+therealbountybob Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 English Software's Smash Hits - Volume 1 I love it when a plan comes together... to celebrate the return of PRO(C) ATARI MAGAZINE which has a review of these games by your's truly we have an extended HSC round. Please support the magazine and buy the T-Shirt and Magazine package if you can to support the cause. My order is placed! Fandal has XEX versions of the games: Jet Boot Jack, Firefleet, Dan Strikes Back, Captain Sticky's Gold, Hyperblast Atarimania has Info on the games Atarionline.pl has many versions of the games, for JBJ try "Jet Boot Jack (1983)(English Software)(GB).xex" Jet Boot Jack - start on Skill 1 or P (has no creatures) if you find that too difficult. Pull down to jump to dislodge bugs, push up to move the lifts or sliders. Firefleet - still has that incredibly hard bit so I don't expect anyone to finish it. Grab screenshot of how far you get as scoring is flawed or use the video on Post #17 to identify how far you got. Dan Strikes Back - is completable. Captain Stick'y Gold - great game. Ctrl-1 is pause. Hyperblast - no autofire unless you have hand trouble (please say when posting if you used autofire) Scoring to follow, possibly JBJ as the main game and the others as bonuses. Round ends Thursday 31st October 10am UK time, Halloween no less! Everyone welcome to play! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedThunder Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 (edited) Get the ball rolling ? Jet Boot Jack 6,150 L2 Fire Fleet 22,280 L2 Dan Strikes Back 2,600 Captain Stick's Gold 310 Hyperblast! 2,840 Edited October 10, 2019 by RedThunder typo, always a typo 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deteacher Posted October 9, 2019 Share Posted October 9, 2019 (edited) Ok, I played them all, so here are my first offerings: JBJ: 6,325 FF: 8,080 DSB: 2,000 CSG: 1,650 HB: 2,620 All in all, they're pretty fun. Firefleet is not one of my faves right now. I'm really taking a liking to Capt. Sticky's Gold, though. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, my Hall of Fame on Capt. Sticky's Gold seems to be kind of screwy. Might need to download a different copy. Edited October 9, 2019 by Deteacher 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKong Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 (edited) JBJ 23900 34950 Edited October 11, 2019 by McKong Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+slx Posted October 10, 2019 Share Posted October 10, 2019 Jet Boot Jack 5675 Capt. Sticky 780 (Highscore screen does not seem to come back) Dan Strikes Back 2140 Firefleet 7390 Hyperblast 1040 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKong Posted October 11, 2019 Share Posted October 11, 2019 (edited) Captain Sticky's 2170 2460 2830 3390 Edited October 11, 2019 by McKong Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKong Posted October 11, 2019 Share Posted October 11, 2019 JBJ 55750 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deteacher Posted October 11, 2019 Share Posted October 11, 2019 Some improvements: JBJ: 7,050. Almost finished level 2. DSB: 2,630 CSG: 2,630 HB: 4,740 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted October 12, 2019 Author Share Posted October 12, 2019 On 10/9/2019 at 6:23 PM, Deteacher said: Ok, I played them all, so here are my first offerings: ... All in all, they're pretty fun. Firefleet is not one of my faves right now. I'm really taking a liking to Capt. Sticky's Gold, though. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, my Hall of Fame on Capt. Sticky's Gold seems to be kind of screwy. Might need to download a different copy. Wonder if that's the disk copy of the game and it saves hscs? Yes I really like CSG too On 10/10/2019 at 10:05 PM, slx said: Capt. Sticky 780 (Highscore screen does not seem to come back) ... Liking the small section screenshots slx You just have to play again to see it! Played JBJ 1-1 through to skill 3-1 score 125,700 and CSG had a few goes reached 1-4 score 3,780 was my best so far. On the last go I had one fish left so I thought I'd be ok and you can guess the rest! Anyone looking to pause the game it's Ctrl-1 ! Firefleet - we'd better grab screenshots of how far we got to as scoring is flawed. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKong Posted October 12, 2019 Share Posted October 12, 2019 Although I've played it quite a few times over the years, I only worked out the other day that you could shoot stuff on Captain Sticky's! