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NEW MAME HSC - ROUND 6/10 - Chameleon / Amidar


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This round's game 1 of 2:

Chameleon

 

ROM Name: Chameleon

ROM File: chameleo

Picked by: Mangia-Boy

 

DIP settings (changes from default shown in RED):

 

Lives: 3

 

 

This round's game 2 of 2:

Amidar

 

ROM Name: Amidar

ROM File: amidar 

Picked by: patbb

 

DIP settings (changes from default shown in RED):

 

Lives: 3

Bonus life: 30,000  50,000

 

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 February 2, 11:59pm PST

 

 

PREVIOUS ROUND RESULTS:

 

Snow Bros.

 

 

MAME Offender

667,160

100.0%

Ramses

363,310

54.5%

Cynicaster

323,250

48.5%

AtariWarlord

274,620

41.2%

Floyd Turbo

235,560

35.3%

asponge

152,660

22.9%

youxia

79,730

12.0%

Mangia-Boy

 

0.0%

patbb

 

0.0%

jblenkle

 

0.0%

S.BAZ

 

0.0%

hero2billions

 

0.0%

zoyous

 

0.0%

roadrunner

 

0.0%

Mister-VCS

 

0.0%

 

 

Lasso

 

 

Ramses

189,420

100.0%

MAME Offender

99,060

52.3%

Cynicaster

88,320

46.6%

Floyd Turbo

87,840

46.4%

youxia

83,760

44.2%

AtariWarlord

62,940

33.2%

asponge

17,100

9.0%

hero2billions

14,040

7.4%

Mangia-Boy

 

0.0%

patbb

 

0.0%

jblenkle

 

0.0%

S.BAZ

 

0.0%

zoyous

 

0.0%

roadrunner

 

0.0%

Mister-VCS

 

0.0%

 

 

OVERALL STANDINGS TO DATE:

 

** NOTE: standings now reflect the rejection of each player's lowest (3) percentage scores

 

 

STANDINGS TO DATE

 

1

Ramses

83.5%

2

Cynicaster

81.7%

3

youxia

69.0%

4

MAME Offender

66.9%

5

Floyd Turbo

54.5%

6

AtariWarlord

51.0%

7

asponge

39.7%

8

zoyous

31.0%

9

patbb

26.1%

10

hero2billions

21.9%

11

Mangia-Boy

15.6%

12

jblenkle

11.9%

13

S.BAZ

11.9%

14

roadrunner

3.6%

15

Mister-VCS

1.6%

amidar.zip chameleo.zip

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Amidar 44,620. 46,300

Chameleon 25,800. Didn't improve my PB as much as I thought. Chameleon has what I call an "unnecessary extra factor of difficulty" that can make playing it a chore. In this case, it's the baseballs -- it's really hard to keep an eye on them while eating the eggs, battling the chickens and avoiding glowing eggs. For Lasso it was the fact that you could die by running into . . . a sheep. Really? 

 

By contrast, Amidar is practically the perfect arcade game for me -- but then again I love maze games. I can't believe I've never played any version except for the very slow 2600 translation before. 

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On 1/26/2020 at 7:34 AM, M.A.M.E Offender said:

This is a little off topic, but I feel compelled to post it as 200k runs in Donkey Kong are still a thrill to me.  Actually,  I haven't had a 200k+ game in almost a year!!  I accomplished this score this morning. 

 

DK --- 212,400

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Nice! Are you playing Donkey Kong in the Atari 2600 HSC this week? Quite different from the real thing of course but it has its own unique challenges.  

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Amidar - 113,660

 

On ‎1‎/‎27‎/‎2020 at 7:24 PM, AtariWarlord said:

 

Chameleon has what I call an "unnecessary extra factor of difficulty" that can make playing it a chore. In this case, it's the baseballs -- it's really hard to keep an eye on them while eating the eggs, battling the chickens and avoiding glowing eggs.

 

Agreed 100%.  It's a fun game concept but I feel like there are a LOT of cheap deaths.  If I start audibly swearing after only playing a game for 20-30 minutes, that's usually a sign it won't be moving over to my favorites list.  I realize that there is a very fine line between "challenging" and "cheap" in arcade games, but IMO, successfully walking this line is what separates the grain from the chaff.  The game can be hard as all hell, but when I lose a life, it has to feel like it's my fault.   

 

 

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How I play Chameleon is to strictly use my time evading the balls.  I don't worry about eating the eggs and wait until they hatch.  They fly around the screen in a pattern and it's easier to give them a couple of quick licks to kill them, thus finishing the level.  Stay mainly in the middle of the board and don't get trapped against the edge.  Hope that helps.  Happy gaming. 

 

I'm having a super hard time with Amidar.  Reminds me of the dreaded 'Pepper II'.  I'm just not that good at maze games.  

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