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Apr 3rd 2008 at 09:13:53 AM
Name:  

AreOut

Comments:  

"I think u should make sure about Stevan Gvozdenovic's 41, it looks too obviously for me"

Are you ready to accept a bet if that looks obvious to you?


VC:MNAF - Montenegro AirForce?

   
Apr 3rd 2008 at 08:55:19 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Comments:  

I have 2 ideas of great rules for minesweeper rankings:
1. only sub40 3bv boards for int and sub150 for exp. It wont make minesweeper unfair (because better play always will solve the board faster), just people will waste less time to play stupid high 3bv boards. Im sure, that this way more people will start playing MS
2. Records blasted on the last click accepted for rankings: somebody told that MS is a sport - we can't call it a sport until it start be fair. Lasse Nyholm solved exp board in 39, but blasted it on a guess - so why in ranking his record is 41?
OR: only non-guessing boards (like on minesweeperlive.com)
Of course some people will say that it won't be original minesweeper - but everybody has to agree, that worse thing should be improved to better thing

   
Apr 3rd 2008 at 07:01:00 AM
Name:  

Gergő

Comments:  

@Damien: I think, tournaments are not necessary to be organised by the community, maybe a single person who has several connections can be enough. Of course if this competition needs supporters, than IMC can help.
World ranking is very important, but might be expanded to 3BV/s ranking as well... The development of the perfect clone is not the task of the community, this can be a private action, where players help with their suggestions for improvement. Maybe, connections for getting financial supports for competitions can be a task in which the IMC itself can help (but personal connections are unaviodable, of course). The most important is as I see, the official WR. Problems. It can be that it's only due to my personal failure or lazyness, but I hardly get any information about the IMC's work. If this works, players can give arguments to improve its effetiveness.

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Apr 3rd 2008 at 03:55:06 AM
Name:  

manuel h

Comments:  

the java version on this japanese site seems to produce easy games, i played ~ 1 hour on it yesterday and it felt f****** fast! the openings display immediatly, that allows u to play smooth => i like that java thing ^^ i would like to know the 3bv avrg of this boards

btw
im getting honored by my hometown tomorrow for beeing minesweeper worldchampion
mfg

   
Apr 3rd 2008 at 03:24:57 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Comments:  

@Japanese ranking: 1st guy's int record is on a 24 3bv board, I made it in Cheat mode and solved in 8,663 NF 1st try

   
Apr 3rd 2008 at 03:14:00 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Comments:  

I agree with all the about IMC, but I think u should make 1 more thing: make minesweeper more famous game, for example more local tournaments. Btw if we talk about finding cheaters, I think u should make sure about Stevan Gvozdenovic's 41, it looks too obviously for me

   
Apr 3rd 2008 at 12:48:31 AM
Name:  

Leo (Ryo Nishihara)

Comments:  

I forgot the link...
The current rankings are since late 2006.
Click the names,then times and you can see the boards with pop-ups

Btw,that seems to be kyle's question,not damien's

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Apr 2nd 2008 at 10:56:26 PM
Name:  

Gergő

Comments:  

As I have only few minutes, the IMC part will be discussed later. Until then an important date was yesterdy for me. I made my third exp sub 80, second NF (with that 67), a 78,246 on a 130 board after several blasted est sub 80s and sup 2s... Video in my folder together with my yesterday's IOS rec NF exp 87,508 on a 179 board.

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Apr 2nd 2008 at 07:03:36 PM
Name:  

Michael

Comments:  

Hi there...I haven't posted in a long time. Haven't played in nearly 8 weeks, to give my wrist a rest. It's funny, after a couple of weeks you don't miss it at all.

To answer damien's question, I would say that I think almost everything listed is part of the IMC's role. It's never really had a definitive brief, as far as I know, so its role was always going to be vague and uncertain. Perhaps that's a good thing. I've always thought that the IMC is there to provide answers to the sweeping community's questions. Whether a certain method is allowable, whether a clone is an accurate representation of the original, etc.

Joni mentioned his idea of the IMC's purpose of bringing people together. I think I agree, but it's hard to put that into a succinct mission statement. What I would say is that I think the IMC should be 'of the people'. I don't think we should treat it like an outside governing body that is there solely to lay down laws and decisions. It's something that should be interacted with by every part of the community. So I suppose my idea of what the IMC should do is to allow us to have the best community possible - by preventing cheating, giving us a ranking, overseeing meet-ups, etc.

   
Apr 2nd 2008 at 01:57:41 PM
Name:  

Ronny

Best expert:  

NF RQP=47,xxx -> NF 44,361 (3BV=160 in 84,75)

Comments:  

Only played 20min today, finally solved an expert board again and even improved my RQP by it.

@Joni: Nice post.

