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Arcade version: Normal difficulty, Stage Skip turned On (I think these are the Hyper Booster warp bits). This hardware has its config in the service mode, surprisingly.
Mega Drive version: Don't use the 99 lives cheat, of course. To get the Expert difficulties, press Up Down Left Left Right Right Up Down during the demo; a chime will play and the logo will be blue, note that entering the Options will turn it back to red.
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NAME - SCORE - STAGE - AUTOFIRE - PLATFORM
The PLATFORM section should be used to indicate which console/emulator version or which release/romset you may have used. Use "Rapid", "Full", or "Ext." for AUTOFIRE.
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Arcade version

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 1. NMS         - 4,014,600 - ALL! - Ext. - MAME v0.238
 2. drboom      - 3,794,550 - ALL! - Ext. - PCB
 3. Macias      - 3,405,050 - ALL! - ???? - ShmupMAME v4.2
 4. saucykobold - 3,362,750 - ALL!
 5. Ruldra      - 3,339,800 - ALL!
 6. Ed Oscuro   -   699,450 -  5-M
Mega Drive version
Normal difficulty

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=Red (Standard) mode=
 1. Kollision   - 1,054,100 - ALL! - ???? - Japan MD
 2. RiverRaider - 1,015,800 - ALL!
 3. THE ALLETT  - 1,014,000 - ALL! - ???? - Japan MD?
 4. Turrican    - 1,004,150 - ALL! - ???? - Japan MD
 5. UGO         -   993,600 - ALL! - ???? - Some MD?
 6. CIT         -   969,550 - ALL! - ???? - Japan MD
 7. Ed Oscuro   -   903,650 - 12-B

=Blue (Expert) mode=
 1. UGO         - 1,009,300 - ALL! - ???? - Some MD?
Hard difficulty

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=Red (Standard) mode=
 1. UGO         -   976,950 - 12-B - ???? - Some MD?
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Re: Dangerous Seed [Arcade/Mega Drive]

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MEGADRIVE -NORMAL

THE ALLETT - 1,014,000 - ALL (no miss)
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Played in 2012 :
Megadrive Genesis version.

Normal :
UGO - 993,600 - ALL (one-life)

Hard :
UGO - 976,950 - Stage 12-B

Expert :
UGO - 1,009,300 - ALL (one-life)

A one-life in Hard mode :
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MD version, Normal

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Perikles – 1,001,700 – ALL – Japanese Cart

Cleared the game on my first credit, got the above posted 1LC on my second. Some great tracks to be heard, game could've been a tad more challenging, though.
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Macias - 3,405,050 - ALL - shmupMAME 4.2

replay

Another poor quality vid. I hope to replace it with a better one soon.
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Re: Dangerous Seed [Arcade/Mega Drive]

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Arcade

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Perikles - 3,748,150 - ALL! - ShmupMAME v4.2

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Now, I did use external autofire for this since I didn't read the description in the opening post beforehand, but I don't think that separate tables are necessary at all. I would recommend doing it as you did with Darius II for the different settings ("Ext." and "On" in this case, mayhap). You are able to kill a few bulkier enemies with external autofire that are very hard to get without (maybe even impossible), but it's not even close to something like Fantasy Zone or Darius Gaiden. I also watched a near-WR replay where the player definitely also used external autofire, so I don't think it's that unusual.

Anyway, I am very much surprised, this is a fabulous little game. Who would've thought there is so much room for optimization in such an obscure game? I only played it for a couple of hours, going for a no-bomb clear of one of the lucrative routes, but it's immensely rich in variation. That also applies to the cornucopia of tracks and enemies, it's superb. I particularly like the guys with the pendulums as an appendix, if you don't know how they work they'll cut you down with one mighty swing, even the sound effect is gruesome. So many great vignettes! That also inspired me to bust out my MD once more:

MD - Normal

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Perikles - 1,031,250 - ALL! - Cart
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oh. i just wanted to get people to play with the default autofire, because it's actually reasonable in this game. oh well : (

Apparently the Expert code affects all difficulties. How nice. Put up the code, totally forgot to.
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Mega Drive version:

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CIT - 969,550 - ALL! - JP MD

Cleared on my first credit. OK game with some nice music.
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Mega Drive version, Normal diff.

Kollision - 1,054,100 - ALL! - JP MD

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Megadrive version - normal (real cart, model 1 md, crt tube)

Turrican - 1,004,150 - ALL - JP MD

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Been a while since I 1LCed something. Although the game's quite lenient with module loss...

Also funny how if you screw up the correct ship formation at last boss you're basically done for. :P
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Hrm, I don't recall why I started putting ALL! in everyone's scores. I'm gonna assume that I wanted it to look nice next to the weird stage markers and leave it at that.
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MD, Normal, Standard

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Perikles - 1,076,350 - ALL! - JP Cart


This is unexpectedly interesting to play for score - (most?) bosses do time out in this version as well, there are even alternative stages just like in the arcade game. :o I intentionally lost a couple of lives on the final boss for a few thousand points more, too.
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Arcade
NMS - 4,014,600 - ALL - Ext. - MAME 0.238

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Posting my Calice 6 score now that the tournament is over and I probably won't improve it for now.
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Took me two weeks of grinding this out to finally clear it. Good soundtrack, great sprites, equally fun and frustrating gameplay. I literally told myself if I didn't clear it today, I would take it out of the cab. I had got to the last boss a few times and always made a small mistake that cost me the run. Kinda bomb spammed him for this clear and I might go back at some point and push this score up, but I think I'm done with it for now.

drboom - 3,794,550 - ALL - Ext. - PCB
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Wow, there's a name I haven't seen in a bit. Congrats!
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Thanks! Yeah man, hadn’t been playing shmups as much as life got busier the last few years and have finally got back to them this year.
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