TimeTrial 2015 - Round 2 [astyanax]

[giro-X]

Round 2 of 5
The Astyanax
by Jaleco, 1989
ROMsets needed: astyanax
Genre: Platform / Fighter Scrolling

(I had again a small delay - apologies - getting busy with stuff to check!)

GOAL: Complete first 4 Stages.

Parameter to count for tournament score: Total number of frames.
The first frame is always determined by the first frame in which you see the main character appear, like in the screenshot below.



The final frame is determined by the exact moment in which
>> you get score for the defeated boss, if you finish stage 1 or 2 or 3
>> you see the screen STAGE 5 if you finish stage 4, which is boss-less and only aim is to exit alive.
When you submit your recording, you are not obliged to give a precise count of frames - that's my job I will have to do it anyway. You can give an approximate total. To view the frame count in MAME, press F11.

GENERAL RULES FOR ALL GAMES
MAME version to use: WolfMAME 0.156
You can submit either to the forums or MARP. On MARP, you must include the text TT2015 in description. Score for submission must be your real in-game score, the total frames can be told in the description
No recording can be uploaded 24 hours after you recorded it. INPs older than that will be disqualified
Default settings

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Should you be in doubt of which the default dipswitches are, follow this table.

Unused OFF
Unused OFF
Bonus Live 30k 70k 100k then every 30k
Lives 3
Difficulty Normal
Swap 1P/2P Controls OFF
Flip Screen OFF
Coin A 1 coin/1 credit
Coin B 1 coin/1 credit
Demo Sounds ON
Test Mode OFF

Average recording speed must be between 95% and 100~101%
Any other rule can be viewed at the main topic HERE.

Time remaining: Until GMT 23:59 Jan. 16th (click here)
Tournament scoreboard: (click here)
Have fun!

[giro-X]

For Innuendo/everybody, to kill any doubt. If you get the message
m50747 NOT FOUND (NO GOOD DUMP KNOWN) (tried in astyanax astyanax)
and only that, it's ok

[INNUENDO]

Ok, Giro-X. Thank you.

[giro-X]

Current TimeTrial Scoreboard is as follows:
1 Dax 25
2 Paulo Valmir 20
3 Phil Lamat 16
4 Bad Dad Jokes 13
5 C.Hatchett 11
6 TheBSM 10
7 INNUENDO 9
8 DaLar 8
9 Agodzilla 7
10 Xelnia 6
11 Sawys 5
12 Paolo Colman 4
13 CrazyKongFan 3

[giro-X]

Due to troubles with internet signal with wi-fi at home, I will be able to connect only through smartphone so...
I don't say i can't do things but until we don't solve that, verifying and updating may be slower, please have patience

[giro-X]

I've seen some scores I need to check - in less than 24 hours I'll surely be back to confirm, my internet connection is a little unstable - but still works at times

[giro-X]

All scores are confirmed in MARP except for Paolo Colman's (claimed 69800, playbacks 67000)

Scoreboard updated

[Dax]

Might be a slightly better time approx. 32k frames.

[C.Hatchett]

completed 4th stage.

[giro-X]

Scoreboard updated - 6 hours and 45 min left

completed 4th stage.

I tried to check the remaining recordings as soon as I could reach a PC. I'm sorry dude but the average speed of your recording is said to be ~92%, and in fact I noticed some low peaks during the playback. I'm especially more sorry because the week is almost over. Rules I defined were to accept avg. speed of min. 95%.

If you have troubles at maintaining 100% speed...
try to increase the frameskip (F9 when emulator is open, or change through settings if you use an interface.
-fs 3
if you use the command line. "3" is a random number given for example... you can increase that but it is also true that high frameskip doesn't make easy to play with precision.)
try to play with DirectDraw instead of Direct3D (can be decided through settings, or
-video ddraw
for command line. Higher perfomance, lower output quality)
in extremis, I can let you (and only you, for this game only) play with WolfMAME 0.106. I don't see any change from that version worth of notice for this game.

If you notice slow speed in next games (if this caused you troubles, I'm pretty sure there will be another one later), as soon as you notice it please alert me

[Dax]

Approx 21850 frames

[giro-X]

FIXED COUNTDOWN - i signed the wrong date by one day. Although you know, it is in the london midnight between friday and saturday that game changes.
Dax, i'll confirm that after dinner

[C.Hatchett]

...

[giro-X]

Perfect! average speed 99%
You even improved it by 3 seconds

[CrazyKongFan]

I didn't figure out the frames, but I wanted to get this in before it was too late Cleared 2 rounds, so either I'm 1 place ahead of or behind colman