Williams Defender at 99/99 (max difficulty) and 5K per ship
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Here is the Defender video game played at it's maximum difficulty setting, but at 5K per ship. To offset the generous ship bonus level I only allow myself one smart bomb per wave. I also changed the planet refresh setting so that I get an entire new planet every wave. This forces me to play to preserve my humanoids, whereas historically I have played by killing off all the humanoids except one or two and holding on to them.
Oh, and do a search on youtube for Defender 909K -- that dude is the best out there. Or if that one doesn't work, Defender 314K. His youtube name is mikeville66.
The Defender manual (PDF) can be found online, for instance here:
www.robotron-2...
To get maximum difficulty settings 18 and 19 are given the values 99. To set 5K per ship, it's setting 8.
Quoting the manual:
GAME ADJUSTMENTS (Functions 8-21)
1.In game over mode set switch to AUTO-UP and depress ADVANCE. The CRT indicates Function 1 and total left chute coins.
2.To raise Function number on CRT, operate ADVANCE pushbutton with switch set to AUTO-UP. To lower Function number operate ADVANCE with it set to MANUAL-DOWN.
3.With desired Function indicated, raise adjustment value by operating HIGH SCORE RESET with switch set to AUTO-UP; 1ower value by operating HIGH SCORE RESET with it set to MANUAL-DOWN. Value left on CRT is new setting. For values, see below and, for pricing, Table 1.
Function Total Description
8 10,000 BONUS SHIP LEVEL (O=No Bonus ships)
9 3 SHIPS PER GAME
10 3 COINAGE SELECT
11 1 LEFT COIN MULT
12 4 CENTER COIN MULT
13 1 RIGHT COIN MULT
14 1 COINS FOR CREDIT
15 0 COINS FOR BONUS
16 0 MINIMUM COINS
17 0 FREE PLAY (Set to 1 for Free Play)
18 0 STARTING DIFFICULTY: O=LIB; 1=MOD; 2=CONS
19 10 PROGRESSIVE WAVE DIFFICULTY
Have to say this but this game was a very early example of what perfection is in a video game. Perfect sound that still sounds wonderful to this day, and listen to those buttons taking a hammering along with the joystick going up and down, how the original arcade cab survived all the stick it took back in its day is beyond me and just showed what engineering went into arcade machines back in the day. Thanks for uploading this.
Defender is even MORE perfect. You can run Defender into MAME emulator, and set the CPU speed to 200%, and... Surprise! Defender adjust graphics render process to this new speed... Amazing!
Joaquín Ferrero nothing is better than the original pcb...but it is fun to modify things in Mame.
those sound effects are to die for
Here are some links to sound files: www.digitpress.com/dpsoundz/soundfx.htm
and www.mameworld.info/net/emuadvice/mtunes.html
The sound of my wasted childhood. I doff my hat . I remember the thrill and anxiety of the first time I heard the end of a wave and saw a " black " scanner for the first time ... An absolute thrill .
Amazing skills . Pity there is not a " Defender " option for car controls , you'd be F1 champ
This is intense
I bought one second hand for £250 pounds in 1989. I used to love opening the coin door and toggling that press down switch and listen to every game audio. Wow, this game was years and years ahead of the industry. All the chips had gold plated pins for perfect conductivity, unbelievable. Did you know that it was launched at an american coin slot trade showcase and the software was still being worked on, the night before!! Williams made it just in time. This game stands head and shoulders above any other for the year...Legend!!
Very cool! Here's a history page about the game: www.robotron2084guidebook.com/defender/history/
Respect to you, especially for dealing with the baiters.
Impressive gun skills..
Live long and defend!!!
I was very impressed within the first 30 seconds. After that I was hypnotised.
Played many games of Defender in the 1980 to 1983 period. Your skills are among the best I've seen. Thrilling to watch..
