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Amiga Games => AGA Game of the Month => Topic started by: NinjaKat on August 02, 2020, 09:21:56 am

Title: August 2020 - Deluxe Galaga AGA
Post by: NinjaKat on August 02, 2020, 09:21:56 am
AGA Game of the Month for August, 2020, is Deluxe Galaga AGA!

Deluxe Galaga is a Commodore Amiga shoot’em up arcade game first released in 1993. It’s loosely based on the smash hit arcade game Galaga. Deluxe Galaga was voted in on the TOP 100 GAMES of all time for the Amiga. It got to #19, all the other games on the list was commercial games, except 1 other; Deluxe PacMan also made by Edgar.

You are in control of a small starfighter, and your mission is to protect the earth from alien attackers. When you start, your ship have limited supply of bullets and are moving a bit to slow, but by shooting the aliens you can collect the falling bonuses and get all sorts of weapons, extra speed and a lot of other goodies!

When you are hit, some of the weapon power is lost and also speed and any bonus time you have collected. This loss is bigger on the hard level.

There are double shoot, triple shoot, super weapon, extra life, smart bombs, money, warps, secret bonus level and much more to be collected and added to the starfighter.

Look out for mother ships, rockets, warp malfunctions, super guardians and Super Cash Ship!

There is also a lot of secrets in the game, you can find this secrets yourself, or you can buy them in space-shop. The space-shop will appear every fourth level, but you must have more than 50 credits to enter the shop. There are more than 10 secrets hidden in the game and some that are not listed in the game!!

Information:

Links to game information:



Please refer to the 'Game of the Month Rules and Participation (https://www.amigaretro.com/index.php/topic,35.0.html)' post for information on how to participate!  Good Luck!

* To qualify for the game of the month, use the following settings: (please confirm when posting your scores)
Good luck!
Title: Re: August 2020 - Deluxe Galaga AGA
Post by: power on August 03, 2020, 03:02:57 pm
I was just playing this yesterday, it's not a bad version.
Title: Re: August 2020 - Deluxe Galaga AGA
Post by: intangybles on August 13, 2020, 11:02:50 am
Best I have managed so far.....

Title: Re: August 2020 - Deluxe Galaga AGA
Post by: NinjaKat on August 15, 2020, 07:19:34 pm
Best I have managed so far.....
Hi mate, just need you to confirm your settings as per the rules in the main post.  Good job though!!!! and good luck!!!  Thanks!  ;)
Title: Re: August 2020 - Deluxe Galaga AGA
Post by: intangybles on August 17, 2020, 01:37:44 pm
Best I have managed so far.....
Hi mate, just need you to confirm your settings as per the rules in the main post.  Good job though!!!! and good luck!!!  Thanks!  ;)

Have done my best to work this out!  ;D


A Note for everyone, that did not know! Its been included in the standard install of AmiKit since Version 8 (I think, definitely in Version 8 on)

Hope that I still qualify!  :D

Title: Re: August 2020 - Deluxe Galaga AGA
Post by: quantum8 on August 19, 2020, 10:18:44 am
Finally had a chance to try this. There's some brutal starts to levels if you're in the wrong spot!

I got 286220 on my a1200 using the above listed settings.

Title: Re: August 2020 - Deluxe Galaga AGA
Post by: quantum8 on August 20, 2020, 11:00:49 am
Nudged a little higher and got a new high score on my a1200: 302140

Does anyone know how to preserve my high scores? It seems to delete them all and I'm left with none next time I load it.
Title: Re: August 2020 - Deluxe Galaga AGA
Post by: ARB Forum Admin on August 20, 2020, 06:56:34 pm
Nudged a little higher and got a new high score on my a1200: 302140

Does anyone know how to preserve my high scores? It seems to delete them all and I'm left with none next time I load it.

If its a WHDLoad version, is it not a function of the config, ie; you have to have it setup to save and also I think - that particular slave - has a save option you can set? Not looked at that side of it for a bit!
Title: Re: August 2020 - Deluxe Galaga AGA
Post by: quantum8 on August 20, 2020, 10:25:20 pm
Ah yes, I changed the settings in the slave to save in game and it worked once, but crashed the second time I tried.

edit: ok figured it out. If you leave the default as save on exit, DON'T use the standard whdload quit. Use the Esc key to quit properly and it will work.
Title: Re: August 2020 - Deluxe Galaga AGA
Post by: intangybles on August 20, 2020, 10:54:17 pm
Ah yes, I changed the settings in the slave to save in game and it worked once, but crashed the second time I tried.

edit: ok figured it out. If you leave the default as save on exit, DON'T use the standard whdload quit. Use the Esc key to quit properly and it will work.

Great news... they can be tricky!
Title: Re: August 2020 - Deluxe Galaga AGA
Post by: NinjaKat on August 25, 2020, 09:16:13 am
This is a great game for those that havent played it.  If you love Galaga, you'll love this.  Permanent desktop icon for me on my 1200 now!

411370 on my A1200.

Single player
Money bonus in meteorstorm: Yes
Money Limit: Unlimited
Level Limit: Unlimited
Ship Armour: Yes, please!
Use Mouse as controller: No

A tip for those not able to get into settings/config, I had to upgrade my WHDLoad version to 1.3 which then has a checkbox for config when starting the game.  I also think you can add a tooltype CUSTOM1=1 to show the config page.
Title: Re: August 2020 - Deluxe Galaga AGA
Post by: quantum8 on August 25, 2020, 10:35:10 am
Nice score there Ninjacat. The competition is on!

I'll have to upload my new highscore that I did last night :)
Title: Re: August 2020 - Deluxe Galaga AGA
Post by: quantum8 on August 26, 2020, 08:56:59 am
As promised, my score of 593015 on my a1200.



Title: Re: August 2020 - Deluxe Galaga AGA
Post by: intangybles on August 27, 2020, 09:25:56 am
As promised, my score of 593015 on my a1200.

OMG!
Title: Re: August 2020 - Deluxe Galaga AGA
Post by: NinjaKat on August 28, 2020, 12:41:04 am
Gee wizz!  Great job Jacob.
As you can see in the attached I have tried many times to better my score.
473445 is my best.
I am away from tomorrow for the rest of the month so that will be my best.
Still love this game though, just missed out on another meteor storm in this last one so my score could have been closer to yours, if luck was on my side!  Oh well, next month!  ;D
Title: Re: August 2020 - Deluxe Galaga AGA
Post by: quantum8 on August 28, 2020, 12:52:33 pm
I've actually gotten an even better score now  ;D

Managed to grab a couple x5 bonuses, as well as a rank increasewwhich helped!
Title: Re: August 2020 - Deluxe Galaga AGA
Post by: quantum8 on August 31, 2020, 05:27:22 pm
I'll just leave this score here now....

 ;D

Title: Re: August 2020 - Deluxe Galaga AGA
Post by: intangybles on September 01, 2020, 10:18:18 am
I'll just leave this score here now....

 ;D

OMG OMG OMG!

Don't know why I even try!  ;)

Well done!!!!
Title: Re: August 2020 - Deluxe Galaga AGA
Post by: NinjaKat on September 02, 2020, 09:15:40 pm
Wow.  Awesome score mate, well done!

Final Scores:
FIRST: quantum8 674935 (awarded AGA Game of the Month - August 2020 Award!)