Rot Season 1 Round 2 - Submit Scores Here - Deadline Feb 28 2011 (Last
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skeezix
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The clowns and dancing girls are really annoying 
Oh, in parodius, too
jeff
Oh, in parodius, too jeff
Caine
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I keep spamming start and the action buttons during those sequences in the hope that someday the game finally understands I want to skip them.Tickles said:
Did you ever try climbing up the wall above the first door between the three turrets and the virtual zone? You get an arena fight followed by a cheesy game ending.
I feel like you're about to beat my highscore and I'm stuck here writing a conference paper with little time to do something about it
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Caine
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Something stupid happened tonight.
I was playing contra while waiting on my train. I had reached the boss of level four in a near perfect run and decided to create a savestate for future practice and continued to fight the boss. At the point that I reached the final phase of the boss fight my train arrived so I paused my game, closed my pandora and got in.
Upon opening my unit again I noticed my savestate had been reloaded (oh crap , the R button, how could I forget). Upon unpausing the game the emulator was extremely laggy because my CPU was still downclocked so I immediately died. I waited for the framerate to recover, reloaded again and continued the boss-fight which went identical as before (perfect run), defeated him and continued to beat my high score with a new score of 270.100.
My question to you guys. Is this a valid high score as I accidentally reset to the start of the boss-fight (to my own disadvantage, undoing a perfect run) or is this run too tainted to enter (After all I did load a save-state)?
Naturally, I feel obliged to myself to beat this score in a single straight run and eliminate all doubt, but time is running out, so I might not manage.
-Caine.
I was playing contra while waiting on my train. I had reached the boss of level four in a near perfect run and decided to create a savestate for future practice and continued to fight the boss. At the point that I reached the final phase of the boss fight my train arrived so I paused my game, closed my pandora and got in.
Upon opening my unit again I noticed my savestate had been reloaded (oh crap
, the R button, how could I forget). Upon unpausing the game the emulator was extremely laggy because my CPU was still downclocked so I immediately died. I waited for the framerate to recover, reloaded again and continued the boss-fight which went identical as before (perfect run), defeated him and continued to beat my high score with a new score of 270.100.My question to you guys. Is this a valid high score as I accidentally reset to the start of the boss-fight (to my own disadvantage, undoing a perfect run) or is this run too tainted to enter (After all I did load a save-state)?
Naturally, I feel obliged to myself to beat this score in a single straight run and eliminate all doubt, but time is running out, so I might not manage.
-Caine.
DavidBowman
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Caine, I'd say that's cool with me. But I want you to beat it all the same.
As for me, I've been playing Parodius. I used to play Life Force an awful lot on the NES, and I have to say that I like this game a lot too. Oddly, I never got into the Gradius (Gradii?) games. I'll have to give those a shot now. I forgot how much I like this style of game. My score is below, but I'm going to beat that before the deadline.
Parodius
156,300
179,100 David Bowman
<edit> I find it utterly annoying how the game's difficulty increases exponentially when you have a lot of power ups.
As for me, I've been playing Parodius. I used to play Life Force an awful lot on the NES, and I have to say that I like this game a lot too. Oddly, I never got into the Gradius (Gradii?) games. I'll have to give those a shot now. I forgot how much I like this style of game. My score is below, but I'm going to beat that before the deadline.
Parodius
179,100 David Bowman
<edit> I find it utterly annoying how the game's difficulty increases exponentially when you have a lot of power ups.
euro48k
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Parodius DA!
dancing lady is sexy
i'll return with more than 80.000 points
goodluck!
163.700 164.100 201.700
237.600 - end of story - it ain't fun anymore ...killed by
crazy bees and ugly devils drives me mad :angry:
dancing lady is sexy
i'll return with more than
goodluck
237.600 - end of story -
it ain't fun anymore ...killed by crazy bees and ugly devils drives me mad :angry:
Caine
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Nice summaryTickles said:Just kiddingCaine said:I have no problem allowing it.
But, thanks. As my main rival, your opinion matters to me most. However, if you can do it once you can do it again: 273723 Fully legit this time.
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levi
Still fresh, damnit!
Damnit, all the high scorers are coming out now! For me, I finally managed to get Pentarou as far as the eagle boss (and a bit further). I should be able to beat this score, but I'm quite pleased with it so I'll put it up before I forget it:
Parodius Da!
123100
151800 (switched back to Vic Viper)
165500 (back to Pentarou!)
@Caine I'd say savestates are permissable, if for example you don't have time to play a full session in one go. I'd say this is a special case of that. What we don't want is people creating savestates so they can cheat by reloading - you didn't do that, you created a savestate because your train came. I think that's the key - the intent when you make the savestate. I don't think savestates normally give you much benefit anyway - I find it hard to get back into the zone on starting at a save state.
Parodius Da!
165500 (back to Pentarou!)
@Caine I'd say savestates are permissable, if for example you don't have time to play a full session in one go. I'd say this is a special case of that. What we don't want is people creating savestates so they can cheat by reloading - you didn't do that, you created a savestate because your train came. I think that's the key - the intent when you make the savestate. I don't think savestates normally give you much benefit anyway - I find it hard to get back into the zone on starting at a save state.
euro48k
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as for savestates
1 coin ..1 game
that was my childhood based on
1 coin ..1 game
that was my childhood based on
Caine
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Well, I'm glad I managed to beat that score. It just didn't feel right.
I have no issue with using savestates to just suspend your game until you have time to continue but loading back to a savestate for any reason but continuing where you stopped would be cheating (it's fine for practice but not for real scoring runs).
This case was a bit on the border since it was an accidental savestate load and I didn't undo any mistakes. Well, problem solved anyway.
<edit>Wow, this is turning out to be just the impulse I needed. Almost cleared the game on my last run. 321.495
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I have no issue with using savestates to just suspend your game until you have time to continue but loading back to a savestate for any reason but continuing where you stopped would be cheating (it's fine for practice but not for real scoring runs).
This case was a bit on the border since it was an accidental savestate load and I didn't undo any mistakes. Well, problem solved anyway.
<edit>Wow, this is turning out to be just the impulse I needed. Almost cleared the game on my last run. 321.495
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Caine
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Contra 330.031
StarG
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Contra 33.680 StarG :unsure:
DavidBowman
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euro48k said:Parodius DA!
237.600 - end of story -
crazy bees and ugly devils drives me mad :angry:
Nice score! Are you playing the arcade version?
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levi
Still fresh, damnit!
Gah, damnit. I was pretty happy with that score and thought it got me well into the top three - only for the ground to shift under me right at the end!
/throws toys out of perambulators etc.
Well done chaps! Looks like the best man won in the end
/throws toys out of perambulators etc.
Well done chaps! Looks like the best man won in the end
Jack Attack 500
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Jack Attack 500
Parodius
201,900
( Still 2/28 here in the states )
Parodius
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