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| Season 3, Week 8: Chuckie Egg - BBC; It'll be worth the effort, honest... | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: 14 May 2006, 11:12 AM (2,488 Views) | |
| Antiriad2097 | 14 May 2006, 11:12 AM Post #1 |
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League Co-Ordinator
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For Week 8 we go really retro thanks to Sureshot's nomination of Chuckie Egg on the BBC. Trust me, this one's worth the hassle of new emulators - while testing nominations at the start of the season this one had me hooked, so what was meant to be a 30 second test ended up as an hour long game. I'd forgotten how good this is. You can pick up the game itself from The Stairway To Hell. Direct link: Chuckie Egg Any BBC emulator will do, I happened to find model-b first and it worked a treat for me. The Beeb version isn't listed on Twin Galaxies, though the Speccy & C64 ports get a mention (but no scores) We'll play on the default settings, which won't be fiddly as there's no alternative. Scores to be in by 12:00 noon on 21/05/06. Final scores at 12:00 noon on 21/05/06: 1) 412560 - Sureshot = 100.00 points 2) 376150 - Leezer = 92.81 points 3) 336650 - Kaiserpc = 85.24 points 4) 289580 - BigDon = 76.76 points 5) 286470 - TK421 = 73.61 points 6) 252910 - Necronom = 66.76 points 7) 252770 - Mawrth = 63.97 points 8) 239750 - Fairziff = 59.61 points 9) 205370 - RS200 = 52.67 points 10) 129470 - Stomach = 40.69 points 11) 119000 - Zaphod79 = 36.64 points 12) 89600 - Markopoloman = 30.30 points 13) 77970 - Elgin_McQueen = 26.12 points 14) 30170 - Ghostbiscuit = 17.55 points 15) 29590 - RevGiblet = 14.70 points 16) 29380 - Antiriad2097 = 11.89 points 17) 24760 - Merman = 8.56 points 18) 16870 - Russgalleywood = 4.82 points Congratulations to Sureshot, you took an early lead and held onto it, despite some close competition from Leezer in the end. A good competition this week with one of our biggest turnouts yet A special mention goes to Markopoloman, as he's pointed out he reached the glorious heights of 12th place and is rightly chuffed B) |
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| ghostbiscuit | 14 May 2006, 11:30 AM Post #2 |
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Not soft
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6870 Shit score, just wanted to be the first to post
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| merman | 14 May 2006, 11:39 AM Post #3 |
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Retro Survival Ed
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We'll kick off with: 10820 |
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| zaphod79 | 14 May 2006, 11:50 AM Post #4 |
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Like 69, but bigger
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15220 A quick try to make sure everything works A tip for those with x-arcades it doesnt like the sticks on there , however if you go into the keyboard mapping and just change any 'normal' key to PC_G then you can use the right hand stick quite easily (you need to remap all four directions to use the left hand stick).
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| necronom | 14 May 2006, 12:26 PM Post #5 |
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29,840![]() It's a good job I have an I-Pac controller and can use my arcade stick. It doesn't normally support a joystick as far as I can tell. |
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| Antiriad2097 | 14 May 2006, 12:29 PM Post #6 |
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joy2key will let you use a stick with any game or emu, regardless of native support. As long as it'll accept keyboard input, joy2key does the job. |
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| Sureshot | 14 May 2006, 12:44 PM Post #7 |
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Test your might
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Wow, it got picked! Hope you enjoy it, it's pure platforming at its finest. For those having trouble with pads/joysticks, try ZXMKL on the keys if you're brave, it's what I'll be using. Tips: - The birds move in a set pattern, apart from the big yellow bird on the later levels, which will follow you around. More blue birds will appear every 8 levels or so too. - Don't worry about losing lives later on if you need to take a risk on the last egg or whatever, because you do tend to rack up quite a few in reserve due to highly inflated bonuses. - You will need to use walls and the sides of the screen to escape at certain points, get used to the trajectory at which Harry falls and use it to your advantage. - On level 7 (I think), it may seem like the only way you can go is up the ladder on the left. However, you can jump on the double-stacked blocks to your right, just try aiming to get on the bottom one and you'll go through the one on top. - If you're about to hit the top of the screen on the lift, avoid death by holding jump to fall through it. - Also, do not WALK off lifts, else you will plummet. Jump on and off them. - More tips at: http://www.bagshot-row.org/chuckie-egg/gameplay.html |
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| Antiriad2097 | 14 May 2006, 12:56 PM Post #8 |
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10650![]() First go, made some silly mistakes as I'm trying to listen to Retrobits at the same time. ZXKML is back to front, QAOPM is whats needed... |
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| ghostbiscuit | 14 May 2006, 01:20 PM Post #9 |
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Not soft
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14640 I was never really much of a fan of Chuckie Egg back in the day. I have learned today that this was a mistake. |
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| fairziff | 14 May 2006, 01:57 PM Post #10 |
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103800 Great choice of game and platform! |
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| necronom | 14 May 2006, 02:06 PM Post #11 |
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102,850![]() I've never really played this in the past. It's not as bad as I thought. |
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| Sureshot | 14 May 2006, 03:39 PM Post #12 |
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Test your might
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273390 Yeah, I am ROB, I was just seething too much at missing the last egg on 24 to concentrate. |
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| tk421 | 14 May 2006, 03:50 PM Post #13 |
