HSC Season 1: Week 5 : Bubble Bobble

brianon

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_Bobble

KLOV: http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=7222

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ROMSet: bublbobl

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Default Settings.

- Last day is Sunday 3rd March 2013.

General Rules:

- Highest score wins.

- No savestates, savestate practices, etc. during the round.

- MAME INP recordings are encouraged but optional.

- A screenshot is required to enter a score (press F12 to save screenshot showing your final score) or take a photo of the game screen.

- Use of autofire or other non-standard hacks within MAME or your PC's OS are not allowed.

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Current standings
1. urbanledge (16)
2. brianon (11)
2. sengoku (11)
4. dr bob (4)
4. o1s1n (4)
6. eddhorse (3)
7. CathalDublin (2)
7. unky chop chop (2)
9. keithgeo (1)
9 krudler (1)

List of games is ...
Dig Dug
Kung Fu Master
Smash TV
Smash TV
Mikie
Pac-land
Ghosts'n Goblins
Twin Cobra
1942

I hate this game!

TechnoFreek

urbanledge wrote: »

I hate this game!

Not a fan of it either :-(
I was only starting to get the hang of shinobi as well!

i beat my own high score in Donkey kong over the weekend,
Friday night 3am full of cans
A few of the lads were over,we had some craic.
Im going to be going back to shinobi soon for sure
81,000 I got.need to break that 100,000 milestone

krudler

easy tip on the very first level is shoot as many bubbles as possible before popping the ones with the 3 enemies in them, every bubble turns into something for really handy points, you should clock 30k and a free man by the second stage.

the sweets and runners are the key as well, and if you have the sweet that doubles your bubble speed then shoot them constantly, you get 10 points for every popped one so stand in a corner lashing them out and your score will constantly increase.

CathalDublin

And every 20levels you go without loosing a life a secret door will appear, go in here for the diamond goodness

Love this game, Now to play on the original board or MAME, decisions, decisions

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

Got soooo addicted to this game on MAME so won't be taking part but you do know every special weapon appears for a reason?


eg - jump 51 or more times on the first screen and get a yellow sweet on the second...

brianon

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

Got soooo addicted to this game on MAME so won't be taking part

Why not ? Too good for us ?

krudler

419400 , pretty low in this games standard only got to level 19, this will be a fun week

CathalDublin

1st credit - level 30 - 553390
Started making stupid mistakes on from level 19+ when I realised I was late back for work
Will be aiming for 3-4 times that by Sunday

Princess Consuela Bananahammock

brianon wrote: »

Why not ? Too good for us ?

i deleted the software because I was getting too addicted to it and also MAME appears to not be allowed and yes. I am. :D (Kidding!)

And also because I had inside info. warning: you need to be patient and it's not a good idea if you're facing deadlines...)

Logical_Bear

urbanledge wrote: »

Im going to be going back to shinobi soon for sure
81,000 I got.need to break that 100,000 milestone

you get a 20k bonus each level if you kill only by melee and not firing bullets/stars

Logical_Bear

Logical_Bear wrote: »

you get a 20k bonus each level if you kill only by melee and not firing bullets/stars

Sorry I was talking about breaking 100,000 in DK!

krudler

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

i deleted the software because I was getting too addicted to it and also MAME appears to not be allowed and yes. I am. :D (Kidding!)

And also because I had inside info. warning: you need to be patient and it's not a good idea if you're facing deadlines...)

Jaysus I had no idea the power up system was so convoluted lol i thought it was just random stuff, will be trying to work some of these into games from now on

krudler

level 19 is when the difficulty ramps up, that stupid level with all the narrow gaps if you fall into you can't get out, just have to rely on the lightning bolts.

I love this game

CathalDublin

krudler wrote: »

level 19 is when the difficulty ramps up, that stupid level with all the narrow gaps if you fall into you can't get out, just have to rely on the lightning bolts.

I love this game

Pisses you off when you get to here loose a life and miss the secret round, even worse when you can't get up to the dam door

Dr Bob

nnnngh
I've already done my time

257420

krudler

573290, its an absolute pain losing your rapid firing bubbles

brianon

Dr Bob wrote: »

nnnngh
I've already done my time

257420

Did NOT know you were luasdublin on youtube. Good channel.

CathalDublin

Round 35 - 892250
Next week ghosts N goblins

Sparks43

opening gambit 850,250

How do you take a screenshot in mame for when i whack in a score in the millions:D

CathalDublin

I think f12, I've no shortcut on the cab so using my phone

eddhorse

Yep F12 puts it into the "snap" folder.
Looking forward to this...

Dr Bob

brianon wrote: »

Did NOT know you were luasdublin on youtube. Good channel.

ah cheers yeah! I was luas_dublin here for a long time til I changed my name!
lol I was having flashbacks to all those Bubble Bobble ports playing MAME today!

