EAB Games League Season 1 Round 10 - Lotus 3

[Graham Humphrey]

The final lap of the season is underway...

Lotus 3

The rules for this competition are in this thread (http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=29731). Here's a quick run-down though:

- The round starts at 12:00am UK time on Monday, November 26, and finishes at 11:59pm UK time on Saturday, December 15.

- Scores can only be posted during the time of the round, any scores posted outside of this period won't count.

- You can play on a real Amiga or an emulator, WHDLoad or not, whatever you prefer.

- If you can, take screenshots or use a digital camera/mobile phone to provide proof of your score, however if you are unable to do this then you can upload your high-score file as confirmation. You should also write your score in your post.

- Anyone can enter at any time, and you can post as many scores as you want during the round. Of course, only your highest score will count towards the final standings.

- At the end of the round, the player with the highest score gets 12 points, 2nd place gets 10, 3rd 8, 4th 7, 5th 6, 6th 5, 7th 4, 8th 3, 9th 2 and 10th 1 (assuming that many people take part).

- No cheating! No using save states, cheat codes, trainers or anything like that, and no modifying scores in any way. This competition is just a bit of fun and hopefully no-one will sink that low. However, if you genuinely suspect someone has cheated in any way, please PM me and I'll look into it. If I find someone guilty of cheating, they will be banned for the first leg of the EAB/Lemon Super League next year.

READ THIS CAREFULLY BEFORE YOU START

- "Against the clock" mode must be played. And also, Easy, Medium and Hard modes will all be played and the scores of all three will be added up to make the total. You can use any car you like.

I think that's it. If you have any questions, you can either post them in this thread, the General Discussion thread or the Rules thread. Thanks and have fun!

Final Scores:

1. Biscuit - 68,450,280 (Easy: 16,860,860 - Medium: 19,402,220 - Hard: 32,187,200)
2. cane - 63,882,270 (Easy: 16,390,410 - Medium: 18,103,950 - Hard: 29,387,910)
3. mailman - 61,867,240 (Easy: 16,759,240 - Medium: 18,641,550 - Hard: 26,466,450)
4. turrican3 - 59,225,340 (Easy: 17,100,350 - Medium: 17,826,640 - Hard: 24,298,350)
5. farmarfred - 58,200,730 (Easy: 16,057,200 - Medium: 15,097,660 - Hard: 27,045,870)
6. blade002 - 57,998,030 (Easy: 15,156,850 - Medium: 17,754,060 - Hard: 25,087,120)
7. Graham Humphrey - 51,731,330 (Easy: 15,580,770 - Medium: 17,479,220 - Hard: 18,671,340)
8. CHook/OTT - 51,288,820 (Easy: 16,549,320 - Medium: 16,467,530 - Hard: 18,271,970)
9. Anubis - 43,218,780 (Easy: 14,687,600 - Medium: 13,757,210 - Hard: 14,773,970)
10. helo - 12,736,930 (Easy: 12,736,930 - Medium: 0 - Hard: 0)

[bippym]

BooOOOooOOring

[Graham Humphrey]

What?

[StrategyGamer]

Can someone please put Lotus 3 WHDload 100% version in the zone?

[Graham Humphrey]

Done (taken from www.whdownload.com (http://www.whdownload.com)).

[turrican3]

graham can you confirm than i can use the cd32 version ?
I think yes because the cd32 version contain the lotus3 adf, there is no difference between the versions just the cd32 version use cdda that's all.

[Graham Humphrey]

If it's exactly the same game then yes.

Do you mean Lotus Trilogy? I've got that installed on my A1200 and it seems to be the same, but if anyone knows any differently...

[bippym]

you lot are sad.. Lotus over PPHammer :/

Still I might have a blast :D

[turrican3]

If it's exactly the same game then yes.

Do you mean Lotus Trilogy? I've got that installed on my A1200 and it seems to be the same, but if anyone knows any differently...
yes lotus trilogy with cdda. :great

[Biscuit]

I still remember saving up all my pocket money for this. Loved the intro. Original is still the best, but this is very good too.

[StrategyGamer]

I just wasted the last 1.5 hours of my life trying to get Lotus Trilogy AGA HD to run on my A1200 060. :banghead

I have tried about 20 different ways of starting the game. Once I was able to actually play the game but then it locked up at the end of the first race.

Can anyone get Lotus Trilogy to work on 060?

I would have thought this to be the best version since it was AGA fixed by the game company themselves using the source code.

