# RGB High Score Battle! - Week 19 & 20: Action Fighter
**URL:** https://www.retrogameboards.com/t/rgb-high-score-battle-week-19-20-action-fighter/1489
**Category:** Video Games
**Created:** [April 22, 2019, 7:53pm UTC](https://www.retrogameboards.com/t/rgb-high-score-battle-week-19-20-action-fighter/1489 "2019-04-22T19:53:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@raskulous](https://www.retrogameboards.com/u/raskulous)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2019, 7:53pm UTC](https://www.retrogameboards.com/t/rgb-high-score-battle-week-19-20-action-fighter/1489/1 "2019-04-22T19:53:58Z")
**[Site is updated!](http://raskulous.com/scores/) Here’s our current week details:**
[ ](http://raskulous.com/scores/img/actionfighter.jpg)
**WEEK 19 & 20**
**Game:** Action Fighter
**Platform(s):** SMS
**Challenge Type:** High Score
**Game Details:** Full Game, High Score, No Continues
**When:** Apr 22nd - May 5th, 2019
I’ve updated the website with the new game, let’s get shooting!
Good luck everyone, please submit your scores via screenshot or video by replying directly to this post!
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**RULES**
1. Competitions last two weeks, close on Sunday night @ midnight.
2. Post screenshots in this thread as proof.
3. The winner from the previous week chooses the next game to play.
4. You cannot choose twice in a row. 2nd place will choose if someone wins two weeks in a row.
5. If there’s a tie, the person that submitted the high score first gets to choose.
6. Games must be high score compatible (think “arcade style scores” like Pac-Man, or Spy Hunter, not Super Mario).
7. Emulation is okay (MAME is often the best for high scores).
8. No save state manipulation (pausing to take a break is fine though).
9. Submit scores as soon as you get them! To keep the competition rolling and fair, do not hold on until the last moment to submit.
Points will be awarded for the entrants, based on the position finished for the week. This is to encourage wider participation, and the points will be posted each week as well as on the website.
| POSITION | POINTS AWARDED |
| --- | --- |
| 1st: | 10 points |
| 2nd: | 7 points |
| 3rd: | 5 points |
| 4th: | 3 points |
| 5th: | 2 points |
| Any honest attempt: | 1 point |
Overall, we should keep it simple. This is just a good time, not a crazy official high score competition! **Game plays should ideally be short and fun so people that can’t invest hours into this can still compete.** Obviously we are working on a trust based system here, so don’t ruin it for the others!
[Here’s a simple website](http://raskulous.com/scores) I made to keep track of the competition.
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### Author:  [@raskulous](https://www.retrogameboards.com/u/raskulous)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2019, 7:57pm UTC](https://www.retrogameboards.com/t/rgb-high-score-battle-week-19-20-action-fighter/1489/2 "2019-04-22T19:57:02Z")
Obviously an answer to the Spy Hunter series by SEGA, this game actually plays much more like a shoot-em-up than a driving/action game. The items in the game can be a little confusing, and you may find yourself wondering what the power-ups do, and how you turn into a jet etc…
This will help: [https://www.gamesdatabase.org/Media/SYSTEM/Sega\_Master\_System/Manual/formated/Action\_Fighter\_-_1986_-\_Sega.pdf](https://www.gamesdatabase.org/Media/SYSTEM/Sega_Master_System/Manual/formated/Action_Fighter_-_1986_-_Sega.pdf)
Good luck everyone, I’m actually excited about this one.
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### Author:  [@Suteneko](https://www.retrogameboards.com/u/Suteneko)
#### Post date: [April 22, 2019, 11:54pm UTC](https://www.retrogameboards.com/t/rgb-high-score-battle-week-19-20-action-fighter/1489/3 "2019-04-22T23:54:02Z")
Man this game is hard.
Maybe it is good that it gives you the first 999 seconds of each stage before you start to eat into your lives.
If you manage to get letter A through to F without dying you see a blue rocket fly by!
