Cynicaster Posted November 11, 2019 Share Posted November 11, 2019 (edited) This round's game 1 of 2: Trog ROM Name: Trog (rev LA5 03/29/91) ROM File: trog Picked by: Floyd Turbo DIP settings (changes from default shown in RED ) DEFAULT - NO CHANGES NEEDED This round's game 2 of 2: Talbot ROM Name: Talbot ROM File: talbot Picked by: Ramses DIP settings (changes from default shown in RED ) Lives: 3 Rules: Please change your DIPs to the settings listed. If you're unsure how to do this, please ask Screenshots required No continues No save states No cheats Any working version of MAME can be used, but the ROMs provided for this competition will be verified to work on MAME v0.139. The "user interface" version of MAME v0.139 can be downloaded at: http://www.progettosnaps.net/mameui/ Competition ends: Sunday November 24, 11:59pm PST PREVIOUS ROUND RESULTS: BIONIC COMMANDO youxia 56,600 100.0% Ramses 51,480 91.0% Cynicaster 45,660 80.7% patbb 44,900 79.3% MAME Offender 31,660 55.9% asponge 28,650 50.6% Mangia-Boy 20,140 35.6% AtariWarlord 19,930 35.2% Floyd Turbo 18,290 32.3% hero2billions 16,100 28.4% S.BAZ 11,150 19.7% jblenkle 1,730 3.1% CYBATTLER Cynicaster 308,060 100.0% Ramses 289,260 93.9% youxia 160,820 52.2% AtariWarlord 152,720 49.6% asponge 149,370 48.5% MAME Offender 138,830 45.1% Floyd Turbo 131,590 42.7% hero2billions 42,410 13.8% Mangia-Boy 35,440 11.5% jblenkle 32,420 10.5% patbb 0 0.0% S.BAZ 0 0.0% OVERALL STANDINGS TO DATE: STANDINGS TO DATE 1 Ramses 92.4% 2 Cynicaster 90.3% 3 youxia 76.1% 4 MAME Offender 50.5% 5 asponge 49.6% 6 AtariWarlord 42.4% 7 patbb 39.7% 8 Floyd Turbo 37.5% 9 Mangia-Boy 23.5% 10 hero2billions 21.1% 11 S.BAZ 9.8% 12 jblenkle 6.8% trog.zip talbot.zip Edited November 12, 2019 by Cynicaster Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cynicaster Posted November 11, 2019 Author Share Posted November 11, 2019 I've never heard of Talbot before. I gave it a quick try and it took me a while to figure out what I'm supposed to do. There doesn't seem to be much info out there on the internet. Hopefully @Ramses will be so kind as to give everybody a quick rundown on how this game works. Game on Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youxia Posted November 11, 2019 Share Posted November 11, 2019 Talbot - 50,650 This game is just TOO CUTE. Also a bit easy, I played for ~ 10 minutes on my first ever attempt. There seems to be room for lot of tricks and tactics so a skilled player could probably hog it for a long time. Not sure how did they make any money on this cab The dog is your friend, right? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramses Posted November 11, 2019 Share Posted November 11, 2019 (edited) Yeah Talbot is an extremely obscure arcade game. I was digging DEEP in the dark depths of MAME when I originally came across this one. I didn't like it that much at first, but it grew on me. The game is a little rough around the edges, but it has some interesting game mechanics. It brings its own spin to the maze game genre. TALBOT GAMEPLAY You need to catch the rabbits and bring them back down to the lower pens. The computer team is also trying to do the same, but with the upper pens. You want to get more rabbits than them or else you LOSE A LIFE. The level ends when you catch 8 rabbits. When you are carrying a rabbit, you are vulnerable. If one of the two enemy catchers touch you while you are carrying a rabbit, you LOSE A LIFE. If you or the dog touch an enemy catcher while they are carrying a rabbit, they drop any rabbits they are carrying and are temporarily taken out. Your talbot dog is your friend. You can use him to help catch the rabbits in a pincer movement, though he basically has a mind of his own. That said, you have a little bit of control over him. One of the buttons makes the dog drop down a spike bed which slows down the rabbits, the enemy catchers, and you (though it seems to slow the rabbits down more). The other button sics your dog after the catchers. Both of these actions use up "fuel" which you can replenish by picking up the cups of coffee/milk. Another thing to note is that the catchers can go into your pen and steal your rabbits and you can steal theirs as well (but only one at a time). There is also a werewolf rat thing that appears after the first loop that will make you LOSE A LIFE if it touches you. Edited November 11, 2019 by Ramses 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariWarlord Posted November 11, 2019 Share Posted November 11, 2019 So do we set Trog to easy (not in the dip switches but in-game) or a higher difficulty? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cynicaster Posted November 11, 2019 Author Share Posted November 11, 2019 14 minutes ago, AtariWarlord said: So do we set Trog to easy (not in the dip switches but in-game) or a higher difficulty? Player’s choice. It’s not really a difficulty setting, but a starting level selection. There’s probably not much point in most players doing anything but easy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramses Posted November 11, 2019 Share Posted November 11, 2019 Both of these games take a while for the difficulty to ramp up. Trog: 1,613,240 Talbot: 66,690 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jblenkle Posted November 11, 2019 Share Posted November 11, 2019 Trog - 732,115 Talbot - 34,780 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cynicaster Posted November 12, 2019 Author Share Posted November 12, 2019 