Charity Competition - Wonderboy Xmas Special

[Flinnster]

Just shy of 400K tonight.
Not too bad considering I had to spend most of the evening getting the board running properly, first no sprites, then crashing audio (thanks Smarty for the sanity checks):

 

[Flinnster]

Had another go today here is my score slightly better than the last one,lost 6 lives on the one board lost the axe and couldn't get by it

You can see the light blue VHS splice lines on your highscore photo though

 

[Pharo]

Hi flinnster just noticed this how does that happen is it something to do with the board as I checked the other pic I posted and that doesn't have the blue lines.

 

[TheDaddy]

Hi flinnster just noticed this how does that happen is it something to do with the board as I checked the other pic I posted and that doesn't have the blue lines.

You been getting tips from Billy Michell !! lol

Dave.

 

[Pharo]

Ha ha I don't know who that is so it's went over my head I gather it's not the one out of EastEnders.

 

[neoretro]

Hi flinnster just noticed this how does that happen is it something to do with the board as I checked the other pic I posted and that doesn't have the blue lines.

This also happened on the bootleg we used to have as well. So not Sega board specific

 

[Pharo]

I bought the board off yourself neoretro is there anything I need to do to stop it from happening it still plays the same mind you so happy with that.

 

[TheDaddy]

Lost all of my F'ing lives on the same silly damn screen !!! Lost my axe and its was ubber hard without on the level I was on.



Obviously it aint a great score but I need to submit something. So cold in there I took a flask in the garage with me ! lol

Dave.

Will try get better in next few days or so.

 

[TheDaddy]

Ok so my goal for the day was over 400000 and I have managed it. I forgot how hard this game gets at this stage !!!




I am getting there slowly , Shame about the cramps in my hand !! lol. Age I suppose.

Dave.

 

[Pharo]

It's as hard as nails later on especially when you lose your axe,I'm trying to remember where the hidden dolls are I keep on thinking it's this fire or that or run into this pile of boulders and I've been wrong 90% of the time haha

 

[TheDaddy]

Yeh me too , The hidden dolls are a mare. I lost a shed load of lives on the wrong ones. Later they are hidden on snails and only work when you run into then, Thats the total opposite of what your mind tells you.

Dave.

 

[Flinnster]

Palette issues can be voltage, especially on the bootleg boards. Most of my system 1 PCBs require a gentle nudge upwards on the switcher compared to newer stuff.

Or on the boots, try reseating / cleaning the daughter board connection sockets and pins. The larger nearer the edge connector handles sprites, the smaller in the rear corner handles tiles. The tiles one might cause the blue background on your menu there @Pharo.

 

[Pharo]

That's it there is also one you've got to let a frog jump over you a couple of times to get the doll,I only remembered that yesterday.

 

[Flinnster]

I found a hidden doll last night by accident - didn't manage to get it as it had scrolled just too far offscreen. I'll never find that one ever again

 

[Stokers]

Err, I don't have the board can I put up a score from the switch collection?

 

[TheDaddy]

That's it there is also one you've got to let a frog jump over you a couple of times to get the doll,I only remembered that yesterday.

Yeh it the one that faces the wrong way on the weird up and down outside level. I got killed e times trying to get it so left it ! Bloody snake gets in the way.

Dave.

 

[Flinnster]

That hill level (3-3 is it?) is a bitch if you die right after getting the fairy on the downhil. It's basically a walk away moment because next time you get that same egg for the fairy, you get an axe, which is no good for walking through 8 rocks in a row, and they are too tightly spaced to try pixel perfect jumps in between.
Because you get stuck tripping over the rocks repeatedly, your vitality will just drain to nothing, and then repeat again and again.
Just one case of the 'I got 99 lives and I'll be losing every last one'

 

[Pharo]

Correct on every bit of that,also an ice one after that wasps don't like the cold they shouldn't even be there 🤣

 

[TheDaddy]

The ice one is a bitch !! I was on that one and got killed (last score).

I seem to be losing lives in the daftest of places for some reason ?? Were i would never lose them b4.

Its a stonking game though ey ??

Dave.

 

[Pharo]

I'm the same,I think it is you think you know from memory what you need to do but the hands don't work as good as when you we're younger in my case about 14 also you think you know the level like the back of your hand and get cocky then bang dead and at the later levels that's it every life is away but it is still a classic that I can swear at and also smile at the same time.