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Oct 11th 2006 at 02:53:03 PM
Name:  

joni

Comments:  

it suits you Dennis, since you're an NFer. The couple of times I have been in there there has been nobody to play with either...

   
Oct 11th 2006 at 02:42:59 PM
Name:  

Dennis Lütken

Comments:  

Does anybody here ever play on Minesweeperlive.com ??? I just tried it and it seems like a pretty nice game. It would be nice to have somebody to compete against! ;o) So far, I've won the two games I've played.

   
Oct 11th 2006 at 09:37:03 AM
Name:  

Thomas

Comments:  

Sorry, otherwise its a great idea of course schu!
(I keep forgetting the most important things :P)
I guess minesweeper might be on its way to more official terms

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Oct 11th 2006 at 09:34:04 AM
Name:  

Thomas

Comments:  

You forgot arbiter in your post!
I blasted a 52 school today, I had 2 squares left. I clicked on the smilie, and then someone told me that the timer had been at 51 - Id read it as 57!
Which means that I dont have a vid of course
I got another 55 at school BTW, (and another one yesterday). (I didnt bother to upload the vids) (If someone wants to see them that can be arranged though )
I guess Im lucky to live in the same city as you christoph, otherwise my lack of vids might be suspicious

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Oct 11th 2006 at 06:32:53 AM
Name:  

Schu

Comments:  

"Website" is the site that governs the guinness world records for video games, and the minesweeper thread therein. I just posted in it.

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Oct 11th 2006 at 01:02:42 AM
Name:  

Thomas

Comments:  

Thanks Tam!
Ill just have to get a better game :D

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Oct 10th 2006 at 07:49:30 PM
Name:  

Tam Minh Bui

Comments:  

I would like to congrats Arj and Knolan on their intermediate records, even though Knolan doesn't read this thing often! And Kolar as well, very sorry for your unfortunate video loss dude, I know you hit that crazy record though

Pat: most of the records set by the minesweeper players are done on low 3bv boards, and high 3bv boards are great for getting 3bv/s records because the numbers are usually more dense and together.

   
Oct 10th 2006 at 07:20:27 PM
Name:  

Pat

Best expert:  

127

Best intermediate:  

34

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

Is a high 3bv or a low 3bv better? I still don't understand it that well but I think the lower the better.

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Oct 10th 2006 at 07:18:39 AM
Name:  

Schu (Andrew McCauley)

Comments:  

I just thought I'd mention a few things.

1. Dions 38 video has gone up to over 3000 views on youtube! Congrats man!

2. Google has recently taken over youtube. Just idle trivia.

3. Could the IMC decide about whether they want an official youtube channel (i.e., mine)? I'd like to know, otherwise I'll just upload any old video that anyone asks me to. I'm holding out for now though.

I'm just about to add my channel to wikipedia BTW.

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Oct 10th 2006 at 05:52:11 AM
Name:  

Zhang Hong

Best expert:  

57.95

Best intermediate:  

16.60

Best beginner:  

3.23

Comments:  

To Wee Pin:
'cos u r so famous in our team, [M.S]
your NF Video is on our BBS
i wanna know you

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Oct 10th 2006 at 05:40:53 AM
Name:  

Thomas

Comments:  

Thanks!
Kat got an int record (27?) And on minesweeperlive you cant chord...
Uploading sounds like a good idea, thanks for the suggestion!

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Oct 10th 2006 at 05:35:55 AM
Name:  

Daniel Brim

Comments:  

How did who get a what now?

   
Oct 10th 2006 at 04:51:34 AM
Name:  

Thomas

Comments:  

I registered as LotharKomas :D
How did you get a rec without chording?

   
Oct 10th 2006 at 04:41:37 AM
Name:  

AreOut

Comments:  

Gratz Tommy, btw how come thats your rqp rank 2, whats 1st?

   
Oct 10th 2006 at 04:33:26 AM
Name:  

Daniel Brim

Comments:  

@Kolar:

Jesus christ. You're insane.

You could always upload it to Detrusor's forum.

