October - Super Ghouls 'n Ghosts & Street Fighter II
Progress & High Score
Mod
1	Loop 2 - Level 7			GhostofSparta			1,026,900			Andy_Bogomil
2	Loop 2 - Level 4			Andy_Bogomil			952,400			quest4nes
3	Level 6 (117,800)			3rdstrongestmole			889,000			Abelardo
4	Level 6 (132,800)			Jandrem			883,800			Webhead123
5	Level 3			mbd39			852,800			Ozzy_98
6	Level 2 - Reef Towers			quest4nes			760,200			mbd39
7	Level 2 - Beginning Raft			Webhead123			708,500			user
8	Level 1			bimmy_lee			567,800			Bea_Iank
9							347,800			Jandrem
10							138,800			bimmy_lee

I only have a copy of Turbo, I'm guessing that is not eligible?

I will have to research that, but probably not unless you can basically re-create a SFII playthrough with no deviation

Uh oh mrs. Kai might get in on this one. I've seen her beat that thing on the most "difficult"   setting pretty easily.

Is mrs kai on NA? Dont be claiming her scores bro  

Default game/difficulty settings?

Id like to know the rules of these. Dont want to waste time on street fighter w/wrong difficulty setting or something

Same. You can adjust lives and difficulty in GnG. Not sure how SF works either as I thought your score added up even with a loss, but I'm not sure about that. Again difficulty plays a huge factor in that game. 

Street fight is tough because going to a 3rd round will inflate your score. Still though perfect rounds are where your score blows up.. But continuing you keep your score so i dont know how thatll work.

Street fighter has a number scale difficulty setting that is default 3

How about for Street Fighter, high score, but your run ends if you lose a single match. And I'm unsure if you get a score after beating M. Bison so you may want to get it during him as insurance


For SGnG, default settings. Get as far as you can on the first credit.

I'll have to test both tomorrow as I'm still playing catch-up

Yea thats probably the way to handle street fighter. Makes it harder. SF gets this weird thing though that you get owned by the comp on round 2 sometimes. Feels like nothing you can do lol.

Difficulty settings?

You definitely keep your score after defeating M.Bison. This in both SNES editions, World Heroes and Turbo Hyper Fighting.
Definitely a 2 players game. In 1 player is awesome, but score system is kind of poorly performing for a contest:
- 2 perfect and one loss is more points than 2 victories including only 1 perfect;
- continue does not reset your score;
- how far you get means little.
Plus, the game allows infinite continues (well, an honor rule here to don't continue would easily solve the issue).

My two cents silly advice: ask for most possible "end screens", I mean, finish it with all characters (Ryu, Ken, Guile, ...) == 8 points (or 12 in Turbo), 7 characters == 7 points, and so on. Use the best game score (of each player) only as a tie breaker, in case within the month two players (or more) can finish the game with an equal number of different characters. Also, no continues allowed (now, the character you lack experience with, will be very tough!).

So, instead of updating the best score (well, also that for tiebreaker) the contestants add screen shots of other guys (or girl, ChunLi) with who they could finish up the game. And you keep track: Alan 4 (Zangief, Dalshin, Ryu, Honda, best score 557898); Bob 3 (Ryu, Ken, Guile, best score 567123); and so on... Also, I would suggest to set a reasonable difficulty level, but this depends on how many very strong players are out there.

For the records, I like the game, a lot. But I'm lights years away from a good single player challenger.
Heck! Defeat Bison on top level requires me several continues, especially with characters I'm less familiar with.

Well, just an idea!  

Also, in case the game is not defeated with any character, such player score could be:

A) 0.n
where "n" is teh number of opponents defeated.
for instance: only one opponent defeated == 0.1; lost against Sagat (7+2=9 defeated) 0.9.

In SFII Turbo you must use 0.0n since you fight also yourself, so 0.01 to 0.10

In such scenario the in-game score would keep its role of tie breaker.

B) Have player not defeating the game have a main score of 0, and directly use the in-game score tiebreaker to rank them.

Well, that's pretty much it. Thanks for reading.  

It is interesting to note that every time you use a continue on SF2, your score is increased by 1 point.
Usually, a score that ends in 0 means no continues were used. Now, I don't remember if you are awarded less than 50 points per attack. I will have to check it tonight.

Also, SF2 and Turbo are VERY different, with several balancing changes, damage changes, improved AI, plays way faster and allows you to play as the bosses.
So people shouldn't be allowed to play it instead of plain SF2 for the context.

GnG rules seem fine as you do get extra lives from score. I was able to make it to stage 3 yesterday on my first playthrough with the default settings (3 lives normal difficulty). There are also sub levels (1B etc.) as well which make it better for progress unless you pause and then take a picture knowing you're going to die which is less than ideal.

Street Fighter should be no single round lost, high score on 3 or 4 stars (something that's manageable). Take a pic when you lose a round or beat the game. My 2 cents.

Yea. When you lose a round. Screenshot the start of round 2 or 3. The little peace sign will be on screen showing the one loss. Also i think bea is right . There is a 1 added to your score with a continue.

What is the default difficulty on SFII, and what does it go up to?  I haven't played the game in many years

 

According to your score, you continued 56 times
 

For people who didn't know, when you continue in SFII, you gain a single point. All other point values are based on 100, so if your last two digits are not 00, you continued.

Never, it's always base 100, last two digits is how many times you lost.  And for some odd reason I read through this thread once and missed your post. 

To clarify, I'm saying your game is over in Street Fighter II if you lose a single time. You have to sweep every opponent.

Rules are updated. I may tweak the SFII difficulty setting if the default is too easy though. I'll test that tonight and continue to accept feedback


I apologize for the lack of organization this month. Lots going on the last few days.

Ah, good. It has been a long, long time since I last played SF2 and I didn't remember if the base was 100 or 50.