hansolo77

Updated OP for Table format.

Wow... there's no chance for me now. You sure you're using the HARDEST mode? Lol, updated OP.

Looks fun. I definitely need to play more Super Mario. Watching that trailer showed some hidden blocks I didn't know about, and I thought I knew a bunch. Cool find.

Heh I tried playing this earlier today, I can't even make it past the first level. I remember playing this on my old Atari 800 and I could get to stage 3 no problem. I'm way out of practice!

Updated OP with new link and new high score!

Changes made.. will update Galaga too.

Just bumping with a 'LIKE' here... We need something to get the community more involved and this is a great way to do it. We've currently got 4 games in the run, but we'll be limiting it to 1 per month to help lower the posting spam in the forum (until it is deemed necessary to build a new forum for the activity volumes). Be sure to check it out and feel free to provide input, it's a community activity and we all need support.

I agree, that's why I suggested we make a subforum for just high scores.. but agreeing to do just 1 game at a time seems fair too. I'll get a thread started with a poll and we'll see what game comes out.

Lol that's insane. I browsed through the other strategies on that link too. Who does that stuff?

Figured I'd get a couple of games up on the board here. Galaga is a hard game to play when set to the required HARDEST setting. I didn't want to post a score until I at least bested the 20000 top score on the game. So, unfortunately, my score is actually pretty low and should be easily beatable by the elite guys here. Figured we needed a shmupper here anyway, what better way to start? Score: 25070 Initials Used: HAN

LOST AND FOUND!!!! May 2013 GOTM Winner: celly - 120,630 Galaga Leaderboard POSITION USER NAME TOTAL SCORE 1 forest4585 807,690 2 KRC 274,680 3 be77amy 189,590 4 ExedExes 157,050 5 garetmax 154,960 6 Buzzin69 153,070 7 Mame Offender 152,220 8 Luigimaker 144,260 9 celly 120,630 10 GeorgeT 114,790 Last Updated by hansolo77: 05-26-2018 hansolo77 - 105,000 (link) ClassicGMR - 98,390 (link) rtkiii - 81,230 (link) DazzleHP - 78,690 (link) GimmeClassics - 71,200 (link) ehuonder - 66,900 (link) millerbrad - 51,500 (link) wolfman24 - 30,110 (link) helpman - 27,110 (link) Adultery - 26,890 (link) Please use these settings when submitting a hi-score for Galaga: ROMSet: Galaga / Galaga [Namco Rev.B] Service Mode: Off Difficulty: Rank D [HARDEST] Unknown: Off Freeze: Off Rack Test: Off Unknown: Off Cabinet: Upright Bonus Life: 20k, 70k and every 70k thereafter. Lives: 3 Special Rules: Usage of the trick to cause enemies to stop firing is banned. It has been deemed permissible for a player to intentionally play on the player 2 side so as to allow the millions-digit to show up in the final score. ---> By default, the game will setup into EASY mode. Twin Galaxies requires you to be in HARDEST Mode, so make sure you change it! # you can change your Mame dip switch settings by following this guide > link # you can make a printscreen of your hi-score screen by following this guide > link # general rules for submitting you hi-score > link # the above settings are the default Twin Galaxies settings > link -Han

I dunno, I just cut-pasted from Twin Galaxies... I guess theres some kinda ingame exploit that if you get caught doing it you're high score is disqualified.

I told my dad about the new competition idea and asked if he wanted to try out. He said no, but suggested we try to play some Centipede as he always had the high score for that at the arcade when he was younger. So I did it. It's hard to play with the controller stick, but when I discovered it could also use a trackball, I switched and it was much easier... Score: 13948 Initials used: HAN

Centipede Leaderboard POSITION USER NAME TOTAL SCORE 1 Mame Offender 98,942 2 KRC 91,538 3 ExedExes 62,851 4 Cynicaster 59,616 5 garetmax 47,947 6 GimmeClassics 45,292 7 ehuonder 34,733 8 murve33 31,376 9 rtkiii 27,906 10 Floyd Turbo 22,732 Last Updated by hansolo77: 07-24-2020 Luigimaker - 22,611 (link) celly - 20,381 (link) Buzzin69 - 16,931 (link) wolfman24 - 16,681 (link) millerbrad - 16,602 (link) hansolo77 - 13,948 (link) Please use these settings when submitting a hi-score for Centipede: ROMSet: Centiped / Centipede [Revision 3] Service Mode: Off Lives: 3 Bonus Life: Every 12,000 points Difficulty: Hard Special Rules: Usage of any spider-trap tactic is banned! ---> By default, the game will setup into EASY mode. Twin Galaxies requires you to be in Hard Mode, so make sure you change it! # you can change your Mame dip switch settings by following this guide > link # you can make a printscreen of your hi-score screen by following this guide > link # general rules for submitting you hi-score > link # the above settings are the default Twin Galaxies settings > link -Han

Hope you have a good one.

