Would anyone be so kind as to let me know me the exact score of a Ghouls'n Ghosts (World) game I've just uploaded. Beside the .inp file I've added a screenshot where the score should appear. The problem is that I cannot view .png files. Nor do I want to watch the game again since it lasts four or five hours. The score is about 1250000 points. Probably I'll delete it after I know the exact score. Many thanks in advance.

-- MKL (m_nassivera@yahoo.it), August 15, 2001

Answers

According to the screenshot, the score is 1,258,900 points.

-- Chris Gushue (seymour) (seymour@marpirc.net), August 15, 2001.

Thank you very very much!

-- NKL (m_nassivera@yahoo.it), August 16, 2001.

This score plays back to score uploaded with sound (with out sound it only played back to 930k). Note the happy ending showed up. I have a hunch that if you don't die you get the dark ending. Seems to be the only difference from the other finishes.

-- Chad (churritz@crash.cts.com), August 18, 2001.

Well, in the dark ending game I died once... Also, I did finish the game with the first life once (default settings) but there was the usual happy music... The dark music appears to be Lucifer's room music which *in that single case* kept playing, probably because of a bug.

-- MKL (m_nassivera@yahoo.it), August 21, 2001.

yeah, that's right on. it sounded the same but i wasn't going to make an assumption since i wasn't that familiar with the tune. it must be a timing issue of some sort to trigger the music to "NOT" change to the different happy music, i wonder if this bug existed in the real arcade, if not this one is for MAMEDEV team.

-- Chad (churritz@cts.com), August 21, 2001.

Did you keep your game finished with 1st life ? I would be more interested to have it in my collection than the 4 hours input which give you actually first place
And I still think for ghouls that a special scoring rewarding by 1000000 pts each life remaining for a guy who finishes the game could avoid these longs inputs (even if I'm not concerned as I never managed to finish this game !)

-- Phil (plamat@club-internet.fr), August 24, 2001.

mmm... I'm afraid I've deleted it... it was an old game done with the default settings and now I only play with the TG settings (which make the game way tougher). Also, the score was less than 200k... But I think that sooner or later I'll make it also with the TG settings.

I think we should make two different rankings (I discussed the matter briefly with Walter Day of TG and he agrees):

1) Official tournament settings. Players must try to finish the game with first life and without repeating last level of round 2. Player with the most points wins.

2) Marathon settings. Last level of round 2 must be played on and on (I did it some 50 times) in order to get oodles of points (actually, I played this kind of game after I read in the TG site that a guy supposedly scored 1,088,700 pts).

Giving additional points for each remaining life is not wholly satisfactory in my view because the bonus life you find in a pot (somwhere in the last 3 levels, usually in the 4th) not always shows up, meaning that a player may eventually have 1 million pts more than another with no skill... We should rather give the bonus points to the player that finishes the game with the 1st life.

-- MKL (m_nassivera@yahoo.it), August 24, 2001.