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Game competition #5: Mame - Robotron 2084
RayB:
I have a theory that certain men do much better at this game... especially the single guys.
;D
RandyT:
--- Quote from: (+_+) on October 31, 2008, 10:14:54 am ---I've never noticed any "black box" effect on the original or any of the mame versions I've played. What version are you running?
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Maybe it's in my head. It's an old version of smoothmame .071u2 (ok, stop laughing) It seems to work well on the machine it lives on, so I tend not to mess with it. Might be time to upgrade ;D
--- Quote ---Is it me or is getting out of a prolonged, hectic situation by the skin of your teeth elating?
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Not only that, but Lisa can always tell when I'm playing. She mocks the angry strings of profanities she keeps hearing (and she's usually in another room). This is the only game that gets me that worked up!
(+_+):
:laugh2:
That's hilarious. I swear, demean myself (such as "How could you crash into that you stupid #@!* monkey") and laugh out loud when I get away with murder. It's one of the few games that really gets me going on so many levels. And to believe it's almost 30 years old.
My wife just rolls her eyes at me.
SithMaster:
My all time high score is 12,278 (mame32 0.96 defaults I think). Go me.
Ummon:
Magnetization thing: I think it's something in the code relative to collision detection. Notice how the grunts move in clips? I think it's similar to player movement: if you don't reverse before the next clip - which may be related to how the game refreshes or something - then it's too late, even though you know you hadn't touched it yet, and the frame closes.
9 wave special: recently, I have sometimes taken diagonal directions, especially when charging groups of enforcers, and it has worked to my advantage. Yes, their shots are seekers. The best defence I've found is moving in a very tight quick circle and moving on in another direction from previous. Move in a line and it'll almost always get you.
overlayed objects: this is just how the game is. They're like non-interactive particles that can pass through each other, and you're anti-matter.
pausing the game: sometimes I don't do as well when I come back. Sometimes I do as well or better. If I'm totally relaxed AND up to speed with the rate of the game, I'm golden.