Dragon's Lair Fans - Arcade Lifestyle
General Chat => Dragon's Lair / Space Ace => Topic started by: CommodoreRock on October 08, 2014, 08:33:36 PM
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So a local retro arcade has a Dragon's Lair machine with what I assume is the PC DOS version of the laser disc. It starts with the drawbridge scene and proceeds mostly linearly (some randomness, but not the way I remember from the arcade versions I used to play in the 80s) through the crumbling vestibule and various other "Castle" scenes, one nine floor falling elevator separating "Castle" from "Cavern" scenes and finally the dragon. I thought, based on conventional wisdom, that I had the highest score possible on that machine (378,517). I played perfectly, dying only on the last move and completing on the last life. This particular arcade posts its high scores, and I thought I had the max score possible. Recently, someone scored 442,938 or something like that. The machine is set to 3 lives and was not apparently changed to 5 to achieve the additional points. Does anyone familiar with this version of the ROM know how this might have been achieved and is it beatable? Was there a trick I didn't know about? Does this ROM reward completing in one life with a super score (something I had not considered before)? Any ideas are appreciated.
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Hello and welcome to DLF' :)
Well, did you played on the regular DL cabinet, or on one of theses ? :arrow:
(https://www.dragonslairfans.com/collectors/jasvis6.jpg)
(https://www.dragonslairfans.com/collectors/jasvis7.jpg)
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Haha. Wow. I didn't know all those variations existed. Sorry also to have jumped right into strategy without proper intros, but I was quite surprised and confounded when I looked on the website the other day and found someone had bested me--no sour grapes, I congratulate whomever it was.
No, it looked like the standard cabinet I remembered from the 80s, but a few other differences I can add is that The Lizard King has more complicated moves at the end--not all sword, but S, L, S, D, S, Mud Men is S, L, U, R, U, L, U, U (I think on memory) instead of S, then all ups, and the Dragon at the point of getting the sword is U, R (instead of S), then S to block the fire, followed by a L, R and final S. It took me some time learn what for me were new moves.
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Old topic... :)
You probably played the U.S. Enhanced rev1.1 or rev2.1...
It's all written here : http://www.dragons-lair-project.com/tech/enhancements/dle.asp
AND...
What about THIS version ?
[ it's me playin' on my cab ;) ]
https://youtu.be/0VvKwHhMEqI
[ EDIT: ... and another ***different*** gameplay ;) ]
https://youtu.be/m9vd8ZAOHjk