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[Divya16]

therealbountybob, on Tue Apr 27, 2010 5:30 AM, said:

48,600

I've been playing pac-man spot the difference here's what I found:

"enhanced" version has attract mode, intermissions, dark blue walls, different dot munching sound, ghosts are much harder, ghost munch sound much louder...

The scoring difference on level 1 was driving me crazy, I even counted the dots... it turn out that the fruit is worth 4,100 every time, so you get more points for this making a theoretical maximum of 2560 dots + 8200 cherries + 12000 ghosts = 22760 so if you play the harder enhanced version you can get more points on the early screens but it is much harder. I'll stay on it as a handicap vs NTSC

If anyone gets the max score on either version's screen 1 (14,960/22,760) then you'll win a bonus point

new table
1st atariksi 293,120 12pts+1bonus pt
2nd Divya16 94,840 11pts
3rd mightymage 89,000 10pts
4th littleman jack 77,090 9pts
5th Cebus Capucinis 52,670 8pts
6th Preppie! 50,310 7pts
7th therealbountybob 48,600 6pts
8th roadrunner 38,710 5pts
9th a8isa1 37,450 4pts
10th goochman 25,600 3pts
11th bluecat 17,300 1pts

any corrections please post

Is that first screen max score w/o dieing?

On this ROM I was playing, it's 50 points for power pills, 2560 for all the dots, 100 for each cherry, and 3000 if you eat all the monsters (1600+800+400+200).

[therealbountybob]

Divya16, on Tue Apr 27, 2010 6:26 AM, said:

therealbountybob, on Tue Apr 27, 2010 5:30 AM, said:

If anyone gets the max score on either version's screen 1 (14,960/22,760) then you'll win a bonus point

Is that first screen max score w/o dieing?

On this ROM I was playing, it's 50 points for power pills, 2560 for all the dots, 100 for each cherry, and 3000 if you eat all the monsters (1600+800+400+200).

You can banana-skin as many times as you like (up to 3!) I've probably been playing too many versions to count the dot's correctly think I missed the power pills out of my calculation for the "enhanced ver"! Talking of which I did a bit more research and you get 4100 on levels 1 and 2 cherry and strawberry, then it's ok for a couple of levels or so then you get 1000pts less than you should per fruit/atarilogo/key with means you get ZERO for the greengage? thing

[edit - turns out this is just my buggy copy!! kjmann's post #17 link here has datasoft xex version of enhanced pac-man with correct scoring]

68,800

[mimo]

53970

[Divya16]

therealbountybob, on Tue Apr 27, 2010 9:38 AM, said:

Divya16, on Tue Apr 27, 2010 6:26 AM, said:

therealbountybob, on Tue Apr 27, 2010 5:30 AM, said:

If anyone gets the max score on either version's screen 1 (14,960/22,760) then you'll win a bonus point

Is that first screen max score w/o dieing?

On this ROM I was playing, it's 50 points for power pills, 2560 for all the dots, 100 for each cherry, and 3000 if you eat all the monsters (1600+800+400+200).

You can banana-skin as many times as you like (up to 3!) I've probably been playing too many versions to count the dot's correctly think I missed the power pills out of my calculation for the "enhanced ver"! Talking of which I did a bit more research and you get 4100 on levels 1 and 2 cherry and strawberry, then it's ok for a couple of levels or so then you get 1000pts less than you should per fruit/atarilogo/key with means you get ZERO for the greengage? thing

[edit - turns out this is just my buggy copy!! kjmann's post #17 link here has datasoft xex version of enhanced pac-man with correct scoring]

68,800

I just played the kjmann's link pac-man and I got even a higher score. Cherries were 100 points in that one.

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[therealbountybob]

Well I can't seem to survive more than 6 levels on the 'enhanced version' but I did make a perfect first board so thats 1pt in the bag

I think I know how atariksi and divya are doing so well - see post #19 on the main forum lend me the book next please

Voting open for next game. Still 2 days to play in the bonus tournament

[Divya16]

therealbountybob, on Wed Apr 28, 2010 1:41 PM, said:

Well I can't seem to survive more than 6 levels on the 'enhanced version' but I did make a perfect first board so thats 1pt in the bag
PacCherry.jpg
I think I know how atariksi and divya are doing so well - see post #19 on the main forum lend me the book next please

Voting open for next game. Still 2 days to play in the bonus tournament

No book for me-- just too many years of playing (including arcade). That enhanced version is rubbish-- it's actually easier than the original Atari version. I find the intermissions distracting but I can see a use for them in the arcade where there's no pause button.

