STGT'10 Week 4: Raiden Fighters 2

[clp]

love raiden fighters 1 and 2 + big thanks to twiddle for the how to unlock ships info on jap rom .
needs MOAR miclus

Clp - Fatloli luftwaffe - 51,433,210 - 7 - slave (Judge Spear) - MAME

[Sasupoika]

Sasupoika - INFINITE FLAMINGOES - 27,878,280 - 6 - Slave (Judge Spear) - MAME
Fuck yeah Raiden Fighters 2!

[clp]

Fuck yeah Raiden Fighters 2!

+1

[Sasupoika]

Sasupoika - INFINITE FLAMINGOES - 30,985,730 - 6 - Slave (Judge Spear) - MAME
I lost all my lives in stage 6. Damnit. I also had bad luck with the trains...


Sasupoika - INFINITE FLAMINGOES - 41,871,240 - 6 - Slave (Judge Spear) - MAME
Died twice in stage 3, but made further than previous attempts. I even improved score by 11 millions.

Fuck yeah Raiden Fighters 2!

[Skykid]

Skykid - Casino Royale - 3,587,560 - 3 - (Raiden MK.I) - PCB

This game is just too good!

(And everybody else on here is just too good at this game )

[HalfEmpty]

First time ever playing this game, now to figure out how my medal went from being worth 2000 down to 100, then 20 . It can only go up from here at least, I hope.

t0yrobo - Attack Ships on Fire - 1,285,290 - 2 - Death Header

if you lose your slave ships your medals drop back down

[Matsunaga]

Matsunaga - Underdogs - 11,015,860 - 3 - Slave(Judge Spear) - RFA

Arcade is much harder than normal, it seems.. I'll get used to it shortly.

[Acid King]

Acid King - Drink N Fly - 11,988,500 - 3 - Miclus - RFA

[Annoyboy]

Annoyboy - Haru's Time Machine - 919,010 - 2 - Whatever the default ship is called - MAME

Fuck this terrible choppy mess of a game.

[Frenetic]

Hi guys have two questions about emulation:

Which MAME version works best with the japan ROM? I'm getting no sound. I've also tried doing twiddle's trick here http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?t=15535 to unlocking the ships, but I don't see "DAYS OF OPERATION" after following the steps indicated (esp after holding the service and test buttons, all they show is flick from OFF to ON). Could someone give me a walkthrough?

Can we use another version of the ROM (US, etc.) is scoring different, etc?

Thanks so much guys, really enjoying this tournament.

-the F-man

[DKgiz73]

well gotta post something:

DKgiz73 - Team Danmark - 2,891,640 - 3 - Death Header - MAME

[sirmax]

sirmax - Zombieloli Kampfgeschwader - 2,425,010 - 3 - Judge Spear - MAME

[KennyMan666]

This'll do for today.

KennyMan666 - Team Sweden - 23,823,340 - 4 - Slave (Judge Spear) - MAME

[clp]

Fuck this terrible choppy mess of a game.

noobrage

[bkk]

Starting to remember how to score. Never figured out how to survive.



bkk - Let's Destroy STGT 2010 - 5,637,070 - 3 - Slave (Judge Spear) - MAME

[twalden]

twalden - Wishi Washi - 42,951,000 - 6 - Slave (Hell Diver) - RFA

I'm used to playing my US PCB, so I'm getting sniped a lot having to wait longer for the Miculus'.

[Icarus]

After many failed attempts trying to score against Red Eye, finally bagged the sonovabitch with a quick kill.

Icarus - [NON PARTICIPANT] - 99,074,060 - ALL - Slave (Judge Spear) - J-RFA (AC Diff.)



I'm getting popped quite regularly either in the sky stage, or towards the end of the Sand Lobster stage, which is annoying, and needs some safe strategies figured out. About 1.5mil off my personal best - scattered bonuses, scratch points, and more accurate play on Red Eye should get me 1mil at least. Aiming for 102mil by the end of the week.

Gameclip is up on J-XBLA leaderboards, now third overall. Time for a break, got a bit of a headache going on.

[third_strike]

to ikarus and Sikraiken;
How many straight hours can you play?
Just curious, because even when I have time I can't support even 1,5 h straight (I would like know if I am lazy).

