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  • edited June 2008
    Argh!! Some filthy swine has nicked my spot on the Mikie leaderboard... My scores are fading fast. :grin:
  • edited June 2008
    FrankT wrote: »
    Its on the test site twice, I translated a Russian comment from the guy that put it up and he says,

    Does he mean that the score is worked out as "total points - total fines =total score"? If so, then that's right isn't it?
  • edited June 2008
    After several hours, 3 missed phone calls, 2 knocks on the door, dog begging to go out for a pee, cramp i've finally got my Cobra top spot back !
  • edited June 2008
    I've just tried getting my 3rd place back on Mikie, but I just wasn't in "the zone" today and came 7th instead!!

    Got my Travel With Trashman top spot back though. :smile:
  • edited June 2008
    I had my first go of Hypersports in years a few minutes ago, my hand is out of training with key mashers that's for sure. I actually did the vaulting level first try with 2 qualifies, I was quite surprised considering that was the one event I used to dread the most.

    I ballsed up on the Archery though which was a kick in the teeth because I'm sure it used to be pretty easy.

    Not really bothered I'd have ended up with carpel tunnel or RSI if I'd have made it to the weightlifting :D
    Every night is curry night!
  • edited June 2008
    FrankT wrote: »
    I'll try, it'll take some time. I've been using all my time trying to bugfix Empire Strikes Back, I can score upto 999,999 without any problems, but means I'd have to quit before I reach 999,999 to protect my score from going back to 0, and possible crashes when the score starts overwriting parts of important code. I've nearly fixed it for upto 9,999,999 which should be enough.

    Thanks a lot, quick work too on getting the game hacked :)

    any new games added is always very exciting, more so with the memorys of some of them.

    Bit alarmed not to see any classics like Renegade III, Dynamite Dux, Sqij, Jack and the Beanstalk :D
  • edited June 2008
    FrankT wrote: »
    I'll add more games to the site if I get some suggestions.

    How about Daley Thompson's Decathlon? There is a bug with Day 1 where you can get 400+ metres on the long jump, hence a whopping score.

    But you could still add Day 2 of Decathlon, that would be great.
  • edited June 2008
    Army Moves and Navy Moves should be added for a laugh!
  • edited June 2008
    psj3809 wrote: »
    After several hours, 3 missed phone calls, 2 knocks on the door, dog begging to go out for a pee, cramp i've finally got my Cobra top spot back !

    Nice one :)

    Please beat my Gunrunner score next, it says 40 odd thou, but in actual fact it used to be 14950, I did score 22000 or thereabouts without it increasing from 14950, then somehow a wrong score I never attained.

    I got noone to play against on it, and it's mint :) If they ever allow us to submit our actual scores to correct the database, then some games will become more playable again.

    edit - Good call Daren, games to make people cry :)
  • edited June 2008
    CKay wrote: »
    games to make people cry :)

    Xecutor

    Had a go of that earlier on, and will probably never play it again :mad:

    The collision is all over the place, I was dieing from crashing into walls when I wasn't even touching them. If you die and then restart as something is coming towards you you have no chance of getting out of it's way thus you die again. Or to top off the big slap in the face, it'll start you on top of something. Oh bang goes another life :evil:

    It can't just be me though, I scored 7200, and that got me into the top 10, but everyone above me has something between 9000 and 9600.

    So like I say it can't just be me :D
    Every night is curry night!
  • edited June 2008
    Xecutor

    Had a go of that earlier on, and will probably never play it again :mad:

    The collision is all over the place, I was dieing from crashing into walls when I wasn't even touching them. If you die and then restart as something is coming towards you you have no chance of getting out of it's way thus you die again. Or to top off the big slap in the face, it'll start you on top of something. Oh bang goes another life :evil:

    It can't just be me though, I scored 7200, and that got me into the top 10, but everyone above me has something between 9000 and 9600.

    So like I say it can't just be me :D

    Never played that one yet, seem to remember I used to be no good at it... will check it out though to see how bad the collision detection is.

    Stacks gonna be gutted when he can return to gaming, his score's been raped, down from 65 or thereabouts to 49, within points of a few folks.
  • edited June 2008
    psj3809 wrote: »
    After several hours, 3 missed phone calls, 2 knocks on the door, dog begging to go out for a pee, cramp i've finally got my Cobra top spot back !

    Nooooooooooooo!

