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Season 5, Week 2: Split Personalities, Spectrum; romulan 'SplitPersonalities.tzx.zip'
Topic Started: 24 Sep 2006, 11:18 AM (3,496 Views)
a.j.green
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necronom
Sep 24 2006, 02:12 PM

It's funny that you posted a Homer pic, as 10 minutes ago I was thinking that Clive Sinclair looked like he was in the Simpsons (having yellow skin).

Almost everyone has yellow skin on the Spectrum! That's what you get when you have only 7 colours to play with. :D
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123900

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Elgin_McQueen
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143100

Don' think the Andrew and Fergie one is possible in the time, because of the layout you pretty much need all of the tiles out before you can put them in place.
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My pad works as the Sinclair IF2 Port 1 option on the emulator.
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Sep 25 2006, 06:40 PM
143100

Don' think the Andrew and Fergie one is possible in the time, because of the layout you pretty much need all of the tiles out before you can put them in place.

What till you get to the Marilyn Monroe screen, it is impossible if you don't get the tiles out in a certain order :angry:
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Turned out nice again...
Ok, this was lucky, damn game has crashed about 30 times lol, graphics keep messing up too, also the print screen thing doesnt work so ive had to just do a windows print screen and do it that way. I managed over 140 000 but this is the last screen i printed so i am gonna just go with this score, damn shame but it aint a bad score so....

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Sep 25 2006, 09:23 PM
the print screen thing doesnt work

Worked fine for me. Immediate thoughts based on past experience of similar issues are to check the bit depth of your desktop. Mine was 32bit.

15100
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51600

Loving this game!!!
I would never have given this a 2nd play if it wasn't for this league.
Excellent :)
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vroom vroom !
YEEEEEEEES !!!!

I'm at home, logged onto the forum !!!! .. not an issue for all of you - but it was for me ! .. looks like Sky's technical bods have spoke to invision and got Sky's IP ranges off the Bogon list :)

there IS a god !

... now to play this rock hard game ..... first 2 goes i got ... flat 0 ! ... 3rd go .. 4100 ... hmmm .. is there a plan with this game ? .. what is with the other objects you get like the taps, guns and flags ? .. sure the bombs kill you in a few seconds but I just try and get all the other objects out of the screen as fast as i can .. is there a way of getting bonuses via them ?
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Glad you made it in RS. Read the rest of the thread, the bonus items are explained along the way. Have a look at some of the reviews like the Crash one I linked to above - they explain the gameplay pretty well. Scores are based on bonuses for matching certain tiles together as well as time taken to complete each puzzle.
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I doubt I'll be able to play this this week due to not being able to get this to run on any of the four emulators that I've tried. This sucks!... :(
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Someone needs to round them up.


USA flag + Russia Flag = 1500 points
Nuclear blast + finger on button = 1000 points
Tap + Bomb = 5000 points
Labour + Tory = some amount of points
Fist + labour + 1500 points
Dennis + alcohol + 1000 points
Bullet + Gun = Doubles your bonus score
Match + fuel + Lose Life
Bird + Laser Gun = 4500 points
there was also a 3500 ponts somewhere

Theres more but can't remember/dunno what they do.

This page tells me 2 diamonds together get you more time.

Dunno what the, pick/hammer, lolly, bracelet do.
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206100
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Tips for the Marylin Munroe puzzle here!

And here are all the combo's here When they say smoke, personally I thought it was a brain.
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Sureshot
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133600

Marylin is bloody ridiculous. I should have just whored my lives away earlier, would have had about twice this score.

Doubt I'll be playing this one much more, it's far too annoying to be completely enjoyable.
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a.j.green
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Sep 25 2006, 11:28 PM
When they say smoke, personally I thought it was a brain.

I think it has got to be a brain. Smoke doesn't make much sense for Clive Sinclair. And the car is, of course, a Sinclair C5.

