[TAS] Quester Arcade 26,349,440 points (Namco 1987)

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Tool-assisted superplay (TAS) of Quester Arcade 26,349,440 points
My score should have been 1,549,440 if it hadn't been for a bug.
NOTES:
-The game was produced by Toru Iwatani, known as the creator of Pac-Man. It was created as a response to Taito's 1986 arcade title Arkanoid, which helped revive the block breaker genre and inspire waves of its own clone games. (wikipedia)
-The choice of the angle the ball bounces off the paddle is less than I would have liked, which is why some levels took so long to complete
-The game gave me 255 lives after killing the final boss.
I ran MAME in debug mode to monitor the memory location of lives. The 255 lives appear in memory when the 2nd block of the boss is broken.
I was thinking that on stage 32 there was maybe too much balls at the same time on the screen (11), so I redid the end of the TAS by keeping only 3 balls on the stage 32 and I still received 255 lives.
Even if I lose a life between the 1st and 2nd block of the boss, I still receive 255 lives when the 2nd block breaks.
So, I don't have a good explanation on what is causing this bug.
At the end you get 100,000 points for each life, I should have gotten 700,000 bonus points instead of 25,500,000, so my real score is 1,549,440 points.
What is a TAS? / prog61
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0:00 Title
0:08 Round 1 to 6
5:19 Round 7: Bonus Stage
5:51 Round 8 to 13
10:12 Round 14: Bonus Stage
10:41 Round 15 to 20
17:50 Round 21: Bonus Stage
18:22 Round 22 to 27
22:54 Round 28: Bonus Stage
23:24 Round 29 to 32
27:52 Round 33: Boss
28:38 Bonus Score 25,500,000
29:04 Ending
29:20 Credits

Пікірлер: 36

@VelvetMagician 2 жыл бұрын

KZfaq’s algorithms never cease to surprise me

@JackTheGamer3 2 жыл бұрын

I didn’t know this game had an ending!

@bunnybismuth 2 жыл бұрын

This is probably the most interesting Arkaclone I've seen yet.

@somenoobdatsuks 2 жыл бұрын

This appeared in my recommendeds, but I do not regret it

@christopheracosta2043 2 жыл бұрын

4:30 A very special appearance by Pacman!

@skalt711 2 жыл бұрын

What a huge score!

@Prog61 2 жыл бұрын

As I explained in the comments, the final score should have been 1,549,440 points, but a glitch at the end gave me 255 lives at 100,000 points each.

@Laika_in_Space 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome TAS!

@NBUltra187 2 жыл бұрын

man this is crazy! thanks Prog61!!!

@JohnGunn- 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome. The music is cool too

@jesuscruz5604 2 жыл бұрын

It Makes A Musical To Me!

@frankrizzo890 2 жыл бұрын

Taito just called, they'd like they Arkanoid back! (I guess if you went back far enough, Atari just called, they'd like their Breakout back).

@tiyenin Ай бұрын

How I wish that these were optimized.

@aripall03 2 жыл бұрын

This must have taken a long time. Very impressive

@isaacmorales8732 4 ай бұрын

8:29 Special Flag

@hamedalzarooni442 8 ай бұрын

19:28 if you want to see balls getting stuck to walls and forgetting physics for brief moments

@giggs-chan2004 22 күн бұрын

7:13 PP

@eternalnut 2 жыл бұрын

Impressive! Could you do Ghoul Panic next?

@DangorouNishida 2 жыл бұрын

I experienced this on a real machine, but I didn't keep a lot of balls at that time. I don't know the cause. In this video, there are 12 balls on stage 16, and I don't think the max of the balls is 10.

@DangorouNishida 2 жыл бұрын

There is no doubt that I split the ball in the final stage when I experienced it, so I think there is probably one of the factors. (It was clear with 1 coin, but there were many mistakes.)

@Prog61 2 жыл бұрын

You're probably right, the number of balls on the screen is probably not the reason I got 255 lives at the end. I ran MAME in debug mode to monitor the memory location of lives. The 255 lives appear in memory when the 2nd block of the boss is broken. I redid the end of the TAS by keeping only 3 balls on the stage 32 and I still received 255 lives. Even if I lose a life between the 1st and 2nd block of the boss, I still receive 255 lives when the 2nd block breaks. So, I don't have a good explanation of the cause of this bug. Thanks for your comments.

@Atylonisus 11 ай бұрын

Is there not a faster way to complete levels than this? I'm not talking about MULTIBALL levels where the sheer number of balls clear everything, I mean the levels where you only use 1 ball for a majority. It seems terribly ineffecient to only hit one or two blocks as opposed to getting your ball bouncing forever in the top half. Is it a matter of bounce angles?