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Season 7, Week 4 : Wonder Boy (MAME); Mame set 1 , new encrypition - wboy
Topic Started: 13 May 2007, 11:32 AM (2,654 Views)
zaphod79
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Well after the frenetic blasting of last week we return to a classic platformer from Sega , and one which featured in the definitive guide section of last months Retro Gamer :

Sega's Wonder boy - nominated by Elgin Mcqueen


NOTE TO ALL PLAYERS!

RESET (PRESS F3) BETWEEN GAMES TO AVOID A BUG!


Klov info :

http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?letter=&game_id=10463

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Settings:

Default settings

NO Continues and NO Autofire allowed.

Buttons:

BUTTON 1
This is the primary fire button , but only when you have a weapon (your hammer) , pressing it once fires , holding it down makes you run

BUTTON 2
This is the Jump button

Standard settings - scores to be in by 12:00 on Sunday the 20th of May

Final Scores :

1) 1497700 - Fr@ser = 100.00 points
2) 402080 - TK421 = 61.34 points
3) 364910 - Leezer = 58.02 points
4) 304730 - Zaphod79 = 53.92 points
5) 296630 - Smurph = 51.57 points
6) 262120 - Sureshot = 48.33 points
7) 225640 - SirClive = 45.03 points
8) 200180 - RocketRanger = 42.10 points
9) 167410 - A.J Green = 38.92 points
10) 120370 - Titch = 35.27 points
11) 118510 - Paranoid marvin = 33.12 points
12) 109760 - necronom = 30.75 points
13) 106130 - Freshmetal = 28.54 points
14) 89210 - Merman = 25.89 points
15) 88050 - Supermario = 23.77 points
16) 84620 - Elgin McQueen = 21.57 points
17) 78300 - Opa-Opa = 19.28 points
18) 54630 - Sputryk = 16.41 points
19) 52700 - Madge = 14.26 points
20) 28450 - Markopoloman = 11.37 points
21) 23890 - Fairziff = 9.13 points
22) 21670 - RS200 = 6.97 points
23) 15810 - Antiriad2097 = 4.69 points
24) 11510 - Collywobbles = 2.47 points
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tk421
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cracking little platformer with catchy music :) very addictive good choice ;)
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necronom
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Para(lytic)Droid
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I've never played this before, but so far it looks okay. The controls are crap though - especially the shoot/run button. And the music is very annoying.

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tk421
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118150 i remember watching people in the arcade play this and fly through it knowing every location of the hidden dolls etc , pretty impressive game to watch someone good at it play
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Freshmetal
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Best after a couple of tries: 50250

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Never really enjoyed the Adventure Island/Wonderboy series whenever I've played it before, but I'll give it a fair chance this week to change my mind.
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paranoid marvin

Not a bad little gamePosted Image
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markopoloman
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Nice pattern forming here! Shmup, platformer, Shmup, Platformer.............

So you may see me in the top half of the scores again this week :D

I remember this from the mastersystem - although never actually played the arcade one.......
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RocketRanger
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After a couple of attempts

77650

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I can see this one is going to be quite time consuming
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Antiriad2097
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Oh dear. This is the game I always ignored in my arcade. Never really taken to it. I'll get ha,,ered this week as I don't have the patience to learn its secrets - it'll be a quick go or two an dpost a score for this one again.
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a.j.green
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Its not easy...
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Good game, getting further every time.

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paranoid marvin

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This might be my final score for the week - got to a stage where some platforms unexpectedly fall down from underneath you - I hate suprise deaths , it's a case of remembering which platform does what , quite inruiating after 10 mins play!

105860
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paranoid marvin

BTW does anyone know what the letters in boxes do apart from give you a couple of thousand points? I've seen S C and E up to now

And what's the amulet thing you get from the cyclops bad guy?
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necronom
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Smurph
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87770

Pic removed due to higher score

Just a quick blast to get a score up. We had this in our local arcade, and I was alright at it. There was one bloke actually got barred because he was so good he could make 10p last hours.
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Latest: 106130

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First time past the Cyclops boss. Have to agree with Marvin, that the platforms that fall away are so irritating after spending ten minutes getting to that point.
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titch

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Boy I Wonder how anyone gets good scores on this i'm terrible at it lol
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zaphod79
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paranoid marvin
May 13 2007, 07:48 PM
BTW does anyone know what the letters in boxes do apart from give you a couple of thousand points? I've seen S C and E up to now

And what's the amulet thing you get from the cyclops bad guy?

Sometimes instead of the letters you get a little wonderboy figure for an extra life.

I have to confess that when i played this in the arcades i thought you were collecting the letters to spell out SEGA (and yes i realise theres no 'c' in SEGA :-)

The amulet and other items are just points
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titch
May 13 2007, 10:38 PM

Boy I Wonder how anyone gets good scores on this i'm terrible at it lol

*giggle*


Yay, I believe this is the first game of mine ever to be picked, kinda glad it was this one as we've had a fair run of shmups so far.
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Smurph
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Not Blue
Getting back into it...

