Cynicaster Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 At long last, let's get this show on the road! The basic setup, standings calculation, etc. of the competition will be mostly the same as last season, but with the following changes: - each player's lowest 3 percentage scores will no longer be excluded from their average - instead, there will be (2) "redemption rounds" - one after round #5 and one after round #9 - where players can submit improved scores on games already played, or games they missed. Two "improved" scores per redemption round per player will be allowed The pool of games submitted so far is pasted at the bottom of this post. If you suggested a game and it isn't shown in this list, it's probably because it does not meet the provided submission guidelines (i.e., it uses a special controller, lacks a proper scoring system, etc.) If you have not used up your 5 selections, feel free to submit more until you have, but as of now, new/different submissions will not be accepted from anybody who has already submitted 5 picks. Once again, Sunday June 28th is go-time; see y'all then. CYN Name Selected By 1 Venture AtariWarlord 2 Astroblaster AtariWarlord 3 Colony 7 AtariWarlord 4 Joust AtariWarlord 5 Time Pilot AtariWarlord 6 Eggs Cynicaster 7 Gigawing Cynicaster 8 Donkey Kong Cynicaster 9 Popeye Cynicaster 10 Rush'N Attack Cynicaster 11 Twin Cobra Floyd Turbo 12 Star Force Floyd Turbo 13 S.S. Mission Floyd Turbo 14 Jackal Floyd Turbo 15 Wonder Boy Floyd Turbo 16 Renegade hero2billions 17 Captain America and the Avengers hero2billions 18 Moonwalker hero2billions 19 Quartet hero2billions 20 Tumblepop hero2billions 21 King & Balloon Jaden (JRH) 22 Toypop Jaden (JRH) 23 DoDonPachi MAME Offender 24 Defender MAME Offender 25 Eyes MAME Offender 26 Bomb Jack MAME Offender 27 Black Widow MAME Offender 28 Eliminator Mangia-Boy 29 Rescue Ramses 30 R-Type Leo roadrunner 31 Toki roadrunner 32 Vulgus roadrunner 33 Rainbow Islands S.BAZ 34 Qix S.BAZ 35 Rod Land S.BAZ 36 Star Castle S.BAZ 37 Alien vs Predator youxia 38 Bubble Bobble youxia 39 Armed Police Batrider youxia 40 Boogie Wings youxia 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hero2billions Posted June 23, 2020 Share Posted June 23, 2020 Excellent lots of amazing games to play. Cynicaster, i was wondering if you could post the roms or the site where you get them. I'd like to practice some of the ones i'm unfamiliar with. Best of luck to all participants Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Floyd Turbo Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 I cringed when I saw Qix. I have the hardest time with that game. hero2billions, I found this site that is actually still hosting MAME Rom downloads. https://www.retrostic.com/roms/mame They seem to be mostly American Roms, but at least you can familiarize yourself with the games. Hopefully they work with the version of MAME you are running. I use an old MAME 0.122 and if you need all the Roms for that, I'm sure I can set up a Dropbox, or something and get them to you. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Floyd Turbo Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 I played Gigawing that Cyn suggested and played the 'world' Rom. It's funny that you can score 51 Billion points in a game. ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 Doperoms was a great site for MAME roms and bios but is no longer around. edgeemu.net is pretty good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariWarlord Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 14 hours ago, Floyd Turbo said: I cringed when I saw Qix. I have the hardest time with that game. hero2billions, I found this site that is actually still hosting MAME Rom downloads. https://www.retrostic.com/roms/mame They seem to be mostly American Roms, but at least you can familiarize yourself with the games. Hopefully they work with the version of MAME you are running. I use an old MAME 0.122 and if you need all the Roms for that, I'm sure I can set up a Dropbox, or something and get them to you. The Internet Arcade on archive.org is also a good source for familiarizing yourself with some of the games on this list. https://archive.org/details/internetarcade Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoyous Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 My availability is always spotty but I'll pop in to mix it up when I can! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solidus Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 Hey all, not sure if this was mentioned anywhere... but is using FBneo via retroarch OK for this? I tend to play all my arcade games with that and use MAME for special cases Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.BAZ Posted June 28, 2020 Share Posted June 28, 2020 Coolrom is also a great resource. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cynicaster Posted June 28, 2020 Author Share Posted June 28, 2020 On 6/25/2020 at 10:31 PM, solidus said: Hey all, not sure if this was mentioned anywhere... but is using FBneo via retroarch OK for this? I tend to play all my arcade games with that and use MAME for special cases I'm not familiar with that emulator, but I'd have no reason to exclude it unless you were unable to adjust the DIPs to the correct settings for the games we play. Can that be done with FBneo? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solidus Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 18 hours ago, Cynicaster said: I'm not familiar with that emulator, but I'd have no reason to exclude it unless you were unable to adjust the DIPs to the correct settings for the games we play. Can that be done with FBneo? Yep you can modify them. This is the emu in case youre interested. https://retropie.org.uk/docs/FinalBurn-Neo/ Its a fork of Finalburn Alpha. Its considered to be more accurate than MAME for many games especially neogeo.. so I tend to use it alot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razzie.P Posted July 25, 2020 Share Posted July 25, 2020 I think I came in right after you guys started this round, so is it too late to submit games for the pool? If it's not too late, do I post them here, or PM someone with the titles? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cynicaster Posted July 27, 2020 Author Share Posted July 27, 2020 (edited) On 7/25/2020 at 3:16 PM, Razzie.P said: I think I came in right after you guys started this round, so is it too late to submit games for the pool? If it's not too late, do I post them here, or PM someone with the titles? Thanks! Not too late. The only thing I ask is that people don't change their submissions after the competition starts, but if you haven't sent any in yet then feel free at any time and I'll add them. You can post them in this thread. Before submitting a game please review the eligibility guidelines. Quote In general, the criteria for accepting a suggestion are as follows: - the game is emulated reasonably well in the "official" MAME version of this competition (v139). It's very unlikely that this rule will affect anything. - the game plays properly in a single-player mode - the game has a scoring system that can be used to compare performance among participants - the game can be played more or less as originally intended using nothing more than a single joystick and/or buttons. To illustrate what "more or less as originally intended" means: we can play a game like Satan's Hollow or Gorf with generic sticks and buttons even though the original joysticks are physically quite different from generic ones, but games that originally used trackballs, spinners, steering wheels, analog flight sticks, yokes, etc. are not eligible, even though MAME provides ways of faking these games with joysticks - the game was not played in the latest season Edited July 27, 2020 by Cynicaster Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted September 18, 2020 Share Posted September 18, 2020 Thoughts on using arcade collection discs or plug n plays? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cynicaster Posted September 19, 2020 Author Share Posted September 19, 2020 11 hours ago, roadrunner said: Thoughts on using arcade collection discs or plug n plays? I’d rather not, unless there is a way to verify what ROM versions and DIP settings are being used. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted September 19, 2020 Share Posted September 19, 2020 14 hours ago, Cynicaster said: I’d rather not, unless there is a way to verify what ROM versions and DIP settings are being used. Ok, just thought i'd ask It would save wear and tear on my pc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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