Golden Era Game of the Week 8/6/05: Robotron: 2084
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Golden Era Game of the Week 8/6/05: Robotron: 2084
Golden Era Game of the Week
See introduction here
The Game: Robotron: 2084
romname: robotron
Screenshot:
(click to see current MARP scores)
Reward: $100 (usd)
Deadline for submission: August 12, 2005 2359 hours GMT
Further Bounty: $250 (usd) for scoring 1,000,000 points or more by Oct 31, 2005. If that is not claimed, $125 for the first submission exceeding 893,000 points.
Eugene Jarvis' sequel to Defender and Stargate.
Until recently, the MAME emulation of this title was significantly more difficult than the original arcade version, but a recent change of RAM addresses in the driver seems to have corrected the problem. Let's celebrate with some serious competition on it.
I'd like to see the cool million, but failing that I'll offer a 50% consolation prize to anyone who can best the arcade machine record of 893,000 held by Abdner Ashman.
I never thought too much of this game myself until the first time I saw a real expert play it. It's much more impressive to watch at higher levels of play.
Good page on it here:
http://www.tripoint.org/robo/robotron.html
For this week's competition, as well as the further bounty, we will be using Twin Galaxies Tournament Settings; Difficulty=5 (MAME default is 3), 5 lives to start, no extras)
Unfortunately, since Don Hayes, Matt Hall, and Tommi Tiihonen unilaterally decided to require the use of Difficulty=10 for MARP submissions on this title, GEGOTW submissions for this week will not be legal for MARP regulation play. You may therefore submit recordings to me on this forum via PM attachment, or email recordings to "weehawk95" at hotmail.com, or load to your own web storage and send me the URL. At the end of Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday and finally Friday, the top three submissions will be available at:
http://www.gegotw.net/robotronresults.html
Your recordings will be submittable to TG if TG adopts WolfMAME .98 for MAME submissions.
Use WolfMAME .98
"On Deck" game: Red Baron
See introduction here
The Game: Robotron: 2084
romname: robotron
Screenshot:
(click to see current MARP scores)
Reward: $100 (usd)
Deadline for submission: August 12, 2005 2359 hours GMT
Further Bounty: $250 (usd) for scoring 1,000,000 points or more by Oct 31, 2005. If that is not claimed, $125 for the first submission exceeding 893,000 points.
Eugene Jarvis' sequel to Defender and Stargate.
Until recently, the MAME emulation of this title was significantly more difficult than the original arcade version, but a recent change of RAM addresses in the driver seems to have corrected the problem. Let's celebrate with some serious competition on it.
I'd like to see the cool million, but failing that I'll offer a 50% consolation prize to anyone who can best the arcade machine record of 893,000 held by Abdner Ashman.
I never thought too much of this game myself until the first time I saw a real expert play it. It's much more impressive to watch at higher levels of play.
Good page on it here:
http://www.tripoint.org/robo/robotron.html
For this week's competition, as well as the further bounty, we will be using Twin Galaxies Tournament Settings; Difficulty=5 (MAME default is 3), 5 lives to start, no extras)
Unfortunately, since Don Hayes, Matt Hall, and Tommi Tiihonen unilaterally decided to require the use of Difficulty=10 for MARP submissions on this title, GEGOTW submissions for this week will not be legal for MARP regulation play. You may therefore submit recordings to me on this forum via PM attachment, or email recordings to "weehawk95" at hotmail.com, or load to your own web storage and send me the URL. At the end of Sunday, Tuesday, Thursday and finally Friday, the top three submissions will be available at:
http://www.gegotw.net/robotronresults.html
Your recordings will be submittable to TG if TG adopts WolfMAME .98 for MAME submissions.
Use WolfMAME .98
"On Deck" game: Red Baron
John Cunningham (JTC)
Re: Golden Era Game of the Week 8/6/05: Robotron: 2084
"On Deck" game: Red Baron
Feh, I might have to try squeezing in some time when this one comes up. (A quick warning about something non-obvious in Red Baron: the controls seem to require 'calibration' at the start, so you should give your joystick a few swirls right after you boot the game up.)
Good luck on Robotron, I cannot play this one at all even with authentic controls.
Feh, I might have to try squeezing in some time when this one comes up. (A quick warning about something non-obvious in Red Baron: the controls seem to require 'calibration' at the start, so you should give your joystick a few swirls right after you boot the game up.)
Good luck on Robotron, I cannot play this one at all even with authentic controls.
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For those who haven't watched it, Don's 4th death was at 263k on the second Brain Wave. (And though I'm not an expert, it appeared to be a pretty serious lapse in concentration, perhaps he relaxed too soon at the end of the wave?).BBH wrote:wow Don, nice run on your last life :O
He did the remaining 242k on his last man. String a few of those together and we could be looking at a World Record.
And Don could be out looking for his own Robotron machine if he doesn't already have one.
John Cunningham (JTC)
Thanks Now if I could only have avoided a couple of those other stupid deaths.... I really wish I didn't suck so much at the tank waves (2 deaths on 7, and the last death on 17).BBH wrote:wow Don, nice run on your last life
Congrats on your 522K! You did a nice 100K run on your last man, too.
Yup, that's the hard thing about this game. One good run of boards in a game in not uncommon, but having two or three is extremely rare (unless your initials are ABA).Weehawk wrote:He did the remaining 242k on his last man. String a few of those together and we could be looking at a World Record.
Already have oneAnd Don could be out looking for his own Robotron machine if he doesn't already have one.
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