   
Oct 10th 2006 at 03:34:27 AM
Name:  

Kat

Best expert:  

84.166

Best intermediate:  

28.041

Best beginner:  

3.327 (no vid :( )

Comments:  

I've been playing int on minesweeper live and it helped me take over 1 sec off my best int time. YAY

It would be great to see some better players there!! I would love to get a live look at just how much faster i need to get
ake é

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Oct 10th 2006 at 02:49:36 AM
Name:  

Thomas

Comments:  

WHY DOES THIS ALWAYS HAPPEN WHEN I GET GOOD GAMES?
I EXCEEDED MY MAXIMUM SPACE AGAIN, THE VID IS GONE AND I CANT GET THE FAGKING STUFF OFF THE COMPUTER BECAUSE I CANT STORE IT AT HOME BECAUSE MY PARENTS WONT LET ME USE MY OWN COMPUTER.
IT COULD TAKE AGES TILL I GET A BETTER 3BVS.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
**** **** **** CRAP COCKS DICKS

Thanks for listening. The only good thing about this is that We now know that although f.u..ck and schi.t are censored, cocks, dicks and crap appearantly are not.

   
Oct 10th 2006 at 02:03:06 AM
Name:  

Thomas

Comments:  

Sorry, forgot link

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Oct 10th 2006 at 02:02:27 AM
Name:  

Thomas

Best expert:  

3bvs/s: 3,26-->3,59

Comments:  

A 54 on a ******* 194!!!!
SUB50 here I come!
/me exp game --> Time: 54,95 «» Est Time: 54,95 «» 3BV: 194 (194) «» 3BV/s: 3,59 «» Ranks: 3 / 1 of 31 / 96,77% «» IOE: 0,66 «» CL/S: 5,37 «» Openings: 10 / 10 «» Path: 6863 «» ThroughPut: 0,99 «» Correctness: 0,67 «» ios rank: 2 «» rqp rank: 2

vid attached in a couple of secs :D

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Oct 9th 2006 at 11:24:16 PM
Name:  

Thomas

Best intermediate:  

15,20

Comments:  

Grats arj! Way to pwn my 15 :D
Thanks Tam! :D

@arj: I think one of your most recent (if not the most recent) highscore I saw was probably a 70, as I dont have the clone 2006. And I'm extremely curious what your style is like!
When do you want to upload one to youtube?

VC=UHJA

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Oct 9th 2006 at 07:18:40 PM
Name:  

Zhang Shen Jia

Best expert:  

56

Best intermediate:  

18

Best beginner:  

3

Comments:  

Hello Damien Moore, how could i post my scores?

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Oct 9th 2006 at 05:00:10 PM
Name:  

Arjádre

Best expert:  

58.962

Best intermediate:  

15x2=>15x3=>14.545

Best beginner:  

1.16

Comments:  

14.545 on a 36 3BV board @ 2.658 3BV/s, 5.472 RQP (RQP rec), BAT=19.639 (BAT rec), 3 flags. My first flagging intermediate record since my 21 almost exactly a year ago (October 4th, when I marked 8 mines

The game was est9 19/36 thanks to the chording at the beginning... 14-63 this AR so far! Two games before the 14 I got a 15@38 NF

Grats@all record breakers
@Tam: sorry- I passed you again muahaha

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Oct 9th 2006 at 12:37:20 PM
Name:  

Wee Pin

Comments:  

@Zhang Hong: I'd like to know why you're looking for me before I add you...

   
Oct 9th 2006 at 12:19:46 PM
Name:  

AreOut

Comments:  

Well that was such a stupid question, its quite OBVIOUS that I havent used Camtasia for a long time

Btw nice job Elmar I like that vid

   
Oct 9th 2006 at 12:05:51 PM
Name:  

AreOut

Comments:  

Elmar what codec is needed for playing that file, I ve downloaded AVI splitter and it still doesnt work

   
Oct 9th 2006 at 03:50:59 AM
Name:  

Gergely

Comments:  

Just encountered a 267 3bv board. Blasted it, of course though it could have been solved.

   
Oct 9th 2006 at 02:21:28 AM
Name:  

Zhang Hong

Best expert:  

57.95

Best intermediate:  

16.60

Best beginner:  

3.23

Comments:  

I'm looking for Yeoh Wee Pin from Malaysia.
If you see this, add my msn messenger.
vincent_lamar@msn.com

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Oct 8th 2006 at 12:43:33 PM
Name:  

Tam Minh Bui

Comments:  

Absolutely insane, Thomas.

   
Oct 8th 2006 at 07:04:20 AM
Name:  

Thomas

Comments:  

OK, heres the real thing :D

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Oct 7th 2006 at 11:55:30 PM
Name:  

Daniel Brim

Comments:  

Note to self: extract EXE before playing next time.

