Topic: 20,000 maps!

[JonLeung]

Shortly after 11:00 PM (Mountain Time) on Friday, July 20, 2012, VGMaps.com put up its 20,000th map!

TWENTY THOUSAND.  That's a lot of maps.  VGMaps now has tens of thousands of images.

Sometime this weekend I'll be able to reconfirm exactly which map it is, along with other stats about all of these wonderful maps that you guys have submitted over the last 3727 days.  If you like numbers, it might be interesting stuff...hopefully at least a bit more than the slightly lacklustre "10th Anniversary" spiel.  Stay tuned to this topic!

Thanks to everyone who has ever submitted a map to VGMaps.com!

Milestones:

20,000th map: Brave Prove (J) (PSX) - Tower Of Earth - L3 (George s)
10,000th map: SimCopter (PC) - Level 4 - River Rail (DarkWolf)
9000th map: Super Mario All-Stars (Super NES) - Super Mario Bros. - World 8 - Area 4 (Zeric)
8000th map: Bubble Bobble: Part 2 (NES) - Map (Will Mallia)
7000th map: The Little Mermaid (NES) - Stage 1 - Sea Of Coral (Will Mallia)
6000th map: ActRaiser (Super NES) - Kasandora - Act-1 (Rick Bruns)
5000th map: Lufia II: Rise Of The Sinistrals (Super NES) - Lake Cave (Rick Bruns)
4000th map: The 7th Saga (Super NES) - Kingdom Of Bilthem (KingKuros)
3000th map: Alien Syndrome (NES) - Round 6 (KingKuros)
2000th map: Aunt Arctic Adventure (Amiga) - Level 39 (Grizzly)
1000th map: Pokemon: FireRed/LeafGreen Versions (GBA) - Route 01 (Jaromaru)

Totals:

20,000 maps
6833 MB (average = 0.34 MB per map)
1275 games (approx.) (average = 15.69 maps per game)
41 platforms (average = 31.1 games per platform)
3727 days (average = 5.37 maps totalling 1.83 MB per day)

Comparing with this topic when we got 10,000, not only are we getting the maps 1.5 times faster, but the maps are on average 3.8 times larger in filesize.

By platform:

3968 (19.84%) PC (Windows/DOS)
3659 (18.295%) Super NES
3498 (17.49%) NES
2207 (11.035%) Game Boy Advance
1494 (7.47%) Game Boy & Game Boy Color
1051 (5.255%) Master System
1000 (5%) Genesis
654 (3.27%) DS
420 (2.1%) Arcade
348 (1.74%) Game Gear
275 (1.375%) Neo-Geo
261 (1.305%) N64
227 (1.135%) PSX
162 (0.81%) TurboGrafx 16
108 (0.54%) MSX
85 (0.425%) GameCube
76 (0.38%) Amiga
75 (0.375%) PS2
70 (0.35%) iPod
60 (0.3%) C64
50 (0.25%) Neo-Geo Pocket & Neo-Geo Pocket Color
39 (0.195%) Saturn
35 (0.175%) Wii
32 (0.16%) X1
26 (0.13%) Atari ST
18 (0.09%) ZX Spectrum
17 (0.085%) Atari 7800
17 (0.085%) Virtual Boy
13 (0.065%) CPC
12 (0.06%) Apple II
10 (0.05%) WonderSwan & WonderSwan Color
8 (0.04%) Dreamcast
8 (0.04%) X68000
6 (0.03%) Atari 2600
6 (0.03%) Xbox 360
3 (0.015%) Atari 5200
1 (0.005%) CD-i
1 (0.005%) Xbox

By orientation:

14,698 (73.49%) wide maps
4320 (21.6%) tall maps
980 (4.9%) square maps
2 (0.01%) undefined size ratios (PDFs)

By type:

19,365 (96.825%) PNGs
553 (2.765%) JPGs
79 (0.395%) animated GIFs
2 (0.01%) PDF guides
1 (0.005%) interactive SWF

By size:

