EAB/Lemon Super League 2010: Round 14 - Fire & Ice

[Ze Emulatron]

Originally Posted by Anakirob

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I actually consider this to be a pretty poor performance for me, as my previous HS was over one million.

What level did you get up to and did you get all the secret levels up to where you got to ?
The furthest I have go so far is the first level of the temple.

[Graham Humphrey]

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[Anakirob]

Originally Posted by Ze Emulatron

What level did you get up to and did you get all the secret levels up to where you got to ?
The furthest I have go so far is the first level of the temple.

The furthest I have gotten during this competition is also the first level of the fire temple. The furthest I have gotten ever is the third (last) level of the temple. Killed by the second boss-type guy.

Previously I would not have bothered entering every bonus section, but during this competition I use most of them.

I could not possibly use them all, as, for example. In underwater world level 3 there are two secrets to choose from, taking one makes the other unavalable.

I would recommend taking the one in the lower left-of the level, and from there take the exit warp at the upper-right (there are two exit-warps in that section too), which takes you back to the point where you entered, except all the bonuses and baddies have returned.

And judging by the game maps, there are a couple of similar situations in the temple also. Where there is two warps, and taking one makes the other unavailable.

Personally I find the underwater levels particularly tedious, an ordeal that has to be endured in order to get to the rest of the game. So I didn't go to the efort of clearing out that level before taking the warp.

The thing that I find makes the biggest difference to the score is collecting extra lives, or rescuing puppies when one has a full compliment of lives (nine). These are worth an extra 10,000 points each.

Also, don't be too picky when it comes to picking up special weapons, as those are worth 250 points each. Which is as many points as one gets for killing the average baddie.

[Ze Emulatron]

Originally Posted by Anakirob

The furthest I have gotten during this competition is also the first level of the fire temple. The furthest I have gotten ever is the third (last) level of the temple. Killed by the second boss-type guy.

I had never made it passed the last underwater level before this competition started.

Originally Posted by Anakirob

I would recommend taking the one in the lower left-of the level, and from there take the exit warp at the upper-right (there are two exit-warps in that section too), which takes you back to the point where you entered, except all the bonuses and baddies have returned.

That is the way I go I didn't know about the exit at the upper left in the secret level until about my fourth time, I accidentally jumped into it and it took me to the next level.

Originally Posted by Anakirob

Personally I find the underwater levels particularly tedious, an ordeal that has to be endured in order to get to the rest of the game. So I didn't go to the effort of clearing out that level before taking the warp.

I always jump up into a stupid fish, stupid squid or fall down on a stupid crab and lose like 5-8 lives on that world

Originally Posted by Anakirob

The thing that I find makes the biggest difference to the score is collecting extra lives, or rescuing puppies when one has a full compliment of lives (nine). These are worth an extra 10,000 points each.

I thought something like that happened. One time I had completed the same percentage of levels but was 100,000 below the score I had had previously as I sucked in the castle levels, I lost like 3 lives in a row by jumping into arrows. I will have to go slower in all the levels

[john4p]

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Reading TFM sometimes really helps.
Liking this game now. Challenging top-notch platformer.

[john4p]

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I assume to have reached the underwater world's boss - the fish in the wall, right?

[Castelian]

Hey guys, for some reason this game crashes for me once I finish the 1st stage of the underwater levels. In Winuaex (xbox) the screen goes black (but sound and controls still work). On the pc version, it gives an error message (software failure). I'm pretty new to this site and to winuae. Do I need to use the files in the WHDload package. If so, how do I use them? What config settings should I use? Is quickstart 3.0 ok?

Thanks in advance.

[john4p]

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Lost 5 lives to that fish, then died right at the beginning of the jungle.

Btw., no freeze for me (Pandora UAE4All). My version is cracked by Anthrax (Phil Douglas).

[CU_AMiGA]

wahoooo!!!! i am in the top 10! i got:

90525

played on a real Amiga 4000 via killergorillas whd package!

[mailman]

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[Graham Humphrey]

Good to see we're still attracting new blood...

[CU_AMiGA]

i am here to won the whole competition thingy! lol

[Graham Humphrey]

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[john4p]

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[Ze Emulatron]

I played with the trainer on last night for a test and in the last underwater level I believe you get a huge amount of points from the green and blue jewels if you have 9 lives.

[CU_AMiGA]

110800 :d

[john4p]

Originally Posted by Ze Emulatron

I played with the trainer on last night for a test and in the last underwater level I believe you get a huge amount of points from the green and blue jewels if you have 9 lives.

I think you're right. Could have scored a lot higher if I hadn't died so often in the underwater world. Those confusing warps everywhere didn't help either.

But please abstain from playing with trainer in the future - even for testing purposes. We agreed to not practice later parts of a game using trainer and/or savestates.
(Someone with a real Amiga and an original copy of the game would be at a severe disadvantage if it was allowed.)

[Ze Emulatron]

Originally Posted by john4p

I think you're right. Could have scored a lot higher if I hadn't died so often in the underwater world. Those confusing warps everywhere didn't help either.

But please abstain from playing with trainer in the future - even for testing purposes. We agreed to not practice later parts of a game using trainer and/or savestates.
(Someone with a real Amiga and an original copy of the game would be at a severe disadvantage if it was allowed.)

I only played it up to the end of the last under water level to keep 9 lives. I wasn't sure if the reason I got such a high score was a glitch in the crack version I was using, Fire & Ice - The Daring Adventures of Cool Coyote (1992)(Renegade)[cr FSN][t +1 FSN](Disk 1 of 2).adf with Fire & Ice - The Daring Adventures of Cool Coyote (1992)(Renegade)[cr FSN][t M ATX](Disk 2 of 2).adf, because I didn't know where all the points came from. If I couldn't get the score with the trainer on I was going to ask to have that score removed and replaced with my next highest which was 553,700 66% to the first level of the temple.

The reason I am not using Fire & Ice - The Daring Adventures of Cool Coyote (1992)(Renegade)[cr FSN][t M ATX](Disk 1 of 2).adf with Fire & Ice - The Daring Adventures of Cool Coyote (1992)(Renegade)[cr FSN][t M ATX](Disk 2 of 2).adf is I didn't like all the options it gives you at the start and I didn't want to accidentally to enable any of the cheats to make the game easier.

But I do see how it is unfair on people using the original. Won't do it again.

[john4p]

Originally Posted by Ze Emulatron

I wasn't sure if the reason I got such a high score was a glitch in the crack version I was using,[...] because I didn't know where all the points came from.

I had doubts myself when I had 400k+ in the underwater world the first time. But then figured not dying must've been the reason.

Originally Posted by Ze Emulatron

But I do see how it is unfair on people using the original. Won't do it again.

No problem - the rules above don't clearly state that it's not allowed and practicing is not cheating.
In my first season I practiced a few games myself until we all agreed to not do it.

[mailman]

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