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Title: The Gobblet: The Ultimate Donkey Kong 3 Competition
Post by: homerwannabee on October 01, 2020, 12:00:05 am
Presenting the Gobblet
A Donkey Kong 3 Competition like no other.

I decided to run this competition because I was tired of Donkey Kong being the Only game singled out getting all the love. So I decided to single out Donkey Kong 3, and hold a tournament with my own money. This year was a really good year for me, and I can pull this off.
I will be quasi competing. I will not register, but I'll submit what I call a ghost score. A score that will have no bearing on the competition, and will be in Italics with no place attached to it. So even if I have the highest score I will not be Champion. That honor will go to someone else.
As you can see, the way I'm awarding the prize money is extremely different. I think that more than a handful of people deserve money as a prize. If my system is disagreeable to you, you can always donate to first, second, or third place or whatever to make things more normal. But it's my money, and this is how I'm distributing it.
The details
This competition will begin the day before Thanksgiving at 6PM Eastern November 25th and end December 6th 11:59 P.M.  Eastern
Game must be completed before that time.
No holding onto a score more than 24 hours
Registration has begun
https://www.cagtournaments.com/InProcess/20
Settings 5 man Only (no extras) Donkey Kong 3 Hard for MAME Settings or Dip Switch 3 Arcade settings.
MAME 183 will be accepted. Probably the newer versions.
Muti Cabs will be allowed. Proof of settings is needed though.
This will be updated


This competition will only be played once every 4 years

The prize payout

1st-$30
2nd-$29
3rd-$28
4th-$27
5th-$26
6th-$25
7th-$24
8th-$23
9th-$22
10th-$21
11th-$20
12th-$19
13th-$18
14th-$17
15th-$16
16th-$15
17th-$14
18th-$13
19th-$12
20th-$11
21st-$10
22nd-$9
23rd-$8
24th-$7
25th-$6
26th-$5
27th-$4
28th-$3
29th-$2
30th-$1

*My primary payment method is Paypal, but willing to send Money Order.
Title: Re: The Gobblet: The Ultimate Donkey Kong 3 Competition
Post by: Pearl on October 01, 2020, 01:39:04 am
i will win 1 dollar
Title: Re: The Gobblet: The Ultimate Donkey Kong 3 Competition
Post by: Josephjo on October 01, 2020, 04:51:08 am
Glad things have been looking up this year George.

I like your idea.

GL
Title: Re: The Gobblet: The Ultimate Donkey Kong 3 Competition
Post by: TheSunshineFund on October 01, 2020, 06:16:52 am
Thanks for doing this George.  Looks fun, I'll join in.
Title: Re: The Gobblet: The Ultimate Donkey Kong 3 Competition
Post by: homerwannabee on October 01, 2020, 06:40:43 am
Here's the logo from acclaimed artist, and New Yorker artist Phil Day

Work in Progress
Title: Re: The Gobblet: The Ultimate Donkey Kong 3 Competition
Post by: Mitch Mitchell on October 01, 2020, 01:47:03 pm
Great idea, thanks for doing this.
Title: Re: The Gobblet: The Ultimate Donkey Kong 3 Competition
Post by: johnbart on October 01, 2020, 04:43:13 pm
The tournament is now open for registrations. Register here:

https://www.CAGTournaments.com/Gobblet
Title: Re: The Gobblet: The Ultimate Donkey Kong 3 Competition
Post by: xelnia on October 01, 2020, 05:58:17 pm
Seeing as how the current 5-man Difficulty 3 HSL only has four scores on it, that leaderboard will be HYPE at the end of the year.
Title: Re: The Gobblet: The Ultimate Donkey Kong 3 Competition
Post by: Barra on October 02, 2020, 09:50:17 pm
I'd like to offer up a few bounties for this event!

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One bounty per player
No limit on how many people can claim a single bounty
Score must be eligible for the DKF DK3 HSL

get them
Title: Re: The Gobblet: The Ultimate Donkey Kong 3 Competition
Post by: Dk_madness on October 03, 2020, 09:10:46 am
Looks like fun!!! I?m in...
Title: Re: The Gobblet: The Ultimate Donkey Kong 3 Competition
Post by: TheSunshineFund on October 05, 2020, 12:13:05 pm
Tried a few of these last night.  Excellent though brutal variation for a tourney.  Games are quick and each death is extremely meaningful which definitely adds to the fun for me at least. 

