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    MAME ROW #3: Lizard Wizard

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    • meleu
      meleu last edited by meleu

      This is the 3rd MAME Random Of the Week

      As discussed in the previous thread this week we will vote between 3 random games.

      UPDATED: The most voted was Lizard Wizard

      The three random numbers obtained for this week voting: 842, 1904, and 945.

      842
      Game Name: Far East of Eden - Kabuki Klash / Tengai Makyou - Shin Den
      Company: Hudson
      Year: 1995
      ROM file name: kabukikl.zip
      BIOS: neogeo.zip

      1904
      Game Name: TouchDown Fever
      Company: SNK
      Year: 1987
      ROM file name: tdfever.zip
      BIOS: -

      945
      Game Name: Lizard Wizard
      Company: Techstar
      Year: 1985
      ROM file name: lizwiz.zip
      BIOS: -

      Please vote: http://www.strawpoll.me/11402243

      We will check the most voted game on Wednesday. So we have Monday and Tuesday for experimentations.

      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 ROMset 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!

      Every Monday we create a topic at the "General Discussion and Gaming" forum section with the 3 random games to be voted. And on Wednesday we check the results.

      These "rules" are constantly being improved!

      Explaining the randomness of the process for future reference

      I took the 0.78 compatibility list and applied the following filters (in this order):

      1. Parent: (empty)
      2. Rpi 3 Status: (empty), OK, Untested
      3. Rpi 2 Status: OK, Untested
      4. Rpi 1 Status: Untested
      5. Manufacturer: clear the "bootleg" checkbox

      Saved a new spreadsheet with only the results of those filters here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13Q7QEqV5lUo662nvAC3zS_AvQvsjspEcGHVhaHcyzbI/edit?usp=sharing

      And then went to www.random.org and generated a random number between 2 and 2185 (ignoring 1 because of the column headers).

      History

      The @qix77 started calling the forum members for a MAME competition on weekends. And then @dankcushions proposed that the game choice was random. We noticed that the randomness can bring some not very enjoyable games and @cyperghost proposed a voting between some randomly chosen games.

      Links to the previous "rounds"

      1. Phoenix (not randomly chosen)
      2. New Rally-X (not randomly chosen)
      3. Bosconian
      4. Blue's Journey / Raguy
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      • Cole_48
        Cole_48 last edited by

        I vote we go with an older more simpler title like the first few. After trying last weeks game I did not like it so I did no even compete. The simpler concept the better(pong era games don't count)

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        • obsidianspider
          obsidianspider last edited by

          Very well done with the choices this week. I had a heck of a time getting Bosconian to work a few weeks ago (had to figure out why it wouldn't boot, thankfully mame4all (non-libretro) showed an error and I was able to find that I was missing bosco.spr) but this week's games worked out of the box and are all very different.

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          • meleu
            meleu last edited by

            I watched a Kabuki Klash gameplay. It seems to be a mediocre copy of Samurai Shodown.

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            • Cole_48
              Cole_48 last edited by

              i voted lizard wizard for the exact reason i stated above

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              • dankcushions
                dankcushions Global Moderator last edited by

                i'd take a samurai shodown clone over most things! it's actually a pretty good one, having now played it. always nice to learn a new proper fighting game.

                lizard wizard seems to be totally meritless. the controls are horrible.

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                • GtBFilms
                  GtBFilms last edited by

                  Wikipedia suggests that Touchdown Fever used the rotating joysticks previously used in Ikari Warriors, which sadly my setup doesn't support, so for that reason I'm torn between Kabuki Klash and Lizard Wizard.

                  I'll give them both a quick try before committing myself!

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                  • backstander
                    backstander last edited by

                    I tried out all three of the games last night. Kabuki Klash and Lizard Wizard worked for me in both lr-fba-next & lr-mame2003. Touchdown Fever would play in both as well but the lr-fba-next version was rotated sideways and I'm not sure how to fix that.

