Topic for everyone who claims to be the conqueror of EXOLON :)
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Hello TomCaT
We had a mini-champion on Exolon at Machinista 2003. I'm on the champ then
I was late, people participated, it seems that even everyone at the first level was screwed up, in my opinion
exclamation "What are you? Disgraces!" They objected: “try it yourself,” I immediately tried it,
True, in a home environment, and not in champ conditions, I immediately reached the 2nd
level and screwed up on it. :)
By the way, the topic about records and other successes in completing games comes up :)
WBR, diver aka Golubtsov Alexey
Hello, All
So, I think the game is not worth posting or presenting. For me it's -
the first game with which I started getting acquainted with Speccy. Year 91 (92), black and white
"sapphire", homemade Kempston from five durable technical buttons on 1 panel
(and there are wires behind) and a COMPLETE absence of a speaker. The ZX "Leningrad" itself is reclining on
carpet and doesn’t even dream of some kind of (even homemade) building... how
I now remember that evening when we tore the joystick out of each other’s hands and for a long time
couldn't sleep... Since then ZX has been living with me... This is as true as
to say that I live with him.
But let's return to Exolon. In my memory, b. part of the time we chopped one at a time
life on the chela in turn (there was immortality) with the goal of getting further away.
Pretty soon we found out that the game has 5 levels of 25 screens (zones).
But here's the problem - when later I met a version with 9 lives (like a cat :) ),
The classic “immortality syndrome” kicked in and I lost them all by about 10
screen.
For about 10 years I have been interested in the question: could anyone honestly
win the game (i.e. go through 5 levels in a row with the author's limit of 9 lives. Because
on rzxarhive version with infinite). And even if I couldn’t, who has any records for
number of screens completed (let's agree to indicate exactly, say: "I
passed 5 screens, and the game over was 6". As proof, now you can alwayswrite down rzx and post, but this is not necessary. Although contenders for the title
"The Conqueror of EXOLON", we would of course ask to do that.
I don't remember exactly. But, as they say, this is a fixable matter. I remember getting stuck
somewhere on the third level :) But the screen - nope, I need to play it now.
In general, the competition is open, the rules are fair game, which can be confirmed
full rzx (which ends when entering the name in the Hall of Fame, not earlier!).
I wish you good luck ;)
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Can you help Robin in his quest for the Silver Arrow?
WBR, TomCaT aka Kostya
Hello TomCaT
Tom> In general, the competition is open, the rules are fair game, which can be confirmed
Tom> full rzx (which ends with entering the name in the Hall of Fame, not
Tom> earlier!). I wish you good luck ;)
Yes, a world game! But I'm somehow confused... Five levels is, what, five in a row
Completely completed the game x times in a circle??? I just don’t understand that there were five of them
all levels...
I know that in 1993 or 1992 I lived with my grandmother in Pervomaisk, which is near
Nikolaev, and there were slot machines with Speccy. I walked along
circle the game once, that is, in a cycle I got to the first screen from which I started.
I don’t remember how many lives were given there, but I remember that I didn’t get any more tokens
sold how angry I was then. It's always like this...
Afterwards, deciding to remember my former youth, I often played in EXOLON, with Fine
Soft and Hampton. But the idea was to complete the game without losing a single thing
life. But I think that now I could go through it all with five lives. Except
in total, it seems, after going around the circle the rooms become more complicated, it seems like balls
and the rest of the evil flies out not with a delay, but immediately. That's why I clarified
about five levels, maybe these are levels!!!
Maybe arrange a competition on Earth Shaker, I did the same thing, yes
My own levels, however, are different - my levels were passed very rarely.Yes, and what is rzx?
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By Rob F. / Entire Group ...
WBR, Robus aka Alexey
Hello Robus
Rob> Yes, a world game! But I'm somehow confused... Five levels are, what, five
Rob> the game has been completely completed in a row for the last 3 times in a row ??? I just don’t understand what they are
Rob> there were five for all levels...
No. Exolon has 125 DIFFERENT screen zones. They are divided into five levels
(stages, parts, whatever you want. There is a noticeable differentiation in complexity and
sequential access to levels, so I still suggest
original name) with 25 screens each. At the end of the level there is a teleport,
a good chance for a bonus (in points) and the protective suit is lost.
As for speeding up the departure of the balls - maybe. But for the competition it’s not important HOW
evaluate. If you consider yourself a cool conqueror of the planet Exolon, send
give us your rzx file, and we’ll laugh together :) (still, I’d like to hope that
You’re not bragging about the passage with 5 lives. But this is easy to prove, or
refute!)
RZX - download the SPIN emulsion and read it in its help. Playing on SPIN allows
Drop a video image file (with text) of ALL actions on the Speccy screen onto disk.
IMHO the ideal option for salted food - take it and just stupidly repeat it! But he also
very suitable as a means of proving the winner's abilities.