Attatched is a screenshot.

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Oct 7th 2006 at 10:32:19 PM
Name:  

Daniel Brim

Best expert:  

66 NF NN

Comments:  

I got a 66 NF NN and I can't save it! It was on a 125... But when I try to save the video it won't allow me to. It also had a ~4 second LSS as well. I'll leave it open for now until somebody *cough*Schu*cough* can help.

   
Oct 7th 2006 at 10:07:01 PM
Name:  

Tam Minh Bui

Best intermediate:  

4,44 -> 4,47 3bv/s

Comments:  

19,33 on 3bv 82, my highest sub-20.

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Oct 7th 2006 at 05:11:07 AM
Name:  

Dmitriy

Comments:  

link not found

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Oct 7th 2006 at 02:47:25 AM
Name:  

Thomas

Best expert:  

3bvs/s3,01-->3,26

Comments:  

And heres the killer:
I got that on a 176 3bv board.
The timer was at 54,84!!!
That is probably the closest to a hopsing you can get without getting one XD

game stats:
/me watched exp game --> Time: 54,84 «» Est Time: 54,84 «» 3BV: 176 (176) «» 3BV/s: 3,26 «» Ranks: 2 / 1 of 22 / 97,72% «» IOE: 0,60 «» CL/S: 5,40 «» Openings: 10 / 10 «» Path: 7141 «» ThroughPut: 0,97 «» Correctness: 0,61 «» ios rank: 2 «» rqp rank: 2- Tommy

vid linked below!

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Oct 7th 2006 at 02:45:59 AM
Name:  

joni

Comments:  

I'm relatively new here, and don't now much about things, but from what I can read it seems it's been around before the Clone or Arbiter... I wonder why it was not used for rankings from the beggining . Bad marketing maybe

   
Oct 7th 2006 at 02:33:24 AM
Name:  

manuel heider

Comments:  

i'm back ;-)

   
Oct 6th 2006 at 10:00:57 PM
Name:  

AreOut

Comments:  

And I think its OK for rankings, cant see why not...

   
Oct 6th 2006 at 04:03:53 PM
Name:  

joni

Comments:  

oh AreOut, we both had the same thing in mind, you just beat me on that as I was writing it

   
Oct 6th 2006 at 03:58:41 PM
Name:  

joni

Comments:  

Ian, I see you complaining about arbiter, you have to see what the clone does to your resources , every time I start it my memory utilization goes up by 300MB at least ... most of it must be for the framework I guess, since on the process list the clone is listed at around 30M.

btw minesweeper x looks very slim, I've tried some no numbers on it recently, but I'm afraid it's not valid for the rankings though...

   
Oct 6th 2006 at 03:53:48 PM
Name:  

AreOut

Comments:  

Thats MinesweeperX which I use too, simple and really great.

   
Oct 6th 2006 at 02:46:20 PM
Name:  

Ian

Best expert:  

62.11 --> 61.98 (winmine, sorry guys)

Comments:  

I hope people trust me enough for this to be allowed! Completely out of the blue, from a 72 previous session best, and then a 134 turned up and, incredibly, I didn't blast it

Btw, if winmine IS going to go, could someone make a really basic winmine level clone, just to record videos without board cycles and not use much resources (or frameworks, etc.)?

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Oct 6th 2006 at 11:33:19 AM
Name:  

Tam Minh Bui

Comments:  

Hey, no offense taken, don't worry about it. I'm just glad to hear minesweeper is gaining a greater rep :)

   
Oct 6th 2006 at 08:40:30 AM
Name:  

Schu

Comments:  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsI6RA3o6yM

This is Olis 39. I'm pleased to say that it is one of the most discussed vids for today (#18) (URL for list: http://www.youtube.com/browse?t=t&p=1&s=md&c=20&l=) and one of the most viewed today (#60) (URL for list: http://www.youtube.com/browse?t=t&p=3&s=mp&c=20&l=) in the category of "video games".

by the time I've finished doing this either may improve, they've gone from 32->18 and 64->60 in a few minutes.

Sorry Tam, I've been busy, I will look through it soon though. I'm not sure about uploading, since I think maybe my channel could become the official minesweeper channel for youtube, and if so I wouldn't want to do 3BV/s records until authorised. At worst though, I'll just start another account eventually and put the less brilliant videos on that (no offense of course), so don't worry!

