Lemon/EAB Super League 2012 - Round 5: Buggy Boy

[Biscuit]

Lemon/EAB Super League 2012 - Round 5






Rules:
This round starts today and will end Saturday 5th May, 11:59pm UK Time.
Score as many points as possible.
Post screenshots of your high score in this thread, and write the score underneath.
Screenshot maximum size of 400px width please, or use a thumbnail.
Don't cheat! No continues or passwords.
Play ALL FIVE COURSES and add up your scores to give a total score (you can play each course separately)

Game Info:
Buggy Boy Lemon Page (includes instructions)

Get the Game:
[ADF Disk]
[WHDLoad]

Round 5 Current Scores:
(Saturday 5th - 23:43 UTC)
Pos.... Name................................................ Score............ Pts

1. capehorn (EAB) ........................................ 648,660 ........ 15
   
2. lifeschool (LA) .......................................... 613,360 ........ 12
   
3. premmisseth (LA) ..................................... 608,850 ........ 10
   
4. Biscuit (LA) ............................................... 546,880 ........ 9
   
5. Anakirob (EAB) ......................................... 540,460 ........ 8
   
6. madot (LA) ............................................... 534,530 ........ 7
   
7. TurricanX (LA) ........................................... 511,800 ........ 6
   
8. Lonewolf10 (EAB) ..................................... 506,660 ........ 5
   
9. ChrisN82 (LA) ........................................... 505,470 ........ 4
   
10. mihcael (LA) ............................................. 493,550 ........ 3
    
11. Ze Emulatron (LA) .................................... 456,170 ........ 2
    
12. eMTe (LA) ................................................. 440,170 ........ 1
    
13. OLDGAMER (LA) ........................................ 407,930 ........ 0
    
14. Parpala (LA) ............................................. 391,750 ........ 0
    
15. Graham Humphrey (EAB) ......................... 365,860 ........ 0
    
16. Simon Humphrey (LA) ............................... 356,310 ........ 0
    
17. bbsteal (LA) ............................................. 327,950 ........ 0
    
18. LinesMachine (LA) .................................... 249,680 ........ 0
    
19. mailman (EAB) .......................................... 129,410 ........ 0
    

Lemon (563,084) vs EAB (438,210)

Extras:
EAB's Round 5 thread is HERE.
Check out the C64 Games Competition at our sister site Lemon64.

All new players are welcome at any time. Join us!
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Lemon/EAB Super League 2013 - Round 7: Risky Woods

[madot]

I have never played this game, but it looks like fun. I predict that this round will be good.

[lifeschool]

EXCELLENT! Yes I predict this round will be very good fun!

Buggy Boy
Controls:
Up = Accelerate
Fire = Gear Up / Down

Description:
All you have to do is to reach the next goal within the time allowed, and collect the tokens along the way. Average players should be getting 40-50k (even 60k?) on each course unless they reach the goal; and then you can hope to gain probably around 80k-86k+ ; so that means the highest possible combined score for all five levels will be somewhere in the region of 425-450k. Each level takes 5 mins to complete - so thats just one minute per stage. Offroad is the easiest to complete - North is probably the hardest.

General Tips:
. After the start, use high gear all the way.

. Collect at least two time gates (all three if possible) on each stage. Some time gates are protected by barriers - and it can help to crash through these if it means gaining more time later. Each stage takes roughly 60 seconds to complete; so make sure you have at least 60 seconds or more on the clock as you go through each checkpoint. Also avoid the blue/grey/black sand drifts as they will take away time. You'll hear an odd warning sound if you hit sand.

. Try to crash only once per stage, or twice if at all possible. More than four crashes and you risk missing the checkpoints later when time is much tighter.

. Collect the flags in the correct colour order to gain a 1k flag bonus. The flag colours are highlighted in the top right corner. On collecting the last colour there follows a special 'flag bonus round' where you can collect the flags in any order. If you collect five random flags while they are all flashing it will trigger another flag bonus round. Flag bonus rounds happen at random too.

