MAME challenge 2010!

Zardoz · **Posted:** Wed Mar 10, 2010 17:50

That's all folks! Thanks for playing.

LEADERBOARD!

98 points - Klatrymadon
93 points - Zaphod79
91 points - Devilman
83 points - Grim...
68 points - The Vision
64 points - Zardoz (Hai Joans! I've pulled rank on our joint score LOLZ)
64 points - Joans
53 points- Bluecup
49 points - Malc74
20 points - Craster
20 points - Scarysheep3000
19 points - Craig
17 points - Chinnyhill10
16 points - Kalmar
9 points - Doctor Glyndwr
8 points - SuperDuperGill!
8 points - Wullie
0 points - Blucey
0 points - Curiosity
0 points - Nickachu
0 points - Romanista
0 points - RuySan

CURRENT SCORE COUNTER - Use "<>" brackets around your score to register!
http://www.beexcellenttoeachother.com/counter/mame.php

Games!

BLACK TIGER SCOREBOARD

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284,450 - Devilman
178,350 - Klatrymadon
169,500 - Zardoz
157,450 - Zaphod79
156,900 - Craig
133,900 - The Vision
109,950 - Joans
101,150- Bluecup
92,950 - Grim...
83,350 - Scarysheep3000
75,950 - Kalmar
38,650 - Doctor Glyndwr
36,750 - Malc74
29,800 - SuperDuperGill!
18,300 - Wullie
11,250 - Romanista
3,750 - Craster
0 - Blucey
0 - Chinnyhill10
0 - Curiosity
0 - Nickachu
0 - RuySan

OUT ZONE SCOREBOARD

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752,750 - Klatrymadon
576,080 - Grim...
492,390 - devilman
475,760 - zaphod79
195,160 - Malc74
155,570 - TheVision
135,030 - Zardoz
123,720 - Craig
114,060 - Scarysheep3000
101,750 - Joans
77,660 - Doctor Glyndwr
71,930 - Bluecup
49,490 - superdupergill
27,420 - Wullie
24,340 - kalmar
19,320 - Craster

KUNG FU MASTER SCOREBOARD

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154,470 - zaphod79
94,580 - Klatrymadon
93,110 - devilman
91,760 - Grim...
69,160 - TheVision
52,210 - Bluecup
41,940 - Joans
32,350 - kalmar
27,520 - Scarysheep3000
25,200 - Malc74
23,900 - Zardoz
8,000 - Craster

SPACE HARRIER SCOREBOARD

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15,998,010 - devilman
15,950,680 - Klatrymadon
8,251,770 - Zardoz
8,072,480 - chinnyhill10
7,956,490 - zaphod79
7,393,690 - Grim...
7,243,140 - TheVision
6,904,610 - Joans
3,158,800 - Malc74
3,029,840 - Bluecup
2,263,530 - Wullie
2,170,840 - Craster
1,762,340 - superdupergill
1,608,060 - kalmar

HYPER SPORTS SCOREBOARD

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106,630 - Zaphod79
83,940 - Grim...
77,900 - devilman
62,470 - Klatrymadon
57,640 - Joans
36,190 - TheVision
33,260 - Bluecup
19,520 - Zardoz

XEVIOUS SCORE BOARD

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239,190 - Klatrymadon
106,250 - Grim...
101,560 - zaphod79
85,020 - Malc74
84,990 - devilman
47,780 - TheVision
46,650 - Zardoz
41,190 - Joans
17,700 - Bluecup
15,380 - Craster
12,180 - chinnyhill10

BONGO SCORE BOARD

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226,750 - zaphod79
201,570 - Klatrymadon
201,120 - Joans
104,020 - Grim...
88,760 - devilman
71,450 - Malc74
38,800 - Bluecup
35,870 - TheVision
33,280 - Zardoz
7,120 - Craster

Rom Links:

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Black Tiger - "Blktiger.zip"
http://edgeemu.net/details-26110.htm

Out Zone - "Outzone.zip"
http://edgeemu.net/details-29657.htm

Kung Fu Master - "Kungfum.zip"
http://www.romnation.net/srv/roms/23560 ... aster.html

Space Harrier - "Sharrier.zip"
http://edgeemu.net/details-30915.htm

Hyper Sports - "Hyperspt.zip"
http://www.romnation.net/srv/roms/56432 ... ports.html

Xevious - "Xevious.zip"
http://edgeemu.net/details-32497.htm

Bongo - "Bongo.zip"
http://www.romnation.net/srv/roms/55538 ... Bongo.html

Scoring!