Anyone in the IMC have any ideas about what I said above?

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Oct 5th 2006 at 11:01:01 PM
Name:  

Tam Minh Bui

Comments:  

Thanks a lot Schu, I appreciate it! ^^

Do you mind loading this video, as well my intermediate 3bv/s video, on youtube? I only ask this because I would like to share my records with the members of another gaming community.

   
Oct 5th 2006 at 09:22:52 PM
Name:  

Schu

Comments:  

@ Areout: yes it does, what I want to know is why the speed scroller seems to be set at, I dunno, 80% speed.

   
Oct 5th 2006 at 09:20:19 PM
Name:  

Schu

Comments:  

@ Arj: Absolutely agree. That's why I'm stunned that winmine is still accepted at all. Even without using clone to practice UPKing the board, you can still easily cheat. Why worry about releasing info, there are much easier ways to cheat than using that info? For our community, surely winmine is purely historical by now?

Grats Tam, I'll watch it when I get home!

   
Oct 5th 2006 at 02:24:22 PM
Name:  

Tam Minh Bui

Best expert:  

3,02 (x2) -> 3,08

Comments:  

New 3bv/s record: 64,95 on a 197 board.

It is my highest sub-70 board, as well as my second best expert RQP (21,09).

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Oct 5th 2006 at 01:38:55 PM
Name:  

Arjádre

Comments:  

Not releasing information for fear that someone will cheat is absurd. All someone has to do to cheat is the xyzzy shift enter thing, transfer the mines' positions onto minesweeper clone, and UPK the board several times before actually playing. I'm really curious about what Rodrigo, Curtis, and Ian (sorry if I forgot anyone) are researching and hope that we can move beyond such meaningless worrying about cheaters.

   
Oct 5th 2006 at 12:49:53 PM
Name:  

Daniel Brim

Comments:  

@Herman

Everything you need is linked.

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Oct 5th 2006 at 12:45:37 PM
Name:  

Herman Grue

Best expert:  

78

Best intermediate:  

31

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

Well, I still haven't fixed my problem, and since I've got to record my best score for a rank it would have been nice to record or get a valid proof of my game.

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Oct 5th 2006 at 12:35:15 PM
Name:  

Daniel Brim

Comments:  

@Ian: Or a clone for macs

   
Oct 5th 2006 at 11:06:56 AM
Name:  

Ian

Comments:  

Clone doesn't run on my PC (win98 and no framework, but I tried installing the framework and it still didn't work... I think it's my computer though, not a program issue) and I don't like Arbiter (no offence Rilian!), it's too resource-eating.

With these new developments, I suppose this means that including winmine in the rankings could be a mistake (and having a winmine only ranking is... strange ).

On the other hand, if me or someone who programs in a better language than VB could write a better Recorder to see if winmine is being hacked (I guess that would be a proper keylogger), then it could be made legit again

Article is making slow progress (schoolwork) but I'd be interested to see anyone else's

Sweeping has decreased a lot again due to schoolwork, still doing the odd game or ... ten

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Oct 5th 2006 at 10:26:41 AM
Name:  

AreOut

Comments:  

Hmm as I can remember it has speed scroller...

   
Oct 5th 2006 at 05:40:51 AM
Name:  

Schu

Comments:  

Why would you want to use the recorder anyway if you don't mind me asking? Use clone instead.

I'm having trouble with the player though, it's taking 53 seconds to play your 40 video Damien, so I don't want that to go on youtube until I've worked out what's going on.

   
Oct 5th 2006 at 05:15:26 AM
Name:  

Herman Grue

Best expert:  

78

Best intermediate:  

35

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

Hello again...
I don't get the recorder and the player to work.....In the dated file...should there be any text at all in them, or just the file....

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Oct 5th 2006 at 05:14:08 AM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

@christoph: looking forward to reading it...

check the link below for a look into minesweeper vista programming.

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Oct 5th 2006 at 04:59:57 AM
Name:  

Christoph

Comments:  

I had a quick look at rand() and had to find out that it's polinomial is linear - too boring. However, I know now how to answer the questions in Rods last post, non of which is too difficult. I don't have the time to write everything down right now (I have to finish something more important before). But I think I can write an article which is easy to understand sothat everybody knows what this cycle (and convergence) thing is about and we can close this topic.

