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After five (!!) years working the Playing page is finally ready! Ok, it's not anything very special but still quite a nice packet of levels and replays. Playing page is an attempt to list all different kind of tricks and bike controlling types. It was a very ambitious project but I think we have succeed quite well. Multi-playing, IRL playing, Belma playing have own tactics and they are missing but maybe in one day...

First we called it as Moposchool and mainly me and BarTek were developing it. Also Rigger and ciph were around with their ideas. Later when Paprika was released I wanted to have a page for playing like there are for designing levels, cheating etc. Moposchool was a good start and we started to convert it to the new format. zebra entered the project when BarTek was becoming inactive. Also Luther and axxu have helped us quite much. The levels were tested by my mother (totally amateur), my ex-roommate (ok player, Carju) and MP who is a world class professional so all the skill levels were presented. Thanks to all people who were making this happen.

Briefly the idea of the consept is to go through the different levels and to beat Target times to be sure you handle the trick or controlling type. You can use the replays and the texts as help. Dream times are there for more challenging playing. We don't host any competition yet. First you might want to beat the all Easy level and then Medium etc.

If you think something is missing don't hesitate to drop a line. Maybe even make a level or replay for us? Also the Skill levels can be argued. Is some level easy eventhough we marked it as hard? The general information texts are still missing and we appreciate help in that.

The 266th WR table presents us three new records.

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Four new astonishing WRs, two by Zweq, two by John. So, now we're under 36 minutes in WR total. 35:59,60 now. When will we reach 35..?

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Five new WRs

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One new WR

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Four new WRs, that together drop down the WR total by amazing 7,5 seconds.

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One new WR

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Two new WRs, both by John.

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New WR on Warm Up by Zweq. The time is 14,00. Shall we after all see 13,xx?

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One new WR.

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Two new WRs.

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• ElmaConf12wide: with this version of the config tool for Elma 1.2 you can get widscreen resolutions
• Elma Online Beta: with this you can play the multiplayer option of Elma online, read the readme file for installation instructions

Development work can be followed and participated in the New versions forum of Mopolauta. Hopefully all these new things will be added to just one patch, which could be called Elma 1.3.

milagros made a patch for playing Elma levels online. Unlike the eol patch, you cannot play multiplayer, because everyone has their own apples to pick. In Ballelma, you play alone, but you can see everyone else on the same level as you. This creates a whole new experience when for example playing battles. Or your team can invent styles
together in a cup event.

Players are identifiable by different shirts, that are defined by BMP images. The download contains quite a few images, but more can be downloaded from Viper_KillerGuy's page.

Download Ballelma.

Please note that Ballelma is still in early development, it is rather stable now but crashes may occur. There are installation instructions in the bs9_readme.txt file. For now, I am running the only, temporary server so far (IP 81.231.66.238, may change).

If you are connecting through a router and can't see the other players, you have to make sure that NAT (network address translation) is off, or enable port forwarding. More help.

If you have a Windows and/or Linux server that can be used as a more reliable alternative, please contact milagros. The server program is very small and uses very little memory and CPU, the only thing that needs to be fairly good is the Internet connection.

For some cool sreenshots, visit veezay's site. Some videos.

#ballelma in IRCnet is the irc channel for the competition.

Quite many, six new WRs.

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The Golden Apple Awards 2006 was held yesterday, January 7th 2007. The winners are:

01. Internalist - John
02. Externalist - axxu
03. Battler - jaytea
04. Rookie - A.K.B.
05. Designer - Zebra
06. Team - WNO
07. WR - 54. Apple Harvest 1:23,35 John #248
08. Multi WR - 54. Apple Harvest 39,41 Zweq & Juzam #136
09. Style - Xiphias's Animal Farm
10. Replay - MOPOCO19.lev: 1:09,12 John
11. Level - MC209.lev Brick Chili by Jonsta
12. Contest - MasterCup 2
13. Contribution - Viper_KillerGuy: Paprika, cup script, week-long battle script, other scripts, active in Danish scene
14. Achievement - TorInge: Had 13 new WRs in one table (#232). Had half (27) of all WRs in one table (#232). Has had the most WRs in every table since mid-January 2005
15. Site - skintatious

Congratulations!

IRC logs, detailed results and more on Mopolauta.

Not too often I mark Records update High priority but this time it's certainly worth it: John passed TorInge! The leader of the total times competition was changed.

Total times competition is the most famous Elma contest and the gloriest status a player can reach in the Elasto Mania. It's a place where only the very greatest players have been: Champi0N, KingKong, pajen, zyntifox, dz, Zweq, TorInge and now John! Big grats to him.

This is the day of John! He also won some GAAs (SveinR will post results later).

39mins club: NightMar_JNR, FUGAS

Records #96

Three new World Records.

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Three new World Records.

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The Third Step of the voting process has started. The deadline of sending in your votes in January 2nd, 23:59 EET.

Two new World Records.

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