Bubble Bobble - The High scoring game

hamster

Well here is the arcade Bubble Bobble game from within Mame. Let us get some score!

* Starts now and ends on Sunday 15th July (if you are not tired of it by then)
* The aim of the game is to score as many points as possible.
* Post screenshots (not too big, suggest 320x200) in this thread. (ie example below)
* At the end, we'll tot up a score table. Excel, html or other...
* Don't cheat - what's the point anyway! - We know where you live!!!
Current Standings:




Bubble Bobble (c) 08/1986 Taito.
One or two players take on the role of Bub and Bob, two cute dinosaurs who must battle through 100 platform-packed levels and rescue their girlfriends. Bub and Bob are armed only with the ability to make bubbles, in which the game's many enemies can be trapped and killed. The bubbles can also be used as temporary platforms, to help the dinosaurs reach previously inaccessible areas of a level.



- SCORING -
Bursting a bubble : 10 points.
Killing one monster : 1, 000 points.
Killing two monsters at once : 2, 000 points.
Killing three monsters at once : 4, 000 points.
Points double for each extra monster killed at any one time.
Normal Fruit : 700 points.
Bonus Score Items (popcorn, burger etc) : 500 - 4, 000 points.

The guest list:
'Zen-Chan' (first appears in round 1)
'Mighta' (first appears in round 6)
'Monsta' (first appears in round 10)
'PulPul' (first appears in round 20)
'Banebou' (first appears in round 30)
'Hidegonsu' (first appears in round 40)
'Drunk' (first appears in round 50)
'Invader' (first appears in round 60)

Try any version of Mame. I just installed Mame32 0.115u4 (bublbobl).

hamster

My first attempt - 227,400 pts on level 14. My excuse, i) it's been awhile, ii) it's late iii) it's for fun.



My background with Bubble Bobble was the C64. Played it a bit as single player. Played a lot in 2 player games. Played a bit on the Amiga and haven't touched it since. The arcade version looks fab!

Ruu_Old

I need some practice. The image directory wasn't set so got stuck taking a screenshot that didn't work, came around the second time.

TinCool

Now here's a challenge Myself and my mate used to be able to clock this game with 1 credit each back in the day. No doubt, I won't get much past Level 14 either but I'll give it a bash.

TC

Duggy747

Game on! I'll have a pic up tomorrow morning. Haven't played this game in ages, grew up with it as we had it on the NES but when you play the arcade version it's completely different!

KdjaCL

The arcade version allows you to start with long bubbles and sneakers, allowed ?




I still know the code


kdjac

Hygro

How do you take screenshots in MAME?

Mcj metroid

oh oh i am so tring this but give me 1 week to finish my leaving:)

hamster

Hygro wrote:

How do you take screenshots in MAME?

Hi Hygro,

You can hit print screen key when you are viewing a score you are happy with. I use infranview myself (thanks for reminding me - it just hit version 4.00). Save and post it here or you could put it up on a photo site and put the image link here.

KdjaCL

bloody tiny on my monitor

Will get back into it and get the million later in the week


kdjac

hamster

KdjaCL wrote:

[IMG]Will get back into it and get the million later in the week kdjac[/img]

Kdjac, If you get a million - I'll need a bigger boat chief... I can see your screenshot from down the road. Sorry I couldn't resist.

Duggy747

Lo and behold, bow before your new god!!

djsim

Once my Bro finishes his leaving - Mcj metroid - we will play the game and beat ye all:D Clear the game with top score:D

TinCool

djsim wrote:

Once my Bro finishes his leaving - Mcj metroid - we will play the game and beat ye all:D Clear the game with top score:D

Only 1 player at a time dude. Can't play as a Team :cool:

KdjaCL

Duggy goes top, a million is easiesh should have it by level 50.

kdjac

hamster

Another day another go... there is definitely a lot more going on in the Arcade version. A lot of features (ie goodies) were left out on the c64 version I used.

