the best players on shmups.system11.org are....

[Bananamatic]

This thread is awful, literally ass, except ass can bring pleasure, and this thread is the goddamn antithesis of pleasure. This thread takes life from children and kittens and puts that pure innocence into phallic cancer pus. This thread is the disappointment and hate of humanity funneled into barely literate text that takes intelligence and shits all over it before making a shit sculpture out of the souls of everyone reading this shit of a thread. Everyone in this thread is the dregs of humanity, if even that, content with postulating whatever ass talk they can squeeze out of the withered rectum of their wasted lives.

[charlie chong]

I mean that's all fine and dandy can't stop it. The people I get a real launh at are SuperPang and company. I own every cave flyer ever released yet I've never been close to posting a score on a single cave game high score thread. But hey please look at my 20 cabs in the galley thread cause I have spent way too much money on stuff I can't enjoy.

he paid less for full kits than fools like you are paying now for bare pcbs
no matter what you say pang was one of the earliest fans of cave i can remember in the uk since very near the beginning of the company unlike dickheads who got told that cave are the cooolest on neo-geo.com and want to be mr retro hipster buying up stuff cos it's the most expensive/collectable
we liked these games when no one else did..
im just a 1-all scrub does that mean i have less right to play and buy these games than someone who can 2 -all games with decent scores
gtfohwts

[Casey120]

When I started this hobby and still had lots of time to play instead of job and family Joe was one of the most helpful guys in the hobby, what's next, attack Shou for not contributing to the suck your own cock fest ?

Fuck you guys , seriously !

[charlie chong]

also don't press pause on any shoot em up while playing
pcbs can't do that so it is cheating

JAPANESE PLAYERS DON'T PAUSE SON WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU!!!!!

[PROMETHEUS]

Don't think there is anything wrong with playing purely for fun and not posting scores, even ignoring scoring entirely or whatever. It's not compulsory, you can just play for shooting things and enjoying the feeling looking at the sprites and listening to the nice music, sort of like a cinematic experience, many old school games had a focus on things like that.. (I love shmups for that too, could even cite passages of games that I liked best^^ kind of like favorite scenes of movies^^). Or trying to just get further in the game. I understand people like to have a super neat cab and things. Sometimes it seems too much collecting, depends, but why not lol. I'm the opposite, I have nothing but a few X360 versions I don't use (and no X360) that I bought to support Cave porting.

[Strikers1945guy]

I'm not hating on collectors entirely, if I had the money I would buy everything under the sun. There just seems to be a trend of collectors never posting scores. SuperPang was just an example. Chempop has pointed this out many of times.

I do agree though sealed game collectors have a special place in hell. Im sure most pcb collectors obviously play the games which is all one can ask.

I'm just poking fun please don't take what I say as some sort of super serious insult.

[monouchi]

Im more for 1cc than scoring and only learn the scoring techniques to the extent that i get the extends.
When I have 1ccd a game I move on to the next one to try to 1cc that.

Only one game so far has given me the urge to score more and in that game I am now using prometheus technique with savestates when practicing in Mame.

[Casey120]

I'm just poking fun please don't take what I say as some sort of super serious insult.

It´s to late now, I can´t call them off !

[Strikers1945guy]

Lol.

For real though if I could I'd have a collection like SuperPang. I'm sure most of us would.

[Xyga]

ZOMG Scoreface !

[chempop]

Chempop has pointed this out many of times.

I may have mentioned that most people who own piles of cave kits generally are not the most serious of players, but I don't think I'd name and shame, especially a respected longstanding member of the community. There are collectors like Spork who have 1-Alled every cave title, an accomplishment I myself hope to soon achieve (only a few to go)!

[BIL]

How come none of the big time collectors like SuperPang ever make these lists? He owns every cave game ever made surly he has some commendable scores in a few of them?

I mean that's all fine and dandy can't stop it. The people I get a real launh at are SuperPang and company. I own every cave flyer ever released yet I've never been close to posting a score on a single cave game high score thread. But hey please look at my 20 cabs in the galley thread cause I have spent way too much money on stuff I can't enjoy.

Haha, gross!

You, not Pang.

[Strikers1945guy]

I wasn't trying to shame anyone I was pointing out a glaring trend of big time collectors never posting scores. Anyone can do whatever they want with their time / money.

Anyways moving on.

[Casey120]

I wasn't trying to shame anyone I was pointing out a glaring trend of big time collectors never posting scores. Anyone can do whatever they want with their time / money.

Anyways moving on.

Maybe you are looking on the wrong forum for those scores

[Strikers1945guy]

I wasn't trying to shame anyone I was pointing out a glaring trend of big time collectors never posting scores. Anyone can do whatever they want with their time / money.

Anyways moving on.

Maybe you are looking on the wrong forum for those scores

True enough !

[emphatic]

Buying expensive kits takes lots of money. Having lots of money means you have to work full time = less time to play games. Also, most top scores on this forum are accomplished by MAME players using save states (euwh!). Before most CAVE games were emulated, the only scores listed were by the people collecting PCBs. My belief is that MAME just takes the fun out of competitive scoring away from the PCB collectors.

High scores = lots of free time, no distractions.

[Zaarock]

I always thought you can make decent progress in a game with a couple of hours every week if you do it regularly (most important). Did this with a bunch of games on weekends, though my scores are mediocre.
Surely once someone has stuck with a game for years like some Garegga/DDP players here they don't need to practice all the time to keep improving and have consistency. Training modes reduce the amount of free time needed so if you enjoy the learning process it can be more fun?

[Bananamatic]

if your job doesn't let you have 1 free hour a day to spend on video games then i feel sorry for you

[Eaglet]

1 Credit a day is enough for steady improvement.

[emphatic]

if your job doesn't let you have 1 free hour a day to spend on video games then i feel sorry for you

Work, 3 kids, other interests. I post scores sometimes, but it's not like it's an obligation just because I own PCBs.

[Eaglet]

I don't agree with the high score = lots of free time thing. Most people can free up a couple of hours a week to play (like you would any other hobby) and if you don't it's just a matter of priorities.
Thinking that you need to sit down and spend extensive time in a short time frame on a game to git gud will most likely lead to burn out if anything.

[Bananamatic]

then it's not the lack of time, you simply don't like shmups enough to dedicate any time to them

[emphatic]

then it's not the lack of time, you simply don't like shmups enough to dedicate any time to them

Sure, let's go with that. I just don't like shmups enough.

[monouchi]

then it's not the lack of time, you simply don't like shmups enough to dedicate any time to them

Sure, let's go with that. I just don't like shmups enough.

Emph dont like shmups enough when pigs can fly.

[Udderdude]

[Casey120]

then it's not the lack of time, you simply don't like shmups enough to dedicate any time to them

Yup, and that's why people who hate them have spend a fortune on them .
That makes sense

[Hagane]

Why spend lots of money on stuff you rarely play? And why come up with lame excuses to belittle the players that are better than you?

Collectors could buy PCBs or cars or plastic models and it would be all the same, something to spend their salary on.

[God]

Nobody has mentioned tviks yet.

He's dominating half the gradius scores. Usually at least 3x higher than second place... It's pretty bananas.

[chempop]

Thanks God! Added

[pegboy]

I would nominate Perikles. I've never in my life seen someone destroy so many games as quickly as he has. He is literally clearing games on a daily basis, and with very good scores on top of that. Nobody on this forum even comes close to his output.

Tviks is also a good choice, his Gradius V scores are just unbelievable and as someone who has spent extensive time with the game, I've honestly wondered if those scores were even legit for the longest time.