Yeah I know, you can go diagonally up for some reason a lot of the time.

I dunno, my system was kinda buggy. I was watching TV on my computer (Media Center) before I went to work. I thought I switched it to standby so it wouldn't be running all day. Apparently I forgot, and it was stuck playing the local radar station. I turned on the TV/A-V Receiver and there was sound but no picture. I was able to ALT+CTRL+DEL and close down the Media Center's eshell program to bring my desktop back, but whenever I tried to do anything that used advanced rendering, like watching a VIDEO or playing a MAME rom directly, everything just crashed. I didn't get to reboot because my Media Center is actually recording TV (Just finished NOVA and is now recording the season finale of Duck Dynasty ). Anyway, I did some tweaking in my monitor properties, by changing my desktop resolution down and then up, and then the color to 16-bit and then back up to 32-bit. Now everything seems to be working fine. I still need to reboot, but it might be another hour. I was able to watch a video and I can now load up GameEx. So at least that issue is solved.

I tried to load up GameEx today, but it's crashing. I had 13.9 installed, it autoupdated to 13.10. Now when it loads, the screen displays briefly (in a window) then crashes: 21:27:41.8 4/24/2013: Opening Configuration File 21:27:41.9 4/24/2013: GameEx: Version 13.10: Starting Log 21:27:41.9 4/24/2013: Operating System Platform: Win32NT 21:27:41.9 4/24/2013: Operating System Name: Windows 7 21:27:41.9 4/24/2013: Operating System Version: 6.1.7601 21:27:41.9 4/24/2013: Aero running 21:27:41.9 4/24/2013: Initializing Vista/Windows 7 volume control 21:27:41.9 4/24/2013: Getting CPU and RAM info 21:27:41.9 4/24/2013: Intel® Core2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz, 6142MB 21:27:41.9 4/24/2013: 2.4Ghz - 2 Cores or CPU's 21:27:41.9 4/24/2013: Running Randomize() 21:27:41.9 4/24/2013: Loading PlugIns 21:27:41.9 4/24/2013: Checking for applications to Launch On Startup 21:27:41.9 4/24/2013: Setting default net connection limit to 15 21:27:41.9 4/24/2013: Running Misc startup tasks 21:27:41.9 4/24/2013: Setting Menu types 21:27:41.9 4/24/2013: Getting Configuration Values 21:27:41.9 4/24/2013: Using Theme: Enter the Dragon 21:27:41.9 4/24/2013: Checking for alternate Image Directory for Theme: Enter the Dragon 21:27:41.9 4/24/2013: Initialising Video/MNG DLL's 21:27:41.9 4/24/2013: GameEx will check for media insertion (may affect performance) 21:27:41.9 4/24/2013: Is Media Center running? 21:27:41.9 4/24/2013: Checking/Creating LCD Registry values 21:27:41.9 4/24/2013: Check Media Center Exit/Start Mode 21:27:41.9 4/24/2013: Media Center Mode 2 21:27:42.0 4/24/2013: Video previews on. Warning: Only recommended on modern systems 21:27:42.0 4/24/2013: Snap Delay set to: 2 21:27:42.0 4/24/2013: Get other settings 21:27:42.0 4/24/2013: Desktop set to Hide ICONS and set Background to Black 21:27:42.0 4/24/2013: Set: Find emulator artwork on best match basis 21:27:42.0 4/24/2013: Start work for Form 21:27:42.0 4/24/2013: Getting Original Screen Size 21:27:42.0 4/24/2013: Opening Database Connection 21:27:42.1 4/24/2013: Initializing Component 21:27:42.1 4/24/2013: MAME Path is: M:\MAME 21:27:42.1 