I got 14860 on first screen max-- can't get a perfect score after a few tries.

[therealbountybob]

Divya16, on Wed Apr 28, 2010 1:50 PM, said:

therealbountybob, on Wed Apr 28, 2010 1:41 PM, said:

Well I can't seem to survive more than 6 levels on the 'enhanced version' but I did make a perfect first board so thats 1pt in the bag
PacCherry.jpg
I think I know how atariksi and divya are doing so well - see post #19 on the main forum lend me the book next please

Voting open for next game. Still 2 days to play in the bonus tournament

No book for me-- just too many years of playing (including arcade). That enhanced version is rubbish-- it's actually easier than the original Atari version. I find the intermissions distracting but I can see a use for them in the arcade where there's no pause button.

I got 14860 on first screen max-- can't get a perfect score after a few tries.

So close and yet still so far

That's strange as there's no way it's easier over here maybe to do with PAL; I can get way further on the file version from the original cart (see my 94K 2nd go)

[mimo]

Pac-man is one game that I think PAL is a hindrance rather than a help. The slower speed of pac-man seems to make it harder (imo)

[Divya16]

therealbountybob, on Wed Apr 28, 2010 2:18 PM, said:

Divya16, on Wed Apr 28, 2010 1:50 PM, said:

therealbountybob, on Wed Apr 28, 2010 1:41 PM, said:

Well I can't seem to survive more than 6 levels on the 'enhanced version' but I did make a perfect first board so thats 1pt in the bag
PacCherry.jpg
I think I know how atariksi and divya are doing so well - see post #19 on the main forum lend me the book next please

Voting open for next game. Still 2 days to play in the bonus tournament

No book for me-- just too many years of playing (including arcade). That enhanced version is rubbish-- it's actually easier than the original Atari version. I find the intermissions distracting but I can see a use for them in the arcade where there's no pause button.

I got 14860 on first screen max-- can't get a perfect score after a few tries.

So close and yet still so far

That's strange as there's no way it's easier over here maybe to do with PAL; I can get way further on the file version from the original cart (see my 94K 2nd go)

Monster patterns are a bit different in the new version but nothing extraordinarily difficult. I would say the new version feels slower as you go into higher levels. I got my perfect score for 1st screen:

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[therealbountybob]

I agree Preppie re speed, used to like playing on key level to see how far I could get. Been playing enh ver lots and managed to get to 2nd Atari level but then I got tempted for the nice logo and that was that I'm sure they guard this one extra well Anyone know what's happening to the ghost in the 2nd animation he seems to splat, break up and then look up

67,330


latest table
1st atariksi 293,120 12pts+1bonus pt
2nd Divya16 130,970 11pts=1bonus pt
3rd mightymage 89,000 10pts
4th littleman jack 77,090 9pts
5th therealbountybob 67,330 8pts=1bonus pt
6th Preppie! 53,970 7pts
7th Cebus Capucinis 52,670 6pts
8th roadrunner 38,710 5pts
9th a8isa1 37,450 4pts
10th goochman 25,600 3pts
11th bluecat 17,300 1pts

any corrections please post

[atariksi]

therealbountybob, on Thu Apr 29, 2010 10:56 AM, said:

I agree Preppie re speed, used to like playing on key level to see how far I could get. Been playing enh ver lots and managed to get to 2nd Atari level but then I got tempted for the nice logo and that was that I'm sure they guard this one extra well Anyone know what's happening to the ghost in the 2nd animation he seems to splat, break up and then look up

67,330
Pac-Man.jpg

latest table
1st atariksi 293,120 12pts+1bonus pt
2nd Divya16 130,970 11pts=1bonus pt
3rd mightymage 89,000 10pts
4th littleman jack 77,090 9pts
5th therealbountybob 67,330 8pts=1bonus pt
6th Preppie! 53,970 7pts
7th Cebus Capucinis 52,670 6pts
8th roadrunner 38,710 5pts
9th a8isa1 37,450 4pts
10th goochman 25,600 3pts
11th bluecat 17,300 1pts

any corrections please post

Here's a minor correction:

