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Aquas wrote:Saw this thread active recently and decided to give it a go myself. Long time coming to really play this game. I don't even remember submitting my previous score. Anyway awesome game! After smashing my head against the easy all top-route, ending at Fatty Glutton every time. I decided to go d,d, then all up and got the clear on the first go Crazy... will play more for sure.

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I wonder if some versions of Fatty Glutton are easier than others. I suspect that is so, but I'm not sure. Congrats on the clear.

Maybe the replay is a future episode of STGWeekly? :P

Watching it, I had to smile at the quick realization of how you had fucked yourself over with the Fatty Glutton fight. That you managed to pull it off is worthy of praise. As the IRC said, that was one hell of a game of chicken.

Likewise, the final boss gave you a run for your money, though by the time you have the wave cannon, if you haven't lost too many lives you can just sort of outlive any final boss. Still, an exciting clear!
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Re: Darius (new thread)

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Aquas wrote:Saw this thread active recently and decided to give it a go myself. Long time coming to really play this game. I don't even remember submitting my previous score. Anyway awesome game! After smashing my head against the easy all top-route, ending at Fatty Glutton every time. I decided to go d,d, then all up and got the clear on the first go Crazy... will play more for sure.

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Top route isn't easy actually, it's stupid hard and ends with Great Thing. The easy route is X route. I see you took out Fatty with the laser, that's hardcore man congrats. That's actually what makes the top course clear so difficult; if you don't kill Fatty with the laser to upgrade to wave, you just simply can't survive stage P.

As for some versions of Fatty being easier, I'm pretty sure that's the case yeah. Fatty-G in Z course fires way more quickly than the Fatty in X course does (not that it matters in X course since you don't need to upgrade to laser anyhow).
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Thanks for the congrats ACSeraph and EmperorIng. I played some more tonight, but this time not fighting Fatty Glutton with the laser and roughing it out with the original shot for the rest of the game. In the above run I kill Cuttlefish with the level 1 power. Hype!

Then I did an all-down route and managed the 1cc as well, beat Strong Shell with a sliver of shield and level 2 base power. Fun stuff:
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Updated.

It seems like Aquas has made a fine return to the game!! :)
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Re: Darius (new thread)

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Looks like Z' aint worth shit for score in Super Darius either. No Miss:

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And while I'm at it, here's a Z' clear from Darius Extra I did last time I was in Akiba:

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Re: Darius (new thread)

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Darius Plus is down! Was surprised when the Z' final boss wasn't great thing, but it made for a more exciting final showdown since it was my first ever bout with the Cuttlefish:

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Very minor update to my Extra score from my recent trip to Tokyo:

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Darius Plus I am done with you (though I do wonder what the half dozen stages I've ignored are like)

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Darius Alpha – PCE

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Died right away on King Fossil but decided to shrug it off. :mrgreen:


Darius Plus

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Got unlucky with the gray balls.


Super Darius

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Got lucky with the gray balls!

Edit: Looks like the other host I used is out of business, added working pictures (except for Super Darius, see my latest entry in this thread).
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Re: Darius (new thread)

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tinotormed, you appear to have missed PlasmaBlooD's crazy Super boss rush score.

Aren't Z' and V' the exact same as Z and V in all versions of this? They aren't listed as separate stages anywhere I look, and even Super Darius Perfection treats them as the same.

Speaking of which, here's a fantastic map of Super capsule placements. I'm not sure if these apply to the original Darius (not extra).
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Despatche wrote:Speaking of which, here's a fantastic map of Super capsule placements. I'm not sure if these apply to the original Darius (not extra).
Very awesome useful stuff. The placements are different in the arcade game though, Vanilla and Extra are the same, and they are (surprisingly) more generous with powerups than Super or Plus.
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Oh, I thought Extra completely rebalanced powerup placements. Oh well.

Eh, after playing a bit of the arcade version, I'm not entirely surprised... Super and Plus are quite a bit easier in many ways, before even taking powerups into account. I actually like that they removed powerups for an otherwise easier game instead of adding them.
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NAME DKA_Darius; Score 5643090; Stage ALL; Route ACEHMRX; Auto Fire ON
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I think I can get more score on this Route,maybe about 200.000,I just get one high score white ball in the whole Route...it is lucky that I get every balls in ZONE M wishout using the Gold ball
The idea score of the ZONE X, it is possible about 6.000.000,don't rush into ZONE H,there are more worthwhile enemies in ZONE I,but this ZONE is not easy to destroy all of enemies...You need to remeber the location of the Gold ball

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Updated and DKA_Darius has managed to beat Smraedis' score by 20k!!
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And I can't seem to get that .inp working, I can tell that it's from a mame 141 build and rom dariusj, but my version of 141 isn't playing it right.
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Smraedis wrote:And I can't seem to get that .inp working, I can tell that it's from a mame 141 build and rom dariusj, but my version of 141 isn't playing it right.
I've been playing this game a lot lately, just finished all 7 routes now.
http://www.bilibili.com/video/av2292391/
Maybe you can watch this video about my INP
This game I actually haven't played for a long time,approximtely 35hours,it was one of event about our shmup tournament in the last month
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Smraedis wrote:Darius - Arcade
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Maybe I'm not lucky this time....
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Hehe aww, I think I could get around 5.95 to 6 million if all goes well.

I got 2 or 3 51,200 medals in that run.
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Smraedis wrote:Hehe aww, I think I could get around 5.95 to 6 million if all goes well.

I got 2 or 3 51,200 medals in that run.
Awesome!
I got 4.42X.XXX just now,but I was too confident to NO MISS in final round...
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Just curious, but why are you guys playing Vanilla over Extra? Extra is the Japanese standard...
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Updated, and Smraedis RKO's DKA's score out of nowhere, :lol: and even though he slightly improved his score, he still wasn't able to get past SM's score. :P
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ACSeraph wrote:Just curious, but why are you guys playing Vanilla over Extra? Extra is the Japanese standard...
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Nice :)

Have you ever considered learning a Z course and the GT milking? I've seen it go well over 10 million countless times at the arcade. I see what you mean with the X run though, I think you've probly pushed it close to as far as it's going to go.

I'm considering really digging in and learning to do it for myself. At this point I no-miss pretty much every run I do of my usual Z', but sans milking it has never gone over 88 milllion so I think it's time to push harder.
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I can do the GT milk, but just like in Gaiden, I lose shield hits every so often, so cannot maximise the milks.
Though if I got good at it, I would want to see how high I can score on vanilla, but I can't milk GT at all with the small size wave beam.
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Darius Plus

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Would've liked to get the first place, but the gray balls had a different opinion on this matter. I wonder who thought this terrible design choice an ingenious idea. :? Will probably play the arcade Darius in the foreseeable future, gotta get a full set.
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Re: Darius (new thread)

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Save yourself the frustration and make sure you play Darius [Extra]. Much better than the original. I've been practicing on-and-off Extra to get a clear on the board, but haven't pulled it off yet. :oops:
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