Anyway here is my first submission:
Managed to get to the boss of the second stage but not really worked out a way to beat those tanks.
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### Author:  [@Suteneko](https://www.retrogameboards.com/u/Suteneko)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2019, 1:27am UTC](https://www.retrogameboards.com/t/rgb-high-score-battle-week-19-20-action-fighter/1489/4 "2019-04-23T01:27:38Z")
Got to stage 3 but couldn’t reach the boss:
The helicopters are the pain in the backside to deal with and its so very hard to keep missiles to be able to take them out. Starting Stage 3 you get motorbikes with sidecars that shoot bullets at you…
It just gets harder and harder!
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### Author:  [@raskulous](https://www.retrogameboards.com/u/raskulous)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2019, 1:31am UTC](https://www.retrogameboards.com/t/rgb-high-score-battle-week-19-20-action-fighter/1489/5 "2019-04-23T01:31:33Z")
Oh man you were not kidding on the difficulty…
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### Author:  [@Suteneko](https://www.retrogameboards.com/u/Suteneko)
#### Post date: [April 23, 2019, 1:39am UTC](https://www.retrogameboards.com/t/rgb-high-score-battle-week-19-20-action-fighter/1489/6 "2019-04-23T01:39:34Z")
I gave the game a bit of a mess around for 15 minutes to try figure out how everything works before I reset and attempted 6 runs to fill up the ranking list:
Only on three attempts did I manage to get to the stage 2 boss, of which only one run did I manage to beat the boss and access stage 3.
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### Author:  [@MikeRotch](https://www.retrogameboards.com/u/MikeRotch)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2019, 5:01am UTC](https://www.retrogameboards.com/t/rgb-high-score-battle-week-19-20-action-fighter/1489/7 "2019-04-24T05:01:46Z")
Oh man this game is hard. I tried a bit last night and was not even able to get the top score LOL. But is it just me or is your hitbox actually larger than the car/plane mode itself? It seems like I die before the bullet actually touches me.
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### Author:  [@MikeRotch](https://www.retrogameboards.com/u/MikeRotch)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2019, 5:02am UTC](https://www.retrogameboards.com/t/rgb-high-score-battle-week-19-20-action-fighter/1489/8 "2019-04-24T05:02:40Z")
This is the best I can do right now, I am too frustrated to try for any higher LOL.
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### Author:  [@raskulous](https://www.retrogameboards.com/u/raskulous)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2019, 3:42pm UTC](https://www.retrogameboards.com/t/rgb-high-score-battle-week-19-20-action-fighter/1489/9 "2019-04-24T15:42:35Z")
Site updated with the current scores.
I’m just biding my time until someone that’s exceptionally good at shoot-em-ups comes along and destroys our scores.
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### Author:  [@Suteneko](https://www.retrogameboards.com/u/Suteneko)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2019, 3:48pm UTC](https://www.retrogameboards.com/t/rgb-high-score-battle-week-19-20-action-fighter/1489/10 "2019-04-24T15:48:13Z")
> [@MikeRotch](#):
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> But is it just me or is your hit-box actually larger than the car/plane mode itself?
That would be pretty typical for the time this game was made. The hit box is likely around the outside of the entire sprite instead of a smaller one inside of the sprite. I am also guessing that since the hit-box is likely the same for all vehicles meaning that it would be based around the largest one and thus on the motorbike you can get hit from bullets that don’t even look like they have touched it yet.
> [@raskulous](#):
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> I’m just biding my time until someone that’s exceptionally good at shoot-em-ups comes along and destroys our scores.
I’d be happy with that and it would be very nice if we can get more active participants in these RGB High Score Battles!
I gave the arcade version a quick go on MAME which is very different and I can say for certain that the Master System version is the superior and easier game.
