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Season 7, Week 1: Twin Cobra (MAME); ROM "twincobr", World edition
Topic Started: 22 Apr 2007, 11:02 AM (3,191 Views)
SirClive
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Curious
Good turnout for the 1st 2 days. 17 players already posted a score B)
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tk421
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Happy Days
240500 nice game :ph43r:
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supermario
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Yay - finally cleared level 4.

Love this game. :P

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stick with that blue weapon,once powered up,it can clear stages with ease,only from the second to last stage/boss ,does the heat really get turned up  ,and if you complete the final stage,the game just loops back to the first stage,this time with added extras


I used to always go for the red powerup but the blue one does seem better overall. Just wish I could switch to the green one right before the boss, then back again !

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Early days yet,
:o

Also how many levels are there ?

ME.
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titch

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Good game very frantic and similar to my nomination sidewinder with plenty of seat of your pants avoid the bullets.
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paranoid marvin

Gutted got to the boss at end of level 1 all lives and 4 smart bombs with a shitload of p , and blew it

Defo need to switch to green for level 2
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Elgin_McQueen
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SirClive
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I have spent all night playing this game and my thumb is killing me :(
Won't be around to play it again (unless I get a quick go on Thursday) so this is probably my final score.

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titch

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Damn i hate wasting lives :(
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Sshblack
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Once again.... guess who is stuck....

that's right the boy who never could.

Have bought a new pc and downloaded the mame emulator. I have placed the emulator in my documents, and downloaded twincobr.zip. I have placed the zip file in the rom folder and done nothing with it.

I went to the command line and had:

C:\Users\Sshblack> I entered "cd documents" then got this:

C:\Users\Sshblack\Documents

I then typed: "mame twincobr

and got:

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Have I forgotten something? I hate myself.
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Elgin_McQueen
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Don't you need to tell it to go into the rom folder?

I dunno, I use MAME32. :unsure:
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RS200
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vroom vroom !
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I actually thought I was gonna do well at this (as vertical shooters are my favourite genre) .. instead mid-table mediocraty awaits ... and my fingers hurt ... a lot.

Don't get me wrong, it's a nice game for sure ... but wow ... it's sure a finger killer!

must try harder I suppose!

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fr@ser

Sshblack
Apr 23 2007, 11:18 PM
Once again.... guess who is stuck....

that's right the boy who never could.

Have bought a new pc and downloaded the mame emulator. I have placed the emulator in my documents, and downloaded twincobr.zip. I have placed the zip file in the rom folder and done nothing with it.

I went to the command line and had:

C:\Users\Sshblack> I entered "cd documents" then got this:

C:\Users\Sshblack\Documents

I then typed: "mame twincobr

and got:

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Have I forgotten something? I hate myself.

I'll try and help!

You say you have mame in "my documents"do you mean, you created a new folder in "my documents" called mame,which has all the mame stuff inside e.g roms folder,mame.exe?

If you do,the reason you couldn't get it to work ,is because you have to be/go into that mame folder,

C:\Users\Sshblack\Documents\mame
then type mame twincobr and it should run!

I have wolfmame109 in a folder called wolf109, in C:\ , so to run it all i type is, cd \wolf109 (which takes me into the mame folder ),then i type, mame twincobr (or the name of the game i want to start ) .

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paranoid marvin

Anyone know how many points you get for 'P's at the end of each level?
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Freshmetal
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Latest: 139080

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Edit: How on Earth are people reaching 700,000? I just played through with infinite credits to see some of the later stages (which I have no hope of getting through btw), and it took at least a dozen credits to get to even 500,000. Getting through with one credit is inhuman.
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paranoid marvin

Ok , I managed to finish level 1 with 7 Ps - gave me 21000 extra points , so I 've now managed my highest score , but not the furthest level , so survivng the final boss with Ps intact seems to be pretty essential
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Sshblack
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Ok got it going, just some stupid windows vista problems. Thank you for the help. I will not be entering a particularly high score because this is really difficult to play without a joypad or joystick. playing with a keyboard is almost impossible.

have not managed over 9,000 yet so will probably just post that so i can get my nominations in for next week.

is anyone else playing with a keyboard, any tips?
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supermario
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My usual keys are

Lefthand

Left Z
Right X

Righthand

Down M
Up K
Fire Space
Bomb O

Just racked up 157K with those but I don't think I could play more than about 3 games in a row without doing my thumb in :blink:

If a game has just jump (like Bomb Jack) I use Space as Jump. I struggle with james with up and jump (rygar) with the keyboard.

ME.

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Madge
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There IS a level 2!
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Freshmetal
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Finally one-lifed the first level with all of the P's (30,000 bonus) and a souped-up blue weapon. I take back my moan earlier (slightly), as I can see where the higher scores come from. Next stop, 200,000!

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paranoid marvin

At last ! killed the first level boss with a decent amount of Ps , so up to

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Warning! - I found that if you kep upgrading your blue weapon , it actuqally gets weaker - fires more bullets in a wider arc , but each bullet seems to be pretty weak , so my advice would be switch to green/red , or stop picking up S
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a.j.green
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Its not easy...
I don't seem to be making much progress with this one :(

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paranoid marvin

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ok - just had what for me was a perfect game - somehow managed to dodge all the zillions of bullets on level 2 after beating level one with 9 Ps and no lives lost

I knowI ain't gonna better this , and my poor aching arm needs a rest , so this is my final score for the week


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Sputryk
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Ssh..., you are not alone with the keyboard. I use:

E - up
D - down
I - left
O - right
C - bomb
N - fire

I am also using a perfectly flat keyboard which is a little annoying compared to the usual 'stepped' 'board.

