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| Season 3, Week 6: Bubble Bobble - MAME; romulan 'bublbobl' | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: 30 Apr 2006, 11:10 AM (2,623 Views) | |
| Antiriad2097 | 30 Apr 2006, 11:10 AM Post #1 |
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In week 6 we leave complex controls behind thanks to Ghostbiscuit's nomination of Bubble Bobble in MAME. There are several different romulans for this one, we'll be playing the original - 'bublbobl'. Surprisingly, the Twin Galaxies Tournament Settings are the factory defaults, so we can use them and compare scores. Settings: 1 Coin/1 Credit Mode = Game, English Difficulty = Normal Bonus life = 30k 100k 400k Lives = 3 Unknown = Off ROM Type IC52=512kb, IC53=none No continues allowed. Stating the obvious: No cheating allowed i.e. there are some gameplay advantages that you can start the game with, these are not to be exploited Scores to be in by 12:00 noon on 07/05/06. Final scores at 12:00 noon on 07/05/06: 1) 3237710 - Leezer = 100.00 points 2) 2735110 - TK421 = 88.67 points 3) 2100610 - Zaphod79 = 75.30 points 4) 1800950 - Kaiserpc = 67.10 points 5) 1627680 - Sureshot = 60.85 points 6) 1123670 - Fairziff = 49.50 ` 7) 1032380 - Necronom = 44.51 points 8) 816350 - Stomach = 37.61 points 9) 735200 - Ghostbiscuit = 32.78 points 10) 602430 - Elgin_McQueen = 27.16 points 11) 494550 - Merman = 21.92 points 12) 435770 - RS200 = 17.44 points 13) 396810 - RevGiblet = 13.27 points 14) 227020 - Antiriad2097 = 7.08 points Congratulations to Leezer - an impressive performance, breaking the 3 million mark with the final posting. Notable mentions also to the remaining 6 who took it over a mil. |
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| Sureshot | 30 Apr 2006, 11:15 AM Post #2 |
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I always wanted to play this one further in, but never had the patience to continue past a cetain amount of levels. Will be nice to actually have a go at progressing to the latter stages. |
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| necronom | 30 Apr 2006, 11:57 AM Post #3 |
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Para(lytic)Droid
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| RS200 | 30 Apr 2006, 11:59 AM Post #4 |
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vroom vroom !
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arrgh ! (whacks head on table) .. that means im gonna have that silly daft tune going round in my head all week ... [edit] but i loooooove the game .. so thanks Ghostbuscuit !
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| stomach | 30 Apr 2006, 12:53 PM Post #5 |
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521700 First go for me. Great choice of game, I was never that good at Bubble Bobble but always enjoyed it. It will be a relief to play a game with decent controls this week
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| ghostbiscuit | 30 Apr 2006, 01:36 PM Post #6 |
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Not soft
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Yuss! I hoped this would come up soon. Not necessarily good at it, but it is one of my favouritest games ever. And it means I can use my scrotty old NES pad again after two weeks of keyboard hammering.
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| necronom | 30 Apr 2006, 01:37 PM Post #7 |
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Para(lytic)Droid
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| Kaiserpc | 30 Apr 2006, 02:30 PM Post #8 |
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Not Going on holiday. Again.
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834430 1st go, what a much better game than last week! all time classic |
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| RS200 | 30 Apr 2006, 03:03 PM Post #9 |
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vroom vroom !
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love this game !! 388180 Thought I did ok until I saw Kaiser's score practise needed timothy! |
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| tk421 | 30 Apr 2006, 04:13 PM Post #10 |
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Happy Days
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love this game , but my settings are different ? downloaded from romnation any help please |
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| RS200 | 30 Apr 2006, 04:17 PM Post #11 |
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vroom vroom !
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Check your bonus lives count - apart from that, look great ! |
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| tk421 | 30 Apr 2006, 04:20 PM Post #12 |
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Happy Days
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it's just that on the setting that ant posted Difficulty = Normal mine goes to medium not normal Bonus life = 30k 100k 400k i only get 2 extra lives at intervals instead of 3
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| Kaiserpc | 30 Apr 2006, 04:26 PM Post #13 |
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Not Going on holiday. Again.
