DamonicFury
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14 hours ago, Giles N said:I´ve gotten to wave 11 at the most; the trench-run got fairly difficult with walls blocking the entire trench with only a tiny block of opening to navigate through...
Does anyone know if there is a limited number of waves (ie levels or rounds) to Star Wars Arcade either to start all over from beginning or to complete the game?
Anyone?
And... how do you like it..?The game just keeps going and going, like the arcade game it is based on. I've gotten over 100k points at it, but some dedicated soul once got 11 million! https://atariage.com/forums/topic/272745-5200-oe-hsc-season-5-round-2-star-wars-the-arcade-game/?tab=comments#comment-3903734
As for the game itself... the other commenters are dead on... it really pales compared to its super-exciting arcade parent. But jaybird3rd is right as well that on it's own mertis, taken as another 5200 game, it's not a bad game. But if you get good enough to get to the point where the difficulty plateaus, there's little reason to go back to it. It never gets anywhere near as challenging as the arcade game.
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Welcome to round fourteen of this 5200 HSC season! Super Pac-man won the poll by a single vote. Play using the default settings.
Emulation is fine, as are custom controls. Pics preferred, but not required except for HSC wins and records.The current record was set by Chris-in-NJ - 150,590 points. Bust it if you can for a bonus point.
The ROM can be found here:
https://atariage.com/software_page.php?SoftwareLabelID=778
Round ends Sunday, August 4th, 2019 @9pm EST
Standings:
Nuclear Pacman - 254,840 - RECORD BREAKER!
Cafeman - 52,800
S.BAZ - 46,150
eegt97 - 42,870
roadrunner - 25,090
Mangia-Boy - 15,590
jblenkle - 11,960
bemis - 4,350
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Super Pac-man coming up next.
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Congratulations to eegt97 for spraying the most Sinibombs at Sinistar! Super Pac-man is coming up next.
Final Standings:
eegt97 - 118,770 +11
S.BAZ - 32,550 +10
roadrunner - 25,710 +9
jblenkle - 24,450 +8
Mangia-Boy: 19,450 +7
Nuclear Pacman - 10,650 +6
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10 hours ago, S.BAZ said:32,550
Had to jump in on this one
haven't got my controller configured yet, this is tough!
managing to play using keyboard arrows + joystick button
Welcome aboard! Glad you're enjoying Sinistar, even using keyboard controls. (I played MAME games that way for years in the early days!)
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Poll closes July 21st at 9pm.
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With the cost of repair to the original motherboard, yoke, and monitor terrifyingly high, one has to wonder if this might be an acceptable replacement for an original stand-up unit. Yeah, I know it won't be nearly as large and sturdy, the vectors won't be as bright, and it won't retain that perfect sense of nostalgia, but it should be significantly easier to maintain, and thanks to the yoke controller and near-perfect emulation, it should still largely have much of the original enjoyment. Most of all, there won't be that moment of dread and terror every time you turn it on, fearing that something hyper-expensive will fail!
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Welcome to round thirteen of this 5200 HSC season! Sinistar won the poll by two votes. Play using the default settings - Survivor Level / 3 Ships / Auto or Manual Shooting (your choice)
Emulation is fine, as are custom controls. Pics preferred, but not required except for HSC wins and records.The current record was set by sdamon (Who’s that?!) - 284,970 points. Bust it if you can (if you must) for a bonus point.
The ROM can be found here:
Round ends Sunday, July 21st, 2019 @9pm EST
Standings:
eegt97 - 118,770
S.BAZ - 32,550
roadrunner - 25,710
jblenkle - 24,450
Mangia-Boy: 19,450
Nuclear Pacman - 10,650
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Sinistar wins the poll!
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Congratulations to eegt97 for blowing away far more Death Stars than Luke Skywalker and Lando Calrissian combined! Apologies to those who didn’t enjoy the game. Really hope Sinistar is more to everyone’s tastes as that’s coming up next.
eegt97 - 37,046 +11
Cafeman - 26,081 +10
jblenkle - 4,444 +9
bemis - 2,056 +8
Mangia-Boy - 50 +7
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Still wasn’t out of the woods with this one... many keys weren’t working, and the picture, while fine with RF, was awful with a monitor. Key problems were fixed with a disassembly and cleaning. But I had no clue how to fix the monitor issue. So I moved the working VIC-II to another motherboard. That fixed the monitor issue, but now the sound was mostly missing and paddles didn’t work. Swapped the Sid chip and finally all was well. (Still need to try two untested 1541s... fingers crossed!)
Update: One of the 1541's worked great after a head cleaning. Playing a number of games now! (Also got a huge pile of disks in this lot, and I'm finding that most of the original games work great, but most of the cracked copy disks do not. Not especially surprising!)
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Poll closes Sunday, July 7th, 2019 @9pm EST
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Replacing the VIC-II did indeed fix the problem. Yay!
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547,200
I initially hadn’t noticed zylon changed the difficulty after I complained (that will teach me!)
I used the Wico out of mercy to my thumbs, so go ahead and dock me a point.
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Picked up a C64 in a yard sale yesterday that boots up fine (yay!) but seems to have one of its sprites corrupted when playing a game. Is replacing the VIC-II chip the way to go on this? Or is their something else I should try first? (For better or worse, I have two C64s that just boot to a black screen so they could be harvested for parts.)
