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Season 5, Week 1: Butasan (Japan), MAME; romulan 'butasan'
Topic Started: 17 Sep 2006, 11:00 AM (3,170 Views)
Antiriad2097
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[size=7]Welcome to Season 5 of the Retro Gaming League[/size] :D

Full rules can be found here, nominations for the season can be made here

Ending last season and starting this one is Ghostbiscuit once again, with Jaleco's 1987 release, Butasan (Japan).

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Twin Galaxies uses the defaults so we can compare scores.

Default settings:
1 Coin/1 Credit
Service Mode = Off
Free Play = Off
Invulnerability (Cheat) = Off
Lives = 3
Difficulty = Rank 1 (Medium)
Unused = Off (all 3 of them)

No continues allowed, no auto fire allowed, single player only

Scores to be in by 12:00 noon on 24/09/06.

Final scores at 12:00 on 24/09/06

[ 1) 771900 - Opa-Opa = 100.00 points
2) 759280 - The Last Ginja = 97.18 points
3) 612670 - Ashlington = 85.69 points
4) 582293 - TK421 = 81.72 points
5) 571605 - Frank Chickens = 79.03 points
6) 553470 - madroXounds = 75.85 points
7) 545540 - Elgin_McQueen = 73.34 points
8) 539770 - Necronom = 70.96 points
9) 507700 - Sureshot = 66.89 points
10) 506094 - Kaiserpc = 64.78 points
11) 474200 - A.J.Green = 60.72 points
12) 438625 - Fairziff = 56.41 points
13) 422330 - RS200 = 53.36 points
14) 399900 - Ritchardo MkII = 49.90 points
15) 355910 - SirClive = 45.05 points
16) 345715 - Spirit = 42.39 points
17) 319550 - Zaphod79 = 38.70 points
18) 311533 - Ghostbiscuit = 36.18 points
19) 277605 - Danny = 31.98 points
20) 254340 - Koops = 28.47 points
21) 253650 - Leezer = 26.43 points
22) 219871 - Antiriad2097 = 22.24 points
23) 200241 - M.A.G. = 18.97 points
24) 156330 - Smurph = 14.13 points
25) 147250 - Stomach = 11.54 points

[size=7]Congratulations Opa-Opa[/size]
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stomach
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Zed's dead baby, Zed's dead
Welcome back Ant, hope you enjoyed your hols B)
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opa-opa
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Oh dear... what a pile of tosh....

Does everyone else come up with the error message about the graphics problems or do I have a dodgy rom..?

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Sureshot
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This game's great! As a bit of Trivia, it came out on some home machines (such as the Speccy and Amstrad) as Psycho Pigs UXB, which is where I played it first.
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Antiriad2097
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No error message here, though I've not had time to test this season's nominations properly yet. I gave this one a quick shot when it was picked, just to be sure I had a working rom and it seemed fine.

You may be jumping to conclusions on the tosh front: I recall many hours being spent with Psycho Pigs UXB on the 8-bits so I'm hoping this original version will provide the same playability. If not, perhaps its one of those that benefits from the multi-player experience.

And yes, thank you, I did have a most relaxing holiday. 2 weeks lazing around, mucking about on the beach and eating big meals, drinking and taking in a few live shows. Great stuff. Mrs Ant is now online hunting for next year's...
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Danny
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God Dammit!

When I pick this game, it don't get played, when someone else does then it's on first week!!

CONSPRIACY I TELL THEE! :lol:

I'm really stoked that this game got selected, I'm off to got play the game right now!
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opa-opa
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MMmmm..? Strange...

I get:

"There are known problems with this game"
"Video emulation is not 100%"

From level 2 onwards the game is suffering really bad slow down and the graphics start to give me rubbish along the top third of the screen...?

I'm running 0.108 MAME32

I did like Psycho pigs USB but I liked the advert a lot more than the game ;)
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stomach
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Mmmm, It looks like a crap version of Bomberman (but with pigs)
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Frank Chickens
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571,605

When the game finally gets round to starting it's good fun, but the waiting around to play is annoying.

A great way to start off the new league! :D

Edit: Opa-Opa, remember the controversy the game advert caused? Great looking advert mind.. ;)

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Antiriad2097
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Possibly a MAME issue then, there are quite a few in recent releases thanks to the 'accurate' emulation being introduced. Accurate code emulation, yes, accurate graphics and playability, no :(

I'm running the command line MAME 0.106 with MAME Classic front end. No errors reported in that version so you might want to look at a secondary MAME installation.
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Danny
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Just beaten my all time high score...
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I really like this game, I have had no problems running it so far. Perhaps you guys have dodgey roms or something? Saying that the slowdown thing is due to the orignal hardware not the emu.

OK so it's not as impressive as mr. Chickens's but I'm still proud lol
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Frank Chickens
Sep 17 2006, 12:43 PM
Edit: Opa-Opa, remember the controversy the game advert caused? Great looking advert mind.. ;)

This?

http://www.zzap64.co.uk/zzapimages/adverts/i41pigsad.jpg
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opa-opa
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Nearly... Was thinking more of the double page spread, a lot more female to view ;)
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Early impressions are that it doesn't look that great a game.
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Danny
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Had another go...
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Score: 277,605

Watch out for Pigzilla! :lol:
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Downgraded MAME and have lost the error message but the game still suffers really bad slow down untill some of the pigs have been killed then speeds up, which can cause problems..

