STGT'12 Week 3: Salamander 2

[CHI]

CHI - 562,200 - 1-6 - ShmupMame



Just like to say Thanks to .SM for helping me out with the autofire, time to get a better score

[Nifty]

DavidThink - 637,200 - 1-6 - MAME Plus!

This is the first time I've really played since my last score

[Chaos Phoenixma]

Chaos Phoenixma- 530,000- 1-6 - ShmupMAME 2.2




I'm pretty much done for the week. But I'll definitely come back and go for 1-All and 2-All. I did miss the 1-4 trick as usual, but oh well.

[Frenetic]

Frenetic - 263500 - 1-5 - ShmupMAME v2.2

[dpful]

Dpful - 396600 - 1-6 - MAME

I got a little higher score and edited it here- right way to do it? I almost broke 400,000 oh well
I love this game

[brendz]

Brendz - 244700 - 1-4 - MAME
team WWJ5D

Only played 3 credits due to time constraints, not being able to get autofire going and just plain not liking the game at all
Edit: had time for another credit and made it fartherz

[:::Redsun:::]

Redsun - 909.100 - 2-4 - MAME

[Grunthos]

Grunthos - Team RGF - 268,300 - 1-5 - Saturn

[CHI]

CHI - 563,600 - 1-6 - ShmupMame



Enough for today, me bum is aching

[CRI]

CRI - 842,300 - 2-2 - MAME


missed the 100k bonus at 2-1.

[Matsunaga]

Matsunaga - 107900 - Stage 3 - MAME

[Hattori Hanzo]

I was so incredibly lucky this time. 1-5 had a bullet shield for me and 1-6 another one for my convenience. Somehow I managed to beat the final boss dying only once and a bullet in 2-1 struck me at the right time to get a second full option. So I killed the golem again and died just after that.
I'm quite certain I will not be able to get this far again for the rest of the week, but heck, this is better than I expected I would do.



Hattori HANZo - 853,800 - 2-1 - LUCKmame 3.0b

[Moniker]

Moniker - 147,600 - 1-3 - ShmupMAMEv3.0b

Nothing to see here, move along.

[Noxid]

Professor Dave - 533,500 - 1-5 - Mame+

Aaand there. I've fulfilled my end of the blood pact for this week.

[Dave_K.]

Dave_K. - 467,700 - 1-6 - PCB JAA

[Op Intensify]

First, do the trick that gets you two options before the Golem, which was posted earlier in the thread.

Could someone quote this post? I see other people saying to make sure you have two options for the Golem, but not how to actually get them. In all my runs I've never had more than 1.5 at that point.

[BareKnuckleRoo]

The first four sets of item drop enemies drop a speed up, full option, ripple & laser. The enemies after have pseudorandom drops, but you get a much higher chance of getting full option drops if you kill the red ships without grabbing the ripple or laser power up. Ideally, delay killing the last ripple and laser enemies in those groups so they drop those items at the right side of the screen, giving you time to kill the red enemies afterwards, grab a second full option, then snag the ripple & laser.

You can kill the golem with only one option but it's trickier and you basically need to land a seed bomb on the golem before it reaches the halfway point.

[Op Intensify]

Thanks! Will try.

[Zyre]

Zyre - 219300 - 1-4 - Shmupmame

[CloudyMusic]

Christ, the vert stages in this game give me a headache for some reason. Only played a couple times before I couldn't take anymore.

Keres - 137500 - 1-3 - Shmupmame

[chum]

chum - 671,300 - 2-2 - mame



Apparently using player 2 is a good idea. Stage 5 was much more manageable. survival-wise, the first loop went about as well as I could hope for: one death on stage 5 and one death on st 6 boss. Sad about missing the 100k on stage 4 (and no 100k on 2-1, but I don't have any hopes for getting that)

Almost didn't even make it past 2-1 despite having a good number of lives. A single death made the boss very difficult.

[Nifty]

Stupid brain lasers

DavidThink - 802,300 - 2-1 - MAME Plus!

Got my minimum target for the week, but I feel like improving still

[Aettaa]

Aettaa - 764,700 - 2-1 - MAME Plus!

A purple bullet hit me from behind during the final boss . 2-1 was also hilariously bad, but I think I'm done for this week

[ColonelFatso]

ColonelFatso - 319,300 - 1-4 - MAME

No time this week, there was no time.

[Deca]

Good chance this will be my final score, I feel OK with it.

deca - 916,300 - 2-2 - shmupmame 2.2

[RNGmaster]

I did not even try this week. See you on Ketsui Week!

[Kyper]

Kyper - 676,900 - 1-6 - MAME

Decent stage 3 milking but still missed the stage 4 ship =/

[ED-057]

ED-057 - 555,700 - 1-6 - MAME

I killed brain golem only three times all week. This was one of those times. (and it was a lucky run with three shield items appearing)

[zakk]

Zakk - 687900 - 1-6 - Mame

[DK64_MASTER]

The shittiest 2-ALL ever of course playing just for survival... From Thursday, haven't been able to beat it just yet...
DK64_MASTER - 983400 - 2-ALL - Mame



Edit: I edited this score to say 2-ALL... I usually copy and paste the previous score (Zakk's), which is why it said 1-6 before)