STGT 2k6- Week #1 Poll (Horizontal Week)

Acid King · Post by **Acid King** » Fri Aug 18, 2006 11:49 pm

GaijinPunch wrote:
Acid King wrote:Now the challenge is to get a working Blazing Star rom.
Try a different MAME version. I've found the ROM looks like shit on the latest version of MAME32, but works fine on an older version.

Actually, the ROM I got just doesn't work at all. I've tried two versions of MAME and netiher worked with it. Must be a bad dump or something.

howmuchkeefe · Post by **howmuchkeefe** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 12:48 am

Nuts, Blazing Star doesn't work in either version of MAME I have. Wish I had known that before I voted for it.

...same with Sexy Parodius!

I knew me copy of S Parodius wouldn't work with MAME32, but I was hoping that wolfmame would run it. Nuts.

BBH · Post by **BBH** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 12:56 am

howmuchkeefe wrote:Nuts, Blazing Star doesn't work in either version of MAME I have. Wish I had known that before I voted for it.

Blazing Star works in the latest versions of MAME, you just need the newest rom dump because graphic roms were redumped for a few Neo-Geo games a while back. If you're too lazy to find a new romset, then find a version of MAME pre-0.80 or so.

or you might need a new Neo-Geo bios file since that's been updated every now and then too.

Kiken · Post by **Kiken** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 1:12 am

Neo-Rage X (as ancient as it is) runs Blazing Star decently.

howmuchkeefe · Post by **howmuchkeefe** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 2:01 am

BBH gave me good advice. I got another copy of Blazing Star, MAME32v.102, downloaded the neo geo bios for MAME 0.105+ and added it to the Blazing Star archive, and now I can play it.

Post by **Shatterhand** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 3:22 am

Wow, Sexy Parodius got very close to Blazing Star now, huh?

The Coop · Post by **The Coop** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 3:28 am

Not good. Blazing Star I can find. Sexy Parodius, I can't.

Turrican · Post by **Turrican** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 3:35 am

The Coop wrote:Not good. Blazing Star I can find. Sexy Parodius, I can't.

well, it's the exact opposite for me, teammate

(btw, should I pm you for that cool banner?)

The Coop · Post by **The Coop** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 3:51 am

Turrican wrote:
The Coop wrote:Not good. Blazing Star I can find. Sexy Parodius, I can't.
well, it's the exact opposite for me, teammate

(btw, should I pm you for that cool banner?)

Huh. I never saw anything that said people had been added to our team. I thought there was still just four of us.

Anyway, here's your banner...

Welcome aboard. You can blame Edge's lack of informing for its delayed arrival. Or, if a I missed a post somewhere, then just blame it on a brain fart of mine

And don't worry. If BS wins, I can point you to where I found it.

Edge · Post by **Edge** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 4:00 am

The Coop wrote:You can blame Edge's lack of informing for its delayed arrival. Or, if a I missed a post somewhere, then just blame it on a brain fart of mine

Ah sorry, I should have written you a pm. I posted it in the Shooting Tournament 2006 thread, but this thread is really messy and big so things can easily stay unnoticed there.

And the teams:
USA Eastcoast, USA Westcoast & Team Cowboy still have no banner.

I have decided for one of the many logos for team loser for now, if you'd like it to be changed please tell me.

landshark · Post by **landshark** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 4:04 am

The Coop wrote:Not good. Blazing Star I can find. Sexy Parodius, I can't.

I've got the opposite problem. My Blazing Star has completely corrupt graphics (everything is a square). Sexy Parodius on the other hand works fine.

Buffi · Post by **Buffi** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 9:48 am

Sexy Parodius GET!

Vincere · Post by **Vincere** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 11:55 am

As we're 92 contestants, there are only 5 votes left! It can make the difference so people please vote.

*Crosses fingers for Blazing Star to keep its advantage*

Leeram · Post by **Leeram** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 2:22 pm

I have downloaded the latest ROM for sex parodius. I'm using mame32 .107 but I can't get it to work. The rom isn't available in the game list.

When I select sexy p from the "all games" list is gives a note that the video isn't emulated properly.

Is there a different version of mame I should be using to get this to work? I'm beginning to wish I hadn't voted for this now!

Cheers

Lee

Post by **Icarus** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 2:29 pm

Leeram wrote:I have downloaded the latest ROM for sex parodius. I'm using mame32 .107 but I can't get it to work. The rom isn't available in the game list.

When I select sexy p from the "all games" list is gives a note that the video isn't emulated properly.

Is there a different version of mame I should be using to get this to work? I'm beginning to wish I hadn't voted for this now!

