Cynicaster Posted October 26, 2020 Share Posted October 26, 2020 (edited) This round's game 1 of 2: Qix ROM Name: Qix (set 1) ROM File: qix Picked by: S.BAZ DIP settings (changes from default shown in RED ) Internal defaults This round's game 2 of 2: Boogie Wings ROM Name: Boogie Wings (Euro v1.5, 92.12.07) ROM File: boogwing Picked by: youxia DIP settings (changes from default shown in RED ) Lives: 2 Difficulty: Normal Rules: Please change your DIPs to the settings listed. If you're unsure how to do this, please ask Screenshots required No continues No save states No cheats Any working version of MAME can be used, but the ROMs provided for this competition will be verified to work on MAME v0.139. The "user interface" version of MAME v0.139 can be downloaded at: http://www.progettosnaps.net/mameui/ Competition ends: Sunday November 8, 11:59pm PST Previous Round Results: Eggs Razzie.P 121,820 100.0% Cynicaster 90,360 74.2% MAME Offender 84,640 69.5% AtariWarlord 54,390 44.6% youxia 19,770 16.2% roadrunner 14,570 12.0% Floyd Turbo 14,110 11.6% jblenkle 10,940 9.0% hero2millions 9,610 7.9% S.BAZ 0.0% bigbee99 0.0% Moonwalker MAME Offender 170,630 100.0% Razzie.P 163,790 96.0% Cynicaster 83,100 48.7% hero2millions 75,370 44.2% roadrunner 68,410 40.1% youxia 66,790 39.1% Floyd Turbo 64,690 37.9% AtariWarlord 49,500 29.0% jblenkle 31,540 18.5% S.BAZ 0.0% bigbee99 0.0% Standings to Date: STANDINGS TO DATE 1 Razzie.P 74.15% 2 MAME Offender 64.68% 3 Cynicaster 51.99% 4 youxia 28.54% 5 AtariWarlord 28.35% 6 Floyd Turbo 25.37% 7 hero2millions 19.36% 8 roadrunner 16.23% 9 jblenkle 11.71% 10 bigbee99 7.43% 11 S.BAZ 6.37% boogwing.zip qix.zip Edited October 26, 2020 by Cynicaster Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jblenkle Posted October 27, 2020 Share Posted October 27, 2020 Qix - 16,328 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariWarlord Posted October 27, 2020 Share Posted October 27, 2020 Okay, Boogie Wings. Can someone explain WTF I just played? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hero2millions Posted October 28, 2020 Share Posted October 28, 2020 BOOGIE This game amazes,confuses and frightens me QIX Fun game but i see another bad score 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted October 28, 2020 Share Posted October 28, 2020 For Boogie Wings, after i clear the first level what level do i play next? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted October 28, 2020 Share Posted October 28, 2020 2 Boogie Wings reviews http://www.336gamereviews.com/boogie-wings-review/ http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/boogie-wings/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cynicaster Posted October 28, 2020 Author Share Posted October 28, 2020 Qix 53,928 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Floyd Turbo Posted October 28, 2020 Share Posted October 28, 2020 (edited) Boogie Wings - 102,090 Qix - 15,728 Busch Latte in there for good luck. Edited November 4, 2020 by Floyd Turbo Updated score Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted October 30, 2020 Share Posted October 30, 2020 Boogie 90,910 Qix 20,998 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariWarlord Posted November 2, 2020 Share Posted November 2, 2020 Qix 17,906. Not sure how I'm doing worse on the arcade version than on the Atari 5200 with its awful controls, but that's where I'm at. Boogie Wings 63,490. Okay, I'm starting to get a feel for the skyhook and what to do with it. Still don't feel like I'm making much progress though. There's so much background that my old eyes often have a problem figuring out where my man on the ground is. It's a good but extremely busy game; developer needed to lay off the coke. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Razzie.P Posted November 2, 2020 Share Posted November 2, 2020 Boogie Wings -- 113,850 Love the creativity here. But not sure I quite have the hang of it after a few rounds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Razzie.P Posted November 2, 2020 Share Posted November 2, 2020 QIX -- 16,310 I hope to find time to come back to this one for some improvement, but putting this up here in case I don't get to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariWarlord Posted November 2, 2020 Share Posted November 2, 2020 Qix 20,946. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariWarlord Posted November 3, 2020 Share Posted November 3, 2020 On 10/28/2020 at 12:46 PM, roadrunner said: For Boogie Wings, after i clear the first level what level do i play next? Probably Coney Island -- it's probably the easiest (which is not to say it's easy -- just relatively so). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hero2millions Posted November 4, 2020 Share Posted November 4, 2020 Qix 10,632 Boogie Dunno less than 40,000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariWarlord Posted November 5, 2020 Share Posted November 5, 2020 Boogie Wings 82,430. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youxia Posted November 5, 2020 Share Posted November 5, 2020 Boogie Wings - 54,040 Qix - 23,764 I haven't actually played BW before, just saw a video & fell in love with it. It's a pity more devs did not take such creative liberties as well, though perhaps it's understandable given the arcade model (though, on the other hand, plenty of wtf turds were released despite that) Qix is as addictive as it is inuriating. Played it on A8 before, much easier, this arcade version is just cruel. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariWarlord Posted November 8, 2020 Share Posted November 8, 2020 Boogie Wings 84,990. Hey, an improvement is an improvement. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariWarlord Posted November 8, 2020 Share Posted November 8, 2020 Seems like a lot of folks decided to skip this round. Too bad -- these were two great games. Boogie Wings took some getting used to but there is a refreshing sense of open gameplay you wouldn't expect from a horizontally-scrolling shooter. There is no clearly-patterned recipe for success -- you just have to keep experimenting (full disclosure: I still haven't beat any of the secondary levels). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.A.M.E Offender Posted November 8, 2020 Share Posted November 8, 2020 Not very good at Qix. I have no strategy. 37,056 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cynicaster Posted November 9, 2020 Author Share Posted November 9, 2020 Qix - 89,392 BW - 132,950 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariWarlord Posted November 9, 2020 Share Posted November 9, 2020 Boogie Wings 87,850. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cynicaster Posted November 9, 2020 Author Share Posted November 9, 2020 (edited) Kind of a downcast turnout this round; too bad. I enjoy Qix but I never play it unless it's part of a competition I'm participating in because it's just too maddening. A good basic strategy is to build little skinny "fingers" out into the screen using the fast draw, then wait for the Qix to come down beside one and then you trap him in there using a short stroke of the slow draw pen. This floods the screen red for big points. On top of that you get 1000 points for every % complete you achieve over 75%. I think the highest bonus I got last week was 17,000 for 92% complete on the first screen. Then I choked and lost all 3 lives on the 2nd screen. And Boogie Wings... a very strange game but damn, it's ambitious for the time. For the developers to work in all those little things with the different vehicles and the skyhook device and the physics of the motion and all that, it's pretty impressive in its details. I assume many just find the game "too much" and a bit off-putting as a result. I imagine it probably benefits greatly from just spending some time with it. Edited November 9, 2020 by Cynicaster Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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