MAME ROW #52 - 1st Anniversary Edition - Phoenix

[obsidianspider]

Everything old is new again. The winner for the one year anniversary is Phoenix

[cyperghost]

@obsidianspider Wow! Now let the games begin!

[lilbud]

@obsidianspider

[meleu]

I would like to see @qix77 back here. :-)

BTW, let's abuse that bug! :-)

[caver01]

@obsidianspider said in MAME ROW #52 - 1st Anniversary Edition - Phoenix:

The winner for the one year anniversary is Phoenix

What? How did this happen? Booo! last I looked Joust was in the lead by double! Oh well. I guess I will have to take a crack at this game again. . . Maybe someone wants to write a few tips about this game?

[lilbud]

@caver01 said in MAME ROW #52 - 1st Anniversary Edition - Phoenix:

Maybe someone wants to write a few tips about this game?

Gladly

Tip 1: Never Play Phoenix

[obsidianspider]

@meleu Bug?

@lilbud We all know you have a Phoenix cabinet in your bedroom that you've been training on for months. ;)

[lilbud]

@obsidianspider I wish I had a Phoenix cabinet, or a playable arcade cabinet. Mine is in storage while we renovate our basement

[obsidianspider]

*spy photo of @lilbud *

[lilbud]

@obsidianspider

[meleu]

@obsidianspider said in MAME ROW #52 - 1st Anniversary Edition - Phoenix:

@meleu Bug?

We started talking about the bug here: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/post/88038

[cyperghost]

@meleu This bug is cool ;)
But well we should play with pants off and say if we used that ;)
Or maybe someone can upload the fixed anniversary version ;)
@lilbud
Nice birdy :D

[caver01]

@meleu I looked at the investigation of that bug and it sounds like if you trigger it once you don't want to do it again, as triggering it a second time will reset back to 204,000. Is that right? SO, the trick would be to do it one time, then avoid it after that, so you can improve your score beyond 204k.

[cyperghost]

@caver01 You can read more here
http://donhodges.com/phoenix.htm

[caver01]

@cyperghost said in MAME ROW #52 - 1st Anniversary Edition - Phoenix:

@caver01 You can read more here
http://donhodges.com/phoenix.htm

Yeah, that's exactly what I read. So my comment still stands: You really only want to trigger this once.

[cyperghost]

@caver01 Seems so... ;)

[meleu]

@cyperghost said in MAME ROW #52 - 1st Anniversary Edition - Phoenix:

@meleu This bug is cool ;)
But well we should play with pants off and say if we used that ;)

It's a bit unnecessary. Anyone posting a score greater than 200k is using that bug. If saying the contrary he/she is lying! :)

[cyperghost]

@meleu Or is excellent ;)

[meleu]

Just for reference:

• @UDb23 made a cool overlay for Phoenix (and posted about it here). You can install the overlay using the rpie-art tool.

• the bug to get 200k on the 2nd stage can be learned here:

[meleu]

And here is my first score: 219,145 (of course I took advantage of that bug).