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High Score Competition #70: Sky Shark (was Hacha Mecha Fighter)
torino:
--- Quote from: jimmy2x2x on July 04, 2011, 02:56:02 pm ---Is this the right place for the high score comp?
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Yes. Everything is explained in the 1st post - make sure you have correct DIP SWITCH settings, and then you only need to attach screenshot, or photo, to your post when you register some score in order to submit it and participate in this competition. -- If you can break the top record I suppose input recording would be welcome submission too, not only to verify your score, but also to let us learn some tricks and enjoy watching your gameplay.
torino:
--- Quote from: opt2not on July 04, 2011, 01:25:17 pm ---Sounds like a fine idea, but I'm running DOS in my cocktail cab without a network connection. I'm talking true DOS, boots up straight to my mame UI, no network drivers, no services, just a nice clean and fast boot...none of that windows crap
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Me too. I'm playing this on my laptop. -- If this happens to become popular, by some chance, I would seek to obtain source code of HiToText utility and port it to DOS, then it would all be a matter of finding DOS network drivers for the particular card you might want to plug in there.
Alternatively, you can always transfer .hi files via USB stick, or some other drive, between your MAME cabinet and the computer that does have internet connection (where you actually do the web-syncing).
torino:
--- Quote from: emphatic on July 04, 2011, 01:49:07 pm ---I'm using 0.140. If you select the "show dip switches" in the DIP SWITCHES option of MAME, you should have the "B" difficulty. With the extends setting you have, you still get the second extend at 200K, right, as 50K + 150K = 200K?
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I think you're right, that indeed does look like the same settings, with different "name". In any case I'll switch to same MAME version as yours.
--- Quote ---BTW, when running the batch file, I get a "SYSTEM 85 error" as the unit Z: is already mounted. But removing my skyshark.hi file and running the new sync file worked wonders. I see all scores in-game now. Very cool. I'll play in a short while and top that score, just putting the kids to bed first.
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Cool. If you run SYNC.BAT once more after you register some scores and exit the game, I will do the same and then I will be able to verify if I can see your records as well. You too can verify if the server file has been updated properly if you rename or delete your local "skyshark.hi" file and run SYNC.BAT to download a new master copy from the server.
That error is fine, it tells us that mapping has already been done. We could un-map the drive at the end of .BAT file after each web-syncing to avoid that message, but it takes some time until the drive can be mapped again, so I just leave it mapped all the time to make testing faster.
emphatic:
Perhaps we should move this discussion (high score sharing) to a different thread? This is very off topic now. Also, when I ran sync.bat my actual high score got erased. Not cool, so I'm not doing that again without a backup file.
I had a few games tonight, and made it through the first loop and into stage 4 even though I'm rusty and had auto fire (not recommend for this game). The bullets are faster and twice as many in the second loop.
The input file seems to be broken though, but not until the very end, so most is watchable. :cheers: The effect is quite comical, as the broken input ending before reaching the actual score and entering AAAAA beneath my #1 spot. High score . I'm making an xvid encode now (with added scanlines), so I have a smaller file to upload tomorrow, it's taking forever. :banghead:
Final score, 1,043,140
opt2not:
--- Quote from: emphatic on July 04, 2011, 05:21:02 pm ---Perhaps we should move this discussion (high score sharing) to a different thread? This is very off topic now. Also, when I ran sync.bat my actual high score got erased. Not cool, so I'm not doing that again without a backup file.
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More scores, less technical stuff IMO. :)