MSXdev'05 - Results

Nice decisions of the jury, with complete info about the criteria and the comments ! GuyveR800, excellent work ... and of course, also a great success for this contest with so many great talents !

Pitpan , it's time to launch the 2006 edition !

Thanks go out to GuyveR800 for his kind words to the MSX Resource Center, his narrow self-fulfilled mind and his complete incapability of reconsidering and admitting his own mistakes. Ever heard of the concept of cooling down? Damn! Even your one year's (and more than well deserved) ban was removed months ago.

Just for the record... the decision to award the most original game concept with an MSX T-Shirt a developer was made just before it was announced that GuyveR800'd become the main juror, and the only reason why we postponed the announcement was exactly because Guyver has problems seeing MRC's actions for what they are, instead of actions-reactions against his personality. Too bad that even now, he has to use the success of the MSXdev challenge as a messageboard for his own frustrations. As said so many, many, many times before... if there's something on your mind, you know perfectly well where to contact us, Guyv.

Ah well... big time congratz go out to the prize winners of the challenge, you have deserved them! Too bad not every entry could win a prize

Guyv... words of wisdom... really...

Congratulations to all winners and contestants. This proves MSX is still very much alive.

Congrats to all winners and contestants. You've proved MSX to be very alive indead (even to a sceptic like me).
Robsy; thanx for the contest and efforts. note: Why did you allow Guyv to put up a text like that (which holds some agresive texts against MRC). It's about the contest, not personal grudges. aaight. (guyver, I know yer reading this filth. Why dude? it only proves you ARE that poor sap. You're only making a clown appearence.. tssss!)

Hope to see more games in future (or was this a one time only... we'll c)

Congrats to the winners!! (I won my bet, btw!)

I like the way the way Patriek has rated and commented the games. That's the way programmers see the good and bad points of their creations and should encourage them to improve the results on their next creations. A constructive critic.

The comments about the stuff all we know, they're totally offtopic, IMHO.

I'm very disappointed that Patriek used this totally unrelated MSX dev '05 contest jury report to once again express himself very aggressively towards MRC. This totally destroys the very positive thing of the MSX dev '05 contest IMO... Why can't he just separate things? The contest has nothing to do with politics or groups or people that seem to hate each other... What a low thing to do... Man, what a shame!

This makes me truely very sad.

GuyveR800 went down to the next level. How low can someone go This is really so pathetic to use this method to "get back" at MRC. I must say I also son't understand why the people behind MSXDEV '05 allowed this type of nonse on their site... It really gives the whole MSXDEV '05 a bad taste...

Thank God I am too stupid to make something creative, but I wouldn't want my creations to me mentioned in such a document...

uh, that was mentioned in the juryreport ..

* Depending on your MSX model, writing illegal values to PSG register 7 (specifically bits 6 and 7) can cause a short-circuit in your MSX. This can cause anything from non-working joystick to a broken MSX.

...and about the PSG#7, seems that only if there're "active" devices conected the PSG could be damaged. Don't ask me about what's the meaning of active devices, the best information source about this behaviour is "The MSX Red Book" and it only says that...

I have no prove... Not searching for it either...
Resting my case, but did feel like mentioning my thoughts.

Idd.. Pilsje erbij (wel alcoholvrij nauurlijk op dit tijdstip )

ro:

[00:08] * Wolf_ grabs the chair/chips/coke

2 Fuzz, 1 thought ^_^

Creía que tanto las noticias como las reacciones debían estar en inglés, pero como veo que aquí cada uno hace lo que quiere, pues me apunto al carro: lo mejor del MSXdev'05 son los veintipico juegos, no los comentarios de GuyveR800 .

babelfish:

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It thought that as much the news as the reactions had to be in English, but as I see that here each one does what wants, because I score at the car: the best thing of the MSXdev'05 is the veintipico games, not them commentaries of GuyveR800
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Well I'm glad you score at the car!

Me, I like classements ... and viejo_archivero too : he's converted the appreciations on each game into points on the Karoshi forum, and it gives the following classement :

Maximum points is 25 --- The Cure has 22 points !

