Atarian7 Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 Atari 2600 Jr Pac Man - 4 minutes Kaboom! - 42 minutes Solar Fox - 24 minutes Solar Plexus - 19 minutes Thrust+ Platinum - 6 minutes 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted February 5 Author Share Posted February 5 Holy Hand Grenade! 😮 With one day to go, this week already clocks in with 148 different games of which 78 new to the tracker! 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamchevy Posted February 5 Share Posted February 5 Switch: Zelda Totk: 240min Prince of Persia 40min Vectrex: Minestorm 80 min Vyrzon 40 min Vector Pilot 40 min 6 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keir Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 4 hours ago, Atarian7 said: Thrust+ Platinum - 6 minutes I don’t know if it makes a difference but I also played the Platinum Edition. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CapitanClassic Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 Android RB College - 173 min The extended contracts for my OC/DC for Hawaii finally expired, just before 5-Star. Instead of continuing their contracts for 10C, I decided to accept an offer from another college. Decided on Waco, because the conference had the highest overall Stars for all the competing teams. Going to be fun building up a winning team. Atari 2600 (Stella) Berry Fun - 4 min Caramujo - 6 min Dark Keep - 7 min Gome of the Bear 2 Much To Bear - 8 min Kovi Kovi - 11 min Penult - 4 min 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DragonGrafx-16 Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 Super Metroid (SNES) 317 mins Watched the funny speen man play Super Metroid Randomized and it got me in the mood to play. It's a game I replay about every 5 years or so. Hard to believe I bought the game for $30 nearly 20 years ago. I'm scared to see how much it would cost now. I'm about 3/4 through the game and killing Ridley is what is coming up next. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+wongojack Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 1 hour ago, CapitanClassic said: Android RB College - 173 min The extended contracts for my OC/DC for Hawaii finally expired, just before 5-Star. Instead of continuing their contracts for 10C, I decided to accept an offer from another college. Decided on Waco, because the conference had the highest overall Stars for all the competing teams. Going to be fun building up a winning team. Waco! That's my team baby. Do us proud. I won the natty on both medium and hard with the Bears. Too bad about the mismatched uniform colors. You don't even get to beat purple frogs (Ft Worth). 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skippy B. Coyote Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 Lots of games for me this week! I started off the week playing through Klonoa: Empire of Dreams for the Game Boy Advance and enjoyed it immensely, then did a little playthrough of Super Mario Land to pass a little time one evening. The big highlight of the week for me was joining a retro handheld focused Discord server where everyone votes on games to play each month, and every month there's 3 games to play. One game made before 1996, one made between 1996 and 1999, and one game made in the year 2000 or later. This month the games of the month ended up being Kirby's Dreamland 2, Metal Slug 2, and Metroid Prime so I got started on 2 of the 3! Atari 2600 Thrust+ Platinum Edition - 18 minutes Nintendo Game Boy Kirby's Dreamland 2 - 96 minutes Operation C - 19 minutes Super Mario Land - 64 minutes Nintendo Game Boy Advance Alien Hominid - 12 minutes Klonoa: Empire of Dreams - 487 minutes Nintendo GameCube Metroid Prime - 463 minutes Nintendo Wii Dead Space: Extraction - 10 minutes Sony PlayStation Tomb Raider - 64 minutes 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGameCollector Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 (edited) The last 2 weeks I played: Super Mario Bros.: Level-Headed for NES - 575 minutes Progress: After fixing my capture card audio timing issues in OBS Studio, I started over in playing the first rom set I created with totally random difficulty while