    Right, I'll be hammering that game soon and I'll bloody well pwn you and CKay, you pair of n00bs :p

    Er, once I can drag myself off Super Smash Bros Brawl that is.
  • edited June 2008
    GreenCard wrote: »
    Does he mean that the score is worked out as "total points - total fines =total score"? If so, then that's right isn't it?
    Thats right, but I don't think that type of scoring is possible yet on the site. To be able to read 2 scores from the game and subtract one from the other. I've just thought of a possible way of doing it, hack the game and hijack the score routine with my own routine that can read both scores and subtract one from the other, then write it to a spare location in the game. The site could then just read that 1 score. I don't know if they support negative scores though.

    I'd like it if we could have 2 or more score locations to track, as then i'd be able to add Beach Head II where you can play as either the Allies or Dictator in Player 1 mode. It uses different locations for each. I can't see the reason for not supporting arcade adventure games either then. Keeping track of % complete and puzzles solved etc.
    Daren wrote: »
    How about Daley Thompson's Decathlon? There is a bug with Day 1 where you can get 400+ metres on the long jump, hence a whopping score.

    But you could still add Day 2 of Decathlon, that would be great.
    It would be better if DTD could be bugfixed first I think.
    Hoping for Mr A. to read this and have a look for this bug because its beyond me.
  • edited June 2008
    The scoring in Xecutor seems to be buggered - the emulator seems to record the score you finished Level 1 with, not your total score. Just managed a score of 16000-odd, but was only credited with 9250, which is what I finished Level 1 with.
  • edited June 2008
    Malc74 wrote: »
    The scoring in Xecutor seems to be buggered - the emulator seems to record the score you finished Level 1 with, not your total score. Just managed a score of 16000-odd, but was only credited with 9250, which is what I finished Level 1 with.

    Drop them a note about it on their FORUM, they're bound to look into it ASAP.
  • edited June 2008
    2nd place on Renegade - im closing in
    :evil:
  • edited June 2008
    I had my first go of Hypersports in years...

    I never played it BITD, so I'm just trying to get into it. I've managed to qualify on the springboard / horse jump bit before, but it's rare that I do. Is there a fool-proof way of doing it? It seems really random the way you sometimes do worse than your last go yet get a greater distance out of it! I keep practicing in Spin using a snapshot, but I've not qualified once in about 10 goes.
  • edited June 2008
    mulder wrote: »
    I never played it BITD, so I'm just trying to get into it. I've managed to qualify on the springboard / horse jump bit before, but it's rare that I do. Is there a fool-proof way of doing it? It seems really random the way you sometimes do worse than your last go yet get a greater distance out of it! I keep practicing in Spin using a snapshot, but I've not qualified once in about 10 goes.

    Don't press fire until you're about to step over the end of the spring board (you get more power the further right you are), then on the vault don't press fire until the very last second (you get more height then), then go mental left/right, trying to time your landing when your sprite's head is over rather than under your body.

    And use an emulator which catches every single key-press :)
  • edited June 2008
    Xecutor

    Had a go of that earlier on, and will probably never play it again :mad:

    The collision is all over the place, I was dieing from crashing into walls when I wasn't even touching them. If you die and then restart as something is coming towards you you have no chance of getting out of it's way thus you die again. Or to top off the big slap in the face, it'll start you on top of something. Oh bang goes another life :evil:

    It can't just be me though, I scored 7200, and that got me into the top 10, but everyone above me has something between 9000 and 9600.

    So like I say it can't just be me :D


    Haa haa, I thaught yeah I can beat 9000 I'll give it a go. Bpshfufft!! year right :D The games a joke :lol:
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  • edited June 2008
    FrankT wrote: »
    It would be better if DTD could be bugfixed first I think.

    Give this patch a good work out. Not sure if in safe area either.
    		;long jump patch
                    org $8ad8
    		jp $ad60
    
    		org $ad60
    		cp 8
    		jr nc,miss
    		ld a,8
    miss		ld hl,($8fbf)
    		jp $8adb
    
  • edited June 2008
    Looks like myspeccy.com has gone 128K :)

    Got the Robocop title screen music blasting away in the background, some games like Bosconian '87 have extra sound FX when enemies are chasing that actually makes a gameplay difference too.