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925450 |
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| Sureshot | 30 Apr 2006, 05:07 PM Post #14 |
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386530 Best so far. |
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| Sureshot | 30 Apr 2006, 05:25 PM Post #15 |
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Oh, and I think I require a new joypad now. |
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| necronom | 30 Apr 2006, 05:49 PM Post #16 |
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Para(lytic)Droid
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TK421, check your forum inbox. |
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| tk421 | 30 Apr 2006, 06:16 PM Post #17 |
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Happy Days
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thanks for your help ant & necronom but it still has medium/hard/hardest and the 2 chances for extra lives , i'm running an old version of mame32 does anyone think it would be worth downloading the newest version ??? if not i don't mind playing on medium with the slight extra lives disadvantage if people are ok with that :ph43r: |
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| tk421 | 30 Apr 2006, 06:42 PM Post #18 |
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Happy Days
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anyone i'm chewing at the bit to play this :ph43r: |
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| Kaiserpc | 30 Apr 2006, 06:55 PM Post #19 |
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I take it the guys have tried sending you a new romulan? If not pm me and I can help out. Might be worthwhile downloading the latest version of mame32 and doing a full audit |
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| tk421 | 30 Apr 2006, 07:11 PM Post #20 |
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Happy Days
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installed the newest version of mame and it works a treat , very strange ? so thanks for all your help guys , me new mame looks lovely now onto the game .....showtime ! :ph43r: |
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| stomach | 30 Apr 2006, 07:12 PM Post #21 |
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701480 The bonuses can certainly vary quite a bit from game to game and can make a big difference to the score. Good fun this game though
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| Antiriad2097 | 30 Apr 2006, 07:14 PM Post #22 |
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Update your MAME. I was running an old version of the rom and it bugged out with the new MAME - there's obviously something changed along the way. I had to install the latest dump to get it working with the current MAME again, that's what I sent you. A MAME update at your end ought to sort you out. Playing at any other combination but the latest isn't really ideal for the league - we can see the visible difference in settings with this one, but there's no telling what else is slightly different that could impact on gameplay and scoring. A minor change in the emulation could have a big impact on random bonuses for example. [edit] Never mind. Just realised you've already done it... [/edit] First attempt: 71170
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| necronom | 30 Apr 2006, 08:16 PM Post #23 |
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Para(lytic)Droid
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514,550![]() I lost a life because crappy Windows can't multi-task properly. Something happened in the background and jumped me to the desktop with the game still playing. I quickly changed back, but I had already died :angry: :angry: :angry: I'm glad you've got it working TK. |
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| revgiblet | 30 Apr 2006, 08:16 PM Post #24 |
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Here's my first effort 173040
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| tk421 | 30 Apr 2006, 08:45 PM Post #25 |
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Happy Days
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1,725,510 :ph43r: having toplay in a little box cause of slowdown blasted new mame :angry: won't let me upload images ? |
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| ghostbiscuit | 30 Apr 2006, 10:48 PM Post #26 |
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Not soft
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First go: 321070 |
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| Antiriad2097 | 1 May 2006, 07:53 AM Post #27 |
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TK, an ancient PII should cope with Bubble Bobble in MAME, something isn't right there. Suggest you try the command line MAME with a front end such as MAME Classic and see if that makes a difference. Could just be some of the default options you're using with the new one of course. You looked into the sound resampling and screen stretching/filtering options? |
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| Kaiserpc | 1 May 2006, 12:21 PM Post #28 |
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1,416,520 managed to get the secret cave on level 20, but lost a life on level 29 - one level before the next cave :angry: |
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| Sureshot | 1 May 2006, 01:09 PM Post #29 |
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550900 Having to use keyboard now as joypad is in the bin... Oh and secret caves? Give tips
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| Leezer | 1 May 2006, 01:53 PM Post #30 |
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Leecher more like
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1918610 my first attempt at this game never played it before so please don`t laugh too hard!! |
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| necronom | 1 May 2006, 03:07 PM Post #31 |
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| tk421 | 1 May 2006, 03:38 PM Post #32 |
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Happy Days
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1,811,210 ballsd up the first secret rom
still won't let me upload an image ? tried bmp,jpg& gif sure i used jpg in the past ? |
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| zaphod79 | 1 May 2006, 04:13 PM Post #33 |
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Like 69, but bigger
