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Excuse me for a huge lack of paragraphs and design there, it's a very old page and I suck at handling design, evidenced by this bio ;)
Excuse me for a huge lack of paragraphs and design there, it's a very old page and I suck at handling design, evidenced by this bio ;)
== Proof ==
=== Sent Tapes ===
I've sent a number of tapes in my early carreer to prove myself to the community. I had already gained a lot of trust from most members due to my knowledge of the game. But caring about proof maybe too much myself, obviously I could not withhold my tapes from the outer world. In the beginning I only had a [[VCR]] to record my runs. With help of a teacher, I was able to get a few runs online. People still kept on disbelieving me, even when my videos helped them lower their times. But no matter how negative they were, I had my mind set and just dealt with them. Eventually I actually sent out some tapes to reliable others. First I sent to [[Tim Greneby]], and he sent to [[Wes]], being unable to capture my runs himself. The package contained runs that had been questioned for a while. Some time later I sent to [[Karl]]. He captured some of my runs in RealMedia format. Finally I sent quite a bunch to [[Matthijs ten Ham]]; a fellow dutch, top ranked GE player. He didn't have a capture card, thus he used a webcam to get my runs online. This ended pretty much all discussion there ever was about doubts towards me. Eventually I got my own webcam, and later my own (cheap) capture card and made everything myself.
=== Crazy about Proof ===
Along the way I've become a very trustworthy eliter. I wasn't a special proof moderator, but I still got several proof tapes sent my way. I was known for making videos of almost everything you could think of, every completion up till a certain time limit where I considered it too bad unless something cool happened during the run. Thus, everyone who sent their proof to me, could be sure of getting everything worthwhile made. Also, I've always been paying good attention to the quality of videos. even to this day, I'm not 100% satisfied with my current recordings, but it's definitely a lot better than what they used to be. Back then however, I did not have a DVD recorder yet. I always checked a lot of things to make sure they were up to par. I even made many captures for many runs where the results didn't meet my needs, as long as was need till I liked it or chose the best after being driven mad. I'm also good with computers and finding out how to make things work, yet despite this, it was still difficult to make NTSC videos of quality. First there was the problem of my VCR not being NTSC compatible and captures were in black & white with lines crossing the screen. To solve this, I got an NTSC compatible VCR with the help of [[Ryan Dwyer]]. Finally I could record NTSC in colour. Problem now was limited VirtualDub capabilities. The actual format of the VCR recording wasn't NTSC, but a middle-way, [[PAL60]]. I could either choose for black & white video in NTSC format, or the top of the video being repeated on the bottom, because of too many lines. PAL exists of 625 lines whereas NTSC has 525. The colours are different. The framerate is 25 fps on PAL vs 30 fps (rounded) on NTSC. PAL60 mixes these to NTSC colours, 625 lines, 30 fps. Thus, the lines still differ from the NTSC format. Therefor, there are 100 lines more, which causes the top 100 lines being repeated there. There was a solution to hook my N64 up to the computer and record it live in true NTSC format, but this caused extra lag and worse quality of play. Around this time, people started using DVD recorders and it came to my attention that some PAL players were capable of making good NTSC videos as a result of that. Naturally, I also decided to get myself one. With [[Ilari]]'s help, I got a DVD recorder. Sadly, it died after about 1 year of usage. Not much later, I got lucky looking for a new one in town. The Netherlands truly have a huge lack of NTSC compatible devices, but I found a cheap one which happened to be on sale. I asked the salesman for its features and made sure it could record NTSC. It was almost too good to be true, but it worked! I upgraded the software and haven't had many issues with it yet. Sometimes it freezes (not during play), but off electricity and back on has so far solved it every time. The only discrepancy now is opening the DVD slider when there's no DVD inside. It won't open by itself, so I have to push it in and up a bit to make it come out. With help of my selfmade 'renamer' program, I make batch files that encode the ripped videos.
=== Received Tapes ===
*Bryan Bosshardt
Stacked a pile of tapes for like a year, I got to capture 10 tapes, most of them being 6 hour compilation tapes. A ton of GoldenEye, Perfect Dark, [[TWINE]] runs, Banjo Kazooie, Banjo Tooie, Super Metroid and more. This huge project took me half a year to complete!
*Brandon Sanford
2 fully packed compilation tapes, also good for a long time of capturing.
*Jean-François Dubreuil & Philippe Leclerc
These Canadians are NTSC, and gave me a lot of capturing trouble, settled with subpar quality videos at first. Remade them all later, but I'm still not really satisfied.
*Vitor Miranda
Brazilian, thus NTSC, also caused capturing problems, same as previous.
*Anaël_Raffin
A tape mostly consisting of unfamiliar game(s) to me.
*Michael Cunningham
Street Fighter EX Plus Alpha run.
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