HyperScore - Challenge #5 - BurgerTime (LURKERS!! JOIN IN! COMPETE)

[xHyperSteve]

com·pete

kəmˈpēt/

verb

gerund or present participle: competing

strive to gain or win something by defeating or establishing superiority over others who are trying to do the same.

"universities are competing for applicants"

synonyms:take part, participate, play, be a competitor, be involved; More

Awesome dudes!! NOW, IT'S TIME TO EAT!!! PLEASE WATCH FOR INSTRUCTIONS AND YOUR GAME INTRO

THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS MONDAY *AUGUST 25, 2014* (@8PM), CALIFORNIA TIME (It will always be Monday night now so I can have things ready after work.)

General Rules (Thanks to our friends at ArcadeControls):

- One Credit, No Continues.

- Highest score wins.

- No savestates, savestate practices, etc. during the round.

- MAME INP recordings OR VIDEO Recordings are HIGHLY ENCOURAGED but optional.

- A screenshot is required to enter a score (press F12 to save screenshot showing your final score) or take a photo of the game screen.

- Even if you don't have a competitive score or if you don't *think* that you have a competitive score, please post it anyway to keep the thread fun & to give everybody a good sense of score ranges.

- Please make sure your scores are from games that take place during the competition period (no posting your best score from last year, etc.).

- Use of autofire or other non-standard hacks within MAME or your PC's OS are not allowed.

BE SURE TO USE ROM TITLE: BurgerTime (MIDWAY (btimem) version is what I used but Data East set is identical)

Most Recent High Scores:

1. BooHiss 73250

2. joe35car 41900

3. Lucky1 32350

4. megabyte417 26750

5. gigapig 19800

6. Epetti 10,150

7. LSDguy 8300

8. Vacant

9. Vacant

10. Vacant

It makes me really happy to see you guys getting along and playing well against eachother! You really do seem driven to improve your game and that makes it really fun for me!

Thanks,

Steve

HERE ARE THE LINKS TO OUR PREVIOUS COMPETITIONS:

Gradius#4: http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/forum/showthread.php?36133-HyperScore-Challenge-4-Gradius-%28Lurk-No-Further-COMPETE-DAMN-IT!!%29

Tapper#3: http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/forum/sh...tart-Competing!!)

R-Type#2: http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/forum/sh...urking-Compete!!!)

Donkey Kong #1:http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/forum/sh...t-Lurk-Compete!)

[gigapig]

Good choice One of my favourites but I still suck at it.

[boohiss]

For those curious, here's how to record an INP file and then create an avi from it that you can upload to youtube. It should work on any version of MAME, gui or not. Keep in mind you need the same exact version of MAME to create and play back INP files, or they may not work. If you created one using MAME .145, and tried to play it back in MAMEplus .152, it won't work.

Creating the INP file

1) If you are using a gui version of MAME, right click on the game in the list and select "play and record input". You might have to find it under the file menu on top if it is not available after right clicking on the game. Command line mame needs the -record parameter to work. An example for this competition of burger time (rom name btimem) would be: "mame.exe btimem -record btimem.inp", and yes you can use this in a command prompt for gui versions of mame also. Just replace mame.exe with your executable name.

2) Name the file whatever you would like and click save, preferably in your inp folder in your MAME folder. Create one if needed. The game will now boot up and it will be recording your inputs until you exit the game.

Notes: It's recommended to exit after each game attempt. Don't play 4 credits in a row or you will have to do more video editing later (If that's okay to you then go right ahead. Just keep in mind the file will be much bigger if you do this). Also, remember that if you name your file the same as last time it WILL overwrite the old file. When you get a good score you might want to move that inp file for safe keeping .

3) As soon as you exit the game, your inp file should be created. To test it out, select "playback input" under the file menu with the game selected in the gui. It will play the game all the way just like you did, hopefully. Do not press any keys during this, just let it run. If you exit or press something it won't alter your inp file though, so don't worry about that. Under command line mame, the command for this competition would be "mame.exe btimem -playback btimem.inp".

Notes: There are games out there that INP recording just won't work for, so it's recommended you do a test run first and make sure everything is working fine. Some games might require you to delete any highscore, nvram, and cfg files for the game to ensure it records correctly. For this competition, Burger Time (Midway) seems to work fine without deleting these files.

Turning the INP file into an AVI

1) You will need to run a command prompt for this to work, unless your gui allows both playback and aviwrite commands at the same time (MAMEplus does not allows this). Open a command prompt and change directories to your MAME folder. An example would be "cd C:\HyperSpin\Emulators\mame". With the directory in the correct place you are ready to tell it to both play back your inp file and record an avi.

2) For this competition for the rom btimem, type "mame.exe btimem -playback btimem.inp -aviwrite btimem.avi". The "mame.exe" part you can change to whatever your mame executable is named (i.e. mameplus.exe, etc.). The first btimem in the command is the rom name, so replace with any new game rom names as necessary. The INP and AVI files you can name whatever you like. Do not press anything while the game plays, let it run until it's done and then exit out of MAME.

