Battle Garegga

punkfox · Post by **punkfox** » Tue May 23, 2006 6:01 am

Hope you don't mind if I resurrect this thread.

Punkfox - 6,333,090 - Stage 5 - Golden Bat

I've really been working on this game since I picked up the Saturn version, and I'm finding it much more playable than I ever did using MAME.

I'm still working on practicing rank-reducing strategies since I have a fair grasp of how the game functions. Here's to hoping for a 1CC before the end of the summer. :-p

Vorpal · Post by **Vorpal** » Wed May 24, 2006 12:36 pm

Ahh I'm jealous. I wish I had the PCB or Saturn versions, because when emulated the "input delay" becomes very noticable around stage 6 when the bullet spam starts. While it's my favorite shooter, I no longer play it competitively for that reason.

Good luck and may you succeed where I did not :D

landshark · Post by **landshark** » Wed May 24, 2006 3:57 pm

Vorpal wrote:Ahh I'm jealous. I wish I had the PCB or Saturn versions, because when emulated the "input delay" becomes very noticable around stage 6 when the bullet spam starts. While it's my favorite shooter, I no longer play it competitively for that reason.

Good luck and may you succeed where I did not

Input delay in emulation is very dependant upon the controller you are using.

When I use PS2->USB adaptors (or PC gamepads), I notice the delay and cannot stand it. However, using a keyboard interface (IPAC4 in my case), I do not notice any lag and it plays as good as anything else.

powerfuran · Post by **powerfuran** » Thu May 25, 2006 2:20 pm

I love this game.......

AST-POW - 4,695,900 - stage 5 - Iron Mackerel

EOJ · Post by **EOJ** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 7:09 am

Just started playing this (Saturn version), and I really love it. Here's my best so far:

TWE - 5,474,290 - Stage 5 - Miyamoto

Ended my game on that darn black ship boss at the end. Kept my medals up most of the run, breaking the chain