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Post by Melanogaster on Dec 17, 2007 22:39:12 GMT
What would be a good high score for this one? I was playing it last week and I ended up with over 1,000,000 points (1,236,000, precisely); this somehow got my attention since I don't remember scoring more than 1,000,000 too often when I was a kid, mainly because all I cared about then was finishing it as quick as possible. So, anyone up? I know ian is gonna show us some pictures of ten trillion points, but maybe someone else might give it a try, too...
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Post by ian on Dec 18, 2007 1:38:22 GMT
Sorry, I just couldn't help myself It gave me a good excuse to play through my all-time favourite game a couple more times. I had a couple of goes. First time round I put more emphasis on collecting rings and extra lives. Second time round I tried doing it as quickly as I could. These are my scores. So I could only manage 681300. You sure you got over a 1,000,000 points? Not sure how that can be managed. Anyone else want to give it a go? Phil, I know you love this game, how about you? ;D
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Post by Melanogaster on Dec 18, 2007 2:20:14 GMT
Well, yes, I'm sure... I just got every possible extra life (including the one on the last stage) and avoided losing any lives; it was essentially a "ring-collecting" go, I should say...
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Post by ian on Dec 18, 2007 10:08:34 GMT
Wow, nice one. I did the exact same thing though, I collected as many rings as I could, didn't lose a life (I had about 37 at the end of game). I can't see how you managed to double my score, you sure you're not cheating? I will give it another go though. I will do some calculations and work out the best way to score points.
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Post by ninjabearhug on Dec 18, 2007 14:08:27 GMT
Like i needed an excuse to play Sonic ;D. I'm not sure about the SMS version, but on the MD if you finish levels in under a certain time you get a hell of lot bigger bonus than if you take your time and collect all the rings.
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Post by eday2010 on Dec 18, 2007 15:04:37 GMT
You also get a huge bonus for finishing with a time of 9:59. I think that only works in Sonic 3 though. It gives you something insane, like 500,000 points.
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Post by Melanogaster on Dec 18, 2007 20:05:08 GMT
I played it on the console and I don't own a PAR so I guess there's no way I can cheat... but let's see what will come out of your next try; it seems like ninjabearhug never refuses some hi-score battles, so he may be up now, too...
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Post by Phil on Dec 18, 2007 22:43:32 GMT
Great scores, I'll try this beauty again at the weekend when I have some time, don't think I've ever got over a million though
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Post by SaDistic on Dec 19, 2007 0:04:36 GMT
I once was mad at my sms and gave it a little kick, my score rose up to 500 000 000+
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Post by ian on Dec 19, 2007 0:20:04 GMT
Ok, latest attempt. Here, I tried finishing every stage with 99 rings for max points and played through all the bonus stages. I think the 'Special Bonus' at the end may have something to do with the bonus stages also. I'll look into it. 1388700I was getting worried there that I wasn't the best player in the world at this game ;D
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Post by Geishaboy on Dec 19, 2007 9:10:30 GMT
Holy crap you guys are awesome
I've never actually tried to get a high score on any game, but I will give it a go tonight on Sonic, I don't think I'll match a-million-and-something points though
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Post by Melanogaster on Dec 19, 2007 18:33:52 GMT
Hah, 99 rings on every stage... maybe I'll try some other freaky way here to see if it's any good.
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Post by ninjabearhug on Dec 19, 2007 20:27:32 GMT
I thought there was only 98 rings on Green Hill Act 2, am i missing something? I had a quick blast earlier (only got to the Bridge as my daughter was 'helping' me ), you get a lot more points for speed runs than you do for ring collecting. I managed to finish the fist stage in 24 seconds and got a 30,000 point time bonus, the most you can get with rings is 9900 plus maybe a small time bonus if you're quick. I wonder what bonus you'd get for 23 seconds? It would be pretty hard to get but i reckon it's possible. Anyone worked out how you get the special bonus yet? I reckon it's either a time thing or collecting every ring. You never knoe though you might have to kill every evil-doer ;D
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Post by ian on Dec 19, 2007 20:41:40 GMT
In the first level, it's probably better off going for speed rather than rings. Generally though it's best to get rings and make sure you get every bonus stage. Most levels you can't finish that quickly anyway. I'm sure the special bonus at the end is based how many bonus stages you complete. For finishing all 8 I got a cool 500,000. Some levels don't have 99 rings but what I meant to say was get as many rings as possible but don't go over 99.
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Post by ninjabearhug on Dec 19, 2007 21:02:35 GMT
Has anyone here tried collecting every ring? I'm more of a speed freak and normally try to get through a game as fast as possible ;D.
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