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Happy Days
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can't seem to get working any simple walkthroughs on how to get the game going ? i've got the emulator running and the rom but whether i try to 'load' it look inthe ROM section no joy
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| necronom | 14 May 2006, 03:52 PM Post #14 |
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| Sureshot | 14 May 2006, 03:53 PM Post #15 |
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Test your might
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Which are you trying? At the moment I'm using BeebEm 3.2, so try that. http://www.stairwaytohell.com/emulators/BeebEm32.exe |
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| necronom | 14 May 2006, 03:54 PM Post #16 |
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If you are using the "model-b" emulator, you go to the quickstart option, add the directory with your game, then double click it. |
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| Mawrth | 14 May 2006, 04:32 PM Post #17 |
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Truant
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Great choice, a real classic. 117160 |
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| tk421 | 14 May 2006, 04:36 PM Post #18 |
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Happy Days
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cheers , got it going but it seems very slow ,never mind |
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| markopoloman | 14 May 2006, 04:52 PM Post #19 |
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Bites
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Righty ho! A score posted on the first day! ![]() 15940 |
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| markopoloman | 14 May 2006, 04:55 PM Post #20 |
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This is why I like multi-format leagues. Might change my nominations to games i REALLY like!! This is a piece of piss to emulate - just in case anyone decided to skip the game due to the non-mame-ness of it :rolleyes: |
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| markopoloman | 14 May 2006, 06:46 PM Post #21 |
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Bites
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23740 Keep trying!!!!!!!! Make some Stooooooopid mistakes!!!
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| zaphod79 | 14 May 2006, 06:53 PM Post #22 |
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Like 69, but bigger
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119000 Well i was going to post to say what a pig level 8 was , but i passed it and the difficulty level took a giant leap ! Level 13 , bouncing of the edges is a bit of a pain to get used to , and there are certain points where i can see its useful to leave one egg to the last as its so hard to get
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| Sureshot | 14 May 2006, 07:36 PM Post #23 |
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Test your might
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Yeah, if there are ever eggs hanging off over a gap of doom, it's generally best to leave those until last. |
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| Kaiserpc | 14 May 2006, 09:41 PM Post #24 |
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Not Going on holiday. Again.
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A link and quick faq would be useful we should really only be pickng games that allow joystick input natively. Bit of a pain having to setup an new emulator and a 3rd part prog to get the joystick working |
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| Sureshot | 14 May 2006, 09:45 PM Post #25 |
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Test your might
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412560 Well, that's way over my personal best already. Level 32 is a complete nightmare. And Kaiser, this one's meant to be played on keys
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| necronom | 14 May 2006, 09:51 PM Post #26 |
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Level 21 is soooooo annoying :angry: I've got there 3 times and died each time within a few hundred of my best score. One score was higher, but I'll see if I can do a bit better before posting another. One of the worst bits is when I jump a gap, land on a lift (when I wasn't expecting to), then walking off the end and die. That's happened loads of times. I thought the save option from the meny would allow mw to save my high score in the file permanently, but when I loaded it back in my high score table had been reset.
I find it's very fast. I have the speed limiter on, but sometimes I would like it a bit slower... |
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| Kaiserpc | 14 May 2006, 09:55 PM Post #27 |
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played it once on keys and RSI is kicking in already (scored 15,300 - 1st game ever of this, although I have played the sequel) |
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| tk421 | 14 May 2006, 10:00 PM Post #28 |
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Happy Days
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222770 unable to post screens at the mo my 'control and v' don't seem to be working
i think sureshot has got this in the bag or egg
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| fairziff | 14 May 2006, 10:38 PM Post #29 |
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188650 |
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| RS200 | 15 May 2006, 10:20 AM Post #30 |
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vroom vroom !
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22730 ross likes ! .. even though he is poo at it |
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| revgiblet | 15 May 2006, 10:52 AM Post #31 |
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Available for weddings, funerals and Christmas dinner
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Hey guys - I'm having trouble saving my screenshot. I use the in-emulator option and it won't save because there's no file extension and it won't let me add one or select one. What shall I do? Would it be enough for you to take me at my word when I tell you that I racked up 7849775342324 points? |
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| RS200 | 15 May 2006, 11:41 AM Post #32 |
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vroom vroom !
