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Okay a bit more help and if your still stuck say where you have got to

For speccy stuff although you can play online in a java page i'd say its going to be easier to download and play it on your machine.
I cant remember if your using a PC or a mac , i think its a PC so instructions for a PC

Download the game file from WOS :

ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sincl ... he.tzx.zip

And put it somewhere you can find it

Download ZXSpin

http://www.zxspin.co.uk/zxspin.zip

Extract it all out into a fresh directory (c:\zxspin)
Go into that folder and double click on ZXspin.exe you should get this



Go to file / open and select the WayOfTheExplodingFistThe.tzx.zip (you dont need to unzip it or do anything else to it)

You should now have the game (in a smallish window) like this



Either hit the maximise button at the top of the window , or drag the window till its the size you want (if you drag the size click somewhere in the window to active it)

Press 0 to get the options menu and if then press 1 (player 1 options) then 4 (reconfigure keys)

Select the keys you want to use , i'd suggest picking a key as a fire button and then pick the rest around a 'circle' e.g. fire button L then using w e d c x z a q as the others (if you have a joystick i'd be slightly easier)

You'll return to the main screen press 1 to start
left / right move you , down ducks , up 'hop's pressing a direction plus fire does one move (without does a different one)
Some easy moves to start with
Up plus fire = jump kick
Down plus fire = foot sweep
Back plus fire = roundhouse
Forward plus fire = straight kick

If you find your not getting anywhere at all instead of pressing 1 to start press 2 , starts 2 player mode so the other person wont move or hit you so you can practice the hits you can do

58100

Fluke me do! Seems to stop getting harder after about 4th dan.

Excellent help there Zaphod, thank you. I have the game running now so I will give it a shot and see how I do. Thanks again, really appreciate it.

first go 2700 points

Malc

37300

10400

I have no screenshot but I got to 2nd Dan.

30100 (5th Dan)

But oddly the game is only showing the score from the previous game now. I don't understand!

My copy of speculator has expired and I cba to play in java. Need to get a good free emu pronto!

Malc

Can you get FUSE for Windows? Its good on the Mac.

ZXSpin is good

Mine did that once , so the next game i was very quick to grab the screenshot as soon as they got the 2nd 'point' against me

Mine did that it seems to work sometimes and not others. I just print screened when I died.

Also, I reckon the easiest way to play speccy games is at World of Spectrum, so long as you have java installed. That's how I did it, anyway. Assuming the game isn't owned by Rare, Codemasters or Capcom, anyway.

What are the keys? Cursors + Tab does nothing for me (although 1 starts the game).

I'm not reading one page ........

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4891&st=0&sk=t&sd=a&start=79

Press zero first to get the menu and you can define them to be what you want

30300

Or in most emulators you can map the joystick to keys which I found easier. Keyboard has too many keys.

Gah, can't better my score now.

One day to go on this slightly infuriating game.

I'm going to give this a mad bash after QT tonight. If I can't get a good score then pfft!

Malc

I have given it a few tries and have been monumentally rubbish. I want to be on the scoreboard though so if I don't post a score can be listed with a mysterious 0?

a lot of really low scoring matches in this one but a slightly better overall score :



40300

If you start the game , walk up and do a front kick to the other guy you'll score 100 or 200 points , that would get you last place on the scoreboard and 1 point (until someone else does this).

Even if you are rubbish the first guy doesnt really fight , i think holding up and fire would get you at least a few jump kicks in there to get 2nd to last place :-)

** edit** i just did that , held up and jump and didnt change anything , beat the first guy , won the 2nd match on a timeout (i hit him first time , he blocked so my guy just jumped to the other side and did nothing else) , won the 3rd match on a timeout as well and lost the fourth (he hit me first then it timed out - total score 6600 which would put you in 5th place for 2 points.

My character must be a true representation of myself because he always panics, punches or kicks the air and then collapses. Sometimes I'd swear the other guy hasn't even touched me so I must just pass out from fright.

Why oh why are we playing this instead of Yie Ar Kung Fu? I don't deny Fist was groundbreaking or is a good game, but for racking points up YAKF is far better.

Or IK+ for that matter. Actually, have you ever played Sai Combat? That's not bad either.

IIRC we did IK+ last year.

