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Season 5, Week 5: Metro-Cross (Set 1), MAME; romulan 'metrocrs'
Topic Started: 15 Oct 2006, 11:12 AM (5,561 Views)
Antiriad2097
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Week 5 and we're in the unusual position of playing SirClive's second nomination this season, Metro-Cross (Set 1) by Namco from 1985.

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Twin Galaxies uses the dafault settings, so we can compare scores again this week.

Default settings:
1 Coin/1 Credit
Difficulty = Normal
Allow Continue = Yes (You may wish to disable this for ease of use)
Demo Sounds = On
Round Select = Off
Freeze = Off
Unknown = Off
Unknown = Off
Unknown = Off
Unknown = Off
Unknown = Off

No continues allowed, no auto-fire allowed

Scores to be in by 12:00 noon on 22/10/06.

Final Scores at 12:00 on 22/10/06

1) 280800 - Kaiserpc = 100.00 points
2) 233600 - Zaphod79 = 89.32 points
3) 211850 - TK421 = 83.18 points
4) 162900 - Sureshot = 72.19 points
5) 161200 - Leezer = 69.61 points
6) 157450 - Opa-Opa = 66.67 points
7) 150000 - A.J.Green = 63.07 points
8) 148600 - Merman = 60.55 points
9) 109850 - Elgin_McQueen = 51.38 points
10) 101000 - RS200 = 47.53 points
11) 95700 - SirClive = 44.31 points
12) 79500 - M.A.G. = 39.16 points
13) 77200 - Smurph = 36.47 points
14) 73200 - Necronom = 33.49 points
15) 71900 - Fairziff = 30.98 points
16) 68700 - MadroXounds = 28.14 points
17) 68150 - Frank Chickens = 25.77 points
18) 64200 - The Last Ginja = 22.80 points
19) 56950 - Danny = 19.23 points
20) 45250 - Antiriad2097 = 14.88 points
21) 39600 - Markopoloman = 11.60 points
22) 24700 - RussGalleywood = 6.67 points

[size=7]Congratulations Kaiserpc :ph43r: [/size]
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Danny
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YES! I owned this game on the Atrai STE. I so playing this game... (as soon as I can stop playing Raiden III on the PS2)
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tk421
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99300 :ph43r: nice game like it :
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Danny
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Score: 56,950

Yeah first ever go on the game and I got to level 6 but with a really, really poor score lol. I am still lovin' this game though but damn it's harder than I remember it to be!
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necronom
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68,750

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This has the worst high score entry system I've ever seen.
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tk421
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128800 :ph43r:
ant if you could let me know how to put up a smaller image i will

[Antiriad2097]
Save the file as a JPEG. At the moment you're saving them as BMP. Yes, I know they've been renamed JPG, but they're still BMPs. Use your image app of choice to convert formats (Windows Paint will do, or you could download IrfanView). For convenience I'm scaling them down in size 50% as well. Its a difference between 34kb for the jpeg compared to 1.37Mb for the bmp. I'm editing them down as its really slowing the page loading on the forum right now.
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merman
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Not bad, C64 conversion of this is quite good but not outstanding. Anyway, first score for the board:

78500
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Kaiserpc
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Not Going on holiday. Again.
95150

always liked this game, played the c64 version quite a bit.
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markopoloman
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Early score for me!!!!!!!!!!


Still shit though :P

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23100 <_<
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markopoloman
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31650 :rolleyes:

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annoying game :unsure:
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Sureshot
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27650

Weird game, and only 1 life!
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Sureshot
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58850

A tip: try to jump on top of the blue cans where possible, as this will stop the timer for a short while.
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Antiriad2097
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I never used to like this game, I always put it down to the bad conversions I'd played. Turns out I still don't like it even with the original arcade version. Worst game of the season so far for me :(

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Aaargh! :o Tallying up the scores I realised Markopoloman is ahead of me.
Now I'll have to play this steaming pile of doo-doo again :angry:

[size=1]Scores updated in first post[/size]
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Kaiserpc
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Not Going on holiday. Again.
116300

finally got past level 6 - with 0.3 seconds to spare

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Antiriad2097
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Did it.

I.
Hate.
This.
Game.*

34450
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[size=1]*Not as much as I hate Mappy[/size]
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Smurph
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Had a bit of luck on the 4th level: ended up with loads of time added on, and I don't know how.

59000

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Kaiserpc
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Not Going on holiday. Again.
136500

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tk421
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Kaiserpc
Oct 15 2006, 08:25 PM
136500

sooo close as well m8
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Sureshot
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70700

Was within the last 10m on Round 6 <_<
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Sureshot
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103750

Nearly died at the end of Round 7 because bloody MSN popped up!
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Oct 15 2006, 09:21 PM
103750

Nearly died at the end of Round 7 because bloody MSN popped up!

lol i get it with kaspersky very annoying
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zaphod79
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Like 69, but bigger
90900

Another game i remember more from the C64 than anythine else - didnt realise it was actually based on an arcade machine - however after a quick go it reminded me of another classic that i now need to dig out and see if its league friendly "TrailBlazer" !

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markopoloman
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Antiriad2097
Oct 15 2006, 05:57 PM
Did it.

