Justin Posted July 16, 2019 Report Share Posted July 16, 2019 Robotron: 2084 Atari 7800 ProSystem Controller: CONTROLLER / KEYBOARD / @RetroGameBoyz 3-D PRINTED CONTROLLER / PLAYER'S CHOICE Difficulty Level: Intermediate Play on: Real Hardware / Dedicated Console / MAME / Emulation OK! ✔ Squad Challenge ends 11:59 pm PST June 31st, 2019 OBJECTIVE: Play for the highest possible score using the difficulty settings defined in the challenge. Post a photo or video of your score in this thread. Scores must be achieved between July 15th through July 31st, 2019. Screen captures are not allowed as they are 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 or emulation, using any controller or keyboard, following rules and game settings as delineated in the Squad Challenge. Enhancements, rewinds and hacked versions of this game are not allowed. DIFFICULTY LEVEL: Intermediate FAIR PLAY: 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 no use of cheats, hacks, cartridge frying, enhancements, rewinds, Photoshop, subterfuge, or any other unfair advantage is allowed. Everybody hates a cheater. MORE: To review detailed rules on how to play, please visit the High Score Squad page here: https://forums.atari.io/topic/1219-high-score-squad-how-to-play/ MESSAGE: Welcome to our 66th Squad Challenge! This challenge celebrates new Atari I/O Member @RetroGameBoyz's latest creation, the 3-D Printed Robotron: 2084 Controller for Atari 7800 with one of the system's finest arcade titles! Robotron has always been a favorite of mine and I think now is as good a time as any to give it a play in High Score Squad! ROM and Instruction Manual are provided below. Good luck to everyone playing! NOTE: We have HSW Day 2019 coming up on July 30th. Be there! Sabertooth and Control Issues 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chas10e Posted July 17, 2019 Report Share Posted July 17, 2019 86350 wave 5 Brainy guys got me 😠 RickR, Atari Creep, Sabertooth and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marco1019 Posted July 17, 2019 Report Share Posted July 17, 2019 Wow, I'd love to try this on a 7800 emulator but I'm not sure I could pull it off. Justin and Sabertooth 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickR Posted July 17, 2019 Report Share Posted July 17, 2019 10 hours ago, Marco1019 said: Wow, I'd love to try this on a 7800 emulator but I'm not sure I could pull it off. That's my plan...emulation. I'll probably give it a shot later this week. Great game. greenween, Justin and Sabertooth 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari Creep Posted July 17, 2019 Report Share Posted July 17, 2019 HAHAH How did I know this was coming??? Awesome. Justin, Control Issues and Sabertooth 3 Don't just watch TV, PLAY IT! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Control Issues Posted July 17, 2019 Report Share Posted July 17, 2019 Yep, I'll give it a shot in emulation. I've been playing a little of the Robotron 2084 arcade game in MAME with a Playstation 2 controller, using the two thumbsticks for control. Seems to be working okay, so hoping I can get it to work here, but we'll see. greenween 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari Creep Posted July 17, 2019 Report Share Posted July 17, 2019 2 minutes ago, Control Issues said: Yep, I'll give it a shot in emulation. I've been playing a little of the Robotron 2084 arcade game in MAME with a Playstation 2 controller, using the two thumbsticks for control. Seems to be working okay, so hoping I can get it to work here, but we'll see. 2 hours ago, RickR said: That's my plan...emulation. I'll probably give it a shot later this week. Great game. I'm going to try both emulation and OG hardware with my new Robotron controller by @RetroGameBoyz just for fun. Sure there will be a huge difference. Sabertooth 1 Don't just watch TV, PLAY IT! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Control Issues Posted July 18, 2019 Report Share Posted July 18, 2019 Yeah... those brain guys... how do you get away from the homing missile things? Or can you? Do you just have to shoot them before the fire? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Control Issues Posted July 18, 2019 Report Share Posted July 18, 2019 68050 chas10e, greenween, Justin and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Control Issues Posted July 18, 2019 Report Share Posted July 18, 2019 Trying to find a way to play this the "right" way on an emulator... As you all know, in the arcade, this is a twin stick... left stick controls movement, right controls firing. It can be set up on the 7800 by having two joysticks, one in the player one port and one in the player two port, then using them just like the arcade (I'm guessing it works like in the arcade at least, haven't actually tried it on real hardware). And of course there's the awesome custom controllers that combine the controls into one easy to handle controller with two d-pads. I've been using a Playstation 2 controller, with a PS1/PS2 to USB adapter to play emulated games on my laptop. In MAME, I can configure the arcade Robotron to use the two thumbsticks on the controller as the two joysticks and it works decently. I'm still not that good at the game, but it feels pretty "right." The emulator I'm using to play 7800 games is RetroArch, though, and there doesn't seem to be a way to configure it to have controls for both player 1 and 2 go to the same controller. I've reached out on a discord channel that has helped out on RetroArch problems before, but the only response I've gotten is that they either don't know or don't think you can. One suggestion was to set both players as going to keys on the keyboard, then using that, but I think that would be less satisfactory than the method I'm having to use. Any thoughts? Anyone here good with RetroArch that might know a work around? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabertooth Posted July 19, 2019 Report Share Posted July 19, 2019 292,650 Wave 12 Played on an AV Modded 7800 using @RetroGameBoyz Robotron controller. FYI - This is the best game of Robotron 2084 that I've ever played on the 7800. It's wholly attributed to the controller. Check out my impressions in my blog post. Justin and Control Issues 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabertooth Posted July 19, 2019 Report Share Posted July 19, 2019 408,475 Wave 19 The improvement jump with this controller is INSANE. Justin, Control Issues, greenween and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabertooth Posted July 19, 2019 Report Share Posted July 19, 2019 On July 17, 2019 at 7:21 PM, Control Issues said: Yeah... those brain guys... how do you get away from the homing missile things? Or can you? Do you just have to shoot them before the fire? Try to shoot as many Brains as possible before they get off a shot. If they do shoot, keep moving and fire back at their homing missiles to destroy the missiles themselves. That's the only way that I've found to do it. These are the hardest baddies in the game. I'm glad they only show up every fifth wave. Control Issues and Justin 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari 5200 Guy Posted July 19, 2019 Report Share Posted July 19, 2019 Time for me to drag out the 7800. I'll try with the Europad. Justin, Atari Creep and Control Issues 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari Creep Posted July 22, 2019 Report Share Posted July 22, 2019 (edited) So I went to play live on IG tonight. Set it all up and played a pre stream practice run and half way through, the game proofed out. Tried everything, even took the cart apart and give the contacts a good cleaning. Still nothing. So after all that, getting the controller, getting a working 7800 I cant play the damed game legit after all. So here is my emulated high score. 134800 I think wave 7 Edited July 22, 2019 by Atari Creep Sabertooth and Justin 1 1 Don't just watch TV, PLAY IT! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenween Posted July 22, 2019 Report Share Posted July 22, 2019 I suck at this game, but I have the next 3 days off. I'll get a score posted tomorrow for sure though! Sabertooth, Justin and Atari Creep 3 "Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari Creep Posted July 22, 2019 Report Share Posted July 22, 2019 Same score as I posted earlier, this is just the replay. Sabertooth, greenween and Justin 3 Don't just watch TV, PLAY IT! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chas10e Posted July 22, 2019 Report Share Posted July 22, 2019 278,350, it's NOT wave 4, that was attract mode but my score didn't move. I had a 120k score the other night but attract mode was tallying up score as it went , mebbe I moved the control stick or something ..... Justin and Sabertooth 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabertooth Posted July 23, 2019 Report Share Posted July 23, 2019 8 hours ago, Atari Creep said: Same score as I posted earlier, this is just the replay. Great video @Atari Creep! I'm sorry that the original cartridge is glitching. I totally agree with you that playing with one controller after the dual pad is just not as enjoyable. It's a completely different experience. That said, you definitely made the best of it and that's a good score! Justin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari 5200 Guy Posted July 23, 2019 Report Share Posted July 23, 2019 Here's my first attempt. Brutal game! 138,200 points. Justin, chas10e, Atari Creep and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenween Posted July 23, 2019 Report Share Posted July 23, 2019 After a couple of attempts I was able to get 160,025. Playing on a 7800 with a 2600 joystick. RickR, Justin and Sabertooth 3 "Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenween Posted July 24, 2019 Report Share Posted July 24, 2019 The advantage of dual controllers is very obvious. Having to move in the direction you want to fire is tough. Still a very fun game. Justin, Sabertooth and Control Issues 3 "Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atari 5200 Guy Posted July 25, 2019 Report Share Posted July 25, 2019 I've been trying still but can't even get close to my first score. Sabertooth 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickR Posted July 25, 2019 Report Share Posted July 25, 2019 112150 Wave 7 No other classic system could move this many objects this fast with no flicker. The 7800 rocks. Justin, Sabertooth and greenween 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickR Posted July 25, 2019 Report Share Posted July 25, 2019 231,675. I think I made it to wave 12 Sabertooth, greenween and Justin 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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