519,130 points, round 18


I have a lot of improving to do.

djsim

I believe that DJ SIM is at the top of the bunch, my mother said I wasted too many 10p's on the machines, now who is laughing:D

Round 25 - Score 607560 - See bottom Link

I have attached a few screenshots of my journey:

Starting very well:



Getting Better:

http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa24/51castlepark/Bubble3.jpg

Busted:)

http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa24/51castlepark/Bubble4.jpg

Final Score:

http://i197.photobucket.com/albums/aa24/51castlepark/Bubble5.jpg

TinCool

Ah yes, the joys of the secret room. Diamonds a go go

brianon

I gotta get me half an hour tonight to give this a go. Always loved this game but never managed to ever get on top of it.

Duggy747

:mad: :mad: :mad:

I'm fuming!! At lunch today I got by the million and I was on round 27-ish, doing brilliant, 2 lives left and next thing keyboard on my laptop froze............game over!! I'm so gonna get this score!

TinCool

I've out done myself this time

hamster

TinCool wrote:

I've out done myself this time

Hellva score TinCool. I couldn't manage more than 360K tonight. Just got no where tonight after 1 hour. My best game today went to level 15 and lost the lives from level 11 onwards... I had the runners, long range and rapid firing bubbles at that stage. It looked oh so promising.

Bubble bobble death diaries:
1 lv 11
2 lv 12
1 lv 13
2 lv 14
1 lv 15

brianon

not too bad for early attempt...

hamster

Oh finally.. some bowl movement on the score front

Actually I think it was down to a red bubble than gave bub fireball breath lasting for over 3 rounds and 10,000 upon collection to boot. Never remember getting that before.

742,820 pts to Round 24.


Laptop keys aren't the best for this.

Anyone know if Bubble bobble in Mame supports saving high scores? I thought that existed before. But is not working now?
edit... ok, I have verified the hiscore.dat file is in the root of my mame32 (0.116) directory. Checked that I got the latest (18th mar 2007). Anyone got their own one working?

LoGiE

I'm going to have to throw my hat into the ring at some stage this weekend
I will own you all!! (Just kidding I haven't played BB in a while)

brianon

A couple more games today and I hae bested my previous (but not my all time best)

hamster

Another go - played conservative this time - tried to not go all out for killing the monsters all at once and got lucky with powerups.

849,050 pts round 30.

hamster

I'll keep dying early after rounds 11 onwards - and all stoopid mistakes. It's pretty easy when I have the sneakers and bubble powerups - pity you lose the lot with 1 weeny weeny mistake.
Only noticed lately that mame nolonger saves the hiscores upon exit even with the latest hiscore.dat. Used to work for me with v0.90. No luck with u0.115 or 0.116 though. Depending on savestates now for keeping the highscore table intact.

Retr0gamer

Can't find a rom of this that works, really annoying because it used to work until I got the latest mame. Tried some older versions of mame and it still won't work. Might just have to play it on the saturn.

hamster

Retr0gamer wrote:

Can't find a rom of this that works, really annoying because it used to work until I got the latest mame. Tried some older versions of mame and it still won't work. Might just have to play it on the saturn.

PM sent....

Retr0gamer

Finally got this going and achieved this pitiful score:



I think we should have a game of the week like they do in the film forum but have a high score challenge with the winner.

brianon

Retr0gamer wrote:

I think we should have a game of the week like they do in the film forum but have a high score challenge with the winner.

Yeah. That sounds good. A month is a bit long for one game. I love Bubble Bobble but I think after a month interest will wane.

Maybe a game every two weeks ?

hamster

Maybe a new mame game every 2-3 weeks? We don't really have enough scorers for a week.

What we could do is have a vote thread going for the next game while the current game is in progress. I'll set that one up now.

hamster

Had a nice run of luck this morning. I got nearly a million points from a secret room full of diamonds after entering a metal door around level 20.



Score 1,728,700 points up to round 35.

Definitely need the runners to avoid trouble. Score is definitely helped by grabbing every vase for those 100K bonuses that you get if you collect all the fruit/clover whatever. The staff icons really help too....

I'm playing with keys - the usb joystick I have does not interpret each move fast enough.

Joe-Bloggs

Think this is as good as it's going to get for me

hamster

Good show folks! Still 3 more days to go - TinCool is still lead the pack.

If you haven't already vote here for the next round. Rainbows Islands and R-Type are strong contenders...

hamster

Congrats to TinCool on walking away with Bub and Bob's girlfriends!