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Neoflash Summer Coding Comp 2006: The Results are in... |
Listed in: Homebrew Applications, Homebrew Games Tags: Brunni, GBA, psp homebrews, Remi59, Tassu
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The final results for the Neoflash Summer Coding Competition 2006 are in today, and we can now reveal the winners for the NDS/GBA games, NDS Applications, PSP Games and PSP Applications categories. So, without further ado, here's the list of the top 10 winners for each category:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 10 | NDS/GBA Games MegaETk - ETk Gioioso! - Tassu Arcomage - Bodom-Child TetattDS - Ted Glider - HtheB Lindsi Luna Blast - alekmaul Hawaiian Islands - Vinnepin Slide And Run - Gwoin QBX - Didou BANJO ADVANCE - omg Sensitive DS - spinal | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 10 | NDS APPS beup - kevinc IRCDS v0.2a - freemaan ColecoDS V1.0 - alekmaul DSFTP 1.9 - bjoerngiesler midori - AronBS GBA Graphics - Brunni lo.mp3 - birslip DSVNC - thoduv Draw - davr Digit Solver - mushroomfantasy SIDPlayerDS - GPF |
1 2 3 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 | PSP Games R-Gear - shazz The Stroke of Link - Yodajr TrigWars - 71M ThrottleX - AnonymousTipster Droplets - drakonite luminex - pointbat DYOX - ColdPie Escape - taichi1082 Arc Angel - Remi59 Sandbox - psmonkey Reactor - Kagato | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 | PSP Apps MapThis! - deniska iR Shell v2.0 - AhMan MMSPlus - Brunni RemaPSP - danzel Guitar Tuner - PSPZion Screen Repair Set - saulotmalo EI0 Map editor - smealum Funky Demo - Raphael You might be a... - Sektor Click Click Machine - miNi |
Ties have been denoted with game titles having the same ranking number, which also means that the prizes have been expanded in 3 categories to accomodate this. Congratulations for all those who have won a prize and all those that have entered!
Via Neoflash
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Anyhow, congrats to all of the winners and thanks for your time and energy.
.A.J.
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Sand Box
Doesn't start on my PSP ... How can you not get Sandbox to work ?
Plus they didnt do anything about the guy who cheated (who ultimately got 7th place!)
Total Bull*****!
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voted and had a different opinion to you is a retard?
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I too think the results are rather off, not really aiming at coding skill/coding effort, but more on the likelyness of the judges to the one or other program (yes I'm unhappy with my 8th place, though I still believe my demo wasn't that great at all... but hell... it was at least way more sweat&blood put into it than that screen repair set, but I'm not complaining here).
Also the case of the obvious cheater is a big drawback for neoflash I think. They should have been more strict there.
I honor though that they decided to accept multiple same places and extend the prizes accordingly.
I'm still looking forward to the next compo after all.
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hahaha
nice job..
congrats to all! :)
myopinion:
iR shell is awesome, but damn complicated
make it more user-friendly! :)
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The game called 'Escape' cheated and got 30 extra votes, all by similar e-mail addresses. He wouldn't have even got a prize if he hadn't cheated.
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Really I still think ThrottleX deserved 1st or 2nd. Second someone spam their votes ( going from 5 - 35 in one night, Thats pure cheating yet they still gave him 9 points for the poll ).
***** my prize, I dont want it.
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MapThis! is a great achievement, deniska has managed to implement something that few could do. It ranks up pretty high on the complexity scale in terms of programming. Here's hoping he tackles a keyboard mod next!
The top 4 PSP games are all excellent (and they're all winners), so why is everyone complaining?
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TrigWars
> Awfull game play, too dark, unplayable in my opinion
- come on, awfull game play? True it's a little bit dark, but there's still that screen brightness adjustment button on your psp...
Sand Box
> Doesn't start on my PSP ...
- du'h, actually, ThrottleX didn't start out of the box. Also, where is the judging on that from Dr. neo? Am I blind or is it really missing?
5) EI0 Map editor + OSlib map loading source code
>> No useful, every coder can do such code thing and there is a lot of better map editor
(GBA Graphics by Oslib creator...) since using a PSP based map editor isn't easy or fast...
- then why place it 5th??
7) Screen Repair Set
>> There is already a lot of videos to correct stuck pixels, and they work with any firmware...It is hard to say something else on this app since I don't avec any stuck pixel.
- again, why place 7th then?
corey1492:
> Sandbox
Not really a game but a tech demo… needs UMD?
- uhhhh....?
6) You might be a game developer
LOL (originality 9)
- LOL?.... I mean... yeah... wtf?
Also the third judge for PSP didn't give any comments at all (probably better?).
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Yet this site tries to give more time and every site out there gets pist off and that they are rigging the compo.