Thanks for doing this one George, looking forward to it.
Title: Re: The Gobblet: The Ultimate Donkey Kong 3 Competition
Post by: homerwannabee on October 06, 2020, 06:51:19 pm
There's interest from people who have multi cabs to be in the competition. What would you think of me allowing Muti Cabs in the Conroy competition?
Title: Re: The Gobblet: The Ultimate Donkey Kong 3 Competition
Post by: xelnia on October 06, 2020, 07:29:53 pm
There's interest from people who have multi cabs to be in the competition. What would you think of me allowing Muti Cabs in the Conroy competition?

It's your thing. Do what you want. But I would make sure they can verify they're playing on the correct settings.
Title: Re: Three more days until the Gobblet!!!
Post by: homerwannabee on November 22, 2020, 09:34:11 am
Just a friendly reminder.  We are now only three days until the ultimate Donkey Kong 3 competition!!!!
 
8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)

So get ready for the awesomeness, and sign up if you haven't already signed up!!
Title: Re: The Gobblet: The Ultimate Donkey Kong 3 Competition
Post by: DaLar on November 24, 2020, 08:14:39 am
I've tried to make DK3 a little more Gobbly :) (draft)
 Maybe the flowers could be cranberries (I don't know much about Thanksgiving !)

Title: Re: The Gobblet: The Ultimate Donkey Kong 3 Competition
Post by: homerwannabee on November 24, 2020, 10:09:04 am
I've tried to make DK3 a little more Gobbly :) (draft)
 Maybe the flowers could be cranberries (I don't know much about Thanksgiving !)


Wow, that is fantastically awesome.   ROFL
Title: Re: The Gobblet: The Ultimate Donkey Kong 3 Competition
Post by: syscrusher on November 25, 2020, 01:13:34 pm
The difficulty needs to be put in the rules section on the website.  You know there's going to be a dozen people who play on default.  GL!
Title: Re: The Gobblet: The Ultimate Donkey Kong 3 Competition
Post by: johnbart on November 25, 2020, 01:51:43 pm
The full game settings will show up on the landing page once the tournament starts, along with the marquee, etc.

The settings that I currently have are:

Mame Romset: dkong3
Lives: 5
Bonus Life: None
Medium difficulty

Is that correct?
Title: Re: The Gobblet: The Ultimate Donkey Kong 3 Competition
Post by: TheSunshineFund on November 25, 2020, 02:49:49 pm
Might need to add a clarification about which difficulty to use if you are using MAME vs arcade as they aren't 1-1.
Title: Re: The Gobblet: The Ultimate Donkey Kong 3 Competition
Post by: Barra on November 25, 2020, 02:54:57 pm
I think someone whined to MAMEdev and the difficulties were updated recently to match arcade  <snek>
Title: Re: The Gobblet: The Ultimate Donkey Kong 3 Competition
Post by: homerwannabee on November 25, 2020, 04:22:40 pm
The full game settings will show up on the landing page once the tournament starts, along with the marquee, etc.

The settings that I currently have are:

Mame Romset: dkong3
Lives: 5
Bonus Life: None
Medium difficulty

Is that correct?

For MAME it's HARD
Title: Re: The Gobblet: The Ultimate Donkey Kong 3 Competition
Post by: homerwannabee on November 25, 2020, 04:24:43 pm
I think someone whined to MAMEdev and the difficulties were updated recently to match arcade  <snek>

Wait, what?  So you're telling me there are two difficulty settings?  So MAME 223 is Medium, and MAME 183 is Hard?  Is that what you are saying.

Makes me angry that they screwed with the settings.  It was already confusing.   <mad>
Title: Re: The Gobblet: The Ultimate Donkey Kong 3 Competition
Post by: homerwannabee on November 25, 2020, 05:24:15 pm
So MAME 183 it's hard

For MAME 223 it's dip switch setting (3)

For Arcade Dip switch setting (3)
Title: Re: The Gobblet: The Ultimate Donkey Kong 3 Competition
Post by: homerwannabee on November 25, 2020, 09:32:32 pm
OK, my very first ghost score 451,200


So yeah, the competition has started.

