MAME ROW #149 - Bio-ship Paladin

obsidianspider · 29 Oct 2019, 14:45

This is the MAME Random Of the Week #149

The three random numbers for this week are: 1328 444 1231 144 2090

Click here to vote! Which game do you choose for MAME ROW #149?

The result of the poll is posted on Wednesday, so we have Monday and Tuesday for experimentation.

1328
Game Name: PlayChoice-10: Track & Field
Company: Konami (Nintendo of America license)
Year: 1987
ROM file name: pc_tkfld.zip

444
Game Name: Dommy
Company: Technos
Year:
ROM file name: dommy.zip

1231
Game Name: Oli-Boo-Chu
Company: Irem + GDI
Year: 1981
ROM file name: olibochu.zip

144
Game Name: Bio-ship Paladin
Company: UPL (American Sammy license)
Year: 1990
ROM file name: bioship.zip

2090
Game Name: Vs. Tetris
Company: Academysoft-Elory
Year: 1987
ROM file name: vstetris.zip

What is the MAME ROW?

MAME ROW stands for MAME Random Of the Week. We randomly select an arcade game from the 0.78 MAME Reference Set to play on the week. The idea is to play games we've never played before, interact with other forum members, post hi-scores, share game strategies, fun facts, and (the most important) HAVE FUN!

We're still working things out with the new MAME ROW structure. We will play the winner all next week.

Previous Rounds

obsidianspider · 29 Oct 2019, 14:49

We'll close voting on Thursday this week

IanDaemon · 30 Oct 2019, 15:43

So we have:

button masher to beat all button mashers
sort-of Pengo clone
sort-of Pac-Man clone
generic horizontal shooter
poor version of Tetris

XD

obsidianspider · 1 Nov 2019, 09:27

This week's winner is Bio-ship Paladin

IanDaemon · 31 Oct 2019, 13:44

Unique cursor firing? I might have to check that out.

GtBFilms · 1 Nov 2019, 09:27

@obsidianspider Sorry, didn't get time to try these out or vote this week (Hallowe'en is a very busy time in our household!).

Hopefully will get a chance to try them and log a score now though.

AndersHP · 1 Nov 2019, 09:48

This game has some original ideas..
And the music on first stage is quite catchy :)

IanDaemon · 2 Nov 2019, 02:21

Not good

IanDaemon · 5 Nov 2019, 15:48

I wish I knew how to play this game well.

GtBFilms · 7 Nov 2019, 09:40

@IanDaemon Had a few goes of this, but I can't beat your score yet! I got quite close, there's a lot going on though, and I'm not entirely sure how the powerups work!

IanDaemon · 7 Nov 2019, 17:38

Maybe I have the controls mapped...inconveniently. Hmmm. I think it's a two button game. One button I have to mash to keep firing ("b" I think) and the other ("a" I think) I can hold down and use the joystick to move the front orb. (That's not at all convenient.) And I can collect green balls to help protect my ship. And I think they fire. I don't remember. I can hold down the firing button to charge up a more powerful shot from my ship.

I think the "unique cursor firing" mentioned in the flyer is marketing-speak for "so confusing it'll take eight credits to figure how to play".

I'll check tonight in the MAME menu to make sure I'm using the default difficulty. If I'm scoring higher than @GtBFilms then set-ups may not be equal. XD

IanDaemon · 9 Nov 2019, 18:15

Bio Ship Paladin is a credit hog to be sure. I'm getting no sound when I play, but here are some screenshots of my settings:

Brigane · 9 Nov 2019, 19:36

@IanDaemon Great score. Fyi sound works with mame2003-plus emulator

obsidianspider · 11 Nov 2019, 13:14

MAME ROW #150 is now live. Options may or may not have been selected randomly…

IanDaemon · 11 Nov 2019, 14:32

@obsidianspider I've never seen random options. I've always seen settings stick. (unless there is a problem with write permissions)

GtBFilms · 11 Nov 2019, 22:08

@IanDaemon Nice score! I went with advmame 1.4 to get the sound working.