130500

removed for higher score
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a.j.green
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Its not easy...
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tk421
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here's the song everyone should be listening to whilst playing this ;)
http://rapidshare.com/files/31271444/04_-_Wonderboy.mp3

heres my inp showing locations of letters/extra life on the first 4 levels if anyone is interrested :)
http://rapidshare.com/files/31276476/wboy.inp
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merman
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Too much playing the C64 version has made playing it on MAME trickier...

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Smurph
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removed for higher score
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tk421
May 14 2007, 04:49 PM
heres my inp showing locations of letters/extra life on the first 4 levels if anyone is interrested :)
http://rapidshare.com/files/31276476/wboy.inp

Appreciated tk.
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titch

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May 14 2007, 05:03 PM
tk421
May 14 2007, 04:49 PM
heres my inp showing locations of letters/extra life on the first 4 levels if anyone is interrested :)
http://rapidshare.com/files/31276476/wboy.inp

Appreciated tk.

same here but i can't get it to run :(
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tk421
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what you need to do is start up your mame then highlight wonderboy just click in once otherwise it will start up then go to files topleft of mame screen then playback input select the inp and it shud play :)
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titch

tk421
May 14 2007, 06:39 PM
what you need to do is start up your mame then highlight wonderboy just click in once otherwise it will start up then go to files topleft of mame screen then playback input select the inp and it shud play :)

thats waht i did m8 but it just sits at a screen saying 1p and 2p with the controls down the middle. :(
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I like this, it's one of those games where you make a tiny bit of progress with each attempt.
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titch
May 14 2007, 06:58 PM
tk421
May 14 2007, 06:39 PM
what you need to do is start up your mame then highlight wonderboy just click in once otherwise it will start up then go to files topleft of mame screen then playback input select the inp and it shud play :)

thats waht i did m8 but it just sits at a screen saying 1p and 2p with the controls down the middle. :(

Versions of mame can be a problem - especially if your moving between a newer and much older one

Also the files that TK supplied will need to be unzipped into a specific folder \mame\inp

I've just tried it on mine here (mame32 v104) and it does the same (static screen with controls) so its probably down to versions

I think i can remember the positions of the first four letters anyway just got confused sometimes with the 2nd and the 4th (2nd i can never remember which island edge and 4th i think is next to the witches egg)
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paranoid marvin

If you jump over the first wasp on level 1 you get a letter - obviously it's easier if you're nt on the skateboard at the time !
With a little practice it's pretty easy to finish level 1 with 90-100% health and the doll giving you an extra 18-20k-
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Madge
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Why is it that sometimes a letter appears and at other times it's an extra life?
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zaphod79
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Okay i am way out of practice and this is my second go of the game in a long time but if your looking for some of the letters heres a first attempt - it will play fine on mame32 104 at least - i missed the 4th letter and gave up about 1/2 way through the 5th stage (although i uncovered the extra life on that screen)

http://www.retroleague.myzen.co.uk/wboy_z.rar

Its in an archive format known as rar and the file (only 17k) will need to be uncompressed into the inp folder to play.

May as well post this as a score right now as well :

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126040 although i should get a better chance to play on Friday or Saturday night
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titch

thanks m8 :)
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titch

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120370 - Just takes a wee bit of getting used to thats all :)
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Collywobbles

11510

Making sure I get some sort of score in this week!
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a.j.green
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Its not easy...
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Got past world 1 for the first time!

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Sureshot
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merman
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NOTE TO ALL PLAYERS

RESET your game between attempts. There's a bug, meaning you can earn an extra life on level 1-1 if you collected the three letters during your previous go.

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Sureshot
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Got to the 2nd boss this time.

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fr@ser1

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Bah

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ME.
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RocketRanger
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By mid-week I am only slightly fed up with this games lovely music and the nightmarish memory test that is area 2.

119110

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merman
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God, I'm getting frustrated with level 1-3, and that frog in particular...

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The best way to deal with the frogs is to just run full-pelt at them and they'll hop over you.

NB: some of the later ones will look darker and will be stationary, so this doesn't work with them, but they are easy to kill.
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paranoid marvin

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May 17 2007, 11:39 AM
God, I'm getting frustrated with level 1-3, and that frog in particular...

71620

It's dead easy to kill - jump over the 2 fires , then slowly edge along until you see the frog at the far right hand side of the screen (don't worry he can't see you!)

Jump and throw an axe until you hit him - he turns colour and jumps forward one place , but then stays where he is , so you can kill him at your leisure

Now I have problems with the end of level cyclops and his unpredictable fireballs
I've got there with 4 lives , and lost them all - other times (usually when I'm on my last life!) I kill him first time
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Some weird stuff going on with platforms on 3-1.

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merman
May 17 2007, 11:39 AM


Now I have problems with the end of level cyclops and his unpredictable fireballs
I've got there with 4 lives , and lost them all - other times (usually when I'm on my last life!) I kill him first time

The first end of level boss?

He's quite easy, just stand a bit close to him and the fireball always passes over you. Then step back a bit because he comes forward. He doesn't take too many hits to kill, just stand close enough for the fireball to pass over then pelt him in the face.

Watch out though, the colision detection sucks a bit there and standing too close kills you.
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a.j.green
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Just got to the stage with the disappearing platforms :angry:

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