Oh I didn't see that. I've never been to a level with more than one Qix Good thing I started a new thread. It grows fast when everyone hates the games But that's why the prize is to pick a new game. Motivation for the haters.

I kid you not. I was thrown off by it and I actually dashed to the F12 button, but alas it passed. I may try another game or two when I get home so I can snapshot that. I have a friend who is a HUGE Pengo fan and I'm sure he'd like to see that.

Actually, you can take my score down as the one to beat.. maybe have it on the side as an "extra challenge" I guess (I don't think the score is that hot personally). I'm not so much interested in winning, but seeing more people play and enjoy Flicky. I love that game. If people start creeping towards my score I may throw down again, but we'll see.

Also, Flicky is on the Gamecube Sonic Mega Collection.

Whats weird is that when you split the Qix, the level clears and you get a message saying "You have split the Qix, all point values now doubled." I assume you could continue doing that to really rack up the points because it looks like you stay on the same level. From the screenshot you can see I almost had the stupid level cleared, but I had to dodge a spark and the Qix got me.

No, you got the score, we gotta try to beat that. It's only a week, this was just a bad week to do it because the other two winners picked sucky games I just hope you don't pick Pengo if you win. Pengo is cute and all, but that's another tough one! It was one of the earlier games in MAME so I played it a lot back then and never got very far.

Better yet, record INP files when you play it this week. Sometimes I do that just to make sure I can't get a decent screenshot for these threads.

I wish they had left the avi recording feature in since the inp files never playback correctly unless you are using the exact same version of MAME they were recorded with. You can get the one version that did that here

I was just skimming through screenshots and the earliest game I see that has zeroes into the millions on the scoreboard was a prototype called Ixion from 1983, made by Sega of course I kept looking throu 1984 and couldnt find any more.

Ok.. how do I change the controllers?

Aren't you on a Mac? I wouldn't know because i've never seen the Mac version. But these are all keyboard friendly games this week.

No.. I'm at work on the PC. Just want to switch the ALT button to UP Cursor.

ALT button sux0rs because I keep hitting the windows button by accident.

I think you just hit tab to open up a settings menu and then select "Settings for this game," I think. Then you can change any of the controls to whatever you want.

Hah! We've found his Achiles heel!

(if only there were some way to map his MAME controls so FIRE was the Windows key?)

Yeah the tab key lets you get to all the control settings. Just change the general ones and it uses that as the default for all games.

I did a bit of searching for how to disable the windows key and it seems like the popular solution was WinKey Killer

There used to be a way to do it in MAME in the Win9x days, but apparently it doesn't work with NT/XP. I can't believe you people that can get away with playing these at work

It why I stopped playing Scramble. Shoot=Crtl and Bomb=Alt. I kept hitting the windows button and it was taking me back to the desktop.

Well you should've said soomething...but then I probably wouldn't have won, so Bahahahahaha! Screw you!

Fo' real.. I have to hide my DVDTalk visits for crying out loud.

I could visit DVDTalk all day, but no way could I get away with Pac-Man. At least not on my work computer, though I was seen playing Worms once on my PDA. Maybe that's why I got laid off

News Flash: MAME is now up to .86 and a few variations have been updated, including my personal favorite MAME Plus. www.mameworld.net

The major change are the control settings. They are completely reorganized and for some reason they went back to the old settings of the coin slots being keys 3 and 4 instead of 5 and 6

That confuses me almost as much as why devilshalo is nostalgic for Star Castle. I don't get the appeal to that game other than I may have lucked into a tough score to beat. Maybe he thought it was cool because it was in so many movies.

A Star Castle unit appears in the 1982 movie 'Fast Times at Ridgemont High', in the 1982 movie 'Rocky III', in the 1983 movie 'Joysticks', in the 1986 movie 'Maximum Overdrive' and in the 1996 movie 'High School High'.

A Star Castle unit appears (mulitple times) in a 'Columbo' tv movie episode : (Murder, Smoke and Shadows - Effetti Molto Speciali [ITA]) directed by James Frawley (in the same episode you can see beside this cabinet a "Joust" unit).

Here's my Qix score:


Now I can go to bed.

Cool, we're pulling the lurkers out into the open
Is it possible to be good at Qix, or is it just luck? Those wavy lines are completely unpredictable. The only strategy I've ever seen is to make a bunch of small boxes into a big wall to fence the Qix in.

What I've been trying to do is make a really tall column of skinny blue rectangles up the middle of the board. Then close it off with a slow red line, which will fill up 50% of the board with red. Usually gives around 10000 points. I'm not sure if it's a good strategy or not, though, because I die quite a bit trying it.

Star Castle happened to be one of the few shooter games that I liked. I hated Asteroids. And Defender was ok.



Oddly enough, I get no color pallate on the mac.

Macs still don't have color huh?

You gotta download the artwork because star castle used a piece of clear plastic over the screen to make color.

I know.. blue tinted glass with the red and orange castle outlines. can't believe how realistic the PC version looks.

According to this you can use overlays on a mac
http://www.enchanter.net/macmamedocs...files/FAQ.html
So get with the program slacker.