STGT 2k6 Week #1: Blazing Star

Vincere · Post by **Vincere** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 9:57 am

WTF, there are 30 people left to post their score and there's only 3min left...

Post by **Icarus** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 10:05 am

Its the end of the deadline. Good job everyone! Great scores coming in.
I haven't been playing well at all last two nights. Could have easily passed the 45mil mark but couldn't concentrate at all last night and fumbled all my credits - all of them at the start of the large red battleship in stage6 with 29mil+. ;_;

In any rate, I did say that I'd release the 43.8mil ALL replay as proof at the playing week's deadline.

--> WolfMAME+ v0.106
--> Player: Icarus // Blazing Star, 43.8mil ALL, using Windina (WolfMAME input file)

I'll probably play a bit more and see if I can pass my target.

Leeram · Post by **Leeram** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 10:31 am

There's still 30 minutes left!! Or am I thinking BST?

Well dunno if it's going to count but I thought we had till 12 today and it's only 11.30 on my clock so here's trying!

Leeram - Underdogs - 14,860,510 - 5 - Windina - MVS - No Autofire

Crossing my fingers!

Cheers

Leeram

Leeram · Post by **Leeram** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 10:35 am

according to my last post it was posted on

Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 10:31 am

so I have a whole 1.5 hours left! Wahoo. We are an hour in front of GMT . Go to go, must try again. I stupidly died on the last score I could easily have got more if I could just concentrate .... toootal concentwation!

Cheers

Leeram

mulletgeezer · Post by **mulletgeezer** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 10:35 am

i thought it finished at midday GMT, which is 90 minutes away surely?

Post by **Icarus** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 10:41 am

Correct. Better get your skates on. ^_-

elbarto · Post by **elbarto** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 10:50 am

Pathetically small increase, but as the game didn't save my last score..

elbarto - namakoteam - 14,654,680 - Stage 5 - Windina - MAME

I'm done, time to play something more fun.

Edge · Post by **Edge** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 10:56 am

Week is Over.

No more scores!

zakk · Post by **zakk** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 11:11 am

Err, it's not 11:59 yet?

Edge · Post by **Edge** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 11:11 am

Please_check_the_first_post_to_see_the_final_results.

Well, I think this week was a lot of fun and I am_happy_to_see_that_72_players_have_submitted_scores. (I was kinda afraid that lots of player sign up, but wouldn't play at all).

I am just a bit dissapointed, I couldn't beat my score from thursday and need to buy a new keyboard now.

And we had an overall friendly and relatively positive tone in it. (moaning about the game is inevitable.). So let's keep this spirit in the next weeks.

I'll open a new thread soon for the team and player rankings.

EDIT:

zakk wrote:Err, it's not 11:59 yet?

Well, my first ending post was made on 11:56am GMT. So, according to the forum time people still had 4 minutes. But these are already over. as it is around 12:12pm now.

zakk · Post by **zakk** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 11:17 am

Ahem:

http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/

It's 11:17 GMT right now. The problem is I believe you are under daylight savings time, so your time is GMT+ 1 hour.

For ease of checking, the forum is on GMT. You can check the current time by viewing the front page.

Post by **Icarus** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 11:19 am

WEEK NOT OVER.
COMMENCE BIG RUSH OF SCORES!

mulletgeezer · Post by **mulletgeezer** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 11:19 am

that's daylight saving time, GMT +1. There's still 40 minutes to go.

zakk · Post by **zakk** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 11:25 am

Icarus wrote:WEEK NOT OVER.
COMMENCE BIG RUSH OF SCORES!

I can't even bring myself to play for another 40 minutes. The worst part is a few hours ago I switched to Windina on a whim and it's clear I should have picked that ship from the beginning. Oops.

Edge · Post by **Edge** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 11:26 am

You guys...seem right, but I switched my setting to GMT, over here (GMT+1) it is 13:29.

I checked the timezones on windows, though... seems like there are two different GMTs...??

EDIT:
I give itone moretry...

Post by **Icarus** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 11:31 am

zakk wrote:I can't even bring myself to play for another 40 minutes. The worst part is a few hours ago I switched to Windina on a whim and it's clear I should have picked that ship from the beginning. Oops.

Yeah, I started with the Aryu as well, and was scoring very well up until the third boss. After constant failing on milking the third boss (probably about 1-in-20 credits I'd actually do it properly) I switched to Windina and had more success.

Aryu is good if you can get past particular problem areas.

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 11:33 am

dude, 12:00 GMT has been over for well over half an hour now

great work btw Edge, standing ovations!!

im in top 10!!!!

zakk · Post by **zakk** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 11:44 am

Icarus wrote:
zakk wrote:I can't even bring myself to play for another 40 minutes. The worst part is a few hours ago I switched to Windina on a whim and it's clear I should have picked that ship from the beginning. Oops.
Yeah, I started with the Aryu as well, and was scoring very well up until the third boss. After constant failing on milking the third boss (probably about 1-in-20 credits I'd actually do it properly) I switched to Windina and had more success.

Aryu is good if you can get past particular problem areas.

Yeah, the third boss is what got me. It was getting rid of that tail at the start. I'd either get hit by a purple laser, or I'd back into the stream of red discs. Over and over. It was about like you said, every 20 or so games I'd not mess that part up, and then I'd manage ok. Stupidly I just attributed it to my general lack of consistency issues. That part really is much easier with Windina.

Oh well. Guess I'll encode my crappy 13.5M run and put it up on my site. Good thing I named it what I did...

