I am afraid many of the time trialers were reluctant to adapt to battle mode when the zbattle.net ZSNES networking utility came out.  I know many people say the lag is unbearable, but if you love the game that much and own a cable modem, the lag is nothing.   I'd say there are only about 15 battlers that are worth playing against on zbatttle.  Out of those, only davidwonn, bentleet, shane, and duffjr play incredibly close matches.  Unfortunately, davidwonn has been dormant for the past two months, and shane won't play on the computer until his battle mode campaign at his school ends.  I'm sending a plea out to all those time trialers to try zbattle and get used to it.  I'm willing to deplete my status because I know there are better battlers out there, somewhere.

Many have yet to discover it takes a great driver to be a great battler.  I think being a superb time trialer is a prerequisite for battling.

Of course, me and my Gravis Gamepad Pro won't have that problem

duff   wrote on 04/08/03 at 00:34:33:


i m really sorry to have to say this, but i ve hardly heard something such stupid!
to be a great battler, you just have to practice a lot in battle mode!
the 2002 French Battle Champion is the perfect exemple of what i mean...

go to www.championnat-smk.org
then click on "l edition 2002", scroll down and click on "telecharger les videos 2002"
there you can find almost all the vids we made of the 2002 championship !
if some of you want to come to Nancy for the 2003 french championship, he is welcome...

I'm sorry to say this, but after viewing that video, I will have to say that there are much better battlers out there.



I'm not trying to be egotistical or anything, but I'm sure that duff (and myself) could take the players in that video...easily.  If anybody is interested in playing online using emulation, they can go download the zbattle.net client like duff mentioned.  It's a little community that you can create game rooms in for netplay on ZSNES.  I don't want to hear anything about how emulation isn't the real game or that the lag/keyboard skews the gameplay experience.



Sorry if I'm being a little cocky.  I just have to vent a little.

Thats true, cos i am Time Trial champion, but years ago i used to kart with Jonathan Cem Pulleine on battle mode, he is like Semi-Pro or something on PAL. He used to beat me quite a lot. He never even owned the game, I swear he could have made an Elite but he only karted with Koopa really.

Sami

Bentleet was the one who actually got me into battle mode.  Kind of like my first mentor...sort of speak.  I eventually started beating him after playing for awhile.  He said that I grew to play as well as he did...

However, I don't think he plays SMK much anymore.  I mostly see him around playing Tetris Attack (which I own world records for ).

I'm not sure who would win between me and him in battle mode though, it's been too long since I've played with him.

Hey Abused Rib, this is a bit off-topic but, I was wondering what are those world records you are supposed to have on Tetris Attack. I know that a couple years ago, Jason Whalls used to play this game and set some awesome scores(in my eyes at least). I'm just curious to see if in fact, he is any close (or better) than what other great Tetris Attack players can do...

LsP

You can check that site for the scores, and I'll list them here too.



Tetris Attack:

Fastest to 99,999 in endless mode: 3'27" (WR)

Time trial score in one player mode: 57,392 (WR)

Time trial score in two player mode: 62,658 (WR)



Pokemon Puzzle League:

Time zone score in one player mode: 73,482 (WR)

Time zone score in two player mode: 83,194 (not WR, highest is 85,996...I'm working on it though)



I don't consider the following two WRs to be "real" records, as there is no competition for them.



Fastest to 999,999 in 2-d marathon: 37'24" (two other known scores)

Fastest to 999,999 in 3-d marathon: 27'02" (only one other known score)



Tetris Attack is another game that I play online at least somewhat often.  I know that there are some online SMK battlers that also play TA.



Me and duff were thinking about recording a ZSNES movie of us facing each other.  So that should be interesting.

Actually, contact me at

AIM: Abused Rib

It seems like they removed the restriction on 'abuse' in screen names.

during spring break i picked up my game to finally beat bentleet.  then i played abused rib for a week straight, which improved his game.  when it comes down to it, i think the person who can drive the fastest and most accurate, jumping over reds, picking up q's, and lining walls, wins.

where are those videos?  i was just looking over some videos between cuttof and me.  i played well back in may when i made those, but i'm probably better now.  i hope to get back into playing in three weeks when i get to my friend's house. www.bol.ucla.edu/~drewblum/duffvscuttof.zip