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Re: Japanese board
« Reply #8 on: Jun 20th, 2003, 05:31am » |
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we may expect a very good japanese player to join. I clarified the "real name" probem. you can see his PR's here, with some very 
http://www6.ocn.ne.jp/~fzero115/record.htm
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Re: Japanese board
« Reply #9 on: Jun 20th, 2003, 11:09am » |
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Fantastic! Can you get him to recruit the other top Japanese players from each of the versions, or at least GBA? He is probably able to contact some of them. His voice would be much more powerful than ours in helping make F-Zero Central TRULY a global competition.
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Re: Japanese board
« Reply #10 on: Jun 20th, 2003, 7:14pm » |
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I'll try. btw sugi said I want SOMEONE to make a ranking site for GX. 
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Re: Japanese board
« Reply #11 on: Jun 21st, 2003, 08:57am » |
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Dave you got it, your first top japanese player at fzerocentral!
Another japanese player (NRG-MAN on the board) will join soon, don't know his times however.
And MASAO invited the other players to join fzcentral on his board!
 you're welcome! 
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Re: Japanese board
« Reply #12 on: Jun 21st, 2003, 09:54am » |
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now we're screwed lol
also try getting their FULL name.. not like masao I.. let them know we use our real names.. not some weird abreviation or nickname..
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Re: Japanese board
« Reply #13 on: Jun 21st, 2003, 12:20pm » |
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A few things . . . I know you're just joking about "now we're screwed", but I want to take this opportunity to point out how exciting and POSITIVE it is that we may be receiving more top Japanese players on GBA (and hopefully other versions as well someday soon!). F-Zero Central is meant to be a worldwide competition, and this is our chance for that dream to become a TRUE reality. I'm thrilled about the idea, although personally, Masao's enrollment will push me from King D back to Master A ... which should tell you how big a deal this is for the site if I can keep a positive attitude in the face of personal disappointment.
Also, the issue of real names has become a tricky one. Long ago, I offered to let the Japanese players use their nicknames if they joined us. It was a compromise I was willing to make because those players already were familiar with each other using those names at sugi's site, and I wanted to bring them here for the reason stated above (true global participation). They didn't come here at that time, because they were happy with sugi's site, so why join another one ... one that doesn't even speak Japanese? That site is now gone, but Masao is one of the players that the offer was originally made to. I will still encourage the Japanese players to use their real names, but at this time I am not withdrawing their option of nicknames. I know that this creates an unfair double standard, but that is the "sticky" situation I have put myself in, and I am not willing to refuse membership to the elite Japanese F-Zero GBA players over this.
Lastly, this is for Antoine: Can you please ask sugi if he can send me his world record data? Or give it to you to forward to me, either way would be great. I'm not asking for his full list of times of all players, just a full list of his site's SRs for all three versions. I want to compile a full list of WRs from all reasonable sources. Thanks!
Dave
on Jun 21st, 2003, 09:54am, Leo wrote:now we're screwed lol
also try getting their FULL name.. not like masao I.. let them know we use our real names.. not some weird abreviation or nickname..
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Re: Japanese board
« Reply #14 on: Jun 21st, 2003, 8:14pm » |
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on Jun 21st, 2003, 12:20pm, Webmaster wrote:A few things . . . I know you're just joking about "now we're screwed", but I want to take this opportunity to point out how exciting and POSITIVE it is that we may be receiving more top Japanese players on GBA (and hopefully other versions as well someday soon!). F-Zero Central is meant to be a worldwide competition, and this is our chance for that dream to become a TRUE reality. I'm thrilled about the idea, although personally, Masao's enrollment will push me from King D back to Master A ... which should tell you how big a deal this is for the site if I can keep a positive attitude in the face of personal disappointment. |
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Now that is going to be very, VERY cool. Meh, a possible drop back to Expert, but given time, I should be able to make Master D again. (That is, once I stop finding other games to play.... lol)
on Jun 21st, 2003, 12:20pm, Webmaster wrote:Also, the issue of real names has become a tricky one. Long ago, I offered to let the Japanese players use their nicknames if they joined us. It was a compromise I was willing to make because those players already were familiar with each other using those names at sugi's site, and I wanted to bring them here for the reason stated above (true global participation). They didn't come here at that time, because they were happy with sugi's site, so why join another one ... one that doesn't even speak Japanese? That site is now gone, but Masao is one of the players that the offer was originally made to. I will still encourage the Japanese players to use their real names, but at this time I am not withdrawing their option of nicknames. I know that this creates an unfair double standard, but that is the "sticky" situation I have put myself in, and I am not willing to refuse membership to the elite Japanese F-Zero GBA players over this. |
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Fair enough, Dave. Besides, it gives both sides(FZC and the Japanese players) a chance to get to know each other a bit first, a method that I highly approve of. Maybe once the Japanese players get to know us a bit more, they may (or may not, for that matter) decide to use thier real names.
