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High Score Competition #70: Sky Shark (was Hacha Mecha Fighter)
opt2not:
--- Quote from: torino on July 04, 2011, 05:10:55 am ---...can you please explain in few words what do you like, or not like, about this idea? Thank you.
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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. ;)
emphatic:
--- Quote from: torino on July 04, 2011, 11:23:41 am ---Ok, so I have a slight problem then. I'm using MAME .88 and I don't have "Extend 50K, 200K, 150K+", only "50, 150K+" and some other different option. Also I should mention perhaps, in this version there is four difficulty levels, where 2nd one (default) is called "normal". What version of MAME are you using?
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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? :)
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.
torino:
--- Quote from: Raitsa on July 04, 2011, 11:32:31 am ---torino´s scoreboard thingy needs its own topic and IMHO it should be included in the most popular MAME-versions as a choosable option (for all games), its such a cool feature. :applaud:
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I already had a thread about it, and although the topic attracted some attention no one cared enough to actually try it out. I then decided to suggest some automated version of "live scoreboard", based on this, to Twin Galaxies, but their forum seem pretty deserted so I did not even bother, and I also went to MARP, but their forum does not even seem to accept any new registrations.
Anyway, the problem with this early "prototype" solution, using public web-folder, is that anyone can do whatever they like with server files, so it's only suitable for small closed circles, like this "forum competition" for example. Still, since it is very easy to enter whatever score without even playing the game, it should be mandatory for screenshot or photo to be at time of the name registration where the current entry is visibly selected or character cursor is still in "edit mode".
If there was real interest in this "Live Arcade Scoreboard" thing, like there is for PlayStation and Xbox networks, then this would need more serious server able to provide individual accounts and backup system, plus enforce mandatory submission of .inp files to avoid cheating and stuff. Kind of like MARP or TG, where the only difference would be that submissions could be done with a single press of a button, or automatically when the game starts and exists back to some front-end, as well as that everyone could actually see current scoreboard right there in the games itself.
It may be easier to get from 100 to 1000 than from 0 to 10 people.
Perhaps it is not easy for people to realize just how cool this could be.
We need sponsors, prizes and promotions to make it really really cool, fast.
jimmy2x2x:
Is this the right place for the high score comp?
torino:
--- Quote from: jasonbar on July 04, 2011, 12:30:58 pm ---Although I won't participate in the shared high score system (because my cabinet isn't on a network & because I'm a software flunky), if somebody wants to perform the manual input of our scores & present them in a high score screen grab as torino is doing, that is a *GREAT* way to show our scores visually--sure beats having to dig through the thread & pick out all the scores!
Thanks,
-Jason
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Everyone can enter scores themselves from (almost) whatever computer they use to post messages on this forum. The computer does not need to have MAME and you do not need to copy anything from or to the machine you are playing on, so the only disadvantage would be that you yourself will not see complete scoreboard, unless you afterwards copy "skyshark.hi" over to your cabinet via USB stick or something.
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