MAME Tournament Discussion Thread

[Dr. Morbis]

Well, I'm glad Q*bert was picked because I used to hate it but now that I've been forced to actually learn how the game works, I'm really starting to like it. Has anyone gotten through level 5? Sweet fancy Moses those rounds are hard. I got to 5-2 with 4 men and lost them all without passing the level. *Sigh*.

I haven't tried Mikie yet but man, that would be the most unpopular game ever at a real arcade. "Hey guys, lets recreate the feeling of being in school!"

BTW, have the matchups been posted, and which of the two threads will they be posted in? Furthermore, do we play a different person for each game, or the same person for both games?

[Jibbajaba]

BTW, have the matchups been posted, and which of the two threads will they be posted in? Furthermore, do we play a different person for each game, or the same person for both games?

I havent posted the matchups yet, I know. I'm a mad league administrator. You will be playing the same person for both games, yes. But the person that you play will change every week.

Chris

[SoulBlazer]

Besides what has been said, can anyone explaine Mikie some more? KLOV does'nt really help, and I'm lost on what to do in the first room and how to earn points and advance.

[DDCecil]

Besides what has been said, can anyone explaine Mikie some more? KLOV does'nt really help, and I'm lost on what to do in the first room and how to earn points and advance.

It took me awhile to figure it out. You need to tap the direction of the students, and knock them out of their seat. You can then sit at their desk and grab the heart. Once you have all 5 hearts, make your way to the top left door, press button 2 to open it, and walk out. See if that helps any.

[SoulBlazer]

Okay, that does help some...and if we happen to time it right so that we sit at a desk when the heart is flashing, we earn bonus points? The entry on the game at the KLOV site mentioned something about that......

And has it been confirmed that button one does a headbut (your only attack) and button two opens the door when you can leave?

I've found it possible to headbut the teacher to stun him, but it's VERY hard to do from a up-down angle. Side to side seems MUCH easier.

Defentily a weird game. Konami had so many hits from their arcade games during this time period, but I can see why I never heard of this one.

Having better success with Q*Bert. I actually had allready made up my mind to ditch the gamepad for this game nad play with the 7-9-1-3 keys on the keypad on the right, like QOF plays, but it's nice to see how well it works. Allready got to the forth board. Now I need to focus on earning points.

[InsaneDavid]

Besides what has been said, can anyone explaine Mikie some more? KLOV does'nt really help, and I'm lost on what to do in the first room and how to earn points and advance.

Master reading the previous page in the thread and you can have this...

Okay, I read the link about how to play Mikie, but I've yet to figure out how to get any points aside from headbutting the teacher.

I've also not figured out how to get the kick button, but I'll get around to it.

Basically, I am supposed to collect the flashing hearts, but I run right through them. I have run around the room for 10 minutes running through flashing hearts trying to collect them, and I don't pick them up. Is this some kind of error?

No no no no no, the flashing hearts are not collectible. The normal hearts are. You want to go up to a desk where someone is sitting that has a heart behind them. Press the joystick (everyone okay with using that for controller direction in this thread?) repeatedly in the direction of the person at the desk and you'll begin to shove them aside until the fall off of their chair. Once they've moved you can get to where they were sitting and collect the heart behind them. The flashing hearts (that encircle the normal hearts) award you bonus points if you can pick up the normal heart when it has the flashing heart around it. Once you collect all the hearts you can exit the stage into the hallway and move to the next.

I don't understand the kick button problem, the second button doesn't make Mikie kick (I did the walkaround like was posted) but it DOES work to make Mikie open the doors once levels are cleared - always has from the start, so the button IS registering [properly]. It also works when throwing basketballs.

Sorry for the poorly created Legend of Zelda joke at everyone's expense.

[SoulBlazer]

Oh, I get the game now, but I still suck at it.

I thought the first screen was hard. The second one has you avoiding THREE guys! I can just imagine what the rest of the game is like!

[InsaneDavid]

Oh, I get the game now, but I still suck at it.

I thought the first screen was hard. The second one has you avoiding THREE guys! I can just imagine what the rest of the game is like!

Just like the boss at the end of the second stage of the Sailormoon Another Story RPG (now that's a bad transition!) the game loosens up after that stage. You can press the second button when near a bin of basketballs and pick one up, then hit the second button again and throw it at an enemy. It's just like headbutting them, if you can hit them with a ball they'll be stunned for a moment. The advantage is you can hit them from across the room, the disadvantage is that there is a limited number of basketballs.

