CentipedeFan

Game 1 seems to be normal mode. Game "teddy bear face" seems to be easy mode. I don't think there are any other games. Can't even bring up a two player game. Difficulty switches have no function.

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In arcade dig-dug, ill try and set up crazy boulder drops but not on this. I don't even bother chasing down the last baddie, I just dig around for 10 pts a pop while he floats to the top. All I care about is that pineapple. Nothing frustrates me more than missing that. I'll pump every baddy on the whole screen vertically without dropping a boulder on a single one so long as I get that pineapple. CentipedeFan's recipe for Dig Dug success: Pump-kill everything on screen Drop two rocks Pickup pineapple Rinse-repeat Roll score

Eventually you'll get to a series of 4 repeating screens (I think) and the time before the speedup will be super short or nearly instant upon starting a new screen. It's here you can develop patterns as the 4 screens repeat infinitely. After several 100s of k of this, the speedup either stops completely or the timer is so long you never get to it and everything goes back to moving slow. However, at this point the monsters start teleporting out of their enclosures almost immediately, disrupting any patterns you might have going.

983,300 Rollage, baby!

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Game 1 B/B 282,590

Game 4 Diff b/b 3,330 Ive played before but not last season. On a side note, difficulty b on original hardware is the smaller ship. However on the 2600+ difficulty b makes the ship fat. Not sure if this is just my 2600+ or if that's a "thing" on this hardware. If that's a thing it might be good to let 2600+ users know the switches are "switched". So just to be clear we want the small ship, not the fat ship. Right?

25,560 Skill 2

49,750--Skill Level 1 Very unique...but a time sink for sure.

So it has to be USB-A to USB-C, I can't go C to C?

It's a USB C cable. It uses the USB C port. Is there a USB port on the 2600+?

So far my 2600+ can not be detected either with the Dumping Tool or my PC. Im using a known working Data and Power cable. It's set to B&W and Im holding down game select before powering it on. Nothing. Ive tried multiple cables on multiple PC and nothing will detect it. Ive tried multiple combinations of color/game reset, difficulty switches and still nothing. I get no beep, nothing in device manager. Does the atari logo light up like when its powered on normally? Mine does not. Am I doing something wrong or do I have a defective 2600+?

I gave it few more attempts and couldn't make it happen. I probably don't have time for another run so that will do it. Even with the two weeks it was hard to make time. Still had a blast. Look forward to future competitions. Thanks to the players, the coordinator and the champ, to whom I met my match.

174,050 I never said I was giving up. I said I need a miracle. I just don't have 2 and 3 hour bocks of time in my day to better these scores. I can play often in short bursts or rarely in long.

84,320 I felt this was a monumental effort built on multiple failures, so it's clear I'm completely out of my league on this game. I just can't seem to "get it". Had this title been the first game of the comp, I may have very well been eliminated in round 1. Given how wide the gulf is and how long a game would need to be played in order to win, this will probably be my only submission. I may give it a few more attempts between now and next weekend and pray for a miracle but I think you have probably crowned your champ. Nice game, Colecovision. Maybe in the next final I'll draw a better game .

Are there any point increases for completing multiple circuits? Ive scored as many points going for nothing but fish and flags and timing out before completing the first circuit than I do speedrunning for completion. 4 flags is worth 20 seconds of end time bonus. That's huge in terms of maximum point potential. That end time bonus is pretty nominal if you can capture even a few pickups during the run. I think the key will be a fine balance between speedrunning the course and picking up drops. Leg 8 is where I really struggle. I almost always tank my game on this stage, even just trying to fly through it.

Unless I missed the rule where you add a zero to the end of your score then I think I'm in trouble. Judging by what Ive played and watched of the game so far, a score of 200k is about a 2 hour game.

Gonna be hard to get a high score if I don't get points....seeing as how that's the metric that decides who wins. On a serious note Ive tried not collecting a single flag or fish during a leg and it yielded no special bonus. It's not Bump N Jump apparently. Grabbing all the points you can on a leg seems like the way to go, maybe I'm missing something. I'm not familiar with this game or it's tricks. This was likely a bad pull for me as I can barely get a fraction of the current HS. Maybe that will improve over the course of the next 2 weeks. We shall see.

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