Just a note on Talbot... When I tested the game on MAME v139 before uploading the ROM on this thread, it defaulted to 3 lives as shown in the opening post. I run a slightly older version of MAME on my cabinet (v122) and when I tried Talbot on there, I noticed that it defaults to a whopping 6 lives rather than the 3 lives listed in the rules for this round. I went in to change the DIP settings to 3 lives, and all of the labels for the settings were missing (they all just said 'unknown'). By trial and error, I was able to get the game to run on 3 lives by setting the first 2 dip switches to 'on.' Please verify that all scores submitted for Talbot are achieved with 3 lives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramses Posted November 12, 2019 Share Posted November 12, 2019 36 minutes ago, Cynicaster said: Just a note on Talbot... When I tested the game on MAME v139 before uploading the ROM on this thread, it defaulted to 3 lives as shown in the opening post. I run a slightly older version of MAME on my cabinet (v122) and when I tried Talbot on there, I noticed that it defaults to a whopping 6 lives rather than the 3 lives listed in the rules for this round. I went in to change the DIP settings to 3 lives, and all of the labels for the settings were missing (they all just said 'unknown'). By trial and error, I was able to get the game to run on 3 lives by setting the first 2 dip switches to 'on.' Please verify that all scores submitted for Talbot are achieved with 3 lives. I just double checked mine, and it's set to 3. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariWarlord Posted November 12, 2019 Share Posted November 12, 2019 (edited) Trog 1,924,660. This game is off the chain! Talbot 49,360. Edited November 12, 2019 by AtariWarlord Added Talbot score. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoyous Posted November 14, 2019 Share Posted November 14, 2019 My first attempts on both. Talbot took me a while to figure out the button controls the dog. Trog is cool! A single screen maze game from '91, wow! The music kind of reminds me of the Atari Games releases of that era. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariWarlord Posted November 14, 2019 Share Posted November 14, 2019 (edited) Talbot 60,160. Trog 2,378,585. Edited November 14, 2019 by AtariWarlord Hit a high score in other game. Just want to keep them together. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cynicaster Posted November 15, 2019 Author Share Posted November 15, 2019 Talbot - 39,810 Trog - 3,072,545 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Floyd Turbo Posted November 15, 2019 Share Posted November 15, 2019 (edited) Trog - 1,103,545 2,171,150 Talbot - 58,260 Edited November 21, 2019 by Floyd Turbo Updated Scores Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asponge Posted November 16, 2019 Share Posted November 16, 2019 (edited) Talbot - 46,150 Trog - 1,942,075 Edited November 25, 2019 by asponge Update Trog score. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cynicaster Posted November 18, 2019 Author Share Posted November 18, 2019 Talbot - 48,900 There is definitely something I’m not getting about the scoring system in this game. I don’t really understand why my score at the end of the first level varies by about 100% from game to game...? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mangia-Boy Posted November 19, 2019 Share Posted November 19, 2019 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youxia Posted November 20, 2019 Share Posted November 20, 2019 Trog - 3,123,640 Talbot - 57,730 I really like Talbot's gameplay ideas but it does suffer from the Nibbler Syndrome on my setup, where it's very difficult to make a right turn at the right moment, probably due to playing with a Dualshock. It makes dying quite infuriating though so I will probably call it a day. Overall, quite enjoyable games for me this round, seeing as the maze game is probably my least favourite arcade subgenre. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariWarlord Posted November 20, 2019 Share Posted November 20, 2019 Trog 2,562,020. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.BAZ Posted November 21, 2019 Share Posted November 21, 2019 Trog (9 attempts): 2,006,950 --very much like the NES experience! Talbot (2 attempts): 34,630 --very annoying trying to maneuvre around corners! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hero2billions Posted November 22, 2019 Share Posted November 22, 2019 Trog 429,425 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hero2billions Posted November 24, 2019 Share Posted November 24, 2019 Talbot 18.840 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramses Posted November 24, 2019 Share Posted November 24, 2019 Trog: 1,924,735 Talbot: 74,660 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramses Posted November 24, 2019 Share Posted November 24, 2019 On 11/18/2019 at 2:02 PM, Cynicaster said: Talbot - 48,900 There is definitely something I’m not getting about the scoring system in this game. I don’t really understand why my score at the end of the first level varies by about 100% from game to game...? I've noticed that too. I think you get higher points the more rabbits you bring back at once. I'm not sure how much you get if your dog takes out one of the enemy players (if you get any at all). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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