Notes: This will create a large, uncompressed avi file in your snap directory in your MAME folder. For example, my gradius video was 5:25 minutes long and produced a 3gb file. Keep this in mind if you are short hard drive space. Also, since it is playing the game again using your inputs, it is going to register another of the exact same score. So if you want your exact high scores saved without these "duplicates", you might want to play the INP file back using another install of the same MAME version. If the game doesn't save your high score at all, then you have nothing to worry about.

Compressing the AVI File

1) Obtain one of many video conversion programs. I am using "AVS Video Converter 8.4", which is a "registered" version that you can find rather easily. If you use the unregistered version there will be a watermark on your video for a bit.

2) Run your conversion program, changing settings to your preference. Using the above program, I turned a 3gb file into a 166mb HD 1080p video file. Obviously the lower the quality, the smaller the file will be.

3) Upload it to youtube! Pretty self explanatory here. Make sure you're signed in, click the upload button, and follow the basic directions on screen.

Recording INP from within HyperSpin

For this, I have found only one reliable way. I created a thread here: http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/forum/showthread.php?36265-Integrating-INP-file-recording-for-MAME&p=335953#post335953 in hopes that somebody might figure out a better solution.

1) Open up HyperLaunchHQ. Go to GLOBAL in the column on the left, then select emulators on top.

2) Select MAME from the emulator list, and click the "Edit Global Module Settings" button above the list.

3) Select "Rom Settings" tab and click the + button. Type in your rom name (in this case btimem) and double click on it in the list.

4) Under "params" type this: "-record btimem.inp". Now HyperSpin will record INP input when you play that rom.

Notes: This has its faults but it is the best option I can figure out. Please see the thread I posted if you can help create a better solution. Using this method, it will always name the INP file the same thing, so when you get your high score you NEED to exit HyperSpin and move the INP file somewhere to keep it safe before you start another play of that game. Also, there is no way that I can figure out to simulate the script mentioned in the thread I posted. The script moves cfg, nvram, and highscore files for a game before recording input, in case they interfere with recording. Then it moves them back after you are done.

There you have it! Hope that helps some people out there. It's much easier than it seems to do, and beats other recording methods due to no lag from recording video on the fly. Enjoy

[boohiss]

28000

I'll start things off then. Tied the default high score exactly.

Edit:

52550

Such a fun game, one I never really get tired of.

[xHyperSteve]

Nice! We got some great scores coming!! Let's get it rolling!! The weekend is approaching!

[xHyperSteve]

It's Friday, Friday gotta get down on Friday!! Where are the scores homies!! We got's to fill up this board!!

[dougan78]

Workin on dis now

[dark13]

This time I think I'll pass, I'm busy rebuilding my htpc HS installation from scratch Moreover I never ever liked burgertime arcade... another game I loved on c64 but never got my attention in its arcade incarnation.

[epetti]

This was never a good game for me. New personal best. 10,150.

[xHyperSteve]

Nice! Starting to get some scores up!! Running out of time on this one...BurgerTime that is!

[xHyperSteve]

Times a-wasting homies! Last day!

[Lucky1]

32350

Difficult game...I was playing the DataEast Set 1 and never reached over 15k points...until I tried the Midway-Bally and got this score. The speed looks the same.

[gigapig]

Level 3 is a pig, a pepper frenzy. 19800

[xtwistedsanityx]

Stuck in a hotel with only my mobile phone, so not an official entry as no screen shot, but only got 5900 with mame4droid and rom. I hate the touchscreen controls I kept losing my place on the joystick.

Hopefully next time I'll be able to enter properly, please keep doing them.

[joe35car]

First attempt.

[joe35car]

second attempt.

btimem.zip

[xHyperSteve]

HEY GUYS! These are great scores!! I'm extending the Deadline one more day so We can attempt to fill up the board!!

DEADLINE EXTEND UNTIL TOMORROW. TUESDAY, 8pm California Time!!

[boohiss]

61300

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NE7kkfgewwc&feature=youtu.be

[megabyte417]

Here's my Hi Score of 26750 :-) I finally made it to level 4 tonight.

[joe35car]

[ATTACH=CONFIG]44098[/ATTACH]

61300

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NE7kkfgewwc&feature=youtu.be

In the video at the 5:17 mark the pickle goes right through you.

[boohiss]

In the video at the 5:17 mark the pickle goes right through you.

Good thing they can't hurt you for a small bit after they spawn! Caught me completely by surprise, just lucked out.

[joe35car]

Going to be hard to beat the score. I will give it another go tomorrow.

[xHyperSteve]

30 minutes till closing!! Be sure to vote on your choice for the NEXT CHALLNEGE in the Tie Break Poll!! IT Closes tonight. The new challenge will be up by the weekend!

[dougan78]

Couldnt break 10k otherwise I would have posted. 7250 was my besr. Ha ha

[boohiss]

73250

Came so close to beating level 6, not enough peppers. Was fun playing one of my favorite classics!