01180: blstroid: A wordy issue.

ID	Category [?]	Severity [?]	Reproducibility	Date Submitted	Last Update
01180	Graphics	Trivial	Have not tried	Feb 12, 2008, 09:36	Sep 12, 2021, 07:37

Tester	-Misc Reporters-	View Status	Public	Platform
Assigned To		Resolution	Bugs That Aren't Bugs	OS
Status [?]	Resolved			Driver	atari/blstroid.cpp
Version	0.60	Fixed in Version		Build
		Fixed in Git Commit		Github Pull Request #

Summary	01180: blstroid: A wordy issue.
Description	(1) Start a new game, but don't enter any of the warps. It helps to transform to Speeder so you can stay in the middle of the screen with minimal effort. (2) Let yourself run out of energy. You'll get text warnings about low energy, and then your ship blows up and you're taken to the continue screen. Notice that the background changes and the message reads "Continue at same level?" The background will display with odd colors. (3) Continue the game. You'll start at level 1, whose background displays with a bad color set. (See a screenshot here.) The level plays just fine, and is at Novice difficulty (any items you pick up during this game will show their initial information messages). (4) As you play, notice the number of sectors you have to clear when you exit a sector. It'll be a total of 16 sectors, but you will only be able to select from the first 9! When those 9 are done, you're stuck - you won't be able to make any more progress in the game. Also, the background music for each sector after the first one is some sort of rock-style music, which I haven't heard elsewhere in the game and I haven't had the patience to find out if it's the same as in the harder levels. Played around with it a little more and discovered that if you warp into Medium, Hard or Expert levels at the start of the game, defeat the first galaxy and the first round with Mukor, and THEN let yourself run out of energy on the next warp screen: The game puts you back into the last level of the galaxy you just conquered (when you continue), tells you to warp to fight Mukor, and then lets you fight him again! And I think it's a different configuration of "ports" on Mukor's body this time. When you've defeated him for the second time, you end up at the warp screen again, and running out of energy and continuing will only put you on the warp screen again and again. (In other words, you can't fight Mukor infinite times this way.) Also, the "rock music" I referred to earlier is indeed from the 4th warp in Hard and Expert levels.
Steps To Reproduce
Additional Information	Posted by Dorsola
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Affected Sets / Systems	blstroid

Attached Files	0000.png (15,396 bytes) Jul 14, 2010, 16:56
	0002.png (17,323 bytes) Jul 14, 2010, 16:56
	0003.png (7,913 bytes) Jul 14, 2010, 16:56
	blasteroidsbug.jpg (143,540 bytes) Sep 11, 2021, 18:34 Uploaded by Haze blasteroids bug on cabinet

No.06374 Haze Senior Tester Jul 14, 2010, 17:50	I'd be willing to bet this one is a real game bug myself.
No.06375 Tafoid Administrator Jul 14, 2010, 18:22	Yup. It's quite likely. It's a CAX so it's on a list of games I've asked to get some video/first hand checking.
No.19242 Haze Senior Tester Sep 11, 2021, 18:34	crazyc confirms this happens on hardware, tested at Galloping Ghosts Arcade
No.19248 MetalGod Senior Tester Sep 12, 2021, 07:36	I think it is enough proof with cracyc photograph. I'm closing this as Bugs that are Not Bugs.