EAB/Lemon Super League 2015: Round 11 Game Vote

[Graham Humphrey]

EAB/Lemon Super League 2015: Round 11 Game Vote
Starts: 00:01 August 16 Finishes: 23:59 August 29

Full rules are here.

Vote for five games.

Your first choice gets 5 points, second 4 pts, third 3 pts, fourth 2 pts, fifth 1 pt.

Remember to choose games suitable for competition play. Edited votes will be discounted (unless told otherwise) so think before you post. Please only vote on one board - either EAB or Lemon.

If a game comes in ECS and AGA versions, please state your preference in your vote. In the event the versions differ gameplay-wise, the version with most votes will be played. ECS is the default if you don't specify.

The winner of Round 10 has double voting power for Round 11. (1 = 10 points, 2 = 8 points etc). However, because the voting for the next round ends before the current round ends, players must place their votes and wait for the current round to end to see who will have their vote doubled.

Tactical or nosey voters can see the Lemon voting thread here.

Voting is not allowed for games played between 2009-2015:

2015 Season
R01: SWIV
R02: Sensible World Of Soccer 96/97
R02: First Samurai
R03: Formula One Grand Prix
R04: Q-Bic
R04: Crazy Sue
R05: Lotus III
R06: The Great Giana Sisters
R07: Wings
R08: Obsession
R08: Plat-Man
R09: Super Skweek
R10: The Chaos Engine

2014 Season
R01: Crazy Cars III
R02: Superfrog
R02: Pang
R03: Klax
R04: Solid Gold
R04: Revenge Of The Mutant Camels
R05: Hybris
R06: Buggy Boy
R07: Jumping Jack'Son
R08: Zool
R08: Summer Games II
R09: Stardust
R10: Super Hang-On
R11: Liquid Kids
R12: Midnight Resistance
R12: Menace
R13: Agony
R14: Stunt Car Racer TNT

2013 Season
R01: Test Drive II: The Duel
R02: All Terrain Racing
R03: The New Zealand Story
R04: Downfall
R04: BabeAnoid
R05: Speedball 2
R06: Arcade Pool
R07: Risky Woods
R08: Arkanoid
R08: GeeBee Air Rally
R09: IK+
R10: Pinball Fantasies
R11: Snow Bros
R12: Disposable Hero
R12: Dogs Of War
R13: No Second Prize
R14: Lotus Turbo Challenge 2

2012 Season
R01: James Pond 2: Codename RoboCod
R02: The Chaos Engine
R03: Sensible Golf
R04: Alien Bash 2
R04: Cybernetix
R05: Buggy Boy
R06: Deluxe Galaga
R07: Bubble Bobble
R08: Dyna Blaster
R08: R-Type II
R09: Silkworm
R10: Stunt Car Racer
R11: Gem'X
R12: Turrican 3
R12: Twintris
R13: Walker
R14: Sensible World Of Soccer 96/97

2011 Season
R01: Dune II
R02: Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge
R03: Magic Pockets
R04: Llamatron
R04: Alien Fish Finger
R05: Pinball Dreams
R06: Pang
R07: Vroom
R08: Ruff 'n' Tumble
R08: Zeewolf
R09: Superfrog
R10: Turrican II
R11: Indy Heat
R12: Xenon 2: Megablast
R12: Yo! Joe!
R13: Batman The Movie
R14: Soccer Kid

2010 Season
R01: Apidya
R02: Lotus Turbo Challenge 2
R03: Qwak
R04: Tetris Pro
R04: Atom Smasher
R05: Project-X Special Edition
R06: Nitro
R07: Assassin Special Edition
R08: Pinball Illusions
R08: Virocop
R09: Skidmarks
R10: Super Hang-On
R11: Uridium 2
R12: Gods
R12: Globdule
R13: Pac-Mania
R14: Fire & Ice

2009 Season
R01: Superfrog
R02: Arcade Pool
R03: Deluxe Galaga
R03: Super Obliteration
R04: Rodland
R05: Roadkill
R06: MegaBall 4
R07: Rainbow Islands
R07: Parasol Stars
R08: Mean Arenas
R09: All Terrain Racing
R10: Slam Tilt
R11: War Zone
R11: Wizkid
R12: Super Cars II

Bugged Games

Marble Madness - not possible to get a screenshot on a real Amiga as it disappears off screen too quickly to take a photo.

If you know of any games that could cause problems please PM Graham, Biscuit, mihcael or lifeschool.

Anyone is welcome to vote, play and chat at any time. May voting commence...

[Harry]

Would be Lionheart eligible with the following mode?