 8)
Title: Re: The Gobblet: The Ultimate Donkey Kong 3 Competition
Post by: homerwannabee on November 26, 2020, 09:05:07 pm
2nd ghost score.  About as ugly a 500k game you'll ever see.  504,700   Edit:  Not to late to join in on the fun.  :)

https://www.cagtournaments.com/InProcess/20
Title: Re: The Gobblet: The Ultimate Donkey Kong 3 Competition
Post by: homerwannabee on November 27, 2020, 06:38:58 am
OK, upped the score again. 537,200  Still haven't had a breakout game just yet.  It'll come.
https://www.facebook.com/george.riley.754/videos/3886255744739510
Title: Re: The Gobblet: The Ultimate Donkey Kong 3 Competition
Post by: homerwannabee on November 27, 2020, 07:29:33 am
Someone asked if they could use MAME 224.  I decided that this would be OK.  I don't see why this would be a problem.  But yeah, if you have 223, use that. :)
Title: Re: The Gobblet: The Ultimate Donkey Kong 3 Competition
Post by: homerwannabee on November 27, 2020, 12:25:27 pm
OK, finally something a tad bit better.  My ghost score 588,600



Title: Re: The Gobblet: The Ultimate Donkey Kong 3 Competition
Post by: Barra on November 27, 2020, 03:10:19 pm
Just a reminder of my bounties for this event!


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One bounty per player
No limit on how many people can claim a single bounty
Score must be eligible for the DKF DK3 HSL

gooooo
Title: Re: The Gobblet: The Ultimate Donkey Kong 3 Competition
Post by: dknetter on November 27, 2020, 05:25:22 pm
Oh, I forgot about the bounties! Perhaps the 473k one is feasible, but seems even that may be out of reach. There should be a bounty for just beating the current WR holder's ghost score too!

Fwiw, I don't know if creech's chat rant referring to 'dsync' or whatever was actually a reference to glitches in my inp, but I did find mame 223 was glitching/freezing for me during gameplay. I just installed 223 for this, and it had never happened on 106 which I usually use. I installed 183 and played that some today, and don't think that one is glitching for me like 223 was doing. So not sure, but seems 223 has glitch problems.
Title: Re: The Gobblet: The Ultimate Donkey Kong 3 Competition
Post by: xelnia on November 27, 2020, 05:59:58 pm
Oh, I forgot about the bounties! Perhaps the 473k one is feasible, but seems even that may be out of reach. There should be a bounty for just beating the current WR holder's ghost score too!

Fwiw, I don't know if creech's chat rant referring to 'dsync' or whatever was actually a reference to glitches in my inp, but I did find mame 223 was glitching/freezing for me during gameplay. I just installed 223 for this, and it had never happened on 106 which I usually use. I installed 183 and played that some today, and don't think that one is glitching for me like 223 was doing. So not sure, but seems 223 has glitch problems.

Your 223 INP was basically just an "empty" INP...no gameplay. I'm guessing it was from trying to use the built-in MAME GUI or something. And it looks like it might have been vanilla MAME as well. If you use WolfMAME 0.183 you should be able to use the big red record button at the top of the GUI for easy INP recording. Otherwise look into using command-line for your modern MAME needs.
Title: Re: The Gobblet: The Ultimate Donkey Kong 3 Competition
Post by: homerwannabee on November 27, 2020, 06:16:49 pm
Overheard Barra on Twitch saying he was trying to beat my 588,600.

Can't let that happen.   8)

New ghost score of 661,700
Title: Re: The Gobblet: The Ultimate Donkey Kong 3 Competition
Post by: xelnia on November 27, 2020, 06:34:01 pm
Overheard Barra on Twitch saying he was trying to beat my 588,600.

Can't let that happen.   8)

New ghost score of 661,700

Log in buddayyyy
Title: Re: The Gobblet: The Ultimate Donkey Kong 3 Competition
Post by: dknetter on November 27, 2020, 08:06:27 pm
Oh, I forgot about the bounties! Perhaps the 473k one is feasible, but seems even that may be out of reach. There should be a bounty for just beating the current WR holder's ghost score too!