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Apr 2nd 2008 at 12:52:42 PM
Name:  

joni

Comments:  

In my opinion the IMC has tried to take upon it way too much responsibility... and has kept collapsing under that load year in and year out. Furthermore, I've never liked this "policeman" role which they have put always in first place... What I think is that the IMC should be about: bringing people together

There's been a very nice trend of communities trying to get together during these years. The players at metanoodle merged with the French and then the Russians and now the Chinese (even though the last only in the rankings level as yet). Now we discovered this Japanese community (or more correctly they discovered us)... and I think it's great.

So that's what I think the IMC should do, try to get people closer... increase awareness of what is going in each community, in a way that it can provide inspiration for the others. It's nice to see that there were tournaments in Moscow+Novosibirsk and Shanghai "inspired" (i guess) by the ones we've had in central Europe. It would have been even nicer to have had some kind of articles/reports on these events in English (regarding the competition, atmosphere, leisure activities, getting there, personal experiences etc.)

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Apr 2nd 2008 at 12:17:21 PM
Name:  

fritz

Best intermediate:  

15,88 (15,64 on vienna sweeper)

Comments:  

just got my first NFsub20 on int
19,95sec on 3BV44 @2,32 3BV/s.
it was the first NF game i played in days. it wasn't even my intention to play the board NF but after the first 5 seconds without flagging i thought "why shouldn#t i try to play it NF?". and then it turned out to become a NF highscore

   
Apr 2nd 2008 at 07:59:53 AM
Name:  

fritz

Comments:  

@damien:
1) a. to run world championship (to make a guideline on how minesweeper tournaments should be organized in general)
b. to run !! a !! world ranking (not the only wr) based on verified scores and on equal minesweeper rules.
c. absolutely not !! - it's important to have a diversity of rankings.
d. this is in my opinion the aspect that should be worked on the most. i think there need to be clear rules on the acceptance of highscores, cheat detection, why and which versions are accepted for highscores and of courese how the imc itself is organized (e.g. how decisions are made or the outcome of imc meetings).
e. would it be a solution to update the wikipedia article?
f. i think there can#t be a perfect clone. since not all clones run on all computers every sweeper has his/her favourite clone. as long as none of the clones provides an unfair advantage there could be 10 or even more accepted clones.
but it would make it very easy if there was a programm that could play all minesweeper videos (like clone can replay both clone and arbiter videos).
g. to me this is the most difficult point. i'd say: only to a certain point and only in certain cases. aspects like this should be discussed by the whole sweeping community.
h. imc-members are(shold be) the representatives of the minesweeper communuty, so definetely yes.
i. not everything but sometimes i miss a little bit of the imc's presence.
j. later, within the next post.


2. rules, score acceptance and decisions. well that's not only 1 thing but the least i think the imc should do.


3. few activity on minesweeper.cc exept for ar and score validation, though there could be even more there too.

   
Apr 2nd 2008 at 07:35:52 AM
Name:  

Leo (Ryo Nishihara)

Best expert:  

58

Comments:  

Long time no see! I had been moving houses and had no internet nor a proper desk for sweeping

@Damien: you can search for sites about minesweeper by マインスイーパ in japanese.
There's a site named "マインスイーパ ランキング (Minesweeper Rankings)" with lots of 40s players. It rans a unique clone but I'm not sure if that could be legitimate.I can help you if you have a trouble to try it.

   
Apr 2nd 2008 at 07:31:16 AM
Name:  

Traian

Comments:  

@Damien:
1. ALL
2. score validation
3. - (no opinion here, i've been out of the circuit for a long time)

   
Apr 2nd 2008 at 06:23:34 AM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

@Damien:

1) A, B, D, E, G mostly
2) Keep the world ranking up-to-date
3) www.minesweeper.cc doesn't show much activity (not that I visit it a lot though)

   
Apr 2nd 2008 at 05:40:42 AM
Name:  

damien

Best expert:  

What is your opinion about IMC?

Comments:  

The IMC is having problems (Two members want to quit, and two more are fighting about why we exist). Can you please help by answering these questions? Thankyou!

1) Why does IMC exist:
a) To run tournaments
b) To run the world ranking only
c) To run all rankings
d) To make rules
e) To write a history of the game
f) To make a perfect clone
g) To investigate people we think are cheating
h) To talk to Microsoft
i) To be in charge about everything minesweeper
j) Other reasons ?

2) If the IMC only does one thing, what should it be?

3) What makes you the most angry about the IMC?

