+jgkspsx Posted May 1, 2023 Share Posted May 1, 2023 2023 HSC rules This round we play Crystal Mines II's hidden marathon mode and a favorite game jam title that just went physical, Assembloids. Round Over: Monday June 1 (full points), Sunday October 1st (rank points only) 2023 12:01am US Pacific Crystal Mines II is cheap and easy to find physically, available on Evercade, and really great! The last time we did a challenge for it was in 2017, and it's time we revisited it. We're also revisiting 2019 game jam masterwork Assembloids, which just last month got an awesome physical edition! Crystal Mines II Manual / instructions / discussion: https://atariage.com/manual_html_page.php?SoftwareID=2408 Settings - bonus level you get to by putting in the level code ZERO HSC Record: @Peyo - 1,175,860 BROKEN! Description: Can you get all the treasure in the Secret Vault? Let's find out! Enter the password ZERO to launch this secret mission, and take a screenshot when you finish the level! Scores: 1. @jeremiahjt - 1179270* (NEW RECORD!) - 102 2. @jgkspsx - 1000120* - 100 3. @MichaG - 141310* - 98 4. @Rick Dangerous - 141200 - 94 5. Your name here! 6. Your name here! 7. Your name here! 8. Your name here! 9. Your name here! 10. Your name here! * bonus points achieved Bonus Challenge: Beat @roadrunner's score from 2017 - 141,200 - for two bonus points! Ends June 1. Assembloids As far as I can tell, the scoring on the physical version of Assembloids is the same as on the game jam version from the Lynx's 30th anniversary. So until I hear otherwise feel free to use your brand new cartridge if you have it! Manual / instructions / discussion: https://atarigamer.com/lynx/game/assembloids/8913075 Download link: https://atarigamer.com/ag-api/lynx/rom/Assembloids/8913075 Settings: Difficulty 2 (the default) HSC Record: First year! Description: Assemble aliens one quadrant at a time... literally! The more complete a head is the more functional your creation will be. Try to make whole species and avoid filling your space armada with rejects from the Island of Dr. Moreau! Scores: 1. @agradeneu - 11270 (NEW RECORD!)* - 100+2 2. @jgkspsx - 7800* - 98+2 3. @jeremiahjt - 6100 - 96 3. @MichaG - 5210 - 94 4. @Rick Dangerous - 3070 - 92 5. Your name here! 6. Your name here! 7. Your name here! 8. Your name here! 9. Your name here! 10. Your name here! * bonus points achieved Bonus Challenge: if the compo version works for the new leaderboard, submit a high score following the instructions here: https://www.astro.physik.uni-potsdam.de/~mwendt/scores.html If not, we'll figure something else out! This bonus point is available all season. Current season point standings: jgkspsx 894 396 498 MichaG 885 382 478 Rick Dangerous 858 380 478 Ninjabba 501 178 298 jeremiahjt 402 402 0 agradeneu 325 100 200 JagChris 184 184 0 KidGameR186496 127 102 0 jblenkle 115 90 0 Songbird 102 0 102 Any corrections please post. Please put your score in text in your post please to make my life a little easier. Thanks for joining us! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jeremiahjt Posted May 1, 2023 Share Posted May 1, 2023 First score for Crystal Mines II is 1,123,800. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agradeneu Posted May 2, 2023 Share Posted May 2, 2023 Assembloids 7410 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agradeneu Posted May 8, 2023 Share Posted May 8, 2023 New Assembloids score 11270 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Dangerous Posted May 9, 2023 Share Posted May 9, 2023 Level Zero is driving me nuts. Can't figure out any of the side rooms. Get trapped by the boulder on the left, get burned up by the fireball on the right. Oh well. 141,200 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jeremiahjt Posted May 9, 2023 Share Posted May 9, 2023 35 minutes ago, Rick Dangerous said: Get trapped by the boulder on the left, get burned up by the fireball on the right. Use the umbrella found in the bottom left room to avoid getting crushed by the boulder in the middle left room. Use the invincibility found in the bottom middle room to get past the fireballs in the bottom right room. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jgkspsx Posted May 29, 2023 Author Share Posted May 29, 2023 In case you didn’t get the joke, all you need to do to get the bonus points is score a single point in any room besides the starting room! The left room from the start is not so hard: Spoiler Push the up block into the Evil Otto thing and walk past the falling boulder, then push it back into the room you started in. I don’t remember what the nuke logo is? I can’t seem to get into the bottom middle room at all. My CM2 Zero Challenge score so far: 274000. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jgkspsx Posted May 29, 2023 Author Share Posted May 29, 2023 Ahhh, I figured out how to get to the lower left room and what do do with the radioactivity shield. I still can’t get in the middle room so I am getting the goodies from the left bottom room without invincibility - it’s tough but extremely possible if you have patience. 