Hi Sho Zame (Flying/Sky Shark)

Despatche · Joined: 02 Dec 2010 Posts: 3659

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3 lives, Normal difficulty, extends at 50K and 150K. Not sure if Flying Shark and Sky Shark have any differences between each other.
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Post scores in this format:

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VERSION
NAME - SCORE - AREA - AUTOFIRE - DETAILS

DETAILS is for what console/emulator, what region release, etc; did you use Sky Shark instead of Flying Shark?
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Arcade version
Hi Sho Zame
Normal difficulty

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 1. Tvspelsfreak.    - 16,641,170 - 999 - No  - PCB 
 2. saucykobold      -  2,138,730 - 378 - Yes - MAME
 3. Vludi            -  2,098,720 - 376 - No  - MAME
 4. trap15           -  1,708,980 - 289 - No  - PCB
 5. Aquas            -  1,672,320 - 288 - No  - MAMEUIFX Lagless?
 6. maximo           -  1,667,780 - 293 - Yes - ARCADE v0.214
 7. Square_Air       -  1,403,640 - 242 - Yes - ShmupMAME v4.2
 8. samu             -  1,205,900 - 192 - Yes - MAME
 9. KoopaTGR         -  1,018,220 - 169 - No  - ShmupMAME v4.2
10. mycophobia       -  1,016,570 - 170 - Yes - MAME
11. SAM              -    998,450 - 163 - No  - PCB 
12. Neo Gold         -    960,940 - 171 - No  - PCB 
13. Chi_Ryu          -    823,090 - 146 - No  - PCB 
14. DocHauser        -    796,350 - 149 - Yes - ShmupMAME v4.2
15. ZPS              -    711,870 - 138 - Yes - ShmupMAME v4.2
16. cream-s          -    672,090 - 129 - Yes - MAMEUIFX v0.168
17. Despatche        -    536,960 -  68 - Yes - ShmupMAME v3.0b

Hard difficulty

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1. Aquas - 1,457,040 - 271 - No - MAME

Flying Shark/Sky Shark
Normal difficulty

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 1. TodayIsForgotten -  3 518 580 - 642 - No  - MAME (Flying Shark)
 2. luy              -  3.281.620 - ??? - No  - MAME (Unknown version)
 3. saucykobold      -  3,000,280 - 520 - Yes - MAME (Flying Shark)
 4. trap15           -  2,199,660 - 383 - No  - PCB  (Sky Shark)
 5. REDSUN           -  2,043,560 - 370 - No  - MAME (Sky Shark)
 6. DEL              -  1,673,480 - 299 - ??? - PCB  (Flying Shark)
 7. Aquas            -  1,443,170 - 272 - No  - MAME (Flying Shark)
 8. Randorama        -  1,342,120 - 22? - ??? - ???? (Unknown version)
 9. CHI              -  1,308,550 - 224 - No  - PCB  (Flying Shark)
mulletgeezer     -  1 285 130 - 199 - ??? - PCB  (Sky Shark)
drboom           -  1,180,770 - 199 - No  - PCB  (Sky Shark)
Large            -  1.050.580 - 181 - No  - PCB  (Unknown)
Emphatic         -  1,026,250 - 175 - No  - PCB  (Sky Shark)
samu             -  1,016,880 - 172 - Yes - MAME (Flying Shark)
jepjepjep        -    894,550 - 146 - No  - PCB  (Sky Shark)
Domino           -    875,050 - 151 - No  - PCB  (Sky Shark?)
raiden           -    760,810 - 142 - No  - PCB  (Unknown version)
maximo           -    696,010 - 124 - Yes - ShmupMAME v4.2 (Flying Shark)
Ruldra           -    682,070 - 123 - Yes - MAME (Flying Shark)
Frenetic         -    556,610 -  94 - No  - PCB  (Sky Shark)
ACSeraph         -    550,730 -  89 - Yes - MAME (Flying Shark)
incognoscente    -    509,480 -  85 - Yes - ???? (Unknown version)
Despatche        -    478,340 -  83 - Yes - ShmupMAME v3.0b (Flying Shark)
neorichieb1971   -    420,000 -  75 - No  - PCB  (Unknown version)
AWJ              -    344,120 -  66 - ??? - ???? (Unknown version)
Snake            -    339,090 -  61 - No  - MAME (Flying Shark)
Ed Oscuro        -    323,320 -  50 - Yes - MAME Plus! (Flying Shark)
lowemark         -    320,000 -  68 - ??? - PCB  (Unknown version)
Ste              -    303,420 -  60 - ??? - ???? (Unknown version)
dboeren          -    270,550 -  48 - ??? - ???? (Unknown version)
Tomtom           -    230,820 -  42 - ??? - ???? (Unknown version)
Samurai Fox      -    230,290 -  42 - No  - WolfMAME v0.147 (Sky Shark)

Hard difficulty

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1. yojo! - 1,076,510 - 192 - No - PCB (Unknown version)

Family Computer version (Sky Shark)

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Despatche · Joined: 02 Dec 2010 Posts: 3659

I think that's everything for now. If not, yell at me.