Haven't had much chance to get any kind of score that I am even remotely happy with, hence a lack of a posted-score so far. I will be posting but probably at the last minute. I expect to be unhappily in mid-table.

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fr@ser

Freshmetal
Apr 24 2007, 02:31 PM
Latest: 139080

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Edit: How on Earth are people reaching 700,000? I just played through with infinite credits to see some of the later stages (which I have no hope of getting through btw), and it took at least a dozen credits to get to even 500,000. Getting through with one credit is inhuman.

Some of the top ranking scores ,go up to the five million mark !
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fr@ser

paranoid marvin
Apr 25 2007, 10:23 AM
At last ! killed the first level boss with a decent amount of Ps , so up to

199770

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Warning! - I found that if you kep upgrading your blue weapon , it actuqally gets weaker - fires more bullets in a wider arc , but each bullet seems to be pretty weak , so my advice would be switch to green/red , or stop picking up S

But you still get points, just for collecting the blue weapon ,and having it shoot more & spread out wider,helps a lot in the later stages,when the enemies come from the sides of the screen(aswell as below & above ).
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paranoid marvin

A lot of it is learning th patterns - you can kill many of the baddies before they've even had a chance to fire , esp on level 1

Is it my imagination , or do some bullets go through your tail if you're banking left or right at the time?
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tk421
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fr@ser
Apr 22 2007, 06:03 PM
Danny
Apr 22 2007, 01:36 PM
err I noticed a potental problem with this game. The bosses don't have time limits and some (like the first level boss) spew out hordes of minons meaning it's possable to sit there an leech.

I sure nobody here would try such a thing but I felt I should at least raise the issue with you guys.

After a while the screen just moves you forward, towards the landing tanker,so you can't leech points.

Rom version =world



These types of games are a right sickner for me,always have been!

Instead of my eyes tracking the movements of the bullets and the crafts,they tend to do this :blink: instead,so i can see me having the lowest score for Twin cobra,fact.

the lowest score fact ???
don't you think your a patronising fuker for talking this sh!te and then entering the score you have ? or are we all just complete sh!te at games :angry:
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Sputryk
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Not good enough for my liking. Hmm..., will I get another chance to post another score... (sigh)

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supermario
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Ow my poor fingers (and that's with a PS2 controller).

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ME.
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tk421
Apr 25 2007, 09:32 PM
fr@ser
Apr 22 2007, 06:03 PM
Danny
Apr 22 2007, 01:36 PM
err I noticed a potental problem with this game. The bosses don't have time limits and some (like the first level boss) spew out hordes of minons meaning it's possable to sit there an leech.

I sure nobody here would try such a thing but I felt I should at least raise the issue with you guys.

After a while the screen just moves you forward, towards the landing tanker,so you can't leech points.

Rom version =world



These types of games are a right sickner for me,always have been!

Instead of my eyes tracking the movements of the bullets and the crafts,they tend to do this :blink: instead,so i can see me having the lowest score for Twin cobra,fact.

the lowest score fact ???
don't you think your a patronising fuker for talking this sh!te and then entering the score you have ? or are we all just complete sh!te at games :angry:i

Well,what can i say,other than,i should not have forgotten to put this ;) at the end of that sentence.

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Sureshot
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I didn't realise how much you can power-up your weapons, the blue one gets really useful on the 2nd level. However, this does mean it's even more important not to die at all. Trying to reach that level of firepower again is a hefty task.

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a.j.green
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Its not easy...
Just as I thought I wasn't going to be able to do any better,

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Got through the first level without losing a life and then lost three for about 2000. Still, happy with this score, don't think I'll beat it.

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Elgin_McQueen
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Calm people! :unsure:
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Sureshot
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Becomes a little easier to handle once you get into your rhythm.

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paranoid marvin

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Apr 26 2007, 01:41 PM
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Becomes a little easier to handle once you get into your rhythm.

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IS that.screenshot level 2 second time around?
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fairziff
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Can't see me getting much further than this. Great fun trying though :)
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russgalleywood
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Well struggled up to 30070, don't have a joystick and it's hard with keys!

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That's my lot for this one.
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RocketRanger
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Hi guys,

This is my first entry to the league.

238620

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Man alive! That's tough...always was partial to Flying Shark though.
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Elgin_McQueen
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Welcome.


Even if you are beating me already. :angry: :angry:
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Apr 26 2007, 09:08 PM
Hi guys,

This is my first entry to the league.

238620



A great start Rocket !!!!!!
Welcome and good luck :)
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a.j.green
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Its not easy...
RocketRanger
Apr 26 2007, 09:08 PM
Hi guys,

This is my first entry to the league.

238620

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Man alive! That's tough...always was partial to Flying Shark though.

Welcome to the league!
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Antiriad2097
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First attempt:

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supermario
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This took me about 15 mins (and I've got the INP file to prove it)

Don't think I'll get much better, mind you this is the first game I've cleared levels 1 and 2 without dying...

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Also Paranoid_marvin wrote
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IS that.screenshot level 2 second time around?


Nah it's level 4.

ME.
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zaphod79
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Like 69, but bigger
Scores updated in first post
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Madge
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zaphod79
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Like 69, but bigger
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Bloody hard game and my arm is aching after 2 nights of playing it !
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titch

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270 points off 300k how annoying is that.
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fairziff
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Probably my last chance to play this fantastic game.
Have consistantly struggled to complete the 1st stage intact. Finally managed it and made it to the 2nd boss(??)
A few more bombs and this could have been a different story :)
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After countless attempts I finally got through the first level without dying.
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meaty70
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Hi all.Just new to this site.I'm a member of another retroleague but a friend recommended me to join this one and so far have been impressed.Ok here is my first post.Hope to get better lol

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