Choplifter

[GimmeClassics]

Choplifter Leaderboard

 

POSITION	USER NAME	TOTAL SCORE
1	Yung-Jedi	548,750
2	ExedExes	500,800
3	Mame Offender	427,050
4	jedah	139,400
5	GimmeClassics	89,550
6	Luigimaker	66,550
7	rtkiii	49,350
8	millerbrad	43,000

Last Updated by hansolo77: 07-24-2020

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Please use these settings when submitting a hi-score for Choplifter:

ROMSet: chopliftbl
Cabinet: Upright
Lives: 3
Unknown / Unused: Off [All]
Bonus Life: 20,000 70,000 120,000 170,000
Difficulty: Easy
Special Rules: None

--> Note: Make sure to change the difficulty setting to Easy and to use the correct ROMSet. The other settings match the default game settings.

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# 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

 

~ GC

 

[GimmeClassics]

Thank you Yung-Jedi for choosing Choplifter as your favorite game

We want to reward our hi-score contestants with the possibility to add a personal favorite hi-score game !

Yung-Jedi was chosen for this month's free game !!

We invite you to compete for a good Leaderboard position and be the next one to choose your favorite game

Happy hi-scoring everyone !

[rtkiii]

Great game...I suck but this gives me a reason to get better. Nice pick, Old Ewok.

[Yung-Jedi]

YUSSSSSSS!

[Mame Offender]

Haha! Nice choice!! I am boarding my chopper right now!!

[Mame Offender]

This game is pretty easy if you know the basics.

Hint: to avoid ground attack while rescuing hostages, tap up lightly on your controller immediately after every other or every hostage climbs aboard. It will reset the counter.

[Mame Offender]

210,100

Didnt get past board 3 yet

[Yung-Jedi]

Great score Mame, yeah board 3 is hella crazy!

I'll post a score as soon as I can.

You set the bar high man (per usual)

[hansolo77]

This is another classic I played on the Atari 800. Can't wait to give it a go.

[GimmeClassics]

This game is pretty easy if you know the basics.

Hint: to avoid ground attack while rescuing hostages, tap up lightly on your controller immediately after every other or every hostage climbs aboard. It will reset the counter.

Thank you for the gameplay hint M.O. I was not aware of this !

210,100

Didnt get past board 3 yet

A nice score to try and beat...

Updated OP, DB, RSS, LB

[Yung-Jedi]

This game is tougher than I remember!

Level 3 is a monsta' with those gosh darn fire balls!

Yung-Jedi 246,000

[DazzleHP]

This game is tougher than I remember!

Level 3 is a monsta' with those gosh darn fire balls!

Yung-Jedi 246,000

So 246k is the one to beat! For now

*Updated OP, DB, RSS.

[DazzleHP]

Fixed. I had people distracting me while i was updating the database. Apologies

[ExedExes]

Nice pick!

Because....

....you've heard this before.

wait for it.........

I've got tons of experience with this one.

From my days playing it on the Atari 7800 (which I still have), although it's one stage and you must save all 64 hostages.

and just like other games I've been playing on MAME for 15 + years now, this is one of them.

That 4th stage though, forget it. Might need a bit more practice.

ExedExes - 268,800

[GimmeClassics]

Nice pick!

Because....

....you've heard this before.

wait for it.........

I've got tons of experience with this one.

From my days playing it on the Atari 7800 (which I still have), although it's one stage and you must save all 64 hostages.

and just like other games I've been playing on MAME for 15 + years now, this is one of them.

That 4th stage though, forget it. Might need a bit more practice.

ExedExes - 268,800

...oh my...yet another game where ExEx has got tons of experience with....here we go again .....

.....just kidding ....but seriously, you're one hell of a gamer. Top 3 scores at pretty much every game you've been playing. NICE

Nice choplifter score btw, puts you in the #1 spot

Updated OP, DB, RSS, LB

[Yung-Jedi]

IC CHECK

Yung-Jedi 295,050

[ExedExes]

IC CHECK

Yung-Jedi 295,050

Nice score, but are you using the right ROM, choplftbl? I only ask because choplftbl does not have the IC CHECK at startup that you mentioned, the original ROM (choplft) does.

[Yung-Jedi]

Hi Exed,

Oh Ok, thanks man, let me check on that & get back to ya.

Thanks for the note!

[MNMax21]

My assumption on this rom title is that it is the boot leg of Choplifter, since it has the "bl" on the end. Did Twin Galaxy decide that the boot leg was more true to the original arcade version of the game?

