RE: VECTOR: Asteroids cheat (again)

> > I had also heard that the UFO's were made more difficult in the latter ROM
> > version, to stop the UFO hunters.  I guess that's not true either.  I have
> > the later ROMs in my upright, and those UFO's can pick me off at will.
> I have to disagree on this one.  I was a pretty good Asteroids UFO hunter
> back in the day.  Then, overnight, you couldn't do it anymore.  The owners
> of the local game room swore up and down they didn't do anything, but all of
> us UFO hunters were literally put out of business that day.

Something like 35K points causes the small saucers to come out faster and
the percentage of accuracy sharpens. The algorithm had the ability to
roughly judge velocity and position and project where you'd get nailed,
but it wasn't 100%, and it couldn't take in to account screen wrapping as
you thrusted.

Asteroids Deluxe, however, was absolutely brutal.

> I don't know if this was it, but after I started collecting years later, I
> saw some documentation on a mod the op could make to the board (wasn't even
> a ROM swap) that would make the game harder in some respect (can't even
> remember what it was right now).  If I can find it, I'll post it (but I
> wouldn't count on me finding it anytime soon).  I always wondered if that's
> what they did way back then to shut us all down.

The only other mod I've seen is changing it from 1Mhz to 1.5Mhz.

-->Neil

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