. As Capehorn mentions on the EAB thread, footballs are worth 2k each and some rocks are actually footballs in disguise. I noticed some rock on bridges are footballs when you hit them, and sometimes when there is a long row of rocks and no log to jump them, one will often be a hidden football.

. Collision detection is a little bit 'off' in some cases. Remember you have to go thru the centre of the time gates and flags to collect them. Sometimes you'll narrowly miss items you thought you'd crash into, other times you'll crash into things thinking you've avoided them, so a small element of luck is involved.

. Be careful while driving on two wheels as too much steering will either make the car land on four wheels or make it crash out. Going onto ramps will cancel the two-wheel effect.

. If you don't reach the goal the bonuses are added straight away. If you reach the goal you'll have to wait a few moments while a crappy bit of music plays and then the screen will unfreeze and the bonuses are totalled. High score name entry is also timed!

Pro Tips:

. Pressing down to change gear and then quickly pressing again to change up won't lose too much speed and can give you some control.

. On the 4th stage of the East course there is a time gate seemingly on the very edge of a river. Head towards this and use the log next to it to jump the river. You HAVE to do this as the bridge is blocked with rocks.

. Always use the banked sections.

Good luck everybody!

[capehorn]

[premmisseth]

Oh boy, this is what you call prehistoric game. Just around the year 88', when I was 6, I've started to play video games, back then, we played on Amstrad, yet I can't recall this game, so without nostalgia adding to the game, first glimpse on the game itself and gameplay was "ooooh crap 3 weeks of this laggy fossil".
But I'll give it a chance of course, cause it has some hooks with goals to achieve as it seems.

And thanks lifeschool for some tips, cause I really didn't know what all the flashing flags were all about. :>

[lifeschool]

I can see this game is going to rejuvenate the compo I love it. Its random.

@ seth - On my machine BB runs fast and smooth. I'm using a 50mhz 030, A3000 setup and the whdload version. I hope the game runs ok on stock machines? In WinUAE I just changed the cpu frequency and switched on cycle exact: i.e. Hardware/Cpu and Fpu/Cpu Frequency/Custom: = 50

So here's my first go at this while I wait for the BBC to rebroadcast my Grand Prix!. Not as good as last nights warmup session - but a start. Now I only have to post my improvements instead of five in a row.


As good as yesterday. Just missed the 2nd. - havent even beaten the generic high score yet!


North: second again.


I actually got a high score here - which isn't saying much cus it's also rather weak! Not even 60k on an 83k course. The clock ran out on the highscore table before I grabbed the pic.


3rd! against my greatest competitor... - ME!


2nd. Not bad but cuda been so much better!

Running Scores: (bold for new)
Offroad: 79,240
North: 58,700
East: 57,000
West: 52,050
South: 74,300
===========
Total: 321,290

[lifeschool]

btw, on my highscore tables (pictured) the name entry seems to be going next to the number instead of under the label 'name'. Is that a bug in the game or the whd version?

[capehorn]

The version I had when I was a kid did that, I assume it's a conversion error

[madot]

Really fun. Driving is just like in Pitstop II.

Offroad: 69,720



North: 61,640



East: 57,540



West: 54,450



South: 82,080



TOTAL: 325,430

[madot]

South: 93,700



TOTAL: 337,050

[lifeschool]

madot: well you smashed my predictions with that last score. South is really enjoyable compared to North and east. I can see this is going to be a very tough round!

btw, when I mention 50mhz cpu above it doesn't make the game run any faster, just smoother.

[lifeschool]

Running Scores:
Offroad: 79,290
North: 58,700
East: 57,000
West: 79,990
South: 74,300
===========
Total: 349,280

[lifeschool]

ok, last go for today. I thought I'd done enough to crack the East course but crapped out just before the line!




Running Scores:
Offroad: 79,290
North: 58,700
East: 81,150
West: 79,990
South: 74,300
===========
Total: 373,430

[madot]

Missed one football



Scores:
Offroad: 88,250
North: 61,640
East: 57,540
West: 54,450
South: 93,700

TOTAL: 355,580

[madot]

North is really hard.



Scores:
Offroad: 88,250
North: 84,010
East: 57,540
West: 54,450
South: 93,700

TOTAL: 377,950