London Meet VI! (Mar 1st and 2nd '08 definite)

P_HAT · Post by **P_HAT** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 7:53 am

RupertH, Girlfriend & Girlfriend's Girlfriend

Whoa

Post by **spadgy** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 9:33 am

I'd be really up for August - and making it to both days this time! Bit early for a separate thread I guess...

PROMETHEUS · Post by **PROMETHEUS** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 3:27 pm

I could come in August as well if it's as cheap as last time (which is much cheaper than it would have been this time, surprisingly :/).

Masamune · Post by **Masamune** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 5:08 pm

Mills wrote:Yeah thats right. and ill be hopefully having a chat with Alan Rawlingson (trocadero manager) and Dave (technician) about replacing those old shumps titles and upgrading the joysticks and screens. when i asked him to sort out the streetfighter superturbo joysticks, he just replaced them with brand new joysticks no questions asked in less than 10mins. he seems to be the only staff technician who gives a damn about getting the machines up and running properly. ive got 4 days off work from wednesday 19th.

dude, if you are gonna tell them to do anything to superturbo, get them to put it in the versus city machine which currently houses non vs game "asian dynamite". i dont know whos idea it was to put that shit in there in the first place, whoever they are they have proven their ignorance of the business that they work in.

Post by **spadgy** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 5:36 pm

Masamune wrote:
Mills wrote:Yeah thats right. and ill be hopefully having a chat with Alan Rawlingson (trocadero manager) and Dave (technician) about replacing those old shumps titles and upgrading the joysticks and screens. when i asked him to sort out the streetfighter superturbo joysticks, he just replaced them with brand new joysticks no questions asked in less than 10mins. he seems to be the only staff technician who gives a damn about getting the machines up and running properly. ive got 4 days off work from wednesday 19th.

dude, if you are gonna tell them to do anything to superturbo, get them to put it in the versus city machine which currently houses non vs game "asian dynamite". i dont know whos idea it was to put that shit in there in the first place, whoever they are they have proven their ignorance of the business that they work in.

I just hope Progear stays in there. Speaking of that Masamune, you never got to show me that Progear level 1 trick - you there this Friday?

DEL · Post by **DEL** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 5:50 pm

Pink Sweets and Esp II are set to come out this weekend, if Masamune is around.
Choices of new or replacement titles going in is still open.......

Personally I wouldnt mind an Ibara board or Ketsui going in. Tatsujin Oh on the insane Japanese setting will still be going in to torment The Old Mills, but there is a spare sit down cab for the No.1 choice game...to be decided.

spadgy = Progear stays as it belongs to the arcade, like Mush.

Skykid · Post by **Skykid** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 8:28 pm

What Progear level 1 trick?

I'm up for another meet - August sounds like a great Summer bash, and a perfect chance to avoid the sun and spend the day in the basement of an amusement arcade.

freddiebamboo · Post by **freddiebamboo** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 10:09 pm

Skykid wrote:What Progear level 1 trick?

Gem streaming the stage and the boss maybe. This vid shows it done a few times in the first 30 secs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u302mhbJ ... re=related

Skykid · Post by **Skykid** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 11:40 pm

freddiebamboo wrote:
Skykid wrote:What Progear level 1 trick?
Gem streaming the stage and the boss maybe. This vid shows it done a few times in the first 30 secs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u302mhbJ ... re=related

Ah, whatta game!
I still have no idea how he does that tho.

Post by **spadgy** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 1:35 pm

Skykid wrote:
freddiebamboo wrote:
Skykid wrote:What Progear level 1 trick?
Gem streaming the stage and the boss maybe. This vid shows it done a few times in the first 30 secs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u302mhbJ ... re=related
Ah, whatta game!
I still have no idea how he does that tho.

That's the bit. Try as I might it won't work. I've watched that video countless times.

Last time I was at Casino Masamune said he'd show me how it's done.

DEL - If they're looking to put Ibara in, I'd happily lend mine...

freddiebamboo · Post by **freddiebamboo** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 2:14 pm

Icarus did an explanation on the streaming over at namako awhile back. Halfway down the page or so:

http://www.thestudio-uk.com/namakoteam/ ... 1&start=15

Mills · Post by **Mills** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 2:55 pm

Masamune wrote:
Mills wrote:Yeah thats right. and ill be hopefully having a chat with Alan Rawlingson (trocadero manager) and Dave (technician) about replacing those old shumps titles and upgrading the joysticks and screens. when i asked him to sort out the streetfighter superturbo joysticks, he just replaced them with brand new joysticks no questions asked in less than 10mins. he seems to be the only staff technician who gives a damn about getting the machines up and running properly. ive got 4 days off work from wednesday 19th.

dude, if you are gonna tell them to do anything to superturbo, get them to put it in the versus city machine which currently houses non vs game "asian dynamite". i dont know whos idea it was to put that shit in there in the first place, whoever they are they have proven their ignorance of the business that they work in.

yeah i was thinking the same thing about dumping that shite game for superturbo.

tyranid · Post by **tyranid** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 10:49 pm

I can normally pull off at least a partial jewel stream, tend to screw it up though. Finally broke the 2mil barrier on the 1st stage today though

Skykid · Post by **Skykid** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 7:58 pm

How do you get 2mil on the first stage?!

tyranid · Post by **tyranid** » Sun Mar 30, 2008 11:34 am

Well don't know if the US one, which I assume has less bullets, will be more of a problem but you can at around 1million with a good stream at the end and I can normally pull together 1million for the stage even with a foobar stream (plenty of diamonds available).

Shame on that run I then proceeded to totally screw stage 2 up :/

Skykid · Post by **Skykid** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 1:54 pm

After playing the JP version at home and going to Casino, I can definitely say that (even on proportionate difficulty) the enemies in the US one die earlier.
This includes bosses.
It's Marginal, but I noticed getting the extra life on stage 4 is a bugger on the JP version compared to the US. I then started looking at some of the other larger enemies (like the stg 4 Helicoptors and train car things on stg 3) and they definitely die faster with a bit of steady gunning.

tyranid · Post by **tyranid** » Mon Mar 31, 2008 5:34 pm

I assume that is playing with default difficulty levels then? I must say when I turned my jap board to level 2 for the most part there seemed to be about the same level of bullets but things were obviously slightly easier. But who knows, I still sucked even at level 2

freddiebamboo · Post by **freddiebamboo** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 12:35 am

IIRC the japanese version is difficulty 4 and has quite a bit more bullets thrown about. I'd assume scoring is a fair bit higher on the JP setting just cause there is more on screen to convert for score.

The AEX guys translated a Japanese guide which has some nice tips and strats here:

http://www.arcade-extreme.com/ast/home.htm

shmups.system11.org

London Meet VI! (Mar 1st and 2nd '08 definite)

12134žíáýžšřěé++

London Meet VI! (Mar 1st and 2nd '08 definite)

12134žíáýžš&#345;&#283;é++

12134žíáýžšřěé++