HyperSports: Weight Lifting
I swear it is physically impossible to lift 6. MIDDLE HEAVY 225kg or above. this has always annoyed me because I've always wanted to do this game i.e. end up lifting 8. SUPER HEAVY 260kg and therefore 'complete' the game but it's too hard. stupidly hard. anyone ever achieved this? is there an 'end screen'? I reckon I could do it if it wasn't for the weights because I think I'm good enough at all the other events. I can get 9.99 in the jump onto the horse event and get maximum 'NICE's on archery.
Thing is, not only does it get more difficult to lift the weights the heavier you go (which is fair enough, and pretty self-explanatory) BUT the timer gradually increases in speed the heavier you go, leaving you less and less time to do the more difficult weights...flippin impossible I say :evil:
Thing is, not only does it get more difficult to lift the weights the heavier you go (which is fair enough, and pretty self-explanatory) BUT the timer gradually increases in speed the heavier you go, leaving you less and less time to do the more difficult weights...flippin impossible I say :evil:
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Probably just some nonsensical bollocks, might as well just use a POKE :D
I would like to add that considering how hard the weight lifting event is, the swimming, clay pidgeon shooting, and tripple jump are always a piece of piss! (although very fun to play)
Have the arcade PCB too, I just can't do the pole vault at all...
no, didn't know this. but having said that I can get the 'duck' about 9 times out of 10 so probably don't need this tip, but I'll try it out tho' :)
without wanting to sound arrogant (and there are a lot of games I will admit I'm crap at), I would rate my general left/right button bashing skills as very good. never got past #6 on the weights tho'...
If it so happens that the game checks the keyboard every three interrupt cycles (0.06 seconds), and you slow it down to 20% speed, then you have to swap keys every 0.3 seconds.
Mashing the keyboard as fast as possible won't help at all, if you've slowed down the emulator so much that your key presses are faster than the Spectrum can scan them.
Try emulating at about 10% speed, and pressing the keys at a slow and steady rate, in time with a metronome if you have one.
Isn't that for the sequel Zen Sports?
Olympic events run at 10% speed often have a zen-like aspect to them.
Apparently, houseflies have a reaction speed much faster than that of humans.
Look out for Zen and the Art of Fly Swatting in the CGC.
(Maybe not this year's CGC, as I myself have a zen-like attitute to BASIC programming.)
I haven't played Hyper Sports for decades!
And I'm not going to now!
Indeed, I got some monster javelin throws and awesome swimming/running times out of that thing too!
Oh and can I just say, Hyper Sports, Green Beret and Mikie are three of my favourite games and started me on computer games and programming, and have given me 23 years of enjoyment. Thank you very much for them.
We're starving up here!
Try doing it slowly! 'tip-tap' rather than being frantic.
I think you are clutching at straws here! LOL!
You know you are wrong!
It doesn't really matter anyway, does it? LOL!
EDIT - the big problem with the Hyper Sport conversions was the lack of the 'Pole Vault'. I had written this but couldn't fit it the memory in time for release. I asked for more time, but Dave Collier, who did the C64 version and had yet to write this event, said "No, we'll drop it". And that was that.
I've just been trying the arcade version now, the weightlifting is far harder than on the Spectrum version.
Arcade machines just want you pump money into them!
I guess Hyper Sports would have been better as a multi-load game, but they hadn't been invented yet!
Now for 260kg! It's just gone 20 past nine at night and I've had booze but let's push on!
It wasn't like the Daley one - which used arc drawing code. My was fast and simple!
Wollop! It's over!