   
Oct 5th 2006 at 01:29:27 AM
Name:  

Tam Minh Bui

Comments:  

Hey Co! Nice to see another Vietnamese player active again :)

   
Oct 4th 2006 at 07:57:15 PM
Name:  

Co Nguyen

Best expert:  

61

Best intermediate:  

18>>>>17

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

Hello All,

I just broke my 1 year old intermediate record today! I will post it by next week.

That's not the headline. I just found out this cool website that u don't have to rent or buy movies, video games, textbook, etc... Check out the link: http://www.ucanswap.com

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Oct 4th 2006 at 05:22:56 PM
Name:  

Nathan

Best expert:  

87

Best intermediate:  

23

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

Yes!! I finally completed expert in under 100 seconds! It took so long to finally do this, but I got 87 seconds and beat my previous expert of 102! And I did it non-flagging! This is awesome!

, Nate

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Oct 4th 2006 at 04:41:35 PM
Name:  

Tam Minh Bui

Comments:  

Tam last 17151st beg game: Time: 5,00 3BV: 20 3BV/s: 5,00 "Flag" Rank: 3213th time 231st 3BV/s ( RPI: 89.96 IOS: n/a RQP: 1 )

5,00 seconds with 5,00 3bv/s and 5,00 cl/s. The board is 20 3bv with 20 clicks total. The RQP is 1, and the IOE is 1 as well. Note that the ranks only consist of digits 1, 2, and 3's only.

Just thought I'd post it because it looked really weird and interesting, and it's also very exact O_o

   
Oct 4th 2006 at 03:51:31 PM
Name:  

Rodrigo

Comments:  

@Curtis: I have always been worried about releasing enough information to make it EASY for someone to cheat. Of course someone who wants to cheat can extract all this information without help, but at least this person would have to do it. That's why I only published my research now, 2 years after doing it. On the other hand, I notice you have good intentions.

I see you probably have a good piece of work out there. Actually, I would be very pleased if you could write in a good scientific-like style, with descriptions of methods used, explanations, examples, etc. One of the pillars of science (Minesweeper can be considered a scientific subject ;P ) is that experiments must be reproduced. So, good explanations would be amazing. And to tell the truth, I would be even more pleased if you could answer YES to the following questions:

Is your work able to explain.....
... the "quadrant superposition" effect?
... why the existence of cycles seems to be related to the board size and not to the number of mines?
... why are there board shifts?
... why the number of board shifts is exactly 8, and not any other value?

The only problematic thing would be if you used any method that allows to extract the board generation algorithm of EVERY program. In this case, I don't know what to think. Except for that, as for me, I give my "green light". :)

@Ian: The same advices for writting in real-article-style goes for you. :D Btw, how is your writting going?

   
Oct 4th 2006 at 03:13:33 PM
Name:  

damien

Comments:  

To use the Recorder:

Download and un-zip the files. Make a shortcut on your desktop to the Recorder and to the Player. Every time you start playing, also open the Recorder. It will save a dated file to the folder you saved the program. Whenever you want to watch or save videos, open the Player. It lets you load a dated file, then you can select games from the drop menu. It has options for viewing only finished games, games for a certain level, or games with a 3BV/finished ratio/etc... When you view the file, select 'save'.

Best of luck!

   
Oct 4th 2006 at 02:26:41 PM
Name:  

Herman Grue

Best expert:  

78

Best intermediate:  

31

Best beginner:  

1

Comments:  

Hello...How do I get to record my games? I don't get the recorder to record...pleas help me...

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Oct 4th 2006 at 01:30:51 PM
Name:  

Curtis

Comments:  

@Christoph: I'm very sorry if I misinterpreted you, but I was referring to your following post:

"@Elmar/Curtis: of course this formula cannot work. One would need to divide by something like a common divisor (which doesn't exist in this case). You need to ask after how many boards you hit the starting point again. That will depend on the number of mines and it's prime factors."

I don't follow that, it seems like you were overlooking the convergence effect.

BTW, the formula is not a polynomial.

So is anyone here against me posting everything? One problem is that it makes Rodrigo's "Ethics" section obsolete, as databases could easily be created using the PRNG formula. Again I say I don't see this as a problem, as it could still be done easily today. It has been known for a long time (I believe I posted it here 2 years ago) that the PRNG uses the rand function from the C runtime dll. The code for this is not a secret if you know where to look.

@Schu: I believe that's the Microsoft Video 1 codec, which comes with Win95 or better, so you're right, practically any computer can play it. When you said it compressed really well, I thought you meant better than all other codecs.