Thanks! (This post is not official, I want to know your opinions)

   
Apr 2nd 2008 at 04:54:40 AM
Name:  

Ronny

Best beginner:  

NF 3,694 -> 3,844 3BVs (

Comments:  

@Gergo: That sure beats my best IOS (off course still nothing compared to my new beginner 3BVs )

NF sum 3,844 + 2,870 + 2,021 = 8,735 (I haven't solved an expert board in days and blasted all sub25s on intermediate last 2 days, so out of frustration I played some beginner. My hands feel a little rusty, so I think it easy till the weekend. ).

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Apr 2nd 2008 at 04:54:36 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Best expert:  

NF 47

Comments:  

Yesterday I blasted (on a 50-50 of course) 116/118 est 44NF Because expert sucks

   
Apr 2nd 2008 at 02:17:46 AM
Name:  

Gergő

Comments:  

New NF exp IOS record! 1,16303 (previous: 1,15892) on a 179 board in 87,508. It was my second best RQP and the third best IOE and 3BV/s. Besides, I blasted an est 77 at 4 3BVs before the end...

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Apr 2nd 2008 at 01:29:46 AM
Name:  

damien

Comments:  

I haven't found a Japanese ranking site yet....the Chinese site is run by Zhang Shen Jia and has over 800 registered players (www.saolei.net ... no english translation).

   
Apr 1st 2008 at 05:55:28 PM
Name:  

kyle

Comments:  

random thought...does anyone know if there is a separate Japanese ranking site b/c i would think they would have more ranked players than are on this site

   
Apr 1st 2008 at 11:01:10 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Comments:  

Like yesterday, I made 12 NF on 56 again, but a bit slower this time (4,754 3BV/s)

   
Apr 1st 2008 at 09:19:12 AM
Name:  

Aris

Best expert:  

65(141-3bv)

Comments:  

yesterday i made my second 65(158-3bv)solved in 63s(2s to find the last square ).today i made 3 68s(one in 185-3bv )and now i have 15sub70.i feel its time to break that 65 and the sub60 is close...

   
Apr 1st 2008 at 08:22:42 AM
Name:  

ALLISONNN

Best expert:  

131

Best intermediate:  

43

Best beginner:  

10

Comments:  

does anybody have any good minesweeper stories?
I DO

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Apr 1st 2008 at 07:10:30 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Comments:  

Just blasted on a 50-50 guess 29/32 est 10

   
Apr 1st 2008 at 02:33:22 AM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

@Gergő: I'll ask Damien to create a profile for me.

@Damien: Can I?

   
Apr 1st 2008 at 01:52:53 AM
Name:  

Gergő

Comments:  

@Ronny: But you are faster than me. Your 3BV/s-s are 3,649-2,870-2,021, (sum: 8,54) my ones: 3,646-2,740-2,085 (sum: 8,471) I made on saturday my best exp NF 3BV/s but I didn't report it as there were guesses and hesitations in it, as well... The sum difference is 0,07 That 2,870 is a wonderful one. I don't know when I will do such a good game... But why don't yo create a folder for your videos? You promised that you make a profile and a folder when you get World Ranked. Now your NF videos can't be downloaded at least for me...
@Joni: I plan to go to Vienna. The only possible problem might be the money, as I also want to meet you all.

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Apr 1st 2008 at 12:02:13 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Best beginner:  

NF 1on5 -> 1on6

Comments:  

6 3BV in 1,987s NF, new RQP record

   
Mar 31st 2008 at 04:12:53 PM
Name:  

Ronny

Best intermediate:  

NF 2,870 -> FL 2,975 (3BV=70)

Comments:  

[record spam]
FL 3BVs = 2.809 (3BV=111) -> FL 2.975 (3BV=70)
FL IOS = 1.2948 (3BV=58) -> FL 1.34514 (3BV=70)
FL RQP = 8.923 (3BV=51) -> FL 8.248 (3BV=70)
[/record]

3 down, 1 more ancient 2007 int/expert record to go.

Vids linked

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Mar 31st 2008 at 01:47:14 PM
Name:  

Ronny

Best intermediate:  

NF 3,641 -> 3,694 3BVs (i was bored lol)

Comments:  

@Kamil: Wow, did you know you cleared all 3 openings in just 0,22s? If you had continued on that speed you would have solved it in 5,1s

   
Mar 31st 2008 at 01:13:28 PM
Name:  

KAmil

Best intermediate:  

wow

Comments:  

56 3BV in 12,388s NF @ 4,917 3BV/s
2nd best NF 3BV/s
NF RQP 2,8xx -> 2,519
NF IOS 1,61 -> 1,65478
NF IOE 0,947 -> 0,982
vid in my folder

   
Mar 31st 2008 at 12:35:45 PM
Name:  

joni

Comments:  

Ronny, it's actually YOU that make it all worth it
i wish i get to meet you some day... with Gergö, Tibor, Banzhaf and the others...

VC:KNV8 can't simply be a coincidence Go oranje!

