DoDonPachi (New Thread #2)

ArrogantBastard · Post by **ArrogantBastard** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 7:43 pm

This should be noted alongside with your score.

PROMETHEUS · Post by **PROMETHEUS** » Fri Aug 17, 2007 9:43 pm

haha ^^ It's not like keyboards were a handicap or anything. They're just fine for shmups really. I think they're just as good, and if they really aren't, then the difference is only very very small.

Edit : lol you really put it on the highscore table xD lol it looks funny >.<!

sikraiken · Post by **sikraiken** » Sat Aug 18, 2007 1:25 am

Very nice play, Prometheus. Keep going! : )

LUNardei · Post by **LUNardei** » Sat Aug 18, 2007 9:09 am

It's a pro keyboard, so it doesn't matter

Congrats Prome, you did what you said in just a couple of hours, impressive. Everyone should learn to use the tools we have (savestates) for hard practice like you do, but I should admit that I'm one of those that like to improve run after run, I find it way more relaxing, even if it takes a lot of time. Anyway, I hope this record could cause the reaction I told you in London. It would be a great battle

You could say... European SOF?

PROMETHEUS · Post by **PROMETHEUS** » Sat Aug 18, 2007 11:00 am

Yeah, I want BR1 to beat me now ! Go go BR1 !!

LUNardei wrote:It's a pro keyboard

haha yeah Saitek Eclipse !!

Arvandor · Post by **Arvandor** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 3:05 am

MY FIRST CLEAR! YAAAY!!!!!!! *dances* I am so happy =D Now to get more consistant, rely on bombs less, and learn to chain stages 4 onwards -_^ *wipes forehead* I sure have my work cut out for me.

RWM (Arvandor) - 51,621,040 - A-L - 2-1 - 479

shoe-sama · Post by **shoe-sama** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 3:23 am

Chaining? What's that?

btw, Cowboy-NOA and Landshark are the same person lol

landshark · Post by **landshark** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 3:54 am

shoe-sama wrote:Chaining? What's that?

btw, Cowboy-NOA and Landshark are the same person lol

What? You joking or serious?

ArrogantBastard · Post by **ArrogantBastard** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 4:08 am

shoe-sama wrote:Chaining? What's that?

btw, Cowboy-NOA and Landshark are the same person lol

Uh, no.

shoe-sama · Post by **shoe-sama** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 4:18 am

oh whoops lol

MX7 · Post by **MX7** » Thu Aug 23, 2007 11:00 pm

DJ Rectal Prolapse 18.866.370 C-S s1.5. Can't remember the combo.

BR1 · Post by **BR1** » Wed Aug 29, 2007 8:38 pm

Sorry if I'm late, but I couldn't login earlier than now.

All I can say is "CONGRATULATIONS PROMETEUS!!!"

That's an amazing score!

I don't know if I'll ever be back to DDP, but I definitely wanna you to keep playing! Don't give up, my friend!!!

Arvandor · Post by **Arvandor** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 2:55 am

Wow... I improved a lot by not playing for a week and a half or so o_O

First run in a while, and while I didn't 1cc it again (largely because I didn't whore bombs), I DID improve my score a fair chunk (especially considering I only got half-way through stage 6). I'm starting to figure out how to chain stages 4 and 5 (6 is really REALLY hard to chain in spots, 5 isn't too bad though for the most part). I think I need a new PS2 controller for my MAME play. The d-pad on this one is old, worn, and doesn't ALWAYS respond. I died at least once because I tried to move and it didn't =( Anyways...

RWM (Arvandor) - 54,537,000 - A-L - 1-6 - ... Uhh... 488? o_O

Crap... I totally forgot to record my max chain, and since this one was accomplished in MAME (which doesn't save scores), I don't have it... I DO know it was my best chain on stage 2 ever, and was 48X. Not that it matters much, I'll beat this score eventually and hopefully will remember to jott down the max chain =)

neo · Post by **neo** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 10:03 pm

Damn... The wolfmame INP doesn't work, I only got a 452 octet INP, when I try to play it back it stops right after it starts. I know it won't be added to the scoreboard but I post it anyway:

Everything went as planned until 1-5, where I had 2 deaths that should have been avoided. I also had 2 deaths in 1-6, and one last death against 2-2 boss. So close to the 100 millions mark... I will try to record a working INP next time

.

