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

--- Quote from: danny_galaga on July 07, 2011, 04:07:34 am ---
--- Quote from: mimic on July 06, 2011, 10:38:45 pm ---@emphatic Just quickly one more time about the autofire use. If I was in 2nd place maybe I would be more vocal about it, I really don't care as long as people that are competing for 2nd place don't mind, but I also think that left and right hand coordination has a lot to do with winning in this game, so when you take that element out I'd think that puts you at an advantage. Also the competitions also supposed to resemble arcade settings, and there wouldn't be any autofire. As to playing naked that's a whole another story, I'm not getting into! But as I mentioned if others don't care neither do I.
Waiting for the 2nd place winner to pick next game!


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The reason autofire is being discussed at all is that I mentioned it was used when I recorded that video. There are easier ways to get a top score and make it look legit, just look at how easy scores can be added into the scoreboard by using that new high score tool. What's really stopping anyone from just entering a totally fake score? I hope the spirit of these competitions keeps us from demanding replay files or YouTube clips but that these remain a cool extra for sharing tips etc.
torino:

--- Quote from: emphatic on July 07, 2011, 04:43:40 am ---The reason autofire is being discussed at all is that I mentioned it was used when I recorded that video. There are easier ways to get a top score and make it look legit, just look at how easy scores can be added into the scoreboard by using that new high score tool. What's really stopping anyone from just entering a totally fake score? I hope the spirit of these competitions keeps us from demanding replay files or YouTube clips but that these remain a cool extra for sharing tips etc.

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To stop people from entering fake scores you only need to make mandatory for the screenshot or photo to be taken at the time of the name registration when the character cursor is in edit mode or the current entry is still visibly selected, like this:




Of course we are still left with the possibility for people to use easier difficulty setting and more lives, or even invisibility, to reach that screen, and the only way we can verify that is by recorded .inp file or actual video. I think this competition is small enough to trust people will not cheat, and even if they do it's not a big deal, but I also think submission gameplay recordings, at least for the 1st place, would make the competition feel more "official" and meaningful. -- On the other hand, I don't mind autofire at all. Little girls don't like to perspire, so I think we should let them use it.
torino:

--- Quote from: opt2not on July 06, 2011, 05:16:43 pm ---
That topic should have been put in another thread, regardless of whether or not it's popular.  If people don't get on board with that dedicated thread, what's the point of inserting that discussion here if just as many people aren't interested?


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But *everyone* said they are interested, except jimmy boy, including you, and then several other people came here to express their interest who would otherwise not even post in this thread. I'm trying to make this competition (this very thread) more interesting and attract new people, but you seem already overwhelmed as if there is 100 of us here all talking in the same time. I don't get it.



--- Quote ---If these comps start adding software requirements, it might turn a lot of people away from participating.

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There is no software requirement any more than this forum is "software requirement" for you to post the screenshot. Hi-score files can be copied over to another computer, just like you did with your screenshot. It's just that using shared scoreboard SYNC.BAT to publish .hi file records is easier and more automatic than attaching a screenshot to your post on this forum, wouldn't you agree? Come to new thread and tell us about it please: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=112907.0
emphatic:

--- Quote from: torino on July 07, 2011, 07:07:13 am ---On the other hand, I don't mind autofire at all. Little girls don't like to perspire, so I think we should let them use it.
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In order for your taunts to have any bearing, you should post a score higher than that poor excuse you offered up earlier in the thread. Just sayin'.  :afro:
torino:

--- Quote from: emphatic on July 07, 2011, 11:06:08 am ---
--- Quote from: torino on July 07, 2011, 07:07:13 am ---On the other hand, I don't mind autofire at all. Little girls don't like to perspire, so I think we should let them use it.
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In order for your taunts to have any bearing, you should post a score higher than that poor excuse you offered up earlier in the thread. Just sayin'.  :afro:

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Hahahaa! That's so true. Touché!

I don't think anyone has any doubt you can do it without it, but it's just kind of girly, you might as well use vibrator instead.
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