Let's have sort of a trial run.
I will offer a $100 (usd) bounty for the first player that can complete wave 9 on Space Cyclone, added to MAME last month with the release of MAME .186.
You must use WolfMAME .186. Use MAME default settings. The inp file must play back for myself or someone that I trust.
You must stream the performance live on Twitch, and at the time of the performance must be listed in the forum's Twitch streamer list, administrated in
this thread, so that we can see when you are playing. Afterwards you will need to save a video of the game on Twitch and attach the inp file here. For this challenge I won't require external camera video of you playing the game, but I still anticipate that being part of future GEGOTW challenges if they ensue.
After wave 9, all waves are shown as wave "1". From my own experience with my meager skills (I have only completed wave 6), the waves don't seem to really get harder after 4 or 5, the problem is that situations occur (at least to me) that I don't think anybody could have survived. Perhaps those more accurate in shooting will leave themselves less open to such danger, but I'll be interested to see.
Payment will be made by Paypal only. I reserve the right to set a time limit (like by the end of the year) if the task turns out to be harder than I think. I fear one of you elite gaming bastards will make short work of it.
For the first player to beat my own best after a couple of weeks playing, 46,770, I have a DKF t-shirt (when ready). It will probably look like below, assuming the spineless t-shirt purveyor balks at using the name "Donkey Kong". If you accomplish this on your first attempt playing the game, your soul will be damned for all eternity, if I am reading from this Necronomicon correctly.
GOOD LUCK AND HAVE FUN!
If there are difficulties that have to be ironed out, we'll deal with it. That's part of the point here.
