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Arcade/MAME HSC 2018 Round 18 Final Round: Darkseal / Cadash


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Arcade/MAME HSC 2018

Round 1: Time Pilot '84

Round 2: Toki / Moon Patrol

Round 3: Sunset Riders ( 2 player version)

Round 4: Golden Axe/Hippodrome

Round 5: Gravitar/Xybots

Round 6: Time Tunnel / Super Pac- Man

Round 7: Ghould’n Ghosts / Mystic Riders

Round 8: Into the sea

Round 9: Prehistoric Isle in 1930 / Cadillacs and Dinosaurs

Round 10 Tetris Plus / Puyo Puyo

Round 11: X-Men / Captain Commando

Round 12: UN squadron / Galaga 88

Round 13: Bad Dudes vs Dragonninja / Mario Bros

Round 14: Nibbler / Ninja Baseball Bat Man

Round 15: Mr Do / Popeye

Round 16: Jungle Hunt / The Legend of Kage

Round 17: Parodius DA! / Aerofighters

Round 18: Darkseal / Cadash

 

Standings after: : Parodius DA! / Aerofighters

Round 18

Darkseal

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darkseal.zip

Darkseal by Data east, 1990

MAME ROMset: darkseal
Dip Switches: Default: ( Lives: 3 / Difficulty: Norrmal / energy 3 )

Number of credits: 1 credits

Remember to play with the recommended settings, and do not use cheats or any kind of enhancements to take advantage

Round ends April 21st @ midnight MDT

 

darkseal

Scoring will be as follows:

10 Points for 1st

9 for 2nd

8 for 3rd and so forth

 

Round 18

Cadash

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cadash.zip

Cadash by Taito, 1989

MAME ROMset: cadash
Dip Switches: Default (Difficulty: Medium / starting time 7:00 / Added time after round ends: Deffault ) )

Number of credits: 1 credits

Remember to play with the recommended settings, and do not use cheats or any kind of enhancements to take advantage

Round ends April 21st @ midnight MDT

 

Cadash

Scoring will be as follows:

10 Points for 1st

9 for 2nd

8 for 3rd and so forth

 

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Seems like another good cop/bad cop round for me. I played Cadash before briefly on some home console and was rather unimpressed...I know it is a (very) early proto RPG-platformer, but even so... In any case, how do we measure a score? Is there any point-scoring in the game? I played it couple of times yesterday but couldn't see anything.

 

I love Dark Seal though, never saw it before but it's a great arcade-action-RPG of sorts.

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Yeah, I was also wondering how we measure scores in Cadash. Honestly, coin-op seems like a very strange platform for a game like that. You've got this timer ticking down while you're forced to read through a bunch of nonsense dialogue with NPCs, etc. Seems much better suited to sitting on a couch at home with a home console.

 

Dark Seal is OK but I was finding it a bit clunky with how your character "aims" the direction of attack. It feels like they were trying to do a proto-3D type game but hadn't quite perfected the mechanics yet.

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Actually I saw later that there are in-game scoreborads, though still it's a possible headache - they rank by EXP, GOLD, LVL... Also each character may progress differently. And yeah, it takes forever to play, even if you skip the NPC chat...especially after the first boss, you need to do zillion RPG-y things in town.

 

Dark Seal's movement is a bit clunky, especially diagonals but I just like the general vibe and early Nineties gfx.

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Dark Seal 89,300. That's the score pictured, but my actual score was 97,000 and change. However, the game didn't give me a chance to capture it and it doesn't appear to have any kind of leader board. I'll leave the final score to Leto's discretion.

 

Not sure if this is the right space for suggestions for next season's games, but since Leto mentioned it here I have a few: Venture, Space Zap, Berzerk or Frenzy, Scrambler or Super Cobra, Vanguard.

 

EDIT: Just realized I never posted my pic. Corrected.

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Dark Seal - 174,000

Cadash - ? ok, I saw it saved the Hiscore table after all: xp 561 / gold 792 / lvl 5

 

I played Cadash few times, even managed to get past that second boss but then was unable to see my score. The game insisted that I continue playing with my extra credit, maybe I've pressed something too fast. Guess I have to slog through it again...

 

Dark Seal is lot of fun and chas some clever touches too, such as that ice slope later on. Also the Wizard's fire spell is porbably the best I've ever seen, even in countless "normal" RPGs. Here I can seriously BURN EVERYTHING :)

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