Solar Quest(ions)

Weehawk · Post by **Weehawk** » Thu Jul 31, 2003 6:58 pm

How do you start with five ships in this game?

Even if I set the DIP switch to "5" it still starts me out with four. Can't see how to do it in service mode either.

And what is that other number underneath the score? It starts out as 7 for me but I don't see what it relates to.

John

Weehawk · Post by **Weehawk** » Mon Aug 04, 2003 3:27 am

Okay, I see in the game description at KLOV there is a "nuke" device I didn't know about...that's the other number on the screen.

Doesn't seem extremely useful though. I guess it might work well against the little round things once they start jittering around, but I don't seem to have that much trouble shooting them..they seldom kill me.

I could use that extra ship though.....

John

tar · Post by **tar** » Tue Aug 05, 2003 9:10 am

Hello Weehawk.
Solar Quest is a favorite title for me. Sort of like Space Fury.
Both games had 5 ships by default when I played them 2 years ago.
Alphamame 70 starts you with 4 ships and 7 devices now. Change the dipswitch setting to 5 lives and RESET game. I tested it on alpha70 and had no problem. The nukes also go up to 9. To use them , lanch by pressing button 4 and let them go until they collide with something or press button 4 again and it detonates. Button 3 is hyperspace.

Q.T.Quazar · Post by **Q.T.Quazar** » Tue Aug 05, 2003 11:40 am

actually, rules at MARP go the other way. when the settings become harder, old scores are either readjusted or thrown out to be brought in line with the new settings.

special rules or a decision to play TG or harder-than-Tg preempt this, of course.

Weehawk · Post by **Weehawk** » Tue Aug 05, 2003 4:45 pm

tar wrote:Solar Quest is a favorite title for me

Well heck, you seem to pretty much own the games with Asteroids-type controls on MARP. I'm tempted to make a list, but it would be a looong one.

Don't you like Asteroids Deluxe though? What about Space Duel?

And I really wanted to keep that high score on Rip Off. I liked that game a lot back in the day. I think 11.3 is do-able but I watched your recording and you make it look too easy.

Also, I got a new keyboard and the keys don't respond quite as fast as the old one. It doesn't bother me on other games but on Rip Off I really need to be able to fire those fast bursts. On Solar Quest I really need to ease up on the burst firing so I can capture more survivors.

tar wrote:Sort of like Space Fury.

WOW! Space Fury didn't ring a bell til I fired it up just now and was greeted by that f'ed up alien guy. What a flashback! I may try and play it a little bit, but there's not enough maneuvering room for my taste.

tar wrote:Change the dipswitch setting to 5 lives and RESET game

Ah, I didn't reset....

Q.T.Quasar wrote:actually, rules at MARP go the other way. when the settings become harder, old scores are either readjusted or thrown out to be brought in line with the new settings.

Well he had 101k before his last ship anyway on the high score game, so it really doesn't matter here. I just wanted to see what I could do with that extra ship.

John

tar · Post by **tar** » Tue Aug 05, 2003 8:10 pm

So, weehawk is really John C. of Slither fame.Clone snakes do need to die.
Congratulations on set 1 and 2 scores.
That was fun competition on ripoff. The first couple of attemps at 10,000 were hard. I actually went CRAZY and tore my keyboard up on my back-up computer and made windows go bad and I could'nt fix it for 3 weeks!
Not very good at asteroids deluxe or Space Duel.
I had practiced on Space Fury for about 3 years before I knew about this site. Must had played it over 2000 times since 1998 by now!
I,m working on Cosmic Chasm now. Think I discovered a glitch. Only works on set 2. Look for 1,000,000 on that one soon.

tar · Post by **tar** » Thu Jan 29, 2004 9:49 am

recent upload
http://marp.retrogames.com/inp/e/2/1/md ... _win78.zip
message
TG; need link to wolf78/current tg mame-lost all data on computer last sat, thanks
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it plays to 131100 as advertised
but you will notice that there is no recorded speed display.
It does tell end of playback.
-tar

Buttermaker · Post by **Buttermaker** » Thu Jan 29, 2004 10:07 am

tar wrote:but you will notice that there is no recorded speed display.

It wasn't recorded with WolfMAME.

tar · Post by **tar** » Thu Jan 29, 2004 11:28 am

o.k.
B.M.
you are right ,
but that means wolf + win are interchangeable.

Buttermaker · Post by **Buttermaker** » Thu Jan 29, 2004 11:55 am

From the .78 wolfmameplus.txt:

- Regular format INPs can be played back now. Do note that there is no guarantee that
regular MAME INPs will work, although some do. Neo Geo games definitely don't. MAME
Plus Neo Geo INPs are unlikely to work either as WolfMAME doesn't compile in the hacks in
this driver.