MAME ROW #96 - Timber

cyperghost

@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?

AndersHP

@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.

mediamogul

@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?

AndersHP

@mediamogul I didn't... I looked in the lr-mame2003-plus thread but didn't find anything regarding hiscores, and the docs on mame2003 says the hiscores.dat file is only for experimental use..?

mitu

@andershp said in MAME ROW #96 - Timber:

and the docs on mame2003 says the hiscores.dat file is only for experimental use..?

It's for experimenting, since now the hiscore.dat is built-in and there's no need for an additional file. The same feature is implemented in the plus core.

mediamogul

@mitu

Ah, I had forgotten it's built in now. Do you know if the same is also true of lr-mame2003?

mitu

@mediamogul Yes, I think so - https://github.com/libretro/mame2003-libretro/pull/368

mediamogul

@mitu

Very nice! One less thing to worry about during setup.

AndersHP

@mediamogul yeah, except it doesn't seem to work..? :-/

mediamogul

@andershp

Have you verified it with multiple games? It's possible 'Timber' isn't supported. However, being a Midway game, using the same hardware as 'Tapper', I'd be surprised if it isn't.

youxia

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I admit, @GtBFilms's score was a motivation, wouldn't push otherwise. It's a charming game but gets repetitive really soon - I think they could add some more stuff to spice things up, as it is it's only that silly bear and the bird.

I guess to progress any further I'd need to master the Beehive Chop and this seems a bit too random for me.

GtBFilms

@youxia awesome score ! I'm going to have to have another go tonight now!

cyperghost

@youxia Really impressive ... my score was 16k+x ;)

GtBFilms

Well I managed to do a bit better but I can't catch @youxia score !

70210 is the best I can do!

And that's staying on two logs!

obsidianspider

MAME ROW #97 is live