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MAME HSC - Round 5/10 - Holiday 6-game Extravaganza


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This round's game 1 of 6:

In the Hunt

ROM Name: In The Hunt (World)

ROM File: inthunt

Picked by: Floyd Turbo

 

DIP settings (changes from default shown in RED ) :

 

Lives: 3

Difficulty: normal

 

 

 

This round's game 2 of 6:

Zoo Keeper

ROM Name: Zoo Keeper (set 1)

ROM File: zookeep

Picked by: Cynicaster

 

DIP settings (changes from default shown in RED ) :

 

Internal defaults

 

 

This round's game 3 of 6:

Anteater

ROM Name: Anteater

ROM File: anteater

Picked by: MAME Offender

 

DIP settings (changes from default shown in RED ) :

 

Lives: 3

 

 

This round's game 4 of 6:

Mr. Do!

ROM Name: Mr. Do!

ROM File: mrdo

Picked by: evan04

 

DIP settings (changes from default shown in RED ) :

 

Difficulty: easy

Special: easy

Extra: easy

Lives: 3

 

 

This round's game 5 of 6:

Super Dodgeball

ROM Name: Super Dodge Ball (US)

ROM File: spdodgeb

Picked by: Hero2millions

 

DIP settings (changes from default shown in RED ) :

 

Difficulty: normal

 

 

This round's game 6 of 6:

Wonder Boy

ROM Name: Wonder Boy (set 1, 315-5177)

ROM File: wboy

Picked by: S.BAZ

 

DIP settings (changes from default shown in RED ) :

 

Lives: 3

Bonus: 30k 120k 210k 300k

Difficulty: easy

 

 

Console Side-Quest:

What game on home console or handheld did you (or do you) find especially maddening or frustrating?  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 January 15, 11:59pm PST

 

Previous Round Results:

 

Intrepid

Score

Points

S.BAZ

66,510

12

evan04

59,010

9

MAME Offender

58,190

8

Cynicaster

43,910

7

Floyd Turbo

13,040

6

Hero2millions

850

5

jblenkle

 

0

NE146

 

0

RuySan

 

0

 

Xain'd Sleena

Score

Points

S.BAZ

104,530

12

Cynicaster

103,450

9

MAME Offender

96,010

8

Floyd Turbo

33,000

7

Hero2millions

29,500

6

evan04

25,250

5

jblenkle

 

0

NE146

 

0

RuySan

 

0

 

CSQ Bonus

 

Cynicaster

2

MAME Offender

2

S.BAZ

2

Hero2millions

 

Floyd Turbo

 

jblenkle

 

evan04

 

NE146

 

RuySan

 

 

 

Standings to Date:

 

1

Cynicaster

85

2

MAME Offender

75

3

S.BAZ

67

4

evan04

63

5

Floyd Turbo

56

6

Hero2millions

47

7

NE146

8

8

jblenkle

7

9

RuySan

6

anteater.zip inthunt.zip mrdo.zip spdodgeb.zip wboy.zip zookeep.zip

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Did a quick run through of all the games last night.  I've played all of these before but very little.  Initial thoughts:

 

In the Hunt - absolutely beautiful looking game, especially for 1993, but I tried 10 or so credits and got absolutely nowhere.  Even on a balls-hard Cave shooter like Progear or Guwange I can usually clear a stage or 2 after a few attempts, but not so on In The Hunt.  Will keep at it, though.  

 

Zoo Keeper - my pick, and the one on the list I've played the most.  Unsung classic, IMO.

 

Anteater - I remember playing this in the MAME HSC years ago and thinking it was kind of unfair and frustrating.  That continues to be my impression, although it has a lot of cool ideas.  For my money, I'd rather play the Anteater knock-off known as "Oil's Well" on Colecovision, Commodore 64, and others.  

 

Mr. Do! - played this as a kid on Atari 2600 and could never get into it on MAME/arcade.  Not sure why, maybe I just need to stick with it and give it a chance.  

 

Super Dodge Ball - neat game but I'm struggling to see what the strategy is.  Also, it's going to be very difficult to capture pictures of scores with this one because the score blanks out immediately after you lose.  Might have to go with the honor system.

 

Wonder Boy - I played this briefly years ago in an online competition somewhere, and didn't get it.  Played a few rounds last night and it seems pretty fun and addictive. 

  

Overall, I had a lot of fun with this list and look forward to digging in.  

 

 

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Mr Do - 72,250

Super Dodgeball - 55,500

In The Hunt - 28,401  Finally made the high score board

Zoo Keeper - 74,500

Anteater - 5,580

Wonder Boy - 5,210

 

The reason I picked In The Hunt was for the graphics and it is such a difficult game that I wanted to see if we could own it. 

 

C.S.Q - I really liked Ninja Gaiden on the NES.  But brutally maddening.  I have attached a screenshot of the cocksucker I see in my nightmares.

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In The Hunt (5th attempt): 30,300

 

Now I can say the Playstation game is true to the arcade - it looks exactly the same as far as I can tell, and definitely tough as hell!  This one seems slightly harder though (as one would expect)

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Mr. Do (take 04): 39,700

feeling really rusty on this one!

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