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[therealbountybob]

atariksi, on Thu Apr 29, 2010 11:12 AM, said:

Here's a minor correction:

Wow!
If you want to hang onto 3rd place overall and stop Cebus getting away from you in 2nd there's still
1 day to go in the bonus round

[Divya16]

Latest score using easier enhanced version:

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[bluecat]

Gwobby's Score: 15,200, he didn't have time to sign in

Edited by bluecat, Fri Apr 30, 2010 2:42 PM.

[Divya16]

bluecat, on Fri Apr 30, 2010 2:40 PM, said:

Gwobby's Score: 15,200, he didn't have time to sign in

Here's my latest score using 8K cart. I get over 130K easily on the Datasoft version whereas this one took quite some time.

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[VW]

I almost forgot about this, by my time zone calculations I have about a half hour left before the deadline. Score: 132,240
Done on original hardware (Atari 800) with original cartridge.

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[mopchop]

9840

[Gwobby]

21,150, a slight improvement , and my man Travlar got 2,190 2,900, but he's only 4

[bluecat]

Tried hard, improved my score but just didn't catch you Gwobby! 20970

[therealbountybob]

And it's congratulations to Atariksi for his first win of the season. Great efforts from Divya and VW too

Final Table
1st atariksi 340,900 12pts+1bonus pt
2nd Divya16 138,560 11pts+1bonus pt
3rd VW 132,340 10pts
4th mightymage 89,000 9pts
5th littleman jack 77,090 8pts
6th therealbountybob 67,330 7pts+1bonus pt
7th Preppie! 53,970 6pts
8th Cebus Capucinis 52,670 5pts
9th roadrunner 38,710 4pts
10th a8isa1 37,450 3pts
11th goochman 25,600 1pt
12th gwobby 21,150 1pt
13th bluecat 20,970 1pt
14th mopchop 9,840 1pt
15th travlar 2,900 1pt

any corrections please post

Next game is Montezuma's Revenge (Parker Bros ver), will be updating overall table with results from pac-man and 'Best of Basic' tournament results later today

[atariksi]

VW, on Sun May 2, 2010 2:36 AM, said:

I almost forgot about this, by my time zone calculations I have about a half hour left before the deadline. Score: 132,240
Done on original hardware (Atari 800) with original cartridge.

On your planet, do you also get sunlight as much as earth?

What's the name of your planet whose time zone calculations are off by 2 weeks minus half an hour?

[therealbountybob]

atariksi, on Sun May 2, 2010 8:18 AM, said:

VW, on Sun May 2, 2010 2:36 AM, said:

I almost forgot about this, by my time zone calculations I have about a half hour left before the deadline. Score: 132,240
Done on original hardware (Atari 800) with original cartridge.

On your planet, do you also get sunlight as much as earth?

What's the name of your planet whose time zone calculations are off by 2 weeks minus half an hour?

We need all the players we can get, alien species welcome, though they might not like having their kin folk being destroyed in various games

Glad to see you back VW

[Divya16]

therealbountybob, on Sun May 2, 2010 8:36 AM, said:

atariksi, on Sun May 2, 2010 8:18 AM, said:

VW, on Sun May 2, 2010 2:36 AM, said:

I almost forgot about this, by my time zone calculations I have about a half hour left before the deadline. Score: 132,240
Done on original hardware (Atari 800) with original cartridge.

On your planet, do you also get sunlight as much as earth?

What's the name of your planet whose time zone calculations are off by 2 weeks minus half an hour?

We need all the players we can get, alien species welcome, though they might not like having their kin folk being destroyed in various games

Glad to see you back VW

As long as he has the Interplanetary Visa to travel to earth.

[4Ks]

AAARG! I can't believe I missed this! Oh well, better luck next time.

[therealbountybob]

4Ks, on Tue May 4, 2010 9:40 PM, said:

AAARG! I can't believe I missed this! Oh well, better luck next time.

If you post a score that makes the top ten I'll give you a point