22 (8,8/10) The Cure
19 (7,6/10) Universe: Unknown
19 (7,6/10) Parachuteless Joe
18 (7,2/10) Griel's Quest for the Sangraal
18 (7,2/10) Saimazoom
17 (6,8/10) Namake's Bridgedrome
16 (6,4/10) Caverns of Titan
15 (6,0/10) Cheating Wives
13 (5,2/10) Crazy Buggy
13 (5,2/10) Space Crussader
12 (4,8/10) Cosmic Battle
12 (4,8/10) Magical Stones
12 (4,8/10) The Mansion
11 (4,4/10) Manicomio
11 (4,4/10) Viking
10 (4/10) Blusy Shop
9 (3,6/10) Pair Logic
8 (3,2/10) Bomb Man
8 (3,2/10) Lode Run
6 (2,4/10) Snoopy Town
6 (2,4/10) Tragaperras

On Japanese and Korean machines, the KANA/HANGUL is actually the CODE key on European and Brazilian machines, but it works differently :

- CODE must be combined with another key to produce a character
- KANA must be pressed alone, it's a balance key between international characters and Kana or Hangul characters.

The KANA key exists also on Arabic and Russian machines, giving access to Arabic or Russian characters.

backseat lover I suppose?

forget it robsy wanted to put the focus on msx1 games..

msx1/megarom/64k would be nice tho ..

Some games presented already use the MSX2 capabilities when detected...

I have see most of the games and I like the GuyveR800's comments.
Actually I would like to see an msx2 competition next year....
Maybe you could limit the rom space at 32K or 64K also for msx2
in order to have doable projects...

If robsy likes msx1 so much, why not two competitions ?

My bet: MSX1 / MEGAROM / 16Kb RAM

Noooooo.. do you realize how crap 16kb is?? Really very little space to unpack things to.. small game-maps, small tunes (scc tunes would be a bit problematic!) etc.
Directly using all that stuff from ROM means you can't have all that compressed in ROM, meaning that a megarom really is a megarom, rather than a compressed 4megarom.

arnold_m - I actually feel it's a mild reaction to someone who's been repeatedly calling me a fascist for over 18 months now. MRC had trouble with the MDI for expressions much milder than the one Guyver choses to use. I do see the point you're trying to make, but I'm not a man without emotions you know. The whole situation got me inches away from dropping MSX altogether multiple times, and I'm just totally fed up by GuyveR bringing it up time and time again. I'd hoped he had at least cooled down a little bit by now. I'm just hurt and disappointed, that's all. Speaking of stats tho, I think at least 99% of my contributions on the MRC have nothing to do with personal conflicts whatsoever :)

~nuff said, I hope.

As for MSXdev'06: I'd love to see a stretch of the rules indeed. It worked very well last time, so it seems only right to take a next step once again! :)

Please send me by private e-mail your full snail-mail address to arrange the Turbo-R ST shipment. It is an unmodified Turbo-R ST, so you will need a new power supply or an adapter (it requieres 100 V).

It is a fantastic computer. But use it to finish XL2S Boulder dash clone too!

You might want to take a look at the interesting discussion I found here...

to bad the discussion is ongoing, even after this time. Guyver's still upset, I can get into that. But taking a juryreport to vent this anger is even more than just lame. And Robsy (the contest master) not taking actions for this is strange imho. This is not the place to take personal grudges to the next level. It's a game compo, it's MSX and it's GOOD. So why did G had to shadow this GREAT initiative with nasty words. And why didn't Robsy act like he should? (it's never to late robsy!)

I think this is all a dirty stain on what supposed to be so cool. Fix the report {moderated}. Where's the Dynamic Duo when you need them. They could make a nice "demo" of this all. gheheh.

nuff said? don't think so, bring on the arms!

@ snout, don't get a dude like G make you drop that good thing yer doing. There's ALWAYS a stupid fuck who has to piss on whatever one's doing. Just forget it, I do.
This temple has tombled over once to many.

let the battle for the prize begin