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Game competition #3: Mame - Zoo Keeper
Ummon:
DeL, I can't figure out how you got those scores, so I was curious if you could vid them is all. I don't have problems with older versions of mame. I know .125 was screwy at least for playback. I suggest trying Mame32, either say .104 or the current version and see what happens. Mame32/UI is easy in that all you have to do is right-click on the game in the list and select 'play and record', the game starts in record mode and off you go. Then for playback, right-click and select 'playback' and it should playback correctly. I know .104 does, anyway. Then post your inp file and say which version you used.
Anyways, time's been up, DeL's the winner so he has to pick a game.
leapinlew:
--- Quote from: Ummon on October 01, 2008, 09:34:47 pm ---DeL, I can't figure out how you got those scores, so I was curious if you could vid them is all. I don't have problems with older versions of mame. I know .125 was screwy at least for playback. I suggest trying Mame32, either say .104 or the current version and see what happens. Mame32/UI is easy in that all you have to do is right-click on the game in the list and select 'play and record', the game starts in record mode and off you go. Then for playback, right-click and select 'playback' and it should playback correctly. I know .104 does, anyway. Then post your inp file and say which version you used.
Anyways, time's been up, DeL's the winner so he has to pick a game.
--- End quote ---
I also would like to see the vids. Not for any reason but I think it would be cool to watch someone else play and to see their strategies. If you guys can figure a way to do that, that would be cool.
DeLuSioNal29:
Well, thanks to the MARP forums, I was able to make a vid! :) (see attached .zip below) I am using MAME32 .119.
The problem was, I was hitting F3 to bypass the maintenance screen, when I should have been hitting F1 instead.
So, when you play the video, once in the game, you type "OK" to bypass the disclaimer. Hit "enter" to bypass the game info and then let the .inp file automatically do the rest to bypass everything.
I know the contest is over, but I managed to score a whopping 625,670!
I only scored 4,240 on the first level (4,690 is my hi), but it shows the technique that I use to score higher without losing a life.
~ DeLuSioNaL
DeLuSioNal29:
Here's another inp file that show a high score on level 1 if you are curious on how I do it.
DeLuSioNal29:
To play my .inf file I made:
- Download the matching MAME version the .inf recording was made on. (I recorded mine on .119)
- Download the files below and unzip to the mame directory
- Download the .inf file and place it in a folder name "inf" in the MAME directory. Create the directory if it's not already there.
- Copy the zookeeper.zip rom to the rom folder in the mame directory.
- go to the c:\ prompt and navigate to the MAME directory. To do this in Windows: Click on Start, Run, type in "cmd" (no quotes) and hit enter. Type in "cd c:\mame" (no quotes) (or wherever you have mame .119 installed). The prompt should now be in the mame directory.
- Type: playback zookeep delusional29.inp (hit enter)
You can do the same to record .inf files:
- Type: record zookeep (hit enter)
It will automatically create an .inp file in the inp folder called zookeep
Hope this helps!
~ DeLuSioNaL