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Game Competition #10: Wonder Boy
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isucamper:

--- Quote from: DrFrag on January 13, 2009, 10:42:30 pm ---1,924,090 points, finished at area 7-4.  :cheers:

I had to zip the zip of the INP to get it small enough to attach.  :)

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That is absolutely insane.  You must have played this game a whole lot to get that good.  What is your history with this game?  Do you own a dedicated machine?  How much have you played it?
DrFrag:

--- Quote from: drawfull on January 14, 2009, 03:34:31 am ---I can't get the inp to work, which is a shame. I tried using MAMEXT 0.125 (the only version of 125 I could locate)

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Download mame0125b.exe from http://mamedev.org/oldrel.html
Put wboy.zip into a folder called rom
Put the inp (perhaps rename it to something shorter) into a folder called inp
Run the command line mame wboy -playback wboyrecording.inp
Hope that works for you.  :)

I did a bit of showing off at the end of area 1, riding the skateboard into the boss's cave.  ;D


--- Quote from: isucamper on January 14, 2009, 09:22:53 am ---That is absolutely insane.  You must have played this game a whole lot to get that good.  What is your history with this game?  Do you own a dedicated machine?  How much have you played it?

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I played it a lot in the arcades from '86 to the mid 90s, and I got good enough to reach area 5 or so.  I even tried to buy a cab of it but I couldn't find one.  When it came out on MAME I played it a lot.  A lot of reflexive memories came back which made playing easy.  I could easily finish Wonder Boy in Monster Land so I was determined to finish the original Wonder Boy.
I put together a Wonder Boy web page with everything I knew about the game, including all the secrets and panoramic screenshots of entire levels.  The remnants of it can be found at http://web.archive.org/web/20060821232109/afk.sagamers.com/wonderboy/wonderboy.html
Collecting information and graphics for the web page taught me a lot about the game.  I also watched game recordings from MARP, when I could get them to work.  Eventually I was able to finish the game at area 7-4, or collect all the dolls and reach area 8-3.  My best score at this point was 1.8m, but I was always more interested in going for distance rather than score.

Until this week, I hadn't played it in a couple of years.  It all came back to me very quickly though, so I was quite pleased that I could finish it within a few days.  :)  I really don't have to concentrate until area 5-2, it hits some kind of threshold of difficulty there for me.

Looking at the Twin Galaxies high score, it looks like they probably didn't get past area 7-3 or 7-4.  It's quite hard there, and if you finish at 7-4 you can easily get around 1.4 or 1.5 million.  At the end, each doll collected during the game is worth another 10,000, and each remaining life is worth 50,000.  I had a nice lot of lives remaining which is why my score hit 1.9 million.

Yesderday I collected all the dolls and played up to area 8.  I wanted to see if it's as hard as I remember.  It's even harder than I remember.  :o
Ummon:

--- Quote from: DrFrag on January 13, 2009, 10:42:30 pm ---1,924,090 points, finished at area 7-4.  :cheers:

I had to zip the zip of the INP to get it small enough to attach.  :)

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I think it has to be zipped, regardless.
DrFrag:
Yeah, but the zip was still too big.  I had to zip it again to squeeze a few more KB out of it.  ;D
isucamper:
great site man (kinda janky loading unfortunately).

i think it goes without saying that you are the unofficial king of Wonderboy.  you should get out there and crush that world record. 
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