EAB Games League Season 1 Round 8 - Leander

[Graham Humphrey]

(Insert vaguely amusing tagline here)

Leander

The rules for this competition are in this thread. Here's a quick run-down though:

- The round starts at 12:00am UK time on Monday, October 15, and finishes at 11:59pm UK time on Saturday, November 3.

- 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.

- Between October 20 - 26 the voting will take place for the ninth round's game, a thread containing details will be created nearer the time.

- 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 from the league for the entire season.

READ THIS CAREFULLY BEFORE YOU START

- The following options must be chosen:

Lives: 5
Difficulty: Normal
Credits: 0

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. turrican3 - 1,612,500
2. ppill - 911,800
3. mailman - 634,100
4. Graham Humphrey - 192,800
5. CHook/OTT - 191,500
6. Biscuit - 129,900
7. Magno Boots - 13,000

[ppill]

Finally I have some time to participate

There might be a slight problem with scoring. Badies respawn (on later levels quite quickly) and there's no time limit. So you could be hacking away a single enemy for hours.

[mailman]

Graham wrote about this as to turrican3 objections. I say, don't bother. Let's play.

[Biscuit]

I believe that sort of behaviour is most definitely frowned on round these parts. Rightly so.

[turrican3]

i gave it a try.
really hard game.
But a really good game

[Graham Humphrey]

You're slightly early with this one. (Think we'll ditch this rule for the Super-League)

Originally Posted by Graham Humphrey

- The round starts at 12:00am UK time on Monday, October 15, and finishes at 11:59pm UK time on Saturday, November 3.

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

[turrican3]

sorry,
there is no problem it's a early score too.
I hope i will make a better run tomorrow

[Graham Humphrey]

Cool

As an aside, is it just me or are the default highscores in the WHDLoad version a lot higher than turrican3's screenshot...?

[ppill]

Originally Posted by mailman

Graham wrote about this as to turrican3 objections. I say, don't bother. Let's play.

Missed that one. My bad.

[mailman]

74,400

For start

[ppill]

113100

The Spider Queen got me in the end.

[CHook/OTT]

As i've been playing via the xbox does anyone have a working config for winuaex for this game? Runs very choppy on all the settings i've tried

[ppill]

Some improvement. Made it to the next world

183,100



The game doesn't seem to save the high score after quitting (WHDLoad version).

[Graham Humphrey]

Doesn't it? That's me screwed.

[Graham Humphrey]

Hmm, it seems like it should save high scores, according to the readme:

hiscores are loaded/saved to HD (unless CUSTOM1 is set)

Can anyone else confirm this or not? If it doesn't save them I'll send a bug report...

[ppill]

Duh! It works. The default quitkey PrtScr didn't work with the keyboard layout of my laptop so I probably just quit WinUAE and hence the score was not saved. Changed the key and all is good. So exit to Workbench if you want the score saved.

[Graham Humphrey]

Okay, thanks for clearing that one up.

[turrican3]

how do you use the bombs ?

[ppill]

There are three types of bombs:

suicide bomb: down+holding down fire (this is not deducted from the number of bombs you have)

To use the next two you need to buy extra weapons, can't remember the names of the different swords. One of them only fires the bombs when a big mask appears after you collect a scull.

The most expensive blade activates the bombs just like the suicide bomb but you're not killed but instead you're invulnerable for a while and cause heavy damage to anything around you.

There might be other ways.

Weapons

Leander begins his quest with a short training sword which delivers
only one hit point to enemies. However, a quick visit to one of the
many shops situated throughout the game could greatly enhance your
enemy-destroying capabilites - if you have the finances:


From the manual:

IN-GAME FEATURES

Dagger - One hit point
Long Sword - Two hit points
Force Blade - Unstoppable. Varying hit points
Tempest Blade - 2 Hit Points with each blow. Leander's speed and jumping capabilities are increased
Lion Blade - 5 hit points
Suicide Weapon - Uses up one of your lives but delivers 20 hit points to any enemy in your immediate vicinity. Won't work if you only have one life remaining
Rune Bombs - Required for the operation of Lion Blade. Also, Rune Bombs are the only weapon capable of dispatching Thanatos' ethereal image

Please Note that the strength of Leander's Force Blade. Tempest Blade
and Lion Blade may be increased by holding down the fire button on your
joystick. The Energy Indicator Bar at the base of the screen (see What's
On Screen) displays their increase in power as you hold the fire button
down. Release it to engage the weapon. Leander's Suicide Weapon and
Lion Blade require a full charge of energy before they can be activated.

[turrican3]

2 nd shoot : 222,100