I finally got a score worthy of submitting.
Ben Crooch
270,900
arcade machine
game starts at 1hour 12min into the video!
I finally got a score worthy of submitting.
Ben Crooch
270,900
arcade machine
game starts at 1hour 12min into the video!
Wow, cocktail submission! Thanks for showing the inside and PCB. For your first submission we also need to see the back side of the joystick to verify it has a 4-way restrictor plate. TKG3 PCBs are accepted as long as they're using Set 1 roms, which it looks like you have, so that's all good. Also, playing just as Player 1 during a 2 Player game isn't strictly against any rules, but I would recommend just doing 1 Player game in the future. So, get me a video of that joystick and I think you'll be good to go.
Ill get on it! TY!
The requested pic of the plate on the controller
Ok, a lot to unpack with this submission, but let's start with the fact that I've accepted it and added it to the
HSL. Congrats Ben (and welcome to DKF)!
Since this is a rare cocktail submission, that means the PCB is a TKG3 revision. Ben shows the PCB in his video and it's a TKG3-07, meaning
it should have US Set 1 roms. Indeed, the title screen for his game says "Nintendo of America" instead of just "Nintendo", and Ben graciously did a
"ladder trick" test and second joystick walkthrough at my request, just to be super-thorough. So, in terms of platform requirements, everything is good.
Two other things to note:
1) The game was played as a 2UP game. Ben only played the 1UP side, and essentially all that is different is a few extra seconds of downtime after a 1UP death while 2UP cycles through its own death (similar to what happens with Galaga 2UP games). There's no rule against this and I don't recall there ever being a discussion about it. As such, I don't see any issue, but I've recommended that Ben play traditional 1UP games in the future.
2) Bonus Life set to 20,000. The rules state the Bonus Life be set at 7,000. Here we have probably our first submission in the DKF-era that challenges that rule. In my opinion, the Bonus Life setting has no real impact on a game...unless you're scoring less than or about 20,000 in total. I've mulled changing that rule for quite some time but I'm still undecided. There are certainly scores on the HSL that use 10,000 as the Bonus setting, as that was the rule many years ago. At any rate, I'm not going to DQ the score for a 20k Bonus Setting, but I would ask that any submissions be set to 7,000 until the community works out a rule change (if any).
So, congrats again Ben, and I hope we some more scores from you in the future!
