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[4Ks]

If you hate aliens, you'll love Quartet! You see, space colony Number Nine is being threatened by an invasion of the most dangerous kind. Alien attack. And the place is crawling with them. These vicious, vile parasites have even managed to confiscate the casket of the late great Queen Cynthia. It's your job to exterminate these treacherous creatures. To return the casket to its hallowed tomb. And save the colony from certain collapse. You'll have special equipment to help you along the way. Like a supersonic jet engine, a special bomb, missiles and a magic key. But time is running out. So don't just stand there thinking about it. Get on it. And get rid of this gruesome group. For good!

Deadline for high scores is 12:00am August 20, 2010

SIDE CHALLENGE! Complete the game for an extra 2 points!

Scoreboard:

Sonic R 119,200 + completion
Austin 62,200
zylon 44,600
4Ks 29,330
roadrunner 28,900

Hints & Tips:

- Your time meter is basically your life bar. When you get hit, the time drops. When you run out of time though, you will stay alive until you get hit again.

- If you fall down a pit, regardless of how much time you have, you lose a life.

- Little brown canisters pop up occasionally, refilling your time meter, or vastly extending on to what you already have. ~ Austin


Current HSC Points:

roadrunner 144
zylon 140
Sonic R 108!
Austin 68
4Ks 35
JibbaJabba 20
darthkur 20
JayWI 14
davepesc 12

Edited by 4Ks, Thu Aug 19, 2010 4:08 PM.

[zylon]

I think there might be a mathematical error in the latest point tally. 118+10=128 128+12=140(factoring in bonus points)

Edited by zylon, Fri Aug 6, 2010 6:16 PM.

[4Ks]

6300

Corrected the error.

[zylon]

Thanks. I'll check this game out tomorrow. I don't think I've ever played this one besides testing it.

[Sonic R]

I really love this game
though I've never played for score… should be interesting…

I started to play, but my wife is in the hospital, so a score post will have to wait…

[Austin]

Maybe I will jump on my XBOX later and load up this ROM in my SMS emu.. I haven't had a good MAME session on the 'ole box in a while, and playing in this HSC will give me an excuse to boot it up.

**edit: All right, got home and played it for a bit.. I was able to get 62,200. In typical SMS fare, this game is hard as nails, especially by the time you get to stage five.

Edited by Austin, Sat Aug 7, 2010 7:09 AM.

[roadrunner]

I hope your wife is OK Sonic R


28,900

i got to round 3










How about a side challenge?

The Arcade version of Quartet on normal difficulty.
And the C64 version.

[4Ks]

roadrunner, on Sat Aug 7, 2010 1:00 PM, said:

How about a side challenge?

The Arcade version of Quartet on normal difficulty.
And the C64 version.

Game Gear side challenges are OK, but there's already an Arcade HSC and C64 has nothing in common with SMS (plus the fact that few people actually own a C64 and this game).

[zylon]

Don't think I'll be needing my "play copy" of this one anymore. 10,800
I'll keep my complete one for the collection but this one goes in the junk box after this round.

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[Austin]

Tips:

- Your time meter is basically your life bar. When you get hit, the time drops. When you run out of time though, you will stay alive until you get hit again.

- If you fall down a pit, regardless of how much time you have, you lose a life.

- Little brown canisters pop up occasionally, refilling your time meter, or vastly extending on to what you already have.

Yeah, not really sure what else to write. Hopefully that helps the people having trouble with the game.

[Sonic R]

roadrunner, on Sat Aug 7, 2010 1:00 PM, said:

I hope your wife is OK Sonic R

I just showed this post to her and she found it sweet and says 'thank you'

I hope to be playing soon enough and posting scores - everything is going well here right now.

[zylon]

Slight improvement. 14,900

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[Sonic R]

finally getting some time in

60,900



I really HATE stage 5! I always loose most my lives here leaving me in bad shape for the final stage…
I'm going to try and conquer this game!

[Sonic R]

I'm almost there!

some improvement…

82,700

[zylon]

Got killed in the room with the jars. 30,500

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[4Ks]

21,900

Catching up...

[Sonic R]

Mission Accomplished!

final score:
119,200

[4Ks]

Sonic R has created the Quartet side challenge!

[zylon]

Good job Sonic R!

[Austin]

I was going to try and trump your 82K, but 100K? Screw that..

[roadrunner]

Sonic R, on Wed Aug 11, 2010 9:42 PM, said:

Mission Accomplished!

final score:
119,200

Congrats!

[4Ks]

24,800

I fight so hard, and I'm still trailing...

[zylon]

4Ks, on Thu Aug 12, 2010 8:48 PM, said:

24,800

I fight so hard, and I'm still trailing...

Yes, but you're actually playing. With these games, that's something most people don't do. You can't win if you don't play.

[zylon]

Extremely slight improvement: 30,600
Almost wasn't worth wasting a post on...

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[roadrunner]

zylon, on Sun Aug 15, 2010 5:34 AM, said:

Extremely slight improvement: 30,600
Almost wasn't worth wasting a post on...

At least you added one more post to your post count.