Season 4, Round 3 - Fortnight Challenge, Gaplus & Ali Baba and 40 Thieves!

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Season 4, Round 3 - Fortnight Challenge, Gaplus & Ali Baba and 40 Thieves!

The Weekly Game Challenge - Click Here For The Current Scores

Season 4, Round 3 - Fortnight Challenge, Gaplus & Ali Baba and 40 Thieves!

Ali Baba and 40 Thieves

Play online for free here:
https://archive.org/details/arcade_alibaba

Settings:
3 Lives to start

Difficulty - Normal

Bonus Life at 10,000

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Gaplus (Galaga 3)
Settings:
3 Fighters to start

Difficulty 0 - Standard Level of Play

Bonus Ships Awarded: 1st @ 30,000 (may actually be 50,000); 2nd @ 150,000 & every 150,000

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Tue January 30th 8:00pm - Tue February 13th 8:00pm (PST)
Play in whatever format applies: Dedicated, BitKit, MAME, Arpicade, ArcadeSD, XXX-in-1, Internet Archive


A new pair of games every 2 weeks with an open tournament challenge
The tournament closes on Tuesday Nights at 8:00pm PST where we announce the winner on the Arcade Hangout live on Youtube.

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To enter and post your scores, register for free at www.ArcadeIcons.com

Log in and then...
- Click 'Tournaments'
- Click - Register for Tournament (Big Blue Button)
- Choose the tournament from the drop-down menu and click register (no code needed).

Now you're entered and ready to play and post your scores.
- On your Phone/Tablet/Computer click The Weekly Challenge Banner on the top right of the Home Page.
- Use the 'Submit Score' button at the top of the page to enter your scores.
- Play as many times as you like on whatever system you like, post your scores as you go.
 
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Were you guys not on Tuesday night?

Yep - episode 110 (a 10!, a f%ckin' 10!) :D:



I'm guessing someone forgot to update The Hangout thread with link. I try and remind others or post link myself, I was a bit busy and forgot...

-GackAttack
 
MAME does not allow for free men at 30,000 - 150,000 - 150,000. The closest I can come to it is 50,000 - 150,000 - 150,000 which isn't a big deal since my score is already in excess of 50,000. I figured I'd point it out however (for those using MAME/ARpiCADE and wondering whats up)...

On a 2nd note... it's crazy how "wrong" Twin Galaxies DIP switch settings have been...
 
MAME does not allow for free men at 30,000 - 150,000 - 150,000. The closest I can come to it is 50,000 - 150,000 - 150,000 which isn't a big deal since my score is already in excess of 50,000. I figured I'd point it out however (for those using MAME/ARpiCADE and wondering whats up)...

On a 2nd note... it's crazy how "wrong" Twin Galaxies DIP switch settings have been...

Yeah, plenty of discrepancies out there it appears....seems like almost every game we do something is off. All we can do is try and catch/document our own findings. Who knows, maybe there are TG and Aurcade refs out there that will reference our findings some day LOL.

I just updated noting possibly 50,000 for first bonus life - I'm sure you're correct with MAME, but I suppose maybe a dedicated PCB for Galaga 3 or Gaplus may vary as well.

I took a few screen grabs to referencel....

Galaga 3 Dip switch settings (from manual):

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Gaplus Dip switch settings (from manual):

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Galaga 3 / Gaplus Dip switch settings (from Twin Galaxies):

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Galaga 3 / Gaplus Dip switch settings (from Aurcade):

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-GackAttack
 

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Hehe.... the AURCADE image shows ON ON ON... looking at that setting it matches my Galaga 3 MAME setting of ON ON ON for 50, 150, and 150... I can confirm the 50,000 part... the rest I've not gotten to.

:D
 
Got a chance to play some over the weekend, even paired up a beer with Gaplus! :D



Alibaba was really strange at first, but after started figuring out the game play it got better. I streamed it a bit on Saturday night, until the wife pulled me away LOL

-GackAttack
 
Forgot to mention....

Anyone that wants to participate in the next round of games, please make suggestions for new games to try out here :)

In general, I want to stick with vertical raster games that are 2/4/8-way joystick and 2 buttons or less. With all of the recent ArPiCade & BitKit development, there are lots of options there as well as MAME'rs out there that will cover pretty much anything. Of course, dedicated is preferred - but that shrinks the window of overlap between players a bit.

With that said, I do have a horizontal game I've been itching to play more of - so that 'might' be one of the picks for the next round :D

-GackAttack
 
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