4/24/2013: Client/Server MAME Path is: M:\Mame\ClientServerMAME 21:27:42.1 4/24/2013: Client/Server MAME EXE file is: vmame.exe 21:27:42.1 4/24/2013: Use Client/Server MAME On. vmame.exe will launch NetPlay games 21:27:42.1 4/24/2013: MAME EXE file is: mameui64.exe 21:27:42.1 4/24/2013: ROM Path is: M:\MAME\roms 21:27:42.1 4/24/2013: Catver.ini is located at: M:\GameEx\DATA\catver.ini 21:27:42.1 4/24/2013: controls.ini is located at: M:\GameEx\DATA\controls.ini 21:27:42.3 4/24/2013: History.dat is located at: M:\GameEx\DATA\history.dat 21:27:42.3 4/24/2013: nplayers.ini is located at: M:\GameEx\DATA\nplayers.ini 21:27:42.3 4/24/2013: command.dat is located at: M:\GameEx\DATA\command.dat 21:27:42.3 4/24/2013: MAMEinfo.dat is located at: M:\GameEx\DATA\mameinfo.dat 21:27:42.3 4/24/2013: Loading Controls.ini map file 21:27:42.3 4/24/2013: Snap Path is: M:\MAME\snap 21:27:42.3 4/24/2013: Background Snap Path: Not Found 21:27:42.3 4/24/2013: AVI Snap Path is: M:\MAME\avisnap 21:27:42.3 4/24/2013: Flyer Path is: M:\MAME\flyers 21:27:42.3 4/24/2013: Cabinet Path is: M:\MAME\cabinets 21:27:42.3 4/24/2013: Cabinet 3D Path: Not Found 21:27:42.3 4/24/2013: Title Path is: M:\MAME\titles 21:27:42.3 4/24/2013: PCB Path is: M:\MAME\pcb 21:27:42.3 4/24/2013: Artwork Preview Path: Not Found 21:27:42.3 4/24/2013: Panel Path is: M:\MAME\cpanel 21:27:42.3 4/24/2013: Manual Path is: M:\MAME\manuals 21:27:42.3 4/24/2013: Icon Path is: M:\MAME\icons 21:27:42.3 4/24/2013: Marquee Path is: M:\MAME\marquees 21:27:42.3 4/24/2013: Applying Language/Text 21:27:42.3 4/24/2013: Text/Language: English 21:27:42.3 4/24/2013: Loading Language/Text 21:27:42.3 4/24/2013: Loading Custom Emulators 21:27:42.3 4/24/2013: Loading Emulator 1: Fairchild Channel F 21:27:42.3 4/24/2013: Loading Emulator 2: Atari 2600 21:27:42.3 4/24/2013: Loading Emulator 3: Bally Astrocade 21:27:42.3 4/24/2013: Loading Emulator 4: RCA Studio II 21:27:42.3 4/24/2013: Loading Emulator 5: Mattel Intellivision 21:27:42.3 4/24/2013: Loading Emulator 6: Epoch Super Cassette Vision 21:27:42.3 4/24/2013: Loading Emulator 7: Atari 5200 21:27:42.3 4/24/2013: Loading Emulator 8: ColecoVision 21:27:42.3 4/24/2013: Loading Emulator 9: Emerson Arcadia 2001 21:27:42.3 4/24/2013: Loading Emulator 10: Entex Adventure Vision 21:27:42.3 4/24/2013: Loading Emulator 11: GCE Vectrex 21:27:42.3 4/24/2013: Loading Emulator 12: Casio PV-1000 21:27:42.3 4/24/2013: Loading Emulator 13: Magnavox Odyssey 3 (Videopac+ or G7400) 21:27:42.3 4/24/2013: Loading Emulator 14: Sega SG-1000 21:27:42.3 4/24/2013: Loading Emulator 15: Atari 7800 21:27:42.3 4/24/2013: Loading Emulator 16: Nintendo NES 21:27:42.3 4/24/2013: Loading Emulator 17: Nintendo FDS 21:27:42.3 4/24/2013: Loading Emulator 18: Sega Master System 21:27:42.4 4/24/2013: Loading Emulator 19: NEC TurboGrafx-16 21:27:42.4 4/24/2013: Loading Emulator 20: NEC SuperGrafx 21:27:42.4 4/24/2013: Loading Emulator 21: Sega Genesis 21:27:42.4 4/24/2013: Loading Emulator 22: Amstrad GX4000 21:27:42.4 4/24/2013: Loading Emulator 23: Nintendo SNES 21:27:42.4 4/24/2013: Loading Emulator 24: Atari Jaguar 21:27:42.4 4/24/2013: Loading Emulator 25: Sega PICO 21:27:42.4 4/24/2013: Loading Emulator 26: Sega 32X 21:27:42.4 4/24/2013: Loading Emulator 27: Casio