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

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torino:


--- Quote from: AlienInferno on July 06, 2011, 12:30:22 pm ---
--- Quote from: torino on July 06, 2011, 10:00:57 am ---Hey there, it was you who published the score of 42520 as "ANFRNO", right?

It worked for you? No lost scores or other problems?

So, how do you like the idea of "shared scoreboard"?
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Yes that was me.  I was in a hurry and couldn't think of how to write AlienInferno any better.  Probably should have just put AI.

Yeah it seems like it worked.  I only tried it that once.  I like the idea honestly.  Would be nice if you could set it up automatically for every mame game.  I just think it would be neat to be playing against other people's scores.  Just like an arcade.  You could be winning one day, leave, come back the next and knocked to last place.  Would be worth setting up my cab with wireless internet access just for this IMO.

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- "You could be winning one day, leave, come back the next and knocked to last place."

Yeah, exactly. Just like an arcade!


Ok, that makes it 3 of us are now interested to actually test it, and several other people expressed interest in some more passive way, so the question is whether should we take this discussion to a separate thread until we test it and perhaps decide to expand with some new features, or should we stay in this thread?

emphatic:


--- Quote from: torino on July 06, 2011, 12:59:41 pm ---Aha, statistics is on my side now, I can already see you will pick one of "my" games. There is no escape, it will be the end of you, enjoy your supremacy while it lasts, girly-autofire-man!
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 :applaud:

*puts on American flag tie and combs mullet*

jasonbar:


--- Quote from: emphatic on July 06, 2011, 11:08:00 am ---Too bad Rygar has already been played in competition. I have a 4 million plus score (on the arcade PCB). But I have a nice game in mind already.

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When the same person wins 2 competitions in a row, the 2nd place winner of the 2nd competition picks the next game.  This keeps it all friendly & keeps 1 person from dominating continuously by picking games at which he/she is an expert.  (Also, the comptetitions usually run ~2 weeks, but that's not a big deal that this one was a bit short.)



--- Quote from: emphatic on July 06, 2011, 12:27:25 am ---@mimic: Sorry you feel that autofire should not be part of a competiton, but if you read the rules of the first post, it says NOTHING about autofire being out of the question. It also doesn't mention playing nude, putting muzzles on the wife or other things people do to make life easier. Fact=it doesn't make the game easier, just takes away the mashing that any monkey can do.

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I agree completely with mimic.  I feel that using a hack or aid to interface to the controls is not in the spirit of the competition.  This wouldn't be allowed in a "serious" competition.  And although you describe it as a handicap, you also say "it's just too hot during summer to mash buttons", so this sounds like an aid to me.  Something that frees up your hand & concentration so you can focus on the joystick & bomb button would certainly be helpful when it comes to a long endurance game.  I know I couldn't play more than a couple of games in a sitting because my fingers got too fatigued.  Allowing this score to be submitted would possibly open the floodgates to other, more significant aids).


That's my $0.02 & the start of what I hope is a friendly & fair discussion--I'm not out to ruffle any feathers.


Thanks,
-Jason

emphatic:


--- Quote from: jasonbar on July 06, 2011, 02:34:26 pm ---When the same person wins 2 competitions in a row, the 2nd place winner of the 2nd competition picks the next game.  This keeps it all friendly & keeps 1 person from dominating continuously by picking games at which he/she is an expert.  (Also, the comptetitions usually run ~2 weeks, but that's not a big deal that this one was a bit short.)
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This rule is very good and I will gladly let the runner-up for Sky Shark choose the next game. [Billy Mitchell mode]Unless someone beats my score that is.  :laugh2: [/Billy Mitchell mode]


--- Quote from: jasonbar on July 06, 2011, 02:34:26 pm ---I feel that using a hack or aid to interface to the controls is not in the spirit of the competition.  This wouldn't be allowed in a "serious" competition.  And although you describe it as a handicap, you also say "it's just too hot during summer to mash buttons", so this sounds like an aid to me.  Something that frees up your hand & concentration so you can focus on the joystick & bomb button would certainly be helpful when it comes to a long endurance game.  I know I couldn't play more than a couple of games in a sitting because my fingers got too fatigued.  Allowing this score to be submitted would possibly open the floodgates to other, more significant aids).

That's my $0.02 & the start of what I hope is a friendly & fair discussion--I'm not out to ruffle any feathers.

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Your argument here is also sound. May I suggest that we add this to the "stickied" part of the first post for each following competition though so that no future feathers can get ruffled? Exceptions are of course for games that have the auto fire built in (I know a few games where the default settings enable this).

I didn't make the run I recorded to win the competition though, but to show some pointers on how to play the game, something that I always loved to do/watch when arcades still were a part of the day-to-day life of youth everywhere.

torino:


--- Quote from: jasonbar on July 06, 2011, 02:34:26 pm ---
When the same person wins 2 competitions in a row, the 2nd place winner of the 2nd competition picks the next game.  This keeps it all friendly & keeps 1 person from dominating continuously by picking games at which he/she is an expert.  (Also, the comptetitions usually run ~2 weeks, but that's not a big deal that this one was a bit short.)


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Are those actual rules or more of a "tradition" so far?

I find that completely unnecessary and counter-productive, with that you are taking out one possible meaningful "reward" where there are almost none, and when you take that "prize" from the winner to choose the next game and go for the longest streak, then "barging rights" also mean less without the "build-up", tension and taunting to make it all more interesting and meaningful.

Competition is not supposed to be "friendly", it is supposed to be "competitive", which does not mean we can not stay friends, although of course if you beat my record you will be my enemy, friend still, but also the greatest enemy, in a friendly way, if you know what I mean?


Friendly competition, huh?! That's for little girls!

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