Has anyone tried
Dizzy the Adventurer in Score Mode lately? I have been seeing some serious glitching that makes it impossible to play. arcadeOX Full Mode and Java Full Mode work just fine, but in arcadeOX Score Mode, well, just look, first of all the title screen is missing most of its graphics:
That's not the problem though, the story still proceeds normally and I can still hit Start on the title to start the game. When the game starts, the status bar is all covered up in gray except for the star and little Dizzy icons, although I can still move around normally.
But if I hit a button that takes me to the inventory, or if I just wait around long enough for the game to start giving me hints, I get totally stuck--usually it's just a blank screen with only the same icons that were visible on the status bar before, with the music still playing, and no buttons will ever work to clear it.
Sometimes, though, usually when I hit Select, the game will show a rapid series of crazy garbage screens...
So, yeah, I won't be getting my high score anytime soon with this happening. I don't
think I've ever gotten it to work correctly before... But I tried Score Mode on some other NES games from the same company, and they ran fine. (Java Lite Mode also failed to load on them, but I think that's a separate issue that I should report elsewhere.) And there have been plenty of scores submitted for Dizzy the Adventurer already, one as late as May 22 2010, so either the emulator's been changed since then, or there's some hidden problem in my own setup. Just to answer all the questions, I'm using FireFox 3.6.13 on Windows XP, and I
guess I would be willing to use TeamViewer as a last resort, but I don't imagine that will help with this kind of problem. The game does pop up in its own window in the usual amount of time, and I get the standard options to quit or continue when I press Esc, so I'm pretty sure it's just the NES emulation that's gone afoul with my ability to play the game.