globeron

2024-05-28T16:14:24Z

The score is 3x higher than Jan 2016 high score! I will put it in my docx.

2024-05-28T15:11:18Z

@mizapf game on again 🙂

29,500 level 3 screen 3

2024-05-28T14:58:47Z

Tried many times till level 3 screen 2, even with 6 cubits. Do not come near my other score before more around 23,350. Not sure why as the score seems to be kind of the same per level. Except the teleport and the enemy jumping on it.

Monday at 01:49 AM

Sometimes, not always, but in Level 2 screen 3 there is a color mismatch. Target is dark blue, but the pyramid starts with dark blue.

Then jumping turns into yellow and light blue. Light blue is the final color.

May 19

28,925 level 3 screen 4

May 18

23,850. Difficult level 3, screen 1

May 17

On 5/10/2024 at 2:14 AM, mizapf said:

The list of played games (page 1) has not been updated for some time.

I maintain the source of all games in a word.docx, will inform @arcadeshopper to help to update.

May 17

RPK format (for Mame based systems)

CUBIT32KB8.rpk

May 17

18,300. LEVEL 3 screen 1

May 2

Nice high score!

April 30

10,270 first time Day 1 second attack. Still trying to beat @mizapf his base score!

Difficult game, but fun!

April 26

RPK format for MAME (Retrobat,etc.)

antiair.rpk

April 22

My condolences and I like the yesterday's newsletters he made.

April 17

4,750

April 17

After a few tries 2,860. Good game!

April 6

I vote for Starfort. it looks like a good game!

April 2

Hi @mizapf it is your turn to choose!

The Mine results:

Mizapf 17,600
Globeron 15,320
Smoker Ace 7,400
Nitrohepcat 4,870

March 29

Update on the TI99 images to look better in the preview and to show old vs new manual

RomTI99Images.zip

e.g. the image will show both manuals

(FYI - some TI-99 Cartridges have 3x different manuals)

image.png.50c194a9ed951ce7196f01458e79f065.png

image.png.05f827d797ee7efd94d104cffddac3d7.png

March 29

On 3/15/2024 at 7:13 AM, Frank1969 said:

I got problems with speech on Batocera v39. In bios check it states bios/ti99_speech.zip. UNTESTED - MD5: 206........ If I try to start a game it shows Batocera logo but always goes back to main menu. Any suggestions, really hoping I can play my games from back in the days.

Frank

I just tested with Batocera - https://updates.batocera.org/x86_64/stable/last/batocera-x86_64-x86_64-39-20240304.img.gz

(website - https://batocera.org/download) Desktop PC, Laptop, NUC and Intel-based Apple Computers

> unzip to .img file, with Win32mgr write to a USB stick (Sandisk 64 gb and bootup on the PC (Beelink Ser5), then a bluescreen appears, press key and boot Batocera.

> press F1 (for the file system)

> copy (from another USB stick or disk the .rpk files into SHARE/roms/ti99 (search on ftp.whtech.com in the batoceraretrobat)

> copy in SHARE/bios the ti99_4a.zip and the ti99_speech.zip

> Press spacebar > Game Settings > Update Gamelists (then Esc), now the TI99 is listed in the menu

> Press spacebar > Game Settings > Per System configuration > TI99 > Emulator > MAME

(Note: Libretro/MAME, it seems to have issues with sound and keymapping, like ENTER)

(I did not had sound at first):

> press spacebar -> System Settings -> Audio ouput -> select the right sound option

Now > TI-99 - > select your TI game -> press Esc (this takes a while on my system, somehow Batocera is a bit slower than Retrobat, maybe because it runs of the USB)

> Some hotkeys: ESC to get back to Batocera. (or CTRL-ESC in Libretro/MAME)

> or SELECT + START on a controller

> TAB (to configure MAME itself)

> Using Controllers

> Wired might work the best, Wireless I am using issues with PS4 controllers and Bluetooth (discovered okay, mapped okay, but after standby does not associate anymore and cannot delete and rediscover)

> XINPUT controllers might work better as MAME prefers it. (that's why I use Windows with Retrobat and DS4Windows and Hide to use wireless PS4 controllers in XINPUT mode)

> Mapping TI-keys.

> Press spacebar > Game Settings > Per System configuration > TI99 > PAD2Key file.

> e.g. map keys like 1, 2, 3 to to Y, A, B buttons on a PS4 controller

> multi-combination keys e.g. FCTN-QUIT map it to (right) ALT and = (when you see the keyboard at the bottom of the screen you see the option how to configure combination keys)

> or configure FCTN-BACK and FCTN-REDO (I map it to the Right Analog Stick).

> and configure SELECT to 5 (e.g. for Mario Bros to insert a coin)

Then most TI games you can play without touching the keyboard.

Hope this helps for your Batocera setup.

March 29

On 3/19/2024 at 3:15 AM, mizapf said:

So is 47210 your high score, or 15320?

15320. I am trying other levels at the bottom is a difficult one.

March 29

@Frank1969 I moved to Retrobat. But batocera should work very similar (bios, roms, rpk all the same). Try the retroarch/libretro as emulator (you can configure it per game) Or try mame64 as emulator. That might give the crash.