The last 52 competitions:
#1 - Shinobi - Winner: Destructor, Second: fixedpigs#2 - Jungle Hunt - Winner: CrazyKongFan, Second: DeLuSioNal29#3 - Zoo Keeper - Winner: DeLuSioNal29, Second: Ummon#4 - Q*Bert - Winner: quarterstringer, Second: CrazyKongFan#5 - Robotron 2084 - Winner: (+_+), Second: opt2not#6 - Joust - Winner: (+_+), Second: Shoegazer (Changed the winner to (+_+), unless someone can explain why his score shouldn't count.)
#7 - Elevator Action - Winner: FrontyDev, Second: Zebidee#8 - Mr Do - Winner: DeLuSioNal29, Second: rotheblog#9 - Hyper Sports - Winner: drawfull, Second: Ummon#10 - Wonder Boy - Winner: DrFrag, Second: drawfull#11 - Bubble Bobble - Winner: mrclean, Second: isucamper#12 - Gun.Smoke - Winner: isucamper, Second: Ummon#13 - Ghouls 'n Ghosts - Winner: Ginsu Victim, Second: Zebidee#14 - Ms Pac-Man (with speedup hac) - Winner: CrazyKongFan, Second: wooowman93#15 - Frogger - Winner: CrazyKong Fan, Second: Jasonbar#16 - Grobda - Winner: mimic, Second: Cornchip#17 - Bank Panic - Winner: ahofle, Second: Jasonbar#18 - Juno First - Winner: RayB, Second: Shoegazer#19 - Rolling Thunder - Winner: DrFrag, Second: isucamper#20 - Terra Cresta - Winner: isucamper, Second: Jasonbar#21 - Gladiator - Winner: Jasonbar, Second: Hewskie#22 - Alcon (Slap Fight) - Winner: DrFrag, Second: Bender#23 - Galaga - Winner: quarterstringer, Second: ToddH#24 - Defender - Winner: quarterstringer, Second: tcleary#25 - Klax - Winner: CrazyKongFan, Second: TAG#26 - Funny Mouse - Winner: quarterstringer, Second: Epyx#27 - Rampart - Winner: isucamper, Second: john_abey#28 - Satan's Hollow - Winner: jasonbar, Second: ummon#29 - The Speed Rumbler - Winner: Epyx, Second: mimic#30 - Black Dragon - Winner: Epyx, Second: CrazyKongFan#31 - Twin Cobra - Winner: ArcadeNerd, Second: jasonbar#32 - Tetris - Winner: DrFrag, Second: qlunch#33 - Gyruss - Winner: Hurray Banana, Second: vorghagen#34 - Mappy - Winner: Jasonbar, Second: TAG#35 - Bump 'n' Jump - Winner: Comtek, Second: DrFrag #36 - Popeye - Winner: CrazyKongFan, Second: isucamper #37 - Pengo - Winner: CrazyKongFan, Second: MazzMn #38 - Bomb Jack - Winner: bpark42, Second: Flaptop #39 - Smash T.V. - Winner: jasonbar, Second: quarterstringer#40 - Rygar - Winner: Cakemeister, Second: jasonbar#41 - Krull - Winner: jasonbar, Second: I/O#42 - Tutankham - Winner: DrFrag, Second: creatine28#43 - Astro Blaster - Winner: mimic, Second: WhereEaglesDare#44 - Son of Phoenix - Winner: jasonbar, Second: syph007#45 - Metal Slug - Winner: doteater, Second: Hewskie#46 - Puzzle Bobble - Winner: quarterstringer, Second: Benevolance#47 - Street Fighter 2 - The World Warrior - Winner: isucamper, Second: jordanshadow#48 - Crazy Climber - Winner: jasonbar, Second: quarterstringer#49 - Strider - Winner:Jasonbar, Second: Bender#50 - Donkey Kong - Winner: wweumina, Second: javeryh#51 - Champion Wrestler - Winner: Vorghagen, Second: Bender#52 - Karnov - Winner: DrFrag, Second: darcypI thought I'd pick something classic and well known, but also something unlikely to have a clear winner from the start.
Gauntlet. The bottomless money pit of 80s arcade games. But this time you can't pump in coins to get further, you're going to have to go the distance on one coin. :-)
You can pick any character you like.
Level warps are permitted, if you think it'll help.
IIRC the first 7 levels are set, and after that they're random. Level 1 has a warp to 4 and 8, and Level 4 has a warp to 8. One day my brother and I decided to start up MAME to see if we could finish the game. We gave up after level 250 and noticing we were repeating a lot of levels.
Good luck!
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ROMSet: gauntlet, Gauntlet (rev 14)
DEFAULT DIP Switch Settings
Service Mode: OFF
Settings accessable via Service Mode:
Multiplier: 1
Bonus Adder: None
Game Difficulty: 4 - Moderate
Health Per Coin: 700
Coins to Start: 1
These are the default settings, so you shouldn't need to make any changes.
Note that Gauntlet uses an nvram file, so you might want to delete/rename this to avoid confusion if you've played before and have high scores.
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- One coin only (700 health)
- No continues or adding health with coins!
- No MAME cheats!
- Last day is Monday October 18th (11:59:59pm Pacific Daylight Time), 2010.
- High score wins.
- No savestates, savestate practices, etc. during the round.
- MAME INP recordings are optional, but encouraged!
- A screenshot is required to enter a score (press F12 to save screenshot showing your final score) or take a photo of the screen if playing on a real machine.
- If you're a MARP competitor on this title (like there are any...), keep in mind this is just a friendly competition amongst forum members, so maybe you shouldn't enter. However, if you're a forum member and this is a game you're good at and nobody knows about it, this is your time to shine!
- Even if you don't have a competitive score or if you don't *think* that you have a competitive score, please post it anyway to keep the thread fun & to give everybody a good sense of score ranges.
Best of luck!
Please if you are a Twin Galaxies competitor and such there is already a place for you, so let this be a friendly competition amoung us mortals
Please make sure your sores are from games that take place during the competition period (no posting your best score from last year, etc.)