Joust marathon attempt!

Hey SanTe, is there any way you could pull back a bit and see the players hands for a bit while he plays? What is his button tapping technique? I'd like to be able to beat my Joust HS of 215K someday... :)

I've got the stream open in a separate tab, sound muted, and I keep flipping over to watch while I do paperwork. It's great. I have already picked up a few things to try tonight. I like his move for dodging a Shadow Lord on the bottom level by looping around to under the left or right middle platform and letting the SL come right up and get killed. Very nice.
 
SeanMcL said:
I like his move for dodging a Shadow Lord on the bottom level by looping around to under the left or right middle platform and letting the SL come right up and get killed. Very nice.
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Yeah, he's got some really good strategies. I can't wait to get home to play some Joust. I'm stuck around 450k now, so I'm anxious to see if I can actually pull off any of those moves to improve on that.

Love these live streamed record attempts. Good luck John!
 
delroy666 said:
Yeah, he's got some really good strategies. I can't wait to get home to play some Joust. I'm stuck around 450k now, so I'm anxious to see if I can actually pull off any of those moves to improve on that.

Love these live streamed record attempts. Good luck John!
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I hit 992K last month and I think I'm just about able to marathon. I have my strategies down to a couple things I'm lacking and seeing more of these guys play is starting to help clear things up.
 
Strange that on some levels the enemies just pop out the bottom and he pops them off one right after another.... I also notice that the other enemies not at the bottom take forever to generate? Strange... I've never seen such a high level on Joust.

3 Terradactyls? Damn.
 
At wave 256 it is at wave 1 again. When you get 256 mounts saved you have zero as it rolls the mounts over too. 10 million should take around 4.5 hours. The original record holder was slow or must have taken some serious breaks. It's a very doable record, just staying up and playing that long and not getting bored out of your skull to the point of insanity is the real challenge. :004_ssleepy:

Malice95 said:
So does joust get harder after the waves wrap back to zero or its
the same game play over?

I gotta get to bed but I wish him luck and will check back tomorrow night.
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SeanMcL said:
Hey SanTe, is there any way you could pull back a bit and see the players hands for a bit while he plays? What is his button tapping technique? I'd like to be able to beat my Joust HS of 215K someday... :)
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The webcam mount is jerry-rigged and unfortunately that's as far back as it can get. Yesterday it was still too far forward and the bottom of the marquee cut off the top 1" of the screen. We were able to slide the webcam out a couple of inches farther by piling some weight onto the cantilevered board that is resting on top of the cabinet. And the webcam is literally taped to the bottom of the board.

We'd have to mount it on a tripod set up behind him and to the side to get his hands into the picture. I have only one tripod and it has my camcorder mounted on it and it is recording.
 
EVB said:
At wave 256 it is at wave 1 again. When you get 256 mounts saved you have zero as it rolls the mounts over too.
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No, it doesn't. The extra man counter does not roll in Joust. You can build up a thousand men or more and it never rolls.
 
EVB said:
Have you done it? Gotten over 256 mounts and killed them all to verify?
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Well, if the extra-guy counter rolls at 256, then as soon as you rolled it you would know because you would show 0 guys on the display.

And I thought I heard a story about a guy who lost count on a marathon and did that very thing, and he wound up with no extra guys and his game was over pretty quick after that, but I think that was on Asteroids.
 
Well, I have done it so you don't know what you're talking about. It's the same for Roboton, Stargate, and Defender as well. Yes you can die very quickly and you must count how many you have so you can take breaks at around 200 mounts.

SeanMcL said:
Well, if the extra-guy counter rolls at 256, then as soon as you rolled it you would know because you would show 0 guys on the display.

And I thought I heard a story about a guy who lost count on a marathon and did that very thing, and he wound up with no extra guys and his game was over pretty quick after that, but I think that was on Asteroids.
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I have only one tripod
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i've got another tripod you could borrow or i'm sure we could pick one up really cheap used (or even new) for the next attempt.

assuming, you know, there is another attempt.
 
HA HA I moved my DKjr Im working on into the kitchen so I can watch the feed on my TV!
PS he just hit 50 million with 160 extra lives!
 
OK- he's pretty good.

It looks like he's getting 20-30K per board.
What I heard was part of the long-term strategy is to keep count of how many men have been lost because it's easy to calculate how many have been won.

Here's my question- how do you do that when
a- people are talking on the phone
b- people are talking to you
c- you're PLAYING
d- you're TIRED
e- you're away from the machine taking a break?

I'll do that when I'm on a long game of Defender- count how many ships it took for each 100K and have a net at each point. I don't think I could do it for HOURS though..

K
 
i believe there's usually a support team in place to do things like to calculate extra lives and keep track of score roll-overs. i don't know if there is for Joust but there was for John's Asteroids game and Bill Carlton has used one for his Missile Command attempts.
 
John knows that the game kills off about 9 men every 2 minutes when left on its own. He just checks the time when he steps away and when he returns, then notes the estimated change in the number of men, or I count the number killed for him while he's away. He counts number of men lost in his head until it hits 10, then he makes a tick mark on a notepad and starts over on his mental count.

The game awards a free man every 20,000 points. Easy to calculate how many men you've earned throughout the game. All you have to do is track the number of men lost (number of tick marks X 10) as closely as you can, and subtract them off the total earned.

I'm the one monitoring the chat stream and answering questions. I'm also doing the math at certain scoring thresholds to help estimate the number of men in storage. (John is playing at my house.)
 
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