There is a good site [http://www.rzxarhive.co.uk] that can tella lot of new information about what RZX is and how to properly pass some
"impossible" games :)
Regarding Earth Shaker - please, no offtopic. Create a separate theme for Earth
Shaker, because There aren't enough posts here anyway. I thought people would be interested...
I’ll probably sit down and record the first Exolon rzx, and then post it here.
Yes, I almost forgot. If you report your achievements in this thread, and then
If you manage to improve them, then you shouldn’t litter the forum and create new posts.
Use the useful "Edit" button in the lower right corner of your posts!
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Can you help Robin in his quest for the Silver Arrow?
WBR, TomCaT aka Kostya
Hello Robus
Rob> Yes, a world game! But I'm somehow confused... Five levels are, what, five
Rob> the game has been completely completed in a row for the last 3 times in a row ??? I just don’t understand what they are
Rob> there were five for all levels...
No. Exolon has 125 DIFFERENT screen zones. They are divided into five levels
(stages, parts, whatever you want. There is a noticeable differentiation in complexity and
sequential access to levels, so I still suggest
original name) with 25 screens each. At the end of the level there is a teleport,
a good chance for a bonus (in points) and the protective suit is lost.
As for speeding up the departure of the balls - maybe. But for the competition it’s not important HOW
evaluate. If you consider yourself a cool conqueror of the planet Exolon, send
give us your rzx file, and we’ll laugh together :) (still, I’d like to hope that
You’re not bragging about the passage with 5 lives. But this is easy to prove, or
refute!)
RZX - download the SPIN emulsion and read it in its help. Playing on SPIN allows
Drop a video image file (with text) of ALL actions on the Speccy screen onto disk.
IMHO the ideal option for salted food - take it and just stupidly repeat it! But he also
very suitable as a means of proving the winner's abilities.
There is a good site [http://www.rzxarhive.co.uk] that can tella lot of new information about what RZX is and how to properly pass some
"impossible" games :)
Regarding Earth Shaker - please, no offtopic. Create a separate theme for Earth
Shaker, because There aren't enough posts here anyway. I thought people would be interested...
I’ll probably sit down and record the first Exolon rzx, and then post it here.
Yes, I almost forgot. If you report your achievements in this thread, and then
If you manage to improve them, then you shouldn’t litter the forum and create new posts.
Use the useful "Edit" button in the lower right corner of your posts!
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Can you help Robin in his quest for the Silver Arrow?
WBR, TomCaT aka Kostya
Hello diver
div> we had a mini-champion on Exolon at Machinista 2003. I'm then on the champ itself
div> was late, people participated, it seems like even everyone at the first level screwed up,
div> to my exclamation “What are you? Disgraces!” They objected: “try it yourself,” I immediately
div> I tried it, although in a home environment, and not in a champ environment, with
div> I reached the 2nd level and got screwed up.
To be honest, all this is very familiar and close to me. :) I play like this myself :)
(according to a preliminary assessment, the author himself did not count on the possibility of passing
games for 9 gins. This is evidenced by the absence of congratulations after the fifth
level - the game just goes in cycles. But nevertheless, the game is undoubtedly interesting, and
nothing prevents such a competition from being held)
div>
div> by the way, a topic about records and other successes in completing games is coming up
Yes, you can organize a competition for the best score record with FAIR play at 9
lives (confirmed by rzx). Competition for the title of "The most experienced conqueror
Exolon".
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Can you help Robin in his quest for the Silver Arrow?
WBR, TomCaT aka Kostya
Hello TomCaT
Tom> RZX - download the SPIN emulsion and read it in its help. Playing on SPIN allows
Tom> drop a video file (with transcript) of ALL actions on the screen to disk
Tom> Speccy. IMHO, the ideal option for salting - take it and just stupidly repeat it!
Tom> But it is also very suitable as a means of proving ability
Tom> winner.
Some kind of horror... Why is this SPIN constantly hanging... I really can’t
get through the first 30 rooms, it constantly freezes, unless, of course, you start writing
!!! It’s immediately obvious that this SPIN is written in something like SI... =) Maybe there is
What other emulsion that supports RZX? Maybe it went better there
combination of IFs and ZENs?
You need to go look on the net for a description of the RZX format, and humanly insert it into
your emulsion and record the passage of the game...
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By Rob F. / Entire Group ...
WBR, Robus aka Alexey
Hello Robus
Robus, you don’t have to mess around with rzx, but just capture the video in emuzwin and
package, for example, techsmith codec. although the size is probably large
there will be a difference :)))
Hello Robus
Rob> I've already tried to make a video... The files are gigantic! What is this
Rob> techsmith?
techsmith is one of dozens of loseless codecs:
http://download2.techsmith.com/tscc/TSCC.exe (170Kb)
you install it and when recording a video you select it to be packed immediately into
techsmith. By the way, if we are talking only about the image, then rob immediately without sound. I
I tried to pack kkolor into TSCC, only video without sound (2 minutes 41 seconds,
320x256 - with border, 50fps) takes up 2.3Mb, and is also packed with RAR to 1.5Mb.
It will be interesting to try this packaging at games. By the way, in the codec settings
you can try reducing FPS.
