Discs of Tron Tourney Recordings.

greenspun.com : LUSENET : MAME Action Replay : One Thread

I hate to say this, but 90+% of all Discs of Tron scores were recorded incorrectly. Even though the original machine was the Enviromental, walk inside type, the tourney selection, according to gb, was Upright. Many were recorded on Enviromental, and therefore are invalid. If this involves you, please correct it. Note: Just selecting Discs of Tron (Upright) from MAME won't do it, you have to adjust the Settings inside the game, first selection on the menu...

-- Chris Parsley (cparsley2@yahoo.com), July 14, 1999

Answers

Are we saying that my mame035b dotron -record dotron was no good.

I thought that the comment by gameboy was meaning use dotron not dotrone when recording ?!

Does the setting internally inside the game alter the gameplay in any way whatsoever ?! I hope not because I can't see myself fluking another 30k score on this sucker..... :-(

BeeJay.

-- BeeJay (bjohnstone@cardinal.co.nz), July 14, 1999.


Whenever I make a tournament recording, I expect all the rules/settings for the game to be in brackets in the 'long name' of the game. For Disks of Tron, all it says is this:
Discs of Tron (Upright) (Difficulty: 3 - Lives: 4 - Extras: 20K, 60K 
(TG))
(t1-dotron)
- nothing about 'environmental'. I imagine that that's where other people refer to get the game settings. I suggest we accept the non- environmental recordings. But then - it's not up to me, is it... it's only my darned site, after all... ;o)

Chris.

-- Zwaxy (zwaxy@bigfoot.com), July 14, 1999.


I posted this because it was as an after thought while I was going through them, but running dotron, which is Discs of Tron Upright, it still on many people's recording, had the enviromental setting selected... I would like to refer to Pat on this one, I would say to do this one way or the other, but there are currently recordings up there (tourney) on both settings...

-- Chris Parsley (cparsley1@hotmail.com), July 14, 1999.

The key here is using the DOTRON romset. DOTRONE is not acceptable. Default settings are TG. Don't know if the upright/environmental setting makes a difference or not, but at this point we can accept either as long as the recording used DOTRON. I checked three recordings myself and confirmed two. Sorry, BeeJay but I couldn't playback your recording with DOS 0.35 Final. It just cycles over and over at the start. Not sure what happened there.

-- Pat (laffaye@ibm.net), July 14, 1999.

I just tried another test playback myself using DOS 35 Final and it played to perfection for me.

I'll try it on my work PC tomorrow when I get back to work to see what happens.

BeeJay.

-- beejay (bjohnstone@cardinal.co.nz), July 15, 1999.



Actually after some testing the only difference I can see with the Environmental option turned on is that it remembers you want to have four players and it requires 2 credits to start a game.

BeeJay.

-- BeeJay (bjohnstone@cardinal.co.nz), July 16, 1999.


BeeJay's recording plays back perfectly for me. Also, setting the environmental/upright switch also changes the lives to 4/3 (upright=3). Just what settings is this supposed to have anyway, PatL??? I'm getting the feeling nobody's all that sure...

Aqua

-- Aquatarkus (aquatarkus@digicron.com), July 16, 1999.


Thanks Aqua - I'm glad someone else can replay it as well.

I've also confirmed my recording plays back fine on my work PC as well.

BeeJay.

-- BeeJay (bjohnstone@cardinal.co.nz), July 16, 1999.


Moderation questions? read the FAQ