Check this Defender 3D game out. It's amazing. I bought it yesterday. It plays so much like the 80's game but with tons of new features:
store.steampowered.com/app/928230/DEFENDER_3D/
Great vid mate. Reminds me of early eighties. I was really good at this game too. I was only 12 lol. Used to save my dinner money and spend it on the defender. Eventually I was great. My highest score was 3.2 million. Ie, I clocked it 3 times. And at that point, id had enough. But nobody in Barnsley, to my knowledge bet me lol. My dad called it despender lol
I used to love this game, all time favourite!
Wow, Amazing skills. I consider myself a pretty decent player at Defender and Stargate but you sir are on another level. I play a lot of competitive pinball. Do you play in video game tournaments? If not you probably should!
Best arcade game ever made, by a country mile. You have to know this game to realise how good this guy is, nicely played!
Absolutely excellent. I used to play this. Nobody down my arcade scored anything like this. We used to stand around watching. I actually bought a machine later on for my home.
Such a buzz watching you play ✅😃🍊
Thanks for the kind words Mr Orange 😊 It's great to have the original equipment; it just fits so naturally with the fingers.
Yep flash backs to the 80s with the sounds this mega game makes
Your smartbomb restraint is admirable. There are quite a few circumstances waves 6-9 where i would have smarted 100 times! Thats just me being a coward though.
THIS GUY IS AWESOME !!!!!I loved this game it was my Favourite BUT !!!! I WAS CRAP NEVER GOT PASSED THE 2ND ROUND lol i loved the sounds there were brill
I was 11 or 12 when this came out and it was THE coin op game to play. I was amazed at how much reflex skill it demanded then and still now. Great play sir.
when i am on my deathbed one day , one of my last memories will definitely be this game .never left my heart ,always been inside me .The game was brilliant and is brilliantly engineered .
That level you are set at is like 6 levels ahead off the bat . After playing it for so long its where you like to start the rest becomes a little slow lol
😀 I love it! I should get a Defender tattoo one of these days ...
I remember coming across a kid playing this in local party store in early80s, he was on ‘ attack wave 90’ and had the hammer down continuously in one direction. It was so fast I could hardly tell what was going on. It would go about 30 seconds and then stop to go to the next wave. I watched till he was at about wave 96. I don’t recall seeing him get blasted apart like is happening here.
Was still going when I left the store. I have no idea how high he went
excellent video i remember this game way back in the day it was installed at my local sports centre if i had a coin to play it and survive maybe 5 mins that was money well spent. then you become a spectator and gather around the machine and watch others play this game is almost as fun to watch you my friend are amazing your skill is incredible this has got to be the best video game ever made long live defender the sounds are awesome
Perhaps the Defender champion at play
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Must admit, amazing bater take downs👍👍
DONT GIVE A MONKEYS CHUFF WHAT ANYBODY SAYS THIS IS WITHOUT A DOUBT THE BEST VIDEO GAME EVER MADE ❤
Wow so many memories from so many moons ago when i was totally shit at this game but my mate was a boss at it. Thanks for posting.
Peace
If ships and smart bombs could be set separately I would do that. My goal is to have a generous enough ship bonus so that I can get quality practice because I have a sense of continuity in the game (rather than zillions of low scoring games), but I want to be in the habit of using the smart bombs sparingly.
I bow to you, defender master.
you have got to be the greatest player of all time truly amazing i tip my hat to you sir pls make more vids
He is good but back in the 80's we played this every dinner hour in a shop near my school, I once stayed on 50 minutes and was late for my lesson, had to ditch it and I was only the 3rd best in the town. I suspect every other town in the 80's had equally good players, not taking anything away from this guy, he clearly would be one of the top players back then. One thing tho, I remember it being harder than this, ships were harder to get and we hung on to our last human without ditching him until the wave was over. Great to watch this again though and well played to the guy on the J/S
@@WorthABuyreviews Oh, and you had it on the same difficulty settings as in this video? LOL
4:15 The bonus ship at end of wave sound is one of my favourite sounds ever.
i like the falling humanoid at the end
Even to this day, the extra life noise still buzzes me
master of saloon...
