Mafia Scum Classic Arcade (AND THE WINNER IS...)

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Urghhhh every time someone mentions Tetris I get the urge to try The Grand Master again and that

never

ends well

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It's quiet, but this is the video of someone who is good at it (which I am not).

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It's fun just how different two scores can be.
Here's one that struggled throughout the game, even though it lasted two levels longer than my PB

And Here is my actual PB

Spoiler:

121,601

[JDGA]

That said, since lineclear points are multiplied by level, what makes the big difference is keeping your cool and clearing Tetrises even after things speed up.
(If you're having trouble keeping your stack clean by the time you get to it, you can always start at that higher level to immediately have access to the big multipliers)

[JDGA]

(And probably one more tip that's perhaps the most important - dropping the blocks quickly isn't worth any extra points, so don't drop them faster than you can comfortably plan and think)

[JDGA]

To be fair the scoring in this increases quadratically because of the level multiplier, but that is still pretty super impressive keeping control of the board at that speed for so long.

[JDGA]

Dammit, here I was hoping to get away with not having to play this again

[JDGA]

Yeah Level 10 is the fastest it gets, if I bothered practicing at that speed it wouldn't be toooo bad.

[JDGA]

For this game, take the square root of everyone's scores. The scoring progression is quadratic, so that'll equalise it.

[JDGA]

You'd want to change that for the other games based on their own scoring systems probably. And dividing by high scorer would be a good idea, yeah. Alternatively, just awarding points for places is fine too, but don't make it go in intervals of 10~

F1 uses 25-18-15-12-10-8-6-4-2-1
MK8 uses 15-12-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1

If you want place-based points, some variation on that system (I'd say leave room to award points down to top 20?) would be the best idea.

[JDGA]

If you're worried about getting more players than the scoring system would support, it's possible to invert the scale too.
One of my personal preferences is the relatively simple "score one point for every person who beats you, lowest score wins"

[JDGA]

"Sorry, this game only runs on the webkit browsers like chrome!!"

[JDGA]

I apologize Max for this, again I didn't realize it was Chrome only :/

Not just Max ftr v_v

[JDGA]

This version isn't

great

, since if you get one of the top five places for the day it immediately refreshes, so you don't get a chance to screenshot your high score on the game itself. That said, if we use our username for the high score table it should be fine. (if you don't use your username the first time it saves the name as a cookie, so go clear it)

[JDGA]

Anyways it's hurting my eyes and the "oh you can't jump and duck at once" thing is making me upset, so I'm gonna leave it at this.

Spoiler: 2143

[JDGA]

MSN Gaming Zone loooooooooool
I'm amazed they've still got that site running

[JDGA]

Can't really figure out how exactly the timer works, and this is not the greatest game for a trackpad.

Spoiler:

[JDGA]

See I swear that if I spend a long time on a level, the timer goes faster the longer it takes.

It definitely does, just sit on Level 1 for a while - it starts taking over two seconds at first, but that doesn't last long. It definitely goes up faster though if you rush the levels... really hard to figure it out.

[JDGA]

Oh wow, this game seems to flip the entire table on its head in terms of the usual skills

[JDGA]

WHY DID YOU PICK THE ONE VERSION OF THIS GAME THAT DOESN'T LET YOU BUFFER INPUTS ;_; ;_; ;_;

[JDGA]

Whatever.

Spoiler: 1944

https://i.imgur.com/NhO5853.png

[JDGA]

WHY DID YOU PICK THE ONE VERSION OF THIS GAME THAT DOESN'T LET YOU BUFFER INPUTS ;_; ;_; ;_;

JDGA you are never satisfied

if I'm bad it obviously means the game is bad
or I got laminated
probably both?

[JDGA]

perfection

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Spoiler: 2215

https://i.imgur.com/IOJCZRH.png

[JDGA]

Spoiler: Thanks for the help implosion

[JDGA]

Spoiler: 40600

Stuck on the second screen of level 3.

[JDGA]

Obligatory link to the ultimate mark to beat.

This is the NES version, which goes a lot further than the arcade version.

[JDGA]

Okay, I can't get it to load on that site :/

[JDGA]

As long as you didn't use the save state I'll allow you to use the other site

I'm tempted to just pull up an emulator (those sites are just emulating the NES version anyway) and stream it if you wanted to be sure

[JDGA]

Well at least we get more than 20 minutes this time

[JDGA]

omg FFR
surprisingly this isn't a song I've AAA'd before :O
Nice pick though
The raw score is what actually matters, my previous record is

10,280

but like implosion in Tetris I presume I'll need to do a run during the week (I'll save a replay too because why not)

[JDGA]

There, AAA first go for a score of

10,400

raw or

322,400

combo score.
Image
Replay

[JDGA]

I guess unless you wanted to go to a harder song (you're looking at around the 20s before you get out of my AAA range), you could score based on the number of amazings?
(I'd recommend the harder song route for people who do AAA this)

[JDGA]

9000 raw is pretty much nothing, but sure >_>;
also legacy song noooooooooo

[JDGA]

(To clarify, anything in the legacy genre is explicitly "these are REALLY old and REALLY bad songs that are only kept around for historical purposes please do not use them for any sort of competition unless you hate your players")

[JDGA]

(To clarify, anything in the legacy genre is explicitly "these are REALLY old and REALLY bad songs that are only kept around for historical purposes please do not use them for any sort of competition unless you hate your players")

I'm down for suggestions, you seem to know a lot about this site so what would be a good song to use? I apologize, I found this site and thought it was pretty cool.

I'd probably suggest using the harder song as a tiebreak (so it only matters for two who get the same score on the easier song), then go look in the dance genre for something around the 25ish mark? You could go easier but my "skill level" is 23 so it's up to you whether you'd be fine with something I'd still have a good shot of AAAing.

[JDGA]

And sorry for being demanding

again

, but shhh this is totally my specialty even if I'm still relatively bad at it <_< >_>
(For the record, my best raw score in LoZ Remix is 13,285)

[JDGA]

There we go
First attempt:

25,800

Replay
Image (Took the shot from the replay because I'm kind of a moron)

[JDGA]

There's a couple of settings you can use to focus certain sections:
On the main options, there's a "rate" setting which controls the speed of the song. Obviously anything other than 1x doesn't count as ranked, but slowing it down to work on the tricky timing probably isn't a bad idea. There's also an isolation setting in the other options which lets you pull out a segment of the song to work on in isolation.

[JDGA]

If you want to bump up the arrow speed, that's "scroll speed" at the top of main options and totally fine.

[JDGA]

Fine I gave it a second play and got 27,545 are you happy now
Replay
Image

[JDGA]

Okay actually worked on it and here's a 30-good FC that's good for 28,550
Replay
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Still recommend people do No Salt until they can get the AAA >_>;

[JDGA]

busted

Spoiler: 4071

[JDGA]

Fortunately, none of you know my name on Kongregate... ehehehe
(I do want to call out JDGA for being a filthy casual at only level 50, though)

I moved on from serious badge grinding at that point
And Flash becoming so much deadweight keeps me from ever reconsidering.
(Also relevant: the story of jayisgames and how they eventually sold out)
(And yes, Kong might be the

one

other place I still go by JDGA)

[JDGA]

yay