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### Author:  [@raskulous](https://www.retrogameboards.com/u/raskulous)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2019, 4:36pm UTC](https://www.retrogameboards.com/t/rgb-high-score-battle-week-19-20-action-fighter/1489/11 "2019-04-24T16:36:00Z")
> [@Suteneko](#):
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> I’d be happy with that and it would be very nice if we can get more active participants in these RGB High Score Battles!
Agreed!
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### Author:  [@DaveLong](https://www.retrogameboards.com/u/DaveLong)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2019, 7:02pm UTC](https://www.retrogameboards.com/t/rgb-high-score-battle-week-19-20-action-fighter/1489/12 "2019-04-24T19:02:39Z")
This is a tough one for me. I don’t own a Master System or the game. I have to go looking around for a way to play it. That’s why I haven’t participated.
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### Author:  [@raskulous](https://www.retrogameboards.com/u/raskulous)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2019, 7:29pm UTC](https://www.retrogameboards.com/t/rgb-high-score-battle-week-19-20-action-fighter/1489/13 "2019-04-24T19:29:38Z")
Emulation is pretty easy! 😛
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### Author:  [@Suteneko](https://www.retrogameboards.com/u/Suteneko)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2019, 7:53pm UTC](https://www.retrogameboards.com/t/rgb-high-score-battle-week-19-20-action-fighter/1489/14 "2019-04-24T19:53:00Z")
You can also play it on a Megadrive via a power base converter or everdrive.
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### Author:  [@raskulous](https://www.retrogameboards.com/u/raskulous)
#### Post date: [April 27, 2019, 10:13pm UTC](https://www.retrogameboards.com/t/rgb-high-score-battle-week-19-20-action-fighter/1489/15 "2019-04-27T22:13:26Z")
Finally got the chance to play on the Master System and CRT instead of emulation, and it feels quite a bit nicer. Ended up dying on the 2nd boss this time around.
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### Author:  [@Suteneko](https://www.retrogameboards.com/u/Suteneko)
#### Post date: [April 28, 2019, 12:06pm UTC](https://www.retrogameboards.com/t/rgb-high-score-battle-week-19-20-action-fighter/1489/16 "2019-04-28T12:06:03Z")
Nice score increase there @raskulous.
I’ve not used emulation in quite some time now as especially for older 8bit titles you can notice significant differences with input lag due to their more strict controls.
Not played Action Fighter since the last scores I posted so want to make some more time to do so. There is only 5 stages so would be interesting to see if any of us can get closer towards completion before the end of the competition period. Though with its difficulty probably unlikely.
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### Author:  [@raskulous](https://www.retrogameboards.com/u/raskulous)
#### Post date: [April 29, 2019, 6:00am UTC](https://www.retrogameboards.com/t/rgb-high-score-battle-week-19-20-action-fighter/1489/17 "2019-04-29T06:00:44Z")
Did a couple more attempts tonight, got to the third boss.
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### Author:  [@raskulous](https://www.retrogameboards.com/u/raskulous)
#### Post date: [May 3, 2019, 1:33am UTC](https://www.retrogameboards.com/t/rgb-high-score-battle-week-19-20-action-fighter/1489/18 "2019-05-03T01:33:19Z")
Two more attempts tonight, got to the third boss again, but couldn’t kill it.
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### Author:  [@raskulous](https://www.retrogameboards.com/u/raskulous)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2019, 6:25pm UTC](https://www.retrogameboards.com/t/rgb-high-score-battle-week-19-20-action-fighter/1489/19 "2019-05-06T18:25:06Z")
New game will be Life Force on the NES! I’ll get the page updated, and put up the new thread up soon.
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### Author:  [@Suteneko](https://www.retrogameboards.com/u/Suteneko)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2019, 10:57pm UTC](https://www.retrogameboards.com/t/rgb-high-score-battle-week-19-20-action-fighter/1489/20 "2019-05-06T22:57:21Z")
Became busy with work and several projects that I forgot to come back and give this another try.
Life Force sounds like a good next game and I have the US cartridge at hand! 😉