Easy Chip Score Track https://www.twingalaxies.com/scores.php?scores=13504 Rules Dip Switch [As Located on the Logic Board @ Position E-2]
1-4 = OFF
5-6 = OFF/UNUSED
7 = ON
Note: The above Dip Switches, are not only the FACTORY DEFAULT settings, but are also the correct Twin Galaxies Tournament Settings for this title;
3 Ships
Special Rules: There are 2 known chip releases for this title. This is the Easier version.Submission Message This was done and accepted back in Nov of 2009
start 11:30 am each segment was 2-2.5 hrs and this is the score, amount of ships left and the time of day.
1 747420 189 1:38
2 1491240 356 4:00
3 2235000 533 6:22
4 2976680 694 8:48
5 3716780 851 11:11
6 4458080 968 1:44
7 5012830 a26 3:46
8 5748040 c06 6:17
9 6481960 c04 8:45
10 7203810 a93 11:13
11 7900210 a31 1:47
12 8581620 984 4:17
13 9301340 a25 6:45
14 9904320 973 9:06
15 a000000 970 9:30
15 a001110 150 11:39
16 game over 12:03
1 347
2 684
3 1031
4 1383
5 1659
6 1980
7 2266
8 2609
9 2943
10 3199
11 3531
12 3795
13 4122
14 4438
15 4724
15hrs 50 minutes 5 million
16 5010
17 5261
18 5573
19 5866
20 6149
21 6453
22 6686
23 7021
24 7236
25 7556
26 7850
27 8150
28 8450
29 8700
30 9000
31 9300
32 9527
33 9800
33hrs 43 minutes 10 million
per hour scoring rate
1 347
2 337
3 347
4 352
5 276
6 321
7 286
8 343
9 334
10 256
11 332
12 264
13 327
14 316
15 286
16 210
17 251
18 293
19 283
20 304
21 233
22 235
23 215
24 320
25 294
26 300
27 300
28 250
29 300
30 300
31 227
32 273
33 200
the first 5 million
Thats around 5263 points per minute
Somewhere around 2000 star castles destroyed
125 per hour or a little over 2 per minute
the last 5 million
call it 18 hours to make math easier
278k per hour 4633 points per minute much slower now
111 castles per hour
Had some good hours of 340k or so
the worst hours were around 210k pretty bad
during some of those low scoring hours mostly do to
breaks and killing off ships
I woke up Thursday morning around 9:00 am or so. Had
to go to the store to get food and such. Ate breakfast,
showered and started to set up things. The last board and
rom set that I used as we know decided to crash on me at
around 4.5 million some 16 hours into the event. Well I
had a new romset burned and I was going to use another
board that I have. Well the new romset wasnt working so
I had to use the same romset as before but I did use the
new board. I finally got everything ready to go and got
started around 11:30 am, again a little later than I wanted
to as last time I was on pace for 36-40 hours.
Its amazing that inside of 10 minutes I felt some stiffness
and tightness allready in the hands. Nothing to get
worried about it would go away. I was scoring pretty good
in the first few hours so things were going well. The
stream and board held up the entire time which was great
compared to last time. I tried to eat every 3 hours or so.
I had a total of 6 sandwiches, can of soup, tv dinner type
meal, 4 apples and bannanas, one 32 ounce gatorade, several
glasses of water, and that was it for food and drink. At
around 6 or 7 am I did have a 5 hour energy drink that got
me through the morning, nothing else was needed for energy.
The first few million was pretty easy on the body, no real
complaints from it yet. I got to the half way point feeling
rather quite good. Scoring rate is good, felt like I wasnt
going to have much trouble. Thats when the body started to
complain some. It started with my shoulders some and moved
into my right hand. The fingers that were pushing the
thrust and fire button started to hurt more and more. The
speed at which I could fire was slowing and if I tried to
fire faster it would just hurt. I did switch the fingers
I was using to the middle and the one to the right of that.
I lost some feeling in my index finger and had to switch.
The rest of the body, butt, neck, legs and back were all
holding up so that was great.
Friday aftenoon as I was getting closer to the end the more
I got worried about the pain in my right hand. The scoring
rate was getting worse and it seemed like it was taking
forever to score points and to kill the castle. A few phone
calls throughout the day helped me get through it though,
thanx guys. The control panel or buttons on occasion got
weird. It took turns on not firing, thrusting, or turning
at different times. It didnt seem like they were dirty, it
seemed like the game wasnt reading them. It would go away
after a few seconds though, I did stop and clean them at
some point.
Because of the first crash that happened I was almost always
nervous about another reset or crash. Sometimes when the
castle would be destroyed I would see something and start
thinking that its going to crash. Or some weird thing
with the graphics would show up a little different and get
me worriying for the next few secods before another castle
would appear.
The final couple hours went by a lot faster, the excitement
of the finish was in site and it was just a matter of time
before it was all over. I started concentrating a little
more so that I would score faster and the pain was a little
bit less from the rush.
I did get the ship count up to over 1140 or something. At
1k it showed a00 for 1000. At 1100 it showed c00 instead
of b00 like most would have thought. That got me nervous
and I stopped trying to get as many ships as I could. If
it would have gone to b00 I would have tried for f50 or so
before letting them die off. The score was a fun event to
find out if it went to the 10 million digit, rolled over
to zero, or would it go to hex. Well final score was
a001110.
Asteroids is still in the works. If I can find a speedup
hack like they used back then. Leo Daniels claims that he
did 40 million in 36 hours. Yeah I'd love to score around
1.1 million an hour with breaks too! Yeah right. A game
that isnt sped up at all will yield around 600k an hour with
short breaks.
Thanx to all who talked and chatted with me throughout the
event and I'm glad that you got to watch me. Hope you
enjoyed that event and didnt fall asleep to often as it is
a pretty boring game to watch.
Nice score, John! Accepted!