EAB/Lemon Super League 2012: Round 10 - Stunt Car Racer

[Graham Humphrey]

EAB/Lemon Super League 2012: Round 10 - Stunt Car Racer

Starts: 00:01 August 19 Finishes: 23:59 September 8

Rules

Post a picture of your score here with the score written underneath. Enter as often as you like. Only scores achieved during the round's time frame count.

Play the following tracks in Practice Mode:

Division 4: Hump Back
Division 3: Big Ramp
Division 2: High Jump
Division 1: Draw Bridge

All the times will be added up - the lowest time wins. If you don't play all the tracks then regardless of your total time you will be placed below the players who did play them all.

No cheating of any kind (including score leeching) - this includes save states. No continues/passwords allowed. If you suspect anyone of cheating please let us know in private - anyone found guilty will be banned for the entire season.

The winner of this round gets to choose the letter for round 12 - the third special round where you can only vote for games that begin with the specified letter (although B, G, W and the 'misc' letters Q, U, X, Y and Z are taken). So a bit of extra incentive.

Remember, anyone can join in at any time. Have fun and feel free to ask any questions you may have.

Downloads

- ADF
- WHDLoad-installed

Extras

- Full rules and FAQ (incorporating the Hall of Fame)
- Results and Standings
- Lemon thread

Final Scores: - EAB, Lemon

1. john4p - 210.48
2. Biscuit - 211.33
3. john1979 - 211.49
4. jPV - 211.75
5. mipe - 212.07
6. Harry - 213.55
7. Lonewolf10 - 215.19
8. ChrisN82 - 216.74
9. lifeschool - 216.95
10. akabei - 218.36
11. premmisseth - 220.06
12. mihcael - 221.26
13. eMTe - 227.84
14. mailman - 264.40

EAB (226.16) vs Lemon (212.47)

[mailman]

Division 4: Hump Back 0:59:28
Division 3: Big Ramp 0:49:64
Division 2: High Jump 1:08:71
Division 1: Draw Bridge 1:29:10

Total (sec): 266,73

[mihcael]

Please add up your own totals, in seconds please.

[Graham Humphrey]

If everybody could keep track of their own total too (in seconds) that would also be helpful, cheers

[mailman]

OK, I added up individual times and wrote down the total below.

[Graham Humphrey]

Thanks!

[Harry]

I fear I have bad news:

The time calculation seems to be slightly affected by playing in Turbo mode.

I played The Hump Back for 5 hours today, and scored 0:50:19 as best. Wondering where that extra 0.5 seconds could be that JPV and Mipe were better i finally decided to try out the turbo mode, and in 3 of 4 tries I scored better by 0.3-0.5 seconds! I switched again to normal, did 5 test plays and scored in my usual range, improving my previous best by 0.01 seconds.

So I think we should not play this one in Turbo mode, as Turbo mode is also unsynchronized and might be affected by various machine speeds.

[Harry]

Scores, played in non-turbo mode:

4 - Hump Back: 50.18 s
3 - Big Ramp: 45.37 s
2 - High Jump: 48.13 s
1 - Draw Bridge: 75.57 s

Total 219.25 s

[Graham Humphrey]

I think we shouldn't play Turbo mode in this case. If anybody has been playing using this please tell us, we'll remove the scores so you can try again in normal mode. Thanks.

[jPV]

I've been playing it in turbo mode for years regularly and my record lap for Hump Back was 50.17 with that mode until yesterday. It's been hard work and luck to finally get it under 50 secs finally and it'll be difficult to get that time in whatever mode again. And I'm sure if xpect, john4p, Biscuit or off1k will provide lap times here, they will go easily under my scores in whatever mode too. I just can't understand how they took, not just few tenths, but more like seconds off last time from my times.

I would really like to hear more evidence of possible timing issues with turbo mode before banning it. Maybe somebody who has patched the game would have precise information how time calculation goes in this game? But I've thought time and movement are tied together in the game and both are equally faster if played with faster cpu.

