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[K10] Round 7 - Street Fighter III Third Strike [sfiii3n]

Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2013 9:22 pm
by BBH
K10 Round 7 (Elimination Round 4 - Semi-Finals)

Street Fighter III Third Strike: Fight For the Future (Japan 990608, NO CD) [sfiii3n]


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Year - 1999
Manufacturer - Capcom
Genre - Fighting

Settings: Default settings
Versions of MAME allowed: WolfMAME 0.148


Button Configuration:
Button 1 - Jab (Light Punch)
Button 2 - Strong (Medium Punch)
Button 3 - Fierce (Hard Punch)
Button 4 - Short (Light Kick)
Button 5 - Forward (Medium Kick)
Button 6 - Roundhouse (Hard Kick)


Round Duration: Wednesday May 1st, 00:00 GMT - Tuesday May 7th, 23:59 GMT
TIME REMAINING


World Record - 15,820,900 by L2A-GYO
MARP Record - 4,466,300 by BBH (4,829,700 on sfiii3nr1 romset)


HISTORY

The third and final version of the third installment of Capcom's flagship fighting game series. The SFIII series never came anywhere close to the same level of popularity as the original Street Fighter II, and was usually seen as a disappointment by people. And when 3rd Strike was released, it didn't really change any minds of people who wrote the series off. Despite this, the game still saw play in select parts of the world, namely Capcom's home country of Japan. Slowly but surely, people started coming around to the game over the years, with more people able to enjoy the game through console ports to systems like the Dreamcast, Playstation 2, and Xbox. But it wasn't until the EVO 2004 tournament, where one of the most memorable moments ever captured at a fighting game tournament lead to a true resurgence in the fighting game scene. Although it's lost some steam since then, there are still dedicated groups of players around the world that enjoy the game to this day.

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That's all well and good, but this isn't a fighting game tournament - this is a MAME tournament. We know that not everyone is well versed in the ways of fighting games, but it is a genre that saw much representation in the arcades, and we'd like to think that the players that have made it this far can handle a fighting game. As a 1-player vs. CPU game, 3rd Strike is actually quite good - there is a respectable difficulty curve to the game, the early stages are easy but it slowly gets harder. In addition to that, you get two choices on who to fight for each stage up until the end, which lets you avoid characters you might have problems with. Finally, the scoring system isn't ridiculous - although you can get some good points by winning rounds with super art attacks, there are a lot of points to be had by clearing consecutive stages without losing a round. Hell, there's a "hidden" fight after the 7th stage where one of the prerequisites is not losing a round up to that point. Either way, I don't think this round will end with people suiciding on purpose :)

(as to how those 10 million point scores are done - I'm not exactly sure but I think it requires getting a lot of the highest grade finishes after each stage)

Although the CD-required romsets are now playable at MARP thanks to some WolfMAME-specific additions by our very own Barry Rodewald, we'll be using the sfiii3n No-CD romset for the sake of simplicity (plus it has a slightly shorter bootup time!). Do note though that this game is NOT playable in 0.106, so you will need to use WolfMAME 0.148 for this game. If you have issues running 0.148, please let us know and we'll do our best to assist you.


We're now down to the semi-finals. Of the 4 players left, who will advance to the final game?

http://challonge.com/k10

RAX@AIVA [8] vs. nii-san [4]
*Goldtimes* [7] vs. colman paolo [3]


Good luck to everyone!

Re: [K10] Round 7 - Street Fighter III Third Strike [sfiii3n

Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2013 9:23 pm
by BBH
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Re: [K10] Round 7 - Street Fighter III Third Strike [sfiii3n

Posted: Wed May 01, 2013 5:16 pm
by giro-X
Haha, now yes that I'm happy to have lost in the previous rounds :D thanks for keeping this in the last rounds.
I would have fear even to try the first round of this beat.

Good luck for those who compete ;)

Re: [K10] Round 7 - Street Fighter III Third Strike [sfiii3n

Posted: Thu May 02, 2013 6:40 am
by BBH
marpirc.net has been really sluggish as of the last day or so - it takes a long time to load pages. Just be patient and you'll get through eventually.

Re: [K10] Round 7 - Street Fighter III Third Strike [sfiii3n

Posted: Thu May 02, 2013 7:32 am
by nii-san
First games.
I upload here my first score.
Please BBH, look to see if it is correct.
Thank you!

Re: [K10] Round 7 - Street Fighter III Third Strike [sfiii3n

Posted: Thu May 02, 2013 8:04 pm
by mahlemiut
Works for me.

Re: [K10] Round 7 - Street Fighter III Third Strike [sfiii3n

Posted: Fri May 03, 2013 5:47 am
by BBH
Works fine. Your score upon losing the last round was 1,815,700, but the "final score" ended up being 1,788,200. I forgot to mention that there is some weirdness in regards to what the game says is the final score, if you don't clear a stage then the score reverts to whatever your score was at the start of the stage... I think we should use highest score reached?

Re: [K10] Round 7 - Street Fighter III Third Strike [sfiii3n

Posted: Fri May 03, 2013 8:16 am
by nii-san
Thanks mahlemiut and BBH.

Re: [K10] Round 7 - Street Fighter III Third Strike [sfiii3n

Posted: Mon May 06, 2013 7:38 am
by BBH
Really wish the marpirc.net problems had cleared by now, but alas. This is really annoying.


nii-san - 3,001,200
RAX@AIVA - 2,931,200

colman paolo - 4,343,700
*Goldtimes* - 0


A little less than 38 hours to go in this round.

Re: [K10] Round 7 - Street Fighter III Third Strike [sfiii3n

Posted: Tue May 07, 2013 8:17 am
by BBH
nii-san - 3,001,200
RAX@AIVA - 2,931,200

colman paolo - 4,541,500
*Goldtimes* - 3,789,200


13 hours and 12 minutes left in this round!

Re: [K10] Round 7 - Street Fighter III Third Strike [sfiii3n

Posted: Tue May 07, 2013 7:11 pm
by nii-san
Congratulations RAX. I could not have overcome my record. It has been very exciting to play against you. I have given the maximum. Good luck in the final! Regards!

Re: [K10] Round 7 - Street Fighter III Third Strike [sfiii3n

Posted: Tue May 07, 2013 9:58 pm
by BBH
http://challonge.com/k10

RAX@AIVA and colman paolo qualify for the finals!

nii-san and Goldtimes, you both are still invited to participate in the final round to officially determine 3rd and 4th place.

Best of luck tomorrow...

Re: [K10] Round 7 - Street Fighter III Third Strike [sfiii3n

Posted: Wed May 08, 2013 12:53 pm
by RAX
Thankyou nii-san, we'll continue in StarForce our race.

Whoa, at last a final, many attempts to get here. :oops:
Congratulations to Paolo Colman =D> , great scores again and again.
Let's do our best in next turn.

Re: [K10] Round 7 - Street Fighter III Third Strike [sfiii3n

Posted: Wed May 08, 2013 4:19 pm
by el_fumador
giro-X wrote:Haha, now yes that I'm happy to have lost in the previous rounds :D thanks for keeping this in the last rounds.
I would have fear even to try the first round of this beat.

Good luck for those who compete ;)
However I lament the lost chance :?
I could have reached the final.

Congratulations for Paolo Colman and Rax. You have deserved to play the final, no doubt.