This is the Lotus Trilogy that was zoned ages ago.

[StrategyGamer]

My Lotus Trilogy did not come with CDDA (prob would not have fit in the zone :D) but it does play the mod music.

[Graham Humphrey]

So did you try the WHDLoad version of Lotus 3 I put in the Zone?

[bippym]

that's too simple :o

[StrategyGamer]

Yes I just tried the WHDLoad version. It started up immediately on the first try! :)

but...

It locked up halfway thru the first race! :banghead

So every version I have tried, in every way, with every option, the game randomly locks up.

But I am not a WHDLoad expert so maybe there is some option I am supposed to set?

Is there a WorkRelaibly tooltype?
Or a DoNotLockUp tooltype?
Or how about IrritateTheGamer=NO ?

I have an A1200 with Apollo 50Mhz 060, 32MB RAM, 4GB HD, FFS, Samba network to PC, Mediator with a ethernet card.

[Graham Humphrey]

You could try the 'nocache' tooltype... otherwise you'll have to ask in the WHDLoad sub-forum I guess.

[StrategyGamer]

Ok nocache tooltype seems to have fixed it. I was able to play the game long enough to lose. :D

My score: 202440

I suppose my Lotus Trilogy would have worked if I disabled the caches.

IMHO the soundfx in this game suck.

I remember liking Lotus 2 and Crazy Cars 3 more than Lotus 3. Why did you guys pick this one?

[Graham Humphrey]

Glad you got it working.... HOWEVER!

1) The round doesn't actually start for another half-hour or so (just under)

2) You need a pic of your score as well

3) It was picked because it got the most votes :D

[StrategyGamer]

Ok this time I was driving along, my score is 3022930 and the game randomly locked up again! :guru

So it is official, no WHDLoad game has EVER worked on EITHER of my Amigas EVER! GROWL!

All turning off the caches seems to have done is make the lockups happen less frequently.

[Graham Humphrey]

I'd post your problems in the WHDLoad sub-forum if I were you as WHDLoad obviously doesn't entirely like your setup.

[turrican3]

why don't you choose the hardest level ? graham

[mailman]

I'd post your problems in the WHDLoad sub-forum if I were you as WHDLoad obviously doesn't entirely like your setup.

I use BPPC and Lotus 3 does not crash with WHDLoad. NOCACHE tooltype is necessary. Maybe it is the version of the game? I use floppy version not the Trilogy.


why don't you choose the hardest level ? graham


It makes me wonder too.

[Graham Humphrey]

Generally if a game has a difficulty level I've gone for the middle one, I just think that's the best one to go for but that's obviously just me ;)

[mailman]

Generally if a game has a difficulty level I've gone for the middle one, I just think that's the best one to go for but that's obviously just me ;)

Normal is too easy and too short.

[turrican3]

i agree with you mailman

[turrican3]

perhaps we could play all levels and make something like easy score + normal score + hard score = :great
just put the 3 screenshot.

[Bamiga2002]

6833540.

A few meters left from finish line :bash ...

I have no digital camera at the moment so you just have to trust me on the score i guess :).

[Graham Humphrey]

Too easy? Not for me but then I'm not very good, obviously ;)

And I don't think 10 races is particularly short either, but again - that's only me.

@Bamiga2002: no pic, no entry :D Sorry.

[Graham Humphrey]

Actually, how 'bout Easy, Medium and Hard, and add up all the scores like turrican3 said? Any objections to that? As far as I can tell everyone will be happy ;)

Or maybe you just want Hard? Please tell me if you want a change.

[mailman]

Compilation of three for me.

[CHook/OTT]

you lot are sad.. Lotus over PPHammer :/

Still I might have a blast :D

I voted PP Hammer

[CHook/OTT]

What car too? I always used to play using the Esprit (think it was the fastest) and IIRC the higher the top speed the more points you can accumulate

The above might be carp but could do with confirming

[Graham Humphrey]

Is the Esprit the red one? If so that's the only one I use too.

Not sure it makes too much difference really?

[Graham Humphrey]

Okay well I guess I better sort this out quick - I'm gonna go for all three and all the scores added up. And also you can use whatever car you like. So when posting screenshots PLEASE label them with Easy, Medium or Hard.

