STG of the Month (September 2012) - Gradius III!

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Despatche wrote:i thought it had something to do with those wall pieces but i don't think so anymore

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can someone tell me what is causing stage 1 to give me more capsules and the game letting me keep some upgrades after dying on normal mode
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I'm going to have nightmares about these fucking bubbles holy shit.


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Sly Cherry Chunks wrote:Are you playing World revision? (Or is it Asia)
oops

*+"after dying on normal mode in japan version"
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Let's try this...

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Am I banned from playing the PSP Gradius Collection port even on the default arcade settings?
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I don't see why you should be as long as you don't use Extra Edit, same for PS2. But the topic says not to use it for some reason.

Playing these games on PSP collection is awful anyway.
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Playing these games on PSP collection is awful anyway.
Not with the sublime D-pad of a PSP-3000.
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You know it's been a rough day when you seek solace in Gradius III.

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CaptainRansom wrote:I forgot to go through a lengthy and convoluted selection process this month, so I just looked through my list of games in MAME and asked myself how I could be an asshole...

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Given the massive drama lately, you must submit a video of your replay as well as a simultaneous video of your hands and face (I want to see your emotional intensity as proof that you're trying otherwise you're probably just cheating).
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you only complain about gradius iii because you're too scared to do anything in it

come on, it won't bite... for a while
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Illyrian wrote:I'm going to hurt you in your anus for doing this to us :(
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I've got sand in my ass

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1-1, 173k, wut?!
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The only way that'd be possible is if you had to restart the entire stage if you died, which is definitely not the case.

So I'm hoping it was meant to say 1-3 cause that'd actually be somewhat reasonable.
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Typo

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Very slight improvement. Stage 2 is really easy with Type B, which is nice. I still fucking hate stage 3.

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Oh wow, things didn't go so well, thanks to those bubbles and overwhelming enemy bullets. :oops:

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I hope to try again and at least get past those bubbles. :lol:
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Do I have to keep mashing buttons or am I allowed to just use auto-fire? :mrgreen:
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I use autofire because I don't hate my life. I suggest you do the same. =D
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SuperSoaker360 wrote:Do I have to keep mashing buttons or am I allowed to just use auto-fire? :mrgreen:
Set buttons 1 & 2 to autofire, and you get proper autofire bullets, and extra missiles as well.
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I set fire and missiles to the same button and put that on autofire.

Yes, I really am THAT LAZY.
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Keep in mind that autofire will actually harm the performance of some of the lasers. So you may wish to test the effect on your laser of choice.


Personally, I've never used autofire in this game. It's not really necessary.
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CaptainRansom wrote:I set fire and missiles to the same button and put that on autofire.

Yes, I really am THAT LAZY.
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Chaos Phoenixma wrote:Keep in mind that autofire will actually harm the performance of some of the lasers. So you may wish to test the effect on your laser of choice.


Personally, I've never used autofire in this game. It's not really necessary.
Ripple lasers aren't harmed by it, and I don't think twin lasers are either.

It doesn't matter. I'll be lucky to see 1-4 at the rate I'm going. XD
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I hope to try again and at least get past those bubbles. :lol:
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In MAME, you can actually map two buttons to the same input (button 2 in this case).

So on my joystick, I have autofire enabled on one of the buttons for the pew pew shooty gun and not enabled on the other one when I'm using shoop da whoop lazors.

It also works well for games where tapping the shot button does one thing and holding does another, and the game doesn't have autofire on another button (like C or D). Blazing Star, for example.
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Don't use auto fire, I do have one button mapped to shot and missile though. I've been using type B double from stage 2 onwards, really helps with stage 3. I'm up to the spinny mountain things.
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I had to look at my damn guide to time out the stage 3 boss inbetween his phases. Fucking annoying but I got it again lol. I recommend timing him out anyway.

The reason I have so many points is because I had 3 failed recovery attempts at stage 3. You get a lot of points from the pre-boss section. Choked on the maoi, but not the boss, which I was especially worried about.

My arcade button setup is:

A B C
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B set to auto shot, C auto missile. E shot, F missile, D power-up. Autofire rate of 3 or 4 is fine.

Oh yeah. I DO have video for this. I streamed it today. http://www.twitch.tv/aquas_/b/331070769 fast forward to gradius 3, http://www.twitch.tv/aquas_/b/331073794
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