Salamander & Salamander 2 (& Life Force)

MJR · Joined: 27 Jan 2005 Posts: 1057 Location: Finland

For some reason my all time favourites don't have a score thread here. Therefore I must make one, then

Salamander (PS, Sat, PCB, Mame) - 3 lives, normal difficulty, 1 player

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#  PLAYER           SCORE     STAGE     VERSION
  
  Mulletgeezer   2,190,100   3-5       PCB 
  Perikles       2,126,200   4-1       MAME
  Saucykobold    1,949,300   3-5       MAME
  Jaimers        1,751,000   3-3       ShmupMame 4.2
  The Allett     1,578,900   3-1       SAT
  DEL            1,501,500   3-3       PCB
  Mero           1,424,800   2-6       PS
  Edge           1'044'900   2-3       MAME
  MJR            1,023,300   2-3       PS
Aquas            863,500   2-1       MAME
Kollision        843,000   2-1       Saturn
Smraedis         839,900   2-1       MAME
copy-paster      812,000   2-1       MAME
KoopaTGR         807,600   2-1       MAME
mathman          720,100   1-6       PS
Bloodreign       612,400   1-6       PS
robivy64         564,600   1-4       PCB
Ed Oscuro        470,500   1-4       MAME 
roadrunner        88,800   1-2       MAME

PSP

  Aquas            528,900   1-5 (?)   

Salamander 2 (PS, Sat, PCB, Mame) - 3 lives, normal difficulty, 1 player

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#  PLAYER           SCORE     STAGE     VERSION

  ShadowWraith     1,848,400   ALL       Mame
  saucykobold      1,742,600   ALL       Mame
  Perikles         1,612,900   ALL       Mame 
  copy-paster      1,518,200   ALL       MAME
  pegboy           1,412,200   ALL       PS
  Jaimers          1,396,000   2-5       Mame
  EBR              1,369,500   2-5       Mame
  BareknuckleRoo   1,160,000   2-5       Mame
  Kollision        1,141,100   2-5       Saturn
Mero               989,800   2-2       PS
Tinotormed         952,600   2-3       Mame
HAN                895,500   2-3       MAME
PlasmaBlooD        851,900   2-1       PS
KoopaTGR           826,900   2-2       MAME
clp                779,600   2-5       Mame
MJR                734,700   2-1(?)    PS
God                706,300   2-1       PS
EmperorIng         616,500   2-3       Saturn 
Rsvgun             588,700   1-7       Mame
RFP                377,700   1-6       Mame
Bloodreign         281,700   1-5       PS
mathman            197,400   1-3       PS
    
    
    

PSP

  Aquas            546,500   2-1       PSP

Life force (PS, Sat, PCB, Mame) - 3 lives, normal difficulty, 1 player.
EDIT: Please include the version [US] or [JAP], and whether you used P1 or P2.

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US Version
Han         1,587,300   3-1   PCB     P1
Ace9921     1,152,200   2-4   MAME    P1


JAP version
Perikles    1,673,900     4-1   MAME    P1
The Allett    887,200     2-4   Sat     ??
Kollision     808,400     2-3   Sat     P1
Copy-paster   685,400     2-1   MAME    P2
Mero          659,200     2-1   PS      P1
EmperorIng    610,800     2-1   Sat     P1
ACSeraph      586,000     2-1   Sat     P1
MJR           460,200     1-5   PS      P1

mulletgeezer · **Posted:** Tue Nov 01, 2005 11:58 pm

i have a score for salamander:

2,100,000ish 3-5 arcade

Sadly it was set around 1987 so i don't have an exact record of the score. The third loop of this game is a nightmare, i've seen one individual get to the 4th loop but i don't think i could ever achieve that. Is this score permissable or do we need something more exact? Playing on MAME and PSX in recent years i've achieved about 1,600,000 somewhere around 3-1 but the third loop requires some dedicated practice to do well.

MJR · Joined: 27 Jan 2005 Posts: 1057 Location: Finland

mulletgeezer wrote:

i have a score for salamander:

2,100,000ish 3-5 arcade

Sadly it was set around 1987 so i don't have an exact record of the score. The third loop of this game is a nightmare, i've seen one individual get to the 4th loop but i don't think i could ever achieve that. Is this score permissable or do we need something more exact? Playing on MAME and PSX in recent years i've achieved about 1,600,000 somewhere around 3-1 but the third loop requires some dedicated practice to do well.

