2 in 18 minutes. Diablo in 6, Fallout in 9, Bauldur's Gate in 16. Resident evil in 61 minutes. Half-Life in 31 minutes. GTA in 82 minutes. Chrono triggerin in 3:34, Ocarina of time in 4:46, and FFVII in 7:41.
These are awesome numbers on famous games, and you should have led out with them.
It's a good video for showing how many videos one can find on SDA, but I think a traditional highlight reel showing off great performances on popular games would be more interesting.
Also, putting ridiculous completion times for games a lot of people know would also generate more interest. Like Morrowind in 7.5 minutes or Half-Life in 31 mins or Diablo in 6 mins. A lot of people would think "no way, i gotta see this." What drew me to the site in the first place was the Morrowind run.
Great job on the video but I think you would grab more new people's attention if you compiled a video like this but with more HUGE obvious time-saving examples from various games. Rocketjumping in Quake and time-saving glitches in Metroid Prime where it's obvious you just skipped half or the entire level would get more new people to say "wow" and check out the full run.
Yeah, that's probably fair comment. I did make sure that a few tricks were shown like the Mario 64 wallkick and a 'nade jump from Quake, but yeah, that was probably something we could have concentrated harder on.
haha ... he was wearing his SDA administrator hat rather than his linguistics one on this project. It was his idea, and he sent me the video clips -- although we had some epic discussions about the presentation of the text on the maze post! I guess the German codename of 'zwei' we used throughout production stemmed from it as well. :P
that would be me. the little human language that does appear in zwei was actually heavily scrutinized by me, as we (team zwei) were dealing with a gender-neutral pronoun situation in defining "speed run" (or, more to the point, he or she who performs one). i decided to go with 'they' because i believe that singular 'they' has won the contest for an english gender-neutral pronoun and that it will eventually become accepted by even the strictest of prescriptivists in my lifetime (i am 23).
how do u make an account for it?
conker19 2 years ago
Amazing use of 3D software in this video. However, in the end I feel like too much time was spent showing cool 3D effects than showing and advertising the Speedruns on SDA.
Obviously this is an old video now, just for future advertising though, I think up to the SDA wall was great then the maze and domino effect was advertising the software more than SDA. Still amazing job, I know this must have taken ages.
1Ridd3r 2 years ago
love u guys!!!!!
waqasriaz76 2 years ago
This video is Super Cool! 5/5
Penzuh 2 years ago 2
You sure like your Metroid! :D The starting Prime clip was easily the longest in the vid and Super was featured at least twice.
355830 2 years ago
Metroid has a long and distinguished history of speed running.
DJGrenola 2 years ago
Hey I have a question, is there a way to watch the runs at the site or do you have to download them?
MrGameplayer28 2 years ago
Some of the runs have streaming versions available on the download pages; others (mainly older runs) do not.
DJGrenola 2 years ago
Song name?
PsychoReaper49 2 years ago
The song is called "Speed Demos Archive" (originally enough). I composed and recorded it, since I didn't want to use copyrighted music. You can download it from the page linked at the bottom of the video description.
DJGrenola 2 years ago
Thank you.
PsychoReaper49 2 years ago
Incredible video. SDA is truly awesome!
Pokemonmaster888 2 years ago
very nice vid!!!
hakowy 3 years ago
in a very far future intros and demos will be like this.
exedeath 3 years ago
SDA ftw!!!!
Glad I joined them :D
linkfreak12 3 years ago
That's some sick editing.
Tatsuhiko 3 years ago 2
Go SDA! XFUBX here!
Skullbird11 3 years ago
does any one know how to get the speed runs to work on WWM cause i download it but when i try to import it to WWM it doesnt work
corteztheman4EVER 3 years ago
please help me!!! i went to speed demos archive webpage but i cant see any video of the speed runs where can i see them or how can i see them????? please help me
masteroz666 3 years ago
on the site there are different buttons leading to different pages click on games list to see the games that have speedruns ;)
Fyourics 3 years ago
3:44-46. There is a speedrun of Pokémon Red. Oh dear lord. That must be impressive.
pkmn08 3 years ago
your right, It is impressave
Skullbird11 3 years ago
yeah. i saw that too. and then i got all sentimental.
gamingmedian 3 years ago
this must have taken months to render
that was *awesome*
jdhannan 4 years ago
Cool made.
NeoWynaut 4 years ago
I'm glad you showed this website on video DJGrenola. Thank you very much. I go there every week. 5 Stars.
