grumble, I finish at 17:30
Malc
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| Author: | sdg [ Thu Oct 22, 2009 22:33 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 8 Bit Challenge - Season 3 |
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. |
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| Author: | chinnyhill10 [ Thu Oct 22, 2009 23:39 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 8 Bit Challenge - Season 3 |
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. |
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| Author: | devilman [ Thu Oct 22, 2009 23:46 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 8 Bit Challenge - Season 3 |
chinnyhill10 wrote: 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. |
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| Author: | chinnyhill10 [ Thu Oct 22, 2009 23:55 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 8 Bit Challenge - Season 3 |
devilman wrote: chinnyhill10 wrote: 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. |
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| Author: | Malc [ Fri Oct 23, 2009 0:46 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 8 Bit Challenge - Season 3 |
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 |
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| Author: | chinnyhill10 [ Fri Oct 23, 2009 11:19 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 8 Bit Challenge - Season 3 |
Last few hours for some easy points here. |
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| Author: | Joans [ Fri Oct 23, 2009 13:33 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 8 Bit Challenge - Season 3 |
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. |
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| Author: | Joans [ Fri Oct 23, 2009 13:57 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 8 Bit Challenge - Season 3 |
8600. Never again. |
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| Author: | Malc [ Fri Oct 23, 2009 14:07 ] |
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Joans wrote: 8600. Never again. bah, when does this end? I might need to try and beat that score after work... Malc |
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| Author: | zaphod79 [ Fri Oct 23, 2009 14:17 ] |
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Malc wrote: Joans wrote: 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 |
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| Author: | Malc [ Fri Oct 23, 2009 14:29 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 8 Bit Challenge - Season 3 |
grumble, I finish at 17:30 Malc |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Fri Oct 23, 2009 14:39 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 8 Bit Challenge - Season 3 |
Bah. This didn't work very well in the emulator thingy, but at least I hit a few people: Attachment: wotef.png So, 3200. |
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| Author: | chinnyhill10 [ Fri Oct 23, 2009 18:09 ] |
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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 |
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| Author: | chinnyhill10 [ Fri Oct 23, 2009 18:41 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 8 Bit Challenge - Season 3 |
[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 |
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| Author: | chinnyhill10 [ Fri Oct 23, 2009 20:54 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 8 Bit Challenge - Season 3 |
Here's the cart as the CPC site appears to be having problems redirecting people to NVG again: Attachment: pangc.zip BTW alll copies of the cart online come from my cart, just as Navy Seals did. Spook! |
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| Author: | Malc [ Fri Oct 23, 2009 21:03 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 8 Bit Challenge - Season 3 |
any idea of the controls? Malc |
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| Author: | chinnyhill10 [ Fri Oct 23, 2009 21:08 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 8 Bit Challenge - Season 3 |
Malc wrote: 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. |
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| Author: | chinnyhill10 [ Fri Oct 23, 2009 21:10 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 8 Bit Challenge - Season 3 |
102000 Attachment: score.jpg I'm rusty. 
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| Author: | Malc [ Fri Oct 23, 2009 22:09 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 8 Bit Challenge - Season 3 |
first game 47650 Malc |
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| Author: | chinnyhill10 [ Fri Oct 23, 2009 22:13 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 8 Bit Challenge - Season 3 |
131550 Still rusty. Attachment: score.jpg
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| Author: | Malc [ Fri Oct 23, 2009 23:03 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 8 Bit Challenge - Season 3 |
I think I have plateaued for tonight Malc |
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| Author: | devilman [ Sat Oct 24, 2009 17:56 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 8 Bit Challenge - Season 3 |
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. |
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| Author: | chinnyhill10 [ Sat Oct 24, 2009 18:44 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 8 Bit Challenge - Season 3 |
devilman wrote: 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. |
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| Author: | devilman [ Sat Oct 24, 2009 19:00 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 8 Bit Challenge - Season 3 |
chinnyhill10 wrote: devilman wrote: 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? |
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| Author: | chinnyhill10 [ Sat Oct 24, 2009 20:15 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 8 Bit Challenge - Season 3 |
devilman wrote: 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. |
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| Author: | chinnyhill10 [ Sun Oct 25, 2009 0:38 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 8 Bit Challenge - Season 3 |
Slight improvement 138700. Oddly like Devilman I got to Australia but my score was nowhere near as high as previously! Attachment: 8bit.jpg
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| Author: | Malc [ Sun Oct 25, 2009 10:00 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 8 Bit Challenge - Season 3 |
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 |
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| Author: | Malc [ Mon Oct 26, 2009 0:16 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 8 Bit Challenge - Season 3 |
89000 Malc |
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| Author: | Joans [ Mon Oct 26, 2009 8:56 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 8 Bit Challenge - Season 3 |
138150. |
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| Author: | Joans [ Mon Oct 26, 2009 10:33 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 8 Bit Challenge - Season 3 |
Hmm, this game seems to be a bit bugged. I'm not sure if it's the rom, the emulator (winAPE 2.0 alpha  or something I've managed to do, but when I played the other day, I seemed to start a new game with my score carrying over from the previous game. That didn't happen this morning, so I thought it was a one off, but I've just started a new game with a score of over 500000.