When running this through GameEx, I imagine I will have to either filter this specific rom (as it's a bootleg) or just allow boot leg roms? Correct?

EDIT: Ok, I see on TwinGalaxies.com that the original did not work in wolfmame .106. I guess they have just decided to stick it out with the bootleg. I imagine wolf mame must be past version .106 now and I am wondering if the original is now working. Seems odd that they wouldn't update the use of a boot leg if they could.

"Note: The Original Version doesn't work in Wolfmame 0.106, hence this version being used."

[GimmeClassics]

My assumption on this rom title is that it is the boot leg of Choplifter, since it has the "bl" on the end. Did Twin Galaxy decide that the boot leg was more true to the original arcade version of the game?

When running this through GameEx, I imagine I will have to either filter this specific rom (as it's a bootleg) or just allow boot leg roms? Correct?

EDIT: Ok, I see on TwinGalaxies.com that the original did not work in wolfmame .106. I guess they have just decided to stick it out with the bootleg. I imagine wolf mame must be past version .106 now and I am wondering if the original is now working. Seems odd that they wouldn't update the use of a boot leg if they could.

"Note: The Original Version doesn't work in Wolfmame 0.106, hence this version being used."

I noticed you've pretty much answered your own question haha

The Mame version Twin Galaxies allows for submitting hi-scores to their website was and currently is wolfmame 0.106. As you've already mentioned Twin Galaxies decided to use the bootleg version of this rom as the original didn't work with wolfmame 0.106. Twin Galaxies has changed ownership just recently and they're still working at bringing the (new) submitting proces back online. The Mame version Twin Galaxies allows will perhaps change in the near future if they have everyting back online.

We decided to use Twin Galaxies settings (ROMset and game specific settings) to allow our hi-score members to compare their hi-score with the world's best If you'd decide to submit hi-scores to Twin Galaxies (not yet possible) you would have to use the correct Mame version. A lot of our hi-score members (me included) are using self-compiled Mame versions however - often with hi-score support. That's why we've decided to only follow Twin Galaxies ROMSet and game settings and not expect our members to use TG's Mame version. TG doesn't change the allowed Mame version every time because they have to test that particular Mame version for things like game session recording, possible cheating etc... It would be too much work to re-test this with every new release of Mame.

I hope this explains it a little....

[DazzleHP]

I would also like to add that, to save arguments on settings (because honestly you all could ague to the death on what settings should be used) we've always used TG settings, when we can. And on this game we can, so it is romset choplftbl. No if's, no but's. We do this for the very reason you are questioning it.

[Yung-Jedi]

Thanks guys on the help.

I was able to auto-update high score games, which auto located the proper rom set for this game (no IC Check)

All settings per tourney.

Yung-Jedi 393,000

[MNMax21]

Sorry, I was not questioning the inclusion of the game rom type or the rules set forth. I like the way it's run and using twin galaxies. I was more just wondering why it was a bootleg. I posted prior to doing the research on my own, which I located on twin galaxies.

I was more inquiring, because both Yung-Jedi and I have used the non boot legged choplifter and it was working on our versions of MAME. When I realized that it was due to functionality issues on wolfmame .106, I then answered my own question.

I may be off the radar for awhile. I have been pretty busy at home and work. I also dropped my iPhone in the lake while fishing. I was able to retrieve it and it's currently hanging out in a bag of rice. It has steadily gotten better the last few days, so I hope to have it back soon. I am currently using my old slow as heck HTC and it's painful to think of tapatalk on that sucker.

[GimmeClassics]

Thanks guys on the help.

I was able to auto-update high score games, which auto located the proper rom set for this game (no IC Check)

All settings per tourney.

Yung-Jedi 393,000

Nice score Yung-Jedi. Almost 100K more than your "unapproved " score !!

...I also dropped my iPhone in the lake while fishing. I was able to retrieve it and it's currently hanging out in a bag of rice. It has steadily gotten better the last few days, so I hope to have it back soon. I am currently using my old slow as heck HTC and it's painful to think of tapatalk on that suck

...that's too bad. I hope you'll be able to save your iPhone

Updated OP, DB, RSS, LB

[ExedExes]

If you're having ROM trouble I feel bad for you son,

but I got (more than) 99 thousand and took back #1 HIT ME!

ExedExes - 418,000

yeah, that was terrible. score sure wasn't though

also glad you did in fact get that issue resolved