TRP-STGT 2015 Conversation Week 2: DoDonPachi II: Bee Storm

[trap15]

DoDonPachi II: Bee Storm (Japan) (IGS, 2001)

You guys asked for a Dodonpachi game. Count your blessings.

Playing week ends Sunday, 29 November, 2015 at 22:00 GMT

Dynamic scoreboard at http://daifukkat.su/stgt/2015/

Tournament main thread: http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?t=55370
Score submission thread: http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?t=55729

RULES

MAME or PCB. MAME set is named ddp2j.
Autofire is allowed.
1 credit only.
Select Combat mode.
You are allowed to use the D button.
You may play any set other than World or Korea. The difference is the number of starting bombs for Bomber type: World and Korea give 5, other regions give 3.

DIP SWITCH/CONFIGURATION SETTINGS
Default settings.

Discuss the game, strategy, and such here, not the score submission thread.

[Despatche]

sigh

[Bananamatic]

what kind of stgt do you want fam?

[Despatche]

theme song of week 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7sG3l5ryOk

[Zerst]

Select Combat mode.

trap why

[Shepardus]

I thought Bee Storm has 7 stages, not 8?

Also, so much for

I'm not really enjoying myself on this game anymore, so I might just drop this for Dodonpachi and Donpachi, or Mushihimesama since that's releasing on Steam soon...

[ProjectAKo]

[trap15]

[Bananamatic]

If it ends up being close to Mushi's release, oh well I hope people prefer good games over purple vomit.
I always promise excellent games, and I don't think I've ever failed (except for Galmedes's easy infinite pattern, oops).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seVdI6FGjk0

[iMauroPB]

I am downloading the game, BTW ¿Whats the difference between Combat Mode and I.R. Mode? (I know that we are gona to play combat mode only)

[EmperorIng]

No one asked for DDP we asked for Turbo Force you son of a bitch.

[Blinge]

[Aru-san]

So I noticed on the warm-up boss that players are able to get bee medals spawning from it, but I don't know exactly how to pull this off

Is there something that I'm missing that's keeping the bee medals from spawning?

[ColonelFatso]

I think you have to kill all four of the enemies before it (bomb).

[vasilvv]

You guys asked for a Dodonpachi game. Count your blessings.

And I always thought TRP-STGT was a danmaku-free 21st-century-free tournament.

[Perikles]

GUARANTEES

• [...]
• You will thoroughly enjoy each and every week.
• You will be satisfied and remember how fun shooting game tournaments can be.

You are lying about all of this.

[cave hermit]

You know, I actually kind of like this game; objectively I think it's pretty good as long as you lower your expectations a bit.

This happens to be my week off from classes, so there's a 50/50 chance I'll end up submitting a score that isn't complete garbage.

[horaceappleton]

What other ROMs are required to make ddp2j run?

[Shepardus]

What other ROMs are required to make ddp2j run?

You probably need pgm and ddp2.

Bee Storm is honestly not that bad of a game, but the enemies get waaay too tanky in the latter half of the game, and I'm not a big fan of how much dying screws over score and how few lives the game gives (no score extends and only one fixed extend).

[Tigershark]

Well at the moment I can't get this to work even though I have DDP2, DDP2j and PGM roms. It's still saying I have roms missing. Any help?

[Shepardus]

What version of MAME are you using? I've heard of other people having that problem too. Try MAME Plus if you haven't already.

[The Armchair General]

So I noticed on the warm-up boss that players are able to get bee medals spawning from it, but I don't know exactly how to pull this off

Is there something that I'm missing that's keeping the bee medals from spawning?

I think you have to kill all four of the enemies before it (bomb).

You don't need a bomb to kill all four bees.

[Ed Oscuro]

TRP-STGT 2015: Year of the Insect Theme

So what's next? Insector-X?

I'm just happy that Sand Scorpion is done.

[msm]

Well at the moment I can't get this to work even though I have DDP2, DDP2j and PGM roms. It's still saying I have roms missing. Any help?

it wasn't working for me, said it was missing "ddp2_igs027a_japan.bin", so i copied "ddp2_igs027a_japan.bin" from ddp2j to ddp2, then it worked. odd, and not sure it'll help you, but there you go.

[EmperorIng]

TRP-STGT 2015: Year of the Insect Theme

I think cheap knock-offs is more apt!

I have a sneaking suspicion that trap peruses Rob's old arcade countdown looking for funny entries.

[Perikles]

Erppo wrote this in our local high score thread:

Edit: I guess it should be ALL EX, since apparently you can clear the game without getting to the TLB stage.

Just out of curiosity: how are we going to handle this situation regarding the stage over score matter? Stage 6 < ALL < Stage 7 < ALL EX? Stage 6 < Stage 7 < ALL < ALL EX? Stage 6 < Stage 7 < ALL = ALL EX? And what are the precise requirements for triggering the TLB, anyway?

So what's next? Insector-X?

Exed Exes would be another prime candidate.

[trap15]

Erppo wrote this in our local high score thread:

Edit: I guess it should be ALL EX, since apparently you can clear the game without getting to the TLB stage.

Just out of curiosity: how are we going to handle this situation regarding the stage over score matter? Stage 6 < ALL < Stage 7 < ALL EX? Stage 6 < Stage 7 < ALL < ALL EX? Stage 6 < Stage 7 < ALL = ALL EX?

I'm gonna go with 6 < ALL = 7 < ALL EX, I guess. You by definition have less points on an ALL than a Stage 7 anyways. The trigger is getting 500 million points I believe, which isn't too hard if you get that far.

[KoopaTGR]

The score required to access the final stage seems to be at least 400,000,000 points or more.

Looking at a few videos, the scoring system appears to be chaining, point-blanking, shooting off boss parts, collecting gold and bees, and using the energy cannon wisely, a fair bit to manage!

Does grazing add points?

[ProjectAKo]

It seems a flat 10k for grazing, which adds up if you can find some good spots I guess. I got 18.5m on the first boss from grazing rather than killing him. Is it just me or is there no penalty for timeouting bosses?

[resty]

Fine, I think that this game is far better than the sand sth.
According to people who played this game, you get 10k or 100k (based on combo number I think) when point blanking