NinthAltima 4 years ago
great job!
trople 4 years ago
Thanks for running the site guys. Reminded me of hours and hours of joyful playing. You got all the classics that I used to play. Really great to see those games are still there.
5 Points Site => 5 Points Vid... ^_^
MupMan0815 4 years ago
Great editing, but very little substance. It didn't advertise the best part about SDA well - that is, the speed-runs. It showed 2 seconds clips from a couple games, then you couldn't decipher what games you were seeing from then on. They all were like flashy domino blocks.
detached9 4 years ago 4
It was made primarily, as mentioned earlier, as an intro for the SDA exhibit at PAX. Once this part ended it transitioned into about 20 clips from actual speedruns. The whole exhibit lasted about 50 minutes.
thegreatbman 3 years ago 2
WOW. That is impression. 50 minutes to exhibition a very impressive site. WOW.
pkmn08 3 years ago
long live SDA
pipdjs 4 years ago
Wow, great job on the video. SDA is awesome.
Dpdiablo 4 years ago
Hey, Grenola!
I wonder if you would care if I uploaded this into my YT account...?
dskthefoda 4 years ago
Awesome video for an awesome website.
galeboomer 4 years ago
This really struck me as style over substance, for the same reasons others have mentioned.
It's a great website though
Arkham258 4 years ago
sweet video!
speed demos rule
vdopeyv 4 years ago
I did watch the Insane Quality video first but since this has a comments system and all hehe; great job. I follow SDA and TASvideos religiously and not only is anything anyone does to promote these awesome - I read through your entire "making of" and you have my respect man.
Torzelan 4 years ago
Wow.
upert4989 4 years ago
Know what made that video? "Faster than you" wait... waiit.... in comes the "?" Great stuff! Viva SDA! :D
lolYankees 4 years ago
I think that if you just had videos playing it wouldn't catch too many eyes. They'd just glance at it and go, "Oh, that's neat. Someone's playing the game."
This is a more eye-catching thing, and I can see why you made it for PAX. It's like a car commercial. You don't want to talk about how the miles-to-the-gallon work. You want to have it flying down the streets and banking sharp corners to some Paul Oakenfold. Get people pumped up so they can check out the boring stuff themselves.
MiraiGen 4 years ago 2
boring stuff ? ;)
But yes, that's exactly what we were trying to do.
DJGrenola 4 years ago
You know what I mean! :P
MiraiGen 4 years ago
lol. he makes it sound as if this video is the only exciting thing to come out of sda, and that the speedruns are the "boring stuff." :p
SpeedDemosArchiveSDA 4 years ago
I think I've found a new definition for 'over engineering' =P
alexpenev 4 years ago
I love SDA, but this is incredibly boring. Instead of promoting your ability to turn screens into dominos, you should be showing what makes SDA special. It's not your 3D render talents. It's the runs. You should be showing people gunning through various scenarios. Think of how many games we could see in 4 minutes! It would absolutely get people interested in SDA. I showed this to a few people here and they said " What does that have to do with speed runs? It's the slowest video in the world."
RappingNinja 4 years ago
the aim of this particular video was to showcase the breadth of content.
DJGrenola 4 years ago
I should add that the first SDA promo vid from 2004 did focus on individual games; we wanted to do something a little different with this one.
DJGrenola 4 years ago
Ah okay. Sorry, I thought this was your first one ever. As something "different," it's pretty impressive. And I like the music.
RappingNinja 4 years ago
LOLOOL, 2:11 pacman. cracked me up.
Vastly superior. One of the coolest things that introduce something. xD
SDA is teh awesome.
Zm4rf 4 years ago
Wow, that was awesome!SDA ftw.
mightymole2 4 years ago
SDA FOREVER. :3
Shintaka9009 4 years ago
you guys really went to town with the "demo" idea, huh
mobilisq 4 years ago
rofl, anyone notice that the thumbnail for this video is from that ancient Turok 1 speedrun by Marshmallow? Really great run though, I've always wanted to try one myself...
eatmyshorts 4 years ago
Wow, that was incredible. Cheers to the time, effort, and CPU power that went into it :)
exinex 4 years ago
Awesome vid, though as other people said you should have concentrated more on showing cool tricks from various games. Also you should've added captions to each screen that say which speedrun it is.
wrvids 4 years ago
Great video for a great web site with great speedruns.
Maxelya 4 years ago
awesome
thomasgx1 4 years ago
oh! Yea. This is a nice one. My mum have to see this!
