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)
Download mame0125b.exe from
http://mamedev.org/oldrel.htmlPut 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.inpHope 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.
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?
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.htmlCollecting 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.