Gradius + Gradius II: Gofer no Yabou - Now with FC goodness

[frothmeister]

1st time post in this section guys but just thought I had to post here since I was talking to my mate yesterday who has been playing this a fair bit lately.

He doesn't have the internet (or even a PC ) as he spends all of his time actually playing games I think.

Any way he tells me his Gradius top score is now around 1,700,000 and he can get to the 4th loop. Is this a record and if so is it worth getting a photo of his hi-score screen to post up here? Oh, he's playing on the Saturn version I think, normal settings.

I was pretty good on this too back in the day but have never been close to the 4th loop. Think I made the 3rd one a couple of times but only just.

[Aquas]

Aquas - 359,400 - Gradius 2 (MAME) - 1-8 - Type 2

Game Over'd at fire dragon thing. The scream it makes scared the shit outta me. GRUAAAAAAHHH!!!!!

I think I have a better score on my PSP but I wasn't sure about the details of the run.

[PlasmaBlooD]

jap Famicom with RGB Yeah

PlasmaBlooD 1,512,000 3-4

edit

PlasmaBlooD 1,813,000 3-7

[PlasmaBlooD]

FC Gradius II

PlasmaBlooD 9,999,990 Loop 11 Type 2



Only last Boss in Bossstage is a little more difficult, but my first counterstop huhuahahaha

[Aquas]

Aquas - 390,900 - Gradius II Arcade (MAME) - 2-1 - Force - Type 4

Woo, clear. Didn't take that long... All that's left is III to complete 1-5 I might try to work at the 2nd loop a bit, because it's pretty fun from what I've tried.

[Aquas]

Gradius (arcade MAME)
Aquas - 463,500 - 2-3 - MAME

Whee. Figured how to deal with zub rush in 2-2... don't shoot the zubs unless you have to! 2-3 was too much to handle.
Top 10 baby

[Zach Keene]

OK, my reply notifications apparently went on vacation for this topic, but I think I got everything caught up. Let me know if I missed something.

[saucykobold]

Gradius II
saucykobold - 1,776,000 - 3-4 - Type 4 - Force Field - PS1

[Aquas]

Hey Zach, for Gradius I I just noticed I've been playing on the easy setting, and not medium which I believe is normal. I wasn't using the right extend settings either. So go ahead and remove my entry for now, if you want, I'll try to get a new one up there soon though. My bad.

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EASY MODE SCORE RANT
Gradius I - some score - 2-7 - easy

I did a run live on ustream tonight. Things of note are that a third speedup and a third option with double worked out for me on 2-4 (cliff stage, right?) No lazer equip this run partly because I forgot I had bound another button to manually fire them, but I feel a bit more safe with double to be honest. I used a fourth speedup on stage 7 and that was a mistake I think, three is probably good enough, but the third option does help because then I can hang the options behind me to take out the oncoming walker turrets and such. Stuff happens so quickly though, that I was shot down before I knew it. Then I futily tried to recover with 6 or so lives, if I had been doing some checkpoint milking for scoring, this score could be significantly better. I'm surprised no one has 2-looped this here, I'm gonna aim for it, because it's totally within my reach. EDIT: FOR EASY MOOOOODDEEE durrrr

btw if you have a twitter account, I update when I go on the air if you want to watch it next time. twitter.com/Aqy

[Aquas]

Gradius I
Aquas - 461,100 - 2-4 - MAME

Alright this score is legitimate... it drops me down one spot, too.

[Aquas]

Gradius I
Aquas - 737,900 - 2-7 - MAME

Flooding the ole gradius threads again

I'm fairly confident I can get into the 3rd loop, so expect a new score very soon, and btw, I'm going for #1!

[Aquas]

Gradius I
Aquas - 982,100 - 2-7 - MAME

Fun run, a little disappointed I didn't make the million and 3rd loop, though. I didn't replenish my shield at the right time. Proof picture below, since this is a #1 score (my first one!)

[saucykobold]

Gradius
saucykobold - 1,009,600 - 3-3 - PS1

[Kollision]

wow, that's a monstrous score

I feel ashamed to post mine after this, but damn here it goes:

Gradius
Kollision - 426,600 - 2-2 - Saturn

[Aquas]

Naw naw, good job though! Try the loop if you can, it can be pretty fun... and nice reflection =D

[saucykobold]

Pshaw! That's hardly a monstrous score; I'm still a novice at this game.

[Aquas]

I have save states on the 3rd and 4th loop that I practice. xD I'm gonna take down your score, saucykobold, btw! XD

[saucykobold]

Good luck. I'll come back to Gradius I later this year; maybe we can have a friendly little competition.

[Dylan1CC]

Gradius PSP version, normal difficulty, one credit. My final score: 387,400 Got partway through stage 2 on the 2nd loop. My first Gradius 1CC.

[Radiant Cinnabun]

Gradius -- 431,300 2-2 on the PSP. I'll try to improve upon this later, though.
Gradius 2 -- 359, 500 (got to the boss rush, whichever stage that is. First loop). PSP, also.

EDIT: No, scratch that Gradius 2 score. I fiddled with the options and noticed that I was playing on easy, so it doesn't count. I'm starting again on normal.

[TrevHead (TVR)]

I redid my 1LC of the 1st loop of Gradius NES this time without using autofire since i was unsure wether autofire is cheating on a game like Gradius.

When the 2nd loop was starting I paused the game for 30 mins, had a bite to eat, returned and died in the 1st stage and couldnt get past that stage, died 3 times at the volcano due to not having the lasers and dieing to stray rocks. It seems to me that if u lose a life past the 1st loop in gradius ur screwed.

TrevHead Gradius NES 494,800 2-1

(note please dont use TVR in my scores as some1 else has been using the same name for a long time)

[mydyinghyde]

Gradius

mydyinghyde 459,800 2-2 PSP

[Kollision]

Just for the fun of it, a bit of NES Gradius a few days ago resulted in this:

Kollision - 952,900 - 2-6 - NES

[EricDaNerd]

Gradius NES
EricDaNerd - 1,118,400 - 2-7 - NES

Fired it up this morning and just fell into the zone. But then my girlfriend called me up right when I was nearing the finish of 2-7. Lost all 11 of my lives. GRRRR!!!!

[EricDaNerd]

Gradius NES
EricDaNerd - 1,670,200 - 3-6 - NES


If people hadn't been bothering me to order a damned pizza during my run then I probably would have made it to loop 4. GRRRR!!! This better be the best pizza I've ever laid lips on or people will pay.

[spadgy]

No idea why I never got round to uploading this:

spadgy - 340,500 - 1-7 - PS1

[tinotormed]

Just played this game today. Score run ended on Moai stage. Luckily survived 1-7 with shield. Video coming soon.

tinotormed - 757,100 - 2-3 - NES

[Despatche]

Gradius NES
Despatche - 1,139,400 - 2-7

Went into 2-5 with Double like an idiot. Used an emulator, used autofire, used Archimendes-hen (promotional version; same game with a few graphical changes)

[tinotormed]

Gradius II NES
tinotormed - 1,179,910 - 2-? - Type 2

I immediately quit after stage 1 of loop 2 because my nestopia emu recording is too heavy to carry on. Still, great run.

[CptRansom]

Gradius - MAME
Ransom - 371,000 - 2-2

WOO.