Justin Posted July 2 Report Posted July 2 Ms. Hack Atari 2600 Controller: JOYSTICK / CONTROL PAD / KEYBOARD / PLAYER'S CHOICE Difficulty Level: MS. HACK GAME MODE 1, DIFFICULTY B Play on: Real Hardware / Dedicated Console / MAME / Emulation OK! ✔ Squad Challenge ends 11:59 pm PST July 31, 2024 Nominated by @Atari 5200 Guy and @TrekMD Objective Play for the highest possible score using the difficulty settings defined in the challenge. Post a photo or YouTube video of your score in this thread. Scores must be achieved between July 1st through July 31st, 2024. Screen captures are not allowed as they are more easily manipulated for falsified scores. Multiple submissions are permitted. The player with the highest score at the end of the competition is the victor! Eligibility Anyone can join in. All players are welcome! Play Rules Games may be played on real hardware, Flashback / Mini console, FPGA or emulation, using any controller or keyboard, following all rules and game settings defined in the challenge. Choosing between real hardware or emulation, and choosing which controller to play on is part of formulating your strategy. Enhancements, rewinds, save states and hacked versions of this game are not allowed. Difficulty Level MS. HACK GAME MODE 1, SET RIGHT DIFFICULTY TO B Ms. Hack includes 4 Game Variations. We're playing Ms. Hack on the game's default settings of Ms. Hack Game Mode 1, with the Right Difficulty Switch set to B for a boost in speed. Fair Play Your integrity is everything. Players should play fairly, be honest, and have fun! Falsified scores will result in your immediate removal from the site. It goes without saying that we will not allow cheats, hacks, cartridge frying, enhancements, rewinds, deceitful photo manipulation, subterfuge, or any other unfair advantage. Everybody hates a cheater. More To review detailed rules on how to play, please visit the High Score Squad page here: Message Welcome to our 160th Squad Challenge! This month we'll be playing Ms. Hack, the late Nukey Shay's epic rendition of an Atari 2600 arcade classic. Ms. Hack features enhanced game modes and a slew of improvements over Atari's beloved original. We are playing the ROM dated 8-19-2009 which is provided below. Enjoy! MsHack-NTSC.bin Marco1019, socrates63, RickR and 1 other 4
Justin Posted July 3 Author Report Posted July 3 @GRay Defender has an outstanding video exploring Nukey Shay's Ms. Hack, an overview of point values and what makes this game an improvement over other 2600 Pac-Man games: Smell Dawg, DegasElite and Marco1019 3
Justin Posted July 3 Author Report Posted July 3 Be sure to join @Sabertooth in Club VCS for this month's VCS Recharged Squad Challenge, Neo Sprint on the Atari VCS! DegasElite, socrates63, Sabertooth and 1 other 3 1
TrekMD Posted July 3 Report Posted July 3 OK, I just played a quick game. Here's my first score... Marco1019, Justin, Smell Dawg and 2 others 5 🖖 Going to the final frontier, gaming...
Justin Posted July 4 Author Report Posted July 4 My Score: 52,400 Marco1019, TrekMD, Smell Dawg and 1 other 4
Marco1019 Posted July 4 Report Posted July 4 First time playing this one & it's very impressive, to put it mildly. Here's my best run so far - 65,490 - played on OpenEmu for MacOS which includes the Stella core. socrates63, Justin, Smell Dawg and 1 other 4
TrekMD Posted July 4 Report Posted July 4 35 minutes ago, Marco1019 said: First time playing this one & it's very impressive, to put it mildly. Yes it is! Nukey did a superb job with these Pac-Man clones on the 2600! socrates63 1 🖖 Going to the final frontier, gaming...
TrekMD Posted July 4 Report Posted July 4 New score! Marco1019, socrates63 and Justin 3 🖖 Going to the final frontier, gaming...
