STGT2k7 Week#1 Results

[Shatterhand]

but you guys got Twiddle this year, a good reinforcement.

[CIT]

Twiddle will self-destruct when we play Raiden next week.

[shoe-sama]

He's gonna submit a 500 score.

Everyone else will have 10M counter stops

[Rob]

counter stops

disqualify Raiden

[shoe-sama]

oops we don't have enough Seibu games that work on MAME any more

Quick, throw in some random Psikyo game.

[Rob]

Pilot Kids

[ED-057]

Why don't you try hard?

[shoe-sama]

Use this!

[Davey]

I have that shirt (in t-shirt form, not hoodie). I get some great looks from strangers whenever I wear it.

[shoe-sama]

Ok Raiden actually doesn't counter stop.

HRAWRGH WHERES THAT BASTARD WHO GAVE ME BAD INFO

[DEL]

shoe-sama wrote;

Ok Raiden actually doesn't counter stop.

HRAWRGH WHERES THAT BASTARD WHO GAVE ME BAD INFO

Raiden 1 may not counter stop, but the Japanese draw a line at 10,000,000 on a number of the older multi looping games. So when you reach 10mil, they count it as a counter stop.

Some games really do Counter Stop:-

Raiden Fighters 1 (Intl version with 2 loops) does Counter Stop:

and starts again from 0.
Much like XXMission, except that XXMission opens up a new score from 0, so that you end up with two scores from 1 credit

^The 381 score appearing 5th in the ranking is the overclocked score. The game leaves the 9,999,990 at the top middle and only allows you to add your name to the overclocked score. So what happens when you double counter stop XXMission? Will it open up a third score from 0? Or will it crash? To find out I'd have to play it for 6 hours not 3, which I don't fancy .

[Shatterhand]

lol, this is really fucked up.

[Twiddle]

raiden fighters 1 still counts the score internally as higher than 99,999,990

[Davey]

How do you know this? Did some weirdo hacker bring a hardware debugger with him to the arcade? Or was this a discovery in MAME? It's not that I don't believe you, I'm curious how this was discovered. I'm not a computer expert by any means, so the answer might be blatantly obvious and I'm just not seeing it.

[Twiddle]

if it did not count the score as higher than such internally, it would appear at a lower place in the list, ala the 10000000+381800 in xx mission

[shoe-sama]

translation: omfg go read DEL's post rofflez

[Davey]

if it did not count the score as higher than such internally, it would appear at a lower place in the list, ala the 10000000+381800 in xx mission

Not necessarily, it all depends on how the game was programmed. It would take 30 bits to store 999,989,540 (or 27 if the trailing 0 isn't significant). So the score is probably a 32-bit unsigned integer, which wouldn't overflow or wrap around or whatever until it reached over 4 billion. As for what happens for scores between 999,999,990 and 2^32 - 1, that's up to the programmer (or whatever bizarre logic that follows if it isn't handled, like reaching level 256 in old games).

[shoe-sama]

[Shatterhand]

great, we already have insane scores BEFORE the week begun.

Way to go.

[Twiddle]

That's Mills btw

[The Coop]

Sorry for the late reply. Completely forgot that the results were in a different thread once everything was over.


Nice showing old schoolers. Everyone played, and the end result was not a bad start at all

[landshark]

and starts again from 0.

Ahhaahah... it says "poo".