Sparks43

First submission with ss

Pissed off that i lost so many lives on 35 hadnt died up to that point

CathalDublin

Nice score sparks, you obviously got the 1st secret room? Lost 1st life on level19, such a pain in the hole
That level 32 always robs most my lives

1042870 - Level 35



Ghosts N' Goblins next week

Sparks43

CathalDublin wrote: »

Nice score sparks, you obviously got the 1st secret room? Lost 1st life on level19, such a pain in the hole
That level 32 always robs most my lives

1042870 - Level 35


Ghosts N' Goblins next week

Got both rooms 20 and 30

Then got murdered on level 35

Annoying because i can get into the 70s without dying

My aim is over 3 million so thats only halfway there

CathalDublin

That's bobble bobble(bootleg) your playing. Rom:Boblbobl
Gameplay is different than original, white ghosts don't shoot balls and bubbles are emulated wrong

Level 70 without losing a life is pretty impressive

Sparks43

CathalDublin wrote: »

That's bobble bobble(bootleg) your playing. Rom:Boblbobl
Gameplay is different than original, white ghosts don't shoot balls and bubbles are emulated wrong

Level 70 without losing a life is pretty impressive

Which rom should i be playing?

Thought something was weird

I will pop another score in when i get the proper rom

sengoku

I assume that the POWER UP and ORIGINAL GAME cheats are out of the question?

sengoku

I must admit that I'm a bit rusty at this game. I usually played it in the arcade with the POWER UP and ORIGINAL GAME cheats. Here is my attempt without the cheats.

325920

sengoku

And another attempt without the cheats. Its starting to come back to me now.

997750

CathalDublin

Sparks43 wrote: »

Which rom should i be playing?

Thought something was weird

I will pop another score in when i get the proper rom

Roms bublbobl.zip
Main screen will display bubble bobble

sengoku

CathalDublin wrote: »

Roms bublbobl.zip
Main screen will display bubble bobble

I had trouble finding a rom that worked, it might have something to do with the rom and/or the emulator that I am using, WolfMAME. It turns out that there are two files floating about. One is a 173kb file and the other is 180kb, the 180kb file is the one that worked for me.

CathalDublin

Bobble bobble is the rom of the bootleg bubble bobble which back in the day there was copy protection on one of the rom chips so they guessed/rewrote the code for this rom.
This results in the game playing differently than the original
Eg. White ghosts not shooting balls, bubbles not emulated properly, random or not so random fruit bonuses not appearing as they should

Dr Bob

oh yeah , meant to say my nominated game is Gauntlet II

o1s1n

Are we only sticking to classic games or can we select something which isn't limited to 8 bits? :pac:

brianon

So long as it's in MAME then I'd say it's ok to pick. Just so long as everyone can play it.

Sparks43

On the bublbobl rom
1,511,130




I would like to nominate Boulder Dash for next week

CathalDublin

Sparks43 wrote: »

On the bublbobl rom
1,511,130




I would like to nominate Boulder Dash for next week

Any noticeable gameplay differences?
I've boots hidden on my mame board and sold my boot for an orig a while back so can't try it
Day off tomorrow so might have a few plays

brianon

Sparks43 wrote: »

On the bublbobl rom
1,511,130




I would like to nominate Boulder Dash for next week

Oh crap. Looks like another week where my score will have little impact. I need to start picking games I'm good at

Pacman is a coming soon hopefully.

Sparks43

brianon wrote: »

Oh crap. Looks like another week where my score will have little impact. I need to start picking games I'm good at

Pacman is a coming soon hopefully.

Bit harder now
2,162,190



and i can do better :pac:

But for now its time for bed

Wow thats some serious scoring,
This game just pisses me off.The pace is to slow or something,
went back to shinobi last night getting better at that!

krudler

Ah crap, here was me thinking I was alright at this :pac:

o1s1n

Some great scores above alright. I had a couple of goes but only got up to about stage 12. Was never really into the game at all.

My nomination for the next one is Battle Garegga (Japanese version). Time to get some shmup action in this

brianon

Will get the current leaderboard up later.

brianon

Leaderboard
Sparks43 2,162,190
CathalDublin 1042870
sengoku 997750
krudler 573290
Dr Bob 257420

Next Week additions
Ghould n Ghosts
Gauntlet II
Boulder Dash
Battle Garegga (Japanese version) (once o1s1n submits score )

brianon

It's a start.



I'll stick in a vote for Battle Garegga (Japanese version) also.

o1s1n

How long is this running till? Will see if I can get a score up before it's over

brianon

Sunday night

sengoku

Id like to see Double Dragon as the next game. I can't improve on my high score for Bubble Bobble.