After a lot more discussion, private and public, it looks like my take on how similar these two games are wasn't shared by other judges, nor have my arguments convinced them. It was important in this case, because these games look at the very least borderline similar to me, so I needed more educated opinions. The main argument is that the rules of the games are rather different. Not as different as "one has fighting and it's heavily used, while the other one doesn't"; mostly in how they tweak the basketball rules. Since the sports are played by different rules, and in-game controls are also different, they are most logically not the same game. Which means both this game and 1 on 1 can be published in Vault separately.
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| | feos | link |
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| | frames | igt | frames | igt |
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| 1 | 442 | 09.46 | 519 | 10.60 |
| 2 | 532 | 10.84 | 601 | 11.77 |
| 3 | 543 | 10.90 | 599 | 11.68 |
----------------------------------------I can review those 2 movies closely, comparing every round by speed. The only difference the author mentioned explicitly was lag, and both are in Vault, so we'll see if there's actually any difference in gameplay. Meanwhile I can reject this run for sub-optimality and set the other one to Delayed until the comparison is done.
Is it normal that the cfg files for each launched game are saved in the root of the MameHawk folder? Wouldn't it be easier to store them in a folder specific to MameHawk?
the hurdles in 110M hurdles don't behave consistenly for each race. I did try to optimize the handling of hurdles for the first race, but it doesn't matter since you have to wait for the opponent to finish anyway.
As a possible suggestion, I really enjoyed watching the previous TAS' DVD icon bouncing approach, especially if you can get it to work out for the fireball / missiles bits for example and make the game look trivialised as a result, strong superplay vibes :O Anyways, I don't wanna be asking too much of you. The run is in an acceptable state as is, though I appreciate the effort you've gone through already to receive feedback and improve on the entertainment aspect.
More specifically, is including the message that I do in the level worth the time? Or should I scrap that to do something else? In case you didn't notice, at 9:22 in my encode of this submission, I spelled out "Lobsterzelda was here" on the screen using the movement of the toads' jets.