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| Author: | chinnyhill10 [ Mon Oct 26, 2009 11:16 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 8 Bit Challenge - Season 3 |
Joans wrote: Hmm, this game seems to be a bit bugged. I'm not sure if it's the rom, the emulator (winAPE 2.0 alpha or something I've managed to do, but when I played the other day, I seemed to start a new game with my score carrying over from the previous game. That didn't happen this morning, so I thought it was a one off, but I've just started a new game with a score of over 500000. No idea. Remember that is *my* cart that is online and I have never ever seen this happen. It must be an emulator bug but I was also playing on Winape as well |
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| Author: | Joans [ Mon Oct 26, 2009 12:01 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 8 Bit Challenge - Season 3 |
146500. I was at 0 when I started. |
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| Author: | Joans [ Mon Oct 26, 2009 13:59 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 8 Bit Challenge - Season 3 |
It looks like it's scoring during the attract mode and then starting with that score. Load the cartridge and start the game straight away, the score starts at 0. Reset and wait for the tutorial to start, as soon as he's shot the first bubble, start the game. You'll start with 50 points. If you leave it a really long time, you can start the game like this: Attachment: pang-bug.png  Does this happen for everyone, or just me? |
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| Author: | devilman [ Mon Oct 26, 2009 14:03 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 8 Bit Challenge - Season 3 |
You wouldn't find such shoddy workmanship in the Spectrum version.  I doubt I'll play this again as the collision detection isn't as precise as in Mame so it's rather a frustrating experience. |
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| Author: | chinnyhill10 [ Mon Oct 26, 2009 14:04 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 8 Bit Challenge - Season 3 |
Joans wrote: Does this happen for everyone, or just me? Will try it later. If it does I hadn't noticed as I probably haven't watched the tutorial since 1990! Load it up, press fire, off I go. |
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| Author: | chinnyhill10 [ Mon Oct 26, 2009 14:08 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 8 Bit Challenge - Season 3 |
devilman wrote: You wouldn't find such shoddy workmanship in the Spectrum version. I doubt I'll play this again as the collision detection isn't as precise as in Mame so it's rather a frustrating experience. It is slightly dodgy which can be frustrating but it is a decent conversion. The Speccy version is ported from the CPC so you may actually find it has the same bug (if its not the emulator doing it)! I'm finding it harder in the emulator than it ever was on the console. Possibly display lag on LCD's making it a problem. Splat was the same, the only way to get a decent score was to use the Macbooks built in display and keyboard. The wireless keyboard and external LCD really impacted my scores. |
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| Author: | Joans [ Mon Oct 26, 2009 14:10 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 8 Bit Challenge - Season 3 |
chinnyhill10 wrote: Joans wrote: Does this happen for everyone, or just me? Will try it later. If it does I hadn't noticed as I probably haven't watched the tutorial since 1990! Load it up, press fire, off I go. It's just because I've been loading it, having a go, then leaving it open and doing other things before having another go and wondering why I have a giant score. As for the collision detection, the person responsible should be tied to a chair and shot, except the bullet should miss by a few inches. The relief on their face turning to horror as the blood starts to soak through their shirt because, actually, the bullet pierced their heart. |
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| Author: | chinnyhill10 [ Mon Oct 26, 2009 14:14 ] |
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Joans wrote: As for the collision detection, the person responsible should be tied to a chair and shot, except the bullet should miss by a few inches. The relief on their face turning to horror as the blood starts to soak through their shirt because, actually, the bullet pierced their heart. To be fair, sometimes the balls brush past and you don't die. So it is swings and roundabouts. Oddly its far more evident on a PC monitor than it ever was on a TV. |
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| Author: | ltia [ Mon Oct 26, 2009 16:25 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 8 Bit Challenge - Season 3 |
