Cynicaster Posted July 27, 2020 Share Posted July 27, 2020 (edited) This round's game 1 of 2: Alien vs. Predator ROM Name: Alien vs. Predator (USA 940520) ROM File: avspu Picked by: youxia DIP settings (changes from default shown in RED ) Internal defaults. This round's game 2 of 2: Defender ROM Name: Defender (Red Label) ROM File: defender Picked by: MAME Offender DIP settings (changes from default shown in RED ) Twin Galaxies marathon settings. These should be already set as default, unless you have changed them some time in the past. Difficulty: 5 (moderate) Bonus life: 10,000 Lives: 3 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 , August 9 at 11:59pm PST Previous Round Results: Renegade hero2billions 224,250 100.0% Cynicaster 82,450 36.8% MAME Offender 77,700 34.6% Razzie.P 28,000 12.5% youxia 26,950 12.0% AtariWarlord 18,050 8.0% S.BAZ 6,550 2.9% Floyd Turbo 5,350 2.4% roadrunner 3,350 1.5% jblenkle 1,150 0.5% Twin Cobra MAME Offender 975,260 100.0% Razzie.P 488,490 50.1% Cynicaster 294,820 30.2% S.BAZ 242,290 24.8% youxia 166,140 17.0% Floyd Turbo 130,930 13.4% roadrunner 104,300 10.7% AtariWarlord 94,940 9.7% hero2billions 77,570 8.0% jblenkle 23,800 2.4% Standings to Date: 1 Razzie.P 65.64% 2 MAME Offender 38.01% 3 Cynicaster 33.67% 4 hero2billions 33.38% 5 S.BAZ 23.37% 6 youxia 19.13% 7 AtariWarlord 10.77% 8 Floyd Turbo 6.94% 9 roadrunner 5.19% 10 jblenkle 2.54% avspu.zip defender.zip Edited July 27, 2020 by Cynicaster Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted July 27, 2020 Share Posted July 27, 2020 Good picks for this round. Cool Defender rom history here https://www.thedefenderproject.com/defender-rom-versions-the-history/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariWarlord Posted July 27, 2020 Share Posted July 27, 2020 I don't see any dip switch options for Defender. Is there a way to check these just to make sure they're correct? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cynicaster Posted July 27, 2020 Author Share Posted July 27, 2020 1 hour ago, AtariWarlord said: I don't see any dip switch options for Defender. Is there a way to check these just to make sure they're correct? With Defender and other Williams games you can’t change DIPs using the tab menu in MAME; you have to follow some convoluted method of holding down F2 during startup and blah blah blah... I forget the details, honestly. Unless you think there’s some chance that you followed that process in the past to change settings then you will be ok. That’s pretty much why I went with default settings because I don’t want everyone struggling with the setup. If you want to be absolutely sure, you can just delete defender.cfg which will force it back to defaults. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hero2billions Posted July 27, 2020 Share Posted July 27, 2020 a vs p 332,000 looks like there is a lot to this game defender 1,675 Did I just self destruct? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jblenkle Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 Alien vs. Predator - 71,900 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariWarlord Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 (edited) Defender 8,950. Cynicaster, I deleted defender.cfg to ensure I'm working with the same settings as everyone else. Alien vs Predator 368,100. Edited July 28, 2020 by AtariWarlord Added Alien vs Predator score Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.A.M.E Offender Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 Ah yes. Defender. The only reason I may have a fairly decent score is from the extreme amount of playing time in the past. I can't wait to get into ol Defender. MO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cynicaster Posted July 28, 2020 Author Share Posted July 28, 2020 I'm usually pretty good for just accepting that difficulty is part and parcel to arcade games, and dealing with it. But for me, Defender is a whole other level from most games. It transcends "difficult" and flirts with "punishing." I struggle to muster the motivation to even try with it anymore, to be honest. So I'll probably just post the same old 20k-ish score I get every time I try to play this game, and be done with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.A.M.E Offender Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 Wow. I had to blow the dust off of Defender. I havent played in awhile, and I managed to get to Board 5 after about 2 hours of playtime!! 