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South Australian Gaming Event Organiser, Commentator, Part-Time Farmer, Hegelian Speedrunner


Well we finally finished uploading it all. http://start.gg/bigcheese4

This is all the recorded fighting game footage from The Big Cheese 4, a national fighting game 'n Smash Bros. tournament held in Australia in mid-October. We also had an artist alley that filled up an entire basketball court and some friends of mine sold more there than they did at much larger conventions this year.

The South Australian fighting game scene is a funny little place. Obviously we're near the bottom of the planet but we've also managed to retain a great deal of institutional knowledge and organisers who know how to make a fun event. The main things we lack are a large enough internet upload capacity at our preferred venue and enough staff to perform every task at the standard we'd like. Everyone involved with this was filling in the roles of at least 3 people you'd expect at a Combo Breaker or one of Big E's events. Thus, we attempted to do the sort of thing events like Tekken Strong Style used to: one main stream and record as many of the matches on the floor as we could. To save on system resources for the stations used and to make things easier on the TOs who were in turn also responsible for these recording stations, we figured we'd just write a plain text file of each match that happened in order and slap an overlay on in post.

The first problem was of course that our bitrates for recording were too low. If we did a fresh round of encoding with the overlays then we'd get something like that one #Reload Sol vs Chipp match from gameacho in 2003.

The second problem was people forgetting to write the dang matches down. Running ourselves ragged allows for mistakes to occur!

The third was of course since we ran so many dang games, the occasional bottleneck resulted in casuals matches happening on these recording stations. Hence the roughly half an hour of Kanae matches during the Akatsuki Blitzkampf footage.

Still, it was an incredibly enjoyable event to organise and execute. We've started working out paths to better financial solvency in the future and really just need more people both locally and abroad to come down. Events like Battle Arena Melbourne and Ozhadou Nationals can be Australian Evo. We want to be Australian UFGT.

Oh and I won Fate/Unlimited Codes and ABK, though in Australia the latter is basically Obama handing himself the medal.



amy
@amy

alucard's "i'm interested in this" line except it's cut down to say "i'm this"


amy
@amy
Robert Belgrade (probably) - I'm This
I'm This
Robert Belgrade (probably)
00:00

for the people that need an audio cue for heavily relating to something



DevilREI
@DevilREI
  • The ROM used, at least on English game text settings, seems to be based on the near-mythical English arcade release. (I say near-mythical because, while it's on the Japanese/Asian ROMs, it actually has to be unlocked in the operator settings via code, something I only found out very recently!)
  • Del Sol and Kuhn are available from the beginning. If you want an easy mode 1CC, Kuhn is your best bet. No B.M. as far as I can tell, or any of the Special Edition stuff.
  • No training mode, as expected, but there is a 2-player mode from the LADG main menu under "minigames." This makes it easy to run tournaments/bring to locals, which I want to do a lot more of. Controls can be reconfigured but it's the bad kind of button settings.
  • Looks basically perfect. I'm not sure if Model 3 upscales to HD quite as nicely as Model 2 does, but that might be because Model 2 still has a bit of a "blocky" look to it.
  • Not sure if there are cheevos attached to beating the game, but after Jane stymied everyone in FV1 in Judgment I think RGG studio backed off those kind of trophies
  • Random mode is playable, but you’ll need to hold start and confirm quick because you get the pause menu if you hold it down for too long

Anyway, play Fighting Vipers 2



The footage from The Big Cheese 4, South Australia's curiously named major fighting game event is slowly going up. This means I can post our third go at The General Challenge. Since the first time was an SA-only affair during a bout of COVID lockdowns, The General's official score count began at The Big Cheese 3 in 2022.

Did anyone defeat him this year? Only one way to find out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC0OgzdGYZI&list=PL0FWCFWA6nHns4Ah73lzP4HuYUhZygZwz&index=3