Arcade japanese top score list (limited to 570 titles)

[Gemant]

Hi Shmups players, 12 years ago I created a famous Gamest / Arcadia WR list. After december 2007 that work was lost. But now the return. My last work about the top japanese arcade hi-score is called ARCA. Arca project is my better work in all these years. I worked on it for 18 months. This document include tons of shmups (but not all), almost all neo geo games and the last update is 20/05/2014. Is 50% in italian and 50% in english but in future I hope to translate all in english (is difficult for me because my english is not good). Is a big work because is possible find important extra informations and comments about hi-scores. You can find player's name, date, game center, city, additional infos as number of lives remaining, lives sacrifice etc.). If you don't understand some infos I'm free to explain all possible.

- Blue background scores are official scores from japanese database (Gamest / Arcadia magazine).
- Green background scores are not official scores (but better of official japanese database). Some of them are mame replay or video found in web.

Legend with all symbols is in italian, I hope to translate in english soon. This work include 570 arcade games only. Is a limit because my free time is limitate and I can't work on all arcade titles.

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Because i'm in holiday in Paris (24~30 may) I can answer all questions after my return.

[DEL]

Wow Gemant! Awesome work. With Advanced Techniques included too.
Thanks as usual.

[CStarFlare]

Excellent. Thanks very much Gemant, I can only imagine the work that must have gone into this. Fantastic information!

[Gemant]

I correct and fixed all mistake of the old documents. The most important thing in ARCA is the box of in-depth analysis. In this box you can find informations impossible to find in web (for now in italian, but a translation is possible for the future). The box are the most difficult part of the document because are necessary about 20~50 hours of hard work for each box, because I must search infos from the players (in public site, in blog, in old japanese BBS, in old site via web machine (because many site are collapsed years ago), from mixi, from private chat, with mail etc.) and tested strategy / patterns or other things in the game. I can made sure at least other 100 box, because I know important details about other top scores, but many free time is necessary.

For exemple is now known the way to reach 21m in 19xx, or max chain possible in some stage of dodonpachi or because some shmups not have a official score in japan.

[Mero]

Thanks for taking the time to produce this

[Despatche]

Wow, the real deal is finally back. Thank you very much, both for creation and this preservation! I've been looking for this for ages.