Edge · Post by **Edge** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 11:52 am

GameOver at Stage 3 again.... Lost 2 lifes in Stage 2.... BS is doing this on purpose to me... -_-

I am confused about the GMT?
Since on the forum time we have already passed 11:59am. According to the site linked by zakk, it is in 10 minutes...??

These are the timezones, Ican select from myPC:

So which is the "real" GMT??

Dublin, Edinbough, Lissabon London
or
Casablanca,Monrovia

Well not that is matters now anymore, but for thenext week.

_Bnu · Post by **_Bnu** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 11:56 am

I think we can safely disregard Moronovia Crapalanca. If you take a look, you'll see that there's a whole bunch of GMT+1, +2 and +3 as well. Don't worry about it. The forum says it's 11:56am now, so the contest should be over in four minutes.

Leeram · Post by **Leeram** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 11:56 am

GMT is GMT. The problem is that the UK is not in GMT. So it's now 12:56 on my windows clock, but it's only 11:56 GMT. That's because even if you set the time to GMT in the UK it advances an hour for daylight savings and becomes British Summertime.

We are 1 hour in front of GMT so the board is correct.

or somat!

Cheers

Leeram

Edge · Post by **Edge** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 12:00 pm

Ahhh, got it from Wikipedia and that GMT site:

"Clocks Change: Spring Forward & Fall Back (Fall = Autumn)
BUT GMT remains the same all year around."

So, the week closes right now.

EDIT:
I go and buy a new keyboard. Will post the team rankings when I amback.

Skyline · Post by **Skyline** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 12:03 pm

zakk wrote:Yeah, the third boss is what got me. It was getting rid of that tail at the start. I'd either get hit by a purple laser, or I'd back into the stream of red discs. Over and over. It was about like you said, every 20 or so games I'd not mess that part up, and then I'd manage ok. Stupidly I just attributed it to my general lack of consistency issues. That part really is much easier with Windina.

That damn tail was pretty much a roll of the dice in my case. I just dove in head-first and mashed the living shit out of the fire button, hoping for the bast. Believe it or not, that worked half the time. Otherwise I'd just die, maim that thing during the invincibility window, and settle for x80 multipliers on the red discs. One of the more annoying sections of the game.

That coupled with the almost guaranteed death (or two) during Stage 6 and...yeah. Hair pulling outing.

My only regret is that I mistakenly killed off that turret at the Stage 6 boss that dispenses the shitloads of bombs. Had I kept that intact for just enough cycles to time out the boss, I could have broken 40 million.

That's a goal for another time, I guess.

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 12:44 pm

Edge wrote:GameOver at Stage 3 again.... Lost 2 lifes in Stage 2.... BS is doing this on purpose to me... -_-

I am confused about the GMT?
Since on the forum time we have already passed 11:59am. According to the site linked by zakk, it is in 10 minutes...??

These are the timezones, Ican select from myPC:

So which is the "real" GMT??

Dublin, Edinbough, Lissabon London
or
Casablanca,Monrovia

Well not that is matters now anymore, but for thenext week.

GMT = "greenwich mean time" so yeah the one you have there is correct.

at the time im posting this its 13:44 GMT

howmuchkeefe · Post by **howmuchkeefe** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 1:57 pm

Great showing, Team Old Schoolers!

I apologize for only putting in a paltry six-seven hours into the game. I'd hoped to put in four + on Saturday and a similar amount on Sunday, but I made the mistake of getting hammered beyond belief on Friday night. I spent most of Saturday experiencing misery and unconsciousness.

I played an hour and a half on Sunday before I decided that there was little chance of me improving my score to the point that I'd actually contribute to team performance.

Post by **Shatterhand** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 2:42 pm

I think I could had improved my score a little, but I had other stuff to do in the weekend (work to do and spend some nice time with my girlfriend

), so I didn't even touch the game this weekend.

Well, I am satisfied with my final result

, Congrats to our team, I think we did it very well.

Coffeejoerx also asked me to say congratulatios to our team

Edge · Post by **Edge** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 4:19 pm

Edge wrote:

Code: Select all

58.shiftace           Team Loser            3'540'240     3      Aryustailm  (MAME)
59.BulletMagnet       Team Loser            3'407'770     4      Dino 246
60.crithit5000        Super Buffet S.T.     3'226'720     4      Windina     (MAME)
61.Fighter 17         Drink & Fly           3'100'010     4      Dino 246    (MAME)
62.shiftace           Team Loser            2'882'580     3      Aryustailm  (MAME)

Arghhh, I was about to post the rankings. But when I double checked I noticed that I accidently had listed shiftace twice. The Single Player Ranking point value depend on the number of player's participate, I'll explain it later. This mistake will take me about 30 minutes to fix... -_-''

EDIT:
Well it actually isn't so bad... maybe 10-15 minutes...

malcolm · Post by **malcolm** » Mon Aug 28, 2006 11:41 pm

This is my update.
Well after a week I've come to the conclusion that this will be my best score. Damn this game is frustrating.
Great job everybody!

Malcolm-team drink and fly-12,450,810-level 6-Aryustailm(mame)

The Coop · Post by **The Coop** » Tue Aug 29, 2006 1:00 am

Nice job on this one Old Schoolers

Looks like us old timers aren't ready to be put out to pasture just yet

max-o-mat · Post by **max-o-mat** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 5:10 pm

hi i'm new here!
i play blazing star on my MVS neo geo arcade system.
i was looking for hiscores so i found this forum.

one -obvious- question. how do you know that no one is simply putting the numbers for the "screenshots" with photoshop?!?

don't understand...

i have looked at many screenshots is it true that the highest score in this forum is about 6mil?

i made some photos of the highscore screens of my system:

max

shmups.system11.org

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