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Robotron just yanked me good
Ummon:
Supposedly, they aren't supposed to shoot I thought, too. Some of them do, though. Anyways, the enforcer bug, YO! An ye may call yerselves Roobtootroon fahns. Alas.
TOK:
Not sure if you're trying to be cryptic, or just have trouble getting your thoughts on the screen, but the issue you're alluding to doesn't fit your symptoms. Also don't know that it's duplicated in MAME.
I know the emulation speed was tweaked in .99, but if you play a real machine its a lot easier on the same settings so MAME definitely isn't perfect. I never had the actual hardware crash on me. Not sure how many times I played it, but it has to be above the crash odds.
I think this is more commonly reported as just shooting into the corners of the screen causing a crash, but this site has a specific description:
From http://www.arcadehits.net/datObase/rom.php?zip=robotron
The enforcer bug is when an enforcer is in the lower right corner and you shoot it diagonal there is a 1 in 3000 chance the game will reset. The reason for the game resetting is there is a bug in the diagonal explosion code for enforcers. The memory below the screen holds the stack and an unclipped pixel can get 'drawn' into the stack causing the game to lock and the watchdog to kick in and reset the system.
leapinlew:
--- Quote from: Ummon on February 09, 2009, 04:57:25 am ---Supposedly, they aren't supposed to shoot I thought, too. Some of them do, though. Anyways, the enforcer bug, YO! An ye may call yerselves Roobtootroon fahns. Alas.
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Really ummon? This is how you talk?
councilface:
--- Quote from: TOK on February 08, 2009, 07:48:20 pm ---
--- Quote from: councilface on February 08, 2009, 06:28:18 pm ---No idea what youre talking about mate.
BUT
A big Robotron question I have is - Does leaving one Grunt and shooting the "mom" really help? I read about it a long time ago...
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On the one wave, with the big brain things there is one "Mikey" and a bunch of moms. They will not go for the Moms with Mikey alive on the board. Keep them away from him and pick him up last to get the bonus for all the moms.
No idea what Ummon is talking about either.
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Yep.
A good score rests on how well I do on level 5.
I should have said that the Mom trick applies to the 1st level - if its true that is...
wooowman93:
I pity the Fool