15 points for 1st, 14 points for 2nd, etc.

Rules!

1 credit per play, no continues.
No autofire.
Feel free to post as many high score screenshots as you like during the 'week', your highest before midnight on the cut off date will be the one taken for the leaderboard.
Gentlemanly rules apply, no cheetzorz!
I will only answer you in this thread if you refer to me as 'Supreme Commander Zardoz'

devilman · **Posted:** Wed Mar 10, 2010 17:52

I'm in. Do you want the game suggestions now too?

Zardoz · **Posted:** Wed Mar 10, 2010 17:54

Yeah, why not.

Can we sticky this thread for a few days please mods?

Grim... · **Posted:** Wed Mar 10, 2010 17:57

I'm in.
I nominate

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Kung Fu Master

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devilman · **Posted:** Wed Mar 10, 2010 17:59

Ok. I'll go for 'Out Zone'.

Grim... wrote:

I'm in.
I nominate

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Kung Fu Master

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Ooh.. good choice.

nickachu · **Posted:** Wed Mar 10, 2010 18:13

What's MAME?

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

I nominate, er, me.

But be warned, people saying "yes" now is different from them playing. If I take the number of people who nominate games for the 8 Bit Challenge, only half of them will play on a good week.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Wed Mar 10, 2010 18:17

Nickachu, MAME is an arcade emulator that will run on pretty much any Mac or PC

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAME

nickachu · **Posted:** Wed Mar 10, 2010 18:18

If I can get my piece of shite computer to run it (it struggles to open firefox sometimes) then count me in.

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14512

Count me in , and as per the other thread I'm glad to help out in any way I can

I'll nominate "Hyper Sports" as my choice :-)

Nick i'm sure you can run MAME on your machine although the older / less powerful it is the harder it'll be to get it going , and you may need to 'work at it' to get some things running but it *will* work if you can stick with it

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14512

If you've never tried MAME heres a very quickly knocked together set of instructions (spoilered for size)

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Heres some basics on running MAME on a PC (note you can run mame on just about anything - it will run on PC / Mac / Unix / a hacked PSP / or lots of other mobile devices - I have a Dingoo A320 which runs mame reasonably well and can be carried around in my pocket).

Download MAMEUI from the download link here :

http://www.vg-network.com/mameui-32bitu/

Once downloaded run the file and give it a valid directory to place the files into (c:\ would be fine it creates a subdirectory called MAMEUI32 wherever you extract it to)

Grab the ROMS from a game - officially you should own the arcade cabinet and use a rom reader to get them but .... heres Grim...'s nomination

http://www.romnation.net/srv/roms/23560 ... aster.html

Click on 'download this rom' and when it asks where you want to save it drop it into the 'ROMS' folder under MAMEUI32

Go into the MAMEUI32 folder and double click on MAMEUI32.exe

You'll get a screen like this

There are a couple of ways to do the next bit my suggestion is go just scroll down the central window (the main part is in alphabetical order) until you find Kung-Fu Master and double click it
You get a loading screen , then a message about pressing 'ok' (type 'ok' on the keyboard) and the game will start up.

You might get garbage on the screen for a few seconds (which is what would actually be shown on the real arcade machine when you turned it on) then the machine will start the attract mode.

To play press 5 to insert a coin , 1 for 1 player start and the arrows + ctrl/alt are your two buttons
You can define these by pressing <tab> and setting the keys you want or you can define your joystick
To grab a screenshot at any point press F12 (screenshots are dropped into the 'snap' folder) and to exit press escape

Malc74 · **Posted:** Wed Mar 10, 2010 22:59

Count me in! I am, of course, going to nominate a shmup.
Hmm, Xevious it is!

