+DamonicFury Posted September 9 Share Posted September 9 Welcome to the seventh round of the 19th 5200 HSC season! Pac-Man and Congo Bongo were tied in the pool, but Pac-Man won the coin toss. Play using the default settings. Emulation is fine, as are custom controls. Pics preferred, but not required except for HSC wins and records. The high score was set by both tank and oyamafamily who both rolled the score with over 1,000,000 points. Match this feat if you can for a bonus point! The ROM can be found here: https://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-5200-pac-man_s11775.html Round ends Sunday, September 22nd, 2024 @11pm EST Standings: oyamafamily - 140,710 Cafeman - 44,910 jblenkle - 9,020 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Cafeman Posted September 9 Share Posted September 9 Who has The Fever?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oyamafamily Posted September 9 Share Posted September 9 Pac-Man - 76,310 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Cafeman Posted September 10 Share Posted September 10 27,880. I am NOT familiar with this version's patterns! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oyamafamily Posted September 10 Share Posted September 10 Pac-Man - 140,710 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DamonicFury Posted September 11 Author Share Posted September 11 On 9/9/2024 at 8:01 PM, Cafeman said: 27,880. I am NOT familiar with this version's patterns! Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think there are any. Just from observing the ghost behaviors in the first minute of the game several times, there seems to be some randomization there that would prevent patterns from working. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Cafeman Posted September 11 Share Posted September 11 1 minute ago, DamonicFury said: Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think there are any. Just from observing the ghost behaviors in the first minute of the game several times, there seems to be some randomization there that would prevent patterns from working. The ghosts don't behave at all like the Coin-op, that's for sure. Bashfull / Orange ghost plowed into me when the coin-op version would have turned away, for example. Don't wait too long at a power pellet either, their kill priority is higher than Pac-Man's eat-power-pellet priority checks. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DamonicFury Posted September 11 Author Share Posted September 11 Yeah, crazily enough the ghosts are even more murderous than their coin-op cousins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Cafeman Posted September 11 Share Posted September 11 as revealed by their dead-eye stares. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Cafeman Posted September 12 Share Posted September 12 44,910. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jblenkle Posted Saturday at 02:08 AM Share Posted Saturday at 02:08 AM Pac-Man - 9,020 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oyamafamily Posted Sunday at 02:07 AM Share Posted Sunday at 02:07 AM (edited) Pac-Man - I made it to the 6th KEY after many attempts, but no major improvements on my score. Edited Sunday at 03:13 PM by oyamafamily Picture corrupted in this post. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oyamafamily Posted Sunday at 05:15 PM Share Posted Sunday at 05:15 PM Pac-Man improvement - 177,790 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oyamafamily Posted Monday at 12:59 AM Share Posted Monday at 12:59 AM Pac-Man - 1,000,000+ (Rolled) Timeline 00:00 – Opening of 5200 Pac-Man on Altirra and variation set to Default (Cherries / 1P) 00:52 – Start of submitted run 11:23 – First death (First Atari Logo stage) 11:51 – Second death (First Atari Logo stage) 17:08 – Third death when I was CLOSE to complete the 1st KEY stage 20:36 – Opening of 5th KEY stage 22:48 – Opening of 7th KEY stage 1:11:29 – Rollover at 1 Million points 1:17:37 – End of run and final score shown (1,100,460 points - 100,460 after rollover) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NE146 Posted Monday at 02:55 AM Share Posted Monday at 02:55 AM (edited) Wow wtf is that a bug in the 5200 upper key levels where they stay blinking blue forever??!! If it is, I admit I have never seen such a thing let alone heard of it.. that is crazy! Who knew?! 😲 On that note I had travelled for 7 weeks back in late july, got back mid August and only now things are settling down where I can play again.. so I was going to start participating but that score is just ridiculous! lol, and if that bug is consistent then it just becomes a matter of making it to that point, then it just becomes endurance. I'll wait until the next round maybe Edited Monday at 02:55 AM by NE146 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RB5200 Posted Monday at 03:36 AM Share Posted Monday at 03:36 AM 38 minutes ago, NE146 said: Wow wtf is that a bug in the 5200 upper key levels where they stay blinking blue forever??!! If it is, I admit I have never seen such a thing let alone heard of it. It is indeed a bug on the 5200 version, don't remember which key # it starts at, but it is there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Cafeman Posted Monday at 04:52 AM Share Posted Monday at 04:52 AM I found that bug BITD, but I won't be trying to roll the score, too long. It's tough enough to get to that key from the 1st Cherries level. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DamonicFury Posted Monday at 05:18 PM Author Share Posted Monday at 05:18 PM On 9/9/2024 at 11:36 AM, DamonicFury said: Welcome to the seventh round of the 19th 5200 HSC season! Pac-Man and Congo Bongo were tied in the pool, but Pac-Man won the coin toss. Play using the default settings. Emulation is fine, as are custom controls. Pics preferred, but not required except for HSC wins and records. The high score was set by both tank and oyamafamily who both rolled the score with over 1,000,000 points. Match this feat if you can for a bonus point! The ROM can be found here: https://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-5200-pac-man_s11775.html Round ends Sunday, September 22nd, 2024 @11pm EST Standings: oyamafamily - 1,000,000+ - RECORD TIED Cafeman - 44,910 jblenkle - 9,020 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DamonicFury Posted Monday at 05:51 PM Author Share Posted Monday at 05:51 PM New poll is up: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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