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Oct 4th 2006 at 12:10:28 PM
Name:  

schu

Comments:  

just noticed I can customise my channels URL. Minesweeper and minesweepers were taken, so it's gotta be:

http://www.youtube.com/sweepingmines

nothing special so far, I'll try to jazz up the look

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Oct 4th 2006 at 12:01:07 PM
Name:  

Schu

Comments:  

Thanks Damien! I think at least your 40 should be on anyway. I've been crediting everyone satisfactorally I think, and I haven't done anything I haven't gotten permission for, so I think that aspect is safe.

New vids have been added, just look at my channel linked below.

Thanks for pointing that out Thomas!

Leventes and Olis 39s have gotten over 250 views each btw. Dions 38 has somehow only gotten 150.

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Oct 4th 2006 at 11:56:16 AM
Name:  

Thomas

Comments:  

@Damien:
watch the vid at youtube.com, and youll find two entry fields somewhere on the right. One contains the html needed to embed, and the other the url.
Just copy and paste

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Oct 4th 2006 at 11:37:14 AM
Name:  

damien

Comments:  

@Schu: I don't mind if you post the 40....not sure if uploading too many vids is the best method because their format is not very condensed. Youtube is excellent for showcasing the best vids, to direct people elsewhere. I noticed someone flogging Lasse's expert vid without giving him recognition, but I'm sure you're adding that stuff somewhere. I like the idea of listing mine and greg's sites, obviously! I'd also like to know the code for embedding...it may be very useful, but will take some experimenting. I was going to suggest you start a minesweeper channel, but looks liked you've nailed it. Nice job.

   
Oct 4th 2006 at 11:18:30 AM
Name:  

Christoph

Comments:  

@Curtis: You can be very sure that I'm not missunderstanding the convergence effect. What I do not know is the polynomial and the exact cycle length of rand() - the rest is strait forward.
On the ethics: Who is intelligent enough to use the algorithm for cheating and really wants to cheat, will do it no matter if you publish it or not. However, there's almost noone seriously playing on the MS version, so it doesn't really matter - if you like publishing, what you have, why not.

@Thomas: nice. Yes, a local meeting would be nice, but I'm extremly busy at the moment. I'll write as soon as know when I'm gonna have my next free hour.

   
Oct 4th 2006 at 09:24:26 AM
Name:  

Schu (Andrew McCauley)

Comments:  

Or you can link to my channel: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=SchuBomb

Or directly to all my videos: http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=SchuBomb

also, I've got the codes that can be used to embed my videos in other sites if you guys are interested.

Good idea Thomas, and no problem!

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Oct 4th 2006 at 08:45:16 AM
Name:  

Thomas

Comments:  

Thanks Tam!
Schu, you rock!
An internet site with links to the vids would be extremely cool.
This site and Detrusors site should get their own youtube vid link sections!

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Oct 4th 2006 at 08:15:09 AM
Name:  

Schu

Comments:  

DAMIEN CAN I POST YOU VIDEO YES OR NO!!!

OK here are some more videos:

Jakes 9

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5d5_1p8jYU

Jakes 39

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U35PUg6Ay0w

One of my 15s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgI0hRYuRr8

Elmars 12

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D01NLYQuaQk

Thomas' 15

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnYETkLWCWE

Jesusroblovetts cheating 35 from a while ago

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afIzIAwuAmk

Enjoy!

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Oct 4th 2006 at 07:35:24 AM
Name:  

damien

Comments:  

ah! i didn't realise that curtis was CDN. now i like him

camtasia crack? er...i probably don't have it if i was emailed for it...

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Oct 4th 2006 at 06:03:06 AM
Name:  

Schu

Comments:  

@ Curtis: Thanks, but I'd already figured that out, I was mainly trying to fiddle around with it and see if I could get it to resize horizontally a bit easier without having to drag the box.

I'm using snagit, another techsmith product, and it uses MS-CRAM codec (16 bit) which seems to work on any computer without requiring an installation of any kind, no option for any other codecs since it's mainly a screenshot utility. It's only problem is that the files are big and take annoyingly long to upload, though when zipped the files are 50% smaller than comparable TSCC files (zipped or not).

I don't have the camtasia crack.

   
Oct 4th 2006 at 05:40:59 AM
Name:  

Curtis

Comments:  

"According to your formula beg cycle would be roughly 4 times longer than int cycles while we know it's rather the opposite."