By the way, did you know that

CLIVE MARLES SINCLAIR

is an anagram of

CRIES IN SMALL VILE CAR

Rather apt for the Sinclair C5, don't cha think? :D
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289, 600
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Thanks for all the tips. I watched a RZX file of someone completing it - very interesting tactics used, I never played this game when it was first released but - wow - this game is much better and needs more skill to it than meets the eye. Gonna give it a go tonight (After Prison Break and after I completed the level I am on Settlers II)

Great Choice of game !!
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a.j.green
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414, 200

One tactic I use is if a bullet or gun comes out, tuck it away in the top right, with a block to protect it. If the other half of the combination, gun or bullet, comes out, I position it just below. Then I try to build up my bonuses and when the bonus items stop coming out, move the bullet and gun together to double the bonus score for that level.
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I can't see how a score that large is possible, can you post a video of you playing so we can all learn because I can get to level 10 no problem including getting loads of bonus points and doubling them with the gun/bullet combo but with only a 3rd of your score..? :blink:
Making me feel rather rubbish... :(
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a.j.green
Sep 26 2006, 09:44 AM
Elgin_McQueen
Sep 25 2006, 11:28 PM
When they say smoke, personally I thought it was a brain.

I think it has got to be a brain. Smoke doesn't make much sense for Clive Sinclair. And the car is, of course, a Sinclair C5.

I thought it was a pair of testicles! After I threw them at the C5 and got points, I thought they were saying that to release the C5, Clive must have had balls. :lol:

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I need help running this, what speccy emu works best with this? I only ask because I've tried four now and none of them work. Futher more I've never used a spectrum in my life so if I can't get this thing to run soon I th9ink I just won;t bother and get back to playing Elite Plus on my PC...
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necronom
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I use ZX Spin. It's incredibly easy to get this game running.

Download ZX Spin
Install it
Run it.
Click the "Open a file" icon (second from the left at the bottom of the window).
Locate "SplitPersonalities.tzx.zip" that you downloaded from [url=ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/games/s/SplitPersonalities.tzx.zip]here.[/URL]
A small window will appear.
Double click "Split personalities - side 1.tzx"
One second later the menu screen will be on.
Plug your joystick in.
Press "2".
Press "5".
Play game. :)

If you still can't get it working, let us know where the above fails, and what happens and we'll try again.
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opa-opa
Sep 26 2006, 05:20 PM
I can't see how a score that large is possible...


I can't see how a score over 50,000 is possible...

If I do REALLY REALLY well, I'll get over 30,000. That's with getting maybe two or three bonuses on each level, and running out of time on most levels.

My joystick is almost melting at the speed I'm going, so I'm starting to think the emulator is running too fast.

38,900

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Thanks for you help guys! Opa Opa came to my aid, thans bro!

In other news CCTV footage has captured Danny's last remaining brain cell being more than just slighty confussed by Split Personalities...
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Seriously, I know what I have to do on this game, and I know how to play the game now but this game still gives me a huge headache every time I play it. Now it's two things, one the sound a crap (I'm sorry but it is!) and two I HATE SLIDE PUZZLES! No really I do actualy detest slide puzzles with a passion and this game is done nothing to change that. I'ltry and put some effort in to playing it but so far, I consider this to be the worst game ever chosen out of all the leauge games I've played. (but then again that's not saying much, I hate slide puzzles so much, sorry to the person who picked this...)
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This game is quite rare for me in being one I turn the sound off for. That's almost unheard of as I think audio plays such a large part in games, even the odd burbles and clicks of the Speccy which make it so unique.

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Score: 19200
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GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR

Every pic i've uploaded has been jpg, now all of a sudden it says it won't accept them. :angry: :angry: :angry:
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Which is why I recommend Photobucket to avoid these frustrations.

21400

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You mean the forum code randomly changing itself for no reason? Surely there's just as much chance of that happening if we add another website to the equation.
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Turned out nice again...
Anti, you missed me off the leaderboard dude <_<
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251000


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madroXounds
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85 900

Maybe this one could be added to the leaderboard? :rolleyes:
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madroXounds
Sep 26 2006, 11:00 PM
Anti, you missed me off the leaderboard dude <_<

Oops :o

Sorted.