Seems to me to be a really fun game, very poorly excecuted...
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Rather anoying game at times, but good fun.

334,790
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Nice looking game. Love the pastal colours. Yoshi's Story uses a similar pallete.
No idea of tactics as yet. More a case of dodge the bombs and hope the other guys blow themselves up.
Good choice!
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Danny
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opa opa the slowdown is to do with the arcade board itself not the emulation. You gotta remember this game was made way back in the 80's lol. I mean look at the snow levels, there are loads of pigs on screen plus bombs plus the ref etc...

Saying that to get better scores try and hit the pink pigs on bonus stages and hit multiple pigs with bomb during regular stages. Oh yeah and use the second button, it's dodges bombs and is very usful just make sure there is no one standing next to you while you do it OK? :)

p.s: try not to get red carded by making explsions near the ref! :lol:
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Pigs! Pigs, everywhere! :lol:
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Cheers Danny, I noticed the slow down is due to the board not the Emu...
I like this "game" but I think this version suffers from bad sound and to much slow down..
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M.A.G

200241
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M.A.G

Yay i did it. As i've been a good boy can i have my sweeties now.
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On the level
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157,630
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Danny
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[size=7]BEWARE OF PIGZILLA![/size]
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Kaiserpc
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awful game! quick and easy to pick up though
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koops
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whats with the godzilla suit? it looks cool LOL

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koops
Sep 17 2006, 07:08 PM
whats with the godzilla suit? it looks cool LOL

I think it gives you a free hit. I lost it a few times when I was getting hit (I think), then picked it up again.

Oh, and you have made a slight error in your score ;)
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Ritchardo MkII

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Had my first go and think I might have underestimated this due to my proficiency at Psycho Pigs on the CPC...

Seems addictive though... I'm going straight back to it.

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necronom
Sep 17 2006, 06:46 PM
koops
Sep 17 2006, 07:08 PM
whats with the godzilla suit? it looks cool LOL

I think it gives you a free hit. I lost it a few times when I was getting hit (I think), then picked it up again.

Oh, and you have made a slight error in your score ;)

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340110
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This game is irritating my 'PS2-pad Finger' by the way! I'll have to make some adjustments.
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Strange.... I think I just finished the game with 327310 which is less than my last post..?

Note the "Champ" ranking at third place... I also got a funky end screen with the "pigtu of Liberty" and the credits....

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Its not easy...
186, 010

First impressions, pretty good but might get a bit repetitive.
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vroom vroom !
Looking forward to playing this one. ATM I am unable to view this forum at home cuz I just got 'new' ADSL2+ Sky Broadband (easynet) and their IP's have not propagated / filtered through yet so some sites think I am using a Bogon IP.

Even sites like cnn.com were unavail .. and even worse when I RIPE the IP, it turns out that Sky are using IP's which RIPE thinks originate in Holland ... so If i wanted to listen to BBC football on FiveLive it wouldn't let me because of licencing issues and that the service is not avail for people outside the UK .. argh ..

Was even worse on Saturday when none of my torrent sites would work ! .. that really was a 'AAARGH!!!' moment !.

Thanks to Paul (Necronom) anyway who very, very kindly emailed me the front page of the Butasan post so I could at least see what we were playing ... thank you again Paul :)

Looks like I will be staying at work for a while .. unless Ant can get a domain name reg'ed for this forum :P
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Ross, have you tried http://209.85.48.6/RetroLeague?
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vroom vroom !
Sureshot
Sep 18 2006, 12:53 PM
Ross, have you tried http://209.85.48.6/RetroLeague?

no, but i will tonight - thanks so much SS :D
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Sep 18 2006, 01:31 PM
... thank you again Paul :)

No problem. I was going to send you the score table when it was updated so you could see how you were doing in comparison, but it seems you can access it okay from work. If it's a problem at work, let me know if you want me to post any scores for you.
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Turned out nice again...
This is one of those strangely addictive games, no scores worth posting yet but they are improving.....slowly :D
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Sep 18 2006, 06:20 PM
This is one of those strangely addictive games, no scores worth posting yet but they are improving.....slowly  :D

It's always worth posting a score, even if it is poop... At least you have posted should something happen which would prevent you from posting later...

Thats how I look at it anyway..
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Turned out nice again...
Ok, pretty shite but its a start i guess, 3rd attempt, 181,628

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Frank Chickens
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Antiriad, any chance of listing the scores so that I can see my name in first place (for probably the last time!) please? :)
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ashlington
Sep 17 2006, 01:44 PM
Rather anoying game at times, but good fun.

334,790

We'll be wanting a screenshot to validate that score before its accepted.

Either upload a jpg direct to the board, or (for some guarantee of success) register with Photobucket and upload your pics there and copy'n'paste the IMG link in your post here.

[size=1]Scores updated in first post[/size]
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Cheers Antiriad, your're a star! :D B)
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koops
Sep 17 2006, 06:08 PM
whats with the godzilla suit? it looks cool LOL

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Does that say BITCH???? :o
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