Hello Robus
Rob> Maybe there is another emulsion that supports RZX?
The feature is quite attractive. Maybe one of our respected
Will the emulator builders present on the forum support this feature?
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Scorpion ZS-256/SMUC/CMOS/HDD133Mb/FDD3.5"/FDD5.25"/Modem
Hello Robus
Rob> I'll probably save the RZX type in my emulator! Actually
Rob> RZX has a good idea, if I don’t find a description, I’ll do something of my own =).
IMHO, the more emulators that support RZX, the better. :)
>
> By the way, I haven’t tried running SPIH on XP yet, maybe it doesn’t hang there? On 98 and
> 2000 hangs, I checked that.
On XP I was able to accurately record the rzx solution of mission 8 Saboteur 2 (see topic on
Saboteur on THIS forum). As for other Wins, I don’t know. I was slowing down
but not so much that it’s impossible to play...
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Can you help Robin in his quest for the Silver Arrow?
Hello diver
div> Robus, you don’t have to mess around with rzx, but just capture the video in emuzwin
div> and pack, for example, techsmith codec. although in size, probably
div> there will be a big difference :)))
I've already tried to make a video... The files are gigantic! What is this
techsmith?
I'll probably make a save like RZX in my emulator! Actually good
RZX has an idea, if I don’t find a description, I’ll do something of my own =).
By the way, I haven’t tried running SPIN on XP yet, maybe it doesn’t hang there? On 98 and
2000 hangs, I checked it.
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By Rob F. / Entire Group ...
Hello diver
div> by the way, it just occurred to me that a screenshot of is enough to get started
div> gameover, because it shows that the player has his last life, screen number, and
div> inscription game over. of course, if you go with regular or original
div> is a cheat, then there will be no gameover.
This will not prove anything, because after starting the game you can fall into the debugger and do
a large number of lives, or even immortalize the game, then play, and
towards the end, return everything to its place. This can even be done in real
Scorpio...
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Scorpion ZS-256/SMUC/CMOS/HDD133Mb/FDD3.5"/FDD5.25"/Modem
Hello, CityAceE
And who will benefit from this?
You won't achieve anything by deceiving everyone :)
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When will I die?! :mad:
Hello, CityAceE
Cit> This won't prove anything
I'm saying, for starters. and only against the built-in cheat and infinite lives /
invisibility.
if someone passes completely, or claims a record in the region >100
screen, then video/rzx recordings will be needed. and even then only for those
who doesn't believe. Personally, I’ll believe so, although look at the workshop/high-speed
I won’t refuse the passage either.
Hello TomCaT
I have no doubt that someone has completed the game completely. even seemingly from
Someone passed ours. I don't see anything impossible in this. yesterday again
I tried to play. made 3 attempts:
1. screwed up on the 31st screen
2. shamefully wasted all the lives on the first level
3. screwed up on the 33rd screen
By the way, it just occurred to me that a screenshot of
gameover, because it shows that the player has his last life, screen number, and
inscription game over. Of course, if you go through with a regular or original cheat, then
There will be no gameover.
Hello diver
Yes, that's almost true. One BUT - theoretically a cheat is possible, which, after playing
"funeral" for your astronaut will allow you to continue the game. I see no reason to play
spoil the data about the last screen reached while the gameover is hanging on the screen!
Here is a short video “from gameover (or last life) to STARTING A NEW GAME
FROM SCREEN 0!" - more suitable. It almost eliminates the possibility of cheating. But, although
and is proof, does not allow others to learn from your successes and
mistakes. So let's come to an agreement.
The video for the prize INCLUDES THE ABOVE FRAGMENT. Otherwise, what you want
include in rzx - entirely your business. Maybe you'll create a hoax program
which is very reminiscent of the “death of screen 125 at the elevator” (somehow I can’t believe this
opportunity, this is unfair on the part of evil fate :v2_lol: ?
Hello TomCaT
Vla> In fact, the game has 100 different screens (4 levels of 25 each), and
Vla> the last level (25 screens) is assembled from various screens already
Vla> used in the game.
The last level is practically a copy of the second level. The only difference is
the first two screens, the stones are green-cyan instead of magenta-red and the enemies
fly out more often. :)
And here is the first attempt at a complete walkthrough:
File: e0.zip http://zx.pk.ru/attachment.php?attachmentid=1857
Hello, captain cobalt
Yeah... your rating is cool. I still have to fight and fight. :v2_thumb:
Hello TomCaT
Finally my first playthrough. 171 screens.
The beginning was disgusting, but for the first time I overcame the 99th screen mark. And
In general, with a smaller number of lives it’s somehow easier to play. ;)
And on the second level, somewhere on the 35th screen, I forgot :mad: to use the cabin. And
passed through mines and pistons with a single machine gun.
In addition to this, I propose one more competition - for the title of "Brave Conqueror
Exolon", who pathologically despises the protective suit.
File: ex5.zip http://zx.pk.ru/attachment.php?attachmentid=1937