Talk:Snapper (video game)

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Record scores[edit]

The original Pacman is known for its perfect score of 3,333,360 (first achieved by Billy Mitchell in 1999) but is there anything comparable for Snapper? The first thing to note is that the displayed Snapper score is six digits long, so the highest score that can be displayed is 999,999 (which would actually be 999,990 because everything comes in multiples of 10). Does the score max out at this point or does it reset? Is there a kill screen? What's the furthest anyone has ever gone? Additionally, it seems to me that the appearance of "fruits" in Snapper is random and uncapped, so the maximum possible score is probably unlimited, i.e. you could just endlessly run around in an acorn level eating acorns whenever they appear. If nobody replies I will play the game through in an emulator (using save-state) and report back with my findings. Custardslice7 (talk) 10:40, 5 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I have passed the 999,999 mark and what happened was that the score continued to rise. The "1" representing one million overwrote the colon that precedes the score, so even though only six characters were blank, the score is evidently not limited by this. I believe integer variables in Basic go beyond two billion, so the maximum score will be way up there. Okay, that's me done. Custardslice7 (talk) 10:26, 8 July 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Source Code[edit]

We have the source code for Snapper. Someone should probably add this to the main article somehow.

https://stardot.org.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?p=403703#p403703 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A05:87C7:9002:D400:55AD:F27B:1942:9744 (talk) 22:30, 23 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]