[Acid King]

Just starting to learn the Miclus locations, still experimenting with characters.

Acid King - Drink N Fly - 25,043,960 - 4 - Fairy - RFA

[Icarus]

to ikarus and Sikraiken;
How many straight hours can you play?
Just curious, because even when I have time I can't support even 1,5 h straight (I would like know if I am lazy).

Depends on the game. RF2 is quite intense, so I put in about two to three full credits each time (at about 20-25min per credit), and then take a break of anything between half an hour (smoke and a cup of tea) to a couple of hours (chillout, relax, and eat/watch something). I've actually had the 360 on since 11am this morning, picking at the last few stages in Training Mode, and sessioned the last hour or two on straight through credits in between intermittent breaks.

It's the same routine I have whenever I take part in a competition - reserve a few hours, sit down and train the hard parts over and over, then run a couple of credits and see what happens. Compared to SiK though, I have to work harder to get my scores.

Luckily I lots of experience with the RF series, which helped a bit. ^_-

[dex]

Crappy first credit with getting the 100000 medals on stage 1.



dex - Sweet Tacos - 32,275,880 - 4 - Slave (Judge Spear) - MAME

Scoreboard updated.

Oh, and RFA arcade difficulty is fine. The US ROM can't be used due to small differences in scoring and the fact it loops.

[sirmax]

sirmax - Zombieloli Kampfgeschwader - 5,278,120 - 3 - Slave (Judge Spear) - MAME

[Aru-san]

Aru-san - Team Loser - 3,590,370 - 3 - Chaser 2000 - Lagless MAME

HOW YOU LIKE ME NOW BADNUSTY. I JUST DISCOVERED 10K MEDALS BEE-YATCH

[HeWhoGoverns]

HeWhoGoverns - Team Blast Destiny - 3,288,480 - 3 - Aegis IIC - X360

After an unexpected two week absence, I'm back for the last week of STGT! And lo and behold, this week we play one of the best shmups ever, Raiden Fighters 2. Fuck yes.

[VorpalEdge]

Which MAME version works best with the japan ROM? I'm getting no sound. I've also tried doing twiddle's trick here http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?t=15535 to unlocking the ships, but I don't see "DAYS OF OPERATION" after following the steps indicated (esp after holding the service and test buttons, all they show is flick from OFF to ON). Could someone give me a walkthrough?

You already know what Service is, and test is 7 by default iirc. If pressing 2 while holding those does not increase days of op, your keyboard is probably not able to handle that number of buttons pressed at once. Try mapping service and test to the same button, and then remapping them back to their defaults once you hit 140.

Anyways,



VorpalEdge - Team Sweet Tacos - 13,027,060 - 3 - Slave (Judge Spear) - MAME

I didn't even get the medals to finally explode and enter max medal mode until stage 3.

[Aru-san]

Aru-san - Team Loser - 4,695,690 - 3 - Chaser 2000 - Lagless MAME

I need to try and keep my medals at 100K and not have them drop to 10K

[ColonelFatso]

lose slave in base - reset - lose slave in base - reset - wtf sniper tank - reset - repeat several times - hit gold bars after half an hour of the first level

ColonelFatso - Team with No Name - 13,981,630 - 3 - slave(blue javelin) - mame

[Skykid]

ColonelFatso - Team with No Name - 13,981,630 - 3 - slave(blue javelin) - mame

That's quite a score for stage 3.



My new score:

Skykid - Casino Royale - 7,234,140 - 4 - Judge Spear - PCB

Sorry for the big pic.

[Kiken]

WHERE YO CURLAY MICLUS AT?

Kiken - Drink N' Fly - 49,959,440 - 6 - Slave (Judge Spear) - 360

Definitely will be playing this more during the week. But I kinda have to attack it the same way Icarus does.. just 2-3 credits at a time and then turn it off and go do something else for a while. Although, I will say that the RF series, in general, seems to be much easier to pick back up after having not played for a while than practically any other shmup series I can think of.

[Acid King]

Acid King - Drink N Fly - 37,093,450 - 5 - Slave (Blue Javelin) - RFA