Sabertooth Posted July 4 Report Posted July 4 16 hours ago, Justin said: Be sure to join @Sabertooth in Club VCS for this month's soon-to-be-announced VCS Recharged Squad Challenge! The Club VCS Recharged Squad Challenge for July is Atari's Neo Sprint with a special SQUAD BONUS! Marco1019, socrates63, Smell Dawg and 1 other 4
Marco1019 Posted July 4 Report Posted July 4 New PB: 109,950. I have a few observations: I did not expect to lose my last life in the manner illustrated in the photo. I guess the ghosts get really aggressive in the latter stages. I find myself needing to turn a pinch sooner than in other versions. It's difficult to "group" the ghosts prior to eating a power pellet. Tangentially Related: The power pellets do not follow the arcade pattern. Example: You can usually rake during the Pear stage, but not in this version. I did get two bananas in the Random stages. Both were followed by a cherry & strawberry, respectively. (It's a 2% chance of getting consecutive bananas.) socrates63, Justin, Sabertooth and 1 other 4
Marco1019 Posted July 4 Report Posted July 4 New PB: 162,110 WARNING: The game has a "9th Key" level where the power pellets do nothing. The power pellets DO NOT revert back in any way. My discovery was an emotional moment lol. TrekMD, Sabertooth, socrates63 and 2 others 5
RickR Posted July 4 Report Posted July 4 (edited) 60690 This is a really fun one. It is kind of unique to make an orig version of a game Atari made themselves. Both versions are super impressive! I'm playing on the PlusCart, and the version I have shows a 2009 date on the opening credit screen. I hope that's the right one! Oh yeah, and that opening credit screen is really nice too. Edited July 4 by RickR Marco1019, Justin, Sabertooth and 3 others 6
Sabertooth Posted July 6 Report Posted July 6 41,710 to get on the board. Marco1019, socrates63, Smell Dawg and 3 others 6
Lauren Tyler Posted July 22 Report Posted July 22 I know you frown upon screenshots, but it was the best I could do since I'm using a simple laptop. I really need to get a gaming laptop, but that's a ways off. 29,030 Marco1019, RickR, TrekMD and 2 others 5
TrekMD Posted July 22 Report Posted July 22 Nice score. Have you tried taking a picture with your cell phone? That's what I do. 🙂 RickR, MaximumRD and Justin 2 1 🖖 Going to the final frontier, gaming...
RickR Posted July 22 Report Posted July 22 Same. Cell phone pics are allowed and work well. Justin and MaximumRD 1 1
Tmangaming03 Posted July 29 Report Posted July 29 Going to get into this! My first HSS! RickR, TrekMD, Smell Dawg and 1 other 4
Justin Posted August 1 Author Report Posted August 1 My Score: 65,470 I've been down with covid since a few days before I posted this Squad Challenge, wish I could've been more active and gotten more scores posted. I'm starting to feel better and have been catching up on work.. Hope everyone has been enjoying Nukey Shay's game, this is a terrific version of Ms. Pac-Man for the 2600. Marco1019, RickR, MaximumRD and 2 others 5
Justin Posted August 2 Author Report Posted August 2 Congratulations Marco1019! Congratulations to this month's High Score Squad winner @Marco1019 for an unquestionably astounding showing in our Ms Hack Squad Challenge! Twitch Streaming Legend Marco1019 takes the top spot this month with an outstanding score of 162,110 points - nearly 100,000 points ahead of the next closest score. WAY TO GO MARCO! I took 2nd Place in our standings with a score of 65,470 points. "The Don" @RickR was hot on my tail, taking 3rd Place with a High Score of 60,690 points. The doctor in the house showed up with a strong game, with @TrekMD posting a terrific score of 52,660 points, taking 4th Place. Atari VCS Guru and High Score Legend @Sabertooth takes 5th Place with a score of 41,710 points, and our friend @Lauren Tyler joins us again in High Score Squad, taking 6th Place with her score of 29,030 points. Congratulations everyone! As always I'd like to encourage @Marco1019 to post his high score on the Scoreboard, and let's make sure this Challenge continues on! Congratulations once again to Marco on his big win!! I'd also like to thank everyone for our stellar turnout for this Squad Challenge! You guys make this a fun place to be, and High Score Squad is always a blast when we have more friends playing. And a friendly reminder to everyone to make sure you're posting actual photographs of your on-screen gameplay, and not just raw screen captures are they are more easily manipulated. 👉 Be sure to join @Sabertooth in Club VCS for this month's Recharged Squad Challenge on the Atari VCS! Our next High Score Squad Challenge will be announced very shortly. Be there! Sabertooth, TrekMD, RickR and 2 others 1 4
TrekMD Posted August 2 Report Posted August 2 (edited) I love this game. I wish I had had more time to play to get a better score but it was fun! Congrats to @Marco1019 for that awesome score! Edited August 2 by TrekMD Sabertooth, RickR, Marco1019 and 1 other 3 1 🖖 Going to the final frontier, gaming...
Marco1019 Posted August 4 Report Posted August 4 Thank you, @Justin, for the very kind words, and to everyone who took part in the Squad Challenge! RickR and Sabertooth 2
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