Assault & Assault Plus [Arcade/PS1]

[Gemant]

I'm not sure how the world record is 1 mil+; is there any video of that superplay?

yes, I see a mame replay in 2002/2003 from gmc-imo site (down from 10 years +) for almost 1m. Unfortunately I haven't saved it.... maybe is possible find (low chance) in web machine.

[Gemant]

https://web.archive.org/web/20030528235 ... ay_new.htm

The only good replay appeared in the web in these 17 years is this. But download file is broken.

Maybe I found something... stage 10: completed with time up... maybe there is a bonus bug (+85k).

[Kino]

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[maximo310]

Two new scores from this week, but I sadly did not get videos for both: Especially for the second one, I was struggling all day with practice streams, and then I do one practice run w/o recording it and turns out to be the clear.

Assault:
maximo-698,100- ALL- Arcade



Assault Plus:
maximo- 1,038,250- ALL- Super- Arcade

[maximo310]

Assault:
maximo- 719,950- ALL- Arcade

[maximo310]

I've been working on a good run in the meantime, but I've been trying to figure out the last few oddities; one of the them being this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrJyheoDfHs

The black generator, which normally takes 20 hits, is killed in one hit. But I'm not sure if this is because the splash radius was perfectly circled around the generator center which it hit, or if its something else that I'm missing.

[maximo310]

Sorry about the double post, but I have two new pb's, one which is way awesome:

Assault Plus:
maximo-1,030,650-ALL- Easy-Arcade



Assault Plus:
maximo- 1,729,200- ALL-Super-Arcade ( Lives x 4)



Both of these runs have been recorded and will be uploaded to youtube/ dailymotion soon. The Super run is pretty sweet, as mostly everything clicked during the playthrough.

[Kino]

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[maximo310]

Just a couple million more at Super. You're almost there!

The black generator, which normally takes 20 hits, is killed in one hit. But I'm not sure if this is because the splash radius was perfectly circled around the generator center

Yes, that's it. Real tough bastard to get, I've pulled it off a grand total of once...

Haha thanks! I'm pretty sure that the only way to get to 3-3.5 million is with a very high autofire rate, since its crazy powerful compared to my manual tapping. The black generator trick is mostly likely needed for the plus wr, especially since that superplay vid has the dude pulling it off twice in one run, and that can end up saving a lot of time in the end.

Here's my Super Assault run here: http://youtu.be/cF-DwIbO5aQ

[maximo310]

Two new scores for vanilla
Assault (Japan old):
maximo-717,600-ALL-Arcade

Assault (World)
maximo-749,600-ALL-Arcade


The latter was achieved with an autofire method via shmupmame v4.2; with better execution I could get around 760k. However, I still gotta find a way to toggle autofire on and off for Plus still for my strategy.

[maximo310]

Western record is broken:
Assault (World)
maximo-828,850-ALL-Arcade

Run is here: https://youtu.be/nGyvAXFPF38

[maximo310]

Assault Plus:
maximo-1,240,750-Easy-Arcade


Assault Plus:
maximo-2,234,500-Super-Arcade

Run here: https://youtu.be/nZ9uIHMHgCo

I sadly wasn't able to get a recording of the Easy no miss, but moving fast and getting every single point w/ the missiles really adds up.

[Kino]

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[maximo310]

Yeah, especially since I wanna see if I can close the 20k gap to the world record. There are alot of small things that add up the score, as well as just moving fast through each area.

[maximo310]

Pity the run didn't record, though... you plan on having another go at it? I'm curious as to exactly how many missile bases I'm overlooking.

Here's a newly uploaded run w/ similar score: https://youtu.be/ISCMdtMRElo

[maximo310]

Finally got around to playing my PS1 Museum Vol. 4 copy due to me wanting to get some practice with actual twin sticks ( the SPCH-1110) for future events.

Here's my score for that version

Assault ( Japan new version)
maximo-618,300- ALL-PS1


Setup pic:


( ignore that foot)
One thing I did notice was that for the PS1 Museum port is that for A Plus, the blue statues are worth only 1000 points instead of 2000 points like the arcade version, so I think arcade is the way to go if you want to pursue the high score.

I also got a recorded clear on the arcade version with settings at rank d, time c. The only differences were that you can only get 4 extends total ( as opposed to around 8 extends on rank b) for a 600k route, and that you're much more limited on time. Doing a rank d, time d is probably possible but haven't gotten a clear yet. I'd only reccomend it if you wanted to challenge yourself since there's no additional enemies/more agressive patterns, just less lives and time.

[maximo310]

New scores!

Assault(Japan old verison)
maximo-823,850-ALL-Arcade



Assault(World)
maximo-857,000-ALL-Arcade

[maximo310]

Assault ( Japan old version)
maximo-861,450-ALL-Arcade

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/200627966

Assault ( World)
maximo-883,500-ALL-Arcade


The World score is an old pb from back in March, haven't bothered to push it much further in that set since then.

Since the Japan set has some work still left, I made a highlight of a recent ALL run. Showcases a ok stg7, although I missed points on stg 9 in order to ensure I would have enough lives for the last few stages sadly. Still need strat help past 900k.