You don't have to do all three in one go either, in fact I don't think it's fair everyone HAS to do all of them (because not everyone might have the time to do so) but obviously you will be seriously disadvantaged if you don't so you will be better off doing them all ;)

[Biscuit]

Even the adfs seem a little shakey. Anyone got a guaranteed working pair? Last one I tried froze up before race 6.

[Graham Humphrey]

I had trouble with the ADFs too. I'm just using the WHDLoad version now though and it seems pretty stable.

[turrican3]

perhaps you should try the cd32 version patched by jotd for running on winuae. I will give it a try now, i ll tell you if it bug.
Or perhaps try to install it with jst from jotd.

[turrican3]

my first try 16,668,210.
i haven't finish the game.
no bug for me with the cd32 version patched by jotd.
I didn't see that you change the rules, It's my score from medium level.

[Graham Humphrey]

Yeah sorry, to be honest I should have properly sorted all the rules out beforehand...

[Graham Humphrey]

Here we go then.

http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/1443/lotus3easyri5.png

Easy - 12,429,140

http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/6476/lotus3mediumlg9.png

Medium - 9,168,460

http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/6015/lotus3hardrj9.png

Hard - 5,237,260

Which gives a grand total of... 26,834,860

[CHook/OTT]

Even the adfs seem a little shakey. Anyone got a guaranteed working pair? Last one I tried froze up before race 6.

Aye, Very unstable on the XBOX too :(

[Graham Humphrey]

If anyone happens to have fully-working ADFs of this game, please Zone them for the benefit of everyone else ;)

[turrican3]

like i said my cd32 version work well

[bippym]

I reckon this game should be abandoned until something is sorted and PPHammer played..

Oh the flt crack worked in the 90's when I used it ;)

[Biscuit]

I used the [o] version on planetemu, and it worked fine this time. Maybe it's something in my config. Where's the CD32 one?

Anyone know why in Lotus 3 you have to choose between SFX and music? Admittedly the SFX in Lotus 2 were mostly horrible, but Lotus 1 sounded good. In fact, the way the SFX would interrupt one of the music tracks briefly was very cool.

Here's an Easy Score: 14,246,960

[DamienD]

Where's the CD32 one?
You can download this from Fdasi-amigaland (http://www.fdasi.com/) ;)

[StrategyGamer]

Ok I dl'ed it. (Actually I think I already had it from an old torrent somewhere).

Now what do I do?
I have never tried to run a CD32 game on my A1200 before.

I assume I must burn it to CD in order to hear the CDDA correct?

I see .img .sub .ccd files. How do I burn these? I know how to use Nero, will that work?

[turrican3]

You can download this from Fdasi-amigaland (http://www.fdasi.com/) ;)
look here for the version patched by jotd for winuae you have just to add the cdda tracks. http://jotd.free.fr/amigastuff/lotustrilogy_uae/

[StrategyGamer]

For the record: I just tried Lotus Trilogy (the small version from the zone months ago) with patch AND I turned off my caches and it still locked up on the very first lap! :guru

So the WHDLoad version and the other version are both doing the same thing on A1200.

I will try the CD32 cloneCD version whenever I figure out what in the name of applesauce I am sposed to do with all those files. :crazy

[DamienD]

I will try the CD32 cloneCD version whenever I figure out what in the name of applesauce I am sposed to do with all those files. :crazy
As the filename suggests i.e. "Amiga CD32 Lotus Trilogy (CloneCD).rar", it's a CloneCD (http://www.slysoft.com/en/clonecd.html) image :)

Can't help you with playing it on a real Amiga 1200 though, only ever had an Amiga 500 when young...

These days I use WinUAE for everything Amiga :bowdown

[blade002]

I tried Lotus 3 the other day on easy mode and i got to the very last track without a problem using the WHDLoad version. I will need to try it on normal though for the competition to see if it locks up on mine, but looking good so far :)

[blade002]

On Easy -: 10,460,270

[Graham Humphrey]

I tried Lotus 3 the other day on easy mode and i got to the very last track without a problem using the WHDLoad version. I will need to try it on normal though for the competition to see if it locks up on mine, but looking good so far :)

Normal was fine on mine with WHDLoad, but I only got up to about track seven or thereabouts so it would be interesting to know if anything goes wrong later on...

[blade002]

Normal was fine on mine with WHDLoad, but I only got up to about track seven or thereabouts so it would be interesting to know if anything goes wrong later on...

If i get that far, i will let you know :)

[Biscuit]

Cheers for the links. Surprising that a google-hound like myself didn't have them. These adfs have given no probs yet though.

