Pastebin Monday 2018-03-19

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—Speedruns—

Finished learning Link’s Awakening DX, starting to do runs every now and then. Got a 116 yesterday but the VoD is kinda bad (gamefeed was cut off and some other things as well). One of the things that I need to figure out regarding to stream layout, but that’s fine, that PB is easily improvable anyway. More runs on that for sure.
ALTTP Tournament started so expect some matches Soon™. This is currently my group :
TheSabin (PB : 1:28.15)
DRock91384 (PB : 1:29.42)
yelsraek (PB : 1:37.52)
Jetabb (PB : 1:51.39)
I decided to drop Majora’s Mask from my initial plan to learn Zelda games. My original plan was to learn Z1-2-3-LADX-OoT-MM (The first 6 Zeldas), but felt it was too much, So I am sticking to only OoT for N64. If I learn another 3D Zelda, it would be Wind Waker on GCN, but I have no idea if this will ever happen.
Somehow played Zelda 2 yesterday with all the rust that came with it, and was terrible as expected. But what was funny yesterday is I speedran 4 games on the same day (Mystic Quest, LADX, Zelda 3 (Weekly) and Zelda 2 (MOMAM SRL Race)) and they all finished. That’s what I would like to do in the future, is being able to play Zelda 1-2-3-LADX-OoT back to back and beat them. What is cool is none of them are meme categories, but the most popular ones (granted OoT’s most popular category is 100% but it doesn’t really fit the rest by being too long, so sticking with No IM/WW. Any% is boring).

Current Speed Plan :

—Stream—

I caught myself working the whole Saturday afternoon / night on my stream setup. This is a thing about me, I love working on stuff like that like graphics and overall presentation with Photoshop and etc. Still needs some works but it will do for now.
I decided to go back to the old setup of GV-USB2 and stop using USB3HDCAP for S-Video game feed, to make the stream and framerate better (I had framerate issues with USB3HDCAP and I never managed to fix it, and blue screens are annoying). Also, while tempting, I could make streaming RGB possible and invest on a PVM or something like that. But I much prefer having my S-video Multi-Out cable work on my NES-SNES-N64-GameCube and being able to just swap cable easily. I rather not go too deep into that stuff because I know I won’t get out of it.
Ordered 4 Input Displays (NES, SNES, N64 and GameCube) from Pidge last week and they should arrive today, so it should be fun to have this back. I had issues with my previous Input Display setup so this is why I stopped using it. Also pidge’s are way more better than what I used to have (I had wires exposed and everything lol). Each one of them might or might not be used for future projects >_>.

—Stuff—

RPG Limit Break in May. D:
Wanted to upgrade my PC video card but cryptofarmers are making it impossible (prices doubled)
Need to build a new server for home (hardware too old and storage doesn’t fit my needs anymore). Not sure if I would go for a complete server with everything that includes Windows Server 2016 or I buy what I want and stick with my 2012 R2 license. (Congrats to the 0.1% who understands what this means)

Thanks for Reading.
Sabin