MAME ROW #5: Raiga - Strato Fighter

[obsidianspider]

American Speedway

Halley's Comet

Raiga - Strato Fighter

[cyperghost]

As always great selection :)
Well... second chance for American Speedway? Personally the two shooters are fine :)

[obsidianspider]

@cyperghost said in MAME ROW #5:

As always great selection :)
Well... second chance for American Speedway? Personally the two shooters are fine :)

Thanks to @dankcushions American Speedway is now playable, but wow, it's tough. Halley's Comet and Strato Fighter are both quite fun.

[meleu]

Strato Fighter is the winner. Happy shooting!

[cyperghost]

Yeah! Out of my way Alien!

[GtBFilms]

Excellent! Sorry I didn't get time to vote this week, but I did get a quick chance to try all three games and was going to vote for Raiga - Strato Fighter anyway.

All three were interesting games, which is why the ROW is great fun. I thought Halley's Comet was a bit too frustrating with it's high speed and crashing comets - all of these sorts of games are a test of memory to a certain extent, but I like to think skill also plays a part. Raigo - Strato Fighter seems to have less of the "unfair death/didn't stand a chance" challenge of Halley's Comet.

American Speedway seems to be a Super Sprint clone, but not quite so well implemented. Pickup collision detection seemed to be a bit random, not least with the points floating around the track - it's difficult enough to hit a stationary target with these sorts of games!

All three were good fun though, and worth taking a look at.

Right, now to set my Raiga - Strato Fighter high score!

Edit: here's my early attempt (74460), I'm sure it will quickly be surpassed:

The second level appears to be a nice homage to R-Type level 3, with the added feature that you can turn your ship around. Like R-type though, it suffers from the 'lose a life when fully tooled up and you don't stand a chance with your remaining lives without all the powerups' resulting in a rapid game over after that initial mistake.

Despite that, I think this is a pretty awesome game, look forward to getting a bit further.

[meleu]

I'm enjoying playing this game. Nice graphics and cool weapon upgrades... My arm is burning after a session, I think I've got R.S.I., but I'm still wanting to play more! :-)
My score was something near to 70k but I had to leave in a hurry to go to work.
Will try harder later and post my screenshot.

Edit: Totally agree with the @GtBFilms

it suffers from the 'lose a life when fully tooled up and you don't stand a chance with your remaining lives without all the powerups' resulting in a rapid game over after that initial mistake.

[cyperghost]

OMG! 70k ;)
That's a lot more than mine :)

[meleu]

I've been playing with a arcade-like joystick, my right forearm is burning, but I finally got 100k and put my name in the first place! :-)

I have to be honest with you, I cheated. But I'm not sure if it contributed to my score. My cheat was: after finishing the stage 2 I paused and rested my right arm for one minute. But as a side effect I think I lost my "warm-up"... I lost a life early in the stage 3, all the powerups was gone, and, as @GtBFilms said, I didn't stand a chance with no power-ups. Even with 3 lives remaining... :(

[dankcushions]

my score is 71380 so far. only had a couple of goes. this game rules!

doesn't seem to save hi score in FBA for me... let's see if i can do something about that...

[meleu]

@dankcushions
I've just realized that we can use the MAME ROW to enrich the mame2003 compatibility list spreadsheet.

I'm not sure if anyone can edit the spreadsheet and maybe I won't find time to keep it updated. But, if a kind guy wants to update the file, here is what I know since we started this all (I only tested on raspi2).

 ROM name | raspi2 status 
----------|---------------
phoenix   | working
nrallyx   | working
bosco     | working
kabukikl  | working
tdfever   | working (but I don't know how to play it)
lizwiz    | working
amspdwy   | working, but needs to configure the dpad
4dwarrio  | working
spacduel  | didn't test
halleys   | didn't test
stratof   | working

[dankcushions]

@meleu anyone can update the spreadsheet :) i don't even think you need a google account

[R1n0X]

My Score: 131330
OS: Windows 7
Emulator: MAME 0.139

[meleu]

@R1n0X
Damn'it! My forearm will burn again trying to beat your score!

[R1n0X]

@meleu This game is a destroyer of buttons and forearms!!!!

[meleu]

@R1n0X Maybe @dankcushions could implement some way to enable turbo. But it is cheating! :-)

[lilbud]

@R1n0X In response to your score...

[mediamogul]

@meleu said in MAME ROW #5: Raiga - Strato Fighter:

Maybe @dankcushions could implement some way to enable turbo.

I don't use it myself, but you can always add turbo to any controller with xboxdrv by adding --autofire BUTTON=FREQUENCY to a standard configuration. For example:

--autofire A=250

You can also tell another button to act as a separate turbo option like you see in lr-fceumm with a --buttonmap modifier like:

--buttonmap x^autofire:250=a

[UDb23]

@meleu Done! lr-mame2003 compatibility list updated.
I usually update the comp lists whenever I try new games.

[dankcushions]

@meleu said in MAME ROW #5: Raiga - Strato Fighter:

amspdwy | working, but needs to configure the dpad

no it doesn't, i already fixed this...