Loopy 21:27:42.4 4/24/2013: Loading Emulator 28: Funtech Super A'Can 21:27:42.4 4/24/2013: Loading Emulator 29: Nintendo Virtual Boy 21:27:42.4 4/24/2013: Loading Emulator 30: Nintendo N64 21:27:42.4 4/24/2013: Loading Emulator 31: Sega CD 21:27:42.4 4/24/2013: Loading Emulator 32: Atari Lynx 21:27:42.4 4/24/2013: Loading Emulator 33: Nintendo Game Boy 21:27:42.4 4/24/2013: Loading Emulator 34: Hartung Game Master 21:27:42.4 4/24/2013: Loading Emulator 35: Sega Game Gear 21:27:42.4 4/24/2013: Loading Emulator 36: Watara Supervision 21:27:42.4 4/24/2013: Loading Emulator 37: Creatronic Mega Duck / Cougar Boy 21:27:42.4 4/24/2013: Loading Emulator 38: SNK Neo-Geo Pocket 21:27:42.4 4/24/2013: Loading Emulator 39: Nintendo Game Boy Color 21:27:42.4 4/24/2013: Loading Emulator 40: Bandai WonderSwan 21:27:42.4 4/24/2013: Loading Emulator 41: SNK Neo-Geo Pocket Color 21:27:42.4 4/24/2013: Loading Emulator 42: Bandai WonderSwan Color 21:27:42.4 4/24/2013: Loading Emulator 43: Nintendo Game Boy Advance 21:27:42.4 4/24/2013: Loading Emulator 44: Apple II 21:27:42.4 4/24/2013: Loading Emulator 45: Commodore VIC20 21:27:42.4 4/24/2013: Loading Emulator 46: PC - Microsoft Windows 21:27:42.4 4/24/2013: Loading Emulator 47: Microsoft MSX 21:27:42.4 4/24/2013: Loading Emulator 48: Microsoft MSX2 21:27:42.4 4/24/2013: Loading Emulator 49: Amstrad CPC 21:27:42.4 4/24/2013: Loading Emulator 50: MGT Sam Coupe 21:27:42.4 4/24/2013: Loading Emulator 51: Sega CD (Direct Boot) 21:27:42.4 4/24/2013: Loading Emulator 52: Steam Powered 21:27:42.4 4/24/2013: Loading Emulator 53: eBooks (Comics) 21:27:43.4 4/24/2013: Loading Emulator 54: Sony Playstation 21:27:43.4 4/24/2013: Loading Emulator 55: Sega Model 3 21:27:43.4 4/24/2013: Loading Emulator 56: VP - Bagatelle 21:27:43.4 4/24/2013: Loading Emulator 57: VP - Originals 21:27:43.4 4/24/2013: Loading Emulator 58: VP - Recreations 21:27:43.4 4/24/2013: Loading Emulator 59: VPM - MODs 21:27:43.4 4/24/2013: Loading Emulator 60: VPM - Recreations 21:27:43.4 4/24/2013: Loading Emulator 61: FP - Original Flipperless Tables 21:27:43.4 4/24/2013: Loading Emulator 62: FP - Original Tables 21:27:43.4 4/24/2013: Loading Emulator 63: FP - Recreated Flipperless Tables 21:27:43.4 4/24/2013: Loading Emulator 64: FP - Recreated Tables 21:27:43.4 4/24/2013: Loading Emulator 65: Nintendo GameCube 21:27:43.4 4/24/2013: Checking if Steam enabled 21:27:43.4 4/24/2013: Steam is installed correctly 21:27:43.4 4/24/2013: Invalid or filtered path: m:\\_pc\\steam\\steamapps\\[email protected]\\winui 21:27:43.4 4/24/2013: Directory does not exist: m:\\_pc\\steam\\steamapps\\[email protected]\\counter-strike 21:27:43.4 4/24/2013: Directory does not exist: m:\\_pc\\steam\\steamapps\\[email protected]\\half-life 21:27:43.4 4/24/2013: Directory does not exist: m:\\_pc\\steam\\steamapps\\[email protected]\\condition zero 21:27:43.4 4/24/2013: Directory does not exist: m:\\_pc\\steam\\steamapps\\[email protected]\\condition zero deleted scenes 21:27:43.4 4/24/2013: Found: m:\\_pc\\steam\\steamapps\\[email protected]\\counter-strike source 21:27:43.4 4/24/2013: Found Steam game. Steam enabled. 21:27:43.4 4/24/2013: gamebase support enabled. 