STGT 2008 - Week #3 Voting (Not Taito Week)

Infintium · Post by **Infintium** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 4:27 pm

I didn't have access to the 2 Ray Force roms, in MAME, until I downloaded the Gunlock rom, maybe that'll work for you.

lgb · Post by **lgb** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 4:30 pm

CHI wrote:
lgb wrote:I think it's "mame90u1", but whatever. You probably have a bad rom. What's the error?
no error! its just not on the available list.....

I'd say that's an error.

Try getting Gunlock, that's the parent romset. Some roms of the parent romset are required by all of its clones (in this case, Rayforce is the clone), which is why it's called the parent romset in the first place.

Once you do get it (and put it in the roms folder), Gunlock and Rayforce should come up as Available. (Just don't blend the Gunlock and Rayforce romsets together, mame hates that)

edit: Further research indicates Mame DOESN'T hate that, it works fine bundled and reduces clutter!

sikraiken · Post by **sikraiken** » Sat Sep 20, 2008 4:46 pm

sikraiken wrote:I don't have the PS2 version but I'm still looking into it (it would be fine if it is pretty much the arcade game emulated).

Yeah, it seems to be fine.

sikraiken · Post by **sikraiken** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 6:48 pm

Don't forget to vote!

A little over 9 hours left.

CHI · Post by **CHI** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 10:44 pm

just wonna say cheers for the replies.....

will try to download Gunlock first thing once i step in home.....

Ruldra · Post by **Ruldra** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 11:08 pm

sikraiken wrote:The error isn't that noticeable if you right click the game in MAME32, click properties, then go under the miscellaneous tab and check and set "Use transparent in-game menu" to 0.

I tried this on wolfmame+ 106 but the error box still makes it hard to see your ship. I'll have to get an older version of mame if Strikers is picked.

sikraiken · Post by **sikraiken** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 11:10 pm

sikraiken wrote:MAME .88 is the last version that doesn't display the error for Strikers 1999 on 1-8 or 2-8.

Just in case you didn't see it to get whatever version if the game is picked.

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 3:15 am

Voting is completely private...OR IS IT?!

spongdangly · Post by **spongdangly** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 3:39 am

Ed Oscuro wrote:Voting is completely private...OR IS IT?!

Yeah it's private, right up until the results are shown.

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 3:43 am

Oh well...I think I will include a RAISIN D' OTTER with my vote this time

The Coop · Post by **The Coop** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 4:05 am

spongdangly wrote:
Ed Oscuro wrote:Voting is completely private...OR IS IT?!
Yeah it's private, right up until the results are shown.

Then the gates of whine are opened and the bitching floods forth over the land like it was the great red tide of menstruation!

sikraiken · Post by **sikraiken** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 4:11 am

The votes are tallied up in the first post.

Rayforce received 23 votes, Strikers 1999 received 19 votes, and Thunder Dragon 2 received 14 votes.

The Coop · Post by **The Coop** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 4:18 am

So which version of Rayforce do we use, 2.3A or 2.3J? Is there even a difference?

sikraiken · Post by **sikraiken** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 4:27 am

It doesn't matter, gunlock/rayforce/rayforcj is fine.

Enhasa · Post by **Enhasa** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 4:33 am

LOL we actually did a team vote this week and whichever game we picked would have been the winner.

We didn't even consider TD2 because we thought it had no chance of winning, which sucks in retrospect because I would have voted for it.

<mikwuyma> why didn't we vote for td2 noooooooooooo

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 5:04 am

I voted for TD2!

I guess I won't mind playing RayFarce again, the OCD element never really bothered me even though many people hates it, they hates it terribly. I probably will score somewhat higher than I did in the last round as a result of having practiced it a wee bit due to TOM-STGT Week 2 (thanks Macaw!)

Post by **Icarus** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 5:34 am

Rayforce is nowhere near as OCD-ish as Feveron is.

The Coop · Post by **The Coop** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 5:45 am

One would think TD2's regularly spoken "YEE HER!" would get tiresome after a while.

Post by **Icarus** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 5:48 am

One also wonders how one should "take a left turn" when one is in the middle of outer space.

Enhasa · Post by **Enhasa** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 6:04 am

Ed: I actually prefered TD2 just because we already played Rayforce for Macaw STGT.

This is probably going to be my favorite week of the tourney, although TD2 would have been good too, and I'd take any of these games over last week.

I don't see how someone could hate the scoring system btw, it's magnitudes less anal than 19xx or Dangun Feveron. It's actually pretty nice, so the main complaint I would imagine is being sedate instead of OCD. If you mess up a formation, it only costs you on that formation, unlike DF resetfest. The scoring scales very evenly, and there are no bombs, so you don't bombspam or feel like killing yourself when you die with bombs like in other games. And yeah there's memorization like all stage-based games, but it doesn't feel as forced as stupid bees or poles.

The way the scoring system plays out is actually similar to Blue's Journey (not a shmup) if you take out the 10k items, although anyone who knows what I'm talking about has probably already heard me say that. Honestly I love this scoring system for a weekly competition. It's tough to figure out many of the formations, it's tough to execute perfectly, it's very non-anal, and it's tough to 1cc so you could always score more just by longer survival.

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 6:30 am

Icarus wrote:One also wonders how one should "take a left turn" when one is in the middle of outer space.

I also wonder why the control tower talks to himself.

He's probably thinking "pls say something hawt pilat lady!" but all he gets is a vacuum-cold silence, so he says ROGER! to himself. Or, of course, it could be a mixup between the sound and art teams...

Herr Schatten · Post by **Herr Schatten** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 7:14 am

sikraiken wrote:Rayforce received 23 votes, Strikers 1999 received 19 votes, and Thunder Dragon 2 received 14 votes.

Dammit. Don't you people ever learn?

MX7 · Post by **MX7** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 7:43 am

I don't think I can live in a world where Rayforce beats Strikers 1999 in a vote

P_HAT · Post by **P_HAT** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 8:02 am

All games on this week sux.
So, don't cry.

MX7 · Post by **MX7** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 8:09 am

BAAAAAAWWWWWW

Post by **spadgy** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 8:35 am

MX7 wrote:I don't think I can live in a world where Rayforce beats Strikers 1999 in a vote

Team suicide for Team Royale then? I thought I was going to get to play a game I actually own on PCB, but 1999 got beaten to it, maybe because of the amount of people who own Rayforce on Saturn I guess. Oh well - there goes any real chance of me doing well this week!

MX7 · Post by **MX7** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 8:39 am

spadgy wrote:
MX7 wrote:I don't think I can live in a world where Rayforce beats Strikers 1999 in a vote
Team suicide for Team Royale then? I thought I was going to get to play a game I actually own on PCB, but 1999 got beaten to it, maybe because of the amount of people who own Rayforce on Saturn I guess. Oh well - there goes any real chance of me doing well this week!

I think we should just start practicing for Famous Manic Week a few weeks early

MR_Soren · Post by **MR_Soren** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 1:33 pm

I really wanted TD2 to win.

professor ganson · Post by **professor ganson** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 10:30 pm

P_HAT wrote:All games on this week sux.
So, don't cry.

Actually, they are all quite good. You should give them another chance.

P_HAT · Post by **P_HAT** » Tue Sep 23, 2008 6:19 am

craaaap.

Mame ver works like shit on my pc.