HSC Season 6 Week 50: Dragster

[rmartin]

5.77 and still practicing...

Edited August 18, 2009 by rmartin

[Zoyx]

6.17 for me.

 

Timely contest.

 

I went to the launch party for the International Video Game Hall of Fame Museum in Ottumwa IA over the past weekend. Todd Rogers donated this plaque, containing his Dragster cartridge he used for his record breaking attempt.

 

And for fun... here is Todd Rogers overseeing the Crazy Taxi longest jump contest.

[darthkur]

5.77

 

 

I could have sworn I had this cart. This is the second time now that I thought for certain I had a particular cartridge and did not.

 

 

[Zoyx]

5.97 - http://www.flickr.com/photos/25537037@N07/3832616470/

[sloth713]

5.94

 

The best piece of advice I can give is skip to 2nd gear as quick as possible off the start. Also make sure that your taps to left to shift are as quick as humanly possible.

[smartkitten26]

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Edited May 19, 2015 by smartkitten26

[Kurt_Woloch]

OK,here's my best so far... 6.68. Sorry, I don't have the patience and time to try this any further...

[keilbaca]

5.54

 

 

Congrats! You got to the perfect computer score that Activision ran. Now you need to get to the impossible time, 5.51, by Todd Rogers.

[darthkur]

4.54 Does not count, unfortunately.

 

Sadly it doesn't count. I must've been playing some hack because I cranked the hell out of the engine and it never blew. A little experimenting and I discovered it's impossible to blow the engine. So my further submitions will be using the correct rom where the motor blows out all too easy.

 

Edited August 18, 2009 by darthkur

[darthkur]

5.97

 

 

This score should replace my previously posted scores since they were all using that odd version. The rom file name for that apparent hack is : dragster_auto.bin so if you're using that one and are getting great scores and wondering how you did it, that's why.

 

Edited August 18, 2009 by darthkur

[aftermac]

6.24

 

[godzillajoe]

6.51 is the best I could do, maybe I'll give it a few more tries with a different stick before the deadline. I don't think the Wico bat handle is the best way to go.

[+stephena]

4.54 Does not count, unfortunately.

 

Sadly it doesn't count. I must've been playing some hack because I cranked the hell out of the engine and it never blew. A little experimenting and I discovered it's impossible to blow the engine. So my further submitions will be using the correct rom where the motor blows out all too easy.

 

Yep, the MD5 for the ROM you're using doesn't match anything I have; it certainly doesn't seem to be any of the official ROMs.

[Ze_ro]

Well, that's the end of the 6th season of the High Score Club! Congratulations to everyone on their scores, and I hope you had a lot of fun! Here are the final standings for Season 6:

 

• toymailman [491]
  
• darthkur [367]
  
• Deteacher [343]
  
• aftermac [300]
  
• Kurt_Woloch [218]
  
• Impaler_26 [174]
  
• Mister VCS [135]
  
• shadow460 [121]
  
• Atardi [118]
  
• DarthCalvin [117]
  
• vjames [117]
  
• SpiceWare [112]
  
• jjd [98]
  
• LarcenTyler [98]
  
• sloth713 [79]
  
• the 5th ghost [59]
  
• Hornpipe2 [55]
  
• doctorclu [54]
  
• ChrisKoopa [46]
  
• Nathan Strum [46]
  
• mcge0053 [44]
  
• Zoyx [42]
  
• roadrunner [34]
  
• SeaGtGruff [31]
  
• IHATETHEBEARS [27]
  
• Jess Ragan [26]
  
• theKLT [26]
  
• homerwannabee [22]
  
• godzillajoe [22]
  
• Shannon [20]
  
• Jred [20]
  
• LaserHawk [20]
  
• Spector [20]
  
• Animan [20]
  
• chuckwalla [19]
  
• Omegamatrix [19]
  
• ClassicGMR [18]
  
• Wickeycolumbus [15]
  
• iangamer [15]
  
• MrBeefy [14]
  
• LoneWolfSeth [12]
  
• Thomas Jentzsch [12]
  
• midnight magicman [11]
  
• vdub_bobby [11]
  
• Phantom [11]
  
• rmartin [11]
  
• ed1475 [10]
  
• Random Terrain [10]
  
• maf [9]
  
• TimsterAA [9]
  
• DtY [8]
  
• ballistik [8]
  
• missioncontrol [8]
  
• LS_Dracon [7]
  
• BSA Starfire's girlfriend [7]
  
• RJ [6]
  
• mightymage [5]
  
• 4Ks [5]
  
• Dryerlint [5]
  
• lucifershalo [5]
  
• Blackjack [5]
  
• phaxda [5]
  
• Vectorman0 [4]
  
• vintagegamecrazy [4]
  
• Captain Beard [3]
  
• mika [3]
  
• rasty [3]
  
• Cream147 [3]
  
• Trinity [2]
  
• joeypsp [2]
  
• rheffera [2]
  
• pacmanplayer [2]
  
• ratfink [2]
  
• flammingcowz [2]
  
• Lendorien [1]
  
• Crazy Climber [1]
  
• Dan Iacovelli [1]
  
• Cafeman [1]
  
• Yar76 [1]
  
• Artlover [1]
  
• brandonwright [1]
  
• holgibo [1]
  

 

For anyone who might be interested, I've attached all the data from Season 6... including the spreadsheet that I used to keep track of all the scores, and the "source code" (a mix of BB Code and HTML) for each individual post. This was the first whole season where I typed up all the posts in a text editor rather than using the forum entry boxes (I started sometime in season 5). Note that I use Gnumeric to handle my spreadsheets, and all the posts are in Unix-style text files... so you might have trouble with file formats.

 

--Zero

season6.zip

[the 5th ghost]

Ze_ro...

 

Please remove my score.

 

I didn't actually play this particular week. I was only commenting on the amazing 5.54 score and that I had never broken the 5.61 barrier.