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted October 13, 2019 Author Share Posted October 13, 2019 16 hours ago, McKong said: Although I've played it quite a few times over the years, I only worked out the other day that you could shoot stuff on Captain Sticky's! Fish Blasting Fun! Added a bonus challenge for FireFleet - highest score on 1st man. I'm planning to disassemble this game and see if I can fix that tricky bit, but, still busy with Block on Legs:First Steps, now up to 20 levels but it takes a lot of time tuning them and still annoying bug with the repositioning the man when he falls off! Movement is much better now and game is fun. @RT will be a final doc update when I'm done Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKong Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 JBJ 93250 1.8 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 Some entry scores on a Sunday evening: Captain Sticky's Gold - 890 pts (level 2) Dan Strikes Back - 2060 pts (stage 2) Firefleet - 7920 pts Hyperblast! - 1380 pts (level 2) Jet Boot Jack - 1800 pts 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted October 13, 2019 Author Share Posted October 13, 2019 Had a quick look at FireFleet with a sector editor (didn't disassemble it) and blatted what I thought was some map data and yes it caused a hole, so might be able to identify uber hard bit if we get that far. 109,820 Reached just before the join on the coloured squares, need to get left in the gap to clear the squares ahead. Dan Strikes Back 3,160 11,130 17,680 got to the 5th of the 6 screens the one with the side doors, didn't last long here! Hyperblast! 6,560 hopefully this button mashing will clear out the firebutton on my quickshot so it works properly again! Capt. Sticky (1-5) 4,410 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKong Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 I think the game would be much more playable for people if you didn't get set back each time you lost a life. Anyway from your screenshot I got to the same place as you, the bit where you have to shoot out the middle block but the channel is too narrow to do so, so you need to do it before you enter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKong Posted October 13, 2019 Share Posted October 13, 2019 Captain Sticky's 3730 1-6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKong Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 Firefleet - I got to 3:16 on this video 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted October 14, 2019 Author Share Posted October 14, 2019 CSG 6,130 (1-6) DSB 21,580 22,540 nearly got all the side doors done! JBJ 172,300 (3-6) you can check the stage by the number of bugs on screen. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sikor Posted October 14, 2019 Share Posted October 14, 2019 Hyperblast! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted October 14, 2019 Author Share Posted October 14, 2019 First Tables We'll make this tournament scoring for all games 1pt per place (might change!) for FIREFLEET please say where you got to on the video playthrough on post 17 and we can use this for the table Jet Boot Jack 1st therealbountybob 172,300 6 2nd McKong 93,250 5 3rd Deteacher 7,050 4 4th RedThunder 6,150 3 5th slx 5,675 2 6th carlsson 1,800 1 Captain Sticky's Gold 1st therealbountybob 6,130 6 2nd McKong 3,730 5 3rd Deteacher 2,630 4 4th carlsson 890 3 5th slx 780 2 6th RedThunder 310 1 Dan Strikes Back 1st therealbountybob 22,540 5 2nd Deteacher 2,630 4 3rd RedThunder 2,600 3 4th slx 2,140 2 5th carlsson 2,060 1 Hyperblast! 1st therealbountybob 6,560 6 2nd Sikor 5,620 5 3rd Deteacher 4,740 4 4th RedThunder 2,840 3 5th carlsson 1,380 2 6th slx 1,040 1 FireFleet 1st McKong 3m16s 150,000 6 2nd therealbountybob 109,820 5 3rd RedThunder 22,280 4 4th Deteacher 8,080 3 5th carlsson 7,920 2 6th slx 7,390 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McKong Posted October 15, 2019 Share Posted October 15, 2019 Captain Sticky's 7010 1-6 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted October 15, 2019 Share Posted October 15, 2019 (edited) Firefleet - 29770 pts. I'm not exactly sure how far I got, but about 1:40 2:15 into the reference video including the attract mode at the beginning. Edit: Looking at the video again, the game lasts pretty much exactly 4 minutes if you take the exact right paths and don't get hit. It is almost like the Last V8 in that respect. Edit 2: I got further into the game (2:15), but lower score due to I only reached there once. Actually your start point moves forward after the first stage so in part it behaves like McKong wished for. Edited October 15, 2019 by carlsson 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted October 16, 2019 Author Share Posted October 16, 2019 CSG 6,340 (1-6) FF got a bit furher: gun on left zapped me! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mangia-Boy Posted October 16, 2019 Share Posted October 16, 2019 I was only able to open the first game... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+therealbountybob Posted October 17, 2019 Author Share Posted October 17, 2019 18 hours ago, Mangia-Boy said: I was only able to open the first game... emulation? did you try the XEX files from fandal's site? You might try Homesoft who has ATR's with the games on: http://www.mushca.com/f/atari/index.php?idx=0 If anyone finds an actual disk ATR of Smash Hits please post a link. I noticed the sound for collecting notes in JBJ is not correct on some versions. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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