Got wasted on the roadworks race in Medium. Gonna have to practice that. I did capture the RECS code for the race, but just looked on Lemon and under 'cheats' it has all the RECS codes available. Good for practice. A big plus for the design of Lotus 3.

Medium Score: 10,073,910

[CHook/OTT]

Oh the flt crack worked in the 90's when I used it ;)

Yup,
Just a shame it doesn't work in 2007 on WinUAEX :guru

(it's hangs on a black screen after finishing a stage before giving you your score and this is random too but more often after stage 6 on easy)

EASY = 10,078,400

[turrican3]

my score in easy :11,656,610

[mailman]

11,652,100 - Easy

For now only one.

[Biscuit]

Starting to live up to it's title now. I rolled across the line of the futuristic level, and was about 300 yards from the snow finish.

Hard Score: 7,909,120

[gimbal]

grrr, the game is locking up for me after completing the first track. I'll have to try some other versions...

(this is the first time I played lotus 3... am I stupid for saying that lotus 2 is far better?)

[Graham Humphrey]

Actually Lotus 2 is my least favourite game in the series...

[turrican3]

for me it's a shame that lotus 2 has no music, it's why if somebody could make a version which use cdda, it should be wonderful.

[CHook/OTT]

Very poor 1st attempts at Medium = 3,745,060 and Hard = 2,295,720

Bringing me up to : 16,119,180

[turrican3]

Ok I dl'ed it. (Actually I think I already had it from an old torrent somewhere).

Now what do I do?
I have never tried to run a CD32 game on my A1200 before.

I assume I must burn it to CD in order to hear the CDDA correct?

I see .img .sub .ccd files. How do I burn these? I know how to use Nero, will that work?
And don't forget to launch it with idefix97 cd32 emulator if you have it.
i don't know if nero will work but if not mount it with daemontools and after make a copy. Did you try the special version from jotd perhaps it will run more easily with an expanded amiga 1200. :great
ps: great score graham and biscuit in the easy level.

[Biscuit]

Actually Lotus 2 is my least favourite game in the series...
I agree. It never felt like a 'proper' sequel.

[mailman]

for me it's a shame that lotus 2 has no music, it's why if somebody could make a version which use cdda, it should be wonderful.

For me it's good that there is no music. In each three parts I play with SFX only. Playing with music is not a good idea when you use manual transmission.

[mailman]

9,702,600 - Medium level. Haven't finished though :(

[mailman]

6,415,310 - Hard level

[helo]

12,736,930

Come on guys!!!
:laughing

[Graham Humphrey]

"Come on guys!"? At least we can type our scores correctly :p

[mailman]

12,332,590 - Easy mode

[blade002]

Damn i am coming last. Looks like its time to shift things up a gear !!!! :D .. HA HA .. get it !!!..."shift things up a gear" .. Oh GOD I AM SO FUNNY !! HA HA HA HA.. :lol:lol:lol

( blade002 runs from the lynch mob of people with flaming torches and cans of petrol that hate poor jokes :help)

[Graham Humphrey]

Quite.

Anyway, at it currently stands, Biscuit will be wheeling away in celebration...

What? Look, stop steering at me like that. I think I'm going to have a nervous brakedown...

[Biscuit]

I hate to break up this rip-roaring BAFTA worthy banter, but I have a score to post.

Medium: 19,402,220

[Graham Humphrey]

Good score Biccy, bet you're exhausted after that one, eh?

Any snide remarks about these "jokes" will result in the offenders being given the boot. I, for one, am tyred of this now.

[Graham Humphrey]

My new score (I always struggle with track eight - I hate the roadworks ones).

http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/9489/lotus3medium2un0.png

Medium - 9,990,480

[mailman]

9,789,700 - Medium
7,350,400 - Hard

[CHook/OTT]

Medium: 19,402,220

:bowdown

I've :banghead on medium level :( Stage 4/Desert? Just cannot get past this one at the moment

[Biscuit]

I don't really deserve such praise (well, maybe a little). I made an interesting (re)discovery about the game. Take another look at my score, that's the clue. Then maybe someone can corroborate my findings. ;)

[CHook/OTT]

The car you used?

[Biscuit]

Yup. Take a track you can only just complete - with a couple of seconds to spare. Get the code, try it with the regular Lotus, then take the Elan out for a spin. Compare how much time you have left. I did this with the roadworks track 8 in Medium to discover it.

