High Score Competition #212: Neo Bomberman (Neo-Geo)

[Titchgamer]

As I have a shiny new neo cab to play with and never really had a chance on the last one I thought I would pick another Neo Geo classic

High Score Competition rules and scoreboard

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Game Name : Neo Bomberman (Neo-Geo)
ROM Name  = "neobombe"
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Settings: Default - Level 4
Controls
   Joystick: 4 - way
   Buttons: 1 - drop/kick/throw





Neo Bomberman consists of walking through maze-like areas filled with monsters with a goal of opening the gate leading to the next area. Playing as a bomberman, the player can lay bombs to destroy all of the monsters, which will subsequently open the gate. Destroying blocks in the maze may uncover useful items including remote control bombs, accelerators, hearts, and increased firing range.

Last Day: Sunday, March 12th 2017



Quest for the Bronze Joystick! The most successful competitor of each calendar year will possess & display the BYOAC Bronze Joystick Trophy.

Happy Gaming!

[Titchgamer]

And one to start us off:


31,250

[yamatetsu]

In case someone gets the 'DIP.SW 1 OFF !!' message when starting this:

Press TAB, go to 'Dip Switches', turn 'Setting Mode' to 'Off', reset or exit the game.

[jasonbar]

Nice game pick.

I'm unable to confirm that my game is set to level 4.
I can enter the menu with F2, navigate up & down through the top menu with the left joystick, but I can't figure out how to select items to view or edit them. What's the trick?
I also seem to have Spanish & Japanese text. Weird.

First game, tired, not paying attention, careless: 27,650.

-Jason

PS--we seem to be playing Normal mode instead of Battle mode, yah?

[yamatetsu]

Press F2 to enter the menu, go to 'setting up the soft dip', press fire. Go to 'slot 1  bomber man', press fire. Confirm that difficulty is set to 4. You can change it with the fire button. Exit the menu by pressing the C button (it's the space bar on the keyboard). In the main menu, go to 'exit' and press fire.

To change the language, hit TAB, go to 'Bios Selection' and change the driver to 'US MVS (2.?)'. Go to 'Reset' and press enter. The game boots and the language should now be set to english.
Make a savegame before the action starts. For some reason, MAME will not remember the driver settings, so when you quit the game and start it again, back to spanish text it is.

Edit: Yep, we play the normal mode.

[Titchgamer]

What yan said

Also the level should be displayed at the bottom of the splash screen before you insert creds.

[yamatetsu]

34,500.



37,250.

[acvieluf]

I'm just going to say it.  This game is boring.  Slow moving.  I'll still play it cause i'm a sucker for competition.  But ugh.

[yamatetsu]

Yep, it's boring. But a 4 player battle ... That must be a blast.

[jasonbar]

Thanks. Able to navigate the NG settings menu. I think I just wasn't pushing the P1A button hard enough.

Confirmed level 4.


But, I don't see a BIOS section in the Tab menu. Perhaps 115u2 is too ancient to have that setting.


Did a bit better, till the boss bossed me around.

31,800.

-Jason

[Titchgamer]

I'm just going to say it.  This game is boring.  Slow moving.  I'll still play it cause i'm a sucker for competition.  But ugh.

Well at the retro event near me next month they gana have a 10 player battle going on that should be fun! Lol

[acvieluf]

I'm just going to say it.  This game is boring.  Slow moving.  I'll still play it cause i'm a sucker for competition.  But ugh.

Well at the retro event near me next month they gana have a 10 player battle going on that should be fun! Lol

Don't sweat it Titch. It's not you, it's me. I've tried the original Bomberman a few times and couldn't get into it. But just ignore my whining, cause I'm playing.

Sent from my Atari 2600

[Titchgamer]

[acvieluf]

Haha, yep. That's it alright.


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[Titchgamer]

Slight improvement today:

33,300

[yamatetsu]

Slight improvement today:

54,350

[jasonbar]

Slight improvement today:

37,000

Water world is confusing & weird.


You guys playing w/ a 4-way or 8-way stick? I know it's Neo-Geo, so it should behave well w/ an 8-way, but I've been using one of my 2 4-ways on my 4-person panel, & it's the awkward far left position, angled at 45 degrees. I think I'll move over to one of the front positions & use an 8-way next.

-Jason

[acvieluf]

EDIT: Slight...Aw crap I messed it up.

OK, it's growing on me. 33,500



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[Titchgamer]

EDIT: Slight...Aw crap I messed it up.

OK, it's growing on me. 33,500



Sent from my Atari 2600

[acvieluf]

EDIT: Slight...Aw crap I messed it up.

OK, it's growing on me. 33,500



Sent from my Atari 2600

Yep. Bump. 40,700



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[yamatetsu]

But, I don't see a BIOS section in the Tab menu. Perhaps 115u2 is too ancient to have that setting.

Here is the very important text that gets translated from spanish to english. The japanese stuff stays japanese.

[Titchgamer]

Mine asks me to select the bios on starting the game on mame.
Need to work out how to change it on my pi though...

[jasonbar]

Not a slight improvement today.

107,300.

-Jason

PS--did I mention that I used to host Turbo Duo 5-player Bomberman parties on a regular basis?
PPS--8-way is definitely a bit worse than 4-way.  I lost a few guys due to a direction goof. But playing in front of your monitor instead of on the side & w/ a diagonal 4-way seems to more than compensate.
PPPS--starting piling on a few power-ups & steeds, & you're pretty much invincible.
PPPPS--this game took a long long time--I really got bored about halfway through--the game doesn't insert enough variety to convince me to continue for curiosity's sake--I continued to crush & to crush alone.
PPPPPS--died on 3rd boss. Was probably close to finishing him
PPPPPPS--I had a great game going last night, super powered up, in the high 50k range w/ no lives lost, then the power went out. Darn.
PPPPPPPS--I think I'm all Neo Bombermanned out. May I stop now please?

[Titchgamer]

[yamatetsu]

   Buttons: 1 - drop/kick/throw

  Buttons: 2    1 - drop/kick/throw
                    2 - detonate remote bombs

70,600.

[Titchgamer]

   Buttons: 1 - drop/kick/throw

  Buttons: 2    1 - drop/kick/throw
                    2 - detonate remote bombs

70,600.

Cheers Yam

[yamatetsu]

Slight improvement today:

111,200. Didn't make it to the 3rd boss.

[acvieluf]

48,400



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[SlyBlueFox]

I remember playing a clone of this game on linked TI-83+ calculators in high school with one of my buddies. It was a very simple version and was actually pretty fun. Haven't had a chance to play this very much but hopefully will get a chance tomorrow and possibly submit a score. Just found out my wife is having twins so been kind of spaced out the past few days 

[yamatetsu]

The scoreboard.

[acvieluf]

Congrats yama. 

The new game is up here: http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,153623.0.html

I have to warn you.  It can be a bit cheap.   

[yamatetsu]

1st   yamatetsu     111,200

2nd   jasonbar       107,300

3rd   acvieluf          48,400

4th   Titchgamer     33,300