   
Mar 31st 2008 at 07:59:24 AM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

@Gergo: Besides that 67, it's funny to see how close our scores are.

Your NF sum: 2,31 + 16,57 + 80,248 = 99,10
My NF sum: 2,377 + 16,467 + 79,766 = 98,61
------
0,49 difference.....which in minesweeper terms = 0

Let's call it a tie at the moment

   
Mar 31st 2008 at 06:30:44 AM
Name:  

Gergő

Comments:  

@Ronny: It got clear that you are better than me... So, please, give a place on your locomotive for me, just to learn . After these results you mustn't finish your Minesweeper career, and you should drink some bottles of beer in Vienna with me
@Kamil: No comment...
@Fritz: Thank you for your support. I can not imagine how I solved it so fast. On saturday I blasted a 3BV 108 exp board... The lowest I've ever seen...

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Mar 30th 2008 at 01:53:42 PM
Name:  

fritz

Best expert:  

51

Comments:  

just got a 56 on viennasweeper
3BV was 105 !!!!! and only one 50/50 guess.
my right arm hurts a little bit atm but that's not related to minesweeper (i played some golf today for the 1st time in months).

i got 49 in cheatmode on clone on this board
i don't want to think about what i would have been able to get in good shape on this board .
i also blasted 47/81 @4.4 3BV/s est.19

@christoph: i e-mailed you the info about the bug

   
Mar 30th 2008 at 08:42:07 AM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

#639 Ronny de Winter

That makes it all worth it.

Thanks for the huge update Damien.

   
Mar 30th 2008 at 07:54:08 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Comments:  

@Damien: u forgot about my 2 world recods: Beg NF 6,711 and today's Beg FL 7,637 , and u wrote my name bad in newest News and - instead of = in 4,974

   
Mar 30th 2008 at 07:46:42 AM
Name:  

Damien

Best expert:  

WEBSITE UPDATED

Comments:  

Hi guys...I got back from holiday yesterday. A lot of new records! Congrats to Aryeh (51), Manu (10 again), Kamil (new WR 10, another 10, new 47) and others!

Li Feng (China) didn't post here, but he got a 43 last week and is now #11 in the world.

   
Mar 30th 2008 at 06:15:33 AM
Name:  

Christoph

Comments:  

@Fritz: That's a really interesting bug. It did work for me with 324 vids... I need some extra information to deal with it.
Were this vids in an archive before or did you play them without MBH running?
Did you add the vids to an existing history or did you create a new one?
Does the same error occure when you finish a game with 324 vids in the vid folder?
Does the same error occure when you just finish a single game? (it should, if not the problem might apprear while reading one of the vids - could you send me the first of the videos you tried to add?)

thx a lot
Christoph

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Mar 30th 2008 at 05:30:34 AM
Name:  

fritz

Comments:  

@christoph: it doesn't work. i put all 324 files in vids-folder and pressed import vids and then it says -debug assertion failed- .

one more thing: when clicking the replay button before having finished a board (blasted or solved) or before a replay was selected viennasweeper automatically closes itself

   
Mar 30th 2008 at 05:01:28 AM
Name:  

Christoph

Comments:  

@all recent record breakers: 1st: congratulations (especially to the new world ranked - that's a big step forward)! 2nd: It would be great if you could help keeping the world ranking on minesweeper.cc up to date by uploading your scores there.

@Fritz: All the videos in the folder \vids\ are added to the history when you finish a game (or on the latest version when you press the 'Import Vids' button) - so just place the videos there.

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Mar 30th 2008 at 04:02:33 AM
Name:  

joni

Comments:  

@KAmil: because i like to keep things simple!
.mwv (MovieWorks File?) is no popular video format (by my reckoning). You can always upload .avi videos... which is a de-facto standard and compatible with most players/video editing software.

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Mar 30th 2008 at 03:36:34 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Comments:  

This time I also have a vid with pop-up window and great music (wmv boxed):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AteeMFvHigA
http://www.box.net/shared/lv0g2e9voc
And finally my 10s on winminexp vid (10,97s):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgRKAmrt2lE
http://www.box.net/shared/a1ty94gg8c
btw, y I cant put mwv file to my folder?

