Zed Blade/Operation Ragnarok (New 31/12/09)

[CHI]

CHI - 3,007,450 - Lv6 - Uncle Beard - Wave/AS/Wave - PCB - NO

And CHI - I need to learn your milking tricks. I thought I knew a few, but you're score is way above mine and a level behind!

sure no problem, just text me nice and early while i'm at work so i know when to pop down

[Smraedis]

Smraedis - 3,103,200 - 6 - Uncle Beard - Wave/AS/Wave - MAME - YES


I'm just trying to milk as much as possible, and keeping the enemies and bosses on the screen for as long as I can. Not sure what my score would be like without autofire, but I know my fingers would be hurting.

[spadgy]

Updated.

Good work smraedis! Straight in at number two.

And CHI is the no-autfire champ for now! Great work - I'm looking forward to seeing your wrist explode in person tonight!

[Ed Oscuro]

And CHI is the no-autfire champ for now!

But he's #3 despite not using autofire?

Oh wait, check CHI's score entry. His score is lower but for some reason you've got Smraedises' score in CHI's listing.

TBH there really need to be two boards - maybe four if you split milking / non-milking in addition to AF. Lol, this game

[spadgy]

Oh wait, check CHI's score entry. His score is lower but for some reason you've got Smraedises' score in CHI's listing.

Fixed! I will learn to sneak-post at work more accurately, I promise.

TBH there really need to be two boards - maybe four if you split milking / non-milking in addition to AF. Lol, this game

I was thinking exactly this. I think an overall board and then two split by autofire. I'll set it up later today. Back to work!

[spadgy]

I was thinking exactly this. I think an overall board and then two split by autofire. I'll set it up later today. Back to work!

Better late than never, the board is now split!

[Ed Oscuro]

This is one way of getting me to improve my score...now I'm at the bottom of both boards.

[Skykid]

New score tonight

Skykid - 2,386,750 - Lv5 - Uncle Beard - Wave/AS/Wave - Mame - NO

Creeping up. Still desperate for a cart though.

I was thinking exactly this. I think an overall board and then two split by autofire. I'll set it up later today. Back to work!

Yeah, you should split the boards by autofire, that makes sense - it's tough on the arm to keep up the rapid fire. Don't need to split them by milking though, it's part of the game.

[CHI]

CHI - 3,487,850 - Lv6 - Uncle Beard - Wave/AS/Wave - PCB - NO



and some light entertainment from friday night... enjoy

part1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMHVOGQelzE
part2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOlCBhoCYPw
part3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDvcZ36srO4

[spadgy]

Shit! Skykid learned to milk properly - just behind my score by level five!

And nice work CHI. I haven't played since last Thursday - I need to get back on it!

I'll update this one as soon as I'm done at work!

[Skykid]

Shit! Skykid learned to milk properly - just behind my score by level five!

I was always fine at the milking. It was the dying that was the problem.

[spadgy]

Of course - what I meant was "Skykid can milk far better than I can!". I'm still at 400k at the end of level one!

[Dragoforce]

Awful game, you got pm skykid.

Dragoforce - 3,214,800 - Level 7 - Uncle Beard - 3Way/Hom/Wave - PCB/MVS - YES

[Skykid]

Awful game, you got pm skykid.

Dragoforce - 3,214,800 - Level 7 - Uncle Beard - 3Way/Hom/Wave - PCB/MVS - YES

Whaaa! Did you milk the hell out of stuff Drago? It's a tough weapon combination to be really effective with (That autofire must help with the 3 way.)

Glad you hate it though!

[spadgy]

and some light entertainment from friday night... enjoy

part1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMHVOGQelzE
part2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOlCBhoCYPw
part3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDvcZ36srO4

I finally watched these. Thanks for the effort CHI, and two Del for holding the camera for so long! I must borrow a tripod from the wife.

This is one way of getting me to improve my score...now I'm at the bottom of both boards.

You're only at the bottom of one. Mrs spadgy is holding one lower in the overall board. Still, you'd better get back to it Ed!

Awful game, you got pm skykid.

Dragoforce - 3,214,800 - Level 7 - Uncle Beard - 3Way/Hom/Wave - PCB/MVS - YES

Excellent work. Sounds like you're done with the game though? And Skykid has his cart? I need to get a lead then!

Oh, and - Updated!

