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  6. Posted

    Whats the trick to making the free throws in the game? and the bonus free throw shooting? I`m new to the M.A.M.E scene! I just got my M.A.M.E cabinet a short while ago.

     

    For the bonus, hit the throw button as fast as possible, don't worry about the position of the moving rectangle.

     

    For the penality shot, you have to time your shot.

     

    Hold down the button when the moving rectangle just passes the rim, release it when the rectancle is just above the rim. You have to be between 40 and 50 degrees to get it. Of course you will get 1 point for each successful try but you will also have 3 extra seconds and if you get it at 45 degrees you will receive 5 extra seconds.

     

    Note: The speed of the moving rectangle is increasing at every level. So you have to adjust yourself.

     

    I hope the image below will help you.

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    Not sure if you misinterpreted what I meant, but I was talking about input lag, not about having one double-shot bullet on screen at a time. Similar to the latency of an HDTV that's doing a lot of image processing. In this case, though, it's either a design decision or some sort of coding bottleneck in generating the double-shot bullet, because the rapid-fire gun does not have as long a delay between player input and the bullet appearing on screen.

     

     

     

    Which part are you referring to as "last stage"? I don't remember what came right before the challenge section--if that's what you were talking about.

     

    onmode-ky

     

    I'm talking about the first wave and the last wave(Big Birds).

  15. Posted · Edited by patbb

    I hate how the player ship has all the agility of a freight train. Even more annoying, the double-shot gun has noticeable lag between button press and actual firing, something like twice as long as that of the rapid-fire gun (I'm not talking about the slow rate of fire, which I don't have a problem with). The enemy design and wave layout isn't bad, but come on, there's a reason you don't put a B-52 into a dogfight.

     

    I think the double shot speed is design like that.

    With the rapid fire you have a bullet count. You start with 50. But it increases when you hit an ennemie with the double shot.

    When firering with the double shot, you can only have 1 bullet at the same time on the screen.

    Personnaly, I use both fire buttons in the first and last stage.

     

    I'm having a problem on the second level, after the bonus stage, twice I got there and the game resets itself when I got to 90K

    Anybody else got the same problem?

    I will try with aa more recent version of MAME.

  19. Posted

    But might I make a suggestion to everyone to reset the game every time you get a game over. It will help with the bonuses.

     

    B

     

    If you are talking about the average time, from what I've saw, the time is always the same. 80s for the first 2 check points then 100s ... I'm not sur abot the other check points. I played a few concecutive games and the average time was not recalculated. See image below.

     

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    New score: 55,430

     

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