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Hey Rev!, What I do is use B-em v1.1 EMU which has a "save screenshot" option. It saves the screen into a BMP and all you have to do is to use "paint" or any other image manipulation package to save in png or jpg Hope it helps ! Ross .... |
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| Antiriad2097 | 15 May 2006, 11:55 AM Post #33 |
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In model-b, just put the file extension after the name in the filename box of the save dialogue. Ignore the extension bit below. I named mine ChuckieEgg.jpg and it was happy. If all else fails, you should be able to copy the screen to the clipboard with the 'Print Screen' key. You can then paste into the application of your choice (e.g. Windows Paint) and save from there. If you can't post a screenie I'll need to come round to your house to validate the score and that could take a while
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| revgiblet | 15 May 2006, 03:11 PM Post #34 |
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Available for weddings, funerals and Christmas dinner
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Thanks guys. I'll try those a bit later. |
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| necronom | 15 May 2006, 04:27 PM Post #35 |
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From the model-b readme file: Save screenshot... Saves a screenshot to disc. Type in file name (including extension, which is used to determine the file type) or select file to save to. Supported types are: * .bmp - Windows bitmap * .jpg - JPEG * .png - PNG * .pcx - PCX * .tif - TIFF * .xpm - X pixmap I use png and it works fine. I don't know why he didn't just add these options to the "save as type" list. |
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| merman | 15 May 2006, 04:30 PM Post #36 |
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Retro Survival Ed
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22850 |
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| Kaiserpc | 15 May 2006, 04:45 PM Post #37 |
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Not Going on holiday. Again.
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Antiriad, I'm still looking for a link and faq for joy2key - I can't play this on keys
cheers in advance
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| Antiriad2097 | 15 May 2006, 05:44 PM Post #38 |
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Wuss. When I were a lad we had to play on the keyboard. And it was a ZX81. We'd have our fingers broken every night, just to hide the RSI Joy2Key. An essential tool for anyone who tinkers with emulators. And easily Googled for. 16920
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| russgalleywood | 15 May 2006, 09:00 PM Post #39 |
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Mostly harmless
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Well, finally got a chance to play a game in the league and it's one of my old favourites! Not much of a score but haven't played it for years! (I won't bother to waste disk space for such a score !) 16870 |
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| necronom | 15 May 2006, 09:43 PM Post #40 |
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Antiriad2097, you missed my highest score from yesterday off the score table. I should be 3rd, not 6th. |
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| ghostbiscuit | 15 May 2006, 10:35 PM Post #41 |
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Sorry Ant, just realised I forgot to post a score last night of 16940 Mind you, I don't think I'll be improving too much - I find even level 3 a stiff challenge (mainly due to the lift things). All this talk of level 32s and suchlike are making me feel very crap indeed.
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| Kaiserpc | 15 May 2006, 10:40 PM Post #42 |
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cheers for the link Antiriad - trying it now. As for googling, of course I tried before asking for the link. But the software is joytokey not joy2key. All I could find was a linux/unix joystick emulator called joy2key. |
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| ghostbiscuit | 15 May 2006, 10:52 PM Post #43 |
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30170 And then I decide to have a quick go and instantly almost double my score by getting all the way to the dizzy heights of level 7... |
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| Kaiserpc | 16 May 2006, 12:06 AM Post #44 |
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Not Going on holiday. Again.
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115050 |
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| markopoloman | 16 May 2006, 12:58 AM Post #45 |
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Bloody hell! Keep throwing lives away :angry: ![]() 31370 |
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| Antiriad2097 | 16 May 2006, 06:57 AM Post #46 |
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29380![]() Ghostbiscuit, I can't let you have that big a lead Joy2Key was tricky to Google for, I had to go all the way to the sceond link it gave me... Necronom, sorry, I've added your correct score now. Russgalleywood, its nice to see you finally make the leap from lurker to player. Welcome in. |
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| Mawrth | 16 May 2006, 10:49 AM Post #47 |
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Truant
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236380 |
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| RS200 | 16 May 2006, 11:26 AM Post #48 |
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31420 Well that has dragged me up a little .. - I find it really bone hard .. I have played it more this week than EVER before though, which is a good thing :). My ex could play this game for hours though, she would clear it many times over .. I remember going to her place after school and watching her play it for 3 hours solid - till it was time for me to go home !!! .. and all I did was to watch her play poxy Chuckie Egg all afternoon instead of .. well doing things boyfriends and girlfriends should be doing .... |
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| Antiriad2097 | 16 May 2006, 12:24 PM Post #49 |
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So this one's really bringing back the memories of that old girlfriend then?
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| Kaiserpc | 16 May 2006, 01:18 PM Post #50 |
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that's my point - I didn't know that was the link because the software is "JoyToKey", not "joy2Key" as you said. So I wasn't looking for "JoyToKey", and the only "Joy2Key" I found was for Unix. My heads hurts now let's drop it - thanks again for the link. The software works fine, only it can't hide my cr*p score of just over 100,000. Plenty time left though. |
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