SAM's Shmup Challenge

[SAM]

That was 10+ years ago, I was on a business trip, and I went into an acrade while took a walk before dinner.

The acrade had a few cabinets installed with Psikyo games. I sew a guy sitting in front of a Strikers 1945 machine playing a few games. I didn't watch him play. But when he got up I sit down and took my turn. I found he had worked his way into the 2nd loop by reading the hi-scores board. I inserted a coin and start my game....... WTF I found out a cross gate was installed at the joystick!!! The gate allows 4-directions movement only, no diagonal movement!!

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So this is the rules of the challenge:

- We are playing Strikers 1945 with a cross gate installed on the joystick, which resturcted movement to 4-directions only (UP/DOWN/LEFT/RIGHT), no diagonal movement!!
- You can play on real PCB, MAME, Playstation, Saturn, Switch or PC. Just state the platform you are playing.
- Difficulty settings, default for PCB/MAME, Acrade for PlayStation/Saturn/Switch/PC.
- 3 lives, extend at 600,000.
- Don't trigger those endless UFO bugs.
- This challenge would open till the end of Aug 2020.

The challenge is to get pass the first loop using this settings!!

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Just tried to get as far as you can and reported back your scores here.

Post scores in this format:

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P-38

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P-51

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Spit Fire

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Bf-109

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Zero

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Shinden

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This is just for fun, I will update the score boards twice a week. This Challenge would be opened till the end of Aug 2020.

[copy-paster]

4-way button for shmups is just weird, unless you're playing fixed shooters.

[Jeneki]

Go for the Silver General gate:

[BareKnuckleRoo]

This sounds horrible and reminds me of this awful cab I played that has a 4 way joystick in a cab that includes Xevious and Dragon Spirit.

[davyK]

That's dreadful. The retro gaming scene is plagued with ill conceived products like that marketed by people who don't know or care enough to find out what makes a quality product. By all means install a 4 way gate but make it external so the user can plonk it over the stick for the 4 way games.