Mangia-Boy

25,200. This DK version is overrated. OK, it has all 4 screens of the arcade, but that's not all. I don't know what was the programmer's intention. 5 levels of difficulty, and in my opinion the easiest has arcade standard or even more. This is very frustrating. DK Jr. is even worse concerning difficulty.

19,118

I play Sega SG 1000 games with the bluemsx emulator and a usb controller, everything works fine. But unfortunately most games start in the 2 player mode. This sucks! How can I switch into the 1 player mode? Can anybody help me?

18,477

20,103. Hi Joe, here I am.

+ 23,740 (Mission 1 failed) This is game I don't know what I have to do. The manual isn't very helpful,too. I also tried the Intellivision and MSX versions, the Colecovision is the only version I managed to reach a positive score at least. P.S. I got a new camera, but the photos I take with it have all more than 2 MB, so I can't post my scores.

War Games (Level 4): 174.530.000

Popeye Skill 3: 63,060 points

Hi Ikrananka, I'm not surprised about this question. I played a few games and often the game broke down. I must have a very bad dump on my 128 on 1-cartridge. On my attached photo I wanted to improve my first score (look at the result in the middle) by starting a new game, then the yellow ship came on the screen and also some green circles - like explosions. This must be a bug like the white strip on Joe's photo.

I hope, that my score ist better to see on the next photo.

Galaxian (Advanced Level) : 14,890

101.140

This is again a game, I play for the 1st time. 535.200 points

54 people rescued! Don't land on a hostage, it will be dead! This happened to me!

71,520 This time I had more success in shooting the sentinel ship.

43.900

16.140 I wonder how Todd Rogers plays this game. This is again one of the Activision titles where he holds a fabulous world record (like Stampede or River Raid).

First time I played this game. 30.000 points.(at Skill 1) But have a look at Skill 4: Absolutely difficult. But very good idea with changing ball colour.

109,600 points. Happy new year!

71.740

22,020

64,700

I fully understand where you're coming from. However, if we took that approach then some great games would be forever excluded from the HSC. Nevertheless, I know that I have a responsibility to try and make the HSC attractive to the masses while balancing the desires of the minority. With the latest version of blueMSX supporting emulation of the SA controllers this opens up a group of games that would otherwise have been avoided. Therefore, I will occasionally include games that require the SA controller (as well as games that require the roller controller). These will be only included occasionally in the hope that I can provide a selection of games that is balanced to suit everyone and not just the majority. Your feedback on this is most welcome. First of all, I have to say Ikrananka you're doing an excellent job for the Colecovision HSC. This was no critic on your leading position. I can fully accept your argumentation. I play all games on a real console. So I didn't know that FrontLine runs on an emulator. If this is correct, I cancel my objection. You are right, under these conditions no reason exists to exclude any original games. My last question: And how about homebrew games, when the rom is not available for everyone?

I think, it's a pity that Joe and Jacob can't take part this round because of having no Super Action Controller. Especially I say this, because the played every round this season. In my opinion, in the future we should only play games which are available for everyone. And we can play the games that require elements - that cannot be emulated like SA Controller or the steering wheel - in bonus rounds, which are not counting for the contest. Another problem are homebrew games. In later rounds they were played two times: PacManCollection and Mr.Chin.(Their roms are not free available and I think only 50 copies exist, so the most AA members are excluded) These rounds had the fewest participants of all. The colecovision HSC should stay attractive for everyone. What do you think about?