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  10. Posted

    @HepCat, NE146, Anyone else who's interested: :)

     

    Ok Here's my new high score in PacManPlus: 268,000! Things to look for:

    1) On the 2nd level, I get sandwiched between two monsters and live through it! If you notice right after I get out of it, I stop, because I couldn't believe what just happened.

    2) On the third board, I eat the fruit at the exact same time I run into a monster (didn't get any points for it - went right through him) :(

     

    ok - I'm resting for a while... :sleep:

    pacplus.zip

  11. Posted

    @NE146: Thanks! :) Although the 'waiting' to group them together makes for a long game :roll: I'm working on PacMan Plus right now to beat a certain high score :D

     

    @HanglyMan: Yes, I have found out that a pattern is possible until you eat a fruit. I actually use one now, and it even works until the second fruit is eaten (as long as the 'fruit' blue time is longer than the 1st apple energizer equivalent)!

  12. Posted

    Hey Jason:

     

    270K?!?!?!? Wow - I have to watch this one tonight... I'll try it as well, hopefully I'll be able to come close... ;) It's funny, once you get to the point where the monsters don't turn blue any more, I'm *sure* a pattern is possible... (the whole point of Pac Man Plus was to eliminate the use of patters...) :ponder:

     

    I really haven't played Jr. Pac-Man too much, but now that I have a new take on playing it (I find if I treat it as two boards side by side instead of one large board, I play better)

     

    We *have* to get a one-on-one match going at some point... 8)

  14. Posted

    Jason:

     

    Thanks! That game actually is my high score now - it's good to have it saved :)

     

    With the 'tie' thing, I've just learned how to make the most of the energizer time. You must do that as well, no? I've learned most of the monster's AI (as I'm sure you have too) over the years and use it againt them :twisted: That's why you'll see me sometimes go right up to Pinky and make him turn away.

     

    I'm very curious on how you group them together in the 3 to 5 levels... I look forward to seeing your .INP file :)

     

    I put that entry into MARP - 2nd place! I've also noticed that the 1st place holder for Pac-Man Plus has a score of 180,000 - I think I'll try for that next; my high is 160,000...

     

    Hey - Are you going to the Philly Classic this year? I was thinking of going - it would be cool to meet some of the people from here.

  16. Posted

    Hey HepCat! :)

     

    Here is my .INP from tonight: 227K My new high score on standard speed! You will see quite a few screw ups as far as trying to get the monsters grouped together but all in all I'm happy with this one.

     

    My problem is once you get the board that's the equivalent of the ninth key in Pac-Man, I don't last too long. All monsters are faster than you without eating dots, so I have to figure out a better strategy than the one I currently use :-P

     

    Now, you will need DOS MAME .56 for this, not sure if the Windows version of .56 will work, but I do know that the newest version (.78) will not. Let me know if you need it, because it's 2.5Mb zipped, and I didn't want to waste the Al's bandwidth.

    mpm.zip

  18. Posted

    Jason:

     

    Very cool - you and I sound like we are at about the same level of play on the regular version (although you might be a little better than me; I think my high is about 220K) :thumbsup: It is hard to get all four when the energizer lasts 1 sec, just on those boards I usually don't bother to try for all four

     

    Anyway, it would problably be cool to have a .inp file anyway; It would be cool to see if our techniques are similar :)

     

    In my MAME cab, I use DOS MAME .56 - will that be a problem for the .INP file?

  19. Posted

    Maybe someone else here can help me improve my score. Right now my highest is 232,000 and I made it to level 25 once. I've heard about this "grouping" technique that supposedly lets you get all 4 monsters with each energizer, but I can't get it to work. I've tried watching MARP files, but I can never get them to work either. Any ideas?  

     

    Are you talking about fast or slow?

     

    I use 'grouping' ( I didn't know it had a name ;) ) constantly. The first two boards I never miss every monster, and many times I can get to the Apple that way (It's a bit more difficult when the energizer only lasts 3 seconds) :) Granted, my games usually last much longer this way... BTW This is with the game at regular speed.

     

    If you are using the fast machine, you don't have to worry about grouping as much because you can pretty much catch up to them quickly.

     

    Well, I am much better at answering specific questions than rolling ideas off the top of my head, so is there anything specific? I can attempt to make a replay file in the next day or two if you want ... Let me know :)

  21. Posted

    I try to play the regular version whenever possible - the speedup makes it too easy.

     

    About 3 or 4 years ago I entered one of the Olympics on MARP (Mame Action Replay Page - http://marp.retrogames.com/ ) For Ms.Pac-Man. It was the speedup version - but with one life and no bonus. I got the Silver! :D My score was somewhere in the 400K bracket...

     

    I just did a search on the site; can't find my replay :( It would probably help if I could remember which Tournament it was (1, 2, or 3)

     

    BTW, my high score on 'normal speed' is @220K

     

    **UPDATE: It was an 'Olympiad' entry, (in 2001) but I still can't find the winning entry. I found the Qualification entry (only 234,000) but not the good one... (I used the handle 'PacFan' there)

  22. Posted

    Hey Greg:

     

    Oh man - I'm sorry about your unfortunate incidents. Maybe some of us can help get your collection going again? I have 3 HES / Activision carts (Sports Pack, Action Pack, and Smash Hit Pack - they're PAL, though) and a handful of doubles I'd be willing to part with to donate to you if it will help...

    The 'handful of doubles' are Adventure, Asteroids, Haunted House, Superman, Raiders Of The Lost Ark, and some others (I'm doing this off the top of my head as I'm not home right now)

     

    Let me know

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