Goochman Posted April 25, 2004 Share Posted April 25, 2004 Ok, Round 3 is ready - these are 2 great conversions for the 8bit - lets see some really good scores and participation this week! Dont forget to include some suggestions for next week in your submissions. Mr. Do donkey_kong.zip mrdo.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ApolloBoy Posted April 25, 2004 Share Posted April 25, 2004 Since Gooch won't be here for most of next week, I'll take over this HSC. Now let's play! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bunsen Posted April 25, 2004 Share Posted April 25, 2004 Hi, with pleasure we saw that anybody else likes to play 8bit games and makes a hiscore contest in the internet. We are the Wiesbaden Gaming Lab (WGL), part of the german atari computer club ABBUC (Atari Bit Byter User Club). Since 10 month we do once per month a HSC ('High Score Chat') and we call it ABBUC Bundesliga. We are meeting on a wednesday from 9 to 11 pm in the chat room of the ABBUC Homepage with about 10 people and playing one game that we voted. If some of you guys are interested to play and chat with us, we could translate the rules and chat in english?! The four members of the WGL want to participiate this week in your contest. We met last night and played a lot of atari games. We played Donkey Kong also. Here are our scores. Wizard / WGL 77200 Grisu / WGL 14800 Mad Butscher / Foundation Two 14100 Bunsen / WGL 12200 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SS Posted April 25, 2004 Share Posted April 25, 2004 Wizard / WGL 77200 Looks like I might be dead in the water before I even have a chance to begin! Nice score, BTW! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bunsen Posted April 25, 2004 Share Posted April 25, 2004 Wizard / WGL 77200 Looks like I might be dead in the water before I even have a chance to begin! Nice score, BTW! Yeah, he frustrated us by playing only one time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goochman Posted April 25, 2004 Author Share Posted April 25, 2004 Since Gooch won't be here for most of next week, I'll take over this HSC. Now let's play! I can finish this week - its next week I wont be able to finish - 77K on Donkey Kong - HA! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goochman Posted April 26, 2004 Author Share Posted April 26, 2004 My first game: Donkey Kong 78000 Mr. Do! 70150 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goochman Posted April 26, 2004 Author Share Posted April 26, 2004 FYI on Donkey Kong - I think the 3rd elevator screen (maybe 4) gets so fast the pattern was tested on an 'osillator' or something like that to prove it was theorhetically possible to complete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bjk7382 Posted April 26, 2004 Share Posted April 26, 2004 My first Mr. Do score for the week. Scene 8 - 82,350 (EDIT- Better score picture below) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goochman Posted April 26, 2004 Author Share Posted April 26, 2004 Mr Do - 143600 BTW, I found a bug in the game - When the 'Letter' guys came out and I got the letter 2 of the bad guys were right next to each other and turned into 'apples'. The letter came out again on its own and tried to eat 1 of the apples but got confused since 2 were right next to each other. The 'letter' bounced back and forth trying to eat an apple but never succeeding - I couldnt hit it with the ball either - oh well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oesii Posted April 26, 2004 Share Posted April 26, 2004 First time scores, 58900 on Donkey Kong and 69100 on Mr. Do. I've always sucked at Mr. Do so don't expect any improved scores on that one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shannon Posted April 26, 2004 Share Posted April 26, 2004 Wow... looks like I'm gonna have some competition on this one. I thought for sure I had a killer score on Mr Do... I got it on my third try and it took me SEVERAL tries before I could get close to it consistently. I'll post my scores later. I'll probably skip on tips. For some reason I do not think of tips for games like these. I might have a few, but they would mostly be scoring tips (how many points you get for what), etc. Almost like an overview on how to play the game. Nothing really special. When I was playing gorf and berzerk all kinds of tips were popping in my head. As for donkey kong. I've been realizing just how sloppy the barrell screens are. Mario's head is too big, the collision detection is dodgy, and there are very few spots you can jump over a barrel without hitting your head on a barrel above you. And to think the