Gun.Smoke Glitch or MAME 125 Glitch ? Level 1, Flying "dragonflies" Video Proof!

[mrclean]

Gun.Smoke Glitch or MAME 125 Glitch ? Level 1, Flying "dragonflies" worth 10,000 points each, this happens randomly as i can't confirm a pattern, currently on Gun Smoke US Set 2, On level 1, every so often i see flying 10,000 point items.. sometimes only 1 or 2, and sometimes even 5! thats an extra 50,000 points on level 1, this has happened to me various times on coin 60? i think 90, 158, 204 ? 218 ? respectivly in book keeping. Not sure if anyone else has seen this, if it happens again,  I will try to record a video of it when it happens again.. im sure it will this has also happened on Gun Smoke World set.

items look like this:


I put it in slow motion, clearly you can see my points go from 24,xxx to 34,000 when i hit that dragon fly, i missed all the others because it was hard to record with one hand , and play with my foot hehe... but at least thats proof, this time coin # 249 (US Set 2)

Youtube I uploaded :
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocTbC6mMvnQ[/youtube]

edit: happened again on coin 264

[mrclean]

ok, so not sure if this is a reset / or kill screen so to speak, but aparently ive found that the dragonflies come about every 15 coins aprx and each time 1 dragonfly gets added, ive seen any where from 10 - 12 of these getting you about 150,000 points on the first board! usually average person ends at about 30,000 on the first board. And brings me now to another "glitch"... reset screen ? once the dragonflies maxed out at about 12 or so.. i was on the last stage.. 10 with the three brothers, and on my High Screen score I had over 1,500,000 on 1-5.. and while about to beat the game the game just flat out re-set itself back to ..If you are playing this game in Japan you are involved in a criminal act...etc.. and "ROM" as the High Score of 110,000 on US Set 2 ? is this a glitch or is this a dip switch so that the highscore gets automatically reset after many coins ? But this was during game play!

After the game "reset" itself.. the dragonflies dropped down to 1.. then after about 15 coins went to 2, then after another roughly 15 coins went to 3 etc.. this is all on level 1, when the first dudes that toss dynamite at you.. roughly you should have about 4,000 points very early stage 1

[rhb]

So, I used to play Gunsmoke arcade back at school in the late 80s.  The dragonflies DID happen occasionally on the real game too.  Have been playing around with my arcade I built during COVID with recent ROM set.  Yesterday was the first time I saw the dragonflies on my MAME emulator and it made me go "Oh yeah!, that crap happened back in the day too!"

Could never replicate it back when I played but was trying to push up on the screen where - like you said - the first dynamite guys show in level 1.  Having it happen randomly based on plays makes more sense because I could never "make" it happen based on game actions.

glad you posted this - I looked today to find out if, with the Internet, someone had finally posted how to make those effers show up!