MAME ROW #127 is live!

MAME ROW #125 is live!

MAME ROW #124 is live

@pjft I didn’t take note or screenshot as I thought someone else surely would beat me. This game is seriously frustrating. When playing something like this I always think about how unbelievable it is that someone actually beat this game. The Longplay on YouTube looks like a TAS..

@thelostsoul Yeah, autofire here makes it possible to harvest about 20 grenades at a pop.

Well, here's the screen capture of my best score - which is still the first one I reported. I still want to play this game a bit more, so I'll include this in my ongoing game list :)

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MAME ROW #120 is live!

MAME ROW #119 is live

MAME ROW #118 is now live

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Might be able to do better if I can save the 2nd resurrection potion for a bit longer. I also should NOT have upgraded to the Balkan gun, as the old laser can hit the tails of the flaming claw snake things even through the segments, but the Balkan gun shells are stopped.

Once you get through the regular round on lvl 8, the bosses on 8 and 9 are really easy. The regular round on 10 is all space stuff from Hyperdyne SideArms and will end you if you don't have a LOT of health to smart bomb stuff with, or a 2nd player's aux gun to block more fire.

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Almost made it to lvl 8, did not have another potion for the sorcerers on lvl 6, so had to go straight for the exit instead of heading NW for the potion there. If you have a potion, you can get a potion...

Sorry I'm late. MAME ROW #117 is live.

As I'm going through the ROWs of the past and putting my input and screenshots into them, I've come across one of my nemeses, Kung Fu Master. I have a rep for mastering games quickly, but this game is a critical hit in my Achilles Heel. No matter what I do, I can never get very far in that game. Being a hard game in general is no excuse, I usually learn to destroy hard games even more so than others. I just never got this one.

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A bit rusty, but any SNK/Neo Geo fighting game with Joe Higashi in it I can do reasonably well. His play has some similarities to Ken/Ryu, and he has some very impressive close-quarters combos.

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Yes, those twin planes are a pain to take out, but the real death knell comes from the heavily armored boats on round 3. Your game essentially ends after your first life is lost on this round because you won't even be able to defend yourself without full firepower. One of my all-time favorite games, Darius, also suffers from this. While I have cleared the game before, I had to do it on a single life, because once you die, the game is essentially over.

The helicopter is definitely the best choice because you can 'waggle' in place and spread fire over about half the screen.

Was definitely more a fan of Space Duel. 4-D Warriors is a bit choppy and hard to figure out what exactly is going on.

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I think I need to turn up the definition on my vector preferences, the little + shaped mines were really hard to see on a small screen.

Well, the 3 B/B+ can be shortened considerably, there are hack projects for that. The battery is definitely overkill as well. My battery life is easily 8hrs+ with a 10,000 mAh battery. I can use a prefab sound card from Adafruit and lose that bulk too. The display won't be a problem it is actually very thin and the same footprint as the Pi. However, I really love the feel of a full size controller, and I don't think I'm stuffing that combo in my pocket any time soon.

However, when I finalize the build, I'm going to be ADDING weight in the form of RF shielding of the sound board and Pi/display. The sound board is picking up too much crap no matter how many filter caps I throw in the circuit.

@VictimRLSH
Nice job there! Please also visit the Arcade Classics Time Pilot thread.

I'll have to try topping this hiscore - watch this space :-)

@GtBFilms I have mixed feelings now. Indeed, milking the dungeon to the right of the first level does allow you to increase your score quite a bit, though I kind of feel wrong about relying on it. Maybe we should do one run without milking it (i.e. just going through it straight ahead, not staying longer and killing more)?

I got 39,300, died in the middle of the second level.

In the dungeon, immediately to the left of the starting location if you destroy the wall I received an item that was worth around 10k points, I think? Unsure if it’s permanently there or random, but hope it helps.

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