Llamasoft Lleague :: Season 7 :: Week 9 :: Spectar

Zotmeister · Post by **Zotmeister** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 4:30 pm 0

Oh, fuck me. I'm sorry. Really, I am. I should have changed my nomination when someone else claimed the $200 bounty. Oh well - I could use some catching up in the rankings; I really want to be promoted to Flossie's Flock. Hopefully I'll manage at least one 80K+ game for you all, but I'm far from consistent on this.

There's another setting that needs to be explicated: on beating the high score, the game awards either a free game (by default) or an extra ship (and a level completion). Tournament settings, for obvious reasons, is the former. No fair cheating by giving yourself an extra ship!

Hint #1: Keep moving. If you aren't moving at top speed, the enemies will be. Think in wiggles and zigzags, not straight lines that run you into walls and make you stop. - ZM

SeattleStokie · Post by **SeattleStokie** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 4:53 pm 0

Numpsy wrote:Well, it seems better than targ at any rate...

Thats how you diss your Targ

Numpsy · Post by **Numpsy** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 5:36 pm 0

SeattleStokie wrote:
Numpsy wrote:Well, it seems better than targ at any rate...
Thats how you diss your Targ

Only marginally though

A slight improvement to 9590.

Zotmeister · Post by **Zotmeister** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 5:46 pm 0

Targ (Spectar's prequel) is fucking evil. I can't do shit in that game. Hopefully no one here will ever feel compelled to nominate the bastard.

Hint #2: Intersections are not your friends. There are no close calls at intersections; someone is going to blow up, and it will likely be you. They don't have to collide with you at an intersection - they just have to touch you. The same goes for your bullets, however; you may have better luck timing your shots so that enemies run into them rather than the other way around - especially if they're right in front of you. - ZM

Numpsy · Post by **Numpsy** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 5:51 pm 0

Zotmeister wrote:Targ (Spectar's prequel) is fucking evil. I can't do shit in that game. Hopefully no one here will ever feel compelled to nominate the bastard.

Someone did nominate it though

fortunately that was back in the days when we voted on what game to play, so it never made it in to the actual lleague

PaulEMoz · Post by **PaulEMoz** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 7:02 pm 0

Hmmm. No improvements. I think I'm going to have to break out the X-Arcade later.

everklear · Post by **everklear** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 7:51 pm 0

I am finding this game to be enjoyable.
Short, fun, can see room for personal improvement.
I like it.

rowan · Post by **rowan** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 8:01 pm 0

Hmm, did I say this was good or something? It seemed a lot less Collision

Detection last night..

Enjoying it though.

Zotmeister · Post by **Zotmeister** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 8:09 pm 0

Note to self: don't try playing this with a keyboard ever again. I'll have to wait until I get home today to play this. You know, PaulEMoz, I think you may have the right idea. Maybe I should dust off my X-Arcade. Maybe it'll help. - ZM

Browney · Post by **Browney** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 9:20 pm 0

Got a good score for my first go.

9820.

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 10:34 pm 0

Btw Zot, what was the bounty over at TwinGalaxies, was it over 100k on MAME or something? Given I got what I did in under 10 games, I might have a nice run at this

TMK · Post by **TMK** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 10:43 pm 0

This is nice.

Zotmeister · Post by **Zotmeister** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 10:54 pm 0

The bounty was [note the past tense] offered by Robert Mruczek (out of his own pocket) for the first recorded game - WolfMAME .inp or videocassette of actual arcade machine - of Spectar (3 Wummels, no extra) to meet or exceed six digits. This $200 prize was claimed by Rafal Politanski of Czestochowa, Poland, a competitor in this year's MAME Decathlon, where Spectar is (was?) one of the games. That prize was double the offered prize for winning the whole decathlon, incidentally. I haven't watched the recording yet, but in theory it's downloadable from Snipercade.com.

Twin Galaxies tracks arcade and emulator scores separately. The official arcade record remains at 77,000, scored by myself during the Funspot International in 2002. Myself and Jason Cram (I hope I don't have the Cram Brothers mixed up again) have both beaten this score on the same machine at Funspot 2003 - I think I had 89K or so, just above him - but no TG presence was at that tournament and the games were not recorded. I predict that a 90K game WILL occur at this year's tournament in June, and that this time either a camera will be rolling or Mruczek will eyewitness the game himself. The record WILL be broken, that I'm sure of... the burning question is WHO will have the record at tourney's end. It could just as easily be someone else as it could be me. This is definitely shaping up to be the most anticipated showdown of the year.

You gotta love how ancient shit like this game gets us all excited. Hell, Wheels is still one of the most popular games at the tournies. - ZM

Zotmeister · Post by **Zotmeister** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 10:55 pm 0

You can tell I kind of like this game by the increased level of vulgarities in my postings. - ZM

Numpsy · Post by **Numpsy** » Mon Mar 29, 2004 11:48 pm 0

Still not terribly fond of it, but i got a bit of a better run on it and improved to 20920.