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High Score Competition #98: Phoenix

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jasonbar:
19,350 after a few games. Will post pic if that score matters...

-Jason

kixfan:
I can't seem to past the screen 10.   As previously mentioned, on one attempt I got 8200 for the mothership and had a score of 15110.   On the flip side, you can end up getting 0000 for the mothership, not sure how I did it.   :dizzy:

Ravenger:
This is one of my favourite games. but I've not got a decent high-score for this challenge yet  :banghead: (My best ever is around 30,000).

Good tips are:
On the egg/big bird waves keep to the left/right hand sides of the screen. It's easier to shoot the birds there, though more difficult to dodge the bullets.
On the mothership screen, shoot out all the moving shield pieces, and let the mothership get to the bottom of the screen. Then head into the centre to shoot the alien. Even if you've not shot a hole through the bottom of the ship your bullets will hit the alien anyway, and you'll score maximum bonus - 8200 for wave 1. I got 9200 on wave 2 once by doing this.

Gray_Area:

--- Quote from: Ravenger on August 26, 2012, 11:52:10 am ---This is one of my favourite games. but I've not got a decent high-score for this challenge yet  :banghead: (My best ever is around 30,000).

Good tips are:
On the egg/big bird waves keep to the left/right hand sides of the screen. It's easier to shoot the birds there, though more difficult to dodge the bullets.
On the mothership screen, shoot out all the moving shield pieces, and let the mothership get to the bottom of the screen. Then head into the centre to shoot the alien. Even if you've not shot a hole through the bottom of the ship your bullets will hit the alien anyway, and you'll score maximum bonus - 8200 for wave 1. I got 9200 on wave 2 once by doing this.


--- End quote ---

I didn't know this. That reeks of a 'bug', that I have not seen in the history.dat .  Anyways, I've gotten 40+ on older MAME. Newer MAME seems harder. The thing about the three-shot bug is that it doesn't add 200k points to your score. It changes your score to 204k, in which case you lost the difference between your score and four thousand. Mm-mmm. We'll see.

Gray_Area:
So I fired up the machine. First game was fourteen grand, though more than half of that was the boss bonus of 8200. So, yeah, it works. You don't have to shoot all of the shield. You just have to wait till it get to the bottom of the screen. Watch out, though. I bought it twice that way.

Second game was better, as I got the bonus on the second boss, too - which is 9200. Don't know whether that's for the level, or for getting the first and second bosses.

But like I said, I've gotten 40+ thousand doing it the hard way, level five if I remember correctly.

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