21:27:43.4 4/24/2013: Using Version 3 Themes Animations 21:27:43.4 4/24/2013: Retrieving resolution setting 21:27:43.5 4/24/2013: Using General Font: Microsoft Sans Serif 21:27:43.5 4/24/2013: Using Title Font: Microsoft Sans Serif 21:27:43.5 4/24/2013: Initialising Direct3D 21:27:43.6 4/24/2013: Applying GameEx is Loading Image 21:27:43.7 4/24/2013: Creating Surfaces 21:27:43.7 4/24/2013: --**-- 21:27:43.7 4/24/2013: Error: Error in the application. 21:27:43.8 4/24/2013: at Microsoft.DirectX.Direct3D.Manager.GetDeviceCaps(Int32 adapter, DeviceType deviceType) 21:27:43.8 4/24/2013: at Direct2D.Direct2d.Device.a(Form A_0, Int32 A_1, Int32 A_2, Boolean A_3, Boolean A_4, Boolean A_5, Boolean A_6, Int32 A_7) 21:27:43.8 4/24/2013: at Direct2D.Direct2d.Device..ctor(Form FormHandle, Int32 Width, Int32 Height, Boolean Windowed, Boolean VSync, Boolean Display16Bit, Boolean SecondaryDisplay) 21:27:43.8 4/24/2013: at GameEx.GameEx.mainform.a(Boolean A_0, Boolean A_1, Boolean A_2, Boolean A_3, Int32 A_4, Int32 A_5, Int32 A_6, Boolean A_7, Boolean A_8) 21:27:43.8 4/24/2013: at GameEx.GameEx.mainform.a(Boolean A_0, Boolean A_1, Boolean A_2, Boolean A_3, Int32 A_4, Int32 A_5, Int32 A_6, Boolean A_7) 21:27:43.8 4/24/2013: at GameEx.GameEx.mainform.a(Boolean A_0, Boolean A_1, Boolean A_2, Boolean A_3, Int32 A_4, Int32 A_5, Int32 A_6) 21:27:43.8 4/24/2013: at GameEx.GameEx.mainform.f(Boolean A_0, Boolean A_1, Boolean A_2) 21:27:43.8 4/24/2013: at GameEx.GameEx.mainform.a(Boolean A_0, String A_1, Boolean A_2) 21:27:43.8 4/24/2013: at GameEx.GameEx.mainform..ctor() 21:27:43.8 4/24/2013: 21:27:43.8 4/24/2013: It was detected you experienced a DirectX error. 21:27:43.8 4/24/2013: Please note the following for possible solutions to your problem: 21:27:43.8 4/24/2013: 1. Ensure you have the latest version of DirectX installed. 21:27:43.8 4/24/2013: 2. Ensure you have the latest Manufacturer provided video card drivers. 21:27:43.8 4/24/2013: NOTE: Windows/Microsoft Update does not contain the latest. 21:27:43.8 4/24/2013: NOTE: Manufacturer normally means ATI, NVidia, or Intel. Not the brand. 21:27:43.8 4/24/2013: www.ati.com www.nvidia.com 21:27:43.8 4/24/2013: 3. If you do not have a modern video card try the following. 1. Turn off advanced Graphics. 2. Try a lower resolution. 3. Try turning on and using 16-bit colour 21:27:43.8 4/24/2013: 4. Ensure any required video codecs are installed. 21:27:43.8 4/24/2013: 5. Try a different theme, or try running the theme at the resolution it was designed for 21:27:43.8 4/24/2013: 6. Try the latest version of GameEx. GameEx is updated all the time. 21:27:43.8 4/24/2013: 7. If you performed an auto update to this version. Try performing a manual download and install. 21:27:43.8 4/24/2013: 21:27:43.8 4/24/2013: Closing database connection 21:27:43.8 4/24/2013: Disposing Plugins 21:27:43.8 4/24/2013: GameEx is exiting with errors 21:27:43.8 4/24/2013: Deleting search cache 21:27:43.9 4/24/2013: ERRORS DETECTED: EXITING 21:27:44.1 4/24/2013: Bye I know this is a DirectX issue. It says so plain as day. What could have changed? I'm actually going to try and reboot my system to see if it fixes the problem. If it does, I'll change topic to resolved and update. If not, I'll leave it open so Tom can take a look at it. I'll include my settings and what not if rebooting doesn't fix it.

