Thank you, I will try to confirm real fast, but I have updated the rules.  How do you make the credits roll?

Okay, the game DOES track high score. Just doesn't display it during the matches for some stupid reason. Updating rules for the final time.

just to clarify..... play till you lose is 2 life bars right? like lose a whole match?

"There is a screen that will display your score, your winning streak, and both. Try to capture the screen with both, though it does not stick around for long."

You will make my life so easier if you would accept screen shots rather than pics this month. It is already time wasting to wait for such screen, and taking a pic on the fly (you cannot pause the hi score screen) there is the risk that is a bad (not readable) picture (and then you have to wait that the screen displays again to take another one), while taking a screen shot it is just about pressing one button and it is 100% sure it is readable. If a picture is a must, I will, no complains; but for time saving sake, a screen shot would be easier. I will input "NA" for initial, so you know the score it is about this tournament.

Uhm... I start to have a doubt: can it be that the score *resets* in the beginning of each fight, to show you how many points you made in such fight, but in the high score screen *maybe* there is somewhere a sum of points made during your whole winning streak? Can someone more familiar with the score system of this game 100% exclude that this sum exists somewhere in such screens? I am just wondering why the game should not keep track of the score of the whole winning streak, and only of single matches. It is quite weird.

Just take the picture. Its the way it is. 

Bust a Move was the same thing. Screen scrolls. Get a picture be ready. Screenshots are not allowed.
 

If you push left and select at any time during the title sequence it will go straight to the high scores

• Please submit a pic of the high score screen that appears if you wait long enough at the title screen.  You must win several fights in order to crack the high scores.  There is a screen that will display your score, your winning streak, and both.  Try to capture the screen with both, though it does not stick around for long.

This will make my life so easier! Thanks!  

Of, course, now that we know how to see that screen, no big deal in time wasting for a picture.

I'll likely have some time this week to (hopefully) raise my level a bit, I don't know if I will after so long, but I plan on getting back somewhat closer my past levels. I doubt that I will defeat Eyedol (this would require way more playing that what my free time is), but I hope to at least have decent run by the end of the month; by the way, I am curious now to see how many will defeat Eyedol at least once!

Good luck to everyone.

I guess nobody else cares about Total Carnage.

Luck is a major factor in this game with random item drops such as weapons, speed boosts and extra lives. The amount of on screen enemies gets so ridiculous that you almost have to luck into snagging a lot of extra lives to have a chance at a decent score. Or maybe I just suck. I dunno.

I love Total Carnage. Need to pick up a copy for SNES, though. Otherwise I'm on emulator and I still hate doing that.

I played total carnage last weekend. First boss was ridiculous

I just checked and it's one of the cheaper SNES carts.

I don't love it enough to want to own it though. Emulation is fine for me.


 

Strangely enough I think that is the only boss besides the final one(s)


Stryphos. Can you update the KI rules based on Pea's findings?
 

I don't think that I even reached the first boss.

there is a warp or two to get to him early in the level. Though you wont get the points. But I dont know if I could live long enough to beat him otherwise.
 

You're playing to game over right? Not just the first credit.

First credit. I didn't know I could use continues. Damn.
 

I'm not sure how much time I'll be able to compete this month so I thought I'd try to get some early benchmarks out there.  Killer instinct and Total carnage updated.

I wasn't sure which high score screen we are using for killer instinct, since one is round high score and the other is combo high score so I posted pictures of both.

I'd like to nominate Orcus as the coolest boss in any video game I have played. He is a straight up beast!!

So it is confirmed that the score does not reset, correct?
I mean, in the score screen it is the sum of points in all the fights in the streak. (?)

Now I think we really need to know if longest winning streak wins or better score wins.
Rule say "progress", which makes perfect sense to me, and which I think it means the longer winning streak in these score screens; but this decision was taken because someone said that the points score would reset after each fight. So now that we know that this is not the case, I mean if it is confirmed that we have a sum of point in one of such screens, what now? We still play for progress, right? Or not?

I mean, do we play for how far we get, ie. longer streak (with score points being the tiebreaker); or we play for points scored (with the longer streak being the tiebreaker)?

Also, from your pictures, why are the scores in the round high-score screen different from the scores in the combo high-score screen? Unless the last picture (combo screen) was from your previous post, of course.

Whatever it is perfectly fine with me, I simply wish to know the final rules for sure, before my next attempt, if this is possible.  

Thanks everyone.  


Edit: corrected few sentences, better formatting.

I mean, in the score screen it is the sum of points in all the fights in the streak. (?)
-From what I've seen, the score screen is not cummulative. It is your best high score from a single fight. 

Also, from your pictures, why are the scores in the round high-score screen different from the scores in the combo high-score screen? Unless the last picture (combo screen) was from your previous post, of course.
-My combo high score and single fight high score were taken from the same fight. The combo high score was just from the 20 hit combo. The round high score was the 20 hit combo + the rest of the fight.

I mean, do we play for how far we get, ie. longer streak (with score points being the tiebreaker)
-This is how the scoring for the snes competition is currently set up and I think it is the way that it should be kept. It just needs to be clarified if it should be the combo high score to be used as a tie breaker or a single match high score. The current rules aren't too clear about it but I am assuming that the single match high score would be the tie breaker.

 

Thanks. Everything clear. And, of course, I fully agree on the underlined part. The scoring system proposed by this game, is so arbitrary, confusing and weird, that even now that I (kind of, I hope so) understand it, it makes little sense to me. Definitely streak is the only parameter we can use for main goal in the competition, with the high score (in which screen to be decided) to be just a tiebreaker.
Thanks for taking your time to answer me, very appreciated!  

Let's do single match high score as tiebreaker. I might be able to edit from a computer tonight

That boss is ridiculous. I reached him with several credits and still couldn't do it. How many freaking hits does he take???