+DamonicFury Posted August 5, 2019 Share Posted August 5, 2019 Welcome to round fifteen of this 5200 HSC season! Buck Rogers 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 record was set by sdamon - 259,397 points. Bust it if you can for a bonus point. The ROM and manual can be found here: https://atariage.com/software_page.php?SoftwareLabelID=612 Round ends Sunday, August 18th, 2019 @9pm EST Standings: eegt97 - 334,268 - RECORD BREAKER Nuclear Pacman - 312,265 - RECORD BREAKER jblenkle - 225,755 Cafeman - 179,913 AverageSoftware - 115,385 roadrunner - 73,685 Mangia-Boy - 35,368 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jblenkle Posted August 5, 2019 Share Posted August 5, 2019 Just curious....best way to get a screenshot? It goes away awfully quick after you lose your last life. Also, I am playing via emulation. While the game plays fine and starts normally, after I lose my last life the game starts again by itself. Should it be doing this? thanks Joe B. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Cobra Kai Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 19 hours ago, jblenkle said: Just curious....best way to get a screenshot? It goes away awfully quick after you lose your last life. Also, I am playing via emulation. While the game plays fine and starts normally, after I lose my last life the game starts again by itself. Should it be doing this? thanks Joe B. Do you have some kind of auto fire going on? Because when I get a game over, I get a title screen (with scores) that doesn't move unless I press the fire or start button. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Kai Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 75,669 I haven't played this game since 4th grade on an elementary school Apple IIE. I didn't have a computer, but I had a bunch of floppys with some games and I would stay after school and use the computer lab. I played this, DROL, Lode Runner and Conan a bunch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eegt97 Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 125923 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ryan Witmer Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 I've owned this game for a long time, but never really liked it. I think I still don't like it, but at least I learned how to play it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eegt97 Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 19 hours ago, jblenkle said: Just curious....best way to get a screenshot? It goes away awfully quick after you lose your last life. Also, I am playing via emulation. While the game plays fine and starts normally, after I lose my last life the game starts again by itself. Should it be doing this? thanks Joe B. Sorry jblenkle, looks like it is a bug in kat5200 (I assume that is what you are using?). Reset should get you back to the screen with the high score, at least it did for me. You may need to be sure not to fire before reset. Try Altirra if that doesn't work for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jblenkle Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 Yes, I am using Kat5200...I will give Altirra a try and see what happens. Thanks! 17 hours ago, eegt97 said: Sorry jblenkle, looks like it is a bug in kat5200 (I assume that is what you are using?). Reset should get you back to the screen with the high score, at least it did for me. You may need to be sure not to fire before reset. Try Altirra if that doesn't work for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jblenkle Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 (edited) Buck Rogers - 130,189 Altirra is much better!!! I guess Kat5200 just doesn't like this game. Edited August 6, 2019 by jblenkle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Kai Posted August 6, 2019 Share Posted August 6, 2019 158,009 This is not a bad game. Actually, this is the perfect kind of game for HSC. It's not something I would ever purposely play for fun, but it has good scoring mechanics, is not unplayable at all, and I get some regular play time out of a game I otherwise would neglect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eegt97 Posted August 7, 2019 Share Posted August 7, 2019 152660 So do you lose more fuel when firing? I'm improving my score, but I'm just doing Level 1 over and over as I'm running out of gas before seeing the Mothership. Trying to figure out why I'm not getting there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Kai Posted August 7, 2019 Share Posted August 7, 2019 You don't have to fly through every set of pylons. Each stage has a quota to meet, a combo of slalom and shooting down aliens. Sometimes you want to chase the aliens and destroy them, it will meet the quota faster. Fuel is a constant use. The manual says you can speed up and slow down holding up/down on the joystick respectively. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eegt97 Posted August 7, 2019 Share Posted August 7, 2019 Ah, I see, I wasn't realizing it was a combo to meet, that should help. The other thing I wasn't getting was your speed can still go faster even at top ship height. Thanks! I'm not sure I have ever really played this game before. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ryan Witmer Posted August 7, 2019 Share Posted August 7, 2019 Well, that's a little better. This seems to be one of those games I get worse at with experience. I swear those towers actually chase me sometimes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Kai Posted August 7, 2019 Share Posted August 7, 2019 179,264 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eegt97 Posted August 7, 2019 Share Posted August 7, 2019 187607. Was doing pretty well up until Level 3. And then got my butt kicked left and right, need more practice there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted August 8, 2019 Share Posted August 8, 2019 73,685 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jblenkle Posted August 8, 2019 Share Posted August 8, 2019 Buck Rogers - 166,284 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eegt97 Posted August 9, 2019 Share Posted August 9, 2019 223896 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Kai Posted August 10, 2019 Share Posted August 10, 2019 252,540 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jblenkle Posted August 10, 2019 Share Posted August 10, 2019 Buck Rogers - 187,667 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jblenkle Posted August 11, 2019 Share Posted August 11, 2019 Buck Rogers - 225,755 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eegt97 Posted August 11, 2019 Share Posted August 11, 2019 256266 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cobra Kai Posted August 11, 2019 Share Posted August 11, 2019 261,236 Record Breaker 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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