You can hunt the snowflakes, it isn't leeching because the rocks don't last forever. Just try the game, eh?(posted 8880 days ago)Easier than hunting small saucers, at least, at the moment my strategy for small saucers is to run away. :-) See, the saucers now also do aimed wraparound shots, which means you can't do the lurking strategy very well either.
Also, it looks like that site you mention rips alot of the strategy from the Winner's Guide to Video Games (I don't remember the author offhand). If you can find that book it has a long section talking about the leeching problem in the original Asteroids although it wasn't called leeching, it was called 'beating the machine.' :-) And it then talks about the programmers wanting revenge like I mentioned before.
Also, Renegade (bootleg) works fine for me in MAME35TG. Is your problem with the Windows version?
Also, I'm testing Tempest more and having serious control problems. For example, in stage 9 I can't move the flipper to the left side of the screen, it's stuck on the right side. Anyone know what's going on? If is unfixable I'm changing my original list to have Xybots instead of Tempest.
Windjammers: I messed with this a bit, there are difficulty settings, probably setting them to 1 will solve our problems. (The last stages are still hard, though, I tested it with -cheat, so don't think it's now going to be too easy :-) Also, I think the time should be extended...30 seconds isn't that much time to score alot. Probably 50 seconds would be good (I tested with 60, seemed a notch too long). Anyway, to change the difficulty settings, hit F2 at the start, then select soft settings (using arrow keys and whatever button 1 is), then slot 0 windjammers. You'll see a screen to adjust the time and the difficulty as well as some other things. Use button 3 to back out.