[fergojisan]

I wasn't going to join in on this, because I'm not that great at games. But I'm really glad I did. I'm having a lot of fun! I don't think I'll win anything, but that's not really the point for me.

I didn't really like the first game, but this week's games are pretty cool (Q*Bert rocks of course ). Now that I know what to do in Mikie, I can spend more time with it. And I wonder if the use of A Hard Day's Night went under the radar because the Beatles' copyrights changed hands that year (after all, the former owner sued SESAME STREET for their Letter B song. SESAME STREET!!).

But I digress. I'm looking forward to sticking around for all the games and having fun. It's been waaaaay too long since I've played games regularly. Thanks everyone!

[Quintracker]

I hate the 'classics', I can barely make 20k on qbert. Anyone have any tips?

[Dr. Morbis]

I hate the 'classics', I can barely make 20k on qbert. Anyone have any tips?

Get good at luring the coily snake to his death. Every time you do this it clears the board of enemies. Each disc represents an opportunity to do this. Use every one of them since you get 500pts for killing the snake, but a paltry 50ish for any unused discs.

[InsaneDavid]

I hate the 'classics', I can barely make 20k on qbert. Anyone have any tips?

Agree with Quintracker and play more Mikie.

[Jibbajaba]

It's time for the MATCHUPS!!!

Starting next week, after Gapporin and I reveal the games for the week, you can issue challenges to other players. I will set up matchups according to challenges, and then pair up the players who were not involved in a challenge. Exciting stuff!

OK here are the matchups. These matchups are for BOTH games.

Queen of the Felines vs. Quintracker (The Q's battle over Q*Bert!!!)
Kamino vs. Cryomancer (Battle of the Basement!!!)
Flack vs hydr0x (Germans love Flack!!!)
Lady Jaye vs. NE146 (She's a lady, but he isn't a gentleman!!!)
AdamG vs InsaneDavid (Battle of those who use their first names in their DP nicks!!!)
DragonMaster Sam vs. Crush Crawfish (Can Sam summon enough Dragons to defeat Crush's evil horde of Crawdads???)

In other news:
Dr. Morbis vs. Mr. FoodMonster
Cmosfm vs. Hovoc
Robotriot vs. Scooterb23
Needle vs. DDCecil
Richter Belmount vs. Soulblazer
Fergojisan vs. Lord007
Cirrus vs. Tripppsk
Sothy vs. Slip81 (Battle of the Zeroes!!!)

Chris

[Crush Crawfish]

Well, I took everyone's advice and bought that adaptor, and I must say that it's a HUGE improvement over my previous pad (which coincidently just stopped working yesterday). I only wish I'd gotten it earlier--with a PS2 control, I beat my old Knights of the round score on my first try!

Anyways, I like both this week's games. Once you figure it out, Mikie's a blast to play. Tough as nails, though. And I kinda suck at Q*bert, but it's still really fun. Gotta love luring Coily to his death!

[Quintracker]

Ok Queen of the Felines, how much meseta will it take to let me win? Or should I just offer my body?

[NE146]

I hate the 'classics', I can barely make 20k on qbert. Anyone have any tips?

Well I dunno if theres many good tips in these, but here they are anyway. From 2 seperate issues of Joystik.

[Quintracker]

Thanks NE146!

[Cirrus]

Wow, what a stand-up guy... showing the opponents your play-book. Some of those tips are really useful. Sadly, I barely realized that jumping onto the discs was why the snake was jumping off of the edge. Basically, the little guys jumping on the other sides of the blocks completely throw me off.

I get very confused by that.

[Queen Of The Felines]

Ok Queen of the Felines, how much meseta will it take to let me win? Or should I just offer my body?

Just stop posting pics in the Pub for a week and I'll give you 5000 bonus points.

Kristine

[Dr. Morbis]

You put me up against the guy who scored almost the exact same score as me last round, eh? (66,220 vs 66,000). What a weird coincidence

I guess I'm going to have to turn it up a notch!

BTW, I think your scoreboard in the other thread should have two score columns: one for the most recent 2 games, and one for the cumulative score. That is, unless you will be posting the scores seperately in this thread for each game at the end of each week.