MAME Tournament Discussion Thread

[Jibbajaba]

Posto il doubli.

Chris

[Crush Crawfish]

Bah! I have been defeated! Congrats to you, Mr. Foodmonster. I enjoyed the MAME league, and I'll definitely be looking forward to the next emulation competition. Until then, I must hone my skills...

[Dr. Morbis]

Seeing as how I played NE146 numerous times in the regular season, and seeing as how 3 of my 6 losses were to him, I just knew I would be facing him in the playoffs. I'll give it my best shot...

(How the hell do you pronounce ZZyzzyxx? Is it "Zizicks"???)

[InsaneDavid]

Hooray I made it into the second round!

*looks at game for this round*

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

And here my run shall end :P

And again, I must reiterate NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! for this week's game.

Hey, you're playing against me so you stand a good chance to win. Honestly I really haven't spent too much time with this game in the past so we should be pretty evenly matched.

I'll be frank, I'm glad I'm playing against you instead of DragonMaster Sam. No offense or anything, but ever since he kicked my ass even when I put in a great Knights of the Round score in Week 1 I've been dreading having to face him again.

[scooterb23]

Heh, and I've been dreading playing you since a few weeks ago and you gave me two losses even though in one game I had the third highest score :P

And I am completely inept at this weeks game, and I have approx. 1 hour tomorrow night after I get home from work to learn the game.

[Jibbajaba]

Dr Morbis: I think it is pronounced "Zizicks" as well. If not then I have no idea.

Sorry about the scary matchups guys but it's all based on the statistics. You guys are the best players from the tourney, so everyone is playing someone good, you know?

Chris

[SoulBlazer]

Well, this is a very low scoring game, is'nt it? :P

I think if anyone manages to get over 10,000 they should just win by default......

[Mr.FoodMonster]

Awesome. My best score INP just vanished. Oh well, I can do it again. I hope

[Dr. Morbis]

Well, this is a very low scoring game, is'nt it? :P

I think if anyone manages to get over 10,000 they should just win by default......

No, if anyone passes level 4 they should win by default. Sweet fancy Moses, that level is hard. The difficulty ramp in this game is ridiculous. Level 1 and 2 are beyond easy, level 3 is extremely difficult (for me), and level 4 just bends you over a car (or should I say a red brick) and gives it to you. Having to do that third lap is just too much.

BTW, I set my dip switches exactly as told including setting "show cut scenes" to "no", but every time I play it still shows the intermissions. Also, the sound gets really slooooooow whenever one of those rockets shows up. Is anyone else experiencing the same thing?

[InsaneDavid]

BTW, I set my dip switches exactly as told including setting "show cut scenes" to "no", but every time I play it still shows the intermissions. Also, the sound gets really slooooooow whenever one of those rockets shows up. Is anyone else experiencing the same thing?

I just quit playing to come here and post about those exact same two things. The cut scenes seem to play even though the DIP switch is set to no, pressing the "block" button when the cut scene starts will skip over it.

Also, yeah the audio is chugging BIG time after the first couple levels, causing some sound effects to be cut off or not to sound at all. I had one game where the little "win" music didn't play because a bomb was dropping at the same time. It's almost like the game is trying to jam more sounds than it has channels to perform them on. However it's still playing fine.

[InsaneDavid]

Score sent, DAMN - good luck to everyone, truly a game worthy of the semifinals.

[fergojisan]

Difficulty of Pleasing Lola: Easy

I played this game as soon as I downloaded it on Thursday, and I was extremely non-plussed. I think I got 150 or something. But then I read the posts and found out about the Make Brick button (I didn't see the attract mode ). I think I did alright. I didn't get as far as Dr. Morbis though. Good luck Mr.FoodMonster, and everyone else!

[Mr.FoodMonster]

Well, I just submitted my score. I probably should have played a couple more games, but I still think I did pretty well. Time will tell

[NE146]

Just started playing this and sweet geezus I dislike this game :P I actually was thinking it was "Xexex" until Jibbajabba corrected me on IRC

I'm not sure what "levels" Dr. Morbis is referring to, but if it's the number of goodies you have on the bottom right of the screen then he's got me beat by a long shot

[SoulBlazer]

What he means by 'levels' is the board that you are currently playing. You can tell which board you are on by the symbol in the bottom right corner. Also byt the intermissions you've seen.

Board 4 is as far as I got -- and I ALMOST got past it, damn thing.

Anyway, I finally submitted my score. I'm not totally happy with it, but it's the best I can do. Damn hard game.

Anyone else see a great argument here about the whole 'boy chase girl' thing? Damn, if I give a girl that many gifts, I better get something REALLY GREAT in return. :P

[scooterb23]

I've posted my scores...I'm pretty sure I'm out

This is definitely a "sub-optimal" game in me repertoire...

Fun game, but I just couldn't click with it.

[InsaneDavid]

I've posted my scores...I'm pretty sure I'm out

This is definitely a "sub-optimal" game in me repertoire...

Fun game, but I just couldn't click with it.

Well I hit about 25k, good but still very much beatable.

[NE146]

What he means by 'levels' is the board that you are currently playing. You can tell which board you are on by the symbol in the bottom right corner. Also byt the intermissions you've seen.

No... that's still a little confusing. Because starting off you get nothing down there. Rescure the girl once (and reach the part where you go down) you still got nothing. What adds even more confusion is if you die on the way down, you start again on the going-up board. So is stage three happen after you reach the girl 2 times (and thus are on the 1st half of the lolipop stage going up) or is when you have 2 items on the bottom right (since level "1" is indicated by nothing down there).

See?

[scooterb23]

I'm not making excuses, but I just got off one of the most brutal 3 day stretches I've ever had at my job. If I had one more day (I actually have tomorrow off), I could probably get to 25k or better, but in reality...I only had about two hours in the past three days when I mentally felt able to concentrate and play for more than 5 minutes.

I ended with just under 20k. Well done good sir I hath been slain.

[Jibbajaba]

I'm not making excuses, but I just got off one of the most brutal 3 day stretches I've ever had at my job. If I had one more day (I actually have tomorrow off), I could probably get to 25k or better, but in reality...I only had about two hours in the past three days when I mentally felt able to concentrate and play for more than 5 minutes.

I ended with just under 20k. Well done good sir I hath been slain.

Sorry to see you go, scoot. It was great habing you in the tourney. See you in the high score league, I hope.

Chris