STGT 2k6- Week #3 Star Force

Twiddle · Post by **Twiddle** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 12:47 am

The position of the fossil doesn't change, thankfully.

It still disappears if you die in that area or before it, though.

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 1:39 am

This bonus kind of ruins the fun. What little that was.

Davey · Post by **Davey** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 2:03 am

BulletMagnet wrote:Don't have MAME Plus, so no autofire for me...

Please forgive my ignorance, but if we're using regular, vanilla, command-line MAME, is autofire a non-issue? I don't want to cheat, but I don't see the option screenshot that Edge shows (with the autofire setting).

Skyline · Post by **Skyline** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 2:06 am

Skyline - California Dudez - 409,600 - Area 8

DarkWolf7 · Post by **DarkWolf7** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 2:32 am

CIT wrote:
DarkWolf7 wrote:DarkWolf7 - Feka USA - 895,350 - 13 (Ν) - MAME

I don't mean to doubt your honesty in posting scores, BUT this score is not possible in Star Force as the game only awards points by the straight 100s.

Every score in Starforce has to end with two zeros.

My mistake. I must have been tired when I posted that. The correct entry should be:

DarkWolf7 - Feka USA - 895,300 - 13 (N) - MAME

PlasmaBlooD · Post by **PlasmaBlooD** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 3:05 am

PlasmaBlooD Team Germany 488'000 7

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 3:26 am

Bit of improvement...

BulletMagnet - Team Loser - 394,100 - 8

A few questions...

1) Can anyone else without autofire successfully pull off the "midboss bonus?" Maybe I'm just too slow, but manually I just can't tap that fast between the time the core flashes and the piece coming in from the back kills me...

2) Is there any factor other than utter randomness that determines whether a wave consists of one enemy or 30?

3) Think they could have crammed any more point-blank deaths into this thing?

DarkWolf7 · Post by **DarkWolf7** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 3:37 am

Cleopatra Bonus GET!!

DarkWolf7 - Feka USA - 1,779,200 - 11 (Λ) - MAME

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 3:42 am

Feka chart destruction. Good job, DW.

Edge · Post by **Edge** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 3:50 am

That's my progress so far:

Edge - Team Germany - 577'700 - 8 (MAME)

Davey wrote: Please forgive my ignorance, but if we're using regular, vanilla, command-line MAME, is autofire a non-issue? I don't want to cheat, but I don't see the option screenshot that Edge shows (with the autofire setting).

I don't know if you can alternate the auto fire delay on those...
If it only supports auto fire with a delay of 1, then it isn't allowed to use. The Auto fire, not the emu offcourse.

landshark · Post by **landshark** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 3:55 am

DarkWolf7 wrote: DarkWolf7 - Feka USA - 1,779,200 - 11 (Λ) - MAME

How on earth did you score that much that early in the game? I had a score of 1.2 million at stage 12, but I had the autofire rate set to 1.

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 3:59 am

Someone's not been reading the 1 million point bonus hubbub. Cleopatra bonus.

Twiddle · Post by **Twiddle** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 4:12 am

i swear to fuck this game gets harder as I play

it doesn't help that the game loves throwing waves that are impossible to kill what with all the scenery lying around

ps do you know how much i love random elements that directly impact your survival

coffeejoerx · Post by **coffeejoerx** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 4:42 am

My first tentative:

coffeejoerx - Team Old Schoolers - 374,500 - 7 - [Mame]

The Coop · Post by **The Coop** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 4:44 am

Nice work on being the first to find that bitch DarkWolf7

Here's my latest...

The Coop - Team Old Schoolers - 952,300 - Area 10

Good thing I grabbed a screenshot. About two seconds later, the power flickered and my PC rebooted.

The Coop · Post by **The Coop** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 5:38 am

Finally broke a million the hard way...

The Coop - Team Old Schoolers - 1,030,300 - Area 14

Sword · Post by **Sword** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 9:14 am

Sword - Team Stranger - 230.800 - 5

Herr Schatten · Post by **Herr Schatten** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 11:03 am

Herr Schatten - Team Old Schoolers - 397,300 - Area 7 (Eta)

It seems like my worst enemies are the ones that split into 4 rocks when destroyed.

CIT · Post by **CIT** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 12:21 pm

Fuck, fuck, fuck! I just came THIS close to getting Cleopatra!

Herr Schatten wrote:It seems like my worst enemies are the ones that split into 4 rocks when destroyed.

If you fly up the screen and lure them in the other direction that usually gives you more space again to kill them safely. Just don't shoot them when they're way down at the bottom or you'll get hit for sure.

Xargon · Post by **Xargon** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 12:53 pm

zinger wrote: EDIT: Wow, I just noticed Xargon and I got the exact same score.

Your score must be fake. BAN HIM!

namagomi · Post by **namagomi** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 1:42 pm

namagomi - team germany - 179800 - delta 4 (mame)

PlasmaBlooD · Post by **PlasmaBlooD** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 2:05 pm

PlasmaBlooD - Team Germany - 629,100 - 9

landshark · Post by **landshark** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 4:03 pm

Rob wrote:Someone's not been reading the 1 million point bonus hubbub. Cleopatra bonus.

Interesting. First I've heard of it. So after some googling it seems there are a few different bonuses you can get. I didn't know about any of them during this run. But I'll be damned if I'll ever destroy enough of those 2 green arrow columns to get the bonuses - can't shoot quick enough.

I got to the level where the enemies don't shoot and are very close together - and I friggin ran into one of them losing my last life.

I actually like this game. It's just damned hard.

Landshark - Super Buffet S.T. - 1,007,100 - 16

Acid King · Post by **Acid King** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 4:54 pm

Acid King - Drink & Fly - 357,700 - Area 7

malcolm · Post by **malcolm** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 5:11 pm

Malcolm- Drink and fly-646,300-stage 10-Mame

I love this game! Brought back memories of blowing off homework to play Nintendo. I was going to play it on my NES but couldn't get the system to work.

PlasmaBlooD · Post by **PlasmaBlooD** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 5:27 pm

PlasmaBlooD - Team Germany - 684,400 - 10

Edge · Post by **Edge** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 5:54 pm

Edge - Team Germany - 963'400 - 11 (MAME)

Just a little reminder for the hot prizes you can win this week:

professor ganson wrote: 1st place (individual score) Retro Week

prizes:
Metal Slug 4 & 5 (US PS2, like new, never played)
Dark Cloud 2 (US PS2, brand new, sealed)

Winner of Retro Week gets first pick; winner of Psikyo Week gets the remaining game.

And the Super Laydock's luckly number price this week:
(The luckly number means a random position from all players participated in this week will be picked.)

Super Laydock wrote: And this weeks prize is a complete copy of Blazing Lazers for the Turbo Grafx 16. In other words the western version of Pc-Engine's GunHed.

It is, I believe, the version that was bundled with a system. There's another "version" out there with different packaging I believe so I include a picture of the meant game (pic was taken from someone's ebay auction as I still do not have a new well working digital camera ).

For other prizes and more detailed infos see this thread: STGT 2k6 Prizes

Good luck to everyone. And specialthanks to the prize offerers.

Vincere · Post by **Vincere** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 5:55 pm

Can someone sum up why we have made an old-school week except to play shity as fuck ancient games??

This game's one of the worst shmups I've play ever.

Vincere - Team Stranger - 339 000 - 6 - MAME

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 6:25 pm

Twiddle wrote:ps do you know how much i love random elements that directly impact your survival

I echo that sentiment...if certain enemy formations appear at certain spots you're all but doomed...not to mention, of course, the "?" extends...

That said, another minor improvement...

BulletMagnet - Team Loser - 402,400 - 7

professor ganson · Post by **professor ganson** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 6:30 pm

Edge wrote:Edge - Team Germany - 963'400 - 11 (MAME)

Just a little reminder for the hot prizes you can win this week:

professor ganson wrote: 1st place (individual score) Retro Week

prizes:
Metal Slug 4 & 5 (US PS2, like new, never played)
Dark Cloud 2 (US PS2, brand new, sealed)

Winner of Retro Week gets first pick; winner of Psikyo Week gets the remaining game.

I realize, on reflection, that a number of our strongest players are not in the US and will have little use for a US PS2 game. I'm working on a solution to this problem (i.e. I'm thinking of adding a further prize option).