[jPV]

I don't think there is any difference with timing between normal and turbo modes. I just played little with non-turbo mode and this is what I got when comparing my earlier turbo times:

Track: Normal (Turbo)
Hump Back: 49.84 (49.83)
Big Ramp: 44.98 (45.12)
High Jump: 47.84 (47.81)

In fact it seems to be easier to get the results with that normal slow-motion mode, because you have much more time to react and see the breaking points etc. But I just hate that low fps slow-motion so I still prefer to play with turbo mode, looks much cooler

[john4p]

Originally Posted by jPV

In fact it seems to be easier to get the results with that normal slow-motion mode, because you have much more time to react and see the breaking points etc. But I just hate that low fps slow-motion so I still prefer to play with turbo mode, looks much cooler

+1

[Harry]

I did some more test runs on the Hump Back this evening in non-turbo mode and must admit that I greatly improved my score by more than a half second. I used A500 CPU speed in the emu this time, because I slowed down my usual setting yesterday on the Turbo test to be able to react (dont know if that matters though, maybe I just was weary yesterday evening). So Turbo mode seems not to have an influence.

New Score:
4 - Hump Back: 49.63 s
3 - Big Ramp: 45.37 s
2 - High Jump: 48.13 s
1 - Draw Bridge: 75.57 s

Total 218.70 s

[mailman]

Division 4: Hump Back 0:56:95
Division 3: Big Ramp 0:49:64
Division 2: High Jump 1:08:71
Division 1: Draw Bridge 1:29:10

Total (sec): 264,40

[Lonewolf10]

This is quite fun... though the scores are getting mighty tight near the top


Division 4 - Hump Back: 51.67s
Division 3 - Big Ramp: 46.54s
Division 2 - High Jump: 50.85s
Division 1 - Draw Bridge: 74.61s

Total: 223.67s

[john4p]

WinUAE settings for SCR Turbo:

Either use the WHDLoad version of SCR or Galahad's ADF Stunt Car Racer (1989)(MicroStyle)[f AGA Galahad][h][Stunt Car Racer Turbo].adf.
Press F3 to activate Turbo-mode ingame. edit: F3 for the ADF, F7 for the WHDLoad version.

Use a 68040 CPU without JIT-emulation (JIT-emulation does corrupt SCR's gfx).
For "CPU emulation speed" select "Adjustable between CPU and chipset".
Set the slider to the 2nd position from the left:



With the slider at 2 the game is very smooth and very playable. Faster than normal, but still very good playability.
With the slider at 0 or 1 the game is unplayably fast.
With the slider at 3 or even further to the right the game becomes choppy like on an Amiga 500.

[Lonewolf10]

Some improvements, including a whole 2 seconds off my time for the High Jump


Division 4 - Hump Back: 51.09s
Division 3 - Big Ramp: 46.54s
Division 2 - High Jump: 48.49s
Division 1 - Draw Bridge: 74.61s

Total: 220.73s

[Biscuit]

Originally Posted by Lonewolf10

Some improvements, including a whole 2 seconds off my time for the High Jump

Nicely done. Getting that slanted section right at high speed is one of the toughest parts of these tracks IMO. If you can beat the evil drawbridge you'll leapfrog up the scoreboard.

[Lonewolf10]

Originally Posted by Biscuit

Nicely done. Getting that slanted section right at high speed is one of the toughest parts of these tracks IMO. If you can beat the evil drawbridge you'll leapfrog up the scoreboard.

Tell me about it. The slanted section is hard enough without using boost (fire button), but to get that time on it I had to boost pretty much round the entire track. The only time I wasn't using boost, was when I was airborne.

The drawbridge is a pretty easy level - the only hard part is getting to the drawbridge when it's fairly low, and then landing without bouncing off the track or losing too much time time.

[john1979]

So I take my fastest lap from the practice sessions of the listed tracks togethor with screen shots and post the total time?

For a given track it can be any lap of the three right?

[Biscuit]

That's right. Play it and post it. You should do better on the flying laps but any lap counts. Welcome aboard.

[john1979]

Thanks Biscuit.