My hat has been well and truly taken off for you my friend.
Amazing skills !
wow ...felt my heart beat racing whilst you were doing that .... I used to think it was fast in normal mode lol
arani nane - you can download a program called MAME that allows for emulation of the old arcade games. But you also need to get ahold of the old ROMs. You can check out our facebook group, Williams Defender Players Unite, if you want to know more.
Mame is great. Without the proper controls defender is even more difficult.
Your a great player.
This is still one hard game.
And probably the best video arcade game ever
Antony Pearson teacher UK
I've been trying to play at 99/99 (max difficulty) at 10K per ship, and can't quite manage it. Typically I'll ramp up to that level, but can only maintain it for a few hundred thousand points on a good day. Only once or twice have I made it all the way to a million at that level.
modolief Thanks for replying.
May I trouble you further to ask what would the average setting have been in arcades in the 80s
7:09-7:21 Almost game over there!
Do you also play Stargate? Your skills are phenomenal! A good game for me was making it to wave three. Mutants were my worst adversary. Pac-Man and Galaga were more my speed, though I got pretty good at Robotron (another great Williams game).
Thanks for asking! Yes I do play Stargate, I have a video for it here: ruclips.net/video/e3VViJl9f9Y/видео.html
IVE JUST SPENT 38.46 MINS IN AWE,
This dude is good!
Nice. Looks like you had it set to reset your Humans count every level instead of every 5. Great run.
These days I've been playing with a reset of the humans every three waves. I'm practicing maximizing the points I get from having a lot of humanoids on the planet, and also from rescuing them. Sometimes I play the opposite way, only saving a few of them.
Thanks: I filmed in the dark (no background light), and I hammered a piece of wood to the ceiling and used a Gorillapod tripod thingie to attach my iphone to that piece of wood and adjust the angle. The camera was very close to my right shoulder.
LOL just the first level will put to sweat and tears many players
loved defender and I used to be the best in my area. We had to play in shifts and I used to jump onto games when the player was tired. Hitting million plus was a long task lol
That's awesome! I think when they released Defender the average game length was something like 37 seconds. I found this on Wikipedia:
Softline in 1983 wrote that it "remains one of the hardest arcade games ever developed. Initial attempts lasting less than ten seconds are not uncommon for novices."
Beat the living shit out of this game in 81-83. Wore callous` for years after.
Defender/Stargate !!!! RULZZ !!
Awesomeness!
Hi... im from Colombia... in my town nobody play like this
Soooo fucking amazing
Good memories
Gracia mompa! Yeah, I love the game. Wish I could play it more these days, just too busy/distracted.
Check this Defender 3D game out. It's amazing. I bought it yesterday. It plays so much like the 80's game but with tons of new features:
store.steampowered.com/app/928230/DEFENDER_3D/
my new hero
Wow. His noseart will be "Baitereater."
🙌🙌🙌🙌 What kind of physical control setup did you have for this play?
You are not only ripping it at that level, but doing well not to swear, unless thats just me. I wonder what score you got too as it finished while you still had lots of ships?
Seriously insane
PRO MOVES mate!!!, well done. It always makes me wonder how long it takes Defender players to actually get this good or to this level of skill. How long did it take you to get to your first 50'000 ? It took me forever just to start reaching wave 4 normal settings. I barely reach 30'000 most of the time.