   
Mar 30th 2008 at 03:25:44 AM
Name:  

joni

Comments:  

there certainly are a couple of bugs in that code... which might be related or not. They are not easy to reproduce though (occur once in one or two weeks, while the video page has ~700 hits per day) and my schedule over the coming month is insanely cluttered... so it might take several months till they are fixed

You can help though, by providing some information when these bugs happen, like:

* was there an error message? (if yes please take note, if not please describe the malfunction)

* what were you doing when it happened? (did you just join the video page... or where you browsing/uploading/downloading anything)

* please take note of the time when this happened, (like when you first notice the download counters resetting to 0)

* anything else you might think it'd be helpful to isolate the bug

your help is very much appreciated

   
Mar 30th 2008 at 02:07:51 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Best beginner:  

7,524 -> 7,637 !!!!! 1x13 -> x14 on 3

Comments:  

World record 31 3BV in 5,059s Sorry Tam vid linked

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Mar 30th 2008 at 12:58:11 AM
Name:  

fritz

Comments:  

@kamil: the same has happened to my download counts

   
Mar 30th 2008 at 12:45:25 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Comments:  

My 10,878 on 38 vid linked, I hope to link my 10 on winmine xp later
btw, y 6th time my Downloads counts cleared to 0? It happens only for my vids after uploaded after 2007

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Mar 29th 2008 at 06:09:59 PM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

@Fritz: Txs and about your over a hundred sub80s before getting sub70.....I hope I be more like gergö and need only 1 sub80 to get my 1st sub70

   
Mar 29th 2008 at 05:37:22 PM
Name:  

fritz

Comments:  

@kamil: wow! if you won't get 1st sub10 on int who else can get a 9? (i hope manu will get a 9 too but i keep my thumbs pressed for kamil getting the first sub10)

@tibor: well done! sub70 isn't that far away now. though i needed more than 100 sub80s before i got my 1st sub70 i don't think i will take you much time to get a sub70.

@ronny: 1. congratulations on getting world ranked. now you don't have to count the number of faster non-world-ranked sweepers by going through all the countryranking lists - if you ever did so - as i did before i got world ranked
2. grats on your 16 on int. honestly, i'm very jealous because you got your record on a low 3BV board, which i don't seem to be able to get - i have finished only 28/47 sub40 3BV boards in sub20 out of more than 250 sub20s

@gergö: as well as to ronny: congratulations on getting world ranked and on your insane luck of getting such an easy board (that doesn't mean that such boards solve themselves so faster than one's own old record). when i played your board in upk i blasted it for the first 5 attempts, then the first time i finished it, it was in more than 65s (i wasn't warmed up because i played it more than 10 hours - right after waking up - before i usually play minesweeper). when i was totally warmed up i got a 46 on that board. i think you really deserve that record because you showed some great sweeping skills while solving the board.

@christoph: the mbh works but can you please explain me (in easy steps) how i can add data of previously finished boards to the history - i didn't understand your explanation in your last post

   
Mar 29th 2008 at 05:26:10 PM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

@joni: Vids indeed gave a weird error yesterday. They seem to work fine now though.

   
Mar 29th 2008 at 05:10:36 PM
Name:  

joni

Comments:  

"somebode[sic] repair Vids"? what do you mean by that KAmil?
Last time someone complained about the vids not working was over a week ago, and I fixed it the next day...

   
Mar 29th 2008 at 01:25:24 PM
Name:  

KAmil

Best intermediate:  

NF 10x3 ->x4

Comments:  

10,878 on 38 10x2 in 1 day! Im crazy On clone this time

   
Mar 29th 2008 at 01:09:57 PM
Name:  

KAmil

Best intermediate:  

NF average 16

Comments:  

Now your record is like my average
btw, Ive just got int board with amazing crazy opening, I will put into my folder when somebode repair Vids

   
Mar 29th 2008 at 01:05:13 PM
Name:  

Ronny

Best expert:  

NF 79,766

Best intermediate:  

NF 18,209 (3BV=41, clone) -> NF 16 (16,467s, 3BV=34, XP)

Best beginner:  

NF 2,377

Comments:  

All I wanted was to improve my 22s record on Winmine XP, because I knew that should be easy compared to my 18s on clone.....7 minutes later I got 16s on a 34 3BV board and almost fell of my chair.

My dutch total: 2+16+79 = 97

I broke 6 NF records today.

@Kamil: txs

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Mar 29th 2008 at 12:53:53 PM
Name:  

KAmil

Best intermediate:  

10x3 xD

Comments:  

It wasnt possible to make a vid today, but I hope to make it tomorrow
@Ronny: nice

   
Mar 29th 2008 at 10:55:45 AM
Name:  

Ronny

Best expert:  

NF 1,841 -> 2,021 3BVs (3BV=219)

Comments:  

Finally Sup2!!!

I'd solved 218/219 and was certain I had blasted my NF 3BVs record again when I couldn't find the last square. I could hardly believe it that it was still my first sup2 after I found it after 7 very very long seconds.

Hadn't I forgotten the square it would have been 2,143 3BV/s being 0,3 faster than my old record. That really would have been demotivating, lol.

