EAB/Lemon Super League 2011: Round 9 - Superfrog

[Graham Humphrey]

EAB/Lemon Super League 2011: Round 9 - Superfrog


Starts: 00:01 July 31 Finishes: 23:59 August 20

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 on Normal difficulty, 3 lives. IMPORTANT - NO GAMBLING ALLOWED!

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.

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

Downloads

- Disk 1, Disk 2, Disk 3, Disk 4
- WHDLoad-installed

Extras

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

Final Scores - EAB, Lemon

1. john4p - 4,695,050
2. jPV - 4,694,850
3. Ze Emulatron - 4,694,800
4. mipe - 4,637,100
5. capehorn - 4,555,400
6. mailman - 4,151,850
7. lifeschool - 3,434,000
8. Parpala - 2,816,500
9. Graham Humphrey - 2,682,550
10. Lonewolf10 - 1,267,700
11. ChrisN82 - 1,265,250
12. TurricanX - 918,250
13. premmisseth - 835,150
14. Leffmann - 731,600
15. bbsteal - 339,150
16. OLDGAMER - 183,050
17. mihcael - 152,250
18. LinesMachine - 122,900
19. robotron - 86,500

[Lonewolf10]

The ADF's are non existant!! (download fails for all 4 disks)


See:

Archive: .zip


Compared with (Think Twice):

Archive: Think Twice (1991)(Magic Soft).zip


Regards,
Lonewolf10

[Ze Emulatron]

If you want to see the animated intro insert Disk 3 first.

Here is my first go for Team Lemon, I'll put it up on the lemon page when it appears
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images...cture0268.jpg/
3,618,850

I got to the first space level the horizontal shooter level.

[Graham Humphrey]

Whoops! Sorry. I copied all the links over from the original Superfrog thread from January 2009 in the naive assumption they would still work.

Fixed now, thanks!

[john4p]

4,392,600


In case someone missed the red part in the initial post:

Originally Posted by Graham Humphrey

NO GAMBLING ALLOWED!

[mailman]

3,927,050

Game completed.

[Lonewolf10]

Originally Posted by Graham Humphrey

Whoops! Sorry. I copied all the links over from the original Superfrog thread from January 2009 in the naive assumption they would still work.

Fixed now, thanks!

No problem.

A cool game, reminds me of Sonic The Hedgehog in many ways, right down to the hidden paths. Though it does steal a few tricks from the various Mario games - invisible platforms and blocks to hit from underneath.

Not doing too bad for my first few playthroughs (150K, 500K and 650K), but theres an awkward bit on the third castle level that I'm currently stuck on (that slippery slope after gate 3 which leads straight into the spikes!).


Regards,
Lonewolf10

[Graham Humphrey]

I settled down for my first run through this evening and the game locked up on me during the first castle level

Not at all pleased but at least it happened reasonably early on rather than at a later stage.

[Lonewolf10]

The level designers were really evil with this game in places. I finally made it past the castle levels (I learned how to float/fly)
Oh, and the invisible platforms I mentioned in my earlier post are actually the large clouds found in some of the first few levels

Unfortunately, a combination of heat and running out of time made me lose a few lives at the end of the 3rd circus level (platforms that go in, whilst trying to avoid the shots from the guns). Still, for my 2nd day of playing this game I think I'm doing pretty well


Score: 1,267,700


Regards,
Lonewolf10

[lifeschool]

Originally Posted by Lonewolf10

The level designers were really evil with this game in places. I finally made it past the castle levels (I learned how to float/fly)

Yeah, it's one of those games where the levels are quite large; which makes it difficult to remember what to do at every blind spot and drop point (of which there are many!). Ruff had two or three leaps of faith - superfrog has quite a few more - the difference being that in Superfrog you get the chance to fly out of harms way. I've learned to leave a pair of wings and a 'blob' handy in case I die.

[Leffmann]

731,600

[Graham Humphrey]

1,557,750

[capehorn]

I got to 4-4 with at least five lives, probably much more.

This is the bit where, above the spring there are some spikes to the left and very slightly further to the left there is a Lucozade, with a temporary platform and 4 bats.

I moved over the get the Lucozade, missed it, didn't think I hit the spikes but might have hit a bat, but lost a life anyway and fell down to the spring below.

