Thanks, CRI! Yeah, when I started to really play DOJBL back at spring of this year, I wanted the 2-ALL, but I had no scoring goals in-mind. At the time, I didn't think I'd ever actually really learn how to score in this game, but as I spent more time trying to 2-ALL DOJBL, learning how to chain in many parts of the game just came to me, bit by bit, and, well, before long, I found myself chaining a good amount of the game, haha.CRI wrote:hey Purple, your progress in this game is amazing. congrats man.
My theoretical max... On savestate practice, if I do everything as I know it perfectly, including all those super risky strats I'd currently never dare to do in a full run, lest I want my chances to 2-ALL to drop pretty badly, I get 2.5 Billion - 2.7 Billion, but that's unrealistically perfect of course, haha. Realistically speaking, in terms of full runs, I can definitely reach at least 1.530+ Billion and I could perhaps maybe get as high as 2 Billion even, should I successfully pull off a 2-5 full chain.CRI wrote:what is your theoretical max atm
My goal in DOJBL is getting the 2-ALL as it's always been, with the difference now being that I'd like to get a 2-ALL that gets over 1+ Billion (preferably at least over 1.13+ Billion, I'd say) and a 3340+ Hit chain (Preferably 3400 - 3500+ Hit chain, I'd say) to go with it.CRI wrote:what's your goal?
Hmm, will I keep playing after the 2-ALL... Well, DOJBL is the first single shmup game I ever spent substantial time on so far, so honestly, after I get the 2-ALL (It will also double as my 1st ever 2-ALL of any game as well), I might want to take a break from DOJBL, or DOJ in-general, since there are a number of other cave games I'd really like to try out, like Ketsui, DoDonPachi, DonPachi, DFK 1.5 & DFKBL, among others of course (I also know about DOJWL, of course, but again, I mentioned that I'm probably going to take a break from anything that has DOJ somewhere in it after I get the DOJBL 2-ALL, so DOJWL probably isn't about to be the next game I'll go to after DOJBL, lol ), and then I'd like to try my hand in Psikyo games as well (Strikers 1999 comes to mind, in-particular), and then there's yet more games I'd like to play for sure, haha.CRI wrote:will you keep playing after the 2-all?
However, either way, I'd say my time in DOJBL isn't necessarily over after I get the 2-ALL, though. I'd like to do something with B-Exy in DOJBL and I'm also thinking about doing something with A-Shotia & B-Shotia as well, and I may yet decide to seriously learn to full chain both 1-3 & 1-4 and, by extension, 2-3 (the proper way) and 2-4. I've so far put off learning the full chains of those four stages (The timing's quite tough to pull off in 1-3 (I pulled off the midboss chain connect a few times, but it's not nearly consistent enough) and 1-4 (I have yet to successfully pull off the 1-up cannon chain connect)) & if I haven't learned these by the time I 2-ALL the game, then I'll definitely go learn them.
Well, at the moment, I don't really stream my runs, but I do at least do .inp files with the nvram on, for when I want to record them later on (If requested, I'll make videos of them and put them up), but when I do get what I want done, then yeah, I definitely will make videos of those, of course! In-fact, I made plenty of videos of my own strats for DOJBL, actually.CRI wrote:would be really awesome if you stream some of your runs. your route sounds so advanced i could definitely find some tips by watching.
Hmm, that's interesting to hear you can't get the .inp file to work even with the nvram (Have you tried this trick, where you'll start the replay, load a random save state, and then reset MAME (Shift-F3)?). At any rate, you're in for a bit of luck, since I got my run to replay properly for me, and since you wanted to see that particular run of mines, I'll definitely see what I can do for you, CRI! I'm familiar about how you've been playing DOJBL for a period of several years now through the posts you made here in the past, and I'd say, if anyone deserves to get the 2-ALL that hasn't got it yet w/ a high score to boot, you'd deserve it the most! So yeah, I'll help out with what I can, since I'm still very much after the 2-ALL myself (That & I studied a run or two of yours in the past, so yeah, definitely). I'll let you know, when I get that video of that particular run of mines up!CRI wrote:sadly i can't get your inp file to work even with the nvram. it plays the replay for like 1-2min and then crashes mame for me.
Yeah, I'll be starting to do full runs myself soon, since things on my end irl are starting to wind down a bit now, so I'll have time to do full runs again. In-fact, while that was going on at my end, in the free time I have in-between, one of the new things I did was that I took the time to try to learn to chain parts of 1-4, and I found an easy way to chain it, courtesy of Erppo. While I still can't do the 1-up cannon chain connect thing right, I can now chain 1-4 up to the 1-up cannon. Never thought it would be that easy to do, haha. With that new improvement, in terms of chaining, my 1st loop scoring potential now reaches into the 810 - 820+ million range!CRI wrote:btw: i will start doing full runs again soon and will also stream some of them.