HSC Season 1: Week 7 : 1942

brianon

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Garegga

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ROMSet: 1942

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- Last day is Sunday 17th March 2013.

General Rules:

- Highest score wins.

- No savestates, savestate practices, etc. during the round.

- MAME INP recordings are encouraged but optional.

- A screenshot is required to enter a score (press F12 to save screenshot showing your final score) or take a photo of the game screen.

- Use of autofire or other non-standard hacks within MAME or your PC's OS are not allowed.

Standings
1. urbanledge (18)
2. brianon (15)
3. sengoku (14)
4. o1s1n (9)
5. dr bob (6)
6. CathalDublin (5)
6. Sparks43 (5)
8. eddhorse (3)
9. unky chop chop (2)
9. krudler (2)
11. keithgeo (1)
12. TechnoFreak (1)

List of games ...
Dig Dug
Kung Fu Master
Smash TV
Smash TV
Mikie
Pac-land
Ghosts'n Goblins
Twin Cobra
Ghosts n Goblins
Gauntlet II
Boulder Dash
Double Dragon
Shock Troopers
Mercs
Twin Cobra
Altered Beast

Sparks43

29,860 to start off

Dr Bob

this'll be demolished shortly but 56680

Dr Bob

by the way playing this in the background seems to improve my game..might work for you too....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLHosDsxZsI

2ndcoming

Only version I have of this is on Virtual NES... is it acceptable or too different a port?

Only in the process of getting Mame set up at the minute.

I'm not going to do any more damage to my thumb if it's not gonna be a valid score in the end, ha.

Andrew76

Never played this before. Was about to nuke it from orbit after a few goes but it grows on you. I also remembered I bought that Mayflash adapter ages ago so was able to connect the Namco PS1 stick to the PC, awesome! Infinitely better than the EX2 yoke.

Anyway, 130300 mostly on a single ship, terrible start. Might try play some more before Sunday.

brianon

2ndcoming wrote: »

Only version I have of this is on Virtual NES... is it acceptable or too different a port?

Only in the process of getting Mame set up at the minute.

I'm not going to do any more damage to my thumb if it's not gonna be a valid score in the end, ha.

NES ? No. You need MAME.

2ndcoming

Sick. Been downloading Mame 148 with 24gb of roms for the past few days... current progress 28.9%. Might be another while yet.

Got 145,650 on the NES version. Looking forward to seeing if there's much difference.

just download 1942 and mame by its self!
I got the slowpoke version last night and muchi muchi pork!works like a charm

TechnoFreek

Man this is a cuff tunt of a game. Pretty unforgiving and to be honest I served my time playing these sort of games back in the day on the C64.

Its a long time since I've rage quit and I came close to it last night. Not sure how I'd be able to pick up the cab and fcùk it out the window but it was contemplated none the less.

This is the best I could muster. Can't seem myself going back to it!

ha ha ha,
I had 1c on it last night,didnt seem to bad.
At least you can see the bullets!

Would love auto fire tho!

Andrew76

TechnoFreek wrote: »

Man this is a cuff tunt of a game. Pretty unforgiving and to be honest I served my time playing these sort of games back in the day on the C64.

Its a long time since I've rage quit and I came close to it last night. Not sure how I'd be able to pick up the cab and fcùk it out the window but it was contemplated none the less.

Not overly fond of it myself, hurling abuse at the screen I was. :pac:
What bugs me most is the massive amount of space at the bottom of the screen that you can't use, the fcuk is that about, and the slow speed of the ship. :rolleyes:

TechnoFreek

Andrew76 wrote: »

Not overly fond of it myself, hurling abuse at the screen I was. :pac:
What bugs me most is the massive amount of space at the bottom of the screen that you can't use, the fcuk is that about, and the slow speed of the ship. :rolleyes:

Yes, the big gap at the bottom that you can't enter but the enemy craft can is weird out.

Plus the amount of times I lost the first life with a score under 5k. Its like bullet time watching my ship and a bullet collide. I can see it about to happen but nothing can stop it.

o1s1n

That empty space down the bottom is incredibly frustrating alright. I try to go into it to dodge a bullet but can't move down. It's like it suddenly becomes Galaga or Space Invaders with you just skirting left and right!

brianon

66250. I always thought I loved 1942. Turns out I don't.

sengoku

brianon wrote: »

I always thought I loved 1942. Turns out I don't.

Me too, and I'm the one that nominated this game. I got my years mixed up, I wanted to play 1943: The Battle of Midway.

sengoku

I've given up the USB/Playstation adapter for this one, I'm back to the laptop keyboard, it's strangely comfortable. A good second best to an arcade joystick.

103300

TechnoFreek

They key to a good score in this game is getting a hit rate of 90% plus at the end of each level. 10k bonus right there.

Two lives to begin with ain't easy either and its a serious stretch getting from 30k to 80k for the second extra life.

brianon

TechnoFreek wrote: »

They key to a good score in this game is getting a hit rate of 90% plus at the end of each level. 10k bonus right there.

Two lives to begin with ain't easy either and its a serious stretch getting from 30k to 80k for the second extra life.

The key for me is actually getting to the end of each level

CathalDublin

Will add score shortly
Next week rtype

137660

neo bomberman for next week!

o1s1n

Horrid game! Not dedicating more than 10 minutes to this one :pac:



My vote goes to Alien Versus Predator

TechnoFreek

I vote for Willow!

80s Synth Pop

188700

starts out as a primitive shooter but stage 3 gives you some cool weapons and a welcome change of background. The two little planes on each side POW makes your range cover 1/4 the screen and lets you get close to that 100% if you can hang on to them. Stage four or five is a bonus round too

TechnoFreek

F It. :mad:

I thought I had this one in the bag!

No lcds allowed

80s Synth Pop

face it, we are all rubbish at this game compared to this guy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlXf77Hheeo&list=PL0FA5F0688EB5D722
he completes the games with a final score of over 11 million

brianon

80s Synth Pop wrote: »

face it, we are all rubbish at this game compared to this guy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlXf77Hheeo&list=PL0FA5F0688EB5D722
he completes the games with a final score of over 11 million

Am away from home til tomorrow. Will get week 8 up soon and this weeks leaderboard updated then.

CathalDublin

Dreadful score - rtype next week

Sparks43

So what have we got for this week?

Please let it be Boulder Dash:pac:

brianon

updating now