Defender to most people at first glance looks very simplistic so they never realise (me included) just what a tactical "thinking man's" game it can be. I am just starting to do the thing now where you kill off all your humanoids except a few and i have to admit it does actually help. Sometimes, lol
Hey AESCULAPTORmark3 -- sorry for the late reply, but thanks a lot for your comments! Yeah man, the game is pretty brutal. Playing Defender is like trying to scale a cliff--it's NEVER easy. Always needs a continuous focus and a slow accumulation of skill. That's what I like about the higher difficulty levels. When I first set it to max difficulty it was like learning the game all over again My first 50,000K was a big accomplishment. Check out the facebook group "Williams Defender Players Unite" if you want to compare notes with other people who are still working on their first million.
modolief Whoa! only just found your reply since i came back to check out this video again.
i must have accidentally deleted your reply in my emails.
I will check out that facebook group. Thanks man.
Awesome gameplay.
PeptoTapeworm Thanks! Maybe I'll record a new video one of these days. I've been struggling trying to get 1M at 10K per ship. Here's a video of BrundleMoose who recently succeeded in that quest:
ruclips.net/video/hF82dyOZvvo/видео.html
Holy crap: dawwwwwwg!
Soo impressed ! I played when i was 14. My highest was 5,999,900 over many hours,exhausted i had to leave and sacrifice many ships. Level unknown. Thanks for posting. ps would love to see a few minutes of handwork?
Hey Scott, thanks for the kind remarks! I did post a couple vids viewing my fingers, search for "Williams Defender finger usage" -- pretty short videos though. BTW, if you want to see the top Defender player on youtube, check out mikeville66 -- AMAZING Defendering. Wow ... 6 million?!? That's a looong game. How did you stay alert? My max is only about 1.5 million, 2 million on stargate. Do you ever play Defender on MAME? Hey, there's a "Williams Defender Players Unite" facebook group, you should check it out. Also, next month in San Jose California, there's a retro video game convention. You can find it by googling for California Extreme Video Games.
Where can i get this ? any emulator out there? some years ago i saw at a xbox at my friends house as a preview . since them i got nothing. thanks for sharing good old memories.
at 10k per new ship your game over wave 3
I loved this game. Why hasn't it been brought out for the Switch?
Frank McElhill what is the Switch?
I remember breaking 100 thousand a few times
Damn that's crazy
Classy game !
Hi. Can I ask a really stupid question...how do you manage to move and fire like that at the same time? For me, its kind of either one or the other.
Sure, no problem. I have three videos demonstrating this:
ruclips.net/video/NMHduaxnX4M/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/Y9lW1f1ri-E/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/7NpnG2pPTxM/видео.html
Interesting..so you dont really press down on the fire button in the same way you do as the thrust? Kind of feather it with the last knuckles of your 3rd and 4th fingers combined?
Correct. Index finger thrust, middle two fingers fire.
Hi, do you know anything about Mame set up, and changing the difficulty levels please?
Hi: There's a Facebook group called Williams Defender Players Unite, you might try there. I haven't played with MAME for a very long time so I don't really remember any particulars, though I know it's possible to change the difficulty settings in MAME.
Thanks for that. Yes, I am a member of it but had no luck with feedback. My issue is I am getting back into playing, but with the rom and whatever emulator I use, after wave 4, it plays like wave 50+, just super fast whcih issnt right, and I have got into the settings my self but can't make it slower.@@modolief
Are you using Mame to play this?
This is played on original equipment. I later replaced the motherboard with JROK, a hardware emulator, but this video is from an OG cabinet.
Thats a good tactic Kai as it helps you learn how to fight. I am just too wasteful unfortunately. I can average about 14-15K a wave on 99-99 thanks to the extra baiters, which means i can smart bomb 3 times every 2 waves. And i do! Keep practising and you will join the elite band of players who can score 1 million on 99-99 10K ship. You seem good enough anyway so you are almost there. Have you tried the green roms. They are a bitch. Much faster!
Wow! that hyperspace at 2:20 did nothing for ya - same thing happens to me whenever I use it - only thing is I think you might be just a little bit better then me
Hyperspace is always a mixed bag. You have a 75% chance of surviving. In this case, though I survived, I was still only able to pick off one more enemy. THAT is because wave-end is so difficult! Once the baiters are going berserk you have to be Chuck Norris to kill them all.
i always had bad aim at this game and would always kill the people by mistake.