Well, if you really want to be nice you can play it again on psx and post the exact score, or dig your best from memorycard or mame highscore file, as you probably would be on top anyway.

But this will do

mulletgeezer · **Posted:** Wed Mar 22, 2006 11:57 pm

ok, finally managed to buy the PCB so after a few practice games i have a new official score:

2,190,100 3-5

I was rather lucky to get so far on the third loop, but as usual stage 5 slaughtered me goodly.

MJR · Joined: 27 Jan 2005 Posts: 1057 Location: Finland

Nice

how much was the PCB? I don't see it for sale very often.

mulletgeezer · **Posted:** Thu Mar 23, 2006 1:30 pm

yes, it doesn't appear very often. This one was sold on ebay and is the first i've seen there. I was determined to make this board mine and so i was about to place a large bid at the end of the auction and was horrifed when my computer freaked out before i could bid and so i missed it! The board went for a stupidly cheap £50, but it was won by someone i know so i offered £100 (about $175 US) to take it straight off him, which is what the board usually sells for i think. If you're wanting to buy it i think Sven666 might have one.

God · Joined: 17 Feb 2007 Posts: 199

Salamander 2
289,700 1-6 Mame

DEL · Joined: 25 Jan 2005 Posts: 4153 Location: Oort Cloud

Salamander
DEL - 1,501,500 - 3-3 - Arcade

Lifeforce
Also Loop 3-3 - psx

Again I'm the mirror image of Mulletgeezer. My Salamander score is from 1987. Our scores on a number of the older shooters are similar eg. Twin Cobra.
My Lifeforce score was on the old Shmups boards. I have no other record of it.

MJR · Joined: 27 Jan 2005 Posts: 1057 Location: Finland

DEL wrote:

My Lifeforce score was on the old Shmups boards. I have no other record of it.

I think you can dig it out from internet archive ; all you need to is type www.shmups.com and click "take me back"; but you got to dig the score out yourself! But it is there for sure

Yay, now I got an excuse to play little bit of salamander again \O/

PlasmaBlooD · Joined: 27 Jan 2005 Posts: 564 Location: Germany

Salamander 2

PlasmaBlooD 649,500 2-1 PS

PlasmaBlooD · Joined: 27 Jan 2005 Posts: 564 Location: Germany

I played Salamander 2

MJR · Joined: 27 Jan 2005 Posts: 1057 Location: Finland

PlasmaBlooD wrote:

I played Salamander 2

Whoopsy-daisy! :lol:

PlasmaBlooD · Joined: 27 Jan 2005 Posts: 564 Location: Germany

Salamander 2:

PlasmaBlooD 712,400 2-2 PS

MJR · Joined: 27 Jan 2005 Posts: 1057 Location: Finland

Getting close now!

Practising 2nd loop may not be bad idea; it can be a real pain in the arse.

I'll dust off my copy once you get past me..

PlasmaBlooD · Joined: 27 Jan 2005 Posts: 564 Location: Germany

I died to easily in 2-2.I had a good Weapon and i fly stupid in a Planet.I played 2 nd loop 2-1 1X for practice to know what the boss doing.

PlasmaBlooD · Joined: 27 Jan 2005 Posts: 564 Location: Germany

Salamander II

PlasmaBlooD 725,200 2-2 PS

Endboss was my End.I recorded this Run.In 1-1 i can only kill the middleboss with Twin laser.I saw the super-play but i can t kill this Boss with normal laser.

Radiantsvgun · Joined: 25 Jul 2008 Posts: 39 Location: Atlanta, GA

Salamander and Salamander 2 are some of my fav. shooters. I'm a bit out of practice in Salamander 2, but here is my score for Salamander 2.

302,100

Asteroid Stage raped me a bit.

EDIT: I'm doing this on MAME with a keyboard.

MJR · Joined: 27 Jan 2005 Posts: 1057 Location: Finland

Radiantsvgun wrote:

Salamander and Salamander 2 are some of my fav. shooters. I'm a bit out of practice in Salamander 2, but here is my score for Salamander 2.

