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HSC17 Round 7: LASER GATES + BLUE PRINT


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On 4/16/2020 at 12:40 AM, slx said:

Laser Gates 4.947, can't figure out best way to dock for more energy, so I always end up short of the first 6502...

 

 

Blueprint from Fanal keeps crashing when hit by the potted plant. (Those are pesky!) I tried Altirra 3.2 and Atari800MacX with OS/A, OS/B and XE settings. The attached version did not crash and I managed 15.000 points.

 

 

Blue-Print (v2).xex 16.24 kB · 4 downloads



Awesome! Thanks! :thumbsup: 

My file from Fandal kept crashing too

Blue Print

24,400


 

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I'm using my old multiboot menu copy of Blue Print but atarionline.pl has several versions.

 

@deteacher I think the first BP music is the one from Computer War :ponder: the others do sound familiar

 

One tip for Blue Print - pull down at the start of every go, you'll see why - life is much better now!

After a bunch of 20somethingK goes managed 59,650 (level 6 I think)

 

Laser Gates 98,417 died at the end of the 8th planet ?

 

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@mimo good to see your setup :thumbsup:

 

I've updated the first post with the instructions link for blueprint and added a link to laser gates instructions...

 

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Blue-Print: 52,550

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Slight improvement at Laser Gates: 73,705

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Here's a tip for Laser Gates:

Blast your way through one of those grey columns. Once you're on the other side, if there's nothing attacking you, turn around and strafe the column from the back. You'll earn points for every hole you punch into the column and you can do quite a bit of rapid-fire damage at close range. Just keep an eye out for enemies - you don't want them to sneak up on you when you're pointed in the wrong direction!

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Time for the first tables! After playing some of the big titles to start the season this round we gave a couple of the smaller games a chance for playdome, will start the next poll tomorrow with another theme based on selections from the games list!

 

first tables

Main R7 Table

using position points for the two games and showing HSC points - tied places based on total scores in the two games ;-)

  1st   therealbountybob          21  12pts
  2nd   McKong                           21  11pts
  3rd   graywest                          19  10pts
  4th   Deteacher                        16  9pts
  5th   mimo                               12  8pts
  6th   roadrunner                       10  7pts
  7th   slx                                     9  6pts
  8th   MagicMarc-er                     8  5pts
  9th   jblenkle                              8  4pts
 10th   RedThunder                       6  3pts
 11th   Caco                                 6  2pts
 12th   pusakat                             3  2pts

 

Laser Gates
  1st   therealbountybob      98,417    12
  2nd   graywest                      71,046    11
  3rd   McKong                         50,488    10
  4th   mimo                            41,788     9
  5th   MagicMarc-er                 41,538     8
  6th   Deteacher                      32,938     7
  7th   Caco                             29,277     6
  8th   RedThunder                   29,255     5
  9th   slx                                  4,947     4
 10th   roadrunner                     4,466     3
 11th   jblenkle                          3,460     2
 12th   pusakat                         2,642     1

 

Blue Print
  1st   McKong                      76,650    11
  2nd   therealbountybob         59,650    10
  3rd   Deteacher                    58,100     9
  4th   graywest                      52,550     8
  5th   roadrunner                   24,400     7
  6th   jblenkle                        17,800     6
  7th   slx                               15,000     5
  8th   McKong                       13,100     4
  9th   mimo                          11,250     3
 10th   pusakat                        6,300     2
 11th   RedThunder                  6,050     1

 

Also updated the Season 17 Current Standings - if I've missed anyone (or their points) please let me know :dunce:

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21 minutes ago, MagicMarc-er said:

I actually owned a Blue Print arcade game for several years. This is decent port. Here's my first shot. 52,000.

 

:thumbsup:

Possibly both of the games this round are more challenging on NTSC systems.

Thought the fastruntime does reduce the game doesn't seem to get much harder and there is not much variation.  Do you remember if the arcade ver had different layouts for the houses or any other features?

I did find a bug: I was hit by a flower pot at the same time as I assembled the last piece, the bits all fell off and I couldn't pick anything up (had 3 lives left) had to abort that go!

 

110,950

 

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Blueprint - 23400 pts

Laser Gates - 28473 pts

 

Both games are OK and if I can find more time, I'll play them some more but it is not like I skip work in order to play these games. Also the different screenshot quality is because I switched out my LCD for testing a CRT this week.

 

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14 hours ago, therealbountybob said:

Thought the fastruntime does reduce the game doesn't seem to get much harder and there is not much variation.  Do you remember if the arcade version had different layouts for the houses or any other features?

 

 

The layouts seem to be very similar to the arcade game.  While the falling flower pots are harder to avoid on the port, this version seems a bit easier than the arcade game in general.  On standard arcade settings Sneaky Pete shows up on the second screen rather than the third.  You also have more run time in the port (although you move generally faster in the arcade game when not running).

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7 hours ago, therealbountybob said:

Reached planet 9 on laser gates 111,300 , maybe this is a bit harder than I remembered!

 

Ok let's fire up the next poll :!:

Wait, how many planets are there?? I thought it ended after 8?

 

Edit: I guess it does go on... I died halfway through planet 10. And now my thumb hurts like hell from keeping it clamped on the fire button for 45 minutes straight. :-D

 

Laser Gates: 123,980

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Blue-Print: 76,250

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12 hours ago, graywest said:

Wait, how many planets are there?? I thought it ended after 8?

 

Edit: I guess it does go on... I died halfway through planet 10. And now my thumb hurts like hell from keeping it clamped on the fire button for 45 minutes straight. :-D

 

Laser Gates: 123,980

 

 

Blue-Print: 76,250

 

I thought it was 8 but perhaps it's 12 - I seem to rember completing it but maybe not! so planet 12 is the target which means I really need to be more careful about getting hit and watch out for the sneaky hidden energy docks in the middle of a gate ?

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