Forum Tournament Round 2: We're going to Plaid

R1n0X

@meleu My suggestion is Green Beret. Great Game from Konami

meleu

@R1n0X That Cold War atmosphere really takes us back to the 80's! :D

Lyle_JP

@R1n0X Surely you mean Rush 'n Attack? ;D

meleu

@Lyle_JP I didn't know this game but I saw in wikipedia that it was named Green Beret in Japan and Europe. The US Rush'n Attack name seems to be a pun with "Russian Attack".

meleu

Well, my suggestion is Space Invaders. I have never played the arcade version of this game. I just played the Atari 2600 version when I was a little kid.

dankcushions

IMO pick a random game from the 0.78 romset. give us the possibility to play something new/weird!

meleu

@dankcushions I liked the idea. But how do we do the randomization logic?

meleu

I think I've found something interesting here:
https://www.random.org/lists/

But we have to make a clean 0.78 game list (no clones, no mahjong, etc.).

lilbud

@meleu could someone else manage the poll this week? I see a lot of homework in my future

dankcushions

@meleu said in Forum Tournament Round 2: We're going to Plaid:

I think I've found something interesting here:
https://www.random.org/lists/

But we have to make a clean 0.78 game list (no clones, no mahjong, etc.).

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LP1MELCvcxu7TfiowF_0ZuvRVEMqlfQyTVetnOJvuJc/edit#gid=1744967714

very simple to to via the compatibility list.. filter by only 'blank' in the parent column.

or just keep generating a random number between 3-4722 until you have a game that is not a clone, mahjong, etc.

R1n0X

@Lyle_JP Yeah! I used to play it on MSX. Green Beret or Rush'n Attack.

meleu

@dankcushions could you do it for the next round? It surely would be much appreciated.

dankcushions

@meleu said in Forum Tournament Round 2: We're going to Plaid:

@dankcushions could you do it for the next round? It surely would be much appreciated.

sure! ok, i filtered by blank-for-parent, which gives me only parent roms: list of 2681

now, random generated a number 1-2681 using https://www.random.org/

drum roll

258 = bosconian (namco 1981)

i've heard of this! hope it works in mame2003? currently it's 'untested' on the compatibility list.

meleu

@dankcushions look at that map/radar!! Pretty similar to the New Rally X! (well, it's a Namco game from the early 80's) LOL.
Thanks! I'm going to start practicing!

meleu

The ROM file is bosco.zip, I'm using the .37b5 version on lr-mame4all and everything is fine.

R1n0X

"BLAST OFF" :)

Cole_48

i never submitted my actual high score from last round but i am going to try to participate in this one!!!

meleu

One thing I think should be mentioned here: @UDb23 made a cool overlay for New Rally-X.
It can be found here: https://retropie.org.uk/forum/topic/5988/yet-another-overlay-new-rally-x

meleu

@BuZz I think this thread deserves to be in the MAME Random Of the Week area too. It's part of the history. :-)

mediamogul

@meleu

Done and done. Are there any other stragglers out there?