Cynicaster Posted December 5, 2022 Share Posted December 5, 2022 This round's game 1 of 2: Intrepid ROM Name: Intrepid (set 1) ROM File: intrepid Picked by: evan04 DIP settings (changes from default shown in RED ) : Difficulty: easy Bonus: 10,000 Lives: 5 This round's game 2 of 2: Xain'd Sleena ROM Name: Xain'd Sleena ROM File: xsleena Picked by: S.BAZ DIP settings (changes from default shown in RED ) : Difficulty: easy Game time: slow Bonus: 20k 70k plus every 70k Lives: 3 Console Side-Quest: What is a console game you enjoyed as a kid but now you feel has aged poorly and is actually kind of bad? Post a score for 2 bonus points. 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 December 18, 11:59pm PST Previous Round Results: Popeye Score Points Cynicaster 74,640 12 MAME Offender 71,430 9 S.BAZ 43,500 8 evan04 41,430 7 Floyd Turbo 15,790 6 Hero2millions 2,800 5 jblenkle 0 NE146 0 RuySan 0 Bank Panic Score Points evan04 556,150 12 S.BAZ 180,200 9 MAME Offender 155,000 8 Cynicaster 147,200 7 Hero2millions 92,100 6 Floyd Turbo 87,800 5 jblenkle 0 NE146 0 RuySan 0 CSQ Bonus Hero2millions 2 Floyd Turbo 2 Cynicaster 2 MAME Offender 2 S.BAZ 2 evan04 2 jblenkle NE146 RuySan Standings to Date: 1 Cynicaster 67 2 MAME Offender 57 3 evan04 49 4 Floyd Turbo 43 5 S.BAZ 41 6 Hero2millions 36 7 NE146 8 8 jblenkle 7 9 RuySan 6 intrepid.zip xsleena.zip 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evan04 Posted December 5, 2022 Share Posted December 5, 2022 44,350 [MISSION 004] [5 LIVES] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cynicaster Posted December 5, 2022 Author Share Posted December 5, 2022 For the side quest, I'm going to go with Pole Position II on Atari 7800. We got the 7800 for Christmas in 1987 - in large part because we wanted Pole Position II. It was great fun at first but playing that game now, it's kind of... ass. For a bonus, here is a screen grab from our home video of Christmas '87. That's our own MAME Offender holding up the PP2 cartridge for the camera. I'm in the background wearing the red pajama shirt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evan04 Posted December 6, 2022 Share Posted December 6, 2022 On 12/5/2022 at 5:18 PM, Cynicaster said: For the side quest, I'm going to go with Pole Position II on Atari 7800. We got the 7800 for Christmas in 1987 - in large part because we wanted Pole Position II. It was great fun at first but playing that game now, it's kind of... ass. For a bonus, here is a screen grab from our home video of Christmas '87. That's our own MAME Offender holding up the PP2 cartridge for the camera. I'm in the background wearing the red pajama shirt. Are you and MAME Offender related? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cynicaster Posted December 7, 2022 Author Share Posted December 7, 2022 (edited) 8 hours ago, evan04 said: Are you and MAME Offender related? Indeed, brothers. Floyd Turbo is our cousin, too. So our lineage is well represented in this competition. 🙂 Edited December 7, 2022 by Cynicaster 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.BAZ Posted December 10, 2022 Share Posted December 10, 2022 Is Xain'd Sleena specific to certain versions of MAME? I'm getting the message about a missing rom file. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cynicaster Posted December 10, 2022 Author Share Posted December 10, 2022 4 hours ago, S.BAZ said: Is Xain'd Sleena specific to certain versions of MAME? I'm getting the message about a missing rom file. If you download the version of mame linked in the original post (v139) it should work with the rom provided. All ROMs I post for the competition come from a v139 romset. I make sure to test all games before posting and Xain’d worked for me. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cynicaster Posted December 10, 2022 Author Share Posted December 10, 2022 Xain’d 103,450 Intrepid 43,910 These are both pretty fun games that I’ve never heard of. I had no idea what I was doing on Intrepid at first but a quick YouTube video cleared it up. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.BAZ Posted December 10, 2022 Share Posted December 10, 2022 Xain'd Sleena (1st attempt ever!) -- I like how it changes to the flying/shooting stage. Also my first time using an older style of MAME, kinda neat. 63,500 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Floyd Turbo Posted December 11, 2022 Share Posted December 11, 2022 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cynicaster Posted December 12, 2022 Author Share Posted December 12, 2022 For Intrepid, you can do the doors in any order. I find it's pretty much mandatory to go up to the 4th floor first (the one just under the locked door) because this is where the boots are always hidden. Getting the boots enables you to walk much faster and avoid the guards. Another thing is I kept dying really cheap deaths going in/out of doors, where the guards would either appear a split second before I tried to exit or they would appear right on top of me once exiting a door. From what I can tell the best way to avoid this is to always wait for all guards to enter the room before you try the door, so you know where all of them are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.BAZ Posted December 14, 2022 Share Posted December 14, 2022 (edited) Xain'd Sleena (10th attempt): 104,530 Man, this would've probably been one of my favorite games if I'd ever had it around back in the day. Console Sidequest -- This was a hard one for me. I can usually still find some fun in games I liked as a kid. Some games I don't want to play anymore but I still hold in high regard, like RPGs or etc., something I think has aged just fine, I'm just done playing it. If it weren't limited to consoles I would pick Daedalian Opus on Game Boy for sure. I played tons of that and always thought highly of it during my middle school & high school years, but ever since I got back into gaming, I just could care less about that game. I tried, but... yeah no thanks. After a good deal of thought, I've decided to go with Tagin' Dragon (NES). This game was always bad, but for me got even worse with time. My brother and I had a low opinion of it, but we actually had a lot of fun with the 2-player mode, chasing each others' tails. We got a kick out of making fun of the game and making fun of Color Dreams for their low quality games and stupid-looking cartridges. We actually rented Tagin' Dragon 2 or 3 times, which I can't say of any other Color Dreams game (I'm pretty sure any others got promptly brought back & swapped out with something else after the 1st try!) I even put a good deal of time into getting as far as I could in 1-player Tagin' Dragon back then, at least the 1st time we rented it. Nowadays, it just seems like nothing but a crap game like one might find on one of those famiclones preloaded with unlicensed stinkers. Except for collecting of course. I still want that cartridge! 810 pts endured: Edited December 14, 2022 by S.BAZ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.BAZ Posted December 16, 2022 Share Posted December 16, 2022 (edited) Intrepid: 44,770 66,510 (6th attempt) Edited December 16, 2022 by S.BAZ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evan04 Posted December 16, 2022 Share Posted December 16, 2022 25,250 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hero2millions Posted December 18, 2022 Share Posted December 18, 2022 XS 29.500 Intrepid 850I Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.A.M.E Offender Posted December 18, 2022 Share Posted December 18, 2022 Intrepid- 32090 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.A.M.E Offender Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 Xained Sleena 60920 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.A.M.E Offender Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 96010 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.A.M.E Offender Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 (edited) Side Quest This game seemed so awesome back in the 80s. Then I played the original arcade version and realized how bad this port really is. No score, one board and done, limited enemies. This game just sucks asscrack. It was a big 'swing and a miss.' Edited December 19, 2022 by M.A.M.E Offender Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.A.M.E Offender Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 58190 Time to come thru, time to come do what MO does.....time to come make the news... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evan04 Posted December 19, 2022 Share Posted December 19, 2022 59,010 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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