Actually the cycle length of beginner is roughly twice that of the intermediate cycle, and the formula predicts this. (The PRNG 'quirk' I mentioned comes into play.) I will post the formula if I get the "green light" from the community. Let me know how much I can reveal...

@Christoph: You seem to misunderstand what Rodrigo called the "convergence effect". It is a consequence of the board generation algorithm that minesweeper uses. True, the formula assumes this effect is present (and would fail if it wasn't present). However, those cases are extremely unlikely for the board sizes and PRNG periods we are dealing with. Also note that the PRNG period is even (which is why there are 2 board cycles for each level).

What the formula determines is the average board cycle length, if you ran the minesweeper board generation algorithm on an arbitrarily large number of independent random number sets the size of the original's period (all of which have the convergence effect).

As an example, the average cycle length of a 16x16 board with 160 mines is 2094.96532. In Rodrigo's article he gives the "real" cycle length as 2088. He doesn't give the length for the second "real" cycle, but I checked it using the random number generator formula and it's 2112.

@Daniel: I did a search through the entire set of random numbers used by minesweeper, and the board you posted earlier could not have been generated on the original. There were 2 sequences that had 10 consecutive matching coordinates, but in both cases not all 10 mines were included (some coordinates were duplicated).

@Dennis: Thanks! Send me your videos and I'll add you into the lists. You can watch them with no numbers, of course, but currently there's no way to determine what skin they were played on, since I didn't think that would matter. Is no-numbers really so much of a handicap that it deserves its own ranking?

@Schu: Yeah, I was going to say, after you have the video recorded, add borders on the sides (and subtitles if you want) so that YouTube will display the aspect ratio properly. Which codec are you using? (BTW you can set Camtasia to use different codecs.) The TechSmith one seems pretty good.

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Oct 4th 2006 at 03:05:58 AM
Name:  

Schu

Comments:  

http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/6015/53/

Why does this remind me of someone in the minesweeper community? Pretending to hack and then calling it all a joke .

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Oct 4th 2006 at 02:37:01 AM
Name:  

Schu

Comments:  

OK guys, the youtube videos I've put up have gotten heaps of views, with about an average of 40 each, but only DBs 14 NF has gotten any ratings (one rating, 5 star) and only my 72 NF NN has gotten a comment (which was simply O_O and a reply from me). So guys, register, sign up, and make comments, rate the videos, whatever.

For my part I'm going to put up Damiens and Gregoires URLs with each video description so they can easily find the community, and maybe later, put it into the video if I find a nice free program to do it with. So now it's your turn, rate the vids, comment etc. so the videos profile is raised a bit and people can get interested in minesweeper.

BTW Damien, a Canadian just subscribed to my videos, so I'm sure he'd be thrilled to see your 40, so can I put it up??!? Just tell me if you don't want to have it put up though.

Any more requests?

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Oct 3rd 2006 at 08:15:24 PM
Name:  

Tam Minh Bui

Comments:  

@Thomas: Incredible!! I have some real catching up to do now, you are improving on expert quickly. The video is very nice and has some nice pattern analyzation :)

@Damien: Grats! Were any of the two games you played nonflag?

   
Oct 3rd 2006 at 07:22:33 PM
Name:  

Schu

Comments:  

@ Thomas: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2UQFv6Y4Bg

@ jake: will do!

   
Oct 3rd 2006 at 05:15:51 PM
Name:  

Jason K.

Best expert:  

66

Best intermediate:  

20

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

67.01-->66.82 on 146 @ 2.21 3BV/s, vid attached.
Haha only .19 off my record, but it was during a really slow session, out of nowhere. Oddly, my best times are now on 3 different versions. Beg on Winmine, Int on Clone, and now Exp on Arbiter.

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Oct 3rd 2006 at 05:15:31 PM
Name:  

Jason K.

Best expert:  

66

Best intermediate:  

20

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

67.01-->66.82 on 146 @ 2.21 3BV/s
Haha only .19 off my record, but it was during a really slow session, out of nowhere. Oddly, my best times are now on 3 different versions. Beg on Winmine, Int on Clone, and now Exp on Arbiter.

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Oct 3rd 2006 at 03:05:39 PM
Name:  

damien

Comments:  

after trying a month to reach Tam's record of a 10 click 2 sec game, i achieved it twice tonight. (2.779s, 2.712s, both on 10 3bv boards). Now I can give that 'exciting' endeavor a rest!