Pah,

I don't like this game much. I sometimes forget to press 1 to start the game and it takes me about 15 seconds before I realise I'm not controlling the character, that's how little control I have over the guy!

Malc

Last few hours for some easy points here.

This game is terrible, I seem to remember hating it years ago and I hate it now.
7300, I'm hoping to improve, but I'll post a screenshot when I give up.

8600. Never again.

bah, when does this end? I might need to try and beat that score after work...

Malc

5.00pm , its in the first post of the thread which Chinny keeps updated with the latest scores and tables :

viewtopic.php?f=3&t=4891&st=0&sk=t&sd=a

grumble, I finish at 17:30



Malc

Bah. This didn't work very well in the emulator thingy, but at least I hit a few people:

So, 3200.

Final Scores (Way of the Exploding Fist)

ltia - 58100
Zaphod - 40300
Devilman - 30300
Chinnyhill - 30100
Joans - 8600
Malc - 8300
Grim.. - 3200



League Table (Week 2)

1 - Zaphod - 16 points
2 - Malc - 11 points
3= - Itia - 10 points
3=- Chinny - 10 points
5 - Devilman - 8 points
6 - Joans - 6 points
7 - Rev Owen - 1 point

[wavey effect to go back in time]

It's late 1989 in an office in Brentwood. A bearded man sits at a desk while a hoard of suited people look on. For this is the boardroom of Amstrad PLC.

Anonymous besuited man: But Mr Sugar, it can't be done.

Sugar [slamming fist down on table]: I tell you it can.

Anonymous besuited man: But it will take years and millions of pounds of R&D

[suits all nod and mumble in agreement.]

Sugar: I want the best games console on the market, I want an Amstrad badge on it, I want it in the shops next September and it must sell for under £100.

Anonymous besuited man: And what shall we call this console.

Sugar: Call it the [dramatic pause] Amstrad GX4000.

[mumbled approval and nods all around]

Sugar: And I want the best games, all converted by experts. I saw this game the other week, Pang. Get Ocean to convert it, and make sure it's the best version of any home format.

Anonymous besuited man: But won't that be abit much on a 8 bit platform.

Sugar: I've thought of that. Take the arcade version and make it more "console". Ocean will know what I mean. Now gentleman. To work!

[group disperses]

[wavey effect to present]



This weeks game is Pang on the GX4000.



A fantastic conversion of the original scaled down and "consolised" for the GX4000. This is my favourite version although purists moan about the wrong tunes for some levels and slightly dodgy collision detection. But it's a great game and totally overlooked.

Downloady: http://tacgr.emuunlim.com/downloads/filedetail.php?recid=1888

It's a cartridge so you need to load it in as a cartridge from your file meny.

One small problem is you need to get 100000 to get a high score so we'll just trust you if you get less.

One proviso, you need to ensure you start from the first level because the game will let you start from anywhere up to India. Mount Fuji is the first level so we'll all start from there.

Enjoy. I

Here's the cart as the CPC site appears to be having problems redirecting people to NVG again:



BTW alll copies of the cart online come from my cart, just as Navy Seals did. Spook!

any idea of the controls?

Malc

Joystick only. So check your emulator for the joystick mapping keys. Arnold on the Mac is shit at this (it maps to keys my Macbook doesn't have) so I'm using Winape on the PC. Go to the input menu and redefine away. Remember to save your mappings for future use.

102000


I'm rusty.

first game

47650

Malc

131550

Still rusty.

I think I have plateaued for tonight

Malc

Chinny... am I missing something with the scoring system in this version? When I get to the level in your screenshot, I'm only at around 90k whereas you were at 130k.

165,800 from me though.

Time bonus I expect.

Hmm.. I dunno.. I'm no slouch, although I do tend to hammer the fire button at times.. maybe some kind of reward system for a minimal number of shots? Or do you hang around to kill the enemies too maybe?

The only bonuses I know of are time + the fruit.

Slight improvement 138700. Oddly like Devilman I got to Australia but my score was nowhere near as high as previously!

I think it depends on when you die. If you die near the end of clearing a level you've obviously scored points for nearly clearing that level. However, if you die at the beginning of the level, then you will not have got so many points.

Malc

89000

Malc

138150.