Play normal mode. Make a screenshot in the game showing your hearts and Thalion symbols. Every heart above 4 (thats what you start with) counts as 100 symbols.
A total of about 450 symbols can be collected within the game, roughly reflecting your progress. For those who reach the last boss (after the tower stage with the rising water), make a screenshot before the battle and add the number of your lifes to the number of symbols and submit that, as taking a screenshot when the boss is defeated is too difficult (you would only have 2 seconds for the screenshot).

[mailman]

1. Alien Breed Tower Assault
2. Dojo Dan
3. Assassin
4. Super Stardust
5. Blood Money

[lifeschool]

Harry; I'll let Graham decide Lionheart. On one hand nobody likes taking in-game screenshots when they get close to death on their last life, but in the case of this game it's perhaps the only way to score it. But what if the player misses those hard to reach places and leaves half of them, the score would be as if they only made it half as far. ?

Dont forget there is also Wolfchild and Harlequin still to play.

[Harry]

Originally Posted by lifeschool

Harry; I'll let Graham decide Lionheart. On one hand nobody likes taking in-game screenshots when they get close to death on their last life, but in the case of this game it's perhaps the only way to score it. But what if the player misses those hard to reach places and leaves half of them, the score would be as if they only made it half as far. ?

That would apply to Yo Joe or Turrican 1/2 too. Nobody forces you to collect all the diamonds within or search for the monsters in the labyrinth, but if you take the straight route you get less points.

Originally Posted by lifeschool

Dont forget there is also Wolfchild and Harlequin still to play.

Wolfchild is too difficult for me. Harlequin is also not my favourite. I simply thought Lionheart would be a great game to be played in the competition.

[Graham Humphrey]

Originally Posted by Harry

Would be Lionheart eligible with the following mode?

Play normal mode. Make a screenshot in the game showing your hearts and Thalion symbols. Every heart above 4 (thats what you start with) counts as 100 symbols.
A total of about 450 symbols can be collected within the game, roughly reflecting your progress. For those who reach the last boss (after the tower stage with the rising water), make a screenshot before the battle and add the number of your lifes to the number of symbols and submit that, as taking a screenshot when the boss is defeated is too difficult (you would only have 2 seconds for the screenshot).

Thanks for the suggestion on this. I freely admit I am far from an expert on Lionheart, but it seems from what I can work out, the hearts represent your health and the symbols reset to zero after you go past 99. You might get an extra heart when it rolls over to zero but you can still lose that pretty quickly so I'm not really sure that's an accurate way of recording a score? I'd veer towards saying I don't think it really works, I'm afraid.

[Harry]

Originally Posted by Graham Humphrey

Thanks for the suggestion on this. I freely admit I am far from an expert on Lionheart, but it seems from what I can work out, the hearts represent your health and the symbols reset to zero after you go past 99. You might get an extra heart when it rolls over to zero but you can still lose that pretty quickly so I'm not really sure that's an accurate way of recording a score? I'd veer towards saying I don't think it really works, I'm afraid.

You always get an extra heart when you collected 100 additional symbols. Initially, the hearts above 4 are only present in an outline. If you get an extra heart, it is filled, with light red when you still have the extra health, and in dark red when you are hit and below maximum health.

Edit: I have attached a sample screenshot which would count as 20 symbols + 0 extra hearts*100 = 20 score. (Since it is not taken at the last boss, lifes are ignored.)

[capehorn]

The 5th/6th/7th/8th heart all represent 100 additional symbols collected so it would work as a scoring system. I bet we'd get some ties at the top between the better players who complete the game, so how about livesx10 at end as an extra separator?

Biggest issue is how/when to take screenshots, as the majority of players won't complete the game so will have to take screenshots when they are nearly dead.

[Harry]

I am happy with any lives multiplier when the final boss is reached, before his battle.

As for the screenshots, if low on lives the players should do screenshots when they have just collected symbols, as there are usually no enemies in these spots.

[Graham Humphrey]

Technically I suppose that works so I guess we can do it.

[Harry]

1. Prince of Persia (highest level, then best time)
2. Leander
3. Lionheart
4. Aquanaut (F1 Licenseware)
5. Aladdin (excluding the points from the flight sequence)

[Graham Humphrey]

1. World Class Leaderboard
2. Star Wars
3. Super Stardust
4. Guardian
5. Car-Vup

[vagrant]

World Class Leaderboard?
..actually, bugger it.

1. World Class Leaderboard
2. Blood Money
3. Star Wars
4. Dojo Dan
5. Leander

[Graham Humphrey]

Voting is over and here's how it currently stands...

1. Rick Dangerous - 26
2. World Class Leaderboard - 24
3. Star Wars - 15
4. Rick Dangerous 2 - 14
5. Prince of Persia - 11

Total votes: 14 - Total games voted for: 40

Because it's so close, the double voting power can have an effect - but somebody will need to dislodge Harry at the top of the current leaderboard first...

[Graham Humphrey]

Harry didn't win, but as eMTe didn't vote there's no change in the standings.