Since I figured out on March 16 that my mouse path was very inefficient...all my NF records have been improved big time. (See attached link)

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Mar 29th 2008 at 06:44:21 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Best intermediate:  

NF 10x2 ->x3

Comments:  

3BV= 38 !!! I was trying to get Dreamboard (on winminexp), but got another board and solved in 10 I will put here Camtasia vid later

   
Mar 28th 2008 at 08:57:54 PM
Name:  

Ronny

Best intermediate:  

NF 2,658 / FL 2,809 -> NF 2,870 (3BV=74)

Comments:  

Only Int/Expert NF record that I hadn't improved yet in March.

(Also NF IOS 1.31452 -> 1.32724 that board)

Now it's time to beat that NF 1,841 on expert because I blasted a 1,9xx 193/195 again tonight, by hitting the mine between the last 2 squares because of nerves.

BTW, somehow I'm good at breaking records around 4AM lately

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Mar 28th 2008 at 06:12:08 PM
Name:  

Zhang Shen Jia

Comments:  

@Elmar: why your beg score become to 2 from 1(in AR)?

   
Mar 28th 2008 at 05:56:15 PM
Name:  

Christoph

Comments:  

I just uploaded a new release.
The bug was way more nasty than I expected - the simple solution was to use less windows messages
However - the videos are now only written to the archive when you switch archives or close MBH. And there's a new button to extract videos from the archive to a folder vids\extract\.
I hope you'll enjoy.

thx
Christoph

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Mar 28th 2008 at 12:10:22 PM
Name:  

Elmar

Comments:  

Hi, I am Elmar Zimmermann from Germany and I congratulate you!

   
Mar 28th 2008 at 10:52:10 AM
Name:  

Cristian

Best intermediate:  

14.84

Comments:  

hi, I'm Cristian Gallego, from Venezuela. My new record is now 14 on int

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Mar 28th 2008 at 02:54:12 AM
Name:  

Christoph

Comments:  

@Fritz (again): I'm not sure when I'll find time to fix the click counter - probably on sunday latenight. However I'm planing to programm a much better solution for the video replays anyway - but I really don't know when I'll have time for it.

Thx for the bug reports

   
Mar 28th 2008 at 02:50:57 AM
Name:  

Christoph

Comments:  

@Fritz: That's exactly the bug I mentioned below which is caused by windows messages overtaking each other. I'm currently programming around it (I intended to do that yesterday but... well there's not always time for everything).
How to fix it:
1. Extract all the videos from \vids\archive\archive.zip to \vids\
2. Delete all the files in \vids\archive\
3. Delete \vids\.csv
4. Start mbh and vsweep and finish one game - The history will then be reconstructed from the files in \vids\

(actually: if you played any games without mbh running or perhaps on a different computer i.e. at a tournament, you can place this videos in \vids\ and add them to your history in this way.)

The problem is, that the operating system delivers windows messages in wrong order and timenear to mbh. That results in mbh running a zip before the last zip finished (for the same files) - that demages the archive and no more files are added to it. So they stay in \vids\ and everytime you finish a game mbh reconstructs te history from the files in \vids\. Thatwhy the games are in the history again and again.

   
Mar 28th 2008 at 02:09:14 AM
Name:  

Gergő

Comments:  

@Tibor: Nice! Grats Next aim is the sub 70! When will the time come when I have 18 sub 80s... But I have at least 500 sub 80s on intermediate

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Mar 27th 2008 at 02:53:08 PM
Name:  

fritz

Comments:  

@christoph: the clicks/second counters still stay at 0.00 while replaying a video and the mbh copies the info of all previously finished boards after i finished a new board (like 1; 121; 121321; 1213214321; 121321432154321 and so on). it doesn#t really bother the gameplay itself but it makes the history feature almost unusuable.

   
Mar 27th 2008 at 09:31:38 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Comments:  

Just made 49,958 on 165 Flagging is g00d

   
Mar 27th 2008 at 08:01:08 AM
Name:  

Tibor

Best expert:  

75,38---> 73,83

Comments:  

18th sub-80... 141 3bv @ 1,936
vid uploaded

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Mar 27th 2008 at 07:35:10 AM
Name:  

WP

Comments:  

Don't worry, Kat, if you beat Arj's 3bv/s you beat mine as well, and unlike him, I'm not going to try taking any revenge! (I don't even know how much time I'd need to do that :P) And congrats, by the way! ;)

Sorry about not dropping by as often as I used to...I'm not playing as often either! Hopefully I'll be able to stay in the AR this time, though...or else I'll be in really bad shape for Vienna!

   
Mar 26th 2008 at 03:58:09 PM
Name:  

Traian

Comments:  

Sorry for spamming. The time does NOT start from 0. Because the number of finished games from the status bar remained unchanged. So the session of TT continues.
Try to reproduce this error WITHOUT finishing the 2nd expert board.