Sick skills brah !!!! I got this on mame its very hard!
Thanks man. MAME is especially hard because the control panel is different -- what do you use, a normal keyboard? Also, on MAME, I have seen "screen tear": parts of the screen seem to rip a little because the processor can't keep up with the movement. Weird since modern processors are about 1000 times faster than the original 1980 dedicated CPU. I hear older versions of MAME didn't have that problem. Maybe there's a setting somewhere that can fix it, I just haven't bothered to tweak it all the way since I have original equipment (and still functioning!).
Good stuff, I notice a few glitches but not a lot , some of the newer games need more ram etc.
I love mame if you get it set right , there is lots to learn.
I Have a 2 player Joystick I made, its the turn button that does me in on Defender. I am playing Robotron at the moment , hopefully I can get good at defender sometime , any strategies :) , cheers
Are you playing on the actual cabinet then ?? Cheers
Gavin FreedomLover Yah, actual cabinet. Bought it about 3 years ago for $500 on craigslist. Still in good very good condition. Defender strategies: here's a big tip: end of wave is usually the hardest part because the baiters go crazy. What I didn't know forever was that the transition from four enemies to three enemies remaining is when the craziness happens. Another trick: get good at baiters. Just baiter hunt at wave end. Do a whole bunch of games like that for practice. And if you're on facebook check out Williams Defender Players Unite. There's Robotron discussion on there also.
Sweet! I love the original cab's, it wouldn't be hard to build a mame stick with the same button layout!
How did they get that glow on the graphics a blitter?
Well ... this is a CRT screen being filmed with an iPhone 6. It might just be an outcome of that combination. There is a lot of lag in the video due to painting the screen line by line.
@@modolief the original game had that glow
Fucking cool!!!!
wow, is that green rom aswell ?
+lee wilson Hey Lee: No, my machine has the Red ROMs installed. Greens are harder ... see mikevill66's videos for the Maximum Defender.
Check this Defender 3D game out. It's amazing. I bought it yesterday. It plays so much like the 80's game but with tons of new features:
store.steampowered.com/app/928230/DEFENDER_3D/
is from Brazil, this game play Android name PLANET ENFORCER.....kkkkkkk
+Valmir Moreira Wow ... ruclips.net/video/dhGGemGp5qY/видео.html
muito loco.........kkkkkkkkk
+Valmir Moreira ¡Soy muy kkkkkkk, gracias!
< Hardest game ever!
Mardon Rd fish n chip shop
That's where you played?
@@modolief In the UK, we had many arcade games in those kind of shops, takeaways, etc...
Yep, in takeaways and all the real arcades I ever saw were by the seaside, not in the highstreets of normal towns.
Is Stargate the sequel to Defender?
Yes, Stargate was made about a year after Defender by the same programmers ( Eugene Jarvis, Larry DeMar, Sam Dicker, Paul Dussault) and working for the same company (Williams Electronics). It runs on somewhat beefier hardware, but the company didn't give the programmers enough time to make a really great sequel, so it was not nearly the ground breaking game that Defender was.
@@modolief Thank you for replying back to my question. I was gifted this machine in basically mint condition, the cabaret version from a gentleman that worked for Williams for 20+ years. He told me the battery board needs work and a cap kit, right now it doesn't turn on I guess... This is my first REAL Arcade machine and I gotta learn how to fix it. Any help from anyone in the community is appreciated.
@@Spawn-wt6ul There is a guy in San Francisco, California named Matt Householder who is _really good_ at fixing these things. You can google him via "San Francisco Audiophile Society" to get his contact info, and he is also on LinkedIn as the Chief Fun Officer at Play on Games. Send him a message, or call. If you're not local for him, he might at least have some good suggestions for you.