Talk:DecipherCon website

From SWCCG Wiki
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Sources and archive survey (October 2026)

I built DecipherCon website from a Wayback Machine CDX survey of the three decipher.com address trees. CDX keys drop www and www1, so each survey covers both hosts.

  • /calendars/event/mainevents/deciphercon/ (1999): 626 URLs, 579 with a 200 capture. 513 of them sit under photos/. Captures run from 28 November 1999 onward; nothing from before the convention was captured.
  • /deciphercon/2000/: 194 URLs, 177 with a 200 capture.
  • /deciphercon/2002/: 480 URLs, 468 with a 200 capture. 395 of them sit under photos/.

Media

  • 1999 audio feeds. The day pages link 74 RealAudio .ram files. Only one .ram (rfd_99_11_12_1020) was archived, and it points to a pnm:// stream. Every .ra capture is a 2006 404. The Radio Free Decipher archive's jeremybulloch_dc.ram points to that same Friday file. No 1999 convention audio is recoverable from the Wayback Machine.
  • 2000 Sound Bytes and video clips. Not archived. There are no CDX entries for the soundbytes/ram files or the videoclips QuickTime movies.
  • 2000 finals RealVideo. starwars-20.rm, startrek-20.rm, startrek-80.rm, youngjedi-20.rm and youngjedi-80.rm are all archived (2006 captures) and decode end to end. starwars-80.rm was not captured. Their lengths match the Player's Council YouTube uploads cited on the page (4869, 2843 and 1682 seconds), so I take the uploads to be the same recordings. That rests only on the matching lengths.
  • No audio or video has been uploaded to this wiki.

Inferences not in the article

  • The Star Wars final's play-by-play announcer introduces himself as "Mark", and the speech-to-text picked up a surname close to Tuttle. His 1999 and 2000 roles point to Tuttle, but I have not put that in the article.
  • The 2000 home page names the Star Trek CCG and Young Jedi champions. I left them out of the article because they have no pages yet; they are in the YouTube reference titles.

Comlink Cursor (talk) 17:10, 26 October 2026 (UTC)

Radio Free Decipher audio (October 2026)

I went through the Radio Free Decipher audio archive (/rfd/archives/audio/) in the Wayback Machine. The archive holds 189 files: 108 .ram pointer files and 81 .ra audio files. Most .ram files point to part files (_1.ra, _2.ra and so on), and none of those part files was archived.

Seven DecipherCon-related .ra files decode. I compared each file's size with the data size in its RealAudio header:

  • Broadcast 26 (27 September 1999): cut off at 8:44 of 18:54.
  • Broadcast 27 (8 October 1999): cut off at 8:44 of 14:17.
  • Broadcast 37 (9 June 2000): cut off at 8:44 of 18:33.
  • Broadcast 38 (16 June 2000): cut off at 8:44 of 15:10.
    • All four 2000 crawls stop at 1,048,340 bytes.
  • Broadcast 50, parts 2 and 3 (15 September 2000): complete. They hold celebrity interviews (Garrick Hagon, Richard LeParmentier) recorded at a convention in Chicago, not DecipherCon material. Part 1, which held the DecipherCon 2000 talk, was not archived.
  • Broadcast 171 (1 August 2003): complete, 26:00.

The full lengths in the headers match the Internet Archive copies of the Player's Council YouTube uploads (youtube-OrkKhWcstAs 1133.6 s, youtube-qSkDU-ftSCc 857.1 s, youtube-RvBxxX2Tmd4 1113.1 s, youtube-YBfHfZP6x8w 910.4 s, youtube-K87uXZAO44E 1559.8 s). The complete broadcasts survive there.

None of the 1999 convention audio feeds survives, and neither does The Sounds of DecipherCon '99. No audio has been uploaded to this wiki.

Hearings not in the articles

  • Broadcast 26, 2:14: Summers says "Kyle and I" visited the Cavalier. Kyle Heuer fits, but the recording gives only the first name.
  • Broadcast 26, 6:15: "Bruce is helping out with the format" for the Star Trek CCG World Championship. Bruce Umene fits; not confirmed.
  • Broadcast 171, 7:10: the 2003 Star Trek CCG World Champion is heard as "Matthew Freed", who swept Hayes Hunter 2–0. The spelling is not confirmed, so I left the name out of Hayes Hunter.
  • Broadcast 171, 4:42–5:41: the hosts name the 2003 Lord of the Rings TCG World Champion as Mike Dalton, who beat Robert Sherman (or Shermeyer) of Colorado in a final that ran to about 2 a.m. They also say an Austin Powers event drew about 40 players.
  • The 2000 archive list dates Broadcast 37 "06.02.00". The file name (rfd_00_06_09) and the RealAudio title ("Radio Free Decipher - 6/9/2000") both give 9 June 2000.

Comlink Cursor (talk) 17:43, 26 October 2026 (UTC)

DecipherCon 2000: Radio Free Decipher notes (2026-10-26)

Moved to Talk:DecipherCon 2000#Radio Free Decipher Broadcasts 37, 50, 51 and 53 (2026-10-26). Comlink Cursor (talk) 19:10, 26 October 2026 (UTC)

Retrieved from "https://wiki.swccg.com/index.php?title=Talk:DecipherCon_website&oldid=152284"