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A great game but one i've not played in quite a while. I used to be able to get to the end on a single credit on the real machine but i guess i'll need to do some practice to get a reasonable score here. For the secret rooms you need to get to specific levels without losing a life (or in the 2 player mode with one of you not losing a life). If you get to level 20 you get a door out in place of the normal power up icon and this takes you to a screen full of diamonds (and means you skip level 21). There is a similar door on levels 30 and 40 (again all first life stuff) , and then a chessboard on level 50 which warps you to level 75 In the arcade machine there is a 'cheat' code you can enter which allows you to get to the doors and the bonuses even if you have lost a life , but as mentioned on the first post here thats not exactly playing fair :-) Pity there isnt a way to have a 2 player league because this is one game where having 2 people playing at once is a big advantage - for the fruit power ups at the end of the level and as mentioned above if either play is still on their first man then you get the doors (so playing with another experience player they will take out the 'hard' bits while you stay safe so you get the high point bonuses out). |
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| Elgin_McQueen | 1 May 2006, 09:05 PM Post #34 |
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388680 Enjoying this game, downloaded from romnation though and don;t have any sound. |
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| fairziff | 1 May 2006, 09:30 PM Post #35 |
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Hello, This is my first week in the league. Apologies if my post/image are not correct, but anyway............... Spent many hours playing the Amiga version of this many years ago now. Great choice of game! 271280 |
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| Sureshot | 1 May 2006, 09:50 PM Post #36 |
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991560
That's the thing I hate about these kind of games; make one silly mistake and you're paying dearly for it in score. |
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| stomach | 1 May 2006, 09:51 PM Post #37 |
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Welcome fairziff, glad to have you on board
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| tk421 | 1 May 2006, 10:07 PM Post #38 |
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good start m8 don't suppose you got any tips on image posting ??? to be honest if i lose a life before level 30 i start again such is the bonus setup although only probably level 29 that causes grief and obviously 44 Grrrr to me though this is platform perfection so basic and simple but never bettered ! |
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| fairziff | 1 May 2006, 10:37 PM Post #39 |
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Thanks for the welcome. No tips whatsoever to over on image posting. I did attatch an image but it doesn't appear to be showing. |
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| ghostbiscuit | 1 May 2006, 11:02 PM Post #40 |
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482390 Glad everyone's enjoying this. Since everyone seems to be doing pretty well, has anyone got any tips for level 32? I've never been able to beat it but for blind luck. |
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| ghostbiscuit | 1 May 2006, 11:21 PM Post #41 |
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As far as posting images goes, I just convert the .png to a .gif, and the "file attachments" bit works fine. As faffy as it is, I suppose you could use Photobucket or similar... |
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| Elgin_McQueen | 1 May 2006, 11:56 PM Post #42 |
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King Hanafuda Sandcrab IV
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| Antiriad2097 | 2 May 2006, 05:43 AM Post #43 |
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160120![]() Sorry, I'm not sure why image upload doesn't always work - its a known issue with these boards. Using the correct file type/extension helps and I vaguely recall something around clearing the IE cache etc. Sorry if that's not a whole load of help, I've always used Photobucket myself. |
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| Kaiserpc | 2 May 2006, 09:51 AM Post #44 |
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I use the image upload thing-e-me-jig. It doesn't work with firefox, so I have to use IE. It works fine for me when I use IE and just the default image that is saved in the snap directory when you press F12 - <gamename><number>.png |
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| revgiblet | 2 May 2006, 02:34 PM Post #45 |
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This is a great game. Playing 'against' others by trying to beat high scores is the only way to play these kind of classics. 372610 I'm unlikey to beat this so you probably won't see another post from me this week. Wish I'd nominated Parasol Stars now!
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| Antiriad2097 | 2 May 2006, 02:58 PM Post #46 |
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Rev, you can change your nominations at any time, just post what you want to do in the nominations thread. You can only have 2 nominations per season, so you'll need to specify which game you want to drop. |
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| Sureshot | 2 May 2006, 08:00 PM Post #47 |
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Test your might
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| necronom | 2 May 2006, 08:07 PM Post #48 |
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1,032,380![]() Level 32 is totally unfair. I lost my last three lives and I even had a freeze clock that didn't help. :angry: |
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| Antiriad2097 | 2 May 2006, 08:29 PM Post #49 |
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227020![]() A nice improvement. Realised popping more at once gives more points. |
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| Elgin_McQueen | 2 May 2006, 09:44 PM Post #50 |
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King Hanafuda Sandcrab IV
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Bubble Bobble article in retro gaming anthology volume 2, quite useful. |
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