{"id":1671,"date":"2025-03-18T01:37:31","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T05:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackfalcongames.net\/?p=1671"},"modified":"2025-06-08T13:25:27","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T17:25:27","slug":"my-bad-classic-starcraft-replays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackfalcongames.net\/?p=1671","title":{"rendered":"My (Bad) Classic Starcraft Replays &#8211; A Game from 2\/12\/2002"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I finally got around to making another one of these.\u00a0 I actually recorded this game in the Remastered version back when I made the first video, but after seeing how broken that replay was in Remastered I decided that it&#8217;d be better to not upload this, and instead re-record it in the classic launcher.\u00a0 I finally did that this week and here is the result, a recording of this classic Starcraft multiplayer match from 2\/12\/2002.\u00a0 Yes, that&#8217;s February 12th 2002.\u00a0 I do not remember this game specifically, but it&#8217;s easy enough to see why I saved the replay, you don&#8217;t see nukes used this much very often.<\/p>\n<p>Nukes have always been uncommon and still are, but a lot of other things about this game really make it stand out as old &#8212; the insanely large map, how slow we mostly were to expand, and more.\u00a0 Really old Starcraft games are something else, aren&#8217;t they? Like many people I had owned the game for several years at the time this game was recorded, but the level of play is very different from modern games. That&#8217;s part of what makes it interesting to watch, though, I think.<\/p>\n<p>The video may look similar to the first one, but on a technical level I made a lot of changes this time when compared to the first videos from January.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The new video was recorded at 4:3, the correct aspect ratio for the classic Starcraft launcher, instead of my monitor&#8217;s resolution of 16:10 as the first one was. Sorry about that. I&#8217;m thinking about uploading another version of that first video but at 4:3 this time, it would probably be a good idea &#8212; I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s more likely to fill more of the screen for most people this way, at 1600&#215;1200 4:3, than at 1920&#215;1200 with black bars on the right and left since only 1600 is actually filled horizontally. (Any modern videos will be in 1920&#215;1200, though. Sorry not sorry.)<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; I increased the bitrate of the recording quite a bit. Is the difference noticeable?<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; I did the first video entirely in OBS. This time I only recorded in OBS but used separate editing software, something I have never used before. I definitely don&#8217;t understand it well but managed to figure out enough to make this video&#8230; on the fourth attempt, it took a while to get it to render correctly at 1600&#215;1200 instead of 1920&#215;1080. It worked though, as this video shows! Nice.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1v1K-RpnDF4\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What about text articles?\u00a0 I have some partially finished stuff I could post, and will &#8212; there&#8217;s a thing about remasters I wrote that I guess I could post, though it doesn&#8217;t really have much of a point &#8212; but haven&#8217;t made any new reviews or anything, unfortunately.\u00a0 I&#8217;m too obsessed with Starcraft to write retro game summaries or reviews&#8230; heh.\u00a0 I do still play Mario Maker 2, but haven&#8217;t made a new level yet this year.\u00a0 I really need to do that.\u00a0 I have 29 uploaded levels, why am I waiting so long to make it 30?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, I finally got around to making another one of these.\u00a0 I actually recorded this game in the Remastered version back when I made the first video, but after seeing how broken that replay was in Remastered I decided that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blackfalcongames.net\/?p=1671\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124,5,67],"tags":[541,571,570,69,145,561],"class_list":["post-1671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-classicgames","category-pc-classicgames","tag-blizzard","tag-classic-starcraft","tag-my-bad-starcraft-replays","tag-pc-2","tag-rts","tag-starcraft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackfalcongames.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackfalcongames.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackfalcongames.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackfalcongames.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackfalcongames.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackfalcongames.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackfalcongames.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackfalcongames.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackfalcongames.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}