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[JacobZu7zu7]

7800 Knockout Game 8:

Our eighth elimination round is Ninja Golf


SETTING: Play on selection: NORMAL (Default)

DEADLINE TO PLAY: This round starts Wednesday January 25th (MIDNIGHT) EST
and runs one week or until Tuesday, January 31st 11:59PM EST
Play with 7800 System or Emulation. Any joystick or keyboard is fine!

Pics are encoraged here, however I WILL accept a no pic score.

Anyone can jump in and play a Knockout round game, if they like...
(this includes players who have been Knocked out of the tournament!),
just for fun and high score though, NOT to be counted in the contest.

You need not win, just not finish LAST! Let the battle begin...

Knockout players & scores:

Jifremok - 171,830 1st
patbb - 131,600 2nd
bigbee99 - 120,430 3rd
roadrunner - 116,850 4th






Eliminated players
1st round: Dig Dug - peedenmark7
2nd round: Food Fight - LarcenTyler
3rd round: Crack'ed - zylon (retired from Knockout)
4th round: Asteroids - atomickneedrop (no score)
5th round: Mario Bros. - Gorfy
6th round: Xevious - Darrin 9999
7th round: Centipede - Sonic R

Round 9: Game to be played: Joust

Edited by JacobZu7zu7, Wed Feb 1, 2012 8:05 AM.

[JacobZu7zu7]

CONGRADS TO THE FINAL REMAINING FOUR K.O. PLAYERS WHO WILL
BATTLE HERE FOR THE SEMI-FINAL ROUND...

Ninja Golf ROM

Attached Files

•  Ninja Golf.a78   128.13K   55 downloads

[bigbee99]

What a strange game!  I heard of this one before but never tried it out.  I will have to go back to emulation for this one.

B

[bigbee99]

Let's take a second and check out the top 3 Twin Galaxies scores

1     168,560     Mark A Stacy         Jun 19 2011
2     159,030     Jared I Bryant         Oct 06 2010
3     136,860     Aaron D Sanders     Jul 09 2001

I just played through the game an finished with 120430.  Granted I've never played it before and I know I missed a few points but it didn't feel like I missed 50k.  I might be able to get another 10-12k out unless I discover something else I missed.

B

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[patbb]

It does not emulate correctly with Pro System.
I tried with 1.2  1.3 and 1.3e

Somebody have a suggestions for another emulator?

[patbb]

bigbee99, on Wed Jan 25, 2012 11:52 AM, said:

Let's take a second and check out the top 3 Twin Galaxies scores

1 168,560 Mark A Stacy Jun 19 2011
2 159,030 Jared I Bryant Oct 06 2010
3 136,860 Aaron D Sanders Jul 09 2001

I just played through the game an finished with 120430.  Granted I've never played it before and I know I missed a few points but it didn't feel like I missed 50k.  I might be able to get another 10-12k out unless I discover something else I missed.

B

Nice score.
Did you complete the full course?

[bigbee99]

Yes I completed it.

I'm using MESS .143  I like it.  Looks like wolfMAME but you don't select the ROMs from the same window.  Just select the system you are wanting to play then double click the ROM in the next window over.

http://www.mess.org/

You will need the a7800 ROM for it to work.  Just put both the a7800 ROM and the game ROM in the same folder.

B

Attached Files

•  a7800.zip   2.39K   44 downloads

[roadrunner]

It's hard to get the golfer to move on Prosystem 1.3


47,600

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[patbb]

roadrunner, on Wed Jan 25, 2012 6:25 PM, said:

It's hard to get the golfer to move on Prosystem 1.3


47,600

At lease you're seeing something.
This is what I have with Pro SYstem 1.3 + Windows 7 64bit
I can see the Ninja with the Club at the beginning and then nothing!

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[JacobZu7zu7]

I also see nothing... but a ninja for a sec, then it goes black screen in middle....

Did anyone try MESS .143?

pat,road and Jifre.. need to be able to get Ninja Golf to work proper, or we will have to scrap this game.

[bigbee99]

I'm using MESS and it works fine for me.

B

[patbb]

bigbee99, on Thu Jan 26, 2012 8:25 AM, said:

I'm using MESS and it works fine for me.

B

Me too.
Thanks.


1- Download Mess from this link:  http://www.mess.org/downloads
2-Extract it.
3-copy the a7800.zip file in the roms folder
4-Start MESS
5-Select the Atart 7800 NTSC from the system list. (see images below)
6-in the right pan click on Device view and click ... button and them Mount and browse for the ninja golf rom
7-Click on picker tab in the right side pan.
8-double click on ninja golf.

Note:  I'm sure there is a way to point to the rom folder to see all the available roms but I don't know how.
I have a mess installation with all the system roms at home, I'll will verify that tonight.

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[JacobZu7zu7]

jif and road... keep me posted if you get the Mess emul and Ninja Golf rom running properly...

Edited by JacobZu7zu7, Thu Jan 26, 2012 9:38 AM.

[patbb]

43,510

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[roadrunner]

I got MESS to work thanks!
I couldn't get the other version i have to work on this pc
I have this game, i'll have to find it and give it a few goes.

Edited by roadrunner, Thu Jan 26, 2012 2:28 PM.

[roadrunner]

67,780

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[JacobZu7zu7]

patbb, on Thu Jan 26, 2012 11:54 AM, said:

43,510

K great, looks good to go there...

[bigbee99]

Okay.  I played through this one again.  I am positive I missed 4k but came up short of my other score by like 500 points.  I wonder where the other 50k is hidden.  Either way, I think I am safe this week

A few hints.

• I save my stars for the "ground hogs?"  I don't know what they are but they throw rocks at you from the ground.  I also use a few on the water parts when I get too many enemies and sharks on the screen to help minimalize damage.
  
• I turn around every few steps.  I don't walk all the way back to the left or anything.  I turn flash back behind me.  I've noticed I do not miss as many power ups that way.
  
• On the dragons, dont worry so much about killing him but more on dodging his fireballs.  The level is not timed so protecting yourself is of greater value.  You will eventually kill him even if you are only throwing random stars.
  
• Know you kicks.  There are only 3 different kicks.  Forward + Kick kills most enemies.  Up+Forward + Kick will take down the upper sharks.  Down+Forward + Kick.  You can kick the frogs, snakes, and even the ground hogs.
  
• Most levels can be beat in 2 swings.  Not sure if this helps your overall points or not but 2 swings is 7k and 3 swings is 6k.

I still have not found a way to kill the birds.  Maybe that is my missing points.

B

[JacobZu7zu7]

We will play this Ninja Golf through wednesday, since the Mess works the game correctly...!

[Jifremok]

If I don't get it to work with MESS, I'll unbox my cart.

[roadrunner]

105,540

hole 8

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[JacobZu7zu7]

1/2 WAY THROUGH NINJA GOLF

bigbee99 takes command early and still in 1st
roadrunner just doubled his score, rests in 2nd
patbb got the mess rolling into 3rd
Jifremok still at the starting gates with 0, in 4th

Jifremok is currently on the bubble...
everyone has just about 4 days left to play!

[JacobZu7zu7]

Last day to play before semi-final round...

[patbb]

131,600
Thanks for the tip B.
Game over on the 9th hole green !!!

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[patbb]

bigbee99, on Fri Jan 27, 2012 10:50 AM, said:

Okay.  I played through this one again.  I am positive I missed 4k but came up short of my other score by like 500 points.  I wonder where the other 50k is hidden.  Either way, I think I am safe this week
B

Maybe if you go more often in the water and long grass you will get more point by killing the sharks and the frogs...Especially Sharks.