Williams Defender at 99/99 (max difficulty) and 5K per ship

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:
https://www.robotron-2084.co.uk/manua...

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

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