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leapinlew:

--- Quote from: torino on June 08, 2011, 11:00:15 pm ---
--- Quote from: Gray_Area on June 08, 2011, 09:42:30 pm ---In plain terms, I don't think there's the right kind of interest.

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People enjoy their scoreboards on their Playstation and Xbox network, right? So, why wouldn't they enjoy similar "Arcade Network"? I think there would be interest in hundreds and thousands if people knew about it and there was official sponsor to give some credential to the whole thing.

I would expect every MAME player that submits scores to Twin Galaxies would prefer automatized option, it would also probably attract many more people to this global competition who are now simply lazy to submit their scores, which really is demanding and inconvenient, so I think there could be over thousand people ready to join right there. On the other hand this works just fine with only 5 or 10 people, try it, everything becomes more interesting and more "arcade-like". It's kind of when you having a free-play vs. inserting a coin, even if trivial that kind of thing can change the whole experience.


--- Quote ---The comps here are a small-town-like, you know?

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No, I'm sorry, what do you mean?

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Well quit talking and build it already.
newmanfamilyvlogs:

--- Quote from: leapinlew on June 09, 2011, 08:33:06 am ---
--- Quote from: torino on June 08, 2011, 11:00:15 pm ---
--- Quote from: Gray_Area on June 08, 2011, 09:42:30 pm ---In plain terms, I don't think there's the right kind of interest.

--- End quote ---

People enjoy their scoreboards on their Playstation and Xbox network, right? So, why wouldn't they enjoy similar "Arcade Network"? I think there would be interest in hundreds and thousands if people knew about it and there was official sponsor to give some credential to the whole thing.

I would expect every MAME player that submits scores to Twin Galaxies would prefer automatized option, it would also probably attract many more people to this global competition who are now simply lazy to submit their scores, which really is demanding and inconvenient, so I think there could be over thousand people ready to join right there. On the other hand this works just fine with only 5 or 10 people, try it, everything becomes more interesting and more "arcade-like". It's kind of when you having a free-play vs. inserting a coin, even if trivial that kind of thing can change the whole experience.


--- Quote ---The comps here are a small-town-like, you know?

--- End quote ---

No, I'm sorry, what do you mean?

--- End quote ---

Well quit talking and build it already.

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There's nothing to build. All he's done is realize that if you share the 'hi' folder, then multiple users get the same highscore table, assuming there's no issues when two users try and re-write the file at the same time, and no one erases it out of malice.
yotsuya:

--- Quote from: cotmm68030 on June 09, 2011, 08:48:50 am ---There's nothing to build. All he's done is realize that if you share the 'hi' folder, then multiple users get the same highscore table, assuming there's no issues when two users try and re-write the file at the same time, and no one erases it out of malice.

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...Or that someone's version of MAME doesn't change or corrupt the hi file, as I have seen happen when a new version is used...
CheffoJeffo:

--- Quote from: torino on June 08, 2011, 10:31:27 pm ---Seriously, that's quite off-topic and offending to my kindness and effort to popularize this marvellous and revolutionary new idea.

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Sounds familiar ... I guess you are back to ignoring the realities that people quite rightly point out.

Let's see how you spiral out of control this time.

 :cheers:
Sjaak:
I like the idea. But using a shared folder where everyone can modify/delete the .hi files is a bad idea. Sure with a couple of users it will work, but you will get deadlock issues when more people start using it.

But again, the idea to centralize hi scores is great and with a bit of work you could:


* Have bigger hi score tables (top 100).
* Have daily, weekly, monthly hi score tables to make it easier to beat hi scores.
* Link the hi scores to an alias instead of just 3 characters.
* Store screenshots of the hi scores.
But you would need a couple of things to do that...(switching to software architect mode)

a website (obviously), hosting, some sort of database to store all scores and some sort of application programming interface to store the hi scores in the system from the client.
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