                    I couldn't quite figure out how to play Touchdown Fever and when I finally was able to throw the ball to one of my team mates, it showed an arrow asking me to run the wrong direction and when I ran the direction that I thought was correct, my guy ran extremely slow.

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                    • cyperghost
                      cyperghost last edited by cyperghost

                      Video Screens

                      Far East of Eden - Kabuki Klash / Tengai Makyou - Shin Den

                      TouchDown Fever

                      Lizard Wizard


                      Hard choice? Isn't it?

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                      • obsidianspider
                        obsidianspider last edited by

                        I'm actually really impressed with Touchdown Fever. I mean, that was released in 1987. Quite a lot going on with that game for something 30 years old.

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                        • meleu
                          meleu last edited by meleu

                          Lizard Wizard is the winner. Here is the result:

                          0_1476280980720_20161012_110226.png

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                          • obsidianspider
                            obsidianspider last edited by

                            Lizard Wizard.

                            Lizard Wizard.

                            LIZARD WIZARD!

                            Whoa, sorry about that. Sounded like some sort of crazy cult chant. :)

                            This should be another fun one. I'm really enjoying this series as it's not only gotten me to figure out how MAME works, but it's also exposing me to games that I've never even heard of.

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                            • GtBFilms
                              GtBFilms @meleu last edited by

                              @meleu

                              If anyone claims to get past those cheating spiders on level 7 on a single credit, I won't believe them!

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                              • meleu
                                meleu @GtBFilms last edited by

                                @GtBFilms LOL! It's really hard, but I get past after a few attempts.
                                How can I prove it?! I think I'll use the @RetroResolution method here. :-)

                                It's a pitty that the score remains after using more coins to continue...

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                                • meleu
                                  meleu last edited by meleu

                                  A starting point hi-score: 93800

                                  Played on RetroPie using only one coin.

                                  A tip to get a nice score: the rocks worth 2000 points, but when they are burning worth 2500. The problems are (1) the green dragons like to eat the burning rocks (it means no points for that eaten rock); (2) if you wait too much the blue dragon comes, and it's fast and angry! :-)

                                  Screenshot:

                                  0_1476299253775_RetroArch-1011-180114.png

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                                  • obsidianspider
                                    obsidianspider last edited by

                                    This is probably a dumb question, but when is the deadline to post high scores? Is it still by the end of Saturday?

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                                    • meleu
                                      meleu @obsidianspider last edited by

                                      @obsidianspider said in MAME ROW #3: Lizard Wizard:

                                      when is the deadline to post high scores?

                                      I think that the original @qix77 idea was a weekend tournament. Starting on friday and ending on sunday night. Later we decided to get the random game on monday and play all the week (ending on sunday night). This week we started this voting process, then we dedicate monday tuesday for experimentations and start the real gaming on wednesday (ending sunday night).

                                      BUT I think we realized that it's all just for fun... The current week's game thread is just where there are more people interacting/talking about the game(s). My opinion is: post your hi-score anytime you want on the respective game topic. That's one of the reasons I put the links for the previous rounds. ;-)

                                      BTW: I wanna beat the @lilbud hi-score on Phoenix some day...

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                                      • obsidianspider
                                        obsidianspider @meleu last edited by

                                        @meleu said in MAME ROW #3: Lizard Wizard:

                                        BUT I think we realized that it's all just for fun... The current week's game thread is just where there are more people interacting/talking about the game(s). My opinion is: post your hi-score anytime you want on the respective game topic. That's one of the reasons I put the links for the previous rounds. ;-)

                                        I agree. I'm having a lot of fun with this :) Thanks again for organizing.

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                                        • cyperghost
                                          cyperghost last edited by

                                          This round will result in no tournament entry for me :(
                                          Sadly I'm on journey :/

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                                          • obsidianspider
                                            obsidianspider last edited by

                                            I got nowhere near @meleu's high score. This game was tough, and wow, those blue dragons are fast.

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