Witnessed an insane Galaga score last week

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Twin Galaxies settings, original Galaga pcb. Guy has been coming into Button Mash almost every day for a long time now, finally crack 2, then finally cracked 3, then played the game of his life.
 
4830? I can beat that. :)
I broke a million on mine and it felt like I played forever, I cant imagine playing 5 times as long. I thought the original Galaga pcb could only do 6 digits? I have the enhancement kit installed in mine.
 
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4830? I can beat that. :)
I broke a million on mine and it felt like I played forever, I cant imagine playing 5 times as long. I thought the original Galaga pcb could only do 6 digits? I have the enhancement kit installed in mine.

On the original game, if you start a 2 player game, player 2's score has 7 digits.
 
That board is modded. The original high score in the middle cannot show the million. It stops registering after 999,990 . Player two side will show every million earned.
 
Yeah I was about to say you can do that on player 2 side, not with the score in the middle.

I've gotten around 9 or 10 million on the game and quit playing because I needed to use the restroom badly. There's a lot of people that can do really well on Galaga. I don't consider myself great at the game and I don't play it because it takes too long...

When I was first playing the game as a 7 and 8 year old I was getting 400-500K in it.

Not trying to brag or anything, just saying the game is pretty easy if you have double ships and shoot everything in a small pattern....
 
Ah ok that makes sense... player 2 will show the 7th digit on an original board, but the high score in the middle won't (if I'm understanding correctly).
 
What's your ships bullet speed on this cab? Is it the fast bullets or regular speed bullets version? That makes a BIG difference in whether this is a good score or not.

I haven't been to Button Mash in a while. Guess I should head over sometime soon.

Edit: I just checked the instagram link and it says 5 ships and regular bullet speed. Awesome score!

Hec
 
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Edit: I just checked the instagram link and it says 5 ships and regular bullet speed. Awesome score!

Hec


Yes, he did it the hard way. This cabinet kicks most people's ass. Fast bullets you can put up big scores like what DreamTR mentioned easily.

It is of course running the enhancement pack...on the real pcb. 98% of places run their Galaga off a 60in1 or jamma bootleg.
 
I thought the original Galaga pcb could only do 6 digits? I have the enhancement kit installed in mine.

The original board will only show 6 digits on the player 1 side in addition to just below the words "High Score" in the top middle of the screen. However, the player 2 side will in fact show up to 9 digits, so really good players tend to put 2 credits on the game and than play on the player 2 side so they can keep track of their score when it goes over 1M points. The reason Armando's 4.9M score shows up under the words "High Score" is because Button Mash installed a mod kit to allow for 9 digits on both the player 1 side and under the High Score title as seen in the photo you posted.
 
Twin Galaxies settings, original Galaga pcb...

I congratulated Armando personally, right after I saw his YouTube video. Even though it was done on the hardest difficulty and set to 5-men and no extras, unfortunately it wasn't on an original dedicated Galaga board (which is TG standard), due to the mod kit that was installed. But this doesn't by all means, take away from his incredible accomplishment. The game plays exactly the same, with or without the mod kit installed, but unfortunately, it would be rejected if he were to submit it to TG by the community who will end up voting on it. Besides, he told me that he didn't have the means to record his game in it's entirety, and wish he did, which he's working on trying to get the management to have something set up in place to capture his next attempt in it's entirety. What Armando will have to do is sign up as a member over at TG and then after accumulating enough submission points, request a new track to be opened for this type of board set. Then any score submitted from a player playing it on this board set with this mod will be posted to this track and kept separate from the original track.
 
On the original game, if you start a 2 player game, player 2's score has 7 digits.

Actually 9 digits. :) Not sure if it'll show 10 though. That would take about 50~52 hours to achieve on slow bullets or 46~48 hours with fast bullets to break 100M. I was streaming a 5-men only game a few months ago on fast bullets when I broke 10M and only managed to use 3 men to do it with. I was locked on and felt like I could have played it out to 100M. Providing of course I could last for 2 straight days without any sleep. I decided to end that game on purpose once I reached my goal of 10M on 5-men settings. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_z-dJFqPlA).

Note: On marathon settings, the game awards you with extra's at 20k, 70k and every 70k thereafter. So If you can get to 980,000 on your 1st man per se, you would earn the maximum amount of men you could earn; 18. Had I played it on marathon settings and went the long haul, and was able to maintain a consistent score average of at least 7M per man (man #2 I managed 7,284,910 points which took me to the 10M mark), hypothetically speaking, that would have put me over the 123M mark. Rediculous, I know. I need to focus on my next goal: 40M. :)
 
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I congratulated Armando personally, right after I saw his YouTube video. Even though it was done on the hardest difficulty and set to 5-men and no extras, unfortunately it wasn't on an original dedicated Galaga board (which is TG standard), due to the mod kit that was installed. But this doesn't by all means, take away from his incredible accomplishment. The game plays exactly the same, with or without the mod kit installed, but unfortunately, it would be rejected if he were to submit it to TG by the community who will end up voting on it. Besides, he told me that he didn't have the means to record his game in it's entirety, and wish he did, which he's working on trying to get the management to have something set up in place to capture his next attempt in it's entirety. What Armando will have to do is sign up as a member over at TG and then after accumulating enough submission points, request a new track to be opened for this type of board set. Then any score submitted from a player playing it on this board set with this mod will be posted to this track and kept separate from the original track.



No one is arguing that his score should've counted on TG. It's just a great score that's worth calling attention to.

Frankly the TG score verifying process is one of the dumbest things on the planet. Always was, and for some reason still is. And why anyone would want to go through that hilariously labyrinthine process when so many early high scores are clearly phony is beyond me.

And just to be clear, this was done on an original dedicated Galaga board, with a high score kit installed. Installing the kit doesn't suddenly bend time and space and morph the board into one of those tv plug n play joysticks. If he actually did want to submit to TG, the kit could easily be removed, and the original Galaga pcb would still be sitting there, no "new opened track" necessary.
 
The original board will only show 6 digits on the player 1 side in addition to just below the words "High Score" in the top middle of the screen. However, the player 2 side will in fact show up to 9 digits, so really good players tend to put 2 credits on the game and than play on the player 2 side so they can keep track of their score when it goes over 1M points. The reason Armando's 4.9M score shows up under the words "High Score" is because Button Mash installed a mod kit to allow for 9 digits on both the player 1 side and under the High Score title as seen in the photo you posted.

Yea, I knew that (plus Vectorcollector had already posted what you just did), which is why I posted my question because the original post didn't say anything about the board being modded, which to me doesn't mean original PCB. In cars, you cant claim a vehicle as original if it has modified parts than what came from the factory.
 
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