Old School Maniax Tournament 2007 - Week #3

Nemo · Post by **Nemo** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 3:56 pm

Game: Earth Defense Force - Super Nintendo

Specifications: Turn up the difficulty to "hard" and reduce the shield stock to "2".

Note: If you die on the first level, you're not allowed to continue despite the fact your score resets to "0" since your power-up meter doesn't reset.

Kyrie!

The Coop · Post by **The Coop** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 5:00 am

I forgot how much I hate this game at times. I was also reminded that I've never seen past the stage 4 boss

The Coop - 1,629,500 - Stage 4

Edit: YYYYYYYYYYYYES!

I finally beat this thing

The Coop - 10,265,000 - All

Edit 2: The Coop - 10,760,700 - All

Edge · Post by **Edge** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 8:08 am

I made it to Stage 3, for now. The game is ok so far, pretty arcade-ish. Well the level design is a bit repititve.

BTW:
Just in case someone of you had trouble finding the game to play it on an emulator: You have to look for "Super Earth Defense Force", as you won't find a SNES game with the title Earth Defense Force.

Macaw · Post by **Macaw** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 11:47 am

Edge wrote:The game is ok so far, pretty arcade-ish.

Well, it is a port of an arcade game after all.

Except the arcade version is better.

RyanDG · Post by **RyanDG** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 12:57 pm

Anyone know off the top of their head how many stages are in this game so I don't have to go look it up? :P

I think I'm close to the end, but I keep on getting cheap shotted (seriously), at the same spot nearly every time.

The Coop · Post by **The Coop** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 7:54 am

The Coop - 11,006,200 - All

shoe-sama · Post by **shoe-sama** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 2:23 pm

Lol I'm too busy playing crappy kirby games that I didn't even bother playing this here game yet.

Turrican · Post by **Turrican** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 10:03 pm

Bah, I won't probably do better than this - at least for today:

582.600

Also, what the heck is the Secret Bonus??

I'm using Homing for the first stage - and switch to S.Laser on stage two (not that I managed to survive for long in there)...

I'd be interested in hearing some advices from the top players here

shoe-sama · Post by **shoe-sama** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 1:13 am

Ok just played a couple of games.

My current strategy is to melee everything with photon, dunno how it'll work out later in the game.

Edge · Post by **Edge** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 1:17 am

I only use Homing so far and you'll get the Secret Bonus for finishing one stage without a hit.

SFKhoa · Post by **SFKhoa** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 2:09 am

SFKhoa - 10,592,100 - All

Oh, how I loved to whore this game when I was a little kid.
Explode is EXTREMELY useful in Stage 1, where it can kill BOTH the Mid-boss and the boss in less than 10 seconds, given that you point blank.

I use homing for Stage 2, since it can cheaply kill a boss easily. Given that your power is at Lv.3, you can use the "Shadow" formation to line yourself up at the top right screen and your drones lined up vertically and directly behind the boss.

And for the hell of it. I use Atomic for Stage 3, Grenade for Stages 4 and 5, and finally S.Laser for the final stage.

Pirate1019 · Post by **Pirate1019** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 2:50 am

Why did I join this tournament again? I hate old school shmups. Games like this drive me up the wall. My high so far is 115,000 and probably won't get much bigger. I just can't seem to give any of these games a serious go. Besides, Dai-Ou-Jou showed up at my doorstep yesterday and I'm busy being made it's bitch.

RyanDG · Post by **RyanDG** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 3:50 am

Well, I cleared it... Didn't quite get the best score I could since I missed out on nearly all the "special bonuses", but I'll go back through and try it one more time this weekend...

10,257,900

shoe-sama · Post by **shoe-sama** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 4:34 am

I too lazy to play this game lol.

That and I sux.

SFKhoa · Post by **SFKhoa** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 4:38 am

shoe-sama wrote:I too lazy to play this game lol.

That and I sux.

Stage?

shoe-sama · Post by **shoe-sama** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 4:41 am

lol 2

The enemies move too much for melee plasma rapage XD

SFKhoa · Post by **SFKhoa** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 4:43 am

shoe-sama wrote:lol 2

The enemies move too much for melee plasma rapage XD

Use Homing, you jerk. :(

shoe-sama · Post by **shoe-sama** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 4:51 am

lol I dunno if I wanna touch this game again XD

I mess up so much that I can only play stuff that lets you get hit like 10 times or something.