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Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: mrclean on February 03, 2009, 11:48:07 am
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The game for round 12 is Gun Smoke. Chosen by last round winner, mrclean.
(http://www.arcade-gameover.com/img/gun_smoke.png)
*NEW* : The winner of this competition will get a Gun Smoke logo vectorized and printed marquee/header shipped rolled printed on mylar & when backlit looks great!(Hopefully this prize trend will continue on with future competitions) Just PM me your address with shipping information after the contest ends.
Marquee size is 22''x 7.5''
Actual Prize attached to bottom of this post.
Rules:
-Sadly mrclean can't compete in this competition
- You can use any of these Capcom / Romstar rom variations (Japan),(World),(US Set 1),(US Set 2) default settings, no cheats.
- No cheats, Must start the game with 3 marshalls, no boots, bullets, guns, or vulnerability cheats etc.
- This is a Single Credit game ONLY! Inserting more then 1 credit will risk your score being immediately disqualified.
- 1st extra life at 30K, 2nd extra life at 100K & Every 100K
- Use any mame version or variant you wish.
- Last day is Tuesday, February 17th (11:59:59pm Eastern Standard Time).
- High score wins (a tie means there's more than one winner).
- No savestates, savestate practices, etc during the round.
- MAME recordings are optional, but encouraged!
:cheers:
How to play can be found here:
http://www.mameworld.net/maws/romset/gunsmoke
There are lots of baddies in this game!
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As long as the rules include:
- mrclean can't play
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haha I won't , Rule added.
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Feel free to try to improve on your TG MAME world record, but no entries here :)
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Actually it's funny I did already beat my own record several times and even have the .inp files. I did re-send them in a long time ago to try to bump my score up but they never changed it. However to me more importantly I still have on DVD breaking the Non-MAME actual arcade dedicated on my Gun.Smoke machine from Nov. 2nd 2008. I might send it into Kelly Flewin in Canda since he originally reviewed my MAME score... or perhaps beat the record during a public performance in NH this year. The only thing that I'm not really excited about is playing Gun.Smoke in Funspot, NH with a bat top micro-switch joystick eww!
Also a side note, but I recently replaced my LCD with a 24.8'' CRT and need for MAME 106 to be the same as pixel aspect for MAME 129. If that makes any sense, basically the image for me seems too squeezed now. It looked perfect when I had the setting to ROL / Rotate MAME because I had my LCD on a vesa arm, and then the ratio was actually 9:6. I can't seem to figure out what ratio I need to have it running on my 4:3 CRT without looking soo compressed.
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Ouch this is hard. Care to share an inp in wm106 mrclean? I watched the MARP one, and well yeah, this is a hard game!
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TG has the inp hosted
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81,450.
This is hard! My hands hurt after one game.
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81,450.
This is hard! My hands hurt after one game.
Yeah this game has the tendency to do that. One of my friends said the same thing.
Attached is a funny review of Gun Smoke from April issue of "Computer & Video Games" from the year 1986. Let me know if you want the entire Magazine in .pdf
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PM me that link.
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117,450 points, stage 3, corrective surgery required on my trigger fingers.
Is anyone else going to have a shot?
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I'm gonna play, will post a score once I get a lil better at the game.
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Hell, DF, ain't been but the second day now. I'm in, of course, now I know what game's goin.
mrclean: try 7/5.
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117,450 points, stage 3, corrective surgery required on my trigger fingers.
Is anyone else going to have a shot?
My cab is still premature. Bubble Bobble and Wboy looked ok, but I couldn't get Gunsmoke looking right. All because of this competition, I ended up taking Vista 64 off my PC and rolled back to XP 32 so I could use Soft15. I've got some reconfiguring to do, hopefully will be competing again next week some time.
PS: I don't know why I waited so long to go back to XP and use Soft15. Everything looks 100 times better.
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I can smell your fear.
;D
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maybe i should use this wonderful soft 15 you speak of...not that familiar with it but I ditched my LCD and went with a Nieman 24.8'' CRT for my MAME cab running at 640x480 win XP also
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145,000 round 3. Mame v0.125, INP available.
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maybe i should use this wonderful soft 15 you speak of...not that familiar with it but I ditched my LCD and went with a Nieman 24.8'' CRT for my MAME cab running at 640x480 win XP also
There's a few gotchas you should know about before going to the trouble. Since our monitors are horizontal, and gunsmoke is a vertical game (unless you are turning yours sideways) you can't run the native resolution for it. Usually you can get pretty close, and you definitely have more options than without Soft15Khz. I've got all my horizontal games looking spectacular, but I've yet to mess with Gunsmoke to see if I can get it looking good.
Also, your Nieman is (probably) not a digital multisync. This means that you can really only configure it for either 15Khz OR 31Khz. In otherwords, you can configure it to work with low rez games in mame at 15Khz, but if you're popping back to your front end and it is running at 640x480 (31Khz), it just aint gonna look right. You need digital memory in there to remember the screen settings for each resolution, and I don't believe the Niemans can do this.