I've noticed the bad collision detection, too. It was quite common in them there days. This of course has nothing to do with the fact that I'm utterly shit at Pang. I haven't even bothered posting a score yet. |
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| Author: | chinnyhill10 [ Mon Oct 26, 2009 16:55 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 8 Bit Challenge - Season 3 |
ltia wrote: I've noticed the bad collision detection, too. It was quite common in them there days. This of course has nothing to do with the fact that I'm utterly shit at Pang. I haven't even bothered posting a score yet. Well indeed. And it would have been the first game the developers would have been using the hardware sprites on the CPC Plus/GX4000. Think I can forgive alot for that frankly. |
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| Author: | Malc [ Mon Oct 26, 2009 20:40 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 8 Bit Challenge - Season 3 |
I got over 100,000 but I didn't get an extra life Malc |
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| Author: | chinnyhill10 [ Mon Oct 26, 2009 20:58 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 8 Bit Challenge - Season 3 |
Malc wrote: I got over 100,000 but I didn't get an extra life Malc You only get the extra life at the end of the level you reach 100,000 on. |
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| Author: | Malc [ Mon Oct 26, 2009 21:05 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 8 Bit Challenge - Season 3 |
chinnyhill10 wrote: Malc wrote: I got over 100,000 but I didn't get an extra life Malc You only get the extra life at the end of the level you reach 100,000 on.  obs:it was the first time I'd got on to that level and I paniced a bit, but I thought NM I've got an extra life now! Malc |
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| Author: | ltia [ Tue Oct 27, 2009 16:02 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 8 Bit Challenge - Season 3 |
 103150 Hell yeah. That's well good for me. |
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| Author: | Malc [ Tue Oct 27, 2009 22:33 ] |
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Finally got past that level! 127,500 Malc |
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| Author: | chinnyhill10 [ Wed Oct 28, 2009 23:03 ] |
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Gah, I'm stuck. Can't better my score. Where's Zaphod. Is he on his way to completing the game and posting a score ten times more than we have? |
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| Author: | Malc [ Wed Oct 28, 2009 23:14 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 8 Bit Challenge - Season 3 |
Gah, can't even get off the first 3 maps without losing 2/3 lives tonight. Can't concentrate! Will give this a final bash tomorrow evening! Malc |
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| Author: | chinnyhill10 [ Wed Oct 28, 2009 23:19 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 8 Bit Challenge - Season 3 |
Malc wrote: Gah, can't even get off the first 3 maps without losing 2/3 lives tonight. Can't concentrate! Will give this a final bash tomorrow evening! Malc Daft isn't it? Just for fun (not for scoring) I started at India as I used to back in the day. Wanted to see how I could play it from memory. Walked it right through to the London final level despite Leningrad having a bastard second level if you get it wrong. London level 3 defeated me but IIRC one time I got as far as New York. Ironically when you get to India you get more invincibility drops which seem to be lacking in the earlier levels. The earlier levels suffer from lots of the boxes that cause all the balls to explode. + one of the levels sometimes has a habit of dropping a catapult at the wrong moment meaning you can't always finish the level. |
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| Author: | zaphod79 [ Wed Oct 28, 2009 23:37 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 8 Bit Challenge - Season 3 |
chinnyhill10 wrote: Where's Zaphod. Is he on his way to completing the game and posting a score ten times more than we have? I haven't even loaded it up yet , a busy week with other stuff and i have this and Boulderdash to play for the retro league - i'll have a quick game of this now and see what score i end up with |
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| Author: | chinnyhill10 [ Wed Oct 28, 2009 23:40 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: 8 Bit Challenge - Season 3 |
zaphod79 wrote: chinnyhill10 wrote: Where's Zaphod. Is he on his way to completing the game and posting a score ten times more than we have? I've almost completed the game and have a score of ten billion billion billion. See you behind me on the leaderboard suckers! FTFY. 
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