+therealbountybob Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 if you missed round 1 just join in; you can post a score for that too Crushing it's opponents to win the poll is the classic GYRUSS I'm pretty sure there is a bug in this game where you sometimes clear a wave and get left with no option but to crash into a rock to continue... I guess we will find out and see if there is a good version out there - perhaps we can get this fixed if we can work out when it happens No autofire unless you can't play otherwise (tell me when posting) Scoring same as last time Bonuses 1pt each First person to make it to Earth Highest score on the first man Set the new HSC record; currently held by HSC veteran poobah 896,400 Downloads Fandal XEX Atarimania ROM Atarionline.pl ATR/XEX/ROM/VBXE Information Atarimania Instructions, Post #11 Asteroid Bug, Post #13 Advanced Gamplay Round Ends Sunday 1st March 10am UK time If you need any help just ask Game ON! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jk40001 Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 (edited) Just noticed that the regular version will not work on a vbxe moded machine. Furtunately, Atarionline.pl has a fixed version. My first go: Edited February 15, 2015 by jk40001 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krupkaj Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 I see this will be tough competition. I have got endless stone serie at the Jupiter stage with my last live 154900 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LidLikesIntellivision Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 42,850 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powersoft Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 GYRUSS - reminds me for a great greek meal by spelling, hehe! well, I love this game and played a lot times back in the 90ies... Done a few turns now and it still work fine. But I think the highscore is not beatable, haha! Anyone from you also had this bug: I lost a live but also all enemies were gone. With my new life there was no warp I just fly around - but no new enemies are coming. As regulary the stage was cleared. So I needed to crash with a meteor to loose another life. But with the new life the warp turned on and brought me to next stage. 131.450 Love this shooter. Should be featured in one of the upcoming issue of PRO ( C ) ATARI Magazine... Anyone of you want to make a contribution about this great game for the mag? Cheers Markus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jk40001 Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 I was two warps away from Earth ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKong Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 229750 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Star castler Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 Here is my score: (First life) (Final score) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHiNjide Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 Oh no! Just 3 warps left to earth! Maybe next time... Score for today: 256600 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHiNjide Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 OK, second try! 1st Life: 111700 Earth! Home Sweet Home! Final Score: 306950 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted February 15, 2015 Author Share Posted February 15, 2015 OK, second try!... Earth! Home Sweet Home! Well done SHiNjide That bonus point didn't even last the day. So we'll add another one for the first person to get to earth twice, which is pretty darn hard Gyruss "Asteroid Bug" - info from the HSC archives: RJ - "I'm using the actual cart on an 800XL (always have) & never personally encountered the asteroid bug." Mimo "weird , that happened to me this afternoon. Real cart on a real Atari " Shannon - "There are a couple binaries floating around and one of them has the above mentioned bug and I think the other on the 2nd play (2nd game after dying) the ships come out in the wrong order and the bonus levels are all messed up." trbb - "I wonder if it's something to do with killing the baddies in the middle and the explosion accidentally clears a live one but still thinks it is there, if you see what I mean. Perhaps I'll be more careful towards the end of the waves? " If anyone is using emulation perhaps they can play on the ROM versions to confirm if the bug is present ? Has anyone the original Gyruss Disks? Perhaps they are ok and it was a copy protection removal thing. Or perhaps it's something that can be avoided somehow when playing... always good to have a sub story or controversy for each round 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluecat Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 I got 24,250 :-) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted February 15, 2015 Author Share Posted February 15, 2015 Gyruss - Information from MaPa and others The three bouncing things don't come out if, after all of the formations have passed, less than, I think, 4 enemies are left in the middle. Since the bouncing things give huge bonus points, you should avoid that case. As I observed you need to have at least 3 enemies left then they will spawn.You get bonus only if you kill all enemies before any one of them starts going back (heading to the middle). So even if you kill them all in time and just one of them slightly turns it's nose to middle and go there then no bonus for you.Gyruss probably uses HW sprite collision thus I get sometimes killed by "bonus score" ... it has the same color as bombs, part of ships, meteors so sometimes when I get bonus for killing the formation and then move over the score I get killed.It looks like that when you have too many ships in the middle the 5th formation will not get spawned.The key for big score is to learn the formations. IMO there are 5 formations in each stage, so kill the first 4 for bonus, leave at least 3 ships from the last formation to settle in the middle to spawn the orbital stations for bonus points and try to kill all enemies when not settled in the middle (you get only half points compared when the are moving around the screen) and kill the last one flying for bonus. And of course in chance stage kill all ships to get bonus too. For example you can have 15500 points after first stage, after stage 3 (neptune + chance stage) over 50k points. It looks to me that you get additional ship maybe at 60k 160k 260k etc. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powersoft Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 well, I just dig into the game - get one with it again after all these years... First HOME SWEET HOME I went back to earth the three wraps to earth are horrible what I didn't remember was: the game do not get really more difficult after leaving earth again... My Score: 489.550 I think it is possible to beat this mega highscore stated in the entry post. If I would have the time to play a few days now only it will happen. But I do not have the time. But we got so great highscore hunters here... I think someone will beat it to the end of this round. But it is fun playing GYRUSS Love it! Cheers Markus 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jk40001 Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 Almost made it for 2nd time to Earth. I am done for this weekend. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adam242 Posted February 15, 2015 Share Posted February 15, 2015 The controls take a bit of getting used to, but I really love this game! Just getting started (hopefully) - 59,990 - NTSC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airsoftmodels Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 (edited) 42,800. I've got to get myself on the board Edited February 16, 2015 by airsoftmodels 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
playermissile Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 44100. Only eight thousand warps from Earth! I'll be there in no time. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sikor Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 I don't play it from years... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powersoft Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 hallo sikor... well for first turn very good. mine first replay of this game was much worse Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sikor Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 (edited) Hmm, I have only 10 percent points as you But - if i have time - it isn't my last word Edited February 16, 2015 by Sikor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
powersoft Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 sikor, it was a long travel to this score so let your joystick lead your ship to earth... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sikor Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 (edited) Small improovment and little more Edited February 16, 2015 by Sikor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adam242 Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Moving up a little... 110,750 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fletch Posted February 17, 2015 Share Posted February 17, 2015 Holy cow you guys are good. I'm lucky if I get to Neptune I thought about joining in, but I'll just embarrass myself. Fun watching the scores though! Good luck all. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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