Cynicaster Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 This round's game 1 of 5: Raiden ROM Name: Raiden ROM File: raiden Picked by: MAME Offender DIP settings (changes from default shown in RED): Lives: 3 Bonus Life: 150,000 400,000 Allow Continue: NO This round's game 2 of 5: Sorcer Striker ROM Name: Sorcer Striker (World) ROM File: sstriker Picked by: DragonGrafx-16 DIP settings (changes from default shown in RED): Difficulty: Medium Bonus Life: every 300k Lives: 3 Invulnerability: Off Allow continue: NO This round's game 3 of 5: Rolling Thunder ROM Name: Rolling Thunder (New Version) ROM File: rthunder Picked by: hero2billions DIP settings (changes from default shown in RED): Freeze: Off Invulnerability: Off Difficulty: Normal Timer value: 150 secs Bonus Life: 70k 200k NOTE: Player free to choose starting level This round's game 4 of 5: Armored Car ROM Name: Armored Car (Set 1) ROM File: armorcar Picked by: Floyd Turbo DIP settings (changes from default shown in RED): Lives: 3 This round's game 5 of 5: Zoo Keeper ROM Name: Zoo Keeper (Set 1) ROM File: zookeep Picked by: S.BAZ DIP settings (changes from default shown in RED): INTERNAL DEFAULTS 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 January 5, 11:59pm PST PREVIOUS ROUND RESULTS: BANK PANIC youxia 248,000 100.0% Cynicaster 209,400 84.4% Ramses 177,500 71.6% Floyd Turbo 138,450 55.8% hero2billions 132,900 53.6% AtariWarlord 127,700 51.5% zoyous 92,100 37.1% asponge 69,900 28.2% roadrunner 46,700 18.8% Mangia-Boy 22,400 9.0% patbb 0 0.0% jblenkle 0 0.0% S.BAZ 0 0.0% MAME Offender 0 0.0% Mister-VCS 0 0.0% GAUNTLET Floyd Turbo 36,740 100.0% Ramses 31,650 86.1% zoyous 30,020 81.7% Cynicaster 18,135 49.4% asponge 15,060 41.0% AtariWarlord 12,980 35.3% Mangia-Boy 6,610 18.0% roadrunner 6,240 17.0% Mister-VCS 5,760 15.7% hero2billions 4,835 13.2% jblenkle 3,090 8.4% patbb 0 0.0% S.BAZ 0 0.0% MAME Offender 0 0.0% youxia 0 0.0% OVERALL STANDINGS TO DATE: 1 Ramses 87.1% 2 Cynicaster 80.0% 3 youxia 68.7% 4 Floyd Turbo 61.0% 5 AtariWarlord 53.3% 6 asponge 46.9% 7 zoyous 29.1% 8 hero2billions 24.3% 9 S.BAZ 19.8% 10 MAME Offender 16.8% 11 jblenkle 14.6% 12 Mangia-Boy 14.5% 13 patbb 13.2% 14 roadrunner 6.0% 15 Mister-VCS 2.6% armorcar.zip raiden.zip rthunder.zip sstriker.zip zookeep.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cynicaster Posted December 9, 2019 Author Share Posted December 9, 2019 (edited) Holiday greetings, fellow MAME'ers I decided to expand the competition a bit this round. For those who don't read the fine print, note that this round will run double length (4 weeks total). Hopefully this gives all interested participants enough time to get scores up for all the games. CYN Edited December 9, 2019 by Cynicaster Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Floyd Turbo Posted December 9, 2019 Share Posted December 9, 2019 Great idea. More games to play over the holidays. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariWarlord Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 Zookeeper 103,700. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Floyd Turbo Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 (edited) Raiden - 80,540 Sorcer Striker - 172,750 Rolling Thunder - 51,160 Armored Car - 18,860 Zoo Keeper - 96,920 Just Trying to keep everything in one post to make it easier to tally. I will update the pics and scores as they trickle in. Edited December 30, 2019 by Floyd Turbo Updated scores Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mangia-Boy Posted December 10, 2019 Share Posted December 10, 2019 Starting with Armoured Car Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariWarlord Posted December 11, 2019 Share Posted December 11, 2019 (edited) Sorcer Striker 110,950. Armored Car 10,030. Edited December 11, 2019 by AtariWarlord Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cynicaster Posted December 11, 2019 Author Share Posted December 11, 2019 Armored Car - 43,610 Sorcer - 256,480 Zoo Keeper - 174,650 Am I the only one who doesn't find the "saw horse" things in Armored Car to be very useful? For me, that type of game mechanic is something you use in a split-second panic situation - kind of like how you use a bomb in a shoot 'em up - but it's not very useful in such a situation if the saw horse takes like 7 minutes to deploy after you hit the button. Never heard of Sorcer Striker before. Only got 2-3 games in so far but my first impression is that it's a very polished shooter that draws liberally from the Raiden playbook. Very nice looking game for 1993. I absolutely love Zoo Keeper. This first score is just to get something on the board; I will definitely be improving it. Coincidentally, I was playing a quick game of Zoo Keeper a few weeks ago and a buddy of mine who was standing behind me said "I've been watching you play for a few minutes and I still have absolutely no idea what the hell is going on in this game." I guess I can see how it would be confusing if you don't know how the game works. I'd encourage everybody to stick with it at least long enough to understand exactly what is going on. There's a crazy risk/reward system in this game that is very addictive. The key to high scores is in jumping over large numbers of animals at once. You get a piddly 100 points for jumping a single animal, but the bonuses rise very rapidly from there with each additional animal. To wit, your 6th animal will earn you 30,000 points, and if you can jump 11 at once, you get a whopping 1 million (!!!). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mangia-Boy Posted December 11, 2019 Share Posted December 11, 2019 Zookeeper is one of my favourites, too. It's a pity that this wonderful game was never ported to a classic console. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cynicaster Posted December 12, 2019 Author Share Posted December 12, 2019 Raiden - 255,390 Fun game but you really need to mash the fire button to make full use of your guns which gets quite fatiguing. I tend to prefer the blue weapon for this reason, because you don’t need to button-mash as quickly to keep up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mangia-Boy Posted December 12, 2019 Share Posted December 12, 2019 I'm not good, but it's a lot of fun. I will improve. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cynicaster Posted December 13, 2019 Author Share Posted December 13, 2019 Rolling Thunder - 53,400. Wow, did Sega ever rip off this game with Shinobi. Zoo Keeper - 406,400 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youxia Posted December 13, 2019 Share Posted December 13, 2019 Some great games this round Out of this lot I've only played Rolling Thunder ZX Spectrum port back in the day but they all look fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Floyd Turbo Posted December 13, 2019 Share Posted December 13, 2019 14 hours ago, Cynicaster said: Rolling Thunder - 53,400. Wow, did Sega ever rip off this game with Shinobi. The only thing Sega improved on with Shinobi is it allows you to jump and fire. Sadly Rolling Thunder lacks that ability. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hero2billions Posted December 14, 2019 Share Posted December 14, 2019 Raiden 41,950 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariWarlord Posted December 14, 2019 Share Posted December 14, 2019 (edited) Armored Car 18,850. I find the only way to play this game is to never go slow; if you go slow you're a sitting duck. It's much more fun that way too, even though you have to be really cognizant of your fuel. Zoo Keeper 119,230. Sorcer Striker 123,360. Edited December 15, 2019 by AtariWarlord Added Zoo Keeper score and snap. Edit 2: Added Sorcer Striker score and snap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asponge Posted December 16, 2019 Share Posted December 16, 2019 Raiden - 41,920 Sorcer Striker - 133,880 Rolling Thunder - 41,700 Armored Car - 8,390 Zoo Keeper - 52,600 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.A.M.E Offender Posted December 16, 2019 Share Posted December 16, 2019 Ah shit yeah! I regret not getting scores in the prior weeks, so I'll get right to it, we have some button mashing to do, Raiden first!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.A.M.E Offender Posted December 16, 2019 Share Posted December 16, 2019 Third boss, first try. I'll get back to this awesome shooter later. 331,790 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.A.M.E Offender Posted December 16, 2019 Share Posted December 16, 2019 (edited) Zoo Keeper, a point pressers dream come true. Calculated risks are everywhere. Keep in mind of how the bonus for jumping animals rises exponentially. One jump of 6 animals nets 30000! And 9 is 150000! Upper shelf items on bonus rounds also go up quickly as you progress. The second round " trophy " gives you 10000. Well, I played 5 credits, here is the top one: 184,050 Edited December 16, 2019 by M.A.M.E Offender Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.A.M.E Offender Posted December 16, 2019 Share Posted December 16, 2019 This one gets tough quick. 18670 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariWarlord Posted December 16, 2019 Share Posted December 16, 2019 (edited) Rolling Thunder 39,200. When did this game get so hard? I remember playing it constantly as a teenager and it never seemed this ridiculously difficult. I know it wasn't because I pumped in quarters because I never had that many to spare. Maybe my reflexes are not what they used to be or it's simply easier on the real hardware. Edited December 16, 2019 by AtariWarlord Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.A.M.E Offender Posted December 16, 2019 Share Posted December 16, 2019 Sorcer Striker- 177780 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.A.M.E Offender Posted December 16, 2019 Share Posted December 16, 2019 And finally, the Shinobi lookalike: 39620 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramses Posted December 16, 2019 Share Posted December 16, 2019 (edited) First attempts... Raiden: 86,630 Sorcer Striker: 109,220 Rolling Thunder: 43,980 Armored Car: 13,670 Zoo Keeper: 74,740 Edited December 16, 2019 by Ramses Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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