Cynicaster Posted March 2, 2020 Share Posted March 2, 2020 (edited) NOTE: Welcome to the penultimate round of the competition! I will be on vacation at the time this round would normally end, so I have extended the duration of this round by an additional week. Of course, we can't have a 3 week round without a proportional increase in gaming goodness, so this round will consist of 3 titles. Game on! -CYN This round's game 1 of 3: Space Fury ROM Name: Space Fury (Revision C) ROM File: spacfury Picked by: AtariWarlord DIP settings (changes from default shown in RED? Lives: 3 Difficulty: Normal Bonus life: 20,000 This round's game 2 of 3: Pengo ROM Name: Pengo (set 1 rev C) ROM File: pengo Picked by: Floyd Turbo DIP settings (changes from default shown in RED? Lives: 3 Bonus Life: 30,000 Difficulty: Medium This round's game 3 of 3: Rygar ROM Name: Rygar (US set 1) ROM File: rygar Picked by: MAME Offender DIP settings (changes from default shown in RED? Lives: 3 Bonus Life: 100,000 Difficulty: Easy Allow continue: NO 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 22, 11:59pm PST PREVIOUS ROUND RESULTS: New Rally-X Ramses 155,970 100.0% Cynicaster 116,590 74.8% AtariWarlord 110,770 71.0% Floyd Turbo 71,640 45.9% jblenkle 47,170 30.2% Mangia-Boy 33,870 21.7% hero2billions 17,280 11.1% patbb 0.0% S.BAZ 0.0% MAME Offender 0.0% youxia 0.0% asponge 0.0% zoyous 0.0% roadrunner 0.0% Mister-VCS 0.0% Juno First Cynicaster 243,600 100.0% MAME Offender 138,950 57.0% youxia 111,340 45.7% Ramses 85,090 34.9% AtariWarlord 74,920 30.8% Floyd Turbo 34,910 14.3% hero2billions 31,620 13.0% jblenkle 9,600 3.9% Mangia-Boy 0.0% patbb 0.0% S.BAZ 0.0% asponge 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 Cynicaster 79.88% 2 Ramses 77.34% 3 MAME Offender 62.77% 4 youxia 58.78% 5 AtariWarlord 51.61% 6 Floyd Turbo 49.78% 7 asponge 26.97% 8 zoyous 21.60% 9 hero2billions 17.68% 10 Mangia-Boy 17.51% 11 patbb 16.32% 12 jblenkle 14.01% 13 S.BAZ 12.14% 14 roadrunner 6.40% 15 Mister-VCS 0.98% pengo.zip rygar.zip spacfury.zip Edited March 3, 2020 by Cynicaster Corrected Rygar DIPs 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cynicaster Posted March 3, 2020 Author Share Posted March 3, 2020 Pengo - 44,750 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jblenkle Posted March 5, 2020 Share Posted March 5, 2020 Space Fury - 19,750 Pengo - 7,270 Rygar - 39,740 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariWarlord Posted March 5, 2020 Share Posted March 5, 2020 Rygar 48,060. Pengo 15,110. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jblenkle Posted March 6, 2020 Share Posted March 6, 2020 Rygar - 46,150 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Floyd Turbo Posted March 7, 2020 Share Posted March 7, 2020 (edited) Space Fury - 17,130 Pengo - 21,190 Rygar - 116,610 Edited March 20, 2020 by Floyd Turbo Updated score Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.A.M.E Offender Posted March 7, 2020 Share Posted March 7, 2020 Pengo!! 47310 Act 9 MAM What a rush, getting this far. I've set my goal to get past 12 rounds... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.A.M.E Offender Posted March 7, 2020 Share Posted March 7, 2020 Rygars 502,750 I'll come back for more later on this one..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariWarlord Posted March 7, 2020 Share Posted March 7, 2020 6 hours ago, M.A.M.E Offender said: Rygars 502,750 I'll come back for more later on this one..... Or you could give the rest of us a fighting chance?. Just kidding, of course. (Or am I?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted March 8, 2020 Share Posted March 8, 2020 Pengo 11,680 Rygar 39,890 Space Fury 11,330 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cynicaster Posted March 8, 2020 Author Share Posted March 8, 2020 Space Fury - 18,730 ^^ I find this game borderline unplayable. It’s fucking impossible! Pengo - 69,010 Rygar - 178,430 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.A.M.E Offender Posted March 8, 2020 Share Posted March 8, 2020 (edited) As promised. 733,820 MAM Round 10 Ok, ok. I can't keep hitting these boards with such massive scores without sharing some of my strategies. 1. There are several ways to score big points in Rygar. Here is a mini list of them: Flying Dragons --- 1000 Flying Dragons with Rider--- 1250 Boss guards (every fourth board) -5000, or 50000 if you kill with jump attack. The 4 dudes that form a column, but you must kill all before any touch ground - 10000 Collect 7 white stars -- 70000 Get the iron cross with full power -- 160000! ; only one per game. And finally, the 13th Board. Approximately 1/3 into this board, there will be some hidden stars in the sky between the two trees. Just to the right of the last hidden star contains a secret "Red Scroll" . It takes several hits to unlock it at the top of the screen. Once you hit it enough, the Red Scroll will fall to the ground. Collect it for a MASSIVE 1,000,000 point bonus!! 