   
Mar 26th 2008 at 03:56:03 PM
Name:  

Traian

Comments:  

Back.
Still didn't stop. I just got a popup of the highscores. I'm guessing it's a coincidence, a 3bv/s record on int or something (yes yes, I couldn't help playing the last 300 seconds...).
But the main issue remains: the timer keeps going. or starts from 0, depends on the perspective.

   
Mar 26th 2008 at 03:36:44 PM
Name:  

Traian

Comments:  

Oh, it was supposed to stop? i just thought you didn't code this part...
How about a nice scoreboard for each session of TT, independent of the global highscores?
Anyway, now I'll begin a TT. I would not play it though, I'm too tired. But I'll jut let it run to the end and see what happens.
brb

   
Mar 26th 2008 at 03:30:23 PM
Name:  

Christoph

Comments:  

@Traian: thx!
The vids are stored in the vids folder anyway, the MBH moves them from there into the archive.
There seems a litte problem with that when some windowsmessages overtake each other and are delivered to MBH timenear - I'll programm around that tomorrow.
What concerns me more is that the timer didn't stop at the end of the TT - I just tried it and couldn't reproduce this bug.

   
Mar 26th 2008 at 03:04:16 PM
Name:  

Traian

Comments:  

Correction: it does record your games. The MBH seems just to read a certain archive the main application creates and updates. The results were just not shown until both applications are opened.

   
Mar 26th 2008 at 02:33:18 PM
Name:  

KAmil

Comments:  

superzombie@op.pl

   
Mar 26th 2008 at 02:11:29 PM
Name:  

Traian

Comments:  

@Christoph:
I downloaded and played a time trial on vsweeper. One piece of advice for everyone that tests this version: do not close the MBH (history app), your scores will not be recorded.
Anyway, it moves smoothly, but I knew this since our little tournament. Oh, at the end of TT, the timer goes on. I think it would be nice in the future to stop everything and display scores (if this is done by MBH, sorry, I closed it during the trial, because it bugged me ).
I will keep posting new discoveries/bugs. Now I need to rest, my hand hurts. Eh, at least i got through to the expert part in under 700 seconds. But now I will never know my beg/int scores. I feel like I did a 2 and some 3s on beg.
Well, I hope I will get good scores and consistency when the version will be accepted for records.
Keep it up, you've done nice work so far.

   
Mar 26th 2008 at 01:07:52 PM
Name:  

Kat

Comments:  

@Kamil: could i get your email address pls?

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Mar 26th 2008 at 08:51:04 AM
Name:  

Christoph

Comments:  

You can now download Vienna Minesweeper - Home Edition - Release 2.1 beta.

I added a basic history tool which I hope you'll enjoy. There are still a lot of features to be added, but I think there are already enough there to sensefully make use of.

thx for testing

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Mar 26th 2008 at 08:09:24 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Best expert:  

NF 47

Comments:  

Just made my 5th sub50 NF: 49,759s on 154

   
Mar 26th 2008 at 07:02:20 AM
Name:  

Arsen

Comments:  

Serpenter, congratulations!

   
Mar 26th 2008 at 04:32:07 AM
Name:  

Traian

Comments:  

ah, i remember the good old times when I had almost the same times as Dennis Lutken. And now, if you check the world ranking, you will see the outcome of that battle...

cheers y'all!

i've started to play on the arbiter. for some reasons, the clone doesn't play back the video i save. it plays the ones downloaded from this site or old videos, just not the new ones. dunno why. anyway, the arbiter is good too. I almost made a 14 on int yesterday. that would have been a biiiig surprise!

   
Mar 26th 2008 at 03:52:54 AM
Name:  

Gergő

Comments:  

@Ronny: Here is the train, lad! Let us both drive that train. You have a seat near me in the locomotive as you are at least as good as me. Only few hudredths are there between our 3BV/s-s. So, come on! And a bit off topic: today a guy will check our metal band's tracks and may join us as a second guitarist, and if he joins, only a drummer is needed and the band is perfect. Off topic ends .

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Mar 26th 2008 at 03:08:46 AM
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Best expert:  

Serpenter

Comments:  

int 15 -> 14.264
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Mar 26th 2008 at 02:57:03 AM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

@Gergő: So (besides that 67) 2 improvements in 1 day....nice going .

I have a busy week, so it's probably weekend before I seriously play again, so hold that train.....I don't want to stay behind.

   
Mar 25th 2008 at 11:38:28 PM
Name:  

Gergő

Comments:  

Yesterday I had one hour to play, but it was successful for me. I made an NF exp 81,740 (second best NF after that 67) on a 150 board, and I approached the magic 80 barrier (until now one Fl and one NF with sub 80) with an NF 80,278 on a 142 board. Next aim: sub 80 NF. Videos in my NF folder.

