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Hi all, I know this isn't a videogame forum, but a lot of you here are partial to the odd game. Something that is done regularly on the llamasoft forum I belong to is a videogame challenge, they all vote on a game to be the game for that week and they compete to see who can get the high score. It's best if we choose something old/freeware so people can easily get a copy. No prizes or anything like that, just a bit of fun. Put suggestions for titles here and we'll vote in a few days if people are interested: Astroblaster-\ Aphex related- samples Berzerker---/ used in Caustic Window... Pacman Mr Do. Bombjack |
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Astroblaster gets my vote. Where can I get a copy? |
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It runs on M.A.M.E. (see www.mame.dk for a copy of the software to run it) once we all agree on a game, I'll sort people out with the neccesary roms via soulseek/email... Kudos to Princo for giving me "Berzerk" last night. Such a good old game and (I think) one of the first to use synthesised speech. |
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Sweet as! |
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Yay, video games! My current highscore. Berzerk - 3860 |
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You can't start yet! That's cheating. |
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Wow. Syncronicity. Someone just told me about mame yesterday... I was quite literally about to preform a google search to find out what it was named (I knew it was kinda like maim but I had forgotten) this very minute. Cheers. |
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1900 :) Princo, any idea for other games to play/ a vote on the ones I mentioned? |
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FROGGER! |
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CHICKEN FIGHT LIKE A ROBOT!!!!! :-| *sample from 'berzerk'* Oh yeah.... Don't forget 54 Cymru Beats has a voice sample from 'Berzerk' in it aswell! :) Ceri - Its a tough nut to crack isnt it... but keep practising :) |
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Good one, will bear it in mind :) Taxi: It's really good, but it's a swine to get roms nowadays. Your best bet is to find someone who'll sell you a 10 CD complete set :) |
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I'm def. getting better at it and working out little strategies... I need to get GBA mame so I can practice at lunchtimes :) |
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Astroblaster is a cool old game ! (editor gremlin/sega) I vote for it. The rom size is 34 kb I think everybody interrested can receive it by e-mail. and if you want to compare your score to the best players go to . |
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A good, I don't have the samples, so I'll get them tonight :) Astroblaster is good, but I prefer pheenix (less AT related tho...) |
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Have you ever tried gyruss. This is another old classic instead of moving left/right like in any other game ; you move around the screen on a circle. This is mor trippy if you want my opinion. |
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Just looking at twingalaxies... saw this score at crazytaxi 2: Around Apple, Arcade Rules - PREMIERE EVENT $227,595.64 V Leto, Matt That is insane. The highest I have ever got is about $3500 and I have finished the game (apart from one crazy pyramid challenge) and consider myself "good" at it! |
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This topic is in my favourites. I'm going MAME hunting tonight. |
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Will have a look tonight. I have heard of it, I may of played it on the spectrum... |
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What kind of verificaton method ? It's easy to make a screen shot of a game you played with the cheats enabled... |
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I know, it's also easy to spend the time faking a screen dump rather than practicing. I guess you just have to rely on people's honesty. Seeing as there's no prize involved and it is a community here, I would hope no-one would be that unsporting... I'll check how they verify scores at llamasoft :) |
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We'll need to makes sure we're all using the same version of mame, then use a recording as verification- this will show real scores & also make all but the most subtle of cheating apparent... |
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Recording? Seriously? |
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If we reckon someone is cheating we can demand a recording to verify it (smallish files, they're not like MPGs!) there are ways to hack a recording, but it'd take longer than just practicing at the game... |
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They'd have to be pretty sad to lie on a MB about their score. I mean I got 10,000,000,000 on Astroblaster so I don't need to ;) |
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Soooooooooooo many games... :-| I was just playing Metal Slug.... that's one of my favourite 2 player games around :) |
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I remember the old good time when I recorded my mario cart best races with my VCR and spent nights with my friends to look at it. |
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Is it as good as Tease the 16 year old? |
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I know, I reckon proof should only be demanded if say, one person gets 10*the next highest score consistantly or we have reason to suspect they're cheating... Hopefully no one here would be that sad :) Anyway, I reckon berzerker or Astroblaster for first game due to rdj theme... anyone else go an opinion? |
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I did that on my NES... (Mach Rider i think) and convinced others that I was playing using my mind to control it ;) |
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Ah, metal slug x, 1 continue hard difficulty, highest score. That'd be a challenge. I'm reluctant to use neo-geo games (at least till this becomes a regular thing) as big DLs would exclude some poor 56k peeps! |
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metal slug 2 and 3 are the best ever. Such a shame that a company bought the rights after SNK died and made this uninspired metal slug 4 :( |
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Me being one of them. I can't download anything at work anymore. |
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anyone recommand a good and cheap USB pad with 6+ buttons. I'd really like to plug a neo-geo like joystick to my PC. |
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Tracking back a bit.. speaking of Frogger - My Favourite pub has Frogger and Gaplus both in table format! :D only problem is... people use them as regular tables :-/ "GET OFF!! I WANNA PLAY!" you'd say http://www.nationalhotel.com.au/entertainment/arcade.htm |
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excellent |
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and yeah, Neo-Geo ROM's can be up to 30+MB :-/ But I got them with my MAME order.. its was sweet, all I did was send this guy in Aus 10 Blank CD's and he filled them with MAME madness and a few other emulations :) |
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You can get circuit diagrams on how to re-wire classic console pads online. My mate re-wired a megadrive pad to work on the pc... Maybe get a saturn pad & rewire it? Best bet is an X-arcade joystick, but those babies ain't cheap :P |
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any url where I could find it. I'm interested. I know about the X-arcade ; a little bit expensive for me. |
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How good are you at electronics? You can build a similair (1P) arcade stick quite cheaply... Haven't got any urls here, I'll ask my mate tonight. |
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I vote berzerk as the first challenge? Anyone second that? |
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Seconded |
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bahh I've got a master degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering / I'm not extremely good at soldering but I have no fear for schematics. Where can I find the stick and buttons for my arcade stick. This is what I'm dreaming of but no way to find any good info about it. |
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Thirdedededed |
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Will post the url in 2 ticks... |
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gahh let's go for berzerk |
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Okay, it's final. First challenge will be highest score in bezerk on one continue. Anyone got any preference on dipswitch settings (let's make sure we're all playing with the same no. of live etc.)? |
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kewlll |
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exactly what I was looking for. Thx Thx. |
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I haven't touched any settings.... My theme song for the challange will be Humanoid - Stakker Humanoid :D I'm starting to play that song while playing Berzerk! ;) |
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