2. Rygar is a constant battle of risk vs reward. Focusing on forward movement (to the right) should be more important than getting kills. However, kills will give bonuses between rounds as repulse bonus AND you advance your weaponry quicker with more kills. Use balance. 3. You can ride through an entire board on the back of Griffins, who are the monsters that fly and suddenly swoop down as an attack. This can first be useful on Board 3; The Waterfall Board. Note that this can only work if you do NOT possess the Tiger Power gem. I hope will help scores elevate to at least the 300,000 point range.... Edited March 8, 2020 by M.A.M.E Offender Added note 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramses Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 Rygar: 211,530 Space Fury: 25,170 Pengo: 24,570 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramses Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 16 hours ago, Cynicaster said: Space Fury - 18,730 ^^ I find this game borderline unplayable. It’s fucking impossible! It gets REALLY confusing which direction you are facing when you get the powerup that shoots forwards and backwards. I also wish it had a spinner/paddle control for turning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramses Posted March 9, 2020 Share Posted March 9, 2020 12 hours ago, M.A.M.E Offender said: I hope will help scores elevate to at least the 300,000 point range.... Thanks for the tips! I'll try them out next time, though I kinda worry about improving with this game as the play times seem like they'll get long! Maybe the difficulty should have been set to HARD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariWarlord Posted March 12, 2020 Share Posted March 12, 2020 (edited) Pengo 16,510. Rygar 56,470. Edited March 13, 2020 by AtariWarlord Added Rygar score. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramses Posted March 14, 2020 Share Posted March 14, 2020 Space Fury: 46,090 Pengo: 47,110 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jblenkle Posted March 14, 2020 Share Posted March 14, 2020 Rygar - 51,690 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariWarlord Posted March 14, 2020 Share Posted March 14, 2020 Pengo 20,380. Does anyone else experience the phenomenon of getting a good score (or at least hitting a milestone, in my case getting 20K in Pengo) and immediately going back only to find you're absolutely useless at the game? I think it may just be fatigue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.BAZ Posted March 14, 2020 Share Posted March 14, 2020 Yeah that happens to me in a lot of games. Seems like especially really good ones for scoring points! As soon as I get suddenly better at the game, then my efforts to duplicate the new skill just get me killed over & over and then I'm crappier at the game for a while. Space Fury: 38,370 I love these vector games! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariWarlord Posted March 14, 2020 Share Posted March 14, 2020 I feel a little guilty for having suggested Space Fury, or at least in the process not suggesting a more reasonable difficulty setting. I originally played it on the Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/arcade_spacfury where it defaults immutably to "Easy." It's already pretty hard on that setting. TBH, I'm struggling with it like mad on "Normal" right now as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ramses Posted March 14, 2020 Share Posted March 14, 2020 1 hour ago, AtariWarlord said: Pengo 20,380. Does anyone else experience the phenomenon of getting a good score (or at least hitting a milestone, in my case getting 20K in Pengo) and immediately going back only to find you're absolutely useless at the game? I think it may just be fatigue. Yeah, that's happening to me a lot with Pengo. It's one of those games with a lot of randomness, so you can't really memorize the levels. I also find the AI to be difficult to predict at times. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.BAZ Posted March 14, 2020 Share Posted March 14, 2020 Pengo: 27,940 Isn't there a way to use those egg-blocks for bonus pts? Rygar: 158,100 Space Fury improvement!: 42,600 Made it to battling all forces at once. Personally I don't mind the difficulty at all! It's hard as hell, like an arcade game should be x) Makes it exciting! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariWarlord Posted March 14, 2020 Share Posted March 14, 2020 Sigh -- Space Fury 13,000. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cynicaster Posted March 20, 2020 Author Share Posted March 20, 2020 As a reminder, this round is still ongoing; you have until Sunday 11:59pm PST to get your best scores in! Hope everyone is managing OK in the current chaos. We cut our vacation short by 4 days and flew home to start our 2-week quarantine. The plan is still to start the final round of the season on Monday, which will also consist of multiple games and have a longer duration. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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