STGT'12 Week 3: Salamander 2

[Deca]

Ripple and Laser both work fine. You can even do it with the basic shot, you'll just probably have to option bomb to finish it off.

[The Coop]

So, do we not get a score table for this week? I ask only because I'd like to get to see my name at or near the top of the placements just once

[Shimatora]

Shimatora - 558,400 - 1-6 - Shmupmame 3

Placeholder. Might improve, might not...

[1up]

im done with this

1up - 208,000 - 1-5 - MAME144

I think it was 1-5, the giant space armada battle.

[Wedge of Cheese]

Wedge of Dave - 211,500 - 4 - MAMEUI32

[RNGmaster]

DAMN I suck at this game. Only managed this score because of a lucky break milking the 1-3 boss.

I have to start practicing the loop and the 1-4 secret ship

RNGmaster - 668,700 - 2-1 - MAMEplus 0.106

[Despatche]

I think it was 1-5, the giant space armada battle.

if you mean the horizontal one, that's stage 1-4 and seems more appropriate for your score

[BareKnuckleRoo]

BareknuckleRoo - 905,600 - 2-1 - JAA (MamePlus 0.106)

Died to one of the worm suicide bullets, derp. Major scoring improvement though thanks to getting 1-1, 1-4 and 2-1 100k bonuses. I suck so much at stage 6 still, the boss usually nails me with those green shots. :/

[Smraedis]

I've had a 2-1 boss suicide bullet come from straight behind me, giving me no time to move away from it.

[BareKnuckleRoo]

The worst deaths I've had are in 1-6 where at the start of the level those yellow popcorn enemies swarm in on you. If one of 'em circles around off-screen it can actually pop back in on-screen. Same for the shootable missiles about halfway into the level. The 2-1 death was my fault; looking in the recording I see it came from a worm in front and I just didn't react fast enough to move out of the way in time.

[Ed Oscuro]

The worst deaths I've had are in 1-6 where at the start of the level those yellow popcorn enemies swarm in on you. If one of 'em circles around off-screen it can actually pop back in on-screen.

This can happen in 1-1 too, at the beginning, although those enemies are very slow.

[shmuppyLove]

shmuppyLove - 305,700 - 1-4 - JAA (MameUI32 143u9)

[Hattori Hanzo]

at stage 6 still, the boss usually nails me with those green shots. :/

Funny. Those are the least threatening to me. Although I still need to put in some credits to get to the boss, those barely have ever killed me. Dodging them seems natural and comfortable to me, somehow.

I have the golden ship down now. It really seems to be as theorized here: Only kill the main part of the first two, then kill all three parts of the golden one, of course the main part being the last. Of course nailing the golden ship is an instant score improvement!

Hattori HANZo - 565,500 - 1-6 - shmupmame 3.0b

[RNGmaster]

Problem with the golden ship is that I can access it easily with Twin Laser but I always seem to kill off the main body before I can get the targets. I'm not sure what I'm supposed to be shooting at, either - can someone provide a screenshot with the parts circled or something?

The final boss is really totally a non-issue aside from the little things that shoot the purple bullets. Total bullet hell.

[BareKnuckleRoo]

The red boxes are the fin and engine portions, blue area is the main body. Note that the engine part doesn't seem to flash visibly when it's hit, but it'll be obvious when it's destroyed. The fin takes very few hits to destroy.

[RNGmaster]

Yeah, whenever I look for the fin it seems to have exploded already . So I guess it's just a matter of getting right into the engine. Thanks for the help bro!

[Aettaa]

Aettaa - 651,500 - 1-6 - MAME

Died to final boss. I can probably do better, but I don't know if I have the motivation.

[BareKnuckleRoo]

BareknuckleRoo - 1,084,100 - 2-3 - JAA (MamePlus 0.106)

So apparently I've been fucking up the final boss the whole time - making sure I've got a couple of speedups is enough to simply wide dodge at the bottom from corner to corner when he fires the green shots, lol. First time reaching the second loop with 3 extra lives, infuriatingly I lost one right before the stage 2 boss when I got distracted by something IRL and totally forgot that sitting at the bottom of the screen isn't safe... a wave of fire ate me from behind. Made up for it by dodging through the bosses shots and not getting hit at all at least.

Then I got my butt handed to me by 2-3 which is zomg hard, turrets fire super aggressively.

[CHI]

CHI - 393,300 - 1-6 - ShmupMame



I can't seem to get the autofire working, could've gotten more points by killing things quicker
That's it for tonight, i'll see what i could do any better tomorrow...

[sunburstbasser]

sunburstbasser - 323,900 - 1-4 - PCSX

Killed Brain Golem. Even though the rest of my play was pretty sloppy, killing Brain Golem really gave a nice boost to my overall score.

[AmidstStorm]

Do we normally get to see a rankings table before end of game? Not expecting to be up near the top ever, but it would be nice to see what I need just to jump a few more places.

[The Coop]

We usually have one, and a dynamic scoreboard, but dex seems to have been kidnapped by Russian spies... and not the hot type of Russian spies.

[Herr Schatten]

Herr Schatten - 497,800 - 1-6 - MAME

[dex]

It was the hot type of Russian spies. Scoreboard will be up in a bit.

[dex]

Updated.

[trap15]

trap15 - 399,400 - 1-5 - MAME

I hate this game, and this is probably my final score this week.

[VgameT]

VgameT - 828,600 - 2-2 - ShmupMAME

loool missed the bonus in 2-1. Will raise tomorrow night unless my body dies at work somehow

[DMC]

DMC - 741,100 - 2-1 - MAME

[CptRansom]

CptRansom - 429,000 - 1-6 - MAME

[Despatche]

Despatche - 392,500 - 1-5 - ShmupMAME

bleh