original programmer was proud of the barrel level. Sloppy... Still a great game, none the less. Anyone know how to create a diamond in Mr. Do? It happens to me every once and a while but I was not sure what caused it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shannon Posted April 26, 2004 Share Posted April 26, 2004 FYI on Donkey Kong - I think the 3rd elevator screen (maybe 4) gets so fast the pattern was tested on an 'osillator' or something like that to prove it was theorhetically possible to complete Are you sure? I'm almost positive I have managed to get past that level in the past. But that was many moons ago and my reflexes where alot faster. I know that level is insane, for sure. In fact I think the game even slows down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oesii Posted April 26, 2004 Share Posted April 26, 2004 only a little bit higher in DK. Need to find the time to play this on the real deal, didn't get a chance last week 68600 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mariusz Posted April 26, 2004 Share Posted April 26, 2004 Here is my Mr DO! best score 122000 at 14 level. My shortest time in finishing level is 3 sec! Can You do it quicker? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goochman Posted April 26, 2004 Author Share Posted April 26, 2004 Here is my Mr DO! best score 122000 at 14 level. My shortest time in finishing level is 3 sec! Can You do it quicker? If you hit the extra guy like you did I bet I could - nice score. Leaderboard will be updated in a few hours. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mariusz Posted April 26, 2004 Share Posted April 26, 2004 Small update - Mr DO! 135600 at 15 level. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenfused Posted April 26, 2004 Share Posted April 26, 2004 373250 Scene 28 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bjk7382 Posted April 26, 2004 Share Posted April 26, 2004 Great score Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenfused Posted April 26, 2004 Share Posted April 26, 2004 unfornately no where near my high score I have written on my old disk jacket from eons ago of 816,600 screen 52 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goochman Posted April 27, 2004 Author Share Posted April 27, 2004 Nice kenfused - looks like I got my work cut out for me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deathtrappomegranate Posted April 27, 2004 Share Posted April 27, 2004 373250Scene 28 Respect is due! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bjk7382 Posted April 27, 2004 Share Posted April 27, 2004 Here are my two scores for now. DK is pissing me off, can't get a decent score out of it. But I did manage to crack 100k on Mr. Do. Mr. Do. - Scene 10 - 100,950 DK - 35,500 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NE146 Posted April 27, 2004 Share Posted April 27, 2004 I don't have Mr Do! (I'd have to use an emulator) But there's nothing that can hold me back from one of my all time favorites, classic Donkey Kong My first couple of tries.. I just tried to remember the 8bit version. My observations 1. You can jump and hit your head on a barrel above you even in the middle of the screen in the girder stage! Another "extra" thing to beware of. 2. Lack of the ladder (the one below the hammer in the middle of the rivets stage) really messes up my pattern.. I gotta improvise 3. So many Fireballs in the conveyer belt stage! The arcade only gave you the corresponding # to the stage (i.e. stage 3 gives you 3 fireballs, stage 1.. only seen in the japan version, gives you 1 fireball, etc.). In 8bit DK, they throw out FIVE at you right away! 4. The Bouncing rivets on the elevator stage behave completely different from the arcade version. They get slower and decrease the wavelength of their bounce in the upper stages forcing you to do fancy footwork (rather than using pure speed) to avoid them...Takes some trial and error. so here are my record "tries": 1st try: 30k-ish 2nd try: 41900 3rd try: little higher.. not by much 4th try: even less! 5th try: about 70k.. but I knew I could do better. I just had to concentrate and stop treating it like the arcade game. 6th try: 95200! I coulda did better too.. but I died foolishly on the first girder stage of the cycle by a poorly timed barrel jump. Oh well.. it's time for bed anyway Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shannon Posted April 27, 2004 Share Posted April 27, 2004 Welp there goes my super duper Mr. Do score! Relegated to 2nd place or less. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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