Cynicaster Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 This round's game 1 of 2: New Rally-X ROM Name: New Rally-X ROM File: nrallyx Picked by: patbb DIP settings (changes from default shown in RED): Difficulty: 3 cars, medium Bonus life: A (20,000 80,000) This round's game 2 of 2: Juno First ROM Name: Juno First ROM File: junofrst Picked by: zoyous DIP settings (changes from default shown in RED): Lives: 3 Difficulty: 8 [Hardest] 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 March 1, 11:59pm PST PREVIOUS ROUND RESULTS: Berzerk youxia 12,140 100.0% MAME Offender 9,540 78.6% Ramses 9,100 75.0% Cynicaster 8,950 73.7% AtariWarlord 7,670 63.2% jblenkle 4,960 40.9% Floyd Turbo 3,560 29.3% roadrunner 3,520 29.0% zoyous 2,770 22.8% hero2billions 1,150 9.5% Mangia-Boy 0.0% patbb 0.0% S.BAZ 0.0% asponge 0.0% Mister-VCS 0.0% MERCS MAME Offender 620,750 100.0% Cynicaster 195,450 31.5% youxia 181,300 29.2% Ramses 123,350 19.9% AtariWarlord 81,400 13.1% zoyous 79,050 12.7% Floyd Turbo 75,600 12.2% roadrunner 69,700 11.2% hero2billions 46,600 7.5% jblenkle 16,700 2.7% Mangia-Boy 0.0% patbb 0.0% S.BAZ 0.0% asponge 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 Cynicaster 78.81% 2 Ramses 78.76% 3 MAME Offender 67.66% 4 youxia 63.91% 5 Floyd Turbo 52.21% 6 AtariWarlord 51.54% 7 asponge 30.83% 8 zoyous 24.69% 9 patbb 18.66% 10 hero2billions 18.49% 11 Mangia-Boy 18.46% 12 S.BAZ 13.87% 13 jblenkle 13.58% 14 roadrunner 7.32% 15 Mister-VCS 1.12% junofrst.zip nrallyx.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cynicaster Posted February 17, 2020 Author Share Posted February 17, 2020 Wow, just look at those standings. I actually had to increase the number of decimal places shown in the spreadsheet to show the difference, because rounded to the nearest 10th of a percent they're equal! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mangia-Boy Posted February 17, 2020 Share Posted February 17, 2020 New Rallye X Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariWarlord Posted February 18, 2020 Share Posted February 18, 2020 First off, great picks! New Rally-X 65,100. Juno First 33,790. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jblenkle Posted February 20, 2020 Share Posted February 20, 2020 New Rally X - 47,170 Juno First - 9,600 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Floyd Turbo Posted February 20, 2020 Share Posted February 20, 2020 (edited) Juno - 34,910 Rally - 71,640 Edited February 23, 2020 by Floyd Turbo Updated score Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariWarlord Posted February 21, 2020 Share Posted February 21, 2020 Juno First 39,780. Sheesh -- this game's no joke. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youxia Posted February 21, 2020 Share Posted February 21, 2020 (edited) Juno First - 99,490 Funny, I asked for Defender but RNG has pulled Juno instead. It'd be amusing if Defender still came up in the remaining rounds. I never actually knew this game existed and that it's so similar - yet different - to Defender. At first I was convinced it's either a spin off or at least work of the same dev team, seeing as some sounds, effects and also gameplay concepts are nearly identical to Defneder. And yet it seems these two are completely disconnected. Brilliant game overall, with similarly sublime gameplay, it gets way above my pay grade really fast though. Tip: in the first two stages you can hold back not shooting anything and waiting for the Mystery meteor to appear. You then have much more targets to shoot during the bonus period and can rack up a nice score (~40K in the first two rounds, with a bit of luck). Edited February 22, 2020 by youxia scratch that Easy Mode score 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cynicaster Posted February 21, 2020 Author Share Posted February 21, 2020 Juno - 243,600 Rally - 92,900 That’s a good scoring tip provided by youxia. I have used that trick in the past but now that we’ve ratcheted the difficulty DIP settings up to hard, I can’t survive without shooting things so I just gave up on that trick. By the way, I selected hard for the difficulty setting because wherever possible I try to use the same settings as were used in the past in the HSC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariWarlord Posted February 22, 2020 Share Posted February 22, 2020 New Rally-X 96,390. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youxia Posted February 22, 2020 Share Posted February 22, 2020 Doh, of course, I forgot about the dip switches. That of course makes both the tips and my score redundant. I must say though, much as I am a fan of difficulty in games, turning it all up to 11 in Juno is a bit of an overkill. This game's pretty hard as it is already. