on a lighter note...

by **adidas** on Sun Jun 24, 2001 6:24 am

http://www.projectgamma.com/news/archiv ... -1300.html

All I can say is 'Wow'

Download Pac-man for MAME and see if you can even get to 50,000! I think my best score is around 25,000

by **Pdaimaoh** on Sun Jun 24, 2001 8:19 am

I used to have a book that showed the perfect pattern for running the pac man mazes, but I don't remember how many levels it showed...might've been into the 300's

I never played pacman after getting that book, either (did play baby pacman, but that's got pinball in it, so it rules!)

by **Nukey Shay** on Sun Jun 24, 2001 9:44 am

The split-screen makes the 133rd board unbeatable. This effect happens when one of the game's counters attempts to have a value >255 (the largest value possible in one byte). This results in the counter rolling back to zero and setting the "carry" flag, and the game attempts to display the "fruit" for board zero (which does not exist) on the right side of the board. You can see this effect in Mame by having the cheat code force these values, or use a level skip cheat to bypass this limitation.
Many 8-bit games have problems with these counters (since programmers did not figure that people would even get that far). Another example is NES Super Mario when attaining too many extra "lives", it uses 7 bits (128=0) to store the value. I found one myself by reaching level 257, or level 1 rolled over, in Atari 800's Atarisoft version of Dig Dug (it does not have a vertical tunnel, since it is dug out when you start a new game). Dunno if this happens on the arcade version, tho.
Not as cool as PacMan's glitch, I know.

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If the byte rolls over, we'll all be dead.

[ 24 June 2001: Message edited by: Nukey Shay ]

by **adidas** on Sun Jun 24, 2001 4:55 pm

does it happen in all clones of the game?

by **RabidYak** on Sun Jun 24, 2001 9:51 pm

All games running on the same hardware.

Ive read a more detailed account of this before, these sorts of guys are gaming kings. Apparently there was another guy there trying to do it as well and they played for 3 days strait and neither of them got it. The guy went back a month later or something and eventually done it after about a days solid playing. He got a free trip to Japan, shook the hand of the guy who invented Pac-Man and got named gameplayer of the century by Namco. The other guy done it a few months later, but I dont think he got anything for it.

I think the same guy holds the record for the highest Pac-Man Jr. score as well.

by **adidas** on Mon Jun 25, 2001 12:41 am

http://www.keepitretro.com/pages.php?pa ... +at+PacMan

by **TheLastKamikaze** on Mon Jun 25, 2001 4:49 am

actually it's Donkey Kong Jr not Pac Man Jr.

I wonder what other games this guy plays???

by **Megaman X** on Mon Jun 25, 2001 8:36 am

I wish there were still good arcades to go and hang around at. Sadly, they seem to be a dying breed.

Pac-Man was the game that got me hooked on arcades.

by **Nukey Shay** on Mon Jun 25, 2001 10:00 am

It was Space Invaders for me...but I was king at Pac Man. Sure do miss arcades on every corner (back in the day you could find machines almost anywhere).

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Ever see the beginning of Tron?

by **Silverhaze** on Mon Jun 25, 2001 2:04 pm

First time I played Pacman it was on a LED type game thing shaped like a yellow flying saucer.

Oh, and yeah!! I've seen the beginning of Tron LOL

by **RabidYak** on Mon Jun 25, 2001 5:23 pm

Its the original Donkey Kong he has the record for, not Donkey Kong Jr.

Its helluva mad that his best mate has the Ms.Pac-Man record, these people cant do anything but hang in arcades.

[ 25 June 2001: Message edited by: RabidYak ]

by **adidas** on Tue Jun 26, 2001 1:59 am

I still have my mini-pacman arcade machine. It looks like an arcade machine, but it sits on your table, and it's LED.

That was the first video game I actually owned.

I miss arcades sort of, but now that I'm in my twenties I don't think I want to hang around them too much anymore!

by **RabidYak** on Tue Jun 26, 2001 6:04 am

Theres not enough decent games around anymore to make it worthing hanging around in an arcade. My local is about 80% Gun games, 15% Driving and 5% Tekken.

by **adidas** on Tue Jun 26, 2001 6:47 am

I haven't been to the arcades around here in quite a while. If I ever do go, I'll be glued to the pinball machines.

by **Nukey Shay** on Tue Jun 26, 2001 8:18 am

Pinball rocks! Played a lotta that way before SI came along.
Silverhaze-
You've got a Tomy handheld (as seen on Magnum P.I. lol)...had one of 'em, too. Couldn't find a Coleco handheld (which is the one adidas has).

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Bip-bop-bip-bop...

by **Silverhaze** on Tue Jun 26, 2001 1:25 pm

Yeah that could be the one. It sat on a table I think though. Or your lap and I also remember seeing the same outter shell used for a different game. The display was a kind of light blue colour and the controls I remember as being big metal levers, one for up/down one for left/right.

I also had a space shoot em up thing that you had to look through a viewer thing to play. It looked like a small 'what the butler saw' machine and made strange buzzing noises. I cant remember if I had that before or after my BBC micro but I remember not being terribly impressed by it as I had arcade perfect space invaders, defender, pac-man and scramble on the BBC already.

by **adidas** on Tue Jul 03, 2001 4:05 am

I still don't understand who someone could get a perfect score. I was on Ms. Pacman just now. On the level I was at, the ghosts blinked about 4 or 5 times after eating the power pellet (proper term?) and then immediately turned to their original colors. That makes it next to impossible to eat them all, since they were only edible for 3 seconds or less.

by **Damian** on Tue Jul 03, 2001 6:31 am

The guys who broke these records and many others are the geek Adonis. They live and breath these games to such an extent that they could probably quote you the code expressions during each sprite movement. Do not admire these people, pity them.

[ 03 July 2001: Message edited by: DamianMoran ]

by **Pdaimaoh** on Tue Jul 03, 2001 6:43 am

HEY! I don't need no stinkin pity! just cause three seconds isn't enough time for you, big deal, get them lined up before you eat the power pellet!

by **adidas** on Tue Jul 03, 2001 7:14 am

You can do that on at least one out of every four pellets, but how would you do it for all the pellets on every level? That's part of what you have to do for a perfect score

by **were** on Tue Jul 03, 2001 8:00 am

i rememebr some grade6 ago we had to bring a toy from christmas and basically play with it. I had to bring my qbert game cards while my next-door-neighbour (rottonish boy u ever seen) brought those mini-game pacman

i rmemeber being expensive as hell though..:-(