Does anyone like the Resident Evil games? It's one of my favourite game franchises of all-time and I like the older ones better than the new ones (4 and 5). My favourite games in the series are 1, 2, and Code Veronica, which I am currently playing on my Xbox. What about you?

I myself am a cat person, but I really like dogs as well. I'll go for cats, since I own two (they're awesome. )

This level is hard, but I like it - a lot. I'm about half way through it so far, and may have it beaten by tonight except I was going to head to bed early, so probably not.

Go ahead, share yours! I'm curious to what trend of things is funnier than what other.

http://jamesa7171.net/cclp3ms.htm

I'm number 11.

When I'm in the S screen, if I have a level highlighted and I hit the TAB button, it turns from white to black. Does that DO anything?

Also, is there a way to "fix" a TWS file if one level has changed, and erase just that score?

I'll start with a funny one:

There is a force floor - north under the block. I boosted off the force floor - east to the left and knocked the block off the force floor it was on... for it to instantly rebound into my face.

File category: CC1 Levelsets


This levelset was not made by me, but a friend I knew about 10 years ago. His name was David P and since this file can't be found anywhere, I decided to share his levels on here. Note that his levels may seem busted, but he told me that every level has "Cheats" in them.


Confirmed solvable? Yes, MS only

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File category: CC1 Levelsets


JacquesS1 is a 'Best Of' levels of Jacques.dat (which can be downloaded on pieguy's site). It isn't as good as JacquesS2 but I think it has some fun levels in there. I'm not sure every single level is possible, but that's what I want to try and fix now. There are a LOT of invalid tiles for those who hate them (come on, they're fun), and unlike JacquesS1, they are kind of annoying (hidden Chips, monsters under blocks, and worst of all hidden traps) but those are rare. The rest are not too intrusive.

There are 233 levels in this set.

Have fun!

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So what did I do in January regarding Chip's Challenge?

One of the first CC related actions I took this year, was to sign up to a cool new forum I found. Since you're reading this post, I'd venture a guess that you've found said forum yourself. The activity on here has been incredible! We've had more than a thousand posts per week! And some of those have even been about Chip's Challenge

During the first week I worked on finding some levels in CCLP2 that could be modified for Lynx play while changing as little as possible. I'll probably be sharing more thoughts on this subject in the future, so I won't say more quite yet.

I also played some CCLP3 in Lynx. I had been saving the last thirty levels for a while. It felt great to play the same levels again that I had just worked on exactly a year ago, except this time in a different format. It was nice to spot some small differences in between how the levels worked between the two rulesets. So finally during the third week I managed to solve the whole set! My score is 6,030,400 but there's a lot of levels I could go back and optimize. I only played through them casually and plan on going back to optimize if someone else actually starts posting competative scores.

Then I built a level! I haven't touched a blank page in an editor since CCLP3 came out, so it was about time to try doing that again. I was inspired by a conversation on the newsgroup about block slapping, so I guess I needed a little nudge to get back to building stuff. Now that I've mentioned it, I'll have to share it with you guys as soon as possible. I'll see if I can do that this month, and then I'll talk more about it and the other levels I've made. Hopefully I can find about ten that are worth releasing.

And pieguy posted new records for the original levels. Yes, you read that right, not just one record, but the plural with an s! Incredible. Let's see someone else match that, even for CCLP2.

I also recorded some avis for levels in CCLP3. You can get them on Mike's site, but here's a link to all of them at once: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?r1pdq6197hrr95c They are mostly alternate bold routes to levels that already had their bolds made public. It would be interesting to see if someone else has still found other routes that score the same on some of these levels (like Pac Man).

Amidst doing that, I took a look at the new CC Zone time trial and treasure hunter competitions. Man, that was quite fun as well! The treasure hunt was fun, and the time trial levels were just the right difficulty. I didn't get an idea for a level to enter into the create competition untill the very end of the month. Can't wait to hear the results from that or see the other entries! And of course it will be fun to try out the new ones this month as well. Hopefully lots of people enter all the competitions.

Now that I wrote all that, I really wonder where I found the time to do it all? Looking back, I don't really know, particularly since I mainly procrastinated for the last week in the month. It's been a crazy start to the year. Here's for hoping it won't get much worse!

Next time, I'll be thinking about the competition formats, but maybe writing about that topic will have to make way for something more current. See you around! And leave comments!

-Miika

Where did I find the time to do that? Looking back, I don't really know. It's been a crazy start to the year. Here's for hoping it won't get much worse!