Roto

Week 9 is over! [list=1]The Rules: [*]To enter, you just play one of the games and post a screenshot (F12 key in MAME) with your score.[*]The deadline to post your high scores will be Sunday 11:59 PM Eastern US time.[*]When you post a high score, make sure to pick a new game to play by Monday. The sooner the better.[*]The game should be at least 10 years old and hopefully easy enough for everyone to get running. [*]Please don't use continues, savestates or 5 year old Polaroids for any scores you submit.[/list=1]So far we have only been using MAME to play the games, but that can change, if the winner so chooses.
I am going to host the current ROMs and list of all the past winners and high scores here.

The Games:
(click the titles for info and how to play)

Dig Dug (Atari, rev 2) - Winning Score: D300 227400


Joust (White/Green label) - Winning Score: D300 263600


Ninja Spirit - Winning Score: keyed 212500



The Prize:
Whoever gets the high score for one of the games picks the next game that replaces it, so we should always have 3 to choose from. You also get your name engraved permanently etched onto this eye catching trophy with a genuine Sharpie!

This Week's Winners:

D300

Roto

Just for that, your weak score is going up!

D300

Do you know how to set the high score name to 20 letters?

Roto

No, I never bothered trying.

D300

Start Joust, hold F1 down and hit F2 twice.
Then goto "Letters for highest score" and change it to 20.

Dvdsky

I'm tempted to play a quick game of Dig Dug just so I can have the high score for a few minutes, until someone who is actually good at it plays.

Can you just submit a screenshot of the current high score in the game, even if it's a score that you got a year ago? Obviously, nobody will know, but is that against the spirit of the challenge? I would think so, but in that case I might be saying "use the current score on there, the high score is old"...

PixyJunket

I have a good score on Dig Dug on my Namco Museum disc, 115k I think?

D300

Go ahead and play, this challenge is about having fun playing the old games. You could also temporarily remove the digdug.hi file from your Hi folder so the high score won't be shown.

Dvdsky

Ok, this should be an easy starting point for someone to beat...



(Turns out I didn't have the Atari version anyway, so no old high scores sitting around).

Roto

I prefer that you stick with MAME since almost no versions of Namco Museum are emulated. And if you have an old score of 115k, let's see you do that this week and take a picture I made an addendum to rule 5 for you guys. If we ever get around to playing WonderBoy in MonsterLand, I don't want Pixy posting a picture from 5 years ago

Dvdsky: Yeah, you could've always just said ignore the high score on the screen. I've posted scores where I hadn't beaten the default high score

Roto

Anybody get past level one of Ninja Spirit yet? I tried playing it a few times on the weekend and haven't had that much trouble getting past the end of the first level since Kung Fu Master, which started this whole thing.

joeblow69

Yeah, are you having problems with the boss? Just use your powered up sword, stand in the middle of the screen, and jump repeatedly, while swinging your sword. The boss itself doesn't hurt you, just his projectiles, and your sword should take care of all those. You can probably do it with your eyes closed!

Roto

Well if you're so smart, then beat my score!

I miss graphics like these. This is a cool looking game

joeblow69

Well there's your problem... don't use the shirikens here, just use your sword. The sword blocks most projectiles. I just jump up next to the guys on the left and keep swinging away. Once they're dead, THEN, follow my advice on from the previous post for the real boss.

It's interesting... if you watch the bottom of the screen while playing, one of your weapons will start blinking. My guess is the game is telling you which weapon will work best in which situation. I usually ignore that though, and just stick with the sword. It works best for me.

it is a pretty cool game. I had this way back in the day on my (don't laugh) TG-16. Don't you think this guy walks kind of slow for a ninja, though?

Roto

Maybe he's trying to be sneaky. You're not a ninja, so you wouldn't know Why would anyone laugh at a TurboGrafx-16? I had a Sega Master System

joeblow69

D'oh!

Roto

Joe's the man! I got past level 1

I'll leave it there for a while.

joeblow69

Boss 2 is tough!
*EDIT*
check that... he's not that tough after all! And level three actually takes place out of the forest! Woo hoo! What's with these lame ass ninjas shooting at your feet? Isn't that against some kind of ninja code or something?

devilshalo

Boss 2 is tough if you don't use the correct weapon.

Damn the 3rd level. Sneaky lil bastards fire shots at your feet.

Dvdsky

I can't believe my work computer isn't fast enough to play ANY of these without skipping lots of frames. Maybe that's a sign from my boss...

Roto

Not even Dig Dug? I've used MAME since some time in 1997 and I can't remember having speed problems for any early 80s games

Maybe that's because they used scanlines by default back then. Maybe you should turn that on so it only has to draw every other line.

ElementZ

How do u play dig dug? I went to the website but didnt see anywhere that it would let me actually play it.

Roto

To participate in the threads you have to get MAME
If you don't know where to start, here is the FAQ
Once you have MAME installed you need the game ROMS from my webpage (click on the cabinets) and put them in the roms folder of your MAME installation.

The whole rom thing is sort of a grey area as far as piracy is concerned so they can be hard to find. It's covered well in the FAQ. I provide the 3 games we play each week so people don't have to track them down.

I just added a link to MameWorld on my site. There are lots of useful links and info there. Just look along the left and right columns.

Mordred

I can't get past the stupid flaming balls of fire that come after you in the middle of level 2. I'm using the swinging chain thing exclusively though... are you guys using a different weapon?