   
Oct 3rd 2006 at 02:39:54 PM
Name:  

Jake

Best expert:  

39

Best intermediate:  

9

Comments:  

schu, put up my time record vids on The Tube!

   
Oct 3rd 2006 at 02:39:25 PM
Name:  

joni

Comments:  

what do you think about this one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDG6ZTYartI&NR

   
Oct 3rd 2006 at 10:31:46 AM
Name:  

Apostrophe Police

Comments:  

Schu! "DAN'S", you mean!!!

Thou shalt respect apostrophes and not forget them!

   
Oct 3rd 2006 at 09:49:41 AM
Name:  

Schu

Comments:  

BTW for all the oldies, files done by camtasia work on youtube (dans 44 as an example), so if you have access to camtasia you might as well do it yourself.

   
Oct 3rd 2006 at 09:20:47 AM
Name:  

Schu

Comments:  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7FNdrM7LsE0 <= Dans 44

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w4YrfcNQzg <= dans 48 NF

How Dans 44 has gotten over 100 views already I have no idea. He must have contacted every single person he knows and several he didn't or everyone just loves dan...

   
Oct 3rd 2006 at 09:12:10 AM
Name:  

Schu

Comments:  

@ Thomas: gratz!! You gotta warn me if you're about to break a record I upload!

Funny way to start the game! I'll upload it tomorrow.

   
Oct 3rd 2006 at 08:44:11 AM
Name:  

Thomas

Best expert:  

55,65-->54,50

Comments:  

YESSS!!!!!!
I guess you can upload this vid instead schu ;)
For a moment I thought the vid was lost because I had exceeded my quota, but I deleted a couple of files and was able to save the vid.

Link should work in a couple of secs.

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Oct 3rd 2006 at 08:29:10 AM
Name:  

Schu

Comments:  

@ thomas: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GG9dyRR5OlU

you are now famous!

   
Oct 3rd 2006 at 07:54:34 AM
Name:  

Thomas

Comments:  

Oops, sorry!
Here it is (in case someone else is interested).UC5T

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Oct 3rd 2006 at 07:44:02 AM
Name:  

Schu

Comments:  

@ Thomas: I'm getting a 404 error. E-mail it to me if you like.

2 new vids:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOCfxgtCueY - Elmars 46

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxrZY6UfdPY - Dennis' 67 NF NN

I'm going to do the non-expert games later so their perspective will be right.

BTW I tried a 100 fps expert game and when I rar-ed it it went to 300 kb! 15 fps still gets 100 kb. and these files need no codec like the camtasia games, which are about 250 kb for 15 fps.

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Oct 3rd 2006 at 07:33:03 AM
Name:  

Benny Benjamin

Best expert:  

64

Best intermediate:  

18

Best beginner:  

2

Comments:  

Yeah.......... just gotten a 2 on beginner....

But I'm owning up to my 14s intermediate being on a dreamboard... So the best I have on my current HD now that's not on a dreamboard variant is the 18s I submitted August.
Untill I can grab some better screeshots from my old HD which is with another friend at the moment, I suppose I'll just have to report 18 for now.

So instead of going up in ranking I'm going down....

But well.... Happy sweeping....

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Oct 3rd 2006 at 07:30:25 AM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

link funzt net

   
Oct 3rd 2006 at 07:27:58 AM
Name:  

Thomas

Comments:  

here it is :D
Thanks schu!

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Oct 3rd 2006 at 06:01:11 AM
Name:  

Me

Comments:  

Hi. Nice one.
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Oct 3rd 2006 at 05:23:15 AM
Name:  

Schu

Comments:  

dion wanted to be famous, here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dxv4vcp00w - 10 int

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQ9iEDMLZpw - 38 exp

Will do Elmar! Just make sure to pay the comission I get

BTW guys, the files I've been making compress REALLY nicely, 8 mb -> 100 mb for expert vids, as compared to camtasia with 250 mb for an expert vid and it doesn't compress at all. Maybe this could be used for an alternate download or something for records... the quality is perfect as far as I know.

   
Oct 3rd 2006 at 04:11:40 AM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

@schu: I wanna be famous too!

   
Oct 3rd 2006 at 02:27:14 AM
Name:  

Schu

Comments:  

@ Thomas: Sure. Can't find your exp record though....

   


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