[Graham Humphrey]

Nice tip there, I'll have to give it a go.

[CHook/OTT]

:great Having a quick blast now. It looks like the Elan being the slowest the game is a bit too generous on extra time given at checkpoints, I might be able to get past stage 4 on medium now (had another go with the Esprit in the early hours and stopped just before the checkpoint again) :mad

[CHook/OTT]

9.1 million after stage 4 on easy and the fucker crashed

[Graham Humphrey]

Ouch :(

[CHook/OTT]

Tell me about it, The XBOX is better with floppy set to 100% but obviously still not perfect

[mailman]

:great Having a quick blast now. It looks like the Elan being the slowest the game is a bit too generous on extra time given at checkpoints, I might be able to get past stage 4 on medium now (had another go with the Esprit in the early hours and stopped just before the checkpoint again) :mad

Driving Esprit I get 20000 points for each checkpoint and 50000 points for each second left at the end of the level. Let's see Elan then.

[Biscuit]

Took the Elan out on the Easy Level: 16,860,860

The one thing about this car. On a narrow track with fast opponents, and especially when slidey, passing can be more of an art. I spent a whole lap behind some annoying red car on the rally track.

[CHook/OTT]

@Graham, Why don't you make the last round more interesting and open up the league table a bit (and get vermillion participating again to secure his No:1 spot)

Give 12-1 points out for best easy, medium and hard scores and best overall scores from all 3 rounds? Would open it up again with the possibilty for others to take the title or would this be bending the rules too much???

Food for thought!!!

[Graham Humphrey]

Hmm, don't think it's particularly fair to do that at such a late stage to be honest. I think I'll keep it as it is.

However, I do like that idea, and maybe we could use it for a special round in the Super League at some point...?

[CHook/OTT]

Driving Esprit I get 20000 points for each checkpoint and 50000 points for each second left at the end of the level. Let's see Elan then.

Same with the Elan and if you drive under the back of the HGV's on the motorway stages i thing you get 100,000

Hmm, don't think it's particularly fair to do that at such a late stage to be honest. I think I'll keep it as it is.

However, I do like that idea, and maybe we could use it for a special round in the Super League at some point...?

No worries, Something that just popped in my head

[mailman]

Same with the Elan

So what's the point driving it and what about that too bit generousity?

and if you drive under the back of the HGV's on the motorway stages i thing you get 100,000

It was in Lotus 2. Here nothing such happens (just a sample as if you go through Turbo Zone).

[Graham Humphrey]

Well, I took the Elan for a spin... and then I played Lotus 3 again ;)

Easy - 15,580,770

[CHook/OTT]

So what's the point driving it and what about that too bit generousity?

It was in Lotus 2. Here nothing such happens (just a sample as if you go through Turbo Zone).

I'm pretty sure your given more time if you play as the slower Elan. Play as the Esprit an make a note of how many seconds you have left after the last stage towards your bonus then play in the Elan, A lot easier and your not chasing the checkpoints despite being in a slower car and i'm averaging 25 seconds left at the end of most races.

It makes the turbo zone noise but i quickly glanced at my score and it looked like 100,000 was added???

Anyway a good way to waste a rainy Sunday afternoon:

Easy: 16,549,320
Medium: 14,791,550 (stage 8/10)
Hard: 16,022,860 (stage 11/15)

TOTAL: 47,363,730

[bippym]

Maybe take the average score!

[mailman]

I'm pretty sure your given more time if you play as the slower Elan. Play as the Esprit an make a note of how many seconds you have left after the last stage towards your bonus then play in the Elan, A lot easier and your not chasing the checkpoints despite being in a slower car and i'm averaging 25 seconds left at the end of most races.

Oh, now I got it. You get more time to race through the checkpoint! Great, I will give it a try tomorrow. :)

[Graham Humphrey]

Well I managed to complete all ten tracks this time, there's still room for improvement here though (I only just rolled over the finish line in the last race, for instance).

Medium - 17,479,220

[Biscuit]

I often play better when I can't sleep.

Hard Level: 32,187,200 (completed)

[turrican3]

what did you do during my trip for a week-end ? :confused
You breaked all the high scores off course. :great
I'll try to be back :spin

[mailman]

16,262,530 - Easy mode

[mailman]

19,601,620 - Hard mode

[Graham Humphrey]

Well done for posting in the right thread this time :cheese

[turrican3]

my new score in easy mode : 17,100,350 :great

[Graham Humphrey]

Good score, get a decent Hard score and you'll shoot up the standings ;)

[turrican3]

hard score : 24,298,350 i finished the game, but the score is not enough good.

