Truxton

[Ed Oscuro]

Please you to split off the Genesis and other versions into their own board...they don't belong in with the MAME version.

I'll try taking this up again sometime.

[drboom]

Finally got past the 300K mark - and by a good distance!
drboom - area 94 - 414,180 - pcb

[Mills]

Finally got past the 300K mark - and by a good distance!
drboom - area 94 - 414,180 - pcb

Focus your attention on reaching 1st loop rather than beating your highscore as this game is old.

[drboom]

Not sure what you mean...
I am working for the loop, but I found it funny that I had never broken 300K and then I do so - with a 400K score.
Honestly, I think its each area that represents the actual 'milestone' kind of challenge.

[Ruldra]

Old score of mine...

Ruldra - Area 107 - 634,510 - MAME

Which area is the end of the 1st loop? I thought it was area 100 but it's far from that.

[lgb]

It's somewhere around 160-170. When you get 1,000,000pts, you're beginning to get close to the end, or at least far enough that you shouldn't quit so soon.

[drboom]

There's a first loop, no miss replay on nicovideo. I know the links are up at gamengai if you want to see right where it is. Last stage looks brutal! Last boss's pattern reminds me of a harder version ofthe stage 5 boss from Sky Shark.

[Mills]

Not sure what you mean...
I am working for the loop, but I found it funny that I had never broken 300K and then I do so - with a 400K score.
Honestly, I think its each area that represents the actual 'milestone' kind of challenge.

Truxton is nearly 20yrs old from its original arcade release. So posting a non completion score is hardly gonna give you brownie points of appreciation. The real challenge for this game is 1st loop completion with 1st life, max firepower and bombs.

[Ed Oscuro]

What about no autofire? I imagine what 20 years of pounding away at this game will do...both for the player and the game hardware...but yeah no-bomb is the way to go

[Leandro]

no-bomb, lol. Yeah, you have to no-miss 5 loops of this game without using bombs, and avoiding all the power up and speed items, or else go home and be a family man

[drboom]

Man, you guys are brutal... I'm definately not looking for props, just charting my progress.

[sikraiken]

Mills, when did you become the officiating body on how people need to play their games? : )

[DEL]

^Hey don't worry, The Old Mills is just grouchy some of the time .
Likes to throw the odd verbal hand grenade.
Its all about 12 hours on 1 credit and then putting your fist through the screen.

[sikraiken]

Sounds like a successful run.

[Ruldra]

Ruldra - 1,013,470 - Area 145 - MAME

Death on stage 4. I'm playing the japanese version (Tatsujin), it's a little bit harder than Truxton.

Is yojo still around? Last update was in march.

[DEL]

I don't know if yojo is around, but still keep posting your progress Ruldra

[yojo!]

still alive . Thread updated

[Ruldra]

Ruldra - 1,191,550 - Area 168 - MAME

Made it to stage 5. I think I can handle all the enemies in the game now, expect for the midboss right before the final boss. That one is driving me nuts.

[yojo!]

Which weapon do you use ?

[Ed Oscuro]

Treasure of the Rudras?

Quick spelling check on the highscore thread yojo!

[Ruldra]

Who's Rudra?

Anyway...



Ruldra - 1,540,420 - Area 222 - MAME

First loop clear! No-missed to stage 5, then it was a complete disaster. I was dying all over the place, but I had so many spare lives I made it to the end (killed the final boss with a single spare life though). Japanese version.

[Mills]

Wouldn't mind playing the jap version, but i dont think anyone here in the uk has the pcb.

[MJR]

I actually have the japanese PCB (yes it says tatsujin on title screen), what's the difference between this and other territories?

PS. real glad to see life in this thread again. Motivated me to install the pcb again and practice. I'm really determined to beat the first loop now.

[Ruldra]

The difference is barely noticeable, but Tatsujin is a little bit harder than Truxton. You can notice that the first midboss fires its laser more often in the japanese version.

By the way, I found out that you can sit on top of the second boss core and none of his bullets will come your way. If you're at full power, you should kill him as he's about to leave the platform. But killing him too quickly will make a wave of enemies come from behind, so you need to be ready for that.

Also, area 200 is the end of the first loop.

[DEL]

The difference between Truxton and Tatsujin isn't enough to worry about. The real difference in difficulty lay in the harder prototype board with red lasers. The second loop onwards on the prototype had three-way spreads coming from the destruction of the ground enemies, instead of one. We still did a few loops of that anyway, and would have Counter Stopped it if it had been in the arcade a while longer.

[yojo!]

Any idea how much that prototype fetch for ?

[DEL]

If it could be found....the sky is the limit
The red lasers were much more beautiful, plus it was the full game, unlike most other prototypes. We have asked the arcade owner where the board is, but we never get the answer. It could be in a stack in their Hanger Lane warehouse.

[Battletoad]

Is this thread only for Truxton? I have this Tatsujin score:

Battletoad - stage 1-5 - 1,121,540 - Genesis

[Battletoad]

Played more Truxton than Tasujin lately... I´m almost through the 1st loop, but also almost at the point where I give up. Dying in stage 5 is like the sudden and definite end of the run. Lost most of my lifes at the same checkpoint.

Truxton
Battletoad - stage 1-5 - 1,426,960 - Genesis

[lgb]

The difference between Truxton and Tatsujin isn't enough to worry about.

the fact that there is a difference makes it enough to worry about