geoff Posted February 2, 2020 Report Share Posted February 2, 2020 What is the highest anyone has scored? My best is around 1710, and I doubt it's possible to score much more. Spider and andrewbroad 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetsetdanny Posted February 2, 2020 Report Share Posted February 2, 2020 It is! :) "Manic Miner - Highscore Challenge" (also described here) is a nice variant of the original game where you can play only one level at a time and so see what your highest score in each cavern is. My personal high scores are as follows: 01 Central Cavern - 1721 02 The Cold Room - 1965 03 The Menagerie - 1891 04 Abandoned Uranium Workings - 1850 05 Eugene's Lair - 1715 06 Processing Plant - 1809 07 The Vat - 1825 08 Miner Willy meets the Kong Beast - 4046 09 Wacky Amoebatrons - 1343 10 The Endorian Forest - 1805 11 Attack of the Mutant Telephones - 1718 12 Return of the Alien Kong Beast - 4243 13 Ore Refinery - 1866 14 Skylab Landing Bay - 1768 15 The Bank - 1708 16 The Sixteenth Cavern - 1789 17 The Warehouse - 1909 18 Amoebatrons' Revenge - 1314 19 Solar Power Generator - 1080 20 The Final Barrier - 1775 Attached below is a ZIP with a set of my RZX recordings, documenting each of the above scores. I am attaching it here for your convenience; it is also hosted on RZX Archive as part of a set of my recordings of various versions of "Manic Miner." 'Manic_Miner'_Highscore_Challenge_-_D._Gromann.zip After this blatant self-promotion :o , I have to admit that some people have managed to achieve higher scores than I have in various caverns. The current list of the best scores for each cavern is on the previously mentioned home page of "Manic Miner - Highscore Challenge" - these are the highest-known scores you will ever find anywhere, I think. According to the information published there, Pgyuri has managed to score 1724 points in "Central Cavern" and Woody is in second place with 1722 points. Spider, andrewbroad and IRF 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spider Posted February 3, 2020 Report Share Posted February 3, 2020 (edited) I think some of the caverns could possibly get a few more points, I was looking at "Sixteenth Cavern" in particular actually as the 'frozen' image of it shows the item below the Portal uncollected for one, indicating a 'drop into' exit rather than a 'jump up' one. I then thought the extra points for this might be worth it - however given the 'extra time' needed to reach it, (even though its a few seconds) might not be compensated for by the changing air bonus. Maybe! :) Edited February 3, 2020 by Spider Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IRF Posted February 3, 2020 Report Share Posted February 3, 2020 I think some of the caverns could possibly get a few more points, I was looking at "Sixteenth Cavern" in particular actually as the 'frozen' image of it shows the item below the Portal uncollected for one, indicating a 'drop into' exit rather than a 'jump up' one. I then thought the extra points for this might be worth it - however given the 'extra time' needed to reach it, (even though its a few seconds) might not be compensated for by the changing air bonus. Maybe! :) You still get the points for collecting that item if you drop onto it, even though you don't get to see it disappearing before the portal effect begins. andrewbroad and Spider 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spider Posted February 3, 2020 Report Share Posted February 3, 2020 You still get the points for collecting that item if you drop onto it, even though you don't get to see it disappearing before the portal effect begins. I'd not checked! :) I simply saw a screenshot the other day and for some reason remembered it when I read this topic. Thanks for clarification. :thumbsup: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetsetdanny Posted February 3, 2020 Report Share Posted February 3, 2020 Collecting it by dropping onto it is definitely faster than going for it from below. Spider 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geoff Posted February 4, 2020 Author Report Share Posted February 4, 2020 1721! Yay! Spider 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetsetdanny Posted February 5, 2020 Report Share Posted February 5, 2020 Congratulations! :) Spider 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spider Posted February 8, 2020 Report Share Posted February 8, 2020 Well done Geoff! :) The score ranking for Central Cavern were updated in the download listing, which automatically updates the discussion topic for it. Central Cavern :1st: - 1724 - Pgyuri :2nd: - 1722 - Woody :3rd: - 1721 - jetsetdanny and crunchy_frog and geoff I could not decide if I should of used "and" twice actually, normally I would not but in this case although its not perfect grammatically, doing it with either a comma or another delimiting character did not look quite right! :huh: :thumbsup: jetsetdanny 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heracleum Posted March 7, 2021 Report Share Posted March 7, 2021 (edited) Huh Interesting challenge! I actually never tried looking at CC's score, so I tried a dozen times now aaand sadly I don't seem to score higher than 1706 😅 Edit: 1708 now but I doubt I can improve it further Edited March 7, 2021 by Heracleum Spider 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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