Smallest map (filesize): 129 bytes - LegendOfZelda-OcarinaOfTime-Present-LostWoods(Mini-Map).png (N64 / Peardian)
Smallest map (filesize, not a mini-map/in-game map): 202 bytes - Paganitzu-PartI-RomancingTheRose-Level17.png (PC / Zander Software)
Smallest map (filesize, not a mini-map/in-game map or dark room): 248 bytes - KarateKid-BonusStage-ChopsticksFlyCatch.png (NES / gRE3N744)
Smallest map (filesize, animated): 14,786 bytes - KidIcarus-OfMythsAndMonsters-Stage1-Section4(Animated).gif (Game Boy / AstroBlue)
Smallest map (filesize, animated, ripped): 16,543 bytes - BikerMiceFromMars-Round5-Course4(In-GameMap).gif (Super NES / Piranhaplant)
Smallest map (filesize, animated, ripped, not a mini-map/in-game map): 16,604 bytes - MarbleMadness-Stage6(Goal)(Animated).gif (NES / Osrevad)
Smallest map (image area): 23 x 82 = 1886 pixels - LegendOfZelda-OcarinaOfTime-Present-SacredForestMeadow(Mini-Map).png (N64 / Peardian)
Smallest map (image area, not a mini-map/in-game map): 92 x 103 pixels = 9476 pixels - Zoda'sRevenge-StarTropicsII-Chapter4-House.png (NES / Captain Drake)
Smallest map (image area, animated): 240 x 160 pixels = 38,400 pixels - SuperMarioAdvance4-SuperMarioBros3-MushroomWorld.gif & SuperMarioAdvance4-SuperMarioBros3-Worlde+(Animated).gif (GBA / Peardian)
Smallest map (image area, animated, not a mini-map/in-game map): 240 x 215 = 51,600 pixels - MarbleMadness-Stage6(Goal)(Animated).gif (NES / Osrevad)

Shortest map (pixels): 27 pixels - LegendOfZelda-OcarinaOfTime-Present-Graveyard(Mini-Map).png (N64 / Peardian)
Shortest map (pixels, not a mini-map/in-game map): 93 pixels - Pokemon-GSC-Johto-MtSilver-2B.png (Game Boy Color / Stefan Mahrla)
Shortest map (pixels, animated): 150 pixels - BikerMiceFromMars-Round3-Course4(In-GameMap).gif, BikerMiceFromMars-Round5-Course4(In-GameMap).gif & BikerMiceFromMars-Round6-Course4(In-GameMap).gif (Super NES / Piranhaplant)
Shortest map (pixels, animated, not a mini-map/in-game map): 200 pixels - FatalFury-WestSubway-Round1&3(Animated).gif & FatalFury-WestSubway-Round2(Animated).gif (Super NES / gRE3N744)
Shortest map (ratio): 28,128 x 152 pixels = 185.95 times shorter than wide - Uniracers-Crawler-Dragster.png (Super NES / Halamantariel)
Shortest map (ratio, not from Uniracers): 27,200 x 240 pixels = 113.33 times shorter than wide - Battletoads&DoubleDragon-UltimateTeam-Level2-BlagAlley-Area3.png (NES / TerraEsperZ)
Shortest map (ratio, animated): 512 x 200 pixels = 2.56 times shorter than wide - FatalFury-WestSubway-Round1&3(Animated).gif & FatalFury-WestSubway-Round2(Animated).gif (Super NES / gRE3N744)

Thinnest map (pixels): 16 pixels - TetrisParty-Beginner-CourseJ.png (Wii / The Ultimate Koopa)
Thinnest map (pixels, ripped): 23 pixels - LegendOfZelda-OcarinaOfTime-Present-SacredForestMeadow(Mini-Map).png (N64 / Peardian)
Thinnest map (pixels, ripped, not a mini-map/in-game map): 85 pixels - Zoda'sRevenge-StarTropicsII-Chapter5-MineTunnel(2).png (NES / Captain Drake)
Thinnest map (pixels, animated): 240 pixels - MarbleMadness-Stage6(Goal)(Animated).gif (NES / Osrevad), SuperMarioAdvance4-SuperMarioBros3-MushroomWorld.gif & SuperMarioAdvance4-SuperMarioBros3-Worlde+(Animated).gif (GBA / Peardian)
Thinnest map (ratio): 256 x 30,000 pixels = 117.19 times thinner than tall - SpyHunter-Area07.png & SpyHunter-Area08.png (NES / Rick Bruns)
Thinnest map (ratio, animated): 288 x 6608 pixels = 22.94 times thinner than tall - Battletoads-Level12-Revolution(Animated).gif (NES / TerraEsperZ)