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Mar 25th 2008 at 10:15:42 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Best expert:  

NF 3,525

Comments:  

Just made my 2nd best NF 3BV/s: 196 3bv in 57,452s @ 3,472, againg beating Rogen's 3,404 Vid soon in my folder
Also made 51NF on 166

   
Mar 25th 2008 at 05:53:00 AM
Name:  

Ronny

Comments:  

If I ever get 13s, I'll buy you all a beer.

   
Mar 25th 2008 at 02:59:43 AM
Name:  

Gergő

Comments:  

@Ronny: Nice work! If you follow the same evolution as Kamil did and wrote, you will pay me some bottles of beer But let it be so. It would be great!
@Fritz:

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Mar 25th 2008 at 01:52:23 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Comments:  

@Ronny: lol As I remember, history of my int records in 3 moinths playing was 18->17x3->16x3->13, so u should have 13 soon

   
Mar 24th 2008 at 04:40:46 PM
Name:  

Ronny

Best intermediate:  

NF 18,969 (3BV=33) -> NF 18,209 (3BV=41, RQP=7,643)

Comments:  

Almost 0,5 3BV/s faster than my previous 18s board. Also RQP record, so definitely not just a lucky board this time.


@Damien: I'll email my intermediate/expert records around March 30, so you don't have to read through 8 pages of records/spam in the guestbook for me.

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Mar 24th 2008 at 03:24:05 PM
Name:  

Ronny

Best expert:  

NF 3BVs=1,822 -> 1,841 (3BV=167)

Comments:  

@Fritz: nice work.

Finally broke my very ugly (3BV=198 in 109s) NF 3BVs record. Although it wasn't the 1,9xx or 2,0xx I was hoping for (I blasted a couple of those close near the end lately), but at least I broke it on a lower 3BV board (167). Let's just say: the smaller the steps....the more records you can get.

Also my best IOS 1.13211 -> 1,3533

Vids in my 'folder'

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Mar 24th 2008 at 08:56:23 AM
Name:  

fritz

Best expert:  

3,15==>3,19===>3,26

Best intermediate:  

4,01

Best beginner:  

5,35

Comments:  

3BV/s=3,26 on 3BV=228 in 70,90 sec

   
Mar 24th 2008 at 07:57:23 AM
Name:  

fritz

Best expert:  

51

Best intermediate:  

15,88 (15,64 on vienna sweeper)

Best beginner:  

1,79 (1,76 on vienna sweeper)

Comments:  

just got a better 15 on int on vienna sweeper:
15,641 on 3BV=41 .

congratulations to everyone who broke his/her minesweeper highscores in the last days

   
Mar 24th 2008 at 02:50:22 AM
Name:  

Kat

Comments:  

Thanks Arj way to let me have the glory for less than a week!!!!

VC: FACY...what tha??!!

   
Mar 24th 2008 at 02:43:06 AM
Name:  

KAmil

Comments:  

Just made my 4th sub50NF: 48,998 on 146
@joni: I played on ViennaSweeper only 20 mins, got 14 and 15, but of course I would get 11 if I played more

   
Mar 23rd 2008 at 03:22:52 PM
Name:  

joni

Comments:  

there's nothing to understand Kamil ... it's a beta version of a minesweeper program (a "skeleton" if you want). No-one forces you to use it. If you decide to try it out and find any problems you are kindly asked to inform the writer of the program (Christoph) so that it can be improved. As simple as that...

If you haven't gotten any 11s on it yet, it might be a sign that the board generation of the ViennaSweeper differs from the Clone's in some way... or it might mean nothing at all...

Grats to Kat (again ) and everybody else

   
Mar 23rd 2008 at 02:39:09 PM
Name:  

Arjádre

Best beginner:  

5.08------->5.474 3BV/s

Comments:  

Kat beat my beginner 3BV/s score... so of course I had to take revenge.

7.577 on a 36 3BV board.
Vid linked below.

Congrats @ all record breakers, especially Ronny, Gergő, and Jason!

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Mar 23rd 2008 at 02:32:09 PM
Name:  

KAmil

Comments:  

"and because of its speed"? I dont understand?

   
Mar 23rd 2008 at 09:33:33 AM
Name:  

tK

Comments:  

patience KAmil... Viennasweeper was so far used as a tourny clone, and doesn't have a couple of features the normal clones now have (I will be so bold as to say that that is extremely probable to be the case soon though.). I will still use it to play because of the tournament-style game modes, and because of its speed.

Great work christoph! You got me to start a 1 1/2 h minesweeper session this morning at 1 when I'd actually planned to go to sleep XD I love it!

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