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# Reader's guide
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## Boring
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## Something missing?
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## Grammar
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1) "this tetx has a mistake" > "this text has a mistake"
===================== Original post (2017-09-27) =============================
I've been promising to write an Elma article for some years and finally I got something to publish. After 29 hours of work the "The Across Days" chapter got published in 2017-09-26. A whopping 109 hours more was needed to get "The Prelude of Elasto Mania" public. That happened in 2017-11-11. After 165 hours more, Golden Era chapter is finished in 2018-02-21.
I need help. If you have information or can help in any of the requests below, please.
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REQUESTS
(RESOLVED)1. I want to show replays directly in the article. How to do this? Skint wasn't aware of any plug'n'play solution. Recsource + iframe isn't a good solution. Converting to webm format could be good but how to do it? An independent JS replay player would be neat but is it easy to add? All the time I need to use here is off from the writing.
(RESOLVED)2. Has someone a screenshot of Across level editor? I can't run my Across

(RESOLVED)3. Is someone able to record a video of mod.com replays in Across and put it to Youtube? I have the replays.
(RESOLVED)4. Can someone download the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-UkhapGw44 video and send it to me? My video downloader scripts never work... I would like to add the video to the next Elma Ultimate DVD.
(RESOLVED)5. Name the players in the Piteå group picture.
(MOVED)6. Any important fact or event missing?
(MOVED)7. Grammar fixes and text improvements are welcome too.
(RESOLVED)8. Screenshots of the two first Mopolautas? This current one is third. Urls were http://www.saunalahti.fi/~ptahk007/cgi- ... tion=intro and http://pub65.ezboard.com/bmopolauta? (Great find by bhz)
(RESOLVED)9. Any exact numbers how much more powerful is supervolt compared to normal volt? I think I have seen some calculations... (it was "three times stronger" viewtopic.php?p=22236#p22236)
(RESOLVED)10. Would be mega awesome if someone calculated nopoints.txt for WCup 3, 4 and 5. That would tell how many participated. In 1 and 2k we have those files.
(RESOLVED)11. I don't remember how did we catch mrDJ and Weird-AAL in the first place? Some of their cheated replays are obvious, yes, but were they public?
12. Would be cool to have statistics of Across WRs They would be incompleted but better than nothing.
(RESOLVED)13. The first evidence of battles I found is mrDJ's KOM interview in 2001-05-01 but I'm pretty sure the battles started already in 2000. If you IRC logs in 2000, please find by "battle" term.
(RESOLVED)14. An example replay of bounces is needed. I think Moposchool bounces combined would be neat but I don't know how to combine several levels to one replay. I guess I can use Jaws WR replay too if the combining isn't possible.
(ANSWERED)15. Multi WRs or TTs not public at the moment?
(RESOLVED)16. What are the official names of Elma Online 2006 and 2010 versions? I call the first version "ELMA ONLINE (2006 version)" now but it's confusing. Maybe I'll understand when I read about the 2010 version.
17. Sweden might have been the number one nationality in WCup 2000 but the points were never calculated. Also WCup4 team points are incomplete. And WCup 1 missing too.
(RESOLVED)18. Monthly results are missing in http://zebra.mbnet.fi/battles_battle.html
19. Barbapappa: can I change your nick name to old one? It's so confusing now. Your legacy is admirable.
(MOVED)20. The slesk replays end at 2003-06-01 so I'm missing all funny replays driven after that and before March 2006. I got Markku's no-volt Tricks Abound and dz's pipe replay in King Cup but if you have more sick ones from that period, please share.
(RESOLVED)21. Oldschool routes (aka no-shortcut) itnernals were created in 2002-05-31 but who was the designer?
22. Cup data missing:
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Start Name Winner Organizer(s)
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2001-08-25 Elmaduel ? Team Landlord
2001-08-? GET Kupa MGen GET
2002-02-03 Höylä Cup ? ?
(RESOLVED)24. Who won Talvi Cup 2010?
25. Some #battle stats missing:
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Annual statistics of battles in #battle:
Year GAA Battler Most points Avg. pts Won-%
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2003 - Markku Zweq (10.62) Markku (59 %)
2004 Markku veezay ? ?
2005 Markku jaytea ? ?
2006 jaytea jaytea ? ?
2007 Zweq jaytea ? ?
*) must be in top-100 in total points to keep it somewhat comparable
(RESOLVED)27. Picture of Skype conference call?
(RESOLVED)28. Was there other Finnish meetings between 2011 Lousku and FEM13? I think I saw somewhere that there was MiE meeting in 2012 but what are the details?
29. Answer sheets of FEM Quiz 2014 and 2016? Question sheets of FEM Quiz 2015 and 2017?
30. EOL battle data incomplete.
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Annual meta statistics of EOL battles:
Year Battles Running Players Length Designer
Avg. Tot.(*) avg.
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2010 5811 38 % ? 284 14.78 ?
2011 19843 56 % 563 15.54
2012 18937 54 % 699 15.07
2013 19150 56 % 654 15.28
2014 17872 49 % 526 14.55
2015 17828 49 % 501 14.47
2016 13648 41 % 414 15.98
2017 11975 42 % 416 18.36
*) Total number of players who finished at least one battle
32. Final results in countries section is missing data from EOL.
33. What's the idea of the Elma Forever CD files: battles.gif, battlesk.gif, battlesp.gif?
34. Anyone having an Elma related ICQ screenshot? The older the better. Looks like ICQ might have been used before IRC (https://media.pulu.org/palsta/files/60/ ... -07-31.txt).
35. Get px's old hard drive to a professional recovery company to find new old material (such as the ICQ screenshot [34] and original DaPipe.lev [37]).
(RESOLVED)36. Start day of: 2001-01-? Hungarian Cup Tibity PC Guru Magazine
37. Creation date of the first pipe level dapipe.zip (or dapipe.lev or DaPipe.lev)? (MOPCU016.lev)
ARTICLE
https://lev7.org/en/60-the-history-of-e ... -1995-2018