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MAME ROW #96 - Timber

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    youxia
    last edited by youxia 25 Jul 2018, 09:18

    Cybattler has definitely got the wow! factor, it's simply amazing. Robots, giant spaceships - 2D extravaganza, especially viewed on my 29" RGB CRT Trinitron :D I was actually instantly at home with the control scheme, I think it's very responsive, and well made in general -not always the case with such games. Plus the sensible enemy patterns and lack of one-hit deaths make it "fair" and very playable.
    Somehow I don't have Tapper in my romset. But I don't think it would be a match for Cybattler anyhow in this vote :)

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      thelostsoul @obsidianspider
      last edited by 25 Jul 2018, 11:41

      @obsidianspider I already discovered Cybattler. The whole robots and style is pleasing and doesn't feel cheap gameplay wise. The other games are sure interesting to try out, but not really good for highscore play I suppose.

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        obsidianspider
        last edited by 25 Jul 2018, 12:11

        This week's winner is Timber

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          AndersHP
          last edited by AndersHP 25 Jul 2018, 14:12

          Cool, been interested in trying this for real. The Tapper-style is really charming.

          However, some of these games seem non-retroarch based and makes me have control issues, even though I'm emulating via lr-mame2003. It's the same with Tapper...

          I first got myself entangled into some black/white mame menu, and now when booting it gets into a "select desired test menu" that doesn't respond to input at all...

          How do you get it to work?

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          My Gameboy

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            cyperghost
            last edited by 25 Jul 2018, 15:35

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              mediamogul Global Moderator @cyperghost
              last edited by 25 Jul 2018, 16:19

              @cyperghost

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                cyperghost @mediamogul
                last edited by 25 Jul 2018, 17:30

                @mediamogul

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                  mediamogul Global Moderator @cyperghost
                  last edited by 25 Jul 2018, 17:34

                  @cyperghost

                  Ha, Too funny! This guy had it much easier tending bar.

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                    cyperghost @mediamogul
                    last edited by cyperghost 25 Jul 2018, 18:27

                    @mediamogul said in MAME ROW #96 - Timber:

                    Ha, Too funny! This guy had it much easier tending bar.

                    No not at all... after passing stage 2
                    You are entering bonus stage

                    Tipp:
                    You can push the direction of the tree. But you can't push the bear up to the tree ;)

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                      AndersHP
                      last edited by 25 Jul 2018, 19:58

                      I don't understand anything of these last posts...! :)

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                        mediamogul Global Moderator @AndersHP
                        last edited by mediamogul 25 Jul 2018, 21:29

                        'Timber' really is a lot like 'Tapper', only with a significantly higher chance of being murdered in the woods.

                        Tip:
                        If you hear dueling banjos, it's not a bonus level. Just exit out of the game.

                        @andershp

                        I don't understand anything of these last posts...! :)

                        It might all make sense when you play the game... maybe.

                        However, some of these games seem non-retroarch based and makes me have control issues, even though I'm emulating via lr-mame2003. It's the same with Tapper... How do you get it to work?

                        This issue with Midway MCR titles in lr-mame2003 was just recently resolved after existing for several years. However, the changes may not have filtered into the available binary. It could be that you'll have to do an install from source. However, since the fix stems from the work being done on lr-mame2003-plus, it could be that the changes haven't been carried over to lr-mame2003 yet at all. I'm not sure.

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                          AndersHP @mediamogul
                          last edited by 26 Jul 2018, 08:41

                          @mediamogul I've been planning to test mame2003-plus for a while, I guess I could just install latest binary mame2003-plus and use this emulator, right?

                          The latest mame2003 binary didn't solve the problem.

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                            mediamogul Global Moderator @AndersHP
                            last edited by 26 Jul 2018, 09:09

                            @andershp said in MAME ROW #96 - Timber:

                            The latest mame2003 binary didn't solve the problem.

