Mushihime Sama / what is the meaning of this code?

[gojira]

Hi Guys,

this is my first post here, I have a question: yesterday I was playing Mushihime Sama in the Arcade. After I entered my name in the Hi Score table, a kind of code showed up on screen. I was like WTF and took a pic with my cell phone. The pic is here:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2091/206 ... caf4_o.jpg

Can someone please explain what this code is for? How can I use it?

[EOJ]

It's a code you use to put your score up on the online ranking for the game.

[gojira]

It's a code you use to put your score up on the online ranking for the game.

hey that's cool. thanks.

[antron]

how does it work? public/private key signing?

[sven666]

how does it work? public/private key signing?

www.cave.co.jp

just go to mushihimesama and online ranking, theres a form you fill out.

pretty neat feature if it wasent for the fact that old entrys arent removed when you make a new one, resulting in the table being filled with multiple scores by the same people

[jpj]

clover tac has a (relatively) shit Original mode score on there.

the dai-ou-jou ps2 scoreboard is crrrrazy. though again, i think a lot of those scores are submitted repeatedly by a handful of godly players. prepae to cry:

http://wig.cave.co.jp/ranking/ranking.p ... ode=0&pg=1

[Dave_K.]

the dai-ou-jou ps2 scoreboard is crrrrazy. though again, i think a lot of those scores are submitted repeatedly by a handful of godly players. prepae to cry.

Since these are PS2 port scores, its more like a handful a players with programmable controllers.

[jpj]

i don't think so, just because you wont always get the same run, pixel for pixel, each time. ie you could do a good stage 1 play, but the next time the way the enemies fire at you might be a tiny bit different, and you'd die. especially true of midbosses and the entire 2nd loop.

i'd make about 42nd on that board, and only 12 players have a 2-all. but according to arika, only 5 players had actually done that within 12months of the arcade release (laos, nal, iso, tac, and yusemi). so it's fair to say there are a few duplicates on there.

still, there are some higher than the dvd replay

[RGC]

Yeh well my PS2 still tells me I'm in the same league as these players, i.e. "Expert" - with my 27mil I'm 100% satisfied

[Dave_K.]

i don't think so, just because you wont always get the same run, pixel for pixel, each time. ie you could do a good stage 1 play, but the next time the way the enemies fire at you might be a tiny bit different, and you'd die. especially true of midbosses and the entire 2nd loop.

I don't think they program entire runs into their joysticks, just specific boss patterns and kick them off manually once the pattern starts. So of course there are some serious skills involved in these scores, but its still a huge advantage with these programmable sticks. There was a video demonstrating this on the DOJ TLB.

[zakk]

i don't think so, just because you wont always get the same run, pixel for pixel, each time. ie you could do a good stage 1 play, but the next time the way the enemies fire at you might be a tiny bit different, and you'd die. especially true of midbosses and the entire 2nd loop.

I don't think they program entire runs into their joysticks, just specific boss patterns and kick them off manually once the pattern starts. So of course there are some serious skills involved in these scores, but its still a huge advantage with these programmable sticks. There was a video demonstrating this on the DOJ TLB.

Does the PS2 port still give you an online ranking code if you start the game via the replay feature and 'take over' the controls mid-game? Because that's really the only way the programmable controller bit would work.

[jpj]

nope. otherwise you could just 'take over' after hibachi
code is only given for arcade mode, all defaults

[Dave_K.]

Because that's really the only way the programmable controller bit would work.

I don't understand what the correlation to replay mode is to a PS2 programmable controller. The macro is stored in the controller, and has nothing to do with what game you are playing. I'll have to look for that TLB video and see if it was a capture of the replay'ed run, or live run.

[shoe-sama]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SsPD2hmAMo

[zakk]

Because that's really the only way the programmable controller bit would work.

I don't understand what the correlation to replay mode is to a PS2 programmable controller. The macro is stored in the controller, and has nothing to do with what game you are playing. I'll have to look for that TLB video and see if it was a capture of the replay'ed run, or live run.

The replay mode saves the RNG state, which is the only way you're going to get consistent behavior out of the game in such a way that you can program a controller to dodge everything.

Also, those programmable controller boss fights have to be done _incrementally_, which means they have to be able to 'restart' from the exact same spot and time over and over and over. The only way to do that is to either use the stage select or the replay mode.

I also doubt that people are only programming in boss fights and then just invoking them during normal games. You'd have to start at nearly the exact same position as the macro did AND you'd have to press the 'go' button for that macro at a very exact time (possibly to within a few frames of accuracy)


The hibachi video is using stage select, it starts with zero points and no extra lives. Same concept as replay: consistent RNG state allows repeatability.

[Dave_K.]

Thanks for clarifying Zakk, that makes more sense now.