Please note this league will not start till Jan' 07!
As stated in my old thread that I wrote about this league ages ago. Anyway the concept of this league is very simple...
3 Months - 3 Games - 3 Shmup Genders
As I said before this is still a casual trouney but this time the genders will be fixed and they will follow as such...
Vert - 1942 right down to DoDopachi. Proberbly the most popular shmup type hence that's why it's first.
Slide - Games that generaly only allow you to move left and right like Galaga or the mighty Space Invader games.
Hori - Games that generaly have the player moving from left to right across the level like R-Type or the Gradius games.
I will randomly select the game every month by using MAME32's random select button. If the game is so bone jaringly bad like B-Wings for example then I might just re-hit that Random Select button one more time but bewarned I will only do that in extreme circumstances, understand?
NOTE
Games that are randomly selected this season will be bared from the league for one season after the are picked. For example say DoDonPachi get's randomly picked in season one. It will not be allowed to be played again in till season 3 and if it is randomly selected again (chances are that will be quite rare!) then I will hit the random select button again till I get a game in that shmup type that is not in the "bared" list.
1. Rules
These are the proposed rules to this league. This is intended purley for our own enjoyment and I think that I would speak for most people on this board in saying that it would be nice if every one took notice of these rules so that was can all havea good time. Don't worry if you are bad at shmups though, I'll be proping up the bottom of the table no doubt as well!
1. Cheating
NO CHEATING OF ANY KIND!! I know this sounds kinda obvious but you really have nothing to gain from cheating in this league. There are no prizes and if you are caught cheating not only will you lose the repsect of your fellow shmupers but you will also be banned from playing in this league again. So I ask nicely, please don't spoil the fun for others!
NOTE
This means no using autofire when it's not in the game or save states or docturing your high score picture blah blah blah... you know the score by now!
2. Submitting Scores
All submitted scores must be acomplished on the month of the game selection. This means any score that was not created during the month that the game is being played will not count! Saying that though if said score from other high score board did so happen to be from the same month (and year) as the league entry then it is OK to use it.
Futher more all entry's must have a orignal, unmodifed screenshot to prove that the person is not lying. No Screenie, No Entry! Now MAME has a handly little screen shot function and is used by pressing F12. This picture will be placed in the "snap" folder in .png format. Now for those of you how are going to complain, posting a picture is easy. You can upload your screenshots for nothing using imageshack.us. Hell you don't even have to register to use it so there is no reason why you should not use it.
3. League Table Scoring
Well as have proberbly guessed a league would'nt be much of a league without a table. Well there will be a table in this game with a fully thought out scoring system. The maxium any player can score during one month is 1000pts. Everyone who is not in first place that month will have there scores worked out by what position they came in the league and how many people played that month in a formula. It does pay to play the game at least once and release just one score even if you hate the game or your score is just dire. After all this is being run only for our enjoyment.
One final thing, the score that the player get's every month will be hidden but your positions will not be. You will only get to see your final score at the end of the sesson with all your monthly scores which made it! This is to encourage people to continue playing even if they feel they are doing badly, plus it adds a little bit of drama and suspense in to the proceedings. Positon changes in the table will be marked in green up arrows and red down arrows. Green arrows means the player has moved up the chart and down means they have moved down the chart and if the player has no arrows then they have not move postion at all.
Anyway if you have any sugestion please let me know, after all best to get the problem solving over and done with now while there is just over a week to go.
thanks for reading!
p.s: I started a new thread because this league is a little differnt from the last, thanks!
