Pac-Man CE DX - Dungeon - Score Attack 10min - 3,253,570 / Kill Screen

Pac-Man Championship Edition DX
Course: Dungeon
Mode: Score Attack, 10min
Score: 3,253,570, 3rd place at time of recording

This game has an equivalent of a "Kill Screen" that occurs under certain conditions. When the 65th fruit item on the right side of the screen is collected, the game will refresh the right-hand side instead of the left. Even if both sides have been cleared of pellets when this 65th fruit item is collected, the game will not produce another fruit item once this occurs. This affects all courses, however, it is nigh-impossible to hit the kill-screen on some courses, even in 0-ghost free mode.

The only way to avoid this glitch is to specifically avoid clearing out the left-hand side of the field after 64 fruit items have been collected from the right-hand side of the screen. Due to how the Half course works (dots only appear on the left-hand side of the screen), this may place a score cap on that course and only that course, however, it is impossible to trigger it outside of Free Mode on that course.

(thanks to Billmaan for confirming some of the specifics of the glitch)

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• Pac-Man
• Championship
• Edition
• DX
• Kill
• Screen
• Glitch
• Score
• Attack

[Billmaan]

Your explanation isn't quite correct. Actually it's specifically the 65th fruit that spawns on the right side of the screen that causes problems, not the 129th fruit overall. (You can keep clearing the right side and eating fruit on the left without problems.)

It's not clear whether this happens on every maze or just on Dungeon, though it shouldn't be too hard to test.

[MegamanZ4]

@Billmaan It's not just Dungeon (I've reproduced it on a few other courses in free mode before pulling it off in actual score attack on Dungeon), but thanks for the clarification on exactly what produces the glitch, as I've never ended up in a situation where the sides were desynchronized and one side reached 64 before the other.

[evilpieofdoom666]

I don't think I've heard of this type of thing ever

[DaTbOiPaCMaN]

ADD ME IF U HAVE DA FULL GAME

DaT_bOi_Pac-Man

[FighterNP]

Achievement unlock Kill screen

[RandomAlbum]

This needs to replace the original pacman in the arcades!!!

[IronAndSteelTilDeath]

You sir, are a boss at Pac-Man.

[Doggmatix]

Kill screen!

[poobslag]

wow good catch! nice score too man but that's a weird bug. have they patched it yet?

[Zambaku]

This is fucking Pac-Man on crack, man!