Scarysheep3000 · **Posted:** Thu Mar 11, 2010 8:32

I'm up for this. Will get back to you with my game suggestion.

TheVision · **Posted:** Thu Mar 11, 2010 9:00

I would like to play.. don't know what game yet though..

Joans · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8653

Me too please, and I'll do my best not to forget about it every other week like I did last time. Haven't played mame for ages, so I'll have to have a think about a game to suggest.

Blucey · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 1975

Grim... wrote:

Kung Fu Master

I did a MAME tournoi with a mate and KFM came up. I romped through the first level and eventually came a cropper on the midget bit of level 2. I then failed with my remaining lives to beat the level (cos I suck at KFM - even though I love it).

My mate died three times on the first boss and beat my score by virtue of the first level being more points heavy.

ARGH.

I should pick Contra given that I maxed it on XBLA but I'll go the spiffy-but-ancient platformer Bongo.

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu Mar 11, 2010 12:49

If no-one picks that ace schmup that we played last time I'll be upset. DoDonPistachio or something.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Thu Mar 11, 2010 12:52

Have they managed to get Mr Dave simulator Boong-Ga Boong-Ga working in this yet? If so, I'll play.

Blucey · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 1975

Grim... wrote:

If no-one picks that ace schmup that we played last time I'll be upset. DoDonPistachio or something.

it totally rocks.

I played THE ARSE off of it at Insert Coin 09. And then got banned from there for calling the organiser a cunt.

Lolz.

RuySan · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 3542

i'm in

kalmar · **Posted:** Thu Mar 11, 2010 15:13

Stickzored

I'd like to say I'd be in but as I probably won't have time, I won't.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Thu Mar 11, 2010 15:15

No time? Some weeks in last years Tournament I only played for 30 mins just to try the game out and get a screenshot of my score.

I'll put you down as a maybe :luv:

MrChris · **Joined:** 1st Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 30498

Bloody hell - the graphics on these things are *rubbish*. No thanks - they can't be any good.

kalmar · **Posted:** Thu Mar 11, 2010 15:18

Meh. OK then. But if Mame requires more than double clicking on it and then choosing the game from a list, I'm definitely out.

DavPaz · **Joined:** 27th Jun, 2008 **Posts:** 38604

Pff. Retro's not hetro.

But seriously. No thanks. I'm not reliable.

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14512

Blucey wrote:

I did a MAME tournoi with a mate and KFM came up. I romped through the first level and eventually came a cropper on the midget bit of level 2. I then failed with my remaining lives to beat the level (cos I suck at KFM - even though I love it)..

Kungfu Master was the 2nd arcade game i owned (i had a wonderboy Jamma cap and bought KFM as a board to swap)

I can get to the end boss but have never beaten him (i got killed by him the last time we played it in the Retro League :

http://s11.zetaboards.com/RetroLeague/s ... 8&t=474734

And as i reminded myself reading that thread i loved the fact on the C64 one for the first level you could pull out a gun and shoot the baddies :-)

Grim... wrote:

If no-one picks that ace schmup that we played last time I'll be upset. DoDonPistachio or something.

One of the advantages of these type of things are those old games which you've never heard of which come up - this season we played a weird shootemup which was quite fun with magic dragons called "Cyvern"

http://s11.zetaboards.com/RetroLeague/topic/7249097/1/

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49237

kalmar wrote:

Stickzored

Not for a month of talking about it then 8 weeks of playing games, surely?

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

I want Space Harrier and anyone who disagrees with me should PM me their address so I can spit in their cornflakes.

That is all.

kalmar · **Posted:** Thu Mar 11, 2010 15:37

Craster wrote:

kalmar wrote:

Stickzored

Not for a month of talking about it then 8 weeks of playing games, surely?

No, for 6 months.

Or until Monday anyway (a few days to get signups, as requested).