    Buzzin !
  • edited June 2008
    Just noticed that now, was playing Chubby Gristle and I noticed music, I was like that wasn't there before. So I quit my game and loaded Target Renegade, that sealed the deal, I'd recognise the 128k music from that game anyday :)

    EDIT: Sweet!!! That means Renegade will have the shoulder throw now :D
    Every night is curry night!
  • edited June 2008
    Just noticed that now, was playing Chubby Gristle and I noticed music, I was like that wasn't there before. So I quit my game and loaded Target Renegade, that sealed the deal, I'd recognise the 128k music from that game anyday :)

    EDIT: Sweet!!! That means Renegade will have the shoulder throw now :D


    That high score is mine!!!:grin:
  • edited June 2008
    Just noticed that now, was playing Chubby Gristle and I noticed music, I was like that wasn't there before. So I quit my game and loaded Target Renegade, that sealed the deal, I'd recognise the 128k music from that game anyday :)

    EDIT: Sweet!!! That means Renegade will have the shoulder throw now :D

    It looks like a couple of times me and you've been getting to the same place in Chubby Gristle :) It's funny when you know people are getting temporarily stuck at the same place, I collected that thing at the bottom that zero's ya score and couldn't stop laughing the other night, hehe

    Shoulder throw on Renegade, ooh, throw 'em all off the cliffs, YES :D

    (I see they also removed the River Raid cookie, i.e. anyone that had played it had an extra 1st place and 3 points, no matter their score, so that's put the top middle and lower board scores more where they should be (I piled right in for my 3 free ponts at the time, lol) )
  • edited June 2008
    CKay wrote: »
    It looks like a couple of times me and you've been getting to the same place in Chubby Gristle :) It's funny when you know people are getting temporarily stuck at the same place, I collected that thing at the bottom that zero's ya score and couldn't stop laughing the other night, hehe

    Talking of Chubby Gristle and the upgrade, you wouldn't happen to know how to turn the tune off? I can barely get 5 screens in now cos' it does my head in :mad:
    Every night is curry night!
  • edited June 2008
    EDIT: Sweet!!! That means Renegade will have the shoulder throw now :D


    They'd have to put the 128k version up as a separate game though.



    Still can't get that Hyper Sports event down :(
  • edited June 2008
    mulder wrote: »
    They'd have to put the 128k version up as a separate game though.



    Yeah, coz the bullet stop cheat only works on the 48k version...so freaking close to the high score..........
  • edited June 2008
    Give this patch a good work out. Not sure if in safe area either.
    Thanks, haven't tried it yet, but it fixes the landing on the take off line?

    I found some bugfixes at Tipshop and have assembled them here.
    ORG $5CA5
    L_5CA5:	LD A, (L_834A)	; long jump fix measurement fix
    	CP $00
    	JR NZ, L_5CB0
    	INC A
    	LD (L_834A), A
    L_5CB0:	LD A, (L_8342)
    	JP L_8A72
    
    L_5CB6:	XOR A		; clock start fix
    	LD ($AB57), A
    	LD A, $21
    	LD ($7D95), A
    	JP $A001
    
    L_5CC2:	LD (L_5CD3), BC	; 1500m + 110m hurdles score bug fix
    	CALL $82DA
    	LD BC, (L_5CD3)
    	CALL $82DA
    	JP L_A82D
    L_5CD3: 
    
    	org $8342
    L_8342: 
    	org $834A
    L_834A: 
    
    	ORG $8A6F
    	JP L_5CA5	; DAY 1 long jump measurement fix
    L_8A72: 
    
    	ORG $9FFE
    	JP L_5CB6	; DAY 1+2 clock start fix
    
    	ORG $A824
    	DEC B		; DAY 1+2 1500m score fix
    
    	ORG $A82A
    	JP L_5CC2	; DAY 1+2 1500m score fix
    L_A82D:
    
    Other bugs from tipshop.
    There are still several bugs in this game, such as jumping under the High Jump bar, allowing the track clock to reset to 000.00, landing on the Long Jump takeoff line (sometimes yielding a jump of 500+m), or releasing the Discus early.

    I didn't realise DTD had so many cheating bugs. I think I'll have a go at adding DTSupertest 128 first, don't know of any cheats in that (yet).
  • edited June 2008
    Yeah, coz the bullet stop cheat only works on the 48k version...so freaking close to the high score..........
    The bugfixed 128k version of Renegade, that doesn't skip a level when you press '0'.
    I played with cursors and kept skipping levels every time I hit fire.

    I'll hopefully have these games up by next week. I'll do them over the weekend.
    Lightforce
    Thanatos
    Splitting Images
    Worse Things Happen At Sea
    Project Future
    3d Starstrike I + II
    Technician Ted
    Kosmic Kanga
    Sophistry

    And i've fixed Empire Strikes Back to allow for scores upto 9,999,999. I broke the in game hi-score table but it always records the correct score on the dev test site so far. It hasn't been updated yet from the dev site to the main site. (Beyond my power).
  • edited July 2008
    FrankT wrote: »
    I'll hopefully have these games up by next week. I'll do them over the weekend.

    Sounds like a heck of a lot of work... Respect to you, for providing us with more to play around with!! :-)
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