The History of Elasto Mania (1995-2018)

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i'm famous, i made it into the history of elma
unfortunately, not famous enough to make it into ribot's games
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ribot wrote: 28 Jun 2020, 14:05 [...] doing things in the wrong ways.. what does that really mean? [...]
In some Level of Month event you sent a level that wasn't designed seriously! Also changing the nick name very often wasn't the conventional way either! Or creating imaginary nation.
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Abula wrote: 1 Feb 2021, 23:27
ribot wrote: 28 Jun 2020, 14:05 [...] doing things in the wrong ways.. what does that really mean? [...]
In some Level of Month event you sent a level that wasn't designed seriously! Also changing the nick name very often wasn't the conventional way either! Or creating imaginary nation.
Well those things I did, no question about it! You could call it hack the system or wrong, but those are good things! Actually the point was to hack myself, my dedication to the system of ideas that were forced upon me since birth. It's a good way to get new perspectives of things, and some of those things also evolve to good things for the community.
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Broken link to my apple battle: http://elmaonline.net/battles/128788
Working link: https://elma.online/battles/128788
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I think I haev just found out, which level it is in this picture:

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Good job. Elma is truly Great and Balazs is The Designer. :gaa: :gaa: :gaa: :gaa: :gaa: :gaa: :gaa: :gaa: :gaa: :gaa:
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Chris wrote: 3 Mar 2021, 22:08 Broken link to my apple battle: http://elmaonline.net/battles/128788
Working link: https://elma.online/battles/128788
Thanks, fixed.

I did some other fixes too to text, grammar and presentation.

Also a few bugs:

- Zweq was for some reason the 5th in ballelma battle total points but not in the source material (http://zebra.mbnet.fi/stats/ballelma_20 ... op_500.txt)
- Two images were broken: my across times on paper (1999) and Amsterdam (2013)
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- Added links to https://archive.moposite.com/guide/elas ... 10-07.html in relevant places
- Added link to Across Done Quick (32:24,94)
- Added LOS Cup winner name (it was one of the requested data listed in the first post of this topic -- GREAT addition)
- Added Labs being the first player under both 34 minutes and 33 minutes in the personal total times list of Across

(EDQ-420 is still missing because it needs more work to make it fit into the article.)
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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
Found them using wayback machine:

https://web.archive.org/web/20001021053 ... tion=intro

https://web.archive.org/web/20040217015 ... bmopolauta
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bhz wrote: 27 Oct 2023, 20:45
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
Found them using wayback machine:

https://web.archive.org/web/20001021053 ... tion=intro

https://web.archive.org/web/20040217015 ... bmopolauta
Great find, thank you! (added)
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Update done.

Majors:

- Rewrite "Across Days" and "Prelude to Elma" chapters.
- Rewrite the origin of battles ("Battle" chapter, old name "Early battles").
- Fulfill the article request #13 [1].
- Fulfill the article request #31 [2]. (The solution is unknown to me.)
- Add Elasto Mania Done Quick (2023) (34:21,73) (by iCS).
- Add Across Done Quick (2023) (32:24,94) (by Labs).
- Add screenshots of the first discussion forums, PexiBBS (2000) and Mopolauta v1 (2001).
- Add videos of World Cup, World Cup 2000 and World Cup 3 (by iCS).
- Add a new the oldest Across WR table screenshot (by px) (before "Near x-mas 1997").
- Add a new website address: https://lev7.org/en/60-the-history-of-e ... -1995-2018

Minors:

- Fix Gasmaker's nation (SWE).
- Fix Freefall being the most improved level by 45 records (instead of 42).
- Add the first existing supervolt (by zeth) (c. 1999-08-08).
- Add the first existing bounce (by Nikke) (c. 1999-01-19).
- Add the first existing WR replay (by Kaje) (1998-02-16).
- Add a link to Across WR Development (by Arzenik).
- Add a link to Across Replay to Elma Replay Converter (by sunl) (2022-03-11).
- Add the first mentioning of The Official Total Times Top-20 list (1998-09-13).
- Add a screenshot of the mod.com WR table #22 (2000-03-03).
- Add the concept of finding secret areas.
- Add Invisibility being finished (by adi) (2024-01-04).
- Add screenshot of 24h tt (2000-09-03).
- Add alias nick (SirEvilX).
- Add author of fu9h (1999-05-20) (MUe).
- Add a link to "A (huge) list of teams" (by SSC) (2001-04-18).
- Add "How to become an elastomania cheater in 21 days" (by SirEvilX) (2002-07-12).
- Add Slowness replays (by Alazorn and Crazy).

[1] "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."
[2] "31. Playing many replays makes browser slow. Freeing memory needed with recplay. (update 2020-05-29: feels better these days? I updated the script so either Maxdamantus fixed it or my browser handles it better now)"

Bonus:

- Add a new article request: 33. What's the idea of the Elma Forever CD files: battles.gif, battlesk.gif, battlesp.gif?
- Add a new article request: 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).
- Add a new article request: 35. Get px's old hard drive to a professional recovery company to find new old material (such as the ICQ screenshot).
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RESOLVED: 36. Start day of: 2001-01-? Hungarian Cup Tibity PC Guru Magazine (2000-12-24)

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37. Creation date of the first pipe level dapipe.zip (or dapipe.lev or DaPipe.lev)?
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