hansolo77

Nice score! Updated OP, DB, RSS

Now you're just showing off! Updated OP, DB, RSS

Still better than my non-existent score! I can't believe myself, still haven't played it yet! Updated OP, DB, RSS

I'm confused... which score do you want me to take? The only one with your initials is 63,280. But there is a score higher with AAA as the initials. The confusing thing is that the AAA score is different than the 1P score of 63,280. So either the AAA is your best run and a flubbed initial entry, or 63.280 is your official entry.. It's a difference of a few hundred points, I just wanted to make sure I enter in the one you're wanting.

Stinker! You knocked me off the board! Updated OP, DB, RSS

I'm still trying to improve that score. I see Forest's and I'm shamed.

Don't feel bad! I suck at this game too. @forest4585 came in out of nowhere and shows us who's boss! You'll get there. Updated OP

If I recall, I only played this once or twice when we first added it, then I never came back to it. It was a fun game from what I remember, it's just another one of those games that I suck at, whereas everybody else was so much better than me that it just felt impossible to compete against and never tried again. Good job! Updated OP, DB, RSS

VERY close. Maybe next time! Updated OP, DB, RSS

Wow, just barely scraped in a score for the table on this one! Maybe now that you have a score you can improve it? Updated OP, DB, RSS

Not a bad run! This is a game that takes a few runs to get familiar with. Updated OP, DB, RSS

So you were expecting 1k but got 10k instead? That's not a bad bit of luck! Updated OP, DB, RSS

Yeah but it's a great game! Updated OP, DB, RSS

Nice entry there! Better than mine! Updated OP, DB, RSS

Not a bad starting entry. Updated OP, DB, RSS

Donkey Kong is so unforgiving. There's supposed to a pattern you can watch for and makes getting scores easy, but I've never been able to do it. Updated OP

Welcome aboard! Create an account over at the RetroPie forums and post post post! Anytime you have issues, try to be as descriptive as possible. There's a lot of great guys over there, including me, who would be willing to help you out. Their main website has a documents section, and it's really informative. The #1 best advice I can give is to make lots of backups of your SD card. Do one thing at a time and make a backup. If you do something to screw up, you only have 1 thing to restore without having to start all over from scratch again. I can't tell you how many times that saved me. I keep at least 3 of the most recent backups. That way if something doesn't go right, I can go back a couple backups in case the issue came from something further back. The Linux console can be very daunting. But it's really not that bad, especially if you have DOS experience. Many of the commands are the same. LS instead of DIR is the biggest change. The TAB key is very helpful in typing out long paths. And then you use a lot of shorthand.. like MV for MOVE, etc. The only thing I'm not comfortable with is writing my own scripts from scratch. If I look at somebody else's work though, the flow of the script makes perfect sense to me. I just wouldn't know where to start. Luckily, most of the script work is already done at this stage of RetroPie's maturity. You might just have to go in and manually tweak some things. NANO is the built in text editor. The other thing to know is that you're signed into the console as the user "Pi" and not as "ROOT" which would be like a Windows administrator. Anything you need to do will probably require "SUDO" typed in first, meaning "as a super user, DO this"... It's confusing at first, but I've gotten a little more comfortable with it since I've been playing around with it over a year. Backup always! The single best advice. If you go in and start messing around with stuff, you'll absolutely hate yourself for not having a backup to restore from to bring your system back to the way it was when it was last working. If I might recommend a few tools.... Win32DiskImager is what I use for backup/restore. Putty is what I use to SSH (command line/console from your computer to the Pi). WinSCP is what I use for SFTP to the Pi for transferring files. Sure, you can use the default built in method of attaching a USB jump drive, but that takes time and effort. Having everything stored on my computer, and just transmit over through SFTP allows me better control. Once you get everything the way you like it, BACKUP AGAIN!!! I actually perform a backup every couple of weeks, just to be safe. SD cards are very fragile and can get corrupted very easily. I backup my KODI box weekly too. Can't be to careful, and you'll regret it if you spend a lot of time "building" just to have it crap out on you. When I first started playing around with RetroPi, there was a "white screen of death" issue, where the EmulationStation frontend would run out of memory on the Pi to support more than like 5 gaming consoles installed. Now, thanks to the opensource community and my beta testing (with others), we've fixed that! There's been so many improvements and enhancements to RetroPie, it's an exciting time to jump on board! Themes (I prefer the Comicbook theme), video snaps, custom collections, RetroAchievement support, Network play support (including internet, though I've not been able to get it to work for me), built-in leaderboard support (through RetroAchievements), etc. If you need some further advice or inspiration, have a look at my NintendoPi (or NESPI) project thread, or Felix's NEStalgia project thread. We both spent some time and effort detailing our build progress and processes. Might help you along the way. And of course, you got your own thread here now too, so feel free to ask for help! Don't forget to backup! lol

Updated OP to show @Luigimaker's progress again. So now he's in 6th place! Wow! Way to go buddy! Originally in 21st, a couple of weeks worth of playing and submitting scores (most if not all less than 3rd place), and now he's in 6th. That's just awesome! Updated OP

Yeah much thanks to Luigimaker for making some new submissions and maybe wake up the server a bit. @Adultery I've got them updated in the DBM. Some of them are hosted at arcademarquee.com that I found through google. Others are edits that I did in photoshop and rehosted over at imgbb.com. Who knows how long imgbb will allow 3rd party linking. I guess I can try and download all them locally then zip it all up and send it to you. Probably won't be for a few days or so. I've got a it of a headache tonight (again) and won't be able to do it for a couple days till I'm off work again. I was mostly worried that you were going back through and changing them after I just changed them again lol.

Yeah we've been doing an overhaul of the OP to update the formats. Looks nicer now than it did. I've actually been going back over the posts you've made in the last couple of weeks and updating the artwork to the high resolution ones from before. Adultery seems to have been storing the banners on his server and updating our DB to link to those, but his were all lower resolution. It was agreed in a poll that the higher resolution banners look best, so I've been trying to relink to them. @Adultery - Any chance you could "stop" updating them to the low res versions? You can store the high res versions right? Updated OP, DB, RSS

That's what I figured. If you can play TO the level the warp takes you, you'd earn all the points possible leading to that level on the way.

Ah so it was reported before. Cool. Did you try letting the countdown reach 0 first?

Does warping really give you any advantage? Doesn't it just take you to a higher, more difficult level? Or do the points actually increase on higher levels? Updated OP, DB, RSS

Not a bad run for a first go! Updated OP, DB, RSS

I'm not very good at this game. It was one of my dad's all time favorites though. But he never really had a huge score himself. Updated OP, DB, RSS