577960 with 50k first try bonus, we should probably subtract that so we don’t all have to reset every time. So 527960. Actually just subtract it if you score over 500k, you don’t really need it in that case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jgkspsx Posted May 29, 2023 Author Share Posted May 29, 2023 My latest Assembloids score: 7800 (compo version) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jeremiahjt Posted May 30, 2023 Share Posted May 30, 2023 4 hours ago, jgkspsx said: Ahhh, I figured out how to get to the lower left room and what do do with the radioactivity shield. I still can’t get in the middle room so I am getting the goodies from the left bottom room without invincibility - it’s tough but extremely possible if you have patience. 577960 with 50k first try bonus, we should probably subtract that so we don’t all have to reset every time. So 527960. Actually just subtract it if you score over 500k, you don’t really need it in that case. I say keep the first time bonus. The left bottom room is for the radioactive shield, the right bottom room is for the invincibility. You have to push the boulder from the left middle room into the bottom right room to get access to the bottom middle room. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jgkspsx Posted May 30, 2023 Author Share Posted May 30, 2023 1 hour ago, jeremiahjt said: You have to push the boulder from the left middle room into the bottom right room to get access to the bottom middle room. Ohhhh that’s a chute!! It would have taken me a long time to remember that. Thanks for the tip! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichaG Posted May 30, 2023 Share Posted May 30, 2023 Assembloids: 5,210 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jgkspsx Posted May 31, 2023 Author Share Posted May 31, 2023 Up to 938510. I would really like to crack a million. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jgkspsx Posted May 31, 2023 Author Share Posted May 31, 2023 Cracked a million! 1000120 There is still a ton of room for improvement - I wasted some of the over quota gems, then I did the slime clearing terribly, then I wasted a bunch of bombs clearing the remaining slime only to find there was no money under it anyway. Then I realized there were three radioactive blocks with money I missed. Oh well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jeremiahjt Posted May 31, 2023 Share Posted May 31, 2023 1 hour ago, jgkspsx said: I wasted some of the over quota gems, then I did the slime clearing terribly, then I wasted a bunch of bombs clearing the remaining slime only to find there was no money under it anyway. Then I realized there were three radioactive blocks with money I missed. How did you waste over quota gems? I have wanted to actually map out the money in the slime pool to make sure I get it all and to not waste any dynamite. I have wondered if the exploding enemies could be brought over and used in the slime pool. With the radioactive suit, I can move every single radioactive block. So I do not have to waste any dynamite in that room. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jeremiahjt Posted May 31, 2023 Share Posted May 31, 2023 New score of 1,174,920. I wasted one dynamite in the radioactive room, but that would only net me 200 more points. That would still put me 740 points or so behind the record. That would mean I would need to save 4 more dynamites. Not sure how I do that. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jgkspsx Posted May 31, 2023 Author Share Posted May 31, 2023 You can waste over quota gems by dumping them into the holes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jeremiahjt Posted May 31, 2023 Share Posted May 31, 2023 Woo-hoo! I did it. Move over @Peyo! New score of one million, one hundred seventy-nine thousand, two hundred seventy. That looks like 1,179,270 for those curious. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jeremiahjt Posted May 31, 2023 Share Posted May 31, 2023 36 minutes ago, jgkspsx said: You can waste over quota gems by dumping them into the holes. I get it. I would probably call that losing them, not wasting them. When you said wasting them it made me think you could use them somehow. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MichaG Posted May 31, 2023 Share Posted May 31, 2023 My cat found the secret room... 141,310 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Dangerous Posted June 1, 2023 Share Posted June 1, 2023 Assembloids 3070 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jgkspsx Posted June 1, 2023 Author Share Posted June 1, 2023 Hoping to get the new round up tonight but this will stay open for the rest of the season if you missed it! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jgkspsx Posted June 2, 2023 Author Share Posted June 2, 2023 On 5/31/2023 at 11:02 AM, jeremiahjt said: I have wondered if the exploding enemies could be brought over and used in the slime pool. I don’t think so because the boulder rolls back fast, and if they are that close to you they will explode. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jeremiahjt Posted June 2, 2023 Share Posted June 2, 2023 17 minutes ago, jgkspsx said: I don’t think so because the boulder rolls back fast, and if they are that close to you they will explode. Good point. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jeremiahjt Posted June 8, 2023 Share Posted June 8, 2023 6,130 on Assembloids on my very first time playing it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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