I then got the game over message even though I had plenty of lives left?!?

The only thing I can think of is that at the exact same moment I ran out of time and that ends the game even if you have lives left.

2,797,700

Edit: It's the bit at 1:21:00 here, I suppose it's very possible I ran out of time.

[jPV]

Yes, I think you just ran out of time and that's normal. I had also forgotten that you can actually ran out of time and then had wtf moment when I was peacefully exploring for new secret places on one level

[capehorn]

That's a bummer. I don't understand why they don't return you to the start of the level if you run out of time, why end the game completely?

Even more annoying, I literally needed just another quarter of a second, I had made the spring jump, was level with the Lucozade and moving towards it when I died. What luck

[Graham Humphrey]

Only a few days left. Could do with a bit of activity...

[john4p]

Since it's not against the rules and I was absolutely clueless as to where there might be another secret area I had a look at these levelmaps: http://hol.abime.net/2223/gamemap
Found a new secret area each in the levels 4-4 (worth a lot of points), 7-2 and 7-3 (both few points worth though).
The one near the start of level 4-4 I would never have found on my own. I also lost quite a few lives trying to open its entrance.



4,695,050

[mailman]

Originally Posted by john4p

Since it's not against the rules and I was absolutely clueless as to where there might be another secret area I had a look at these levelmaps: http://hol.abime.net/2223/gamemap
Found a new secret area each in the levels 4-4 (worth a lot of points), 7-2 and 7-3 (both few points worth though).

There are only six worlds in Superfrog. How come you made it to the seventh?

[john4p]

Well, I count "Project F" as stage 6-1 (the only world having only 1 stage).

[Ze Emulatron]

Originally Posted by john4p

Found a new secret area each in the levels 4-4 (worth a lot of points), 7-2 and 7-3 (both few points worth though).

I had a look at the pictures I think I knew where all the spots were on the first 3 worlds. There were some in world 4 I had been in before but had forgotten about. In world 5 there were 1 or two spots I had forgotten about and in the space station I had forgotten about all of them.

I couldn't seem to get into any spots shown on the 7-3 level map.

[john4p]

Originally Posted by Ze Emulatron

I couldn't seem to get into any spots shown on the 7-3 level map.

To reach the one in the top right you have to jump on the cannon (there's probably a platform hidden behind its sprite).
The one to the lower right is a bit tricky - take the elevator just a bit upwards and then jump against the wall.
The one on the left you can easily reach by just using the spring and then holding left.

[Ze Emulatron]

Originally Posted by john4p

The one near the start of level 4-4 I would never have found on my own. I also lost quite a few lives trying to open its entrance.

For the secret area at the start of 4-4 I jumped from the ground, fluttered the cape a bit and got into it my first go.

I'll have to try a bit harder on 7-3, I am sure I tried the one on the left by jumping on the spring and holding left and the lower right one by getting out of the elevator and going against the wall. Maybe I was falling too fast to get the passages to open.

I didn't try to get into the top right one.

I thought I should mention I don't like the last level, the boss fight, it was too easy. After all the effort it took to get there I would have liked it to be a bit more of a challenge.

[mailman]

4,151,850

This is the best I could get.

[Graham Humphrey]

I'm bored of this now. As I get older I find this game's little quirks increasingly insufferable and I don't want to see it ever again.



2,682,550

[capehorn]

Got to the final level but couldn't complete it.

4,555,400

[Graham Humphrey]

And it's all over. John wins by a mere 200 points. Phew, eh?

[john4p]

Originally Posted by Graham Humphrey

Phew, eh?

Indeed. And if jPV hadn't done this:

Originally Posted by jPV

I made two very stupid and easy mistakes in the middle of the game. Never made such stupid things, but I was going with too fast routine and slipped into exit before picking up about 10 fruits around it and in some other place without hitting some coins up before exit. I was about to hit the esc key, but then was too bored to restart either, so I played to the end. Should have restarted apparently. Damn. :P

...we'd now be playing Indy Heat for 3 weeks instead of Turrican II.

[mihcael]

Originally Posted by john4p

...we'd now be playing Indy Heat for 3 weeks instead of Turrican II.

Life can so fucking cruel sometimes

(might actually make an effort at T2 for a change...)