8BIT 1337

This is one of my favourite 8bit games for sure and I had *no* idea until now there were only 20 levels! Makes me wonder if there is a limit on River Raid as well? Looking forward to trying to get to the end. Not sure where my personal best is but I know I can get past 10 pretty easily (I think!) First try: 59315, level 10 ? (This was in an emulator with an 8bitdo - I'm sure I'll do much better when I switch to real hardware )

Only a slight improvement: 141300 Seriously like one pixel away from clearing this stupid level. ?

Welcome new players! It seemed to me that you lose 100pts off the timer every 2-3 seconds or so? And the hammer gets you 300 pts per barrel/fire you crush, so I figured it makes sense, especially in L1/L2, to use the hammer on the barrel level. Take that for what it is though. I normally seem to score in the 70-80k range, which is why I haven't been able to beat my own score so far

No luck on the kid front but a great new score for me: 134700 My first time to L5! Hit stupid fireball on ledge above where I was jumping. I hate that.

I did enjoy getting my kids to play Special Delivery but its not an easy task to get them to play the old stuff. The controller looks weird to them and they don't know what they're doing and they just immediately challenge me to a game of CoD or something more modern they've played to death and can destroy me both immediately and often ? Having said that my bet is that my teenage boys wouldn't have the patience to play long enough to beat your scores, so you might not have to aim so low in age! (although now I'm tempted to get my 10 year old daughter to try DK to see where she scores)

Can I ask how you turn a Happy drive into an Archiver/Super Archiver with software? Which software? Just got a Happy upgrade this week and would love to play around with that.

New best: 93300. Will use the 'pause' trick next time if I beat this score!

Not my first game, my second third, but wanted to get on the board: 69900 78400 At first I thought 6 rounds meant 6 screens. Then i noticed the "L" on the screen to denote the level and realized I don't to worry about getting all the prizes to make it more difficult LOL (not that I have ever played DK as part of HSC anyway) I haven't played this version of DK in forever. Fun!

That is an interesting idea - thank you. I ordered a Happy upgrade for a 1050 drive so I'm going to try that first once it shows up. But if that fails you can be sure I will try this, assuming I don't try it before hand

This time I'm simply going to dump a list from my faves folder (more or less). Sorted alphabetically, except the game I want to play the most, which is ... H.E.R.O. Alpha Shield Beach Head Blue Max Boulder Dash Bounty Bob Strikes Back! Bristles Bruce Lee C'est la Vie Canyon Climber Castle Hassle Castles and Keys Conan Cosmic Ark Cosmic Tunnels Drelbs E.T. Phone Home Electrician Encounter! Fast Eddie Final Legacy Flip and Flop Fort Apocalypse Frostbite 400 Ghostbusters Goonies Great American Cross Country Road Race Gremlins [5200] Hazard Run Hot Lips Jet Boot Jack [OSB] Journey to the Planets Jumpman Junior Jumpman Kennedy Approach Koronis Rift Last Starfighter Lode Runner M.U.L.E. [XL] Master of the Lamps Miner 2049er Montezuma's Revenge Moon Shuttle Mr. Robot and His Robot Factory N.Y.C. - The Big Apple Necromancer O'Riley's Mine Ollie's Follies Pharaoh's Curse Pitstop Preppie! Prince of Persia Quasimodo Rainbow Walker Realm of Impossibility River Raid Sea Dragon Seafox Serpentine Seven Cities of Gold Slime Snokie Special Delivery Spelunker Star Raiders T.G.I.F. Trailblazer Twerps Wavy Navy Yoomp! Zenji Zeppelin Zone Ranger Zorro

It's partially your fault you know! You mentioned something earlier in the season about finishing high up just by playing every week, so I told myself if I had one goal it was to finish ahead of you by more or less playing every week (although I did need some serious catch up time at one point) So thank you as well because this is the first time I've actually played every game in a season. Here's hoping I can keep it going more or less

There is no HSC without someone to run it and I know it must be a *lot* of work that is thankless at times so let this be one of the times you hear THANK YOU.

