EAB/Lemon Super League 2013: Round 11 - Snow Bros

[diablothe2nd]

566350

[Lonewolf10]

I know there has been much discussion on this game already, but just an FYI to Graham and anyone that uses the link in the first thread for the ADF file:

It asks for a password! I clicked "OK" (leaving password box empty) and it seems to have downloaded successfully.


I'll post my uber winning score once I earn it

[vagrant]

How good am I at this game?
Somewhere between 'mediocre' and 'crap'.

488,980

[lifeschool]

Day 3 and some players are over half distance through the game already. Just to finish what I said about the youtube longplay:

Originally Posted by lifeschool

Actualy, I just checked a longplay and Easy mode gives more score, (it doesn't, the scores are exactly the same), more lives (it doesn't, in this longplay he found two lives rooms which awared 25 extra),easier enemies (actually, the guy in the longplay used autofire ), and its faster to make snowballs. (see previous) It looks like I was wrong this time and in fact Easy may be best way after all. (but in fact it isn't, it still takes the same shots to kill the bosses, and I think you get more lives for collecting all five bonues on Normal mode, so Normal is better)

@ Who - finally!!

[cadaver1210]

my current warm up score
797,720.
@lifeschool
dont celebrate to early, in some games when who freakishly declines
(for now) i excel (for now) lol

[Lonewolf10]

I had a bug with the ADF version of the game

I was playing away and suddenly the game cut to the start of the game. I thought I'd lost all my lives, but I'd beaten the top score (my score was over 200K) so it should be as the hiscore (as it was during the game)... which is wasn't - it had reset to the hiscore it had when starting the game (a little over 100K)

After playing through a 2nd time I scored a much better score (359930 and got to stage 23) and actually got to the hi-score table this time... and the hi-score is now saved correctly.

Does anyone know how bonuses are awarded? I see multiple snowballs (or one ball hitting many baddies) dramatically increases kill bonuses.


Edit: Just realised another problem... each shot that hits a bad guy scores 10 points... is milking in this way banned for this game???

Edit2:More woes... the bad guys with the blue padding (helmets): I had only one of them left and he did his spinning thing... only to vanish. Level didn't end... those ghosties appeared and it was game over despite being a good run (no bad guys to kill to end the level). Such a great game is really starting to annoy me

[diablothe2nd]

killing all enemies with one ball drops those 5 cash card thingies. you can easily do this on the first 3 levels.

of the times when i've broken 300k, was when i opened some weird magical door at the top of the screen, which took me to a bonus room which gives you just a couple of seconds to collect stuff before they dissapear. still can't quite figure out what triggers it as i've cleared the enemies with one shot several times, but only occasionally got the magic door

[Lonewolf10]

Ok, the ADF just reset mid-game AGAIN when I had 8 (EIGHT) lives
(It also lost the hiscore, that I earnt earlier - see attached picture)


Count me out of this one, unless either a stable ADF is found, or the WHDload version is proven to be stable .


359,930

[diablothe2nd]

WHDLoad version is ok mate. that's what i've been using

[Lonewolf10]

Thanks diablo for the tip with the 5 cash card things... those have helped me achieve the score below (yeah, I know I said I was out... but I had another go with the dodgy ADF )

(I will try the WHDload version tomorrow)


539,830

[diablothe2nd]

645860



was disappointed with myself on this run.. had a flawless game until level 20 with 10 lives, on the way I got a magic door, 4 sets of cash drops, and i get caught out on the second boss by a bomber (was slightly out of the "magical position") which lost me my speed and snow boosts and was downhill from there if i hadn't made that error i think i'd have been top of the scoreboard again.

.....just.... one..... more.... go

[diablothe2nd]

BOOYAH! and on the very next go...

1,134,010



really hooked on this game

[Bamiga2002]

I must say a fun game this is, although the music gets a little repetitive. But you can throw snowballs to the rhythm
First go:
451,600

[Retroplay]

Originally Posted by Lonewolf10

Ok, the ADF just reset mid-game AGAIN when I had 8 (EIGHT) lives

Yes it's bugged, we discussed it not so long ago.
http://eab.abime.net/898672-post66.html

I suggest you have a look here:
http://www.abime.net/games/view/game/id/4675

[lifeschool]

@Lonewolf - I uploaded a Zip of several versions of the adfs into the Zone for you. I dont know it its any use as they all seem to be old versions?? The Whdload version is 100% bug free, so that is the best option.

Well done diablo, for now. It's all about The Doors! <cue Riders on the Storm etc>

[diablothe2nd]

Originally Posted by lifeschool

Well done diablo, for now. It's all about The Doors! <cue Riders on the Storm etc>

it was a pretty shitty go, though. had i not screwed up my 600k score, i think i'd have completed the game and got more than i did with my most recent try

[Lonewolf10]

Thanks to all for trying to provide stable ADF's, but the ones I tried all had bugs

(I was on a great run earlier - 400K at level 16 - when it reset to the title screen )


I have now switched to the WHDload version and can hopefully start enjoying this game without the annoyances of the ADF versions

[diablothe2nd]

get on the whdload version and come join me at the top mate, i can't hold the front lines on my own

ps congrats on your 1000th post

[Lonewolf10]

Originally Posted by diablothe2nd

get on the whdload version and come join me at the top mate, i can't hold the front lines on my own

You'll regret saying that after seeing this post...

Originally Posted by diablothe2nd

ps congrats on your 1000th post

Wow, I hadn't noticed I had posted so much. Do I win anything?



Only 1 secret door, a few cash cards and one mini-boss (50,000 points) - those guys near the end of the game that reside at the top of the level shooting down, but vanish once all normal baddies are killed.

Oh, I made it to the final boss, but with only 3 lives I was toast

1,434,750

[diablothe2nd]

Originally Posted by Lonewolf10

You'll regret saying that after seeing this post...

1,434,750

not at all mate, you just pushed our average up by 200k

Lemon needs more players to bring their score down