Games Compo 2005 - Round 2 - Zybex

Thunderer · Last edited by Thunderer on Wed Feb 09, 2005 7:46 am; edited 3 times in total

ROUND 1 - 2005!

Round 2 of the Lemon Games Competition 2005 begins, and the vote this month has thrust into the limelight the fast, exciting and thrilling:
ZYBEX - a forgotten classic!

RULES:

games compo starts now and will end the 27th of February, 24:00 (midnight) GMT

the aim of the game is to score as much points as possible.

post screenshots with your highest score in this thread.

don't cheat! - we know where you live!!! Cool

DOWNLOAD

Dowload the game here.

It's the version especially cracked and cleaned by our resident cracker TNT. A round of applause please !

EXTRAS:

if ya have the balls, check out The Scorelord pages!

SOME INSTRUCTIONS:

The controls are your typical shmup controls.

REVIEW & COMMENTS

Hey how come this classic hasn't been reviewed yet.

Read the comments here: http://www.lemon64.com/games/details.php?ID=2964

QUESTIONS:

please check the Lemon Games Compo FAQ.

STANDINGS:

here you go!
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What's the Score??? - updated almost daily by SHOCKTROOPER (Thanks mate Smile

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Shocktrooper · Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 7:50 am Post subject:

And here are the current scores, updated almost daily:

See above Cool

White Demon · Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 8:20 am Post subject:

Wow, I get to have the first score posted! Very Happy

Go me.

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Game on

Shocktrooper · Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 8:29 am Post subject:

White Demon wrote:

Wow, I get to have the first score posted! Very Happy

Go me.

Here you go, enjoy while it lasts Wink

qazi · Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 11:02 am Post subject:

Never played this before...
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runstop · Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 11:21 am Post subject:

Damn, I forgot how difficult this game was...

Apollyon · Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 12:02 pm Post subject:

Same tactics as in Salamander: don't ever die! This time around it is just harder.

19.100

Kusarigama · Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 12:43 pm Post subject:

First for me: 21'150

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Lasse · Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 1:39 pm Post subject:

Urgh, I have about no idea how to score more than this, unless I find one more easy level... 44.750

qazi · Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 1:52 pm Post subject:

Initial voyages into Death City (metaphorically speaking) put me off first time around but after discovering the upgradable weaponry (and the fantastic way in which you can form your own strategy and beef up your favourite weapons) led to me stocking up on orbiters and knocking seven shades of space crap (Copyright Papposoft) out of all of the baddies...No real score to post yet though...
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Richard of TND · Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 8:41 pm Post subject: Hmmmm...

Hmmmmm. I'll need a little practice at this game before I post my score Smile

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Matt · Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 8:43 pm Post subject:

although I voted for this game, I won't be competing this time!
it's just way and way too hard for me! I tried but then I scored 1000 points or something. what a laugh!
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Lasse · Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2005 11:14 pm Post subject:

Hehe.. I wondered why everyone was so eager to vote it, personally I think the powerup-system is nice indeed, but the attackwaves on most levels lack polish, fairness & balancing... Maybe if you practice & memorize each level intensely you stand a chance but considering the scope of the game, it'll take a lot of time Twisted Evil

NYCeguy24 · Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2005 12:27 am Post subject:

I have never seen this game before and am quite impressed. Well with level 1 anyway. Not sure if it's me, the file or if the game is supposed to be this way. But after making it through level 1 and you can choose your next level. Level 2, level 5 and the antares level seem to have bugs as I can't see any enemies on the screen. Sometimes I can see their bullets and I see them blow up or blow me up. With CCS64 2.0 the screen constantly blinks red during play so I tried VICE 1.14 and that's where I'm having problems past level 1. I guess I'm asking is the game supposed to behave that way on level 2 up?
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Lasse · Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2005 12:45 am Post subject:

The Pentacle version is badly bugged. I've actually played the Chromance version, and in that the level backgrounds seems to be OK, but in some levels I get a weird bouncing rubbish (random memorypattern) sprite that I can't shoot, can't die by colliding, and must wait until it bounces off before attackwaves continue...

More investigations must commence to find the optimal version.

Jakuchu · Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2005 6:56 am Post subject:

BTW, why doesn't etc. Salamander high scores show up in Scorelord pages? The host doesn't update it anymore?

The Dark Prince · Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2005 1:22 pm Post subject:

or trailblazer, IK+, iridis alpha...the list goes on Smile

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Apollyon · Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2005 3:17 pm Post subject:

After many tries i made it to level three - only slightly increasing my score Sad

24.700

Is there a version without any bugs?

TNT · Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2005 4:36 pm Post subject:

You could try this version - cracked from TAP, compressed with pucrunch. All loader checksums matched so I think it's as OK as it gets.

Edit: compressing it totally broke it... coming back soon...
Edit2: back in business...
Edit3: added manually cleaned TAP into archive

merman · Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2005 5:59 pm Post subject:

Here we go...

40750

That's my first go, first time I've played it in ages. Only did a couple of levels, and I *know* I can do better than that...
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Shocktrooper · Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2005 7:21 pm Post subject:

This is one weird game Confused

Can't say that I like it a lot, but at least managed to finish the first level after a few tries..

12700

ea31 · Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2005 7:31 pm Post subject:

Hi there,

tried this one and quite like it (even though it has a quite crappy collision-detection).
Could anyone give me some hints about the powerups? I don't know which one does what, might be helpful, thanks.

(I won't post my crappy score yet, have to improve a little...)

Dave
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Lasse · Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2005 8:31 pm Post subject:

The machinegun (leftmost weapon) is mostly all-around usable, but if you die and lose its power you're in a world of pain.. the eight-way (second from left) and laser beam (middle) I find completely useless, but maybe they're good to switch on during a wave where you think you're likely to die...

Richard of TND · Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2005 9:53 pm Post subject:

There's no way I be able to beat all those hiscores. At the moment I managed to score 2200 points Sad

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Lasse · Posted: Tue Feb 08, 2005 10:16 pm Post subject:

Surprising... 63.400

Now I guess it's time for a long break from this game Evil or Very Mad