Boulder Dash

[Muerto]

PART 1

Muerto2012-03-06 18:48:22

 

[favouredson]

 

[favouredson]

Slightly better.

94,420.

 

[favouredson]

Better still.

106,660.

I could have got pretty close to the TG high score as I was on a level full of diamonds with none needed to exit but I went and dropped a rock on my head...

 

[Muerto]

Thats a pretty nice score! Can you record a run, and up it here??

 

[Alpha1]

I actually have the original board for this. I believe it is quite rare.

 

[Muerto]

Who would have guessed

Is it for sale??

 

[Macro]

well, thats 2 accounted for then - I have one as well, was my favourite game on the C64, so had to have it.

 

[favouredson]

Just had another game to record the .inp.

(Which I can't upload...)

I could not figure out the last level I got to.

I knew what I needed to do but couldn't work out how to do it in the time.

Had I scored at the same rate as the previous game I would have beaten the TG score by a few thousand. I'm sure I had another bonus stage before which may account for the missing points, and an extra life.

 

[favouredson]

I nearly completed the level I got stuck on last time and finally beat the TG score.

 

[Alpha1]

Holy crap - you going to submit it?

 

[favouredson]

No.

Muerto already asked about my score for joinem.

My reply was thus:

"Firstly, I am not bothered enough about having my name in lights to want to download a version of MAME which my ROMs may or may not work with, possibly requiring a fresh download.

Secondly, I don't want to go through the hassle involved in getting the score verified.

(Have you read the susmission instructions?)"

 

[favouredson]

Okay.

I've been experimenting with starting on different worlds to see if I could get a higher score that way. Starting on World 5, I've been able to get close but the levels need a bit of working out.



Then I checked TG only to find that I was playing on the wrong settings.

I had the difficulty set to medium instead of hard so I changed it to hard and either MAME has the dips wrong or Data East have a strange idea of hard.

Either way I found it no more difficult and beat the high score by quite a bit...







Both my old and new high scores were starting on world 1 and the 5 scores between were all starting on world 5.
favouredson2012-01-31 22:05:45

 

[favouredson]

I think I have it now.

The level layouts and enemy configuration stay the same at all difficulty levels, the only thing which changes is the sart time.

World 1 Level 1:

Easy = 30s

Medium = 22s

Hard = 25s

Hardest = 20

I think we can take it that MAME (my version, at least) has the dips wrong and that medium and hard are reversed, in which case I was using the correct difficulty setting originally and my score of 127,280 stands.

The score of 148,100 is not legitimate for the purposes of this challenge.

 

[Muerto]

Interesting! - and very nice score!
Ill leave the scoreboard alone for now

 

[favouredson]

As a result of the nagging I have now submitted a score to TG.

I only beat the existing high score by 600pts this time but got one level further.

 

[Muerto]

excellent! - very Billy Mitchell!!!

 

[favouredson]

I couldn't leave things as they were so I had another go...

 

[Muerto]

wow! amazing score!!! plz send the .inp file to my mail

 

[favouredson]

File sent.

I'm slightly concerned that it didn't get through to TG as I haven't had the automated email response yet. The other two came through in minutes.