The RGF Shmup League - Season #3 Game #3: taking nominations

[AmidstStorm]

Great to see boatman er.. I mean misery submit a score.

5 more hrs of work and then I'm on this. Hope I can find my stepdown converter for my AES :/

[Vyothric]

Any questions, or if I didnt make a goddamn lick of sense (which is highly probable! Not good at explaining stuff.), just let me know.

Done, thanks

[kollisionBR]

kollisionBR - KOL - 352,700 - 5 - Hien - SHMUPMAME



autofire screws initial entry
lazy to take out the AES

[Vyothric]

Vyothric - DAZ - 359,800 - Stage 5 - Hien - MAME

Hand is starting to ache already. Think I need to try some different keys.

[Misery]

Are you using a keyboard for this?'

Yeesh, I couldnt do that. I'm amazingly terrible with keyboard/mouse for pretty much anything.

I'd be ramming stuff left and right if I tried it in a shmup, heh.

[Misery]

Misery - BDV - 570500 - Hien - stage 6 - Mame


I'm gonna get that damn boat. Oh yes. Just you wait, you horrid thing!


EDIT: and yes, I put the wrong initials in. Meant to use "MSY" for "Misery" instead of my actual initials.

[AmidstStorm]

Game #3 info set up in post 2 of page 1. Rankings in post 1 of page 1 as always.

Have included the following bonuses which i believe are more than fair:

Standard 3 point bonus for the 1CC. On this game because of the second loop, you just need to reach stage 2-1 or higher to qualify.

Additional 2 point bonus for clearing the 2nd loop (hehe good luck with this one, I hear it's not easy), bringing the total bonuses available to 5 points for this game.

I think that's more than fair.


Anyway now it's finally set up, i'm off to dust off the AES and play some credits.

Rankings Updated

[Misery]

Ooooooooooookay.

I'm not making even ONE more full run on this game until I figure out WHAT in the hell decides the stage order.

It is NOT random.

Why do I say this? Because I refuse to believe that it "randomly" chose @#A*%-ing Paris as stage 2 *25* times in a row. Hint, I *really* dont want that stage as stage 2. ANY other stage. I dont care which. I really dont. Just NOT that one.

I've gotten to the point where I'm tempted to delete and replace the damn rom and see if that stops the accursed cycle.

I really wish Psikyo hadnt been so fond of doing things like this (the random order) in their games just to suck more coins out of people.

[AmidstStorm]

man those little orange bullets are a f#cking bastard!

First credit score:

AmidstStorm - AAA - 355,200 - Stage 6 - Hi-en - MVS



Rankings Updated

[Misery]

man those little orange bullets are a f#cking bastard!

Arent they?

I always say, bullets need to be pink/blue/green. Makes them noticable.

It could be worse though.... it could be a Raizing game.

Where: A: all of the bullets are orange/silver, B: all of them are little needles, and C: EVERYTHING explodes WAY TOO BIG, so the tiny orange needle bullets blend in with all of the explosion fire filling the screen at all times.

Pretty much THE reason why I never really cared for their stuff. I'll stick with Cave and Psikyo here, thanks.

[AmidstStorm]

It is making me rather furious. I can't see them through my firepower. hmm.. Can't get past stage 6.. consistently hitting 300k runs

Edit: then this -

AmidstStorm - AMS - 407,000 - Stage 6 - Mao-Mao - JAP MVS

[Misery]

It is making me rather furious. I can't see them through my firepower. hmm.. Can't get past stage 6.. consistently hitting 300k runs

Stage 6 is a snot.

And if you start to do overly good on the way, the rank goes nuts and it becomes even MORE irritating. The rank seems to be tied to both not dying, and the scoring, I've noticed. If I hit 100,000 at the end of stage 1, I notice it immediately speeds up.

Kinda annoying.

EDIT: Also, there's TEN damn stages, if anyone was wondering. TEN. Agh. Too many.

[AmidstStorm]

It is making me rather furious. I can't see them through my firepower. hmm.. Can't get past stage 6.. consistently hitting 300k runs

Stage 6 is a snot.

And if you start to do overly good on the way, the rank goes nuts and it becomes even MORE irritating. The rank seems to be tied to both not dying, and the scoring, I've noticed. If I hit 100,000 at the end of stage 1, I notice it immediately speeds up.

Kinda annoying.

EDIT: Also, there's TEN damn stages, if anyone was wondering. TEN. Agh. Too many.

The damn boat level is always Stage 6. i managed to get to the boss on this run.

had to restart the console after first credit already. MVS cart was glitching.

Rankings Updated

[Misery]

The damn boat level is always Stage 6. i managed to get to the boss on this run.

had to restart the console after first credit already. MVS cart was glitching.

Rankings Updated

Yes, the random stage thing ends after 5. So the boats are ALWAYS 6.

And that boss is pretty horrible, isnt it.

[AmidstStorm]

The worse bit is when 3 subs pop up.. I honestly can never see the orange bullets.

Just a thought but in Mame is it fixed as default difficulty 4? I was wondering if you have the option of playing Easy, Normal, Hard or MVS and whether we should stick to MVS (difficulty 4) or play the Normal mode. These options show up on the AES version. i can switch between the versions as I have a modded universal bios AES. thoughts please?

edit: also how is the scoring looking after stage 1.. im hitting just over 50k on the JAP MVS