Community High Scores on a Game cartridge?

[+doctorclu]

For game developers of future Jaguar games, what I think would be interesting is the ability to somehow have the ability to download on the eeprom on the cartridge the current high score list and names of those in the Jaguar gaming community.

 

I think what inspired this was generally you find yourself competing against the game designer and playtesters. If nothing else, download a more current list, play against those, and later down the road you could plug in the cart and see a list of your old friends.

 

In days when you could have friends over they could have manually left their own name. I suppose the only alternative is play the game to their score, stop it there, enter their name.

 

But if scores to the high score list could be somehow updated, much like how game patches could be uploaded to Battlesphere or other approaches.

 

[+CyranoJ]

So, a reverse webcode?

[+madman]

[+doctorclu]

So, a reverse webcode?

 

Yeh the trend of the webcode is what got me thinking about this.

[Zerosquare]

Interesting idea. The problem is, how would you send the data to the Jaguar?

 

Manual entry is out of the question, unless you like inputting several hundreds characters with a gamepad (that said, you enjoy playing Bubsy, so who knows?)

 

You could use a JagLink or (S)catbox and an USB-to-serial adapter, but I don't know how many people own those.

[LianneJaguar64]

Interesting idea. The problem is, how would you send the data to the Jaguar?

 

Manual entry is out of the question, unless you like inputting several hundreds characters with a gamepad (that said, you enjoy playing Bubsy, so who knows?)

 

You could use a JagLink or (S)catbox and an USB-to-serial adapter, but I don't know how many people own those.

With the SD cart you could potentially alter the values based on posted results in a forum thread, say, but you'd still have to access code and understand coding, at least sufficiently to identify the segment of code that puts out the high scores on screen. But then if you're going through the effort of doing that, you might as well just put the high scores in a thread with photos and that would probably be an easier work around

[+madman]

With the SD cart you could potentially alter the values based on posted results in a forum thread, say, but you'd still have to access code and understand coding, at least sufficiently to identify the segment of code that puts out the high scores on screen. But then if you're going through the effort of doing that, you might as well just put the high scores in a thread with photos and that would probably be an easier work around

Why would you have to understand the code that puts out the high scores on the screen? The high scores would be saved in EEPROM. You'd just need to understand the format in which the score data is being stored.