I.
Hate.
This.
Game.*

34450
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[size=1]*Not as much as I hate Mappy[/size]

Git ! I'll have to play it again now :rolleyes:
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RS200
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vroom vroom !
73450
meh ! ... was never good it at back in '85 and still not good at it now !

Round 6 is most annoying !!!!!!
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My tip for round 6 is to stay on the top 2 lines when you get on the first skateboard. You'll only have to dodge the odd can here and there, there's no barriers or anything as far as I remember.
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SirClive
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Wow, both my games out already! Glad some of you like it, but I have a feeling it is going to be a very bad week for me judging by the scores posted already.

Only have until Thursday to play this one so will have to get stuck in tonight.
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Okay, so I've downloaded the ROM into my Rom directory on Mame 32, but it ain't appearing on the picking list even after refreshing. I've downloaded it from 2 different sites but no luck. Any suggestions?
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opa-opa
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Strange game this one, I remember playing on the 8-bits but thought it was always a bit slow... nice after all the thumb aching blasting of last week though :)
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tk421
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a.j.green
Oct 16 2006, 08:16 AM
Okay, so I've downloaded the ROM into my Rom directory on Mame 32, but it ain't appearing on the picking list even after refreshing. I've downloaded it from 2 different sites but no luck. Any suggestions?

i got my rom from here http://www.romnation.net/srv/roms/23808/ma...ross-set-1.html
unrar it put it in your rom file load up your mame and then press f5 to reset should be there , what mame version are you using ?
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Smurph
Oct 15 2006, 08:29 PM
Had a bit of luck on the 4th level: ended up with loads of time added on, and I don't know how.

59000

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Ah, what happens is the time left over from levels 1,2 and 3 is added to the base of 30 seconds for level 4. Same thing happens on level 8 (adding up time remaining on levels 5,6 and 7).
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tk421
Oct 16 2006, 09:24 AM
a.j.green
Oct 16 2006, 08:16 AM
Okay, so I've downloaded the ROM into my Rom directory on Mame 32, but it ain't appearing on the picking list even after refreshing. I've downloaded it from 2 different sites but no luck. Any suggestions?

i got my rom from here http://www.romnation.net/srv/roms/23808/ma...ross-set-1.html
unrar it put it in your rom file load up your mame and then press f5 to reset should be there , what mame version are you using ?

I am using MAME32 version 0.108. I've tried both set 1 and 2 as well.

It's still not working, but I can use the DOS MAME and play it through there.

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markopoloman
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Oct 16 2006, 10:11 AM
tk421
Oct 16 2006, 09:24 AM
a.j.green
Oct 16 2006, 08:16 AM
Okay, so I've downloaded the ROM into my Rom directory on Mame 32, but it ain't appearing on the picking list even after refreshing. I've downloaded it from 2 different sites but no luck. Any suggestions?

i got my rom from here http://www.romnation.net/srv/roms/23808/ma...ross-set-1.html
unrar it put it in your rom file load up your mame and then press f5 to reset should be there , what mame version are you using ?

I am using MAME32 version 0.108. I've tried both set 1 and 2 as well.

It's still not working, but I can use the DOS MAME and play it through there.

I had problems getting this working also - so downloaded a couple more versions of mame32!!!!!!!!

It works fine in MAME32 0.91u1

and thats with metrocross from romnation.

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Sureshot
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There's a file you need to rename in the archive, but I'll let you know the details later on.
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Antiriad2097
Oct 15 2006, 11:12 AM

Default settings:
1 Coin/1 Credit
Difficulty = Normal
Allow Continue = Yes (You may wish to disable this for ease of use)

I want to disable the continues. How do I change the settings?
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opa-opa
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Hit TAB normaly SirClive

136150

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a.j.green
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Sureshot
Oct 16 2006, 11:56 AM
There's a file you need to rename in the archive, but I'll let you know the details later on.

Why, Mr Sureshot, you are intriguing me with your mysteriousness <_< <_<

58800
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a.j.green
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Slight improvement 75100
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Mystery unveiled!

You need to extract cus60 from the archive and rename it to cus60-60a1.mcu, then put it back in there. Should work fine after that.
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61650
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Oct 16 2006, 03:13 PM
Mystery unveiled!

You need to extract cus60 from the archive and rename it to cus60-60a1.mcu, then put it back in there. Should work fine after that.

Still doesn't seem to work. Never mind, I've got it working with Mame 0.99. Thanks for your help! :)
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I Really really really HATE this game.


Whats with the stupid green turds grabbing you :angry:

Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh




Hate it


grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr


will have to push myself VERY hard to play this tripe again! <_<
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SirClive
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When I was picking my nominations I DL'd it and tried it out.
Only got about 25k, so I am really screwed if Marko has already passed that :lol:
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merman
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Improvement, but still kicking myself for not getting further...

83600
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SirClive
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markopoloman
Oct 16 2006, 04:48 PM
39600

will have to push myself VERY hard to play this tripe again! <_<

Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone :rolleyes:
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148900 :ph43r:
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Turned out nice again...
First attempt, very cool game...

64800

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Oct 16 2006, 04:21 PM
61650

You realise that's lower than the 75100 you posted earlier?

[size=1]Scores updated in first post[/size]
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vroom vroom !
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Did exactly like you said Sureshot and it worked like a charm :) ... level 7 is *easy* compared to 6 !!! .. but level 8 .. hmmm .. the troubles start all over again :(
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