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[atari2600land]

I tried doing this one a while back, but nobody participated. Hopefully things will be different this time. Submit your scores by Friday, January 16th somewhere near noon Pacific.

current scores:
Battlezone - 685
bohoki - 306
darthkur - 238

Edited by atari2600land, Mon Jan 5, 2009 9:11 PM.

[Battlezone]

I open with...

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[darthkur]

238

I was never very good at this game. I need lots of practice.

[bohoki]

darthkur, on Mon Jan 5, 2009 10:29 AM, said:

238

I was never very good at this game. I need lots of practice.

lynx_bmx.jpg

i dug mine out


man i swear it runs on luck i remember years ago i once did a double fron flip and got like 500 but its so hard to hit that big cliff ledge just right

[lynxmatt1980]

dang, i just noticed the end date is past. My personal best that i remember is 747, not sure what my highscore screenshot is on my other computer.....

[kevincal]

I just bought my first Lynx and got it in the mail today. Been playing California Games a lot today and am already good at BMX! My highscore is 431. I didn't take a screenshot though, but hey, I'm trustworthy! I run the Jaguar HSC after all!

And for the heck of it, my highscores for the other 3 Cali games:

Surfing - 2525
HalfPipe - 1481 (How the heck do you gain speed!?!?!, all I could do is turn...)
FootBag - 2697

Edited by kevincal, Fri Jul 24, 2009 12:07 AM.

[Damon Plus]

I need some advices for this game. It's probably the one CG event I do worse at.

BTW, when is the Skateboarding HSC going to be? I'm pretty good at that one, getting +30,000 each time I play.

[roland p]

Damon Plus, on Wed Jul 29, 2009 10:38 PM, said:

I need some advices for this game. It's probably the one CG event I do worse at.

When I played this game (a while ago) I always stayed in the middle (track can be remebered more easily) and sometimes pressed A+B together for an extra high jump.

[lynxmatt1980]

Damon Plus, on Wed Jul 29, 2009 12:38 PM, said:

I need some advices for this game. It's probably the one CG event I do worse at.

BTW, when is the Skateboarding HSC going to be? I'm pretty good at that one, getting +30,000 each time I play.

BMX isnt really that tough, its all about hitting the back flip button at the right time. and realizing when to just press nothing at all. you can stay in the very middle most of the time, but once in a while you need to go up or down just a pixel or 2.

my best is like 900 or something, i forgot.

30k on halfpipe is pretty awesome dude! Radical! Personally my favorite is Surfing. I'm getting close to 10,000. But can't
quite do it.

EDIT: I just in fact broke the 10,000pt mark in Surfing today :-) slow day at work. haha. 10515 to be exact. took a pic and everything. Hope the Lynx HSC does surfing sometime.

Edited by lynxmatt1980, Tue Aug 18, 2009 2:46 PM.

[kevincal]

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[lynxmatt1980]

not bad. thats a good start.

[wixy]

Top this score fella's!

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[roland p]

wixy, on Tue Nov 17, 2009 11:32 PM, said:

Top this score fella's!

Great job!
I would love to see the video of that!

[wixy]

The key was mainly in succeeding to land two double forward flips, both on the two big drops. It requires a lot of luck.

The first one is easy, just ride off the edge of the first big drop without jumping (doesn't always work though).

The second one is trickier. When approaching the second big drop, press the flip button right at the last second so that you propel forward with extra speed. With a bit of luck, you will land in a spot that makes you do a double forward flip (sometimes a double back flip). Looks awesome when you do pull it off.

Edited by wixy, Wed Nov 18, 2009 3:24 AM.

[loopy]

wixy, on Tue Nov 17, 2009 11:32 PM, said:

Top this score fella's!

Challenge accepted! 1752

Youtoob

[BillyHW]

loopy, on Sun Jan 17, 2010 10:42 PM, said:

wixy, on Tue Nov 17, 2009 11:32 PM, said:

Top this score fella's!

Challenge accepted! 1752

Youtoob

I'd like to know what the highest non-assisted BMX score ever was. That would have been cool to see. Also the highest Surfing.

I remember back in the day I had some pretty amazing routines, done at much higher speed than yours. I can't for the life of me remember my highest score though.

Also not sure how you're doing all those slow flips in the pits there at the end of the video.

[loopy]

BillyHW, on Tue Jan 24, 2012 7:36 PM, said:

I'd like to know what the highest non-assisted BMX score ever was. That would have been cool to see. Also the highest Surfing.

I remember back in the day I had some pretty amazing routines, done at much higher speed than yours. I can't for the life of me remember my highest score though.

Also not sure how you're doing all those slow flips in the pits there at the end of the video.

Abusing a glitch in the game. Pushing both A+B buttons where the track changes angles will fling you into the air. I made use of this several times in the run, specifically: (youtube time, not game time) 0:08, 0:53, 1:01, 1:09, 1:23, 1:32, 1:38, 1:49, 1:54.

I don't remember what my best non-assisted score was... It was in the 1400s at least. That was back in the day when I was a kid with infinite patience

Edited by loopy, Tue Jan 24, 2012 8:06 PM.

[BillyHW]

Can you believe that I didn't even know about A+B? I'm so embarrassed.

