| | | | Tuesday, December 22, 2009 - 11:29 Submitted by: viejo_archivero Topic: Challenges | | Hate it or love it (just like the grumpy Dr. Pill), but the MSXdev'09 competition is now completely over. Months of hard work have now come to an end with the announcement of the winning entry: Dr. Pill. After receiving this news, the doctor himself just sent us a telegram with the words: "Muhahaha, epic! Now take some cyanide please!"
The organizers are certainly satisfied with the quality of all the games that have entered this edition. No matter the rank or the points of an entry, joining the contest is the right MSX-spirit, let's continue that wave of inspiration! Now, the ranking of MSXdev'09: - Dr.Pill, by Infinite
- Menace, by The New Image
- Stray Cat, by Imanok
- British Bob, by Relevo Videogames
- Retaliot, by Video Hazard
- Cow Abductors, by Paxanga Software
- X0rz, by Vampier & Hydragon
- Castle Tomb, by AG Software
- Plumber, by AG Software
Dr. Pill has been highlighted as the most original game for its clever and catchy concept, and as the game with the best music, due to its really nice soundtrack. Dr.Pill and Retaliot share the medal for the best graphics. Dr.Pill contains the best music and has the most original concept. Menace features the best gameplay and British Bob is the most polished game. There was also the new MSX1+ category, which awards bonus material compared to the MSXdev specifications, usually these include sound chips, video chips and such. This year's MSX1+ prize goes to Dr.Pill, based on music, MSX2 palette and 50/60Hz choice.
And with that, MSXdev'09 has come to an end. Long live MSXdev'10! But this time it will be without Jon Cortazar (viejo_archivero, RELEVO), who not only was one of the driving forces behind the MSXdev editions so far, but also a regular to join with an entry (in previous years as Karoshi Corp.). His MSX time has been drastically reduced and he wants to focus all his spare MSX time to develop games under his new brand RELEVO Videogames. So now it will be up to Benoît Delvaux (mars2000you) and Sjoerd Lammertsma (bodyhammer) to keep the MSXdev fire burning: stay tuned for news regarding MSXdev'10!
Relevant link: MSXdev'09 |
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| By MsxKun on December 22 2009, 12:39 | Congrats winners and no winners!
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| By Zezus on December 22 2009, 12:47 | Congrats for all!
I am really sorry but I didn´t understand the meaning of the expression "No respect towards the MSX standard". What did the judges mean? Some light, please!
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| By Leo on December 22 2009, 12:57 | i see AG software submission are last but we must recognize they were the first finished and this somehow helped to start the competition !
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| By Huey on December 22 2009, 13:16 | Still wondering what happened to Yukio's entries.... Any change on a 2010 entry?
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| By muffie on December 22 2009, 13:38 | Amazing results...
Dr Pill, as I said, was the best professional looking game. Looks "expensive"!  Not my type of game, but that's just my personal taste.
And Menace:
# Gameplay (!!) Smooth controls, game plays perfect
And the name is great! Just like the DMA Design Amiga Menace. Oh wait, what DMA design is doing nowadays? Maybe the best selling game of all times?
Congratulations Bifi and GuyveR800...
And to my Spanish fellows:
# 46/60 · Musics/SFX Nice music.
# Only 2 songs in the levels and they start to irritate after a while.
That's really quite a game. Besides not being original, there's always ppl having fun playing that kind of game. Me included.
PLZ, just change the music and it will be perfect!!
And I'm glad to see that Vampier was not last.
# After a while of playing en error message abruptly spoiled my fun. It contains partial joystick controls.
Plumber guys... You're only last because my Marial Attack submission was not accepted...
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| By DemonSeed on December 22 2009, 13:43 | Congrats to all and so much thanks for the great games!
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| "No respect towards the MSX standard". What did the judges mean?
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They mean you. 
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| By hap on December 22 2009, 14:20 | Quote:
| "No respect towards the MSX standard". What did the judges mean?
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mild respect: assuming devices are at fixed ports (eg. VDP at $98 and $99), instead of looking them up in the BIOS. IMO not much of a problem, but it doesn't comply to the standard.
no respect: mild respect + too fast VRAM writes causing severe glitches and/or lockups on most MSX1s, and buggy RAM search causing lockups on some MSX1s. Dr.Pill was lucky not to receive many penalty points. 
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| By boblet on December 22 2009, 14:34 | I wonder if yukio was kidnapped by aliens.
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| By wolf_ on December 22 2009, 14:44 | ^_^ \o/
bob: he dressed up as a cow!
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| By Hydragon on December 22 2009, 14:53 | Quote:
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By wolf_ on December 22 2009, 14:44
^_^ \o/
bob: he dressed up as a cow!
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Hiding in the Woffle_Woffle closet waiting for the arrival of The 'Doctor' from Hell 
Gratz everyone with the results! Lot of new games to be played upcoming xmas and upcoming holidays.. yay to that! \o/
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| By MsxKun on December 22 2009, 16:40 | >>mild respect: assuming devices are at fixed ports (eg. VDP at $98 and $99), instead of looking them up in the BIOS. IMO not much of a problem, but it doesn't comply to the standard.
well, Cow Abductors doesn't use ports $98 and $99...
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| By MsxKun on December 22 2009, 16:58 | >>very mild respect
So, to be sure... that's good or bad? Need to know to launch the service pack 1, with improved controls and so...
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| By KdL on December 22 2009, 17:00 | Good! Very Good... now, I waiting for MSXDev'10  ù__ù
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| By hap on December 22 2009, 17:15 | Quote:
| well, Cow Abductors doesn't use ports $98 and $99...
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one of the judges on IRC hinted at PSG ports.
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good for coders, bad for purists.
British boblet wins the 'respect for MSX standard' award. 
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| By MsxKun on December 22 2009, 17:35 | >>one of the judges on IRC hinted at PSG ports.
Yup, it uses the PT3 replayer 
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| By viejo_archivero on December 22 2009, 18:08 | hap: "British boblet wins the 'respect for MSX standard' award."
BIOS is your friend
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| By ARTRAG on December 22 2009, 19:14 | I would have expected a better placement for Retaliot by Video Hazard.
I think that that horizontal scrolling is simply unique.
Maybe the difficulty is a bit too high and sprites look a bit static
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| By Vampier on December 23 2009, 02:24 | "Dr. Pill has been highlighted as the most original game for its clever and catchy concept, and as the game with the best music, due to its really nice soundtrack."
Wij van WC Eend adviseren WC Eend  (no translation possible.. unless you want to hear about toilet duck!)
Too bad Muffie didn't participate
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| By wolf_ on December 23 2009, 11:43 | But that's viejo's text!
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| By muffie on December 23 2009, 16:34 | I'm sure Marial would finish ahead Vampier's X0rz.
Just ask the judges to judge it.
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| By ARTRAG on December 23 2009, 22:37 | Marial would have gained at least the Blasfemy Award
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| By viejo_archivero on December 24 2009, 05:32 | A pity that "Marial Attack" was pre-released stuff... muffie, try to build something new for the next edition!
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| By cidra on December 24 2009, 14:20 | Marial Attack is an instant classic.
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| By Imanok on December 29 2009, 16:32 | Quote:
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I don't know out there... but here in Spain, cats have always had 7 lives
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