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IIRC, it has a non-standard bank switch scheme and is 40K in size. Try the .a52 file I've attached? Else, Altirra runs it fine. Bounty Bob Strikes Back (Merged) (Big Five Software) (U).a52

9,600.

15,970. This game has some fun but has too many frustrating elements. The bonus timer is too fast, making the other 'rules' unfair. You must exit early before the timer expires or it is game over - even if you have 3 lives. Then you must play the prior stage with no points. There is often 1 robot who guards an entrance, making you hunt him down (eating more time when time is precious). The points recap is too long - just let me get to the next stage! Then there is the control, I'm constantly missing diagonal shots. Well, tried a number of times and I'm done.

Very cool to play Enduro on 5200 just now. About 40 years after the 2600 version was released, where have the years gone. In Altirra, it seemed near identical - the tires always look a bit different from the OG 2600 tires (to me), but the Pokey sound Fx sound the same (the icey road whoosh sounded a bit louder I noticed), and no Pause functionality was added. Thanks to all involved.

12,280.

There's this at bottom of main forum page:

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8,030.

There are hardly any 5200 homebrew videos posted, period. Youtube started around 2005 or so, and MH 5200 games were a few years before that (and evidently it seems there weren't a lot of them made and sold?).

Mean Hamster's Klax (from 2003 I think?) plays like coin-op Klax, but has a more flat presentation, the blocks coming down the screen rather than appearing in a 3D-ish distance approaching on the a conveyer belt. It has speech clips (muffled and quiet, but still there) which is pretty cool. It uses dithered pixels to accomplish different colors, it works. It has similar or perhaps identical challenges as the arcade version, like now you must do X diagonal Klax's , etc. I've played a bunch of the MH 5200 games, I think Klax was the one I put the most time into, bitd. I thought the AA store sold them at one time?

47,600. I still hate this game.

Made me think of this.

24,000.

Panzer Dragoon. At least we got 4 good games. Not counting the remake, it brought nothing new to the table, doesn’t seem to have been a hit either. PD Orta was 20 years ago! Jet Set Radio. 2 games. Such a fun, clever game. But not popular enough, abandoned.

I believe the 5200 version follows that safety rule where the ghosts can’t go up above the pen. But I have seen the pink monster do it more than once in the A8 version, that might be a bug. I agree about the pinpoint collision being unfair in all these versions. They fixed that, and cornering, in 5200 Ms PAC.

15,200. I hate this game, probably will not try too hard on this round.

I used that trick mostly for the Activision 5200 games.

Agreed. I’ve had similar results on many old carts, which was resolved by cleaning the contacts.

If you are crashing too much, my advice is this: slow down. You do not have to drive at top speed all the time. Especially around steep curves, or when you can’t see what’s coming due to the hills, slow down a bit. Especially in the first races, you can still come in first place or second driving at a controllable speed. It’s crashing and getting arrested that will ruin your race.

That is a great score. I've yet to pass 400k , I played a couple rounds just now but I was not one with the Force. The Qix A.I. is quite interesting - they'll play cat-n-mouse with you, I swear its reading my mind. It can worm its way into a tight corridor, but only if it wants to. The thing that usually kills me is getting caught with a close-by Qix and 2 Sparx ambush me, I try to draw around them but Qix kills me. Drawing the double-box at the top is a helpful strategy to keep the latecomer 2 Sparx trapped, but its not always possible to draw it when a Qix is very interested in that section of the screen. I imagine cashing in with two X9 bonuses, and getting at least 85% on that round, will put you well over 400k. I don't think I've gotten 2 X9's in one game - often I am pretty much forced to cash-in early, before I get to X9.

Played some more and doing better. I do enjoy playing a few rounds of 5200 Qix. This is probably my final score for this round. 394,197.

It *is* a competition, you know.

340,740.

I think it is terrible. But I still play a few rounds now and then. Maybe I'm missing its charms.

Rallisport challenge 2, Outrun 2, and the Project Gotham racing games are still worth playing to me. And PD Orta! Also still enjoy these not mentioned above: spider-man 2 Hulk Ultimate Destruction Burnout 3