Zardoz · **Posted:** Thu Mar 11, 2010 16:12

Craster wrote:

kalmar wrote:

Stickzored

Not for a month of talking about it then 8 weeks of playing games, surely?

Duh! Can't you read or sumink?

Just to get names. Before I create the sub forum.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Thu Mar 11, 2010 16:17

chinnyhill10 wrote:

I want Space Harrier and anyone who disagrees with me should PM me their address so I can spit in their cornflakes.

That is all.

I was going to choose that! So I'll go for Black Tiger as I've been umming and arring about it.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Thu Mar 11, 2010 16:23

1st post updated with participants and game choices.

I'll close the list on Monday if thats ok and we'll get cracking on Tuesday next week.

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu Mar 11, 2010 16:24

A POINT FOR DISCUSSION: Is 12+ weeks too long?

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

Grim... wrote:

A POINT FOR DISCUSSION: Is 12+ weeks too long?

Probably a tad.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Thu Mar 11, 2010 16:26

I don't think so, but I suppose we could just play with the game people have already submitted to keep it shorter maybe?

Zardoz · **Posted:** Thu Mar 11, 2010 16:27

7 weeks then? That's what we have so far.

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

8 Bit Challenge is usually 9. I just checked. I think that is a better figure otherwise it just goes on forever,

Zardoz · **Posted:** Thu Mar 11, 2010 16:29

Right as I'm in charge it's those 7 games for 7 weeks in that order!

Ok?

chinnyhill10 · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 15695

Zardoz wrote:

Right as I'm in charge it's those 7 games for 7 weeks in that order!

Ok?

Zardoz · **Posted:** Thu Mar 11, 2010 16:39

1st post updated again! Can anyone think of anything else we should consider tourney wise?

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu Mar 11, 2010 16:40

Prizes!
Spot prizes for anyone that beats Zaphod at anything, too.

kalmar · **Posted:** Thu Mar 11, 2010 16:40

What's the prize?

edit: hmph

Zardoz · **Posted:** Thu Mar 11, 2010 16:42

Grim... wrote:

Prizes!
Spot prizes for anyone that beats Zaphod at anything, too.

Good man! Very generous of you.

Grim... · **Posted:** Thu Mar 11, 2010 16:43

K. DVD of your choice from Play.com* for winning.

*From whatever sale they happen to have on at the time

[edit]What?

Zardoz · **Posted:** Thu Mar 11, 2010 16:45

Overall winner gets a bottle of Trampagne shot all over them by my goodself on a podium. While Mr Dave dances.

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14512

A quick question on the titles as i cant see who nominated it but i assume they wanted Sega's "Congo Bongo" -

And not Jetsoft's Bongo :

I'm happy with either but Bongo is a significantly harder game

** Edit actually found it was Blucey and since the screeny i grabbed was off his site he probably wants the tough one - they had it in my local arcade for a few months but that was the only place I ever saw that or Dazzler / Cavelon / Excaliba (other Jetsoft games)

Zardoz · **Posted:** Thu Mar 11, 2010 17:15

That was Bluceys choice.

Blucey · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 1975

aye, just Bongo no Congo.

It's not the best game ever and it's a bit bollocksly hard in places but when I was wee I'd go into my local sweetshop and get a few games on it, a slush puppy and the latest issue of 'Scream!' - halycon days... *weep*.

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14512

Blucey wrote:

aye, just Bongo no Congo.

It's not the best game ever and it's a bit bollocksly hard in places but when I was wee I'd go into my local sweetshop and get a few games on it, a slush puppy and the latest issue of 'Scream!' - halycon days... *weep*.

I'd echo its a bit bollocksly hard , i remember the uproar over how many 10ps it used to take to get through about 3 screens or so on it , but its a solid game - the only other oddity i remember about it is that i think MAME only gives you two lives (the one in my local arcade gave 3) , although i havent played it in quite a while

sdg · **Posted:** Thu Mar 11, 2010 18:58

If the running of these games is as easy as Zaphod has made it sound then I'll play. When I run MAME are all these games automatically in there?

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