UKVAC are proud to announce that something very exciting will be coming to the site / forum soon...
Whilst it is certainly no secret, it is possible that many of you will not know that high score save kits are now available for real hardware that are capable of uploading their scores to a dedicated internet high score site. We've been testing a few of these amongst the staff here for a little while and while opinion is a little divided, in that some people are not keen on publishing bad scores (for example), I for one think this is the most awesome thing to have happened to classic games in an age
The kits can be bought from here: http://shop.arcadehighscores.com and are available for quite a few of the old classics. When you buy one of these kits you have the option of buying it with or without the upload feature. Further to that, the upload feature can be switched on or off within a setup screen in the game. Yes, you read that right, all of this is in the classic game itself. There is a main scoreboard on the site (which is technically the authors own arcade scoreboard) and you also get you own board.
MAJOR props go out to Jochen, Stefan and anyone else that was involved in the design, code and manufacture of these kits. I know it's something that's been talked about a lot over the years but it is great that someone has actually done it.
So hot on the heals of this, we at UKVAC have been in touch with the good people at arcadehighscores.com and are working on a number of areas to further this great idea. From our side of things, everything is very much early days yet but there is already a UKVAC board (with my very bad scores!):
http://www.arcadehighscores.com/ukvac
More will be announced from our side as it happens but if you would like to get involved as a tester then get in touch. You will need one of the kits for your game of choice and of course don't forget to order it with the upload facility.
GAME ON !
guddler2015-12-13 20:11:41
Whilst it is certainly no secret, it is possible that many of you will not know that high score save kits are now available for real hardware that are capable of uploading their scores to a dedicated internet high score site. We've been testing a few of these amongst the staff here for a little while and while opinion is a little divided, in that some people are not keen on publishing bad scores (for example), I for one think this is the most awesome thing to have happened to classic games in an age
The kits can be bought from here: http://shop.arcadehighscores.com and are available for quite a few of the old classics. When you buy one of these kits you have the option of buying it with or without the upload feature. Further to that, the upload feature can be switched on or off within a setup screen in the game. Yes, you read that right, all of this is in the classic game itself. There is a main scoreboard on the site (which is technically the authors own arcade scoreboard) and you also get you own board.
MAJOR props go out to Jochen, Stefan and anyone else that was involved in the design, code and manufacture of these kits. I know it's something that's been talked about a lot over the years but it is great that someone has actually done it.
So hot on the heals of this, we at UKVAC have been in touch with the good people at arcadehighscores.com and are working on a number of areas to further this great idea. From our side of things, everything is very much early days yet but there is already a UKVAC board (with my very bad scores!):
http://www.arcadehighscores.com/ukvac
More will be announced from our side as it happens but if you would like to get involved as a tester then get in touch. You will need one of the kits for your game of choice and of course don't forget to order it with the upload facility.
GAME ON !
guddler2015-12-13 20:11:41
