I don't think you can afford to go on the grass if you use automatic gears and want to get the 20. There is very little leeway with the 20. I never let go, didn't hit grass or anything like that and only had a few frames to spare. I don't think you can really cut corners in the game, it's on rails like that. Just need to maximize speed.
Great job! I knew it was only a matter of... time :) That was very nearly a 20! Maybe a frame away :O Did you let go of the gas at some point? Didn't see where you would have lost that tiny bit.
I hope you'll keep doing other tracks as well! I personally feel the snow course is the next easiest and probably the most fun stage to run because it's so short and not really difficult at all - depending on your pattern of course.
Good run! You'd get the 19 without a crash, I'm sure - even with some slowdowns. I think there is space to take that white car at 2:15 from the right side too to save some time crossing the stream. That blue car where you crashed is zigzagging awkwardly though :/ I guess right side would be the way to go there too.
I can only find score competitions from EAB and Lemon Amiga, no times submitted. But yeah, Trapshot has run the full game on the AmigaLive stream with good times so I'd be tempted to enter his results on the board as well. There are good individual course times there as well.
Why are the Amiga runs on the same leaderboard? The game seems to be very different with jump mechanics, specials and so on. Enemy and platform patterns are different and boss fights are different too. On Amiga you die if you touch the flying bosses and for example the last boss fight is done on foot on the Amiga. Even the level designs differ.
Does the Amiga version run at the same speed? Always preferred that. Setting up the Amiga version is as easy as downloading AmigaLive.
Thanks! Yeah, I was just thinking that on hard with the 2nd to last and last level it might be faster to let the CPU win as they can take shortcuts but it's just probably me not being good enough to compete.
Actually the rules state that the timing ends when the last race stops scrolling so do you even have to qualify in that last race? 'Cause I have a run like that as well.
I submitted a hard difficulty run but I was actually able to beat it faster when I didn't finish first on the season scoreboard. So is it enough to qualify from each race including the last one?