Despatche · Joined: 02 Dec 2010 Posts: 3659

Arcade - Hishouzame
Despatche - 452,340 - 84 - Yes - ShmupMAME v3.0b

eh maybe i can beat this soon

Aquas · Joined: 11 Jan 2007 Posts: 1552 Location: Minnesota, USA

Arcade - Flying Shark
Aquas - 1,443,170 - 272 - No - Mame

I happened to stream this run live for a new segment I'm running called The Game Knight. A show where I try in earnest to 1cc crap. I failed on Ghouls 'n Ghosts and Psychic 5 and redeem myself with a personal best in Flying Shark. If you'd like to watch the run it starts here:

http://www.twitch.tv/radiopsi/b/366199295 @ 23:30

It was pretty epic considering I hadn't played this in months.

Despatche · Joined: 02 Dec 2010 Posts: 3659

Cool, I'll have to tune in eventually.

(Haven't been able to play this game at all, wow.)

trap15 · **Posted:** Thu May 16, 2013 2:48 am

Arcade - Hishouzame
trap15 - 1,236,680 - 199 - No - MAME

No-miss loop 1, no-miss until middle of stage 5 in loop 2, chain death to last boss. Bit miffed that I forgot to record an input. Gloriously good run though, I'm really happy.

Despatche · Joined: 02 Dec 2010 Posts: 3659

Hishouzame
Despatche - 519,680 - 80 - Yes - ShmupMAME v3.0b

and here i thought i was actually going to get the loop

DocHauser · Joined: 26 Nov 2010 Posts: 532 Location: Heidelberg

Arcade - Hishouzame
DocHauser - 796,350 - 149 - Yes - Shmupmame 4.2

saucykobold · **Posted:** Wed Aug 14, 2013 6:00 pm

Arcade - Hishouzame
saucykobold - 2,138,730 - 378 - Yes - MAME

Heh, I think I'm getting addicted to this. I died once in 1-4 and then one-lifed it all the way to the end of loop 4, where I was summarily eaten by sharks.

trap15 · **Posted:** Wed Dec 11, 2013 11:56 am

Arcade - Hishouzame
trap15 - 1,519,280 - 270 - No - MAME

The God Run. Did this on stream pretty much out of nowhere, super amazingly happy with this. So close to the 4th loop even! I definitely feel a marathon might be coming in the next year

Video

jepjepjep · Joined: 18 Nov 2008 Posts: 941

Arcade - Sky Shark
jepjepjep - 894,550 - 146 - No - PCB

This is a fun game. First time making the loop. Does Hishouzame reset your bombs to three at each level too?

Despatche · Joined: 02 Dec 2010 Posts: 3659

yep, that's just something this game does. probably has to do with how scoring for bomb stock is set up.

per recent tourney, i played some flying shark... didn't end too well. i can make it to stage 5 consistently, but whatever. as you can see from my hishouzame score, checkpoint milking owns hard.

Arcade - Flying Shark
Despatche - 478,340 - 83 - Yes - ShmupMAME v3.0b

jepjepjep · Joined: 18 Nov 2008 Posts: 941

The difficulty is kinda strange, maybe it's memorization-heavy. I've been playing over the past few days getting near the end, 99%, 98%, then tonight I passed the loop with four lives in stock.

Despatche · Joined: 02 Dec 2010 Posts: 3659

yeah, reminds me a bit of psikyo for some reason, but with a different kind of speedkilling.

ACSeraph · Joined: 19 Jul 2008 Posts: 2550 Location: Tokyo

Flying Shark
ACSeraph - 550,730 - 89 - Yes - MAME

Figured I would go ahead and submit my score from the tournament while this thread is on the front page.

saucykobold · **Posted:** Sun May 25, 2014 5:03 am

Flying Shark
saucykobold - 3,000,280 - 520 - Yes - MAME

Despatche · Joined: 02 Dec 2010 Posts: 3659

Wow. Rethinking what I said about VP1.

Despatche · Joined: 02 Dec 2010 Posts: 3659

So I finally figured out what's with the dipswitches. Export versions do not have lower dips like so many Toaplan games do; Hishozame is supposed to have 50K/150K:

-This site is probably the only resource on the planet with dips for Japan arcade releases. According to them, all dips are supposed to be off, and 50K/150K is part of that.
-The only decent port of the game is the FM Towns port, which also uses 50K/150K and which is where my initial suspicions came from.

For any Hishozame players who've used 70K/200K, please mention this and I'll at least make a note of it... kinda don't want to make a separate board but I can. Of course, I will also remove any scores on request.