Frezyman 4 years ago
awesome video, and I completely appreciate all the hard work that you guys put into this. Although, like other people have stated, I would've liked to have seen more impressive speedrunning moments in there.
eatmyshorts 4 years ago
Has ZWEI a deeper meaning or were you just 'oh, I'm looking for a german word that sounds archaic and nerdy', like the Japanese do with words like Ehrgeiz or Bismarck?
wulfenlord 4 years ago
this video is a sequel to the original sda promo vid featured in the EGM 2004 holiday dvd. Hence the name zwei, or two, in english.
eatmyshorts 4 years ago
Also, it's not actually called zwei; it's called 'Speed Demos Archive'. Zwei was just its working title, although we'll probably continue to call it that out of habit.
DJGrenola 4 years ago
there's me!
kareshi 4 years ago
Great work, but like some others here, I'm not sure it fulfills it's promotional duties as well as it might. How about some of those vids being serious insane moves, then a freeze-frame with the lowest time on record for that game... do that for a few famous games. That would be a real attention-getter.
VonRichter 4 years ago 4
that's a great idea.
DJGrenola 4 years ago
Gotta concur. The most eye-catching things would have been big tricks and total game times for big famous games:
Super Mario in 5 minutes, Super Mario 64 in 20 minutes. Sonic 2 in 18 minutes. Diablo in 6, Fallout in 9, Bauldur's Gate in 16. Resident evil in 61 minutes. Half-Life in 31 minutes. GTA in 82 minutes. Chrono triggerin in 3:34, Ocarina of time in 4:46, and FFVII in 7:41.
These are awesome numbers on famous games, and you should have led out with them.
Maybe next year.
GenericKen000 4 years ago 2
What about friggin' Metroid Prime in 1:03?
HOLY SHITFUCK.
Zm4rf 4 years ago
totally awesome, especially after reading release notes on SDA (uchh, they are preety long ;) )
ps. damn, why german name? i hate that languague but i have to learn it in school ~.~
radol 4 years ago
Epic video <3
dratsab 4 years ago
holy crap that was awesome, love your site, keep up the good work!
mnb0000 4 years ago
It's a good video for showing how many videos one can find on SDA, but I think a traditional highlight reel showing off great performances on popular games would be more interesting.
LucidFaia 4 years ago
so facking awesome !!!!!!
so facking 1337 !! :D
a pleasure to see it ^^
lancitoygatita 4 years ago
again again
WockesZero 4 years ago
Also, putting ridiculous completion times for games a lot of people know would also generate more interest. Like Morrowind in 7.5 minutes or Half-Life in 31 mins or Diablo in 6 mins. A lot of people would think "no way, i gotta see this." What drew me to the site in the first place was the Morrowind run.
dtlte 4 years ago 2
Great job on the video but I think you would grab more new people's attention if you compiled a video like this but with more HUGE obvious time-saving examples from various games. Rocketjumping in Quake and time-saving glitches in Metroid Prime where it's obvious you just skipped half or the entire level would get more new people to say "wow" and check out the full run.
dtlte 4 years ago
Yeah, that's probably fair comment. I did make sure that a few tricks were shown like the Mario 64 wallkick and a 'nade jump from Quake, but yeah, that was probably something we could have concentrated harder on.
DJGrenola 4 years ago
talk about killer editing/presentation
sloobro 4 years ago
Pretty amazing graphics! I've always been a fan of the site, I hope this gets you some good publicity too.
hi19hi19 4 years ago
What did the linguist contribute to this? :)
Spoocecow 4 years ago
haha ... he was wearing his SDA administrator hat rather than his linguistics one on this project. It was his idea, and he sent me the video clips -- although we had some epic discussions about the presentation of the text on the maze post! I guess the German codename of 'zwei' we used throughout production stemmed from it as well. :P
DJGrenola 4 years ago
that would be me. the little human language that does appear in zwei was actually heavily scrutinized by me, as we (team zwei) were dealing with a gender-neutral pronoun situation in defining "speed run" (or, more to the point, he or she who performs one). i decided to go with 'they' because i believe that singular 'they' has won the contest for an english gender-neutral pronoun and that it will eventually become accepted by even the strictest of prescriptivists in my lifetime (i am 23).
njahnke 4 years ago
Nice
Neclea 4 years ago
Nice one. :> I can imagine why this took so long to produce.
Soulrivers 4 years ago
great!
ZeldaFreakGlitcha 4 years ago
Never thought I'd see something like this
Yackemflaber 4 years ago
1337!
AnnoraxKI 4 years ago
It may have taken 6 months to make, but it was worth it.
buster42 4 years ago
Nice video. Even with the catchphrase thievery. :D
Ninjosaur 4 years ago