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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.

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m_nassivera@yahoo.it

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

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seymour@marpirc.net

Thank you very very much!

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m_nassivera@yahoo.it

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.

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churritz@crash.cts.com

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.

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m_nassivera@yahoo.it

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.

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churritz@cts.com

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 <br>

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 !)

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plamat@club-internet.fr

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.

<p>

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

<p>

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.

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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).

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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.

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m_nassivera@yahoo.it