I'm a bit flustered (is that the word?) about going to a website to find the proper settings to use. Perhaps one thing we can do is link to the Twin Galaxies entry in the first post of the game's thread, or maybe just put their settings in the first post. Then maybe like above that in a big font have it show the GameEx current top score, with a link to the post in that thread with the screenshot. We'd just need to have the original poster of the thread be able to edit the first post to update it with the latest high score. If this project/activity really gets going, perhaps one of the mods or admins would consider opening another sub-forum dedicated to High Scores. Then each thread listed would be for that specific game, rather than putting all the games in the Social forums. That should also help people find the high scores easier when browsing the forums. Just and idea.

Isn't the encyclopedia like 4 volumes or more? Last week I was in my shop and he was selling a bunch of volume 4 of the encyclopedia for like half price. I'd love to have the fact files though. Looks cool.

No Fair! That looks awesome. I wish I could get it here in the states.

You the man Tom!

Ok, I figured it all out! The problem is coming up with a way everybody can get a screenshot of their game without needing to use any extra software or special mobile devices. The obvious solution is to use MAME to capture the screenshot while it's playing. The problem with that (that I found out) is that if an image already exists in the /MAME/snap folder for that rom, a new image won't be remade. Maybe it's because the files are archive attrib or something. Regardless, just using the default settings in MAME to press F12 and capture a screenshot won't work if you have a nice and tidy setup completely with pre-existing screenshots. So the solution requires a little simple poking around in MAME's settings and then you can have MAME capture images for you in their own directory INSIDE the /snap directory, thereby allowing you to make new ones. Another nice thing in the setting I chose is that it will increment you're snaps, so you can have multiple ones (also fixing the inability to overwrite pre-existing images). While you can set up to use the incremential numbering in the root /snap directory, there are THOUSANDS in there, and finding the one you just took is way too complicated. So this method simplifies finding the image you're looking for! So here's the instructions! First of all, let me start out by saying I'm using MAMEUI for this, and it's actually MAMEUI64 as I have a 64-bit processor and Windows 7 x64. So your own settings might be different, but it shouldn't be that difficult to find... Step one is to click on the OPTIONS tab at the top of the screen. Step two is to click on the INTERFACE OPTIONS... menu item. Step three is to change the "Screenshot Pattern" option to "Gamename/Gamename + Increment" Step four is to play your game, press F12 to save the screenshot. When you go into your predefined path for screenshots, you should see a new folder using the ROM name, and inside that is newly created snapshot. Each time you hit F12, it should create a new image for you! Hopefully that will help make adding screenshots to post your highscores easier. Granted, using a mobile device to take a screenshot and post it directly to the thread would be great, but some of us (me, I know ) don't have such devices. And it's a pain to have to install more software to solve such a simple problem. Hope this helps the community out! Enjoy.

According to http://strategywiki.org/wiki/MAME/Special_Keys if you press F12 it will save a screen capture. Only problem is, it saves it in the MAME\snap path, which should be setup to most of as having all the screen art for use in MAME (unless you're also using AVI Snaps.

Don't have those.... There should be an easy internal way though. A lot of emulators have a key command like SHIFT+F12 to save a screenshot. MAME should have something like that somewhere. At least the PrntScrn button works in window'd mode for GameEx. Funny though, I ran a game of Tempest and set a highscore, but it doesn't list High Scores in the GameEx menu like Mario Brother's does. I wonder what the difference is? I checked, and it does save the score I set. Weird.