Fwiw, I don't know if creech's chat rant referring to 'dsync' or whatever was actually a reference to glitches in my inp, but I did find mame 223 was glitching/freezing for me during gameplay. I just installed 223 for this, and it had never happened on 106 which I usually use. I installed 183 and played that some today, and don't think that one is glitching for me like 223 was doing. So not sure, but seems 223 has glitch problems.

Your 223 INP was basically just an "empty" INP...no gameplay. I'm guessing it was from trying to use the built-in MAME GUI or something. And it looks like it might have been vanilla MAME as well. If you use WolfMAME 0.183 you should be able to use the big red record button at the top of the GUI for easy INP recording. Otherwise look into using command-line for your modern MAME needs.

Thanks for pointing that out! I was using the record command line, and it was updating the time stamp of the inp  after each game. I didn't exit mame between games, but assumed it was the latest game given the new timestamp.

I was using vanilla mame I guess, and didn't really know wolfmame was different. Downloaded wolfmame 183 now and see the red button, so will use that and make sure it's not just an empty inp next time. Luckily I think I should be able to put up a higher score before this thing ends!
Title: Re: The Gobblet: The Ultimate Donkey Kong 3 Competition
Post by: homerwannabee on November 28, 2020, 10:15:21 am
OK, a good improvement.  Ghost score is now 767,500  8)
Title: Re: The Gobblet: The Ultimate Donkey Kong 3 Competition
Post by: GILLYKONG on November 28, 2020, 12:25:57 pm
Jordan and I will be trying to drink from the Goblet today will see how he kills these bugs
Title: Re: The Gobblet: The Ultimate Donkey Kong 3 Competition
Post by: homerwannabee on November 28, 2020, 12:40:53 pm
Jordan and I will be trying to drink from the Goblet today will see how he kills these bugs

Considering he's a Galaga world champion, I'll be very interested on his progression.  :)

Edit: Of course since you are a one million point player it'll be interesting to see what you do with 5 man hard.
Title: Re: The Gobblet: The Ultimate Donkey Kong 3 Competition
Post by: homerwannabee on November 29, 2020, 11:30:33 am
Jordan and I will be trying to drink from the Goblet today will see how he kills these bugs
Be sure to submit those scores soon. I have a 24 hour rule.
Title: Re: The Gobblet: The Ultimate Donkey Kong 3 Competition
Post by: ChrisP on November 30, 2020, 02:19:45 am
Any final word on MAME versions? There's some conflicting info. The tourney website says "183 or 223", George says "183 or 224" in his YouTube video announcing the tourney, and this thread says:

MAME 183 will be accepted. Probably the newer versions.

Based on a few tests, it looks like INPs recorded in any MAME 183-226 are cross-compatible for playback in any other MAME in that same range. The difficulty dips were renamed to "1, 2, 3, 4" in MAME 222, but neither that nor anything else seems to be causing desyncs.
 
At any rate, I submitted a 225 INP and would prefer to use that version, so lemme know if that's not OK so that I can switch if I need to.

Title: Re: The Gobblet: The Ultimate Donkey Kong 3 Competition
Post by: homerwannabee on December 02, 2020, 10:53:33 am
Any final word on MAME versions? There's some conflicting info. The tourney website says "183 or 223", George says "183 or 224" in his YouTube video announcing the tourney, and this thread says:

MAME 183 will be accepted. Probably the newer versions.

Based on a few tests, it looks like INPs recorded in any MAME 183-226 are cross-compatible for playback in any other MAME in that same range. The difficulty dips were renamed to "1, 2, 3, 4" in MAME 222, but neither that nor anything else seems to be causing desyncs.
 
At any rate, I submitted a 225 INP and would prefer to use that version, so lemme know if that's not OK so that I can switch if I need to.

Anything newer than Wolfmame 223 is OK in my book.  And of course WolfMAME 183 is cool. :)

So yeah, difficulty 3 settings for the newer MAME

Well, got a new ghost score high.  I guess something new for Barra to shoot for.  8)

883,800
Title: Re: The Gobblet: The Ultimate Donkey Kong 3 Competition
Post by: GILLYKONG on December 02, 2020, 05:47:14 pm
I just can't stay off the crack spray I'm such a noob  FailFish