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High Score Competition #93: Exerion
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AlienInferno:
Got a slightly better score today.  And closer to the current #1 record holder.

120,800

Recorded the inp file like I do all of these hoping for some extraordinary gameplay and the dang thing got confused.  That's why there is a couple 3100 scores from WVU.  O-well.  Maybe when I get 1st place it will work right.

yotsuya:
Just for laughs, 42,000.

As I played, it felt like this was a game that needed a triggerstick. I took a look at KLOV, and sure enough, it had one.

Times like this I WISH I had a frankenpanel...
AlienInferno:

--- Quote from: yotsuya on June 09, 2012, 07:36:31 pm ---Just for laughs, 42,000.

As I played, it felt like this was a game that needed a triggerstick. I took a look at KLOV, and sure enough, it had one.

Times like this I WISH I had a frankenpanel...

--- End quote ---

I don't even have a working panel.  Just an old Logitech Wingman Extreme gamepad.
Nephasth:

--- Quote from: yotsuya on June 09, 2012, 07:36:31 pm ---Just for laughs, 42,000.

As I played, it felt like this was a game that needed a triggerstick. I took a look at KLOV, and sure enough, it had one.

Times like this I WISH I had a frankenpanel...

--- End quote ---

Meh. I bought an Exerion last year in a Zaxxon cab (sold it shortly after acquiring it), and I'm getting better scores with a ball top and two buttons than that triggerstick on the Zaxxon...
jasonbar:
Ooooh, to trigger stick or to not trigger stick? That is the question.


I see multiple cabinet pics with trigger sticks or ball top sticks.


This one looks like a Gorf conversion, but with a 3-button stick (a la M.A.C.H. 3): http://www.coinop.org/MameImageSrc.aspx/9cee389e-8dd3-4a2c-bf07-1d4ef275a9ec/240/0/70


I previously had set the joystick to "inverted" flight controls, so pushing up on the stick moved the ship down, contrary to the default MAME settings. It seemed natural, given that the ship has inertia & they were going for a sort of proper 3D flight scheme (poor man's Afterburner). But, I couldn't play worth a darn that way, so I switched it back to "normal".

For some reason, I'd feel weird using my flight stick with non-inverted controls. I'll try it out...OK, I hate it. Back to the ball top!



Is anybody else getting occasional resets? I'm running on 115u2 & sometimes (twice so far) the game resets to the title screen & the high scores all go back to 0. Without MAWS, I can't find out if there were any fixes made since 115u2...


Thanks,
-Jason
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