Well here's what Galaga's Rack Test said...

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I sent this baby through a rack test last night - and here's what it had to say:

I timed the time it would take to go through the first 255 stages(I throttled it to save time), 1 minute and 12 seconds. 25 minutes later, it kept going, it had to be at least 16 times through, so that nullifies Chris Parsley's argument(because that same rack test goes through 255 stages and that's it with the other levels). I went to sleep. When I woke up, my watch said nine hours(at least 255 times of 255 stages, which would have been a little more than five hours), and it was STILL going, which nullifies MY argument. So I forsee a couple possibilities:

a. It does 255 * 255 * 255, or 255 * 255 * 255 * 255, which for all intensive purposes is that it goes infinatly(I'd like to see someone do 65,535 stages(255 * 255) in the first place :) )

b. Somehow they do it infinatly...

I'm sure I'll get people arguing that I did a rack test, so that doesn't count... but oh well... that's the price for little effort :)

-- Gameboy9 (goldengameboy@yahoo.com), July 25, 1999

Answers

hey, nice homework you did on Galaga. I think finding a rack advance is great. I did the math, and on another earlier message regarding Galaga I responded with all the mathamatical facts about that 65,535 stages of play. Unfortunately it's humanly impossible, but the math part of it is really cool to see. Take a look.

Regards, Steve Krogman ... Galaga ~ 15,999,990

-- stephen krogman (skrogman@concentric.net), July 25, 1999.


Boy you folks got my numbers wrong, I stated that it was able to handle FF+1 due to an extra data space. That doesn't mean I said it was limited to FFF levels. Rather to the contrary, it can play forever, provided one can do so without sleep, and would want to marathon it enough. Once it rolls over, in the counter, it is 00 again, and able to reroll back to FF forever. So the infinite levels for galaga is the correct observation.

-- Chris Parsley (cparsley1@hotmail.com), July 25, 1999.

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