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Btw, if someone beats the irSHELL it has to be super great, something that people cant be without, something that everyone can use and also use everyday. Funny, have never tried that map GPS thing.
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Maybe they needed Chuck Norris. *Thumbs... UP*
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1. R-Gear
2.TrigWars
3.Sandbox
That´s my view
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ThrottleX
TrigWars
R-Gear
Sandbox
Droplets
Luminex
and Escape shouldn't have even been in the top 10...the guy cheated on the polls, everyone saw it, why wasn't he disqualified and maybe even banned from future competitions. Frankly, his game couldv'e been coded in 5 minutes.
I think apps results weren't bad, but RemaPSP and MMSPlus should've been switched.
Booooo to the judges.
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I FRIGGIN LOVE IR SHELL! useful too!
but on the other hand, mapthis ROCKS, i just wouldn't vote it number 1 tho, if it was a tie id say awesome, but ir shell certainly deserve more.
Also... trig war? getting too challenging.. they should have a "select your difficulty" which in easy mode, the green ones aren't as dodgy as they are and you fire way faster, like the very first version of the game, and then normal mode, you fire slightly faster and enemy get little smarter, and so on, i had to keep both the buggy old version and the newest version of trig war on my opsp -.-
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There were only 10 entries for PSP apps, so all of them got a place.
As to the cheaters: we have (had) no way of tracking what user logged what vote. I do know in the past month we have been getting a wave of 'autospam' type posts, where an automated account sign up and following that spam posts are found in the forum.
If I had been able to proove cheating (wrather than the possibility of getting a bunch of people to vote where others didnt ask others to vote), the entry would have been entirely disqualified. As it is, Im not happy either, but have no proof one way or the other.
#20 - I found _no_ gaming aspect to sandbox. Ooh, look, I can move stuff around on the screen. Gets boring really fast. And yes, I was laughing my ass off at the lua script, I felt it deserved some points for origionality if nothing else.
sandbox: the attachment didnt work. It is a stipulation of the contest that the entry be attached to the post (mainly so we can tell if it was altered after contest close), its essentially the poster's fault for leaving a faulty attachment and not arranging it with us to have the extremely large actual files hosted on our site elsewhere.
TO THE REST OF YOU:
PSMonkey: your crappy entry didnt deserve any better. (how does it feel to have your time spit on like you are on ours?)
You dont like free stuff? New programs to use? Tell Dr.neo to stop holding compos, Im sure we can arrange that much more easily wrather than putting in 30-60 manhours dealing with all the crud around a compo...
28: boo to the people who aren't judges and didnt have to wade through 80 programs (took me close to 8 hours, with comments and all) in assorted and sometimes broken english funky hard to read instructioned installation packages, but simply had to pick one and vote.
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Second I noted in my post I tried uploading freaking 2-3 times. Every single time the forum times out. I was TOLD THERE WOULD BE NO ISSUE UPLOADING A LARGE FILE. Yet me and many others had issues with uploading large entries (even another user had to upload to an off site).
So dont give me that bull*****.
I also dont want your crap. *****ing even pull me from the results page. Its better that way.
Alot of coders are commenting on how *****ed up your results were.
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Atleast hopefuly now the guy in 11th who was robbed of a place will get something now.
Me personaly your compo are a waste and I will aways advise coders against them.
I still personaly dont think bad of Dr.Neo but god you guys need to learn how to run a psp compo.
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On how _my_ results were, or on how the overall contest results were? If you want to make it personal, I would wrather have not spent 12-14 hours over the course of 4 days (of my already _very_ busy schedule) rounding up and taking the time to actually try all of these entries to later have my own judgment questioned (and later bicker about the cheaters and spend 4 hours trying to track who might have cheated, debating whether the people who used the splash screen as an eboot image instead should be disqualified... etc).
You all make me feel it was indeed a mistake to share the scoresheets at all - they are not in question, and were deemed essentially final/acceptable by the judges.
What it probably comes down to, and few people seem to realize this: the coders did their best, the judges did their best, the cheaters did their best... this is the end result (regardless of if anyone agrees with it or likes it, be it coders, observers, judges or hapless fools)
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and before you ask, I did bring up the cheating issue to the judges, it went largely uncommented on (and even I disagree with that) but I was told to release the results, so I did.
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Again it was not hard to see who cheated by jumping 30 votes overnight and constantly boosting 2-4 votes every time ThrottleX was tied with it.
I would never submit sandbox as an app because that is cheating. Sandbox is not an app nor was it targeting it. It was targeting being a small collection of games. Sure it failed to fully achive that in time but that is due to me being too ambisious insted of just pulling a 2d game out of my ass like everybody else.
I undstand the hours you put into making this compo work but so did us the coders. I was running on 4 hours of sleep the final day of the compo and I even regret that. I also was staying up till 4-6am every day the week before to push more in.
