The 5th Bay Area Shmupmeet Recap

[IlMrm]

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As always, a big thank you to Dave for hosting another successful shmupmeet. Nothing like some Psikyo suicide bullets to keep us on our toes.






Strikers 1945 II




Space Bomber




Gunbird 2



Gunbarich



Dragon Blaze

We also played Strikers 1945, Strikers 1999, Storm Blade, Mushihimesama, Radirgy, Giga Wing Generations, Zero Gunner 2, Border Down, and Wivern Wings.



Many things getting blown up in Under Defeat.



We also watched the Mushi superplay DVD during lunch(thanks twe for selling it to me). Pizza and superplay DVDs are a perfect match.

[Fighter17]

I wish I was there.

[Dave_K.]

Here are some scores I recorded (sorry I didn't remember to write them all down or record some of the levels).

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Strikers III: 1,149,000 2-? BER
Stikers II: 1,224,300 ?-? ?
Dragon Blaze: 501700 ?-? BER
Space Bomber: 2,691,800 ?-? BER
Gunbird2: forgot to write down but IlMrm made it to 2-3 I believe.
Under Defeat: 1,093,170 1-4 BER

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IlMrm at work on Gunbird2:

[louisg]

Under Defeat: 1,093,170 1-4 BER

Hang on, not to nitpick but.. was that the BER one or the LOU one? That score looks familiar

Fun meet btw! I may have to bring my Saturn RayForce disc for the next one so I can make the case for it =)

[BER]

Thanks again for the 'meet, Dave! It's always good to keep up with today's shmups.

Strikers III: 1,149,000 2-? BER

That's stage 2-2.

I only played this game once, and after, I was distracted mostly with Radilgy. :)

Dragon Blaze: 2,691,800 ?-? BER

I think I earned this score in Space Bomber. The score I earned on Dragon Blaze was about 500,000.

Under Defeat: 1,093,170 1-4 BER

Hang on, not to nitpick but.. was that the BER one or the LOU one? That score looks familiar :P

Hehe, it should! I think your score was only 1,06?,??? (where the ?s represent digits that I don't remember).

[louisg]

Hehe, it should! I think your score was only 1,06?,??? (where the ?s represent digits that I don't remember).

Aha! Mystery solved. Which St.3 boss strategy did you end up preferring and what part of 1-4 was that to if you remember?

Let's bring UD out again at the next shmupmeet, that was a lot of fun 2p too-- see if we can't get the second loop unlocked this time (or I could bring the VMU if all else fails )

[BER]

Which St.3 boss strategy did you end up preferring

I could never execute my preferred strategy, which results in destroying the stage 1-3 boss before it goes to the bottom of the screen. So I tried my less preferred strategy: hope not to die. :)

and what part of 1-4 was that to if you remember?

My final death in that performance was about 75% of the stage 1-4 trip. I think that's where one tank is on the left side of the screen and one anti-air artillery is on the right side, and both are in front of the bridge, which is in front of the two lightning turrets.

[louisg]

My final death in that performance was about 75% of the stage 1-4 trip. I think that's where one tank is on the left side of the screen and one anti-air artillery is on the right side, and both are in front of the bridge, which is in front of the two lightning turrets.

Yeah that last part is really rough. 1-4 may be the hardest stage in the first loop just due to the level of strategy required. And then getting 100% on the thing is another story altogether! Targeting the smaller guns before taking on the lightning turrets seems to work pretty well (if you assume that getting hit by lightning is inevitable and you wait until afterwards to launch an option). The part that never fails to get me is the part in the middle of the fortress indoors, before the railed tanks, where you have a turret on either side of the screen and all the tanks come out and ambush you =)

[J-Manic]

Looks like you guys had a good time.