streaming it. I used a real NES with a Powerpak to play and record it. I was able to complete 17 out of 29 games so far. I almost wonder if I should set up some kind of challenge where I dare people to try to complete the extra hard generated hacks I couldn't by sharing them somewhere. Maybe one of those pro speed-runners could handle the difficulty. PS: I just found out that Level-Headed was updated to v0.3.10 last August which introduced a couple bug fixes but not really any game generating differences. The creator started working on adding things for the next future build including pipe exits for underwater, underground, and auto-scrolling levels. Edited February 6 by TheGameCollector 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hwlngmad Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 14 hours ago, CapitanClassic said: Android RB College - 173 min The extended contracts for my OC/DC for Hawaii finally expired, just before 5-Star. Instead of continuing their contracts for 10C, I decided to accept an offer from another college. Decided on Waco, because the conference had the highest overall Stars for all the competing teams. Going to be fun building up a winning team. I, also, took over Hawai'i in one of my saves and have built them up to be a powerhouse. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hwlngmad Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 13 hours ago, wongojack said: Too bad about the mismatched uniform colors. You don't even get to beat purple frogs (Ft Worth). Yeah, the unis are horrible in RBC. Really a bit of a shocker considering how they did an exceptional job in original game. Though, to be fair, RBC has a crap ton more teams. Still, you think they could have done a better job. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hwlngmad Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 My times yesterday (2/5) were: PC 1) Pac-Man Museum + - 27 minutes 2) Super Woden GP II - 12 minutes 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted February 6 Author Share Posted February 6 Week 05 Summary For the week January 29 - February 4, we logged 9114 minutes of gaming, playing 166 games (of which 81 new) on a total of 36 systems. Individual Top 20 1. Punch-Out (Wii) - 686 min. (#19) 2. Skies of Arcadia (Dreamcast) - 640 min. (#3) 3. Kerokeroking DX (JP Ribbit King) (Gamecube) - 613 min. 4. Super Mario Bros: Level-Headed (NES/Famicom) - 575 min. 5. Klonoa: Empire of Dreams (Game Boy Advance) - 487 min. 6. Metroid Prime (Gamecube) - 463 min. 7. Seiken Densetsu 3 (Trials of Mana) (SNES) - 461 min. (#5) 8. Super Metroid (SNES) - 317 min. 9. Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom (Switch) - 240 min. 10. Retro Bowl College (Android) - 173 min. (#8) 11. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 160 min. (#6) 12. Jr. Pac-Man (Atari 2600) - 145 min. 13. Atari Invaders (Atari 8-bit) - 140 min. 14. Clubhouse Games: 51 Worldwide Classics (Switch) - 125 min. 15. Baku Baku Animal (Game Gear) - 100 min. 16. Kirby's Dream Land 2 (Game Boy) - 96 min. 17. Retro Bowl (Android) - 95 min. (#14) 18. Banjo-Kazooie (Nintendo 64) - 90 min. 18. Puzzler World (Nintendo DS) - 90 min. 18. Truxton (Arcade) - 90 min. 18. Zephyr's Pass (Game Boy Color) - 90 min. Pre-NES Top 10 1. Solar Fox (Atari 2600) - 160 min. (PN#1) 2. Jr. Pac-Man (Atari 2600) - 145 min. 3. Atari Invaders (Atari 8-bit) - 140 min. 4. Deluxe Invaders (Atari 8-bit) - 80 min. 5. Galaxian (Atari 5200) - 80 min. 6. Millipede (Atari 5200) - 80 min. 7. Mine Storm (Vectrex) - 80 min. 8. Solar Plexus (Atari 2600) - 79 min. (PN#9) 9. Kaboom! (Atari 2600) - 53 min. (PN#5) 10. Dark Keep (Atari 2600) - 52 min. Systems Top 20 1. Gamecube (5 games) - 1151 min. 2. Atari 2600 (40 games) - 1112 min. (#3) 3. SNES (2 games) - 778 min. (#7) 4. Dreamcast (5 games) - 770 min. (#2) 5. Wii (2 games) - 696 min. (#4) 6. NES/Famicom (9 games) - 623 min. (#16) 7. Switch (7 games) - 545 min. (#1) 8. Game Boy Advance (4 games) - 522 min. 9. Android (2 games) - 268 min. (#6) 10. Game Boy (7 games) - 265 min. (#15) 11. Game Gear (5 games) - 260 min. 12. Atari 8-bit (4 games) - 244 min. 13. Atari 7800 (13 games) - 185 min. 14. Atari Lynx (15 games) - 170 