New best for SF to WAS: 20:19 (151 mph) This was right after a 20:44 run I gave to "Seymour Goldfarb Jr." My avg speed after the first leg was 180! That wintery section just totally kills my time LOL

If you're racing cop use middle lane only. He's never there. Once I hit a pothole just before passing him but that's only ever happened once

Another score improvement. SEA to MIA: 22:35 (1st) Anybody notice other numbers appearing in the MPH column? When you switch races it pops up first and then is replaced by MPH. Thought maybe it was KMs but didn't seem to convert properly unless I did something wrong

Yeah for whatever reason (probably lack of space for coding) the nav seems to always want to take you NE. That's how I messed up my first SF to WAS run and ended up in NY. For SEA to MIA you definitely want to go to to Salt Lake first and then Denver. It's 50miles shorter than going the default way through Billings.

Improvement: US Tour: 76:27 (2nd) As I said before, it's amazing that I only did one city in a different order than my first run of this and yet it's 1000 miles shorter.

Improvement: SEA to MIA: 22:58 (2nd) FYI: I tried loading game using FujiNet, then loading a field from real disk drive, then swapping back to FujiNet after and I got an I/O error. Which is a bummer.

SF to WAS: 20:38 (1st) Realized that the first time I did this I mistakenly went to NY first. This time I made sure to go the quicker route.

So I decided I'd try to find my original disk to see if I had saved scores and bingo! Field 8 had a bunch of scores for all races but U.S. Tour (easily the most for LA to NY, which is what I remembered) I tried to back this up to my PC using "Drive copy" but when I try to load the file into Altirra it freezes, which makes me think it didn't copy properly. If anyone has advice on how to back this up let me know, as I'd love to 'switch' over to this copy to start using it through FujiNet (although I suppose I could just bite the bullet and use my 1050 ) EDIT: I've tried MyCopyR and CopyMate 4.4 and nothing has worked. There are simply a chunk of sectors that can't be read. I don't want to hijack this thread so if you have suggestions or questions please PM me.

This was one of my favourites as a teenager, especially the LA to NY run. Love the way the cities come in to view as you get closer (and love the small touches like the St Louis arch and the WTC) Also one of my favourites as a teenager was Cannonball Run - so it was natural to use "Captain Chaos" as my name on the disk. Until FujiNet I never bothered saving but will now! LA to NY: 18:54 (1st) SEA to MIA: 23:55 (beaten below) SF to WAS: 24:08 (beaten below) US Tour: 89:14 (beaten below) What's crazy about my route is that my 11728 one was almost identical to DieMON's other than I did his city '4' on my way down (so it was my '13' if you will). Crazy that one small change cost me 1000 miles! Even crazier is that I found an even *longer* route but managed to beat my time from before LOL

I managed to deliver target 10 twice but also managed a lower score, 21550. Go figure. I did see the bug twice on that last run though. The second time it looked like some garbage characters appeared on the screen at the same time the bug happened. I'm not sure if I lost a life but I definitely did the 'hit something' jump.

No score update for me but I *did* manage to get my 3 children to play today. (Ila 10, Evan 15, Alex 17) Evan: 2500 points, target 5 Ila: 6550 points, target 6 Alex: 9000 points, target 7 So much fun. I played through the 5 target level to show them what to do. Neglected to mention avoiding clouds because of course I didn't hit anything. Evan was up first and almost immediately hit a cloud. His game ended pretty quickly but he was the first to go. Ila was next and we essentially stopped her at 6550 because she could *not* hit the target and would have gone on indefinitely I think if we hadn't (she *did* enjoy it ) Alex went last and did best of course, being oldest and having seen the others go first. All in all it was a great Xmas tradition we started this year

The score leaves too quick to take a pic! But I managed to finish target 10 once and *finally* got a chance to try delivering a 2nd time but the fireplace messed me up. 23,800 I might try with a Wico as the diagonal in the fireplace seems to be hit and miss with my Atari joystick. Having said that I was still able to complete 10 as I said, just by moving left/right at the right times.

I will admit I am surprised (I couldn't figure out why I hadn't seen a poll yet LOL). Definitely a fun game I've played before. Love the incentive to get my kids or family to play. My teenage boys are great at the Call of Dutys and whatnot, but watching them struggle with a joystick and a single button comes with a lot of laughter from everybody.