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a.j.green
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opa-opa
Sep 26 2006, 04:20 PM
I can't see how a score that large is possible, can you post a video of you playing so we can all learn because I can get to level 10 no problem including getting loads of bonus points and doubling them with the gun/bullet combo but with only a 3rd of your score..? :blink:
Making me feel rather rubbish... :(

I'll see what I can do :)
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a.j.green
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If the link is working, this should be a link to an example level, level 7, with a bonus score of 100,000.

http://media.putfile.com/Split-Personalities-Level-7-27

And here is a video of level 10 being done.

http://media.putfile.com/Split-Personalities-Level-10-94

The files are about 2.5 and 3.5Mb in size respectively.

Hope this helps!
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Is it possible for me to put up a score just now and add a screenshot later? I'm in an internet cafe since my home internets are still some way off and they don't like you bringing your own files. I hope to get to a wi-fi place tomorrow and I can post there, but just in case I don't manage before the RF weekend...

And also because I got a score of 129400 which puts me in fourth! :o
I can't miss out on that!
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Sep 27 2006, 07:10 PM
Is it possible for me to put up a score just now and add a screenshot later?  I'm in an internet cafe since my home internets are still some way off and they don't like you bringing your own files.  I hope to get to a wi-fi place tomorrow and I can post there, but just in case I don't manage before the RF weekend...

And also because I got a score of 129400 which puts me in fourth! :o 
I can't miss out on that!

Yes, I'll accept that for now, but failure to provide the matching screenie later will mean the score is revoked.

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Its been a poor turnout so far this week. That means a small pool of games for selection on Sunday, and a few of those are also Speccy games. No score = no games in the pool...

What gets me is that I'm really enjoying this one now. Yes I'm rubbish at it as far as scoring goes, but my persistence has got me over the initial frustration and I'm making better progress and clearing more screens than I ever expected.

[size=1]Scores updated in first post[/size]
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Phew, that was hard but finally done the last level. Don't think I've got it in me to do that again!
Yet again it seems to be one of those games where you need lots of luck. Keep playing and you might get a better order of pieces.

Anyway, my score of:

271,900

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Can i still add games to the pool and if so, where do i do it? I missed out at the start and didnt give a vote.
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Sep 27 2006, 12:48 PM


Hope this helps!

75100
Cheers for the files aj. It will be a great help.
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Thanks A.J. I now know that I'm not supposed to leave every piece on the board that comes out the hole. I'm now disposing of ones that I don't need at that time.

174,800

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47,000

Just posted a screenie in order to get in the draw for Sunday.

Having played this, I reckon Domark must have given out a few bungs in order to get decent reviews for this. Fiddly, boring and the blocks that repel each other begins to grate quickly.

Since Spin wouldn't save a screenshot, I had to use a programme in order to do this. It has not been shopped in any way, just the quality of the screenshot compressed in order to get it to a decent size.



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Sep 27 2006, 09:36 PM
Can i still add games to the pool and if so, where do i do it? I missed out at the start and didnt give a vote.

You can nominate two games in the nomination thread here. For any week you post a score, your games will be in the pool for selection the following week.
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Glad to help!

:D
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Sep 28 2006, 01:27 AM


Since Spin wouldn't save a screenshot, I had to use a programme in order to do this.

To save the picture in Spin you need to name the file:

*.bmp

Where * is just type the name of the file but you have to put the .bmp in yourself or an error message shows up.
I then just load the pic into PAINT, go to FILE then SAVE AS, select .JPEG from the pull down menu and thats it, you now have a nice JPEG of the screen shot to upload to Photobucket. :)
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opa-opa
Sep 28 2006, 08:18 AM
Frank Chickens
Sep 28 2006, 01:27 AM


Since Spin wouldn't save a screenshot, I had to use a programme in order to do this.

To save the picture in Spin you need to name the file:

*.bmp

Where * is just type the name of the file but you have to put the .bmp in yourself or an error message shows up.
I then just load the pic into PAINT, go to FILE then SAVE AS, select .JPEG from the pull down menu and thats it, you now have a nice JPEG of the screen shot to upload to Photobucket. :)

So that's why it wouldn't save! :o

Everytime I tried to save a screenie it kept giving me an ambigious error so I had to use a screenshot programme to get one. Still, it's there now and that's the main thing.
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You could always PRNTSCRN and import it into a paint package to shrink it down - that's what I do with MAME.

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