tar wrote:It is just frustraiting to see a good score posted that is unviewable .
I understand. This is exactly what frustrates most of the macmame community about MARP. They can't just conveniently watch most of the replays on their macs using macmame. It makes the site unattractive to them.
I think the fact pc-ers can't view many of my replay files is frustrating to them also which perhaps is what makes them angry at me where they call me a cheater etc. It seems these are always from very arrogant gamers who think no one can beat their scores...so anyone that does must be cheating. A few here have accused me of cheating, not just Hisa.
For me, joining and being part of MARP was never about watching lots of others replays. I think since I joined in July 2002, other than replays I have watched with the purpose of confirming the score, I likely have watched no more than 5-10 replay files. Most of those I watched cuz I suspected excessive leeching or a trick etc. based on the score.
I joined MARP to compete and try and get high scores.
I posted a topic called phantomas when you got 54,000 .
I was sort of mad because I have 21,000 .
k, I have noted phantomas.
After seeing talk about Spectar at the TG forums, then seeing your submitted score for a clone of it on the uploads page, I decided to try the game out. After about 30-45 minutes of play(never having played the game prior to this) I got that score in phantomas. It was a break-out game though cuz in playing other clones and the parent Spectar I have not been able to get that far on my first man.
I would need to watch it again myself but I think I completed the first 7 boards on my first man.
1,200 dollars for rent !
Here in appalachia , it is 1/3 as much for a place .
Yeah, in the Baltimore burbs I am looking in, it's about half.
That's almost hard to believe given it's only a 45 minute drive from me.
I am not really pedjudiced but , isn't washington D.C. 70% african american ?
Inside DC, yeah, 60-70% is about right. I live out in a suburb though, not in DC.
Actually in my area, the majority seem to be from Latin/Central America. There are quite a few Russians around here also.
It's a very diverse group of people that live in this area.
I am just a Anglo-Saxon caucasian.
Has the White house been attacked lately ?
I haven't seen anything in the news.
There was a "scare" at the Capitol building a week or so ago though where they evacuated the building for a few hours. I think it was from a letter with a threat and suspicious powdery substance in it. Analysis of the powder showed it was nothing harmful.
It will be another soggy spring here / global warming / floods . High winds all day yesterday & almost 70 degrees farenheit , dropping down with rain.
It's about the same here today. Last night's low was only around 70F even though our normal high is still only 52F.
I request these LN2
300,000 millpac
1,500,000 arcade classics prototype super centipede
I would also like to see Tac-Scan by Teign
millpac I can look into...as whatever works for that one would likely work for each of the centipede clones and millipede also...so I can kill many birds with 1 stone there.
arcade classics might be different though. You have Donald Hayes's replay file from that game which likely shows play no different from my own. The game is easy cuz the sidefeed really never gets out of control.
The game does get fairly tough around the 175-225k mark but then after that seems to almost get a little easier where the difficulty levels off. I think that might be more from where on the early rounds at only 175-225k you don't have the mushroom filler you do later on.
Tac-scan....at this point, I won't be attempted to convert inps from other gamers...especially for games where I haven't submitted a score.
If I get into the macwolfmame project this summer though, I'll have to address each game cpu/engine separately to see the resulting inp is identical to the PC one. That still won't help the older macmame replay files that are here though.
After doing many manually, if I see a clear pattern for conversion, then I could maybe write an application to do the conversions. However, I think it will vary enough plus the various versions of mame used will make it where I can't just make a quickie CLI application to do the conversions. Each would require manual viewing of inps from both and adding the header and a couple frames and in some cases like Marble Madness partial frame to make things time sync ok.