There still was poor putting together of the compo imo. Hell still no explination why DrNeo skipped throttleX or why he coult not run mine (he is the first to actualy say they had an issue). Only keeping scores of the top 10 also skews the results.
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Yet, PSmonkey is right that it actually was a "coding compo", and although it had its topics "app" and "game", the coding effort put into one entry should be valued higher than you judges did (I expected that bias from the public poll, but even that was more objective in the end I believe). At least that's my understanding of what a "coding compo" should be. Also you announced the compo to be aimed at getting good new homebrew done, but I'd call that goal not achieved with a lot of entries which still got placed rather high.
Also, I don't really see what that "you are an developer..." script was more original than my demo. Both were utterly unique in it's kind, so yes, it deserved it's point for originality, but it deserved no single point for coding effort or usefullness, nor for being specially on-topic. That leaves us with 1 point for it, still you placed it 6th in your rank?
About your comment to my entry, I just can add, that I didn't know about the compo until ~4 weeks before the deadline. Apart from that I'm studying and have a girlfriend I can only see at weekends for the rest of the year, so my coding time I could put into that compo was really limited. I actually coded until the last minute to fix some things and therefore forgot to put in a eboot-title and icon. Stupid mistake, but it just shows the sweat&blood I put into the actual coding. Something that cannot be said about every entry. That shouldn't be an excuse, but considering that, I think it's really great what I could pull off inside that timeframe and to think I would have even got last place nearly if the public votes didn't save me, it's a shame.
At the end I'd still like to give you kudos for your effort put into compo and it's not as if all your judges were off, there also were a lot correct decisions, which I fully respect.
And I also respect that your decisions as jury are final and should not be questioned, but I believe the talk is neccessary to maybe let the judges think about how they really should judge and therefore enhance the future compos by being more objective (or even extending the compo with more topics?). As said, I'm still looking forward to the next compo.
Regards,
Raphael
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If you judges think there is a need to take off points because the homebrew has been released to the public before, I won't have any problem with it. Just stay this clearing in your compo rules. But ranking it based on false information isn't professional at all.
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Also, iR Shell can also do all of this:
-Do basic shell functions (launch homebrew, launch UMD, usb mode, exit back to shell from homebrew/umd, file browser, date/time/battery info display)
-Be an IR remote for over 2000 devices (and I think it's over 6000 devices if you download more than just the remote on the website)
-Take screenshots of homebrew, UMD, XMB, pretty much everything
-View images (.bmp, .jpg, .png)
-MP3 player that can run in the background of your UMDs and homebrew that are launched from iR Shell, has basic functions like pause/play, stop, next, previous, volume +/-, can make playlists
-Change CPU speed
-Switching between launched homebrew or UMD and iR Shell (to change your MP3 playlist or something like that)
-Transfer files to another PSP via Ad Hoc connection
-Skinnable
-Can run file manipulation functions (copy, paste, delete, rename)
-Configurator which lets you customize things like default CPU speed, date/time display, skin and put a password on file manipulating or entering the configurator
-Can lock the PSP so that a password is needed to continue
-PSP headphone remote control support for MP3 player
-Support for user plugins (EBOOTS to run a specific filetype).
-Support for UMD browsing
-Support for USB host file system browsing (remotely browse and run files on your PC via USB)
-Support for Infrastructure WiFi host (net host) file system browsing (remotely browse and run files on your PC via Infrastructure WiFi)
-Can redirect usbhost or nethost to the memory stick (allows proper homebrew streaming from the PC as well as MP4 streaming)
-Can launch the XMB from iR Shell and exit back to it (can do most XMB functions from here except play UMDs and launch homebrew, this is how you stream MP4 movies from your PC when connected and redirected)
-Alarm clock function
-Low battery warning
-Existing plugins (it can runs these files): PMP, AT3, PMF, ZIP, RAR, TXT, and some more on the official forums ( www.irshell.com/forum )
-Use an Ad Hoc internet connection for homebrew or for nethost
And like AhMan said, iR Shell wasn't entered in any previous competitions, so if that's why he was marked down, then that's total BS.
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I mean come on... R-Gear for first PSP game? ThrottleX was by far the best, and Trig Wars wasn't too bad either.
This contest was a failure.
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Trigonometry Wars and ThrottleX are tied?!
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GR, yes that's a tie.
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I basically was going for more of a comparison for what I had in front of me, looking at games like I would games, and apps like I would apps. I think the other judges simply picked which ones they liked without really evaluating at all (including those voting in the public poll).
Raphael:
Without manditory/required release of all source code, it is very unlikely any compo will be judged well with regards to effort and quality of the actual coding, but more towards useability and (in a game section) playability.
25: manaox2:
If we had used ONLY the poll, it would have been far too easy for the cheaters to win, and really, how many people who actually voted in the poll took the time to download EVERY entry and install it and use it?
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