Golden Era Game of the Week
See introduction here
The Game: Solar Quest
romname: solarq
Screenshot:
(click to see current MARP scores)
Reward: $50 (usd)
Deadline for submission to MARP: June 10, 2005 2359 hours GMT
Further Bounty: an additional $50 for exceeding 200,850 points this week
(Claimed by destructor@HotTeam.pl 6/8/05 0920 hrs GMT)
Time for another Asteroids-genre game.
Good information about the game is available in the Operator's Manual.
The further bounty is based on the Twin Galaxies record on the arcade machine set by Tony Vandecar in 1983. The settings are supposed to be factory default, but the manual linked above does not specify what they were. The MAME TG settings are listed as 3 lives to start - 5 nukes. It should be noted that the score they list by Mark Boolman, assuming it is the same one at MARP with the same score, was NOT played on those settings.
For this week, including the further bounty, we will use MAME's defaults, 4 lives to start - 7 nukes. (the nukes are not separately selectable - you start with twice the number of starting lives minus 1).
Use WolfMAME .96
"On Deck" game: Time Pilot
Golden Era Game of the Week 6/4/05: Solar Quest
Moderators: Marco Marocco, Weehawk
Golden Era Game of the Week 6/4/05: Solar Quest
Last edited by Weehawk on Wed Jun 08, 2005 10:48 am, edited 1 time in total.
John Cunningham (JTC)
- destructor
- MARPaholic
- Posts: 1972
- Joined: Fri Sep 20, 2002 9:38 am
- Location: Poland
- destructor
- MARPaholic
- Posts: 1972
- Joined: Fri Sep 20, 2002 9:38 am
- Location: Poland
Hehe, yesterday (my first day of real playing) I made score 201100 and delete it because I thought that 202850 is for Further Bounty Next I play 8 hours without good score (180k highest). Today morning I found 1 small detail in my method which help me.
Game is hard and not fun. I still see enemy ships when close eyes.
In game button2Pstart = button4player1, I don't know is it MAME bug or not.
I have white vectors on wolf96u1, on wolf78 vectors are colorfully. What is correct? Or maybe I have something wrong?
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Sunday's bonus points for nobody.
Tuesday's bonus points for destructor (score 105200).
And Further Bounty for destructor.
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Game is hard and not fun. I still see enemy ships when close eyes.
In game button2Pstart = button4player1, I don't know is it MAME bug or not.
I have white vectors on wolf96u1, on wolf78 vectors are colorfully. What is correct? Or maybe I have something wrong?
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Sunday's bonus points for nobody.
Tuesday's bonus points for destructor (score 105200).
And Further Bounty for destructor.
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Last edited by destructor on Wed Jun 08, 2005 12:08 pm, edited 1 time in total.
-use_overlaysdestructor wrote:I have white vectors on wolf96u1, on wolf78 vectors are colorfully. What is correct? Or maybe I have something wrong?
The game was black & white, but use a colored plastic overlay, like Star Castle.
Probably, but just Tuesday so far.destructor wrote:Thursday's bonus points for destructor
John Cunningham (JTC)
- destructor
- MARPaholic
- Posts: 1972
- Joined: Fri Sep 20, 2002 9:38 am
- Location: Poland
Results:
1st: destructor@HotTeam.pl
2nd: Don Hayes
3rd: gastrainga
And 4 bonus points to des. (No submission by Sunday)
http://www.gegotw.net/news.html
1st: destructor@HotTeam.pl
2nd: Don Hayes
3rd: gastrainga
And 4 bonus points to des. (No submission by Sunday)
http://www.gegotw.net/news.html
John Cunningham (JTC)