[mailman]

18,169,670 - Medium Mode.

[CHook/OTT]

Completed Medium and man was that tough, Crawled over the finish line in stages 8 & 10 having run out of time

Easy: 16,549,320
Medium: 16,467,530
Hard: 16,022,860 (stage 11/15)

TOTAL: 49,039,710

[turrican3]

new medium score : 17,826,640

[Calgor]

Finally, a game I had played many a time before.

So how difficult is the easy/medium/hard level compared with playing in 2 player mode? I only ever really played 2 player mode, and I remember the last level being a killer where you had to drive almost perfectly if you wanted to finish 1st.

EDIT: Actually, there may well be a e/m/h for 2 player mode too. Also can't remember which car I used. Wonder what the default difficulty is. Lotus Esprit is good to use if you can avoid hitting other cars and objects, but being faster it is harder to do so.

[mailman]

Graham, I have an idea. There were comments that Vermillion cannot be beaten in this season. I think there is a way to make this round more challenging. Everybody drives Elan because it gives you more points. What if we could have a seperate score tables for each car? In that situation we could have three winners in this round (if the same person wins all the subrounds, he will get 36 points). I think there is not much work to make it happen since everyone posted a picture with a scores and car. What do you think? I think it is not too late to enrich this round with that feature.

[Graham Humphrey]

Well, again, I think this is a good idea, but to be honest, like I said with CHook/OTT's idea, I don't think it's entirely fair to change the rules so late on. And anyway, it would be a lot more work for me ;)

So I'm going to leave it as it is now, sorry.

[CHook/OTT]

C'mon Vermillion, Back our campaign for rule bending and get that 2 months of dust off your controller :D

[turrican3]

the last time we have seen vermillion it was 1 month ago.
but by the way how did you do these incredible scores biscuit ?? :confused

[Biscuit]

No secret. Don't hit anything. ;)

Lotus 1 & 3 were two of my all time favourite games. I used to like racing Mexico (Lotus 1) with perfect laps to push the cars top speed as far as possible. The bottom of the big dip is one of the fastest points in the whole game. Lotus 3 is pretty easy with the Elan. Finished most hard races with about 30 seconds left. Some about 10 seconds. The hardest is always the storm tracks - very tight time limits. Usually only have a couple of seconds left.

I'd have another bash, but I've wiped my HD and upgraded the OS. Haven't re-installed E-UAE yet. :(

[CHook/OTT]

Your 32 million on hard is rediculous ... Well done!!! :bowdown

[Graham Humphrey]

If anyone can beat Biscuit's hard score, then I'll eat my... actually, no, I've tried that one before and it backfired. With hilarious consequences.

[CHook/OTT]

I'll eat the hat instead :) MUCH improvement required to get anywhere near that :agree

[CHook/OTT]

No secret. Don't hit anything. ;)

Easy on Super Hang-On :)

The AI on Lotus III isn't that great and it's very easy to read the computer cars as they just bounce from either side of the road to the other and they can't over take each other they just jam the brakes on when they get too close and you have to be careful not to get caught up in it. What is annoying is when you go over a blind hill and one is on the other side driving at 2mph and you slam into the back of it then no matter which way you turn to get past, The computer car seems to gain the ability to read your joystick making it very annoying indeed (even more so on a thin stretch of road)

[mailman]

16,759,240 - Easy mode

Yesterday I got 17,200,000 but forgot to take a screenshot :( No save highscores option really sucks in this game.

[Graham Humphrey]

http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/1061/lotus3hard2dz8.png

Hard - 18,671,340

[mailman]

18,641,550 - Medium Mode.

[mailman]

26,466,450 - Hard Mode.

[Graham Humphrey]

We've now got a little over a week left of this round (and, indeed, the season) and I'm slightly surprised only 7 people have entered so far. There were four people who voted for this game in the poll who haven't taken part (yet). I must admit this does strike me as slightly odd - there's not much point voting for a game when you're not going to play it. Never mind.

(By the way, this isn't a criticism, more of an observation.)

