Super League 2023: Round 10 - Pac-Mania

[lifeschool]

Pac-Mania [lemon] [hol]

Rules:
The round starts Aug 13th, and runs to Saturday, 2nd September 2023.
Get the best score you can during this time-frame.
Write your score at the top, attach screenshots nearby.
Scores to be achieved without save-states, trainers, passwords, and cheats.
No continues or infinite score leeching.
Scoring over 700K awards the completion star.
Full rules and info are HERE.

Start from any level. Start from Block Town when the game loops.
Post high scores from the high score table, or within the game, to avoid incorrect scores.

Get the Game:
ADF
WHDLoad (direct link)



Extras:
Highscore: 3,619,660 - MsMadLemon (Maddi)
Lemon's Round 10 thread is Here.
Pac-Mania Previous Rounds: [2010], [2010 KO], [2012], [2017], [2017 KO].
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Check out the C64 Games Competition at our sister site Lemon64.

Live League Table:


All new players are welcome at any time. Join us!

[Djay]

221220

Never played this before, need more practice!

[lifeschool]

^ Great start!

[el_pasi]

207,890

Far from my personal record, but it's a start anyway

And here's video to show 207,890 is the score I achieved.

[ Show youtube player ]

[lifeschool]

That's great!

There are more EAB than Lemoners on the table so far!

Don't worry too much about videos at this stage. The game only has 4 difficult modes, and after 4 loops it doesn't go any faster. Thats how the top scores were made.

[lifeschool]

I lowered the completion star target a bit to 700k.

[lifeschool]

I removed the rule to start at Block Town. This is because the hard level is easier than easy. It means players will get less score due to skipping levels, but the game might be easier for those struggling.

[el_pasi]

550,640

Still didn't make my personal record. I tend to lose at least one life in the first two worlds.

[el_pasi]

778,400

Well that was weird. I got end picture after second loop and then there was possibility to continue game if I push button in 7 seconds. I didn't know what to do, so I didn't continue, but didn't get any score to high score table either. Game went to demo-mode, where I took this picture before computer got any points to my score. Should I have continued playing game after endpicture?

[lifeschool]

Yes. Sometimes it comes up with 'retry level' and the timer. And sometimes it goes straight to the titles. I think if you continue during the timer it starts on Block Town, but if you wait for the menu, it asks which level to start from.

As I removed the option to start from Block Town to make it (pathetically easy) for those struggling, I think players should at least start from Block Town after each full loop of the game. Otherwise players could just skip the first few levels each time, and leech a huge score - which doesn't seem very sporting.

[lifeschool]

Some players found a bug with the score entry page, so please remember to post from either within the game, or from the full high score table.

[el_pasi]

1,324,360

This time I understood to continue after second loop end picture Game went straight to titles and then I chose Block Town and game continued from that score. Block Town felt very very slow. Had about 770k score after 2 loops.

[lifeschool]

That's great! You are our first Super Looper!!!

[lifeschool]

It's the final few days to play the awesome, Pac-Mania!!

[lifeschool]

^Bump

[mailman]

68 020

I never liked Pacman...

[lifeschool]

This round is OVER!

That's the end of this pill chomping free-for-all maze game. And after the smoke clears, I see three players have not only beaten the game, but also looped the game, to receive over 1 Million points! That's some great progress.

Pac-Mania:

1st - john4p
2nd - el_pasi
3rd - pasquale

Next we go back to the platformers with Kid Chaos.