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High Score Competition #70: Sky Shark (was Hacha Mecha Fighter)
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torino:

--- 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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I don't think it's off topic since it is directly related to the possible way how to organize, sort, visually present and make more interesting this very competition. There are only few people competing anyway and if we were not talking about this there would hardly be any posts in this thread at all, or so it would seem. -- jimmy2x2x there was just poking at me, for some reason, he is not really lost and we did not really stray away since all that is important is explained in the 1st post. In any case, we are just talking, that's why we're here, and it's easy to ignore for everyone who does not like the idea and wishes to do so.


I have no clue how could hi-scores get erased, especially since at first the script apperantly works and imports server scoreboard correctly. I can't erase scores even on purpose and everything works fine from my computer every time. I suppose the problem may be we are using different MAME version and probably different "hiscore.dat" version, so possibly these formats are slightly different and HiToText does not fully support either your or mine version. I have yet to find, or build, MAME .140 with hi-score support to be able to test what is going on.

Yeah, you should make a backup, hahaa! Sorry, we're just testing, but you got your screenshot and .inp file regardless, so not a big deal, right? In any case, you can use HiToText utility to insert that score back there, and if you got the screenshot I can do it for you like I did for other records.



--- Quote ---Final score, 1,043,140

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Sheesh! I don't think I have any chance getting anywhere close to that any time soon, especially not with laptop and while playing on a keyboard.
emphatic:

--- Quote from: torino on July 04, 2011, 06:38:18 pm ---
--- Quote ---Final score, 1,043,140

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Sheesh! I don't think I have any chance getting anywhere close to that any time soon, especially not with laptop and while playing on a keyboard.

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Well, I did the recording as someone requested to see the whole game (and hear it, the music is fantastic, one of my favorites), but I still don't feel comfortable claiming the #1 spot in a game I myself chose that I already know I'm good at. So the runner-up gets to choose the next game, now work at it!  :angry:  :cheers:

Well, it may be "OK" for the other people in this thread that some discussion of your score tool, but it's better to have a dedicated thread in case it finally get's recognition (for forum search purposes among other things). Also, if you created a thread (or bumped the old one you made) your can edit the download link, info etc. and keep it all nice and available in the first post instead like here where the first page is a mishmash of Hacha Mecha Fighter that doesn't even work in MAME then Sky Shark. Catch my drift? Now I'm off to bed, will upload to YouTube before going to work early tomorrow.
AlienInferno:
I find this game rather difficult.  Highest I've been able to get after a little over an hour of play is 77,600.   :-[
opt2not:
Emph, I still wanna see that video man. From one SHMUP-brother to another, I'd love to see you play! Especially an unforgiving game like this.
Gray_Area:
Twin Cobra is way cooler.
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