56,925 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youxia Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 (edited) Three brawlers in a row, nice. The RNG god will probably only draw labyrinth games from now on though ? I wasn't any good at arcade games back in the day, and these few times I tried to play Defender (it was in my local) I maybe got past the first wave max, being bewildered by its many buttons and insane pace. And yet, I always knew it's a special game, one of the best action titles ever, kinda reminding me of Quake when it comes to offering you the absolute control of the gameflow and demanding you are in the zone at all times. I got it from watching my classmate, who somehow was a Defender pro, despite being as poor as the rest of us and having no console or micro to practice on. This guy could play forever on one credit and it was the first (and last?) time ever I saw somebody resetting the score, multiple times. Watching him do all the impossible stuff in this game was an incredible experience. I've never played it since, dismissing the idea as ridiculous. But now, after my arcade rebirth...ha. Maybe I'll get to Wave 3 at least Edited July 28, 2020 by youxia 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariWarlord Posted July 28, 2020 Share Posted July 28, 2020 6 hours ago, Cynicaster said: I'm usually pretty good for just accepting that difficulty is part and parcel to arcade games, and dealing with it. But for me, Defender is a whole other level from most games. It transcends "difficult" and flirts with "punishing." I struggle to muster the motivation to even try with it anymore, to be honest. So I'll probably just post the same old 20k-ish score I get every time I try to play this game, and be done with it. Twenty thousand-ish is better than 99 per cent of the world's population could ever accomplish on Defender. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Floyd Turbo Posted July 29, 2020 Share Posted July 29, 2020 (edited) Alien Vs. Predator - 356,200. Defender - 4,375 Edited August 4, 2020 by Floyd Turbo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariWarlord Posted July 29, 2020 Share Posted July 29, 2020 Defender 15,000. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hero2billions Posted July 29, 2020 Share Posted July 29, 2020 On 7/28/2020 at 9:43 AM, Cynicaster said: I'm usually pretty good for just accepting that difficulty is part and parcel to arcade games, and dealing with it. But for me, Defender is a whole other level from most games. It transcends "difficult" and flirts with "punishing." I struggle to muster the motivation to even try with it anymore, to be honest. So I'll probably just post the same old 20k-ish score I get every time I try to play this game, and be done with it. My combined score from 5 games doesn't make 20,000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razzie.P Posted July 29, 2020 Share Posted July 29, 2020 Alien V Predator -- 633,100 If time allows, I think I can get deep into this one. Maybe finish it ? My first few runs on Defender seemed pretty hopeless, though. I've only played the 2600 version, so I figured it'd be about the same. Yeah... it ain't Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cynicaster Posted July 30, 2020 Author Share Posted July 30, 2020 Defender - 24,875 AvP - 347,000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cynicaster Posted July 30, 2020 Author Share Posted July 30, 2020 Alien vs Predator is... a lot. Pretty cool game as far as the genre goes but not really being a beat-em-up fan it’s interesting how I find Renegade so much more interesting despite it being quite primitive by comparison. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.A.M.E Offender Posted July 30, 2020 Share Posted July 30, 2020 Here is a Defender video I put up 8 years ago. I hope it helps, dont mind the shifty camera. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razzie.P Posted July 30, 2020 Share Posted July 30, 2020 Alien V Predator -- 826,000 Defender -- 8,050 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razzie.P Posted July 30, 2020 Share Posted July 30, 2020 24 minutes ago, M.A.M.E Offender said: Here is a Defender video I put up 8 years ago. I hope it helps, dont mind the shifty camera. Well... now I'm even more embarrassed that I posted a 8,000 score. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jblenkle Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 Defender - 3,325 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 At first i couldn't get AvP to start was missing the Q Sound HLE Here it is if anyone needs it qsound_hle.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 AvP 368,100 Defender 8,275 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted July 31, 2020 Share Posted July 31, 2020 Alot of good AvP arcade game info here https://avp.fandom.com/wiki/Alien_vs._Predator_(1994_arcade_game) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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