The best place to be is right along the bottom edge of the track. I always move there right from the starting line down the first hill. If you time your flip right, so that only your back tire touches the incline, you can leverage some good speed right off the bat, *while* you are moving to the bottom of the track prior to the first pipe. If you are at the bottom of the track you won't hit any obstacles. Can you believe that after 15 years, my muscle memory still knows how to instant reset and get back into BMX the first millisecond I realize I don't have enough speed? Man I played BMX a lot...and I mean a *lot* back in the day.

Obviously assisted and non-assisted are different categories. I'd like to see recordings of the best runs done both ways.

[roadrunner]

BillyHW, on Tue Jan 24, 2012 10:36 PM, said:

Can you believe that I didn't even know about A+B? I'm so embarrassed.

The best place to be is right along the bottom edge of the track. I always move there right from the starting line down the first hill. If you time your flip right, so that only your back tire touches the incline, you can leverage some good speed right off the bat, *while* you are moving to the bottom of the track prior to the first pipe. If you are at the bottom of the track you won't hit any obstacles. Can you believe that after 15 years, my muscle memory still knows how to instant reset and get back into BMX the first millisecond I realize I don't have enough speed? Man I played BMX a lot...and I mean a *lot* back in the day.

Obviously assisted and non-assisted are different categories. I'd like to see recordings of the best runs done both ways.

Yeah, i didn't know their were 2 ways to play this one either.
So using A+B is assisted?

[BillyHW]

roadrunner, on Wed Jan 25, 2012 1:00 PM, said:

BillyHW, on Tue Jan 24, 2012 10:36 PM, said:

Can you believe that I didn't even know about A+B? I'm so embarrassed.

The best place to be is right along the bottom edge of the track. I always move there right from the starting line down the first hill. If you time your flip right, so that only your back tire touches the incline, you can leverage some good speed right off the bat, *while* you are moving to the bottom of the track prior to the first pipe. If you are at the bottom of the track you won't hit any obstacles. Can you believe that after 15 years, my muscle memory still knows how to instant reset and get back into BMX the first millisecond I realize I don't have enough speed? Man I played BMX a lot...and I mean a *lot* back in the day.

Obviously assisted and non-assisted are different categories. I'd like to see recordings of the best runs done both ways.

Yeah, i didn't know their were 2 ways to play this one either.
So using A+B is assisted?

No I mean assisted as in using emulator features like save states that didn't exist in the original game. The 1752 high score above is assisted, so it doesn't really count, or rather, counts in it's own separate category.

[roadrunner]

BillyHW, on Wed Jan 25, 2012 1:14 PM, said:

roadrunner, on Wed Jan 25, 2012 1:00 PM, said:

BillyHW, on Tue Jan 24, 2012 10:36 PM, said:

Can you believe that I didn't even know about A+B? I'm so embarrassed.

The best place to be is right along the bottom edge of the track. I always move there right from the starting line down the first hill. If you time your flip right, so that only your back tire touches the incline, you can leverage some good speed right off the bat, *while* you are moving to the bottom of the track prior to the first pipe. If you are at the bottom of the track you won't hit any obstacles. Can you believe that after 15 years, my muscle memory still knows how to instant reset and get back into BMX the first millisecond I realize I don't have enough speed? Man I played BMX a lot...and I mean a *lot* back in the day.

Obviously assisted and non-assisted are different categories. I'd like to see recordings of the best runs done both ways.

Yeah, i didn't know their were 2 ways to play this one either.
So using A+B is assisted?

No I mean assisted as in using emulator features like save states that didn't exist in the original game. The 1752 high score above is assisted, so it doesn't really count, or rather, counts in it's own separate category.

Ahh.. i see.
Using save states is not allowed in other HSC's and it's not allowed in this one either.
The Lynx HSC doesn't have a official rules thread.
I should add one soon.

And the 1,752 score was posted after the deadline anyway, so it never really counted.

[BillyHW]

Is there anywhere online that has the entire BMX track mapped out? Also, is there a list somewhere of all the moves with there point values? Or somewhere that explains how points are awarded and calculated?

Also has anyone ever tried to go off track and ride all the way down to the top or bottom of the screen to see what happens? It's hard (impossible?) to do without hitting something.

[roadrunner]

BillyHW, on Wed Jan 25, 2012 5:54 PM, said:

Is there anywhere online that has the entire BMX track mapped out? Also, is there a list somewhere of all the moves with there point values? Or somewhere that explains how points are awarded and calculated?

Also has anyone ever tried to go off track and ride all the way down to the top or bottom of the screen to see what happens? It's hard (impossible?) to do without hitting something.

Here's the link to the manual here on AA

I haven't found any maps yet.

http://www.atariage....areLabelID=1871

[BillyHW]

But are forward flips worth the same as backward flips?

And I also remember doing stunts like a half back flip and then hitting the edge of a cliff with the front tire which turns it back into half front flip and I land back on my wheels at high speed and then manage to do it again. How would that be scored?

Also, early on in the race I can get things like 11, 47 or 63 points...how these non-round numbers?

I think the scoring is more complex than that FAQ indicates.

We need to talk to James.

[BillyHW]

Does anyone know the best way to record some Lynx gameplay? I'd like to try recording some BMX runs.

Also, is there any way to program moves...like press forward, B at 11.21 seconds, press A at 23.00 seconds...etc.???

It would be interesting to try and experiment with programmed moves to see what kind of tricks can be pulled. Then you can maybe go back and try do do it manually.