min. 15. Vectrex (3 games) - 160 min. 15. Atari 5200 (2 games) - 160 min. 17. Browser based (6 games) - 157 min. (#9) 18. Genesis (5 games) - 145 min. (#11) 19. Arcade (4 games) - 140 min. (#8) 20. Game Boy Color (3 games) - 112 min. (#20) Punch-Out on the Wii delivers a strong uppercut and moves from #19 to #1, just ahead of Skies of Arcadia and Kerokeroking DX. Things are just as tight in the pre-NES section, where the old classic Solar Fox is only 15 minutes ahead of Jr. Pac-Man and another 5 min ahead of Atari Invaders. The systems list sees a massive 40 games for the Atari 2600. If all of those had been played 1 minute longer, it would have overtaken the Gamecube. Retro Bowl (Android) joins the 5000 Minute Club with exactly 5000 minutes played! ... and perhaps the most important saved for last ... The all-time total amount of playing in the combined trackers exceeds 5 million! To be exact, we have logged 5,000,098 min after combining 2.92 million minutes from the classic tracker with 2.05 million minutes from the modern tracker and adding another 32485 minutes so far this year. 7 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hwlngmad Posted February 7 Share Posted February 7 Yesterday's (2/6) totals: GBA 1) Mario vs. Donkey Kong - 40 minutes PC 1) Super Blood Hockey - 10 minutes 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hwlngmad Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 Yesterday's (2/8) totals: Android 1) Chessplode - 15 minutes 2) Pawnbarian - 45 minutes 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+neogeo1982 Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 An extreme Sega week again. Didn't even touch any modern systems at all. Dreamcast Skies of Arcadia - 790min Sonic Adventure - 100min Bomberman Online - 120min Marvel Vs. Capcom - 120min Dead or Alive 2 - 30min Soul Caliber - 30min Tony Hawks Pro Skater - 30min NFL 2K1 - 60min Sega Bass Fishing - 20min Stupid Invaders - 20min The Grinch - 40min NBA 2K2 - 30min Phantasy Star Online Ver.2 - 20min Game Gear Last Bible Special - 150min Fatal Fury Special - 45min Samurai Shodown - 25min Robocop vs Terminator - 45min Aerial Assault - 45min Battletoads - 90min Super Return of the Jedi - 30min Sonic the Hedgehog - 180min 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted February 11 Author Share Posted February 11 Atari 8-bit: Super Pac-Man - 7 min. Almost twice the amount of minutes from last week! Perhaps I should start counting those Windows solitaire games after all, only to get a higher total count? 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurt_Woloch Posted February 11 Share Posted February 11 (edited) Here are my times for this week (February 5th through 11th, 2024): Arcade: Elevator Action - 54 min. in 3 sessions Elevator Action II - 56 min. Browser-based: 98.js: Space Cadet Pinball - 12 min. This week I played a bit of Elevator Action again, but by the third building things get pretty tough. Then I tried its unpopular sequel, Elevator Action II, where only the first level is an elevator stage like in the original game. The subsequent levels differ in layout greatly. Finally, due to a livestream on Youtube I got aware of a utility called paint.js, which is a replication of the Windows 98 version of Paint in Javascript that runs on a website. I could actually use that for something which you can't do in the Windows 10 version of Paint anymore... resizing pictures WITHOUT applying antialiasing. But I needed such a function for a picture conversion from a while ago. You see, back in the day I started a C-64 conversion of the Magnavox Odyssey^2 game "Smithereens" (AKA "Stone Sling") which in German was called "Burgenschlacht" (battle of castles). Since the C-64 has vastly better graphics than the Odyssey^2, I modeled the background graphics a bit after the G7400/Odyssey^3 version with the additional background graphics, in my case showing a river dividing a meadow, like this: You can see some trickery with raster line interrupts and sprites in the border here. However, this was not nearly close to the background graphics of the G7400 version, which look like this: This, however, isn't quite up to what the C-64 can do... the