[CHI]

CHI - 3,923,650 - Lv7 - Uncle Beard - Wave/AS/Wave - PCB - NO



end of each level scores: Lv1: 1.15mil Lv2: 1.67mil Lv3: 2.27 Lv4: 2.92 Lv5: 3.36 Lv6: 3.92
finally got to level 7... but did not last very long... too savage

[clp]

clp - 3,343,050 - Lv7 - Uncle Beard - Wave/AS/Wave - mame - YES
The soundtrack is solely responsible for my persisting with this game

[DEL]

CHI wrote;

finally got to level 7... but did not last very long... too savage

Just stay top middle and do your supermarket sweeps innit.
I have a theory on the ST7 Boss - point blank it in its middle, following it up and down.

[spadgy]

I wondered why we still didn't have a DEL score here. That all sounds like such a nightmare.

Welcome clp. That's an awesome start. I hope you come back to give CHI some hassle! Maybe one day even Raiden Fighters 2 will be beaten.

And nice work CHI. 4mil will be yours soon.

And where are you Skykid? Come on sunshine! (I might soon regret that haggling...)

Also, I have a score to submit:

spadgy - 2,657,500 - Lv5 - Uncle Beard - Wave/A-S/Wave - PCB - NO

A picture? Sure...



Updating the high-score board now...

EDIT: Board updated!

[Skykid]

Dragoforce has very kindly worked out a price with me for his MVS cart, so I should be on this soon Spadge!

[CHI]

spadgy - 2,657,500 - Lv5 - Uncle Beard - Wave/A-S/Wave - PCB - NO

a replay? sure... enjoy

stage1-2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXxmi6xlYA0
stage3-4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUrPRdiYRjw
stage5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_QIXH9UAR4

and some light entertainment from friday night... enjoy

part1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMHVOGQelzE
part2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOlCBhoCYPw
part3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDvcZ36srO4

stage1-2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E3vWPfdDK8
stage3-4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOHc1MUAQJ8
stage5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=difk4P2vc8s
stage6-7: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAREvMDDbHQ

[spadgy]

stage1-2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXxmi6xlYA0
stage3-4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUrPRdiYRjw
stage5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_QIXH9UAR4

My first superplay!

Thanks for this though CHI. It will be great to watch my run and see where I need to improve (everywhere!).

[spadgy]

After a visit to Casino on Thursday with CHI helping me with some great over-the-shoulder advice on stage seven, I managed this:

spadgy - 3,172,800 - Lv7 - Uncle Beard - Wave/A-S/Wave - PCB - NO

Almost enough to get on the cab's CHI-dominated score board, but not quite, so here's a blurry shot as the 'Continue?' timer counted down:



And thanks to CHI, I also have a little rundown of my scores at the end of each level, if that helps anybody see where you should be at with 'middling' non-autofire milking abilities.

Lv1 - 890k
Lv2 - 1.24m
Lv3 - 1.74m
Lv4 - 2.23m
Lv5 - 2.64m
Lv6 - 3.02m

Updating now!

EDIT: Updated. I've climbed above one more autofire score with my non-autofire score, which feels good...

[Skykid]

Hey, great vids! It's like I'm there... almost. Good to see some other people play it, really helps. I'm pretty much equalling your stage scores spadge, but your techniques are definitely better (hence I can't get past stage 5). Got Drago's ZB cart today and upped my score straight away, but I won't be happy until I get a 3 mil score so I'll post it when I do.

must remember to play a bit safer on this game, I play it like a total nutcase.

[Skykid]

Skykid - 3,048,200 - Lv6 - Uncle Beard - Wave/AS/Wave - PCB - NO

Didn't take as long as I thought. Getting there.

Credit fed to last stage. WTF?!

[spadgy]

Skykid - 3,048,200 - Lv6 - Uncle Beard - Wave/AS/Wave - PCB - NO

Hmmm. So, as I run this thread, I could just ignore Skykid's score, right?

Only kidding clitnose! I've updated - sorry about the delay - I've been swanning around overseas on two press trips this week, and not had much internet time.

Good work too - considering you haven't got the score for the level 6 boss, you must have score a little more than me when at the point where you died.

I will get back to this game, but I can't stop playing Shock Troopers!

[Dragoforce]

Just discovered something funny. According to Germants old page the arcadia record for Zed Blade is 7.308.850 with autofire and 8.135.500 without. Wonder what that means?

[spadgy]

Really? I'm sure I'd read somewhere that it was the other way around, but maybe I'd just assumed. That's really strange!

[Dragoforce]

Really? I'm sure I'd read somewhere that it was the other way around, but maybe I'd just assumed. That's really strange!

And you are correct sir, time to buy new glasses I think

[spadgy]

No worries! This might have been the first time I was ever the correct one on this forum!