Widest map (pixels): 65,469 pixels - Uniracers-Crawler-Stitcher.png (Super NES / Halamantariel)
Widest map (pixels, not from Uniracers): 27,200 pixels - Battletoads&DoubleDragon-UltimateTeam-Level2-BlagAlley-Area3.png (NES / TerraEsperZ)
Widest map (pixels, animated): 8076 pixels - RingsOfPower-World(Animated).gif (Genesis / Dai Scott)
Widest map (ratio): 28,128 x 152 pixels = 185.95 times wider than tall - Uniracers-Crawler-Dragster.png (Super NES / Halamantariel)
Widest map (ratio, not from Uniracers): 27,200 x 240 pixels = 113.33 times wider than tall - Battletoads&DoubleDragon-UltimateTeam-Level2-BlagAlley-Area3.png (NES / TerraEsperZ)
Widest map (ratio, animated): 512 x 200 pixels = 2.56 times wider than tall - FatalFury-WestSubway-Round1&3(Animated).gif & FatalFury-WestSubway-Round2(Animated).gif (Super NES / gRE3N744)

Tallest map (pixels): 30,000 pixels - SpyHunter-Area07.png & SpyHunter-Area08.png (NES / Rick Bruns)
Tallest map (pixels, animated): 6608 pixels - Battletoads-Level12-Revolution(Animated).gif (NES / TerraEsperZ)
Tallest map (ratio): 256 x 30,000 pixels = 117.19 times taller than wide - SpyHunter-Area07.png & SpyHunter-Area08.png (NES / Rick Bruns)
Tallest map (ratio, animated): 288 x 6608 pixels = 22.94 times taller than wide - Battletoads-Level12-Revolution(Animated).gif (NES / TerraEsperZ)

Largest map (filesize): 75,550,675 bytes - AlienShooter2-Reloaded-Level07-3-P1.png (PC / LDK)
Largest map (filesize, not from Alien Shooter 2: Reloaded): 47,957,139 bytes - RageOfMages-26-RoadToTheTower.png (PC / LDK)
Largest map (filesize, not from a PC game): 24.414,473 bytes - DragonQuestV-HandOfTheHeavenlyBride(J)-World.png (PS2 / Paco)
Largest map (filesize, tile-based): 23,851,745 bytes - LordOfTheRings-VolumeOne-BarrowDowns.png (Super NES / Tropicon)
Largest map (filesize, animated): 9,706,419 bytes - RingsOfPower-World(Animated).gif (Genesis / Dai Scott)
Largest map (image area): 36,864 x 16,111 = 593,915,904 pixels - Uniracers-Hopper-Downer (Super NES / Halamantariel)
Largest map (image area, not from Uniracers): 16,272 x 16,416 pixels = 267,121,152 pixels - UltimaVI-FalseProphet-Britannia.png (Super NES / FlyingArmor)
Largest map (image area, animated): 8076 x 4654 = 37,585,704 pixels - RingsOfPower-World(Animated).gif (Genesis / Dai Scott)

[Peardian]

That's a lot of maps! I'm actually kind of surprised that PC games has the most maps, but I guess it makes sense given the number of old PC games.

[JonLeung]

The top five most popular platforms (which make up 74.13% of the maps) don't surprise me, though before checking the numbers, I too wouldn't have figured on the PC...I would have thought the Super NES would have more.  (At one point the Super NES had about 300 more maps, before Peardian combined several Super Mario RPG maps together, so it goes to show that the sheer number of maps isn't the only indication of how much content there is.)  Quickly scrolling through at a glance, there are many PC games with a lot of maps, like all thoses RTSes, so I think it just has to do with the number of maps rather than the number of games (of which there are obviously more, but I think on VGMaps.com there are more Super NES games represented).

Speaking of PC games, if I had more time last week, I would have put up Richard V. Grant's submission of seven maps from Leather Goddesses Of Phobos! 2: Gas Pump Girls Meet The Pulsating Inconvenience From Planet X (PC) maps (by the way, that likely would be the longest title), but just before I had a chance to do so, he emailed me and said he wanted me to hold off on putting them up as he had an idea to redo them.  So if I had been quicker and actually put them up and didn't take them down, then one of his Dark Seed (PC) maps would have been the 20,000th.