302,100

Asteroid Stage raped me a bit.

EDIT: I'm doing this on MAME with a keyboard.

I wouldn't mind if you'd provide me with level info -but I suppose this was 1-5 since you talked about asteroids.

I had another go on this game today, but could only get to 1-6. Maybe if I practise a bit. I noticed that powerups can stock you quite a bit of extra points so its worth gobbling them up even if you dont need them.

Radiantsvgun · Joined: 25 Jul 2008 Posts: 39 Location: Atlanta, GA

MJR wrote:

Radiantsvgun wrote:

Salamander and Salamander 2 are some of my fav. shooters. I'm a bit out of practice in Salamander 2, but here is my score for Salamander 2.

302,100

Asteroid Stage raped me a bit.

EDIT: I'm doing this on MAME with a keyboard.

I wouldn't mind if you'd provide me with level info -but I suppose this was 1-5 since you talked about asteroids.

I had another go on this game today, but could only get to 1-6. Maybe if I practise a bit. I noticed that powerups can stock you quite a bit of extra points so its worth gobbling them up even if you dont need them.

Okay, I'll remember the level number from here on out. Yeah, collecting every powerup can really boost your score, but all the speed ups make it difficult to control if you don't have a controller or a stick.

Radiantsvgun · Joined: 25 Jul 2008 Posts: 39 Location: Atlanta, GA

Salamander 2

Loop 1, stage Final (7)

Score- 588700

I was lucky enough to kill the golem at the beginning thanks to the Superplay video. However, stages 5 and 6 took most of my lives, and the intro to stage 7 left me with none. I think I lasted about 2 minutes on the boss. This run was more luck than skill.

PlasmaBlooD · Joined: 27 Jan 2005 Posts: 564 Location: Germany

PlasmaBlooD 745,300 2-1 PS

im a idiot.Endboss died and i died with a really stupid death too.Not the game is my biggest enemy. I m the biggest enemy for myself.

MJR · Joined: 27 Jan 2005 Posts: 1057 Location: Finland

Well done. I'm practising now too, but I keep daying stupid deaths as well.

My best score actually was over 768'000, but if my memory serves me correct, I did it with more lives so I disqualified it out myself. The top score I got there now is what I got with 3 lives.

PlasmaBlooD · Joined: 27 Jan 2005 Posts: 564 Location: Germany

PlasmaBlooD 792,100 2-2 PS

i died at the Boss with shield

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PlasmaBlooD · Joined: 27 Jan 2005 Posts: 564 Location: Germany

Salamander

PlasmaBlooD 851,900 2-1 PS

MJR · Joined: 27 Jan 2005 Posts: 1057 Location: Finland

Hi, I was away for a while.

PlasmaBlood, the winner is you - I must confess that I don't have enough patience to try and one life this. The player-killing stage 5 and 6 are especially frustrating

Bloodreign · Joined: 01 Jul 2005 Posts: 1176 Location: Louisiana

Salamander 612,400 PSX 1-6

I was to the point I was so fearful of losing a ship, I was dodging my own missiles. Ah well, 4th place is better than no place at all.

As well this may have been a luck run as Salamander normally kicks my ass.

Bloodreign · Joined: 01 Jul 2005 Posts: 1176 Location: Louisiana

Back for more, this time Salamander 2, stage 5 boss was too much for me on my last life.

Salamander 2 PSX- 281,700 1-5

Ed Oscuro · **Posted:** Wed May 20, 2009 7:12 am

Salamander Version D MAME Plus! with shot autofire (setting 6), and missile mapped to the shot button.

Ed Oscuro - 470,500 - 1-4 - MAME

I see the game's appeal, but the execution... :evil:

Aquas · Joined: 11 Jan 2007 Posts: 1561 Location: Minnesota, USA

Salamander (PSP) w/ autofire

Aquas - 528,900 - 1-5 (I think?) - PSP

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Salamander 2 (PSP) autofire

Aquas - 333,300 - 1-6 - PSP

~

Good games, these.

MJR · Joined: 27 Jan 2005 Posts: 1057 Location: Finland

The big issue here now is whether the PSP version is different enough to be warranted into its own scoreboard?

As far I understand they are just like PS1 versions.. but I havent played them enough to be sure.

Opinions, anyone?

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