Need help picking shmups for competitions at local bar

[dpful]

Anyone have experience with this?
Do any pop to mind that I haven't thought of? I'm looking for ones just like this:

1. Shmups that can set continue to 'OFF' -arcade or console
2. Has to have a good score table -arcade or console
---Actually, I usually take my laptop to the bar, so anything that runs on that- though I was just trying to upgrade (size downgrade) to my raspberry pie, so if any console shmups fit this bill (especially nice score table), they'd be great.

I run it unsupervised- if a layman steps in, these details help.
Anyone playing anything within these parameters? Every week (I do it weekly) I try and load up a new one and they don't always have one or the other of these things. Also, bias towards yoko! (TV at the bar).

Thanks for the help, anyone! And if in Salt lake City, it's Wednesday nights from 9-12 at Twilite Lounge. 1$ entry, winner takes all. Max prize so far: 7$.

[davyK]

Not a pub but I ran a shmup high score comp in work. I used a caravan mode - Star Soldier (Gamecube) on 2 min mode.

problem with no supervision is that a lot of high score tables will have fake scores in them and some are too high for noobs to even register. Star Soldier's table doesn't have that problem though - all entries are set to zero. However I still used a witness system because I was tracking the top 4 people and if someone gets enough scores they can knock everyone else off the table. That isn't a problem if you are just looking for top scorer though.

[BareKnuckleRoo]

Giga Wing appears to have the ability to disable continues, and it's a great shmup for score attacking as well as being pretty reasonable for newer players. Its scoreboard is also massive. I'd highly recommend it. Its sequels also have team scoring mode where the score multiplier and overall score is combined so you can do cooperative team runs (but I think only the first game really runs well in emulators). Mars Matrix is fun too, though it is generally considered more challenging and may be a bit too daunting depending on player skill?

Almost every shmup made by Cave has in its options screen a setting to disable continues. The console ports for Xbox 360 also generally have Score Attack modes with continues disabled, though most of their games were vertical. The modern era ones don't emulate correctly with slowdown, but Progear could be fun, or even a vertical game like Dodonpachi is pretty accessible.

I think the R-Type games allowed you to disable continues via dip switches (at least I know R-Type Leo has this).

What about VS shmups? Change Air Blade or Twinkle Star Sprites tournament is always fun.

As far as native PC/Windows games goes you could also pick up a copy of Crimzon Clover from GOG.com pretty cheap - no idea how well it'd work on a Raspberry Pi though. ChoRenSha 68k is another fantastic game that's highly recommended and doesn't seem to allow continues normally. It's also very visually appealing (though plays best when setup with a rapid fire controller). There's also a game like Kaikan which allows continuing but displays when a continue has been used by incrementing the first digit of the score.

[reckon luck]

SLC? If I was still at the U I'd check this out.

Battle Garegga/Bakraid have dipswitch options to disable continues, and they're a lot of fun, have high skill scoring, are relatively short... Don't know how well they run on RPi MAME though.

[Shepardus]

Gradius 1 and 3 don't have continues to begin with