Thank you for supporting this absolute trainwreck!

seraph · Joined: 23 Aug 2013 Posts: 165 Location: America

hishou zame (japan)
cream-s - 672,090 - area 129 - auto on - mameuifx 0.168
screenshot - replay

Perikles · Joined: 24 Nov 2014 Posts: 1498 Location: Germany

Arcade
Hishouzame - Normal

Perikles - 2,685,100 - 481 - Yes - ShmupMAME v4.2

Video

Flying Shark - Normal

Perikles - 3,481,020 - 599 - Yes - ShmupMAME v4.2

NES
Sky Shark

Perikles - 590,540 - 99 - Yes - AV Famicom

Soaring over sea
brilliance facilely achieved
hearken: Hishouzame

My usual dry & garrulous explanation on why more people should play it is located in the video description of the Hishouzame run. Needless to say I had a blast. I'm not sure whether I prefer Kyuukyoku Tiger or Hishouzame, it's a close one. It bears mentioning that Toaplan started with imperturbably solid games such as these and then created Vimana and Tatsujin Ou later. Fascinating.

Oh, and steer away from the NES Sky Shark. It's horrible. FC Kyuukyoku Tiger is a valiant effort and FC Tiger-Heli is quite great (for the first loop, the flicker is unbearable afterwards), Sky Shark is terrible, though.

KoopaTGR · Joined: 07 May 2015 Posts: 178

Arcade Hishouzame
KoopaTGR - 1,018,220 - 169 - No - ShmupMAME v4.2

(2-4)
I've started to like this game a lot more than I used to, and this is the result of some recent credits (no savestates used).
I felt like a lot of score came from the battleship checkpoint in 2-3 which I managed to figure out with my remaining lives.

Vludi · Joined: 23 Feb 2016 Posts: 400 Location: Chile

Arcade Hishou zame
Vludi - 2,098,720 - 376 - No - Mame

My first 2-All happened to be a 3-All

, had some neat recoveries too.
Love this game, I like how some enemy position change depending on the position of your plane or sprite count, keeps it fresh.

maximo310 · Joined: 28 Nov 2014 Posts: 343 Location: SoCal

Arcade- Flying Shark

maximo-696,010- 124- Yes-ShmupMAME v4.2

I hope to graduate up to Hishouzame soon, thankfully the game doesnt seem too bad with the bomb refills and only 4 stages for each loop.

Square_Air · **Posted:** Mon Feb 19, 2018 7:11 pm

Arcade - Hishouzame
Square_Air - 704,290 - 129 - Yes - ShmupMAME v4.2

Just dropping off a day 1 clear, despite the low score. I'm still not sure how I feel about this game. It's a vast improvement over Tiger Heli, but there's still aspects that I'm just not down to clown with. I'm unsatisfied with the score, but I was just forcing a quick clear for today. I need more time with this before I can pass my ultimate judgement.

Frenetic · Joined: 10 Feb 2010 Posts: 914

I've got a top 10 score right now on Kyukyoku Tiger, and recently decided to spend some time with Sky Shark. I must say, I really love these older Toaplan games. The music is amazing. These games feel so well designed, the tanks and boats give so much challenge and I like the slower ship speed.

Arcade - Sky Shark
Frenetic - 247,516 - 50 - No Autofire - PCB

Frenetic · Joined: 10 Feb 2010 Posts: 914

Come back to it after a little layoff. Really good to let things marinate in muh brain and it goes to show you can take a bit of a break and still come back. Go at your own speed! It's really reassuring.

Arcade - Sky Shark
Frenetic - 372,760 - 71 - No Autofire - PCB

trap15 · **Posted:** Mon May 21, 2018 11:47 am

Arcade - Hishouzame
trap15 - 1,708,980 - 289 - No - PCB

Was real close to the end of loop 3, managed to figure out the recovery from the big boats section at the beginning of that loop.

jepjepjep · Joined: 18 Nov 2008 Posts: 941

That's a real nice score, trap15! I've been playing this one for a few weeks and I've only gotten to where I was a few years ago, middle of the second loop. I just get destroyed on 2-3.

trap15 · **Posted:** Mon May 28, 2018 5:03 am

Arcade - Sky Shark
trap15 - 2,199,660 - 383 - No - PCB

End of 4-5, the two big boats section seems impossible to recover from here.

Had set a goal of 10m, I think I'm going to re-calibrate to going for area 999, because... so long...

TodayIsForgotten · Joined: 28 Apr 2008 Posts: 634 Location: New Jersey

Nice to see some activity on this game. Been playing this in a tournament. I know i can easily counter-stop this game but the difference between me practicing and actually playing are always wild-cards. I can do all sections with no issues but i always find myself changing my method up on the 2-3 tanks. I like no-bombing the first tank but i always do something different and i have no method for that. I'll come back to this another day.

Arcade - Flying Shark
TodayIsForgotten - 1565400 - 276 - No - Mame

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