Here are my results:

Hump Back: 0:49.66
Big Ramp: 0:45.13
High Jump: 0:47.60
Drawbridge: 1:11.24

Total: 213.63

I will try to better these times when I have less beer in me. SCR is my favourite game of all time

[john1979]

Slightly improved upon my Big Ramp and Drawbridge times so final entry for me is:

Hump Back: 0:49.66
Big Ramp: 0:44.82
High Jump: 0:47.60
Drawbridge: 1:11.20

Total Time: 213.28

[mihcael]

Welcome to the competition john1979, nice times there but why do you say final entry, there is still 2 weeks to go!

[john1979]

Thanks for the warm welcome mihcael. I kinda lost the belief yesterday that I could beat those times. But you are right! I will keep trying

[john1979]

Update.

Minor improvements to Hump back and high jump times.

Hump back: 0:49.40
High Jump: 0:47.58

New total: 213.00

Those top 3 are driving amazing laps I don't know how they do it

edit:
The thread on Lemon is quite informative. I didn't realise I had the best times for Hump back and Big Ramp until now. It is the drawbridge that is letting me down. Seems to be pure luck whether the bridge will be nice and low for a fast approach, if it's raised when you hit it you may as well hit escape. Played it over and over again and never got it at it's lowest which I imagine is essential to get the best time aargh. The rest of the track and can be taken almost flat out with a minor let off before the bumps in the road so as to get maximum speed into the final turn.

[jPV]

Originally Posted by john1979

The thread on Lemon is quite informative. I didn't realise I had the best times for Hump back and Big Ramp until now.

Yeah, you're an incredible driver. Those first times you posted were already frightening... and there you go that fast :P

It is the drawbridge that is letting me down. Seems to be pure luck whether the bridge will be nice and low for a fast approach, if it's raised when you hit it you may as well hit escape. Played it over and over again and never got it at it's lowest which I imagine is essential to get the best time aargh. The rest of the track and can be taken almost flat out with a minor let off before the bumps in the road so as to get maximum speed into the final turn.

Annoying track indeed. Easy, but you need that luck to get bridge down. And it's long track to drive around before you can even get to try it. I feel very unlucky with that track... took me much longer to get even somehow competitive time on that and now after that I haven't got possibility to try to improve it.

[john1979]

Originally Posted by jPV

Yeah, you're an incredible driver. Those first times you posted were already frightening... and there you go that fast :P

And you mate I see you've just posted some wicked times.

I am going to give it another go on Friday with some more beer, plenty of time left to get a couple of better times in.

[Harry]

4 - Hump Back: 49.63 s
3 - Big Ramp: 45.37 s
2 - High Jump: 48.13 s
1 - Draw Bridge: 72.26 s

Total 215.39 s

I will try the Draw Bridge some more times as it seems to have the biggest potential for improvement.

[john1979]

New hump back time!

0:49.21

New total: 212.81

[john1979]

Two more new times

Big Ramp: 0:44.72
High Jump: 0:47.19

Add to old times:
Hump Back: 0:49.21
Drawbridge: 1:11.20

= Total: 212.32

Now if only I could get better drawbridge time...

[john1979]

...Finally got a good run when the bridge was low.

New drawbridge time: 1:10.75

New total: 211.87

[Harry]

4 - Hump Back: 49.63 s
3 - Big Ramp: 45.25 s
2 - High Jump: 47.67 s
1 - Draw Bridge: 71.00 s

Total 213.55 s

I think Ill leave it with that.

[Lonewolf10]

Division 4 - Hump Back: 51.09s
Division 3 - Big Ramp: 45.57s
Division 2 - High Jump: 48.49s
Division 1 - Draw Bridge: 71.28s

Total: 216.43s

[Lonewolf10]

Division 4 - Hump Back: 51.09s
Division 3 - Big Ramp: 45.57s
Division 2 - High Jump: 47.85s
Division 1 - Draw Bridge: 71.28s

Total: 215.79s

[john1979]

New drawbridge time

Drawbridge: 1:10.37
High Jump: 0:47.19
Big Ramp: 0:44.72
Hump Back: 0:49.21

Total: 211.49

[Lonewolf10]

Division 4 - Hump Back: 50.49s
Division 3 - Big Ramp: 45.57s
Division 2 - High Jump: 47.85s
Division 1 - Draw Bridge: 71.28s

Total: 215.19s

[Graham Humphrey]

It's all over and John secures the victory.