[Shoonay]

Please wait Sir! ;)

[Anubis]

I played this game last night a little bit and got ~7m score at round 6 on easy level. Will play more today and tomorrow, just to enter competition.:)

[CHook/OTT]

Missus on her works crimbo do tomoz so i'm go try and have one last pop at it on hard level, Had a couple of go's since but not done any better

[Anubis]

You guys are way better then I am at this game. :(

I gave it two more shots tonight and all I can do for easy was:

10,327,640

Tomorrow I will try medium and hard levels. (to bad I'm well late into this game, it is nice racing game, but I still prefer Jaguar XJ220 :))

[Calgor]

@Anubis

Apparently the elan will give you better scores than the espirit you used.

haha.. I will be starting even later than you. I will be last minute as usual. Will try it tonight or tomorrow on the last day of competition. I believe I have the KG pack version of this installed on the A1200.

[Anubis]

Well, I just tried medium level tonight, and yes, elan will give better points. Thank you for pointing that out.

Scores for medium:
13,757,210

I'll try hard level tomorrow, and then retry rest of the levels as well.

[Graham Humphrey]

Welcome to the competition Anubis (better late than never) :D and Calgor too, nice to see you'll be keeping me busy, it's been a bit quiet recently ;)

[Anubis]

Thank you Graham.

I see that I missed some nice games, but just as you said, better ever then never. :)

[CHook/OTT]

I too am a bit cheesed i never had time to participate in this earlier, I suck balls at Apidya but Slam Tilt, Deluxe Galaga & Turrican II i would have had a good crack at

[Anubis]

I was planning to play Project X as it was in competition on both sites (LA and EAB), but never had a chance to even start emu at the time. :(

Here is hard level:
I might later tonight give it anotherr try, but right now my eyes hurt. (signs of age :crazy)

Hard Level: 14,773,970

[CHook/OTT]

Came a cropper at stage 11 on hard again so i've thrown in the towel for this season, Well done peeps, And bring on the next season :)

Easy: 16,549,320
Medium: 16,467,530
Hard: 18,271,970 (stage 11/15)

TOTAL: 51,288,820

[Anubis]

C Hook, nice scores! :)

I did play easy level again, but still not that great scores. :) (i'll blame it on the gamepad :laughing )

New Easy Score: 14,687,600

[Graham Humphrey]

Last day today folks - get those scores in while you can :D

[blade002]

Some new scores :) .. although i really don't EVER want to play Lotus 3 in single player mode again!. 2 players fine, but in single player, just don't find it very stimulating. So this is my ONLY shot on medium & hard. I should retry it on easy to bump my score up an extra couple of thousand to try and come 3rd, but its too painful for me to try . :scream ;)

BTW - I forgot to enter my user name for the high score on easy mode, so its showing up as "Player 1". Sorry about that.

15,156,850
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e312/Apidya/DSC00429.jpg

17,754,060
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e312/Apidya/DSC00432.jpg

25,087,120
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e312/Apidya/DSC00433.jpg


Grand Total -: 57998030

[cane]

Here are my scores:

Easy 16,390,410 - finished

http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/1654/lotuseasyjp8.gif

Medium 15,387,830 - came to stage with roadworks (I don't remember which stage number was it)

http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/1900/lotusmediumcx6.gif

Hard 29,387,910 - finished

http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/8977/lotushardih4.gif

[blade002]

Yeah i didn't finish medium either Cane, but the car slid only about 3 or metres from the finish line on the very last track !. lol. But on Hard i had no problems at all, although there "were" times when i only i had 3 seconds left on a couple of tracks :)

looks like you have pushed me down to 5th, you bastard !!!. :bash;)

[farmarfred]

my first score will see if i give medium another go.
easy 16057200 finished

medium 14414260 came to stage with all the roadworks didnt even make it to the first checkpoint:o

hard 27045870 finished with no time to spare on last stage

[cane]

My new score for medium (finally managed to finish it)- 18,103,950

http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/357/lotusmedium1dv6.gif

For me the stage 8/10 (roadworks) on medium level is the hardest of all. And I went through the finish line on last stage on medium with no seconds left.
It's a bit strange that it's harder for me to finish the game on medium level than on hard.

[farmarfred]

got in sight of checkpoint two on roadworks this time

medium 15097660

[Biscuit]

I'd agree that the Medium roadworks track is a bitch. I took the M200 out the other day and came unstuck on it. Still, I wasn't going to beat my score anyhow. Bloody annoying though.

[Graham Humphrey]

I've slipped to 7th now... time for one last go methinks...

[Graham Humphrey]

Well my last go was awful...

And that's it people. The end of the round and the end of the season. Final standings to follow.