Sometimes I love Japanese TV

biocat · Post by **biocat** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 4:48 pm

I just watched Takahashi Meijin, of Hudson button pressing fame, play through (probably) 2 minute mode on the Gamecube version of Star Soldier. His final score was 830,470. How is that? I haven't played the GC version in forever.

Thought I would just share that since I was so happy to see someone playing a shmup on TV!

Dylan1CC · Post by **Dylan1CC** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 7:06 pm

I think that would also cause me to love Japanese TV.

Ganelon · Post by **Ganelon** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 11:40 pm

Was his button mashing insane?

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 1:10 am

That's like going to London the one day a year it doesn't rain and saying you like the weather. So much bad stuff on TV... that would be cool to see though.

umi · Post by **umi** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 5:47 am

GaijinPunch wrote:That's like going to London the one day a year it doesn't rain and saying you like the weather. So much bad stuff on TV... that would be cool to see though.

Depends... there's bad, then there's the endearing "so bad it's good" bad... heh.

Acid King · Post by **Acid King** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 6:09 am

GaijinPunch wrote:That's like going to London the one day a year it doesn't rain and saying you like the weather. So much bad stuff on TV... that would be cool to see though.

I remember seeing on an episode of Insomniac with Dave Attel about Japan having just a straight up porn channel on regular TV. Can you confirm this? If so, color me impressed as well as mildy disturbed.

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 7:32 am

Nah, no porn channel on normal TV, but some racey stuff on public channels late at night. You're more likely to see some nude shot in the sports page, which some old man will be reading on the train.

biocat · Post by **biocat** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 9:07 am

GaijinPunch wrote:That's like going to London the one day a year it doesn't rain and saying you like the weather. So much bad stuff on TV... that would be cool to see though.

That's exactly why I said, "sometimes."

Ganelon wrote:Was his button mashing insane?

It was pretty insane. Doesn't GC Star Soldier have auto-fire? If it does, Takahashi was just totally ignoring it and hitting that button like crazy. I suppose that's how he used to play Star Soldier on the famicom so why change?

fl0w · Post by **fl0w** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 9:27 am

biocat wrote:
Ganelon wrote:Was his button mashing insane?
It was pretty insane. Doesn't GC Star Soldier have auto-fire? If it does, Takahashi was just totally ignoring it and hitting that button like crazy. I suppose that's how he used to play Star Soldier on the famicom so why change?

Half-wrong. There's an autofire in Star Soldier GC, but it's less powerful than what you get by smashing the button...

SFKhoa · Post by **SFKhoa** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 2:51 pm

Yeah star soldier's main autofire is REALLY weak, the more powerful autofire can be achieved by button mashing it like hell, or by buying a controller with auto-fire.

SAM · Post by **SAM** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 5:01 am

SFKhoa wrote:Yeah star soldier's main autofire is REALLY weak, the more powerful autofire can be achieved by button mashing it like hell, or by buying a controller with auto-fire.

Yes, the game have tune down the damage a shot deliver if it was fired using the software auto fire. If you use a hardware auto fire on the manual fire button you could deliver insane amount of damage in a short period of time.

Many game have tune down the damage a shot fire by in game auto fire, e.g. MD Twin Hawk, Fire Shark.