MAME League SHMUPS Tournament sign-ups are CLOSED!

[Jibbajaba]

Sup folks. The second tournament in this year's MAME league is going to start this Sunday. Remember that ANYONE can play in this tournament, whether you have been in the league so far or not.

Hanes Her Way® Portsmouth Open SHMUPS Challenge, Portsmouth NH

This tournament will be Shmups only. Games like Gradius, 1945, etc.

I am not going to limit the number of players for this tournament. The deadline to sign up will be this Saturday night at midnight PDT. However many people sign up by then is how many we will play with.

Because so many people have been so generous in giving me meseta for the MAME league, there will be no entrance fee for this one. Prizes will be:

1st Place: 10,000 meseta
2nd Place: 5,000 meseta
3rd Place: 2,000 meseta

If you want to sign up, just reply in this thread.

If you don't know much about the MAME league and want to learn more, check out the web site:

http://mameleague.jibbajaba.com

And the discussion thread here on DP:

http://www.digitpress.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=83108

Chris

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Kitsune Sniper
vectorman0
jcheatle
HardcoreGamer
fergojisan
Sosage
Mr. Foodmonster
whoisKeel
dcescott
keiblerfan69
InsaneDavid
xredmenacex
Pantechnicon
DragonMaster Sam
s1lence
Gapporin
GarrettCRW
evil_genius
Shaggy_Arcade
Fighter17
Scooterb23
Ze_ro
The_4th_Survivor
dojosky
marcus12024
TheSmirk
neuropolitique
cyberfluxor
Dr. Morbis
burnt toast
Moo Cow
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TripppsK
Mayhem
Cirrus
Juganawt

[Kitsune Sniper]

Count me in. I'm better at Shmups than at Bubble Bobble.

... unless we're talking of those insane Cave shooters...

[Vectorman0]

I'm in!

[jcheatle]

Heck yeah, I'm in. I wouldn't mind more puzzle games, but I'll try my hand at the Shmups.

[HardcoreGamer]

I'm always down.

[fergojisan]

Count me in this time too. But apparently I'm only good at paddle games. C'est la vie.

[Sosage]

Sign me up

[roushimsx]

Count me in. Not sure how much time I'll have to devote to it, but I should be able to crack out some love.

(as long as we're not playing Image Fight. Please god, don't let me get raped by that game any more than I have to)

edit - what's with the MAME32 0.95 binary? Anything wrong with the newer builds / seems like a great reason to use WolfMAME

[Kitsune Sniper]

Count me in. Not sure how much time I'll have to devote to it, but I should be able to crack out some love.

(as long as we're not playing Image Fight. Please god, don't let me get raped by that game any more than I have to)

edit - what's with the MAME32 0.95 binary? Anything wrong with the newer builds / seems like a great reason to use WolfMAME

My guess is that newer builds are discouraged because they need a lot more CPU power to run.

[Mr.FoodMonster]

Yeah, I'm in.

[whoisKeel]

I'm in! I've never done one of these before, this looks fun.

[dcescott]

I replied to your mass email earlier, please include me in. I had a great time this last go-round.

[keiblerfan69]

I am in. Don't forget to make Gigawing one of the games.

[roushimsx]

My guess is that newer builds are discouraged because they need a lot more CPU power to run.

well then we should be using one of the v0.36 builds or something, because 0.95 was after a large rewrite. Regardless, the cpu differences are negligable for pretty much all of the shmups (if any at all). I think the one bad thing about 105u1 is that apparently the CPS2 driver got borked up because of the 68000 driver or some such... but that's been fixed in the other builds...

I really don't want to have to roll my romsets back to an outdated version.

[InsaneDavid]

Here we go again... I'm in, need to get my world ranking back up after the Puzzle Bobble debacle.

Count me in. Not sure how much time I'll have to devote to it, but I should be able to crack out some love.

(as long as we're not playing Image Fight. Please god, don't let me get raped by that game any more than I have to)

edit - what's with the MAME32 0.95 binary? Anything wrong with the newer builds / seems like a great reason to use WolfMAME

My guess is that newer builds are discouraged because they need a lot more CPU power to run.

Correct, MAME v0.95 is recent enough to run the newer romsets yet far enough back to allow operation on a wide swipe of systems. You can use any build of MAME you'd like however you MUST use the provided ROM file. There is a full rules listing at the official MAME League site.

well then we should be using one of the v0.36 builds or something, because 0.95 was after a large rewrite.

The rewrite is why v0.95 is used, it will support the more modern and easier to find romsets. It was also the version released in the previous tournament.

I really don't want to have to roll my romsets back to an outdated version.

Again, please read the rules. You can use any version of MAME you like but you MUST use the provided ROM file. The provided ROM will work with v0.95 and thereby be compatible with builds of MAME from after the semi-recent overhaul. Multiple installs of MAME can live happily together in different directories. (my main MAME install being v0.76 since that's the last full romset I have, however I have a v0.95 directory for this competition alone)

[xredmenacex]

All I have to do is reply here? Sweet.

I'm in, please put me down!

[Pantechnicon]

If and only if Galaga will be one of the rounds. That would be my only chance for making a mark, since I have an HSI when it comes to shmups.

High Suck Index

[DragonMaster Sam]

You can definitely count me in. I'm a SHMUP person.

[roushimsx]

The provided ROM will work with v0.95 and thereby be compatible with builds of MAME from after the semi-recent overhaul. Multiple installs of MAME can live happily together in different directories. (my main MAME install being v0.76 since that's the last full romset I have, however I have a v0.95 directory for this competition alone)

You can't use the provided file with any version of MAME, you can only use the provided file with any version of MAME that supports that specific romset.

I don't believe the myth that 0.95 is any faster or slower than any of the more recent builds on any games that actually "matter", and I really don't see why you're sticking with it other than laziness to update a few sets here and there. An ungodly number of drivers have been fixed and added since then (Nemesis' audio has been fixed, graphic glitches in R Type Leo have been fixed, major changes to the Taito F2 and F3 drivers, Boogie Wings is now playable, etc etc etc etc etc). You know, stuff that might matter if you're playing shmups.

...So yea, count me out.

[s1lence]

Count me in, I'm a bit better at these.