C-64 has a multicolor mode which basically the G7400 doesn't have, its graphics capabilities are maybe on par with the hi-res mode of the C-64. So I put that picture through the AI picture processor FotoR, yielding the following result: That looks much nicer, however it's now more than the C-64 can do, so I had to convert it down to its resolution and colors somehow. There's an online converter for C-64 graphics, but it spits out multicolor pictures in the resolution 160x200, looking like this: However, this now has the wrong screen aspect ratio, so each pixel has to be stretched horizontally again, and as I mentioned, you can't do this in Windows 10 paint without applying anti aliasing, but with Paint.js, you can do just that, yielding the following result: And that's what a proper background on the C-64 would look like, there might just be some unresolved color clashes if a tile uses more than 4 colors, but I didn't look into that yet. It actually comes close to the style in which I "modernized" the sprites which in the G7400 version are 8x8 pixels and monochrome, but can look much better on the C-64. However, while doing that I noticed that Paint.js actually belongs to a Windows 98 simulator of sorts called 98.js, and with it they included several apps that come with Windows 98, including Space Cadet Pinball, and that's what I played and listed. Oh, here's a PRG file for everyone who wants to experience my original "Burgenschlacht" demo (as far as it got) for the C-64, also containing some music... can anyone guess the song? demo burgenschl.PRG Edited February 11 by Kurt_Woloch 7 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CapitanClassic Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 Feb 5-11: Just HSC and AHA for the 2600 this week, and my 20+ season of RB College. Android RB College - 382 min Atari 2600 (Stella) Bob and the Alien Fire Flies - 7 min Bot & Tom - 7 min Button - 5 min CHEAT - 4 min Duelo - 5 min Elevator Agent - 7 min Happy Bird - 5 min Jr. PAC-man (HSC)- 27 min Legend of Zelda - 15 min Laserface Island - 3 min Lucky Chase - 7 min Myst - 5 min Mini gun Miner - 8 min River Raid (HSC)- 10 min Steps - 3 min Strike Zone Bowling - 15 min Tober’s. Nightmare - 7 min Xanthiom - 12 min 6 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+wongojack Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 PC Half Life: Alyx 95 Wii Punch-Out 372 XBox Series S/X Dordogne 21 Spacelines from the Far Out 48 Venba 40 I beat Wii Punch-Out and posted about it here: https://forums.atariage.com/topic/359069-modern-games-beaten-in-2024/?do=findComment&comment=5408773 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayler Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 Back to normal minutes again with bite-sized sessions here and there. I think I've gotten everything out of Frolf for now and settling up to finish SD3, still some ways to go I reckon. GAMECUBE Kerokeroking DX (JP Ribbit King) - 68 min SNES Seiken Densetsu 3 - 311 min 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atarian7 Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 Atari 2600 JR. Pac-Man - 15 minutes Kaboom! - 112 minutes Solar Fox - 78 minutes 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oyamafamily Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 ATARI 2600: Jr. Pac-Man (for HSC) - 190 minutes River Raid (for HSC) - 100 minutes 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keir Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 Week of 2/5/24 - 2/11/24 Atari 2600 Jr. Pac-Man - 80 Commodore 64 Might and Magic - 155 iOS Duolingo - 34 Jumbline 2 - 59 Total time = 328 minutes 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hwlngmad Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 Here were my totals from 2/9 to 2/11. They were: Android 1) Monopoly Go! - 30 minutes 2) Ouroboros King Chess Roguelike - 20 minutes 3) Retro Bowl College - 15 minutes 4) Snood - 15 minutes N64 1) Automobili Lamborghini - 20 minutes 2) Bomberman 64 - 15 minutes 3) Dr. Mario 64 - 36 minutes 4) Iggy's Reckin' Balls - 25 minutes 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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