I think if I had a Nieman, I'd probably just stick to 640x480, use the default video setting of D3D (don't turn off filtering), and use set prescaling to 2 to sharpen it a bit. This is what I was doing before I made the switch and it looked pretty decent.
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I said you can use any version for this just a tip the (US Set 2) levels 3 and 6 are swapped. So when your on level 3 using US Set 2 The Indian Chief (which really is supposed to be level 6 on all other rom versions)you can earn alot of pts. but it's alot more difficult than the traditional level 3 (The Ninja. on US Set1,World,Japan set). The Indian Chief Level has many hidden dragon flies in the barrels worth 10,000 pts. ea. Also along with Stars, & cows... and when you kill the enemies on that level they are worth more pts. Also the Indian Chief I think is worth 85,000 pts alone but he is usually difficult to beat, just try to retain one of the 3x horses found on that level! Its a good early way to rack up your score but the level like I said is alot more difficult.
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This one I will participate in for sure!
Yay no MrClean >:D
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151050 round 3
Recorded on .129 (32-bit)
I thought I had never played this game before, but memories came flooding back to when I was maybe 12. My neighbor rented it on the NES and we spend a whole summer day passing the controller back and forth. All the little things in this game bring back specific memories of that day. I love when that happens.
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The NES version was cool. Actually the story took place "In the town of Hicksville..." Which is literally minutes away from my house.
Ive also posted this a few times but any ways I think it's hilarious, here's a funny song from the NES version entitled Bullet's And Buckshot:
http://www.scrubclubrecords.com/music/8bit/MadHatter%20-%20Bullets%20And%20Buckshot.mp3
entire album: http://www.scrubclubrecords.com/music/8bit.html
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236200 finally beat that damn ninja. Got all the way to the boomerang guy on level 4.
INP available.
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Glad I decided to play one more.
258050. Had Mr Boomerang down to 1 block. He seems way easier than Mr Ninja. INP available.
If anyone was wondering, Gun.Smoke looks pretty darn good using Soft-15Khz and running at 352x256
edit: i'm dyslexic
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I'm out with injury.
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If anyone was running, Gun.Smoke looks pretty darn good using Soft-15Khz and running at 352x256
I prefer Advancemame, as it runs it at 400x256@60hz. Of course, I can do 18khz, heh. I have to get warmed up on this game, again, though my best ain't above 250k.
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I'm out with injury.
YES!!! I may actually have a chance!!!
Just kidding. Hopefully nothing serious? A bad case of Nintendo thumb? Get well soon, man. You should use your downtime to rebuild your Wonderboy site (that is such a great site).
I am pretty addicted to this game. There is definitely a difficulty hump that you have to get over, but once you understand how things move in this game, it can be quite intense. I think I'm proficient enough at this point, I'll probably switch over to US set 2 like mrclean says and pad my score out a bit.
I hope someone steps up and starts pushing things... mrclean has to be pretty underwhelmed by our scores.
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YES!!! I may actually have a chance!!!
Just kidding. Hopefully nothing serious? A bad case of Nintendo thumb? Get well soon, man.
Haha, nothing serious. :) It's an existing problem, but the intensity of trigger action in Gun Smoke has brought it out. I'll take some down time and be back for round #13. >:D
I'm really enjoying these game competitions, it's keeping me more active in the rest of the forum.
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Actually it's funny I did already beat my own record several times and even have the .inp files. I did re-send them in a long time ago to try to bump my score up but they never changed it. However to me more importantly I still have on DVD breaking the Non-MAME actual arcade dedicated on my Gun.Smoke machine from Nov. 2nd 2008. I might send it into Kelly Flewin in Canda since he originally reviewed my MAME score... or perhaps beat the record during a public performance in NH this year. The only thing that I'm not really excited about is playing Gun.Smoke in Funspot, NH with a bat top micro-switch joystick eww!
Also a side note, but I recently replaced my LCD with a 24.8'' CRT and need for MAME 106 to be the same as pixel aspect for MAME 129. If that makes any sense, basically the image for me seems too squeezed now. It looked perfect when I had the setting to ROL / Rotate MAME because I had my LCD on a vesa arm, and then the ratio was actually 9:6. I can't seem to figure out what ratio I need to have it running on my 4:3 CRT without looking soo compressed.
Having had lots of different arcade monitors, a can say the only one that i was able to get the right aspect ratio on was the billabs 27" CRT because it has a max resolution of 1024x768 which gave it plenty of room to fit.
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It comes to mind to ask which direction he's thinking is squeezed. I tend to think 4:3 vertical games on a horizontal monitor look a little fat - meaning from side to side. 'Squeeze' to me means vertically shorter than the available display field of the monitor.) That's why, when using hwstretch or D3D, I've often used 5:4 or 7:5. I think I like 7:5 best, and natively set my screen geometry similarly.
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i'm now on to a new project.. i put down MAME for a little bit now trying to work on my Bubble Bobble Project. I snatched it inside a robotron 2084 cabinet. not Gun.Smoke related.. but this is keeping me busy...