                            If the changes aren't in the lr-mame2003 binary, you may want to try the 'install from source' option. If they're not in the current source, then lr-mame2003-plus should work for you. Any of the AdvanceMAME options should run the game as well.

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                              GtBFilms @AndersHP
                              last edited by 26 Jul 2018, 09:31

                              @andershp I got the self test menu problem with MAME2003 as well, I resorted to using Advmame1.4 instead, where it works fine.

                              I sometimes get sound sync issues with Advmame1.4 and have to use Advmame0.93, but the sound seems fine on Timber (apart from the initial tune is a bit odd, but I don't know if it is supposed to sound like that!)

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                                GtBFilms
                                last edited by GtBFilms 26 Jul 2018, 09:36

                                I had another few games of Timber last night. It seems a bit odd that you only get 1000 points for completing the bonus stage (stay on the spinning barrel for 20 seconds) and yet you also get 1000 points just for picking up a red bird during the main game.

                                At some points I managed to get 500 points for killing the bees, but I'm not quite sure how I did it.

                                The game became a lot easier when I realised that the two fire buttons are for 'chop left' and 'chop right'!

                                Anyway, I got to 69010, which was level 6 or 7 I think. I kept tripping over trees and getting killed by bees while I was stunned in the end.

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                                I also had another try of Cybattler. It's growing on me.

                                The boss at the end of Level 1 still gets me ever time though.

                                I got to 72040pts in Cybattler.

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                                  obsidianspider @cyperghost
                                  last edited by 26 Jul 2018, 12:22

                                  @cyperghost said in MAME ROW #96 - Timber:

                                  @mediamogul

                                  Ha! That reminds me of a sign that I saw at Sigiriya last year. Note, everyone near this sign was extremely loud.

                                  eyeroll

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                                    mediamogul Global Moderator @GtBFilms
                                    last edited by 26 Jul 2018, 15:53

                                    @gtbfilms said in MAME ROW #96 - Timber:

                                    I sometimes get sound sync issues with Advmame1.4 and have to use Advmame0.93

                                    You might also want to try AdvanceMAME 3.x in these situations as well. Out of the lot, it's the only one that has been optimized for the Pi and is being actively developed.

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                                      cyperghost @GtBFilms
                                      last edited by 26 Jul 2018, 18:42

                                      @gtbfilms said in MAME ROW #96 - Timber:

                                      I had another few games of Timber last night. It seems a bit odd that you only get 1000 points for completing the bonus stage (stay on the spinning barrel for 20 seconds) and yet you also get 1000 points just for picking up a red bird during the main game.

                                      Oh, that's odd!

                                      At some points I managed to get 500 points for killing the bees, but I'm not quite sure how I did it.

                                      I think it has something to do if you step next to the tree and the hive hits it instead of yu.

                                      The game became a lot easier when I realised that the two fire buttons are for 'chop left' and 'chop right'!

                                      Yes! So you can decide which route to take to the trunk.

                                      Anyway, I got to 69010, which was level 6 or 7 I think. I kept tripping over trees and getting killed by bees while I was stunned in the end.

                                      69010 is really good ;)

                                      But just annother tip: You can activly push the trunk to fall to the side. If you chop the tree usually hits you ;)
                                      See @mediamogul's post here:

                                      But you can push the falling tree to the other side by pressing DPad button ;)
                                      Maybe you can hit the bear, too?

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                                        AndersHP @mediamogul
                                        last edited by AndersHP 27 Jul 2018, 11:59

                                        @mediamogul lr-mame2003-plus did the trick - thanks.
                                        It doesn't save hiscores though - do yours?

                                        lr-mame2010 saves hiscores but I cannot get my controls to work right.

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                                          mediamogul Global Moderator @AndersHP
                                          last edited by 27 Jul 2018, 14:53

                                          @andershp said in MAME ROW #96 - Timber:

                                          It doesn't save hiscores though - do yours?

                                          I haven't gotten around to trying lr-mame2003-plus yet. To what directory did you install the the hiscore.dat file?

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