Redmiller Posted May 14, 2020 Share Posted May 14, 2020 PACMAN - 4238 MS PACMAN - 37000 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austinblair Posted May 14, 2020 Share Posted May 14, 2020 First post. Not the best at vintage games but I’ll join in if that’s ok. pacman. 1603. gonna shoot for better. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nads Posted May 14, 2020 Share Posted May 14, 2020 (edited) Better late than Never Here is my first effort at a tutorial the details are in the Video, but basically you start to use these when you hit Maze 5, and as Garrett mentioned if the pattern doesn't work out you need to have a contingency plan. Hope this helps! Edited May 14, 2020 by nads 9 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheActivisionary Posted May 14, 2020 Share Posted May 14, 2020 (edited) Ms. Pac-Man: 88910 Edited May 15, 2020 by TheActivisionary Improved score but didn’t want to clog up the thread with more posts 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austinblair Posted May 15, 2020 Share Posted May 15, 2020 Me pac man 31980 had a lot of resets within a minute. But once I got in the zone this score came nicely. I didn’t think I would score this well on this game. Cool deal. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Austinblair Posted May 15, 2020 Share Posted May 15, 2020 4 hours ago, nads said: Better late than Never Here is my first effort at a tutorial the details are in the Video, but basically you start to use these when you hit Maze 5, and as Garrett mentioned if the pattern doesn't work out you need to have a contingency plan. Hope this helps! Thanks nads! 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrMooCowz Posted May 15, 2020 Share Posted May 15, 2020 I have both of these on cart, but I was being lazy. Fight me! Pac-Man: 3653 Ms. Pac-Man: 40390 2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rogerpoco Posted May 15, 2020 Share Posted May 15, 2020 Ms Pac-57,430 I may give it another go, first time playing it in forever, and is a good bit...better than Pac man, haha! 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gbag Posted May 15, 2020 Share Posted May 15, 2020 Pac man... 7,135 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vocelli Posted May 15, 2020 Author Share Posted May 15, 2020 Vocelli: PacMan: 6686 While not a bad game... it was my most disappointing game as a child. The poor hit detection made me so angry. Ms PacMan: 40310 Really good game! Put together very well. While I am not a Pac-Fan... I can appreciate a good game. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nester Posted May 15, 2020 Share Posted May 15, 2020 Getting better! My ghost hunting was a little off so it should’ve been even higher 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Larocque Posted May 15, 2020 Share Posted May 15, 2020 Pac-Man - 6,454 Ms. Pac-Man - 39,850 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CapitanClassic Posted May 15, 2020 Share Posted May 15, 2020 3 hours ago, Vocelli said: Vocelli: While not a bad game... it was my most disappointing game as a child. The poor hit detection made me so angry. This is the most annoying part of the Pac-man port, the collision detection is so different than the arcade. I cannot count the amount of times I was trying to wait to tne last millisecond to grab a power pill, but get caught by a ghost turning a corner. In the arcade, a ghost has to be nearly on top of you and you can can gain ground by cornering well. In the VCS version if any part of the ghost touches you, you're dead. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Atari_Warlord Posted May 15, 2020 Share Posted May 15, 2020 Some minor improvement for both games. Pac-Man = 4,106 Ms Pac-Man = 18,530 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClassicGMR Posted May 15, 2020 Share Posted May 15, 2020 (edited) Minor increases at best. Like I said I’m not good with these games. Pac-Man - 3083 Ms. Pac-Man - 32820 Edited May 15, 2020 by ClassicGMR 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CapitanClassic Posted May 15, 2020 Share Posted May 15, 2020 MsPacman improvement. CapitanClassic -63160 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheActivisionary Posted May 15, 2020 Share Posted May 15, 2020 3 hours ago, CapitanClassic said: This is the most annoying part of the Pac-man port, the collision detection is so different than the arcade. I cannot count the amount of times I was trying to wait to tne last millisecond to grab a power pill, but get caught by a ghost turning a corner. In the arcade, a ghost has to be nearly on top of you and you can can gain ground by cornering well. In the VCS version if any part of the ghost touches you, you're dead. In addition to the poor collision detection I also have found that sometimes wafers you eat when turning a corner aren’t registered as being eaten and you have to eat them a second time. This is especially frustrating when you’re on board #11 and there’s no room for error 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deteacher Posted May 15, 2020 Share Posted May 15, 2020 1 hour ago, TheActivisionary said: In addition to the poor collision detection I also have found that sometimes wafers you eat when turning a corner aren’t registered as being eaten and you have to eat them a second time. This is especially frustrating when you’re on board #11 and there’s no room for error That's kind of the beauty of my pattern...if/when that happens, you can continue on the pattern and grab the missed wafer at another point in the pattern. I'll try to make a video of my pattern and show you what I mean. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deteacher Posted May 15, 2020 Share Posted May 15, 2020 Ok, here's a video of the pattern I use. A few things: 1. There's no sound...sorry...my family was watching a movie so I disabled my mic. 2. The ghost flicker is terrible...I'm not a pro at shooting videos and I'm only using free software. (Nads' video is much nicer.) But you can see the pattern clearly. 3. In the 2 runs in the video, you'll see that PM missed a couple wafers each time. But it's easy to grab them later on in the pattern without screwing things up. Just keep on course and make the corrections along the way. Enjoy! 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nads Posted May 16, 2020 Share Posted May 16, 2020 (edited) 1 hour ago, Deteacher said: Ok, here's a video of the pattern I use. A few things: 1. There's no sound...sorry...my family was watching a movie so I disabled my mic. 2. The ghost flicker is terrible...I'm not a pro at shooting videos and I'm only using free software. (Nads' video is much nicer.) But you can see the pattern clearly. 3. In the 2 runs in the video, you'll see that PM missed a couple wafers each time. But it's easy to grab them later on in the pattern without screwing things up. Just keep on course and make the corrections along the way. Enjoy! Very Nice!! I really like it, looks to very risk free. It looks the reverse to what I do. The one thing you could improve on is, when you get to the power pellet wait a bit til the ghosts get closer, I used to do the same as you and run the boards til complete but it took nearly 2hrs to score 35k. That small pause ( and you seem to have plenty of time ) will net you more points as your path does follow the ghosts path as well. This is the best part about the HSC everyone trying to improve and share findings. Speaking of which any Ms Pac-Man tips??? I truly suck at that one LOL P.S. Use Alt + P to enable phosphor effect that stops the flicker somewhat Edited May 16, 2020 by nads 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fakecortex Posted May 16, 2020 Share Posted May 16, 2020 11 minutes ago, nads said: Speaking of which any Ms Pac-Man tips??? I truly suck at that one LOL Understanding that it is not the arcade game when it comes to (well, a lot, lol) but especially the ghost AI. I'm not having a lot of luck clustering the ghosts together, but I stay patient and go for what I can. I also found that Blinky (red, but who knows in this version since there's a green ghost haha) is faster than usual, especially when you're eating dots. Usually that slows you down, but here, it may as well be an instant death with Blinky on your tail. I try to clear out as much as I can before going for the power pellets (actually a tip in the manual) b/c of the slow speed while eating dots. It'll then give you more space to chase ghosts and run away from them. I wanna beat my score, even tho that'll make it harder for Stargate bonus points ? 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toiletunes Posted May 16, 2020 Share Posted May 16, 2020 71900 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evandro_ECM Posted May 16, 2020 Share Posted May 16, 2020 Pac-Man: 7.271 Ms. Pac-Man: 38.290 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheActivisionary Posted May 16, 2020 Share Posted May 16, 2020 6 hours ago, Deteacher said: Ok, here's a video of the pattern I use. A few things: 1. There's no sound...sorry...my family was watching a movie so I disabled my mic. 2. The ghost flicker is terrible...I'm not a pro at shooting videos and I'm only using free software. (Nads' video is much nicer.) But you can see the pattern clearly. 3. In the 2 runs in the video, you'll see that PM missed a couple wafers each time. But it's easy to grab them later on in the pattern without screwing things up. Just keep on course and make the corrections along the way. Enjoy! Thanks for posting this, it’s very helpful! I totally see what you mean with regard to the wafers, if you miss some you can pick them up later without much risk. If I find the time this weekend I might go for another rollage attempt. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason_Atari Posted May 16, 2020 Share Posted May 16, 2020 Improvements: Ms Pac-Man: 67,510 Pac-Man: 8,562 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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