I'm going to keep it Bubble Bobble.. because I personally LOVE that game. so far I used some lovely paint thinner, and used a palm sander to get it down to just about the bare wood. still a long way to go but the end result should be good.
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LOL, Cleans score is so high he could post a picture of a microwave & it would still somehow pertain to Gunsmoke :cheers:
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this would be a neat item to keep extra NOS leaf buttons / wicos in...
(http://www.vectisdirect.co.uk/images/super/TV77.jpg)
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I'm suckin a dick at this right now, so no scores.
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Damn ummon come on step up to the plate you rocked at this game not too long ago. I'm just sitting here waiting for my various parts for my bubble bobble project. so far its commin out really nice and i'm getting faster the more cabs i work on, if i had all of the parts I woulda been done with the restore already.
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312550, not very far into level 5
I feel like these runs of mine are pretty pathetic. I'm suprised no one else is posting. Unless Dr Frag is just faking his injury and he's going to swoop in at the last minute and crush me.
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Damn ummon come on step up to the plate you rocked at this game not too long ago. I'm just sitting here waiting for my various parts for my bubble bobble project. so far its commin out really nice and i'm getting faster the more cabs i work on, if i had all of the parts I woulda been done with the restore already.
Wehhll-hnh. I wasn't that good. We'll see. I'll have to sit down with it a spell, which I haven't yet.
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312550, not very far into level 5
I feel like these runs of mine are pretty pathetic. I'm suprised no one else is posting. Unless Dr Frag is just faking his injury and he's going to swoop in at the last minute and crush me.
Hey that exact spot you died with the three dudes, if you just hold up on the joystick you will get past them, no shooting is even necessary. ;) then you gotta face pig joe.
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Here's a token entry. I might get another before the comp's out.
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Ummon did you die by ways of the Ninja's darts ? If so the way to kill him is after he does his back flip, Go after him right after he lands then he is vulnerable to your bullets :D
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Ummon did you die by ways of the Ninja's darts ? If so the way to kill him is after he does his back flip, Go after him right after he lands then he is vulnerable to your bullets :D
ahh mrclean
you make it sound so easy. this game is pretty brutal. I find what helps more than anything else is entering a kind of tantric state to help you track the 5000 things happening on screen at the same time. especially these insane boss fights. even knowing the boss's pattern doesn't help you when guys can appear randomly at your sides at any time and end you
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Tick Tock...So who's gonna win ? , just remember to PM me your address should you want my free crappy but yet related prize.
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Ummon did you die by ways of the Ninja's darts ? If so the way to kill him is after he does his back flip, Go after him right after he lands then he is vulnerable to your bullets :D
I found that trying to directly attack the boss from early on is best, but sort of like isu says, it can be a beast getting clear shots. I got time for another tonight.
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334100 got to Mr. Dynamite
That's gonna be it for me. Fun game.
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334100 got to Mr. Dynamite
That's gonna be it for me. Fun game.
Pig Joe can sometimes be annoying.. so is 334,100 the top score ?? If so isucamper PM me your address if you want that prize, contest ends in 5min.
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334100 got to Mr. Dynamite
That's gonna be it for me. Fun game.
Pig Joe can sometimes be annoying.. so is 334,100 the top score ?? If so isucamper PM me your address if you want that prize, contest ends in 5min.
ok, i'll wait till midnight, you never know
suggestions for the next round?
I'm thinking:
Rolling Thunder
Kung-fu Master
or
Gladiator
I'd love to do some rotary stick games... but that'd probably put most of you at an unfair advantage.
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"The waiting is the hardest part" - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers.
Speaking of waiting, side note.. im just about to finish my Bubble Bobble project or rather I would have but still waiting on a ton of parts.
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isucamper won this competition #12. And shall choose the next game for round #13. Since it's a ghoulish number perhaps splatter house, ghost and ghouls, ghost and goblins hehe not a requirement But Id really like to keep this prize thing going ideally something related to the game, but can simply be NOS Joystick, Buttons etc.
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isucamper won this competition #12. And shall choose the next game for round #13. Since it's a ghoulish number perhaps splatter house, ghost and ghouls, ghost and goblins hehe not a requirement But Id really like to keep this prize thing going ideally something related to the game, but can simply be NOS Joystick, Buttons etc.
i'll pick a game sometime tomorrow (although I do have a thought for a prize if we do ghosts n goblins or ghouls and ghosts)
if anyone has any other suggestions, post it here
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Your Prize shall ship tomorrow (Wed. 18th), Congrats!
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Congrats isucamper!
Gun.Smoke is a hard game and I completely SUCK at it. I tried to enter this contest, but never came close to achieving a score I'd even consider posting.
Either of the G&G games would definitely up the difficulty level and will cement the fact that I will not be entering. :)
(Edit: Funny, I won the Ghouls 'n Ghosts competition. I guess I didn't like how I sounded above and did something about it.)