Cheers

Lee

I believe you need the bios for Sexy Paro to run. konamigx I believe it is, quite small at 8kb.

professor ganson · Post by **professor ganson** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 2:45 pm

Ha, Sexy Parodius is making a run. Very nice. I haven't spent a lot of time with this game, but last time I checked it seemed to be near as good as Chatting Parodius.

Leeram · Post by **Leeram** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 2:59 pm

Yes , that's what it was. I downloaded the BIOS and put it in the ROMS directory and the root Mame32 directory, just in case!.

Thanks

Lee

Post by **Icarus** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 3:25 pm

Sexy Paro is teh awsum, probably the best of the series for me. I haven't put my vote in yet, as I'm waiting to see how close it gets as it draws closer to the start day for the first day. ^_-

I'd love to play SSF-Macross 2 in the smeet, but unless fifty people vote between now and Monday, thats highly unlikely. ;_;

1up · Post by **1up** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 3:34 pm

89 votes so far. how many has entered the tourney?

Vincere · Post by **Vincere** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 4:41 pm

1up wrote:89 votes so far. how many has entered the tourney?

Vincere wrote:As we're 92 contestants, there are only 5 votes left! It can make the difference so people please vote.

*Crosses fingers for Blazing Star to keep its advantage*

Leeram · Post by **Leeram** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 4:57 pm

I don't see what'sstopping other people from voting as well, it's an open vote that anyone can take part in. It's possible to get more than 90 I would say.

If you think about it though, getting 90 people together to take part in a friendly competition and group themselves into teams basically using chaos theory or something is amazing. The Net rules!

jpj · Post by **jpj** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 6:48 pm

blazing star is a fine choice.

and for the record, every ship can milk the last boss, although why are we arguing about it when only 1-2 players on these boards can even *reach* the stage 7 boss on a credit?

if somebody actually has the skills to perform a counter stop with the peplos, they should be rewarded, and possibly deemed a demi-god.

(i used to have the SOF vhs super-play of this, and there is no aryustailm glitch. and surviving a certain amount of time without a death on stage 7 boss causes the babies to change colour and kamikaze into your ship.)

Post by **Shatterhand** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 9:13 pm

I have both Sexy Parodius and Blazing Star working flawlessly.

Also the other 3 games are working with my MAME version without any problems.

PM me if you need help.

jpj · Post by **jpj** » Sat Aug 19, 2006 10:36 pm

gemant is gonna be all over this!

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 2:21 am

I like how there are more votes than people playing.

sikraiken · Post by **sikraiken** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 3:35 am

Rob wrote:I like how there are more votes than people playing.

Next time, I think it should be a private vote by PM from each person, that way you only get the people playing voting instead of who knows who.

landshark · Post by **landshark** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 4:27 am

SiKrAiKeN wrote:
Rob wrote:I like how there are more votes than people playing.
Next time, I think it should be a private vote by PM from each person, that way you only get the people playing voting instead of who knows who.

Agreed.

DEL · Post by **DEL** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 8:39 am

True, once the total number of votes = total number of players, then it should be capped right there. Decision is made at 95 votes - or whatever the exact number is.
(No need for the voting to be done by PMs, just cap the voting as above^).

Over to you Edge.

Edge · Post by **Edge** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 9:18 am

About other possible voting methods:
I agree, the PM method might be more accurate. But it would be pretty painful to sort out more than 90 PMs. And it would make things more complicated. These open poll's are quite a good decission with so many participants joining. More than 90% of the votes on top are probably of the participants (we don't know if all participants have really already voted). And I think this is a good average. Open polls on active boards will always get some random clicks just from people who like voting and offcourse participants can also ask someone else on the board to vote for their games. (Good thing that only registered users can vote.)

I still think the current result 100 votes of 91 participants is pretty good.

However I am thinking to make the next poll a 24h poll. I'll host it on Sunday morning and on Monday we'll start the next game. This way we can prevent that people already start practising games that are in the lead. And hopefully make tactical voting a bit more difficult.

DEL wrote:True, once the total number of votes = total number of players, then it should be capped right there.

Well there are only two problems with this system. First I am not always online and I might cap the vote when we have got already more votes. (but this isn't really an issue, as it could still be used to prevent worse)
The main problem is participants might wait to actually vote for a game, when on the meantime random people filled the poll-limit. Resulting in cutting off the poll when some actually playing members haven't voted yet.

That's at least how I think.

EDIT:
The teams USA Eascoast, USA Westcoast and Team Cowboy are still without a banner.

Someone could help out?

Dennis · Post by **Dennis** » Sun Aug 20, 2006 12:50 pm

If Blazing Star wins, and auto-fire is allowed, how can we setup auto-fire in mame? I'm using mame 0107.

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