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Golden Era Game of the Week

See introduction here

The Game: Solar Quest

romname: solarq

Screenshot:
(click to see current MARP scores)

Reward: $50 (usd)

Deadline for submission to MARP: June 10, 2005 2359 hours GMT

Further Bounty: an additional $50 for exceeding 200,850 points this week
(Claimed by destructor@HotTeam.pl 6/8/05 0920 hrs GMT)

Time for another Asteroids-genre game.

Good information about the game is available in the Operator's Manual.

The further bounty is based on the Twin Galaxies record on the arcade machine set by Tony Vandecar in 1983. The settings are supposed to be factory default, but the manual linked above does not specify what they were. The MAME TG settings are listed as 3 lives to start - 5 nukes. It should be noted that the score they list by Mark Boolman, assuming it is the same one at MARP with the same score, was NOT played on those settings.

For this week, including the further bounty, we will use MAME's defaults, 4 lives to start - 7 nukes. (the nukes are not separately selectable - you start with twice the number of starting lives minus 1).

Use WolfMAME .96

"On Deck" game: Time Pilot

What the hard game. I can't made more than 40k.

What the hard game. I can't made more than 40k.

Now that was funny.

Hehe, yesterday (my first day of real playing) I made score 201100 and delete it because I thought that 202850 is for Further Bounty Next I play 8 hours without good score (180k highest). Today morning I found 1 small detail in my method which help me.
Game is hard and not fun. I still see enemy ships when close eyes.

In game button2Pstart = button4player1, I don't know is it MAME bug or not.

I have white vectors on wolf96u1, on wolf78 vectors are colorfully. What is correct? Or maybe I have something wrong?

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Sunday's bonus points for nobody.
Tuesday's bonus points for destructor (score 105200).
And Further Bounty for destructor.
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destructor wrote:I have white vectors on wolf96u1, on wolf78 vectors are colorfully. What is correct? Or maybe I have something wrong?

-use_overlays

The game was black & white, but use a colored plastic overlay, like Star Castle.

destructor wrote:Thursday's bonus points for destructor

Probably, but just Tuesday so far.

Weehawk wrote:

destructor wrote:Thursday's bonus points for destructor

Probably, but just Tuesday so far.

Oh, yes, my mistake, I edited my post above.

Results:
1st: destructor@HotTeam.pl
2nd: Don Hayes
3rd: gastrainga

And 4 bonus points to des. (No submission by Sunday)

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