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.A.M.E Offender Posted February 22, 2020 Share Posted February 22, 2020 I almost submitted a level 1 difficulty score for Juno First. I'm glad I read the previous posts... L 8 difficulty score coming up.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.A.M.E Offender Posted February 22, 2020 Share Posted February 22, 2020 Whew. Juno First is a blast. Level 8 difficulty 138950 Wave 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cynicaster Posted February 22, 2020 Author Share Posted February 22, 2020 The conversation in this thread has me wondering, does anybody check the DIPs listed in each new round and change them if necessary? I have long been quietly wondering this. Can we get a show of hands? Aside from highlighting the required changes in bold red font, I'm not sure what else I can do. I suppose I can always use the absolute easiest settings. But this will break with precedent on lots of games played in the HSC over the years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youxia Posted February 22, 2020 Share Posted February 22, 2020 I think this is the first round with a significant dip change (it should be obvious that there are no continues allowed by default). I do check them every time and did so in this one too, just forgot about it later. I'd be happy with just playing on defaults (not sure why the previous HSCs should matter here) since that's how it (mostly) was in arcades. I guess extra difficulty makes sense if there is a majority of pros playing but I suppose the level here is much more mixed and approachable (and that's the reason why I play here instead of, say, system11.org). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Floyd Turbo Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 I play for fun and to get exposed to new games. I change dips Accordingly, why did I capitalize accordingly?, super drunk. All in all, my feeling is as long as we play on the same field and are having fun, makes no difference on the difficulty. I’ve played Juno First a lot, but never on such a hard difficulty. Great challenge. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariWarlord Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 (edited) I set my dip switch to 8. EDIT: Just out of curiosity, I tried the game on Difficulty 1 and it's still hard as balls. I thought I could easily beat my Diff 8 personal best on that setting but actually couldn't. I have since set the DIP back to 8, although I don't think I've posted any Juno First scores since that time anyway. Edited February 24, 2020 by AtariWarlord Added something. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariWarlord Posted February 23, 2020 Share Posted February 23, 2020 Rally-X 105,140. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramses Posted February 25, 2020 Share Posted February 25, 2020 GAHHH the smart bombs in Juno First... Juno First: 36,940 New Rally X: 97,600 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramses Posted February 25, 2020 Share Posted February 25, 2020 On 2/22/2020 at 12:29 PM, Cynicaster said: The conversation in this thread has me wondering, does anybody check the DIPs listed in each new round and change them if necessary? I have long been quietly wondering this. Can we get a show of hands? Aside from highlighting the required changes in bold red font, I'm not sure what else I can do. I suppose I can always use the absolute easiest settings. But this will break with precedent on lots of games played in the HSC over the years. The bold red font has worked for me, though I even double check when it's the default settings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariWarlord Posted February 25, 2020 Share Posted February 25, 2020 Juno First Difficulty 8: 46,540. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youxia Posted February 26, 2020 Share Posted February 26, 2020 Juno First - 111,340 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariWarlord Posted February 27, 2020 Share Posted February 27, 2020 (edited) Juno First Difficulty 8: 74,920. New Rally-X: 110,770. Edited February 27, 2020 by AtariWarlord Added New Rally-X score. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hero2billions Posted February 29, 2020 Share Posted February 29, 2020 I have been adjusting dip switchs Juno 31,620 New Rally 17,280 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramses Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 Juno First: 85,090 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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