I guess it's just a matter of time and waiting.
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Re: Japanese board
« Reply #15 on: Jun 21st, 2003, 11:06pm » |
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sugi is planning to join too. yeah Dave I'll ask him for the records.
I checked the new section of the forum in Japanese... you just used an automatic translator Dave? quite good!!
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Re: Japanese board
« Reply #16 on: Jun 21st, 2003, 11:22pm » |
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on Jun 21st, 2003, 11:06pm, Tonio wrote:sugi is planning to join too. yeah Dave I'll ask him for the records.
I checked the new section of the forum in Japanese... you just used an automatic translator Dave? quite good!! |
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Excellent news about sugi!
Yes, I use the Japanese Excite translator at:
http://www.excite.co.jp/world/text/
My theory is that it knows Japanese very well, and I can figure out the English part. I translate the words back and forth multiple times, trying to minimize the damage that a translator can cause to a phrase.
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Re: Japanese board
« Reply #17 on: Jun 21st, 2003, 11:42pm » |
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very good very good (just a bit weird ) and how come did Nori instantly posted a message? he was the webmaster of a ranking site for X, that is now back online from what I understand in his message...
I've asked sugi (trying to be as polite as possible... tough ) for the records.
busy busy busy. back to work (to justify my stay un Japan I have to write some stupid reports in english)
edit: OK! Nori was already registered here. that's why!!
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Re: Japanese board
« Reply #18 on: Jun 22nd, 2003, 10:32am » |
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Sugi has now submitted times for all 3 versions, becoming our 15th Universal player! Sugi used to run the leading F-Zero time trial competition site (all versions) in Japan. He joins Fred Just, MAX 2000, Sami Cetin, Dustin Andrews and myself as former or current F-Zero time trial competition webmasters who are members here.
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edit: changed "14th Universal player" to 15th because technically Olivier Holmiere became a member of all 3 competitions shortly before sugi. The Universal chart is growing fast!!!
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Re: Japanese board
« Reply #19 on: Jun 22nd, 2003, 6:21pm » |
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cool! I should advertize this universal ranking too. sugi is going to send you the records after putting them in order.
after analyzing 100 japanese BBS on the internet (ok... I just asked my girlfriend ) I think the title of the forum is ok but for the explanation (talk about f-zero...) try "F-Zeroについての話を日本語で" ("f-zero ni tsuite no hanashi o nihongo de" if you want to know...)
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Re: Japanese board
« Reply #20 on: Jun 25th, 2003, 04:29am » |
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sugi on the board today:
"GXを予約し、本体も何とか買えそうです。 これで残すは、ランキングサイトの復活ですな(笑)"
"I preordered GC, and looks like I'll be able to buy a GC soon too. Then the only thing left is the rebirth of the ranking site (laugh)"
preorder? preorder? tomorrow let's do that too!! J-30! (the release date seems to be confirmed for July 25).
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Re: Japanese board
« Reply #21 on: Jun 25th, 2003, 10:13am » |
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I reserved my US version yesterday at a local shop.
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Re: Japanese board
« Reply #22 on: Jun 26th, 2003, 09:02am » |
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This is really exciting actually, I've always wondered when the first Japanese player would join the SNES competion. I just hope that others will follow Sugi's example and join aswell, even though many of them will kick my butt. 
Also, the universal rankings was a really good idea, I'm sure that's the main reason to the high activity recently.
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