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Excellent! Glad you're coming back with another wholly original creation for the 5200! 😁
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Below are the adjusted scores after dropping everyone's lowest score. The lowest score is in parenthesis and isn't counted.
Atari 5200 HSC Season 12 - Final standings
Adjusted scores:
eegt97 - 7 +12 (+4) +10 +11 +10 +11 +7 +11 +9 +8 +11 +11 +10 +12 +12 +10 +10 +10 +8 +9 = 199
Cafeman - 11 +10 +10 +11 +13 +9 +13 +10 +8 +6 +11 +10 (+0) +9 +8 +10 +9 +0 +0 +9 +0 = 166
Kobra Kai (Nuclear Pacman) - 10 (+0) +12 +12 +0 +12 +7 +9 +9 +5 +9 +0 +6 +12 +11 +7 +0 +11 +11 +10 +8 = 161
jblenkle - 9 +6 +2 +6 +8 +5 +3 +8 (+0) +7 +0 +9 +8 +5 +9 +9 +11 +6 +8 +4 +6 = 129
Mangia-Boy - 2 +5 +5 +5 +5 +7 (+1) +4 +6 +8 +7 +7 +7 +6 +5 +6 +7 +7 +9 +7 +5 = 120
bemis - 5 +7 +3 +3 +7 +8 +4 +6 +7 +3 +6 +8 (+0) +4 +0 +0 +6 +8 +0 +6 +7 = 98
roadrunner - (0) +3 +9 +7 +9 +6 +5 +3 +0 +4 +0 +0 +9 +7 +6 +0 +0 +0 +0 +5 +0 = 72
jnice - (0) 0 0 0 0 0 +12 +11 +12 +10 +12 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 = 57
Hank Rearden - 8 +11 +7 +4 (+0) +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 = 30
Abel M'Vada - 14,480 4 +4 +1 (+0) +6 +4 +2 +0 +5 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 = 26
Northcoastgamer - 6 +8 (+0) +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +12 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 = 26
Average Software - (0) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +7 +8 +8 +0 +0 +0 +0 = 23
rubeon - (0) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +11 +12 = 23
troff - (0) 0 +8 +8 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +5 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 = 21
S.BAZ - (0) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 +8 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 = 18
zylon - 3 (+0) +6 +0 +0 +0 +9 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 = 18
jetset - (0) 0 0 0 0 0 +6 +5 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 +0 = 11
phuzaxeman - (0) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +10= 10
JacobZu7zu7 - (0) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 +9 +0 +0 +0 = 9
Congratulations to our Season 12 champ, eegt97, on a very well played season!
After trying this experiment of dropping everyone's lowest scores for two seasons now, I believe we will drop it for future rounds. While meant to give everyone a break, it had no real practical result , other than a small penalty to those who played every round, which was not at all the intent.
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Welcome to round twelve of this 5200 HSC season! Star Wars : Death Star Battle won the poll by a single vote. Play using the default settings. Emulation is fine, as are custom controls. Pics preferred, but not required except for HSC wins and records.
There is no HSC record for Star Wars : Death Star Battle. The best Millennium Falcon pilot will set a new record.
A link to the ROM and manual can be found here:
https://atariage.com/software_page.php?SoftwareLabelID=666
Round ends Sunday, July 7th, 2019 @9pm EST
Standings:
eegt97 - 37,046
Cafeman - 26,081
jblenkle - 4,444
bemis - 2,056
Mangia-Boy - 50
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With apologies to Mangia-Boy, Star Wars : Death Star Battle has won the poll.
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Congrats to jnice for jumping the most blocks in an epic Q*bert shootout. Major kudos also to Cafeman for an outstanding performance in this game.
Death Star Battle coming up next.
Final standings:
Jnice - 314,565 - RECORD BREAKER +11 + 1 = 12
Cafeman - 309,465 - RECORD BREAKER +10 + 1 = 11
Nuclear Pacman - 55,665 +9
eegt97 - 44,895 +8
Mangia-Boy - 42,125 +7bemis - 5,400 +6
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Some amazing play this round!!! 😮
Don’t forget to vote in the Round 12 poll... someone needs to break up the current three-way tie!
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Poll closes Sunday, June 23rd, 2019 @9pm EST
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Welcome to round eleven of this 5200 HSC season! Q*bert won the poll by two votes. Play using the default settings. Emulation is fine, as are custom controls. Pics preferred, but not required except for HSC wins and records.
The current HSC record for Q*bert was set by Northcoastgamer - 144,600 points. Bust it if you can for a bonus point!
A link to the ROM and manual can be found here:
https://atariage.com/software_page.php?SoftwareLabelID=651
Round ends Sunday, June 23rd, 2019 @9pm EST
Standings:Cafeman - 309,465 - RECORD BREAKER
jnice - 230,800 - RECORD BREAKER
Nuclear Pacman - 55,665
Mangia-Boy - 42,125
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Q*bert wins the poll.
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Wico joystick a worthy alternative?
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The Wico works fine with Centipede (if not as well as with a TrakBall admittedly!) Is his controller seeming to "pull" in one direction? If so, that's probably something that needs adjusted in the console itself.