TRP-STGT 2017 Week 5: Macross II Medium Course

[trap15]

Macross II (Medium Course) (NMK, 1993)

An aggressive score attack game.

Playing week ends Sunday, 14 January, 2018 at 22:00 GMT

Dynamic scoreboard at http://daifukkat.su/stgt/2017/

Tournament main thread: http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?t=61125
Discussion thread: http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?t=61595

RULES

MAME or PCB. MAME set is named macross2.
Autofire is allowed. You may not use cheats for this, only autofire provided by hardware or MAME's autofire menu.
1 credit only, no continues.
Select the Medium course.

DIP SWITCH/CONFIGURATION SETTINGS
Default settings.

TECHNICAL BONUS: Reach Stage 4

SUBMISSION FORMAT
name - score - stage - side - system

SUBMISSION EXAMPLE
trap15 - 1,000,000 - 3 - 1P - MAME

[trap15]

trap15 - 1,741,590 - 3 - 2P - PCB

Just 6030 points away from clearing stage 3 ;_;

[trap15]

trap15 - 3,066,000 - ALL - 2P - PCB

Yoooo, first time actually clearing stage 4! I even died foolishly in stage 1, but I guess that doesn't really matter since I can clear stage 2 without any chain medals.

[Shepardus]

Shepardus - 2,397,210 - 4 - 2P - MAME 0.190

Score from yesterday, my second time clearing stage 3. The first time I just barely managed to break 700,000 points (I didn't even break the default stage high score of 701,000), and this time wasn't much better. Tech bonus is tech bonus, though.

[Despatche]

Despatche - 1,408,910 - 3 - 1P - MAME

player side differences

[CptRansom]

CptRansom - 2,236,270 - 4 - 2P - MAME



The nightmare is over.

[DocHauser]

DocHauser - 2,440,790 - 4 - 2P - Shmupmame 4.2

Need to work on Stage 4 a bit...

[Vanguard]

Vanguard - 1,651,330 - 3 - 2P - MAME 0.189

Some bizarre balancing choices in this game. Necks is straight up better than Serbee. Medium path stage 2 can be beaten even if you crash a bunch or fail to kill the boss, but medium path stage 3 is harder than the extra stage.

I'm enjoying it so far.

[SEBTi]

SEBTi - 2,653,790 - 4 - 2P - MAME

Forgot to submit last week But finally got a score that I'm okay with this week

[msm]

msm - 1,403,340 - 3 - 1P - MAME

[ED-057]

ED-057 - 2,227,580 - 4 - 2P - MAME

I keep waiting for the boss to laugh at me or something on the game over screen, but he just stares.

[Shepardus]

Shepardus - 2,509,240 - 4 - 2P - MAME 0.190

Got hit by stage 2 boss but managed to barely clear stage 3. Still no good at stage 4 but at least I got most of the fast red enemies that zip across from left to right.

[Square_Air]

Square_Air - 1,777,570 - 3 - 2P - ShmupMAME 4.2

Only posting for triple sevens, because those always look nice. I was only 190 points away from stage 4, what a tease.

[SEBTi]

SEBTi - 2,857,440 - ALL - 2P - MAME

Pretty bummed that I died at stage 3's boss and that I missed one of the big bonuses in stage 4 but I'm still okay with this

[Perikles]

Perikles - 3,085,070 - ALL - 2P - MAME Plus 0.168

Tremendously enjoy the game (despite usually hating Caravan), doesn't change a jot about the fact that I'm still horrible at it. Unlike with all the other games, I'm not even sure how high a realistic score for me could look like - I know how much of the obvious stuff I've missed, ~3.25m or so are certainly obtainable, but beyond that? I'd imagine this will be a week with several scores close to each other.

[Vanguard]

Vanguard - 2,761,810 - ALL - 2P - MAME 0.189



This is about as bad as a 1CC can get, but at least it's a clear. Both stages 3 and 4 were photo finishes. Finally getting the hang of this.

[Heavy Viper]

Heavy Viper - 2,314,450 - 4 - 2P - MAME 0.185



I actually kinda like this.

[EmperorIng]

EmperorIng - 2,789,470 - ALL - 2P - MAMEplus

A lot of mistakes and missed bonuses on the final stage. I wish the ship didn't feel so slippery.

[EmperorIng]

Ha, not long later and I improve, even!



EmperorIng - 2,904,710 - ALL - 2P - MAMEplus

[Vanguard]

Vanguard - 3,067,160 - ALL - 2P - MAME 0.189



Finally got a run without any serious mistakes! I've never played anything like this before, but I really like it, so I'll keep playing and see if I can do better.

[Kyper]

Kyper - 3,282,610 - ALL - 2P - MAME Plus 0.168



Took a few hits, including one on the stage 1 boss trying to get too close to destroy the bottom pieces and one at the beginning of stage 3 getting too stubborn to pass up a yellow ship wave, forcing me to go through most of the stage with medium power. Bombed a crapton to make up for those hits

[Nifty]

Nifty - 2,913,170 - ALL - 2P - MAME

More shall follow

[Square_Air]

Square_Air - 2,602,450 - 4 - 2P - ShmupMAME 4.2

Time to start routing for all those bonuses.

This game is succulent

[copy-paster]

copy-paster - 2,569,140 - 4 - 2P - MAMEPlus! 0.168

Time up while the boss is destroyed.

[Perikles]

Perikles - 3,176,750 - ALL - 2P - MAME Plus 0.168

Still missing a few rather substantial sources of bonus points, but I'm nonetheless satisfied with where this is going. No clue how that 4.1m WR is possible, though!

Edit for a slightly better score which doesn't change anything - should have played the game more, I suppose.

[trap15]

trap15 - 3,066,510 - ALL - 2P - PCB

This might be the smallest improvement in a score I've ever had. 510 points lmao.

[Frenetic]

Frenetic - 1,127,720 - 3 - 1P - MAME

[zuq_]

zuq - 2,643,120 - 4 - 2P - ShmupMAME 4.2



Botched stage 4 and lost a fuckton of score ;___;

[Dumple]

Dumple - 1,510,770 - 3 - 2P - MAME 0.193

That third stage, though...

[DocHauser]

DocHauser - 3,122,840 - ALL - 2P - Shmupmame 4.2