PROMETHEUS · Post by **PROMETHEUS** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 10:16 pm

Wow nice work neo~! We got a B-L rising !! I want a 100M++ inp! :D

Arvandor · Post by **Arvandor** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 10:22 pm

You know, I tried B-L right after I cleared the game for the first time, just for shits and giggles. For me, the B-L plays almost identical to A-L, really. The moving side pods change very little by way of chaining.

PROMETHEUS · Post by **PROMETHEUS** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 12:08 am

Mmmh yeah I guess~ still wanna see though ^^;

stanski · Post by **stanski** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 9:42 pm

Guess I better start recording in wolfmame (currently recording in mame32++ .117, this run was corrupted for some reason though). I still can't get savestates to work with the newer versions of mame for practice, does anyone have anyone have any suggestions?

Stanski - 71,589,460 - A-L - 2-2 - 475 hits

PROMETHEUS · Post by **PROMETHEUS** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 10:03 pm

wolfmame 99 works perfect for everything related to DDP

stanski · Post by **stanski** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 10:04 pm

PROMETHEUS wrote:wolfmame 99 works perfect for everything related to DDP

Any idea on why it looks wider than when played on newer versions of mame? It looks way different visually to me.

RGC · Post by **RGC** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 6:42 pm

Beat the first loop for the first time tonight (with A-L). Score was somewhere in the region of 25mil. No idea what the man with the iron chin said at the end, but I'm guessing along the lines of 'You are shite'.

Keade · Post by **Keade** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 7:03 pm

Yeah, that's probably why he looks so serious

Nice job RGC

I had a 45M one loop score (it's already on MARP), but I'll rather post when I've a better score

(actually I thought my score was 30M, but it's 45...will be harder to beat than I thought

)

@stanski : check if the option "keep aspect ratio" is enabled.
For savestates, the trick I used on TBY (for practicing purposes) might also work with DDP. When the game froze after I loaded a state, I just rebooted the game, waiting for the game to load completely, and only then reload. I can't garantee it'll work...

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 11:51 pm

not much DDP action these days.. well im slowly working my way thru it.

sven666 - 34.801.920 - 1-6 - 270hit PCB

PROMETHEUS · Post by **PROMETHEUS** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 7:54 pm

sven666 wrote:not much DDP action these days.. well im slowly working my way thru it.

I too am still playing it pretty often actually, I just haven't been doing full runs.

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 11:56 pm

35.426.010

everything else the same.. made some discoveries tho that will proboably alter my score quite drastically once i get a good run in (amazing how little i knew about DDP concidering how much Cave ive played)

good to hear im not alone prometheus, i guess ill be aiming for your score then

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 8:59 pm

aah atlast 40+.. this oughta bump me up a few places

sadly tho this would have been 50+ if the damn 4th stage boss hadent touched me with his dying attack

i dont know how much multiplier i lost there (x4?) but its definetly alot

Twiddle · Post by **Twiddle** » Thu Oct 04, 2007 9:04 pm

stanski wrote:
PROMETHEUS wrote:wolfmame 99 works perfect for everything related to DDP
Any idea on why it looks wider than when played on newer versions of mame? It looks way different visually to me.

set aspect ratio in default game settings to 8:5 instead of 4:3

crithit5000 · Post by **crithit5000** » Tue Oct 09, 2007 8:18 am

crithit5000 - 23,772,070 - A-L - 1-6 - 189 - MAME

PROMETHEUS · Post by **PROMETHEUS** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 8:40 pm

About 50 hours of Dodonpachi practice later, I decided to finally try for a high score again. After about 10 or 15 tries where I too often fucked up on 1-3 (missing, often at the boss :/), I finally did a really nice run.

PROMETHEUS - 262,760,540 - A-L - 2-6 - 835

This time some nice loop 2 action included ! That was fun to play, I was kind of stressed at some points because I was afraid I would do something really wrong, but considering what I am able to do, I only did one important mistake (at the 2-2 boss).

Replay recorded with wolfmameplus99.

** Rom used : ddonpachj = japanese version **

LUNardei · Post by **LUNardei** » Sun Oct 14, 2007 8:57 pm

lun> 200?
prom> oh no, uhm, ehm, maybe

Ehr well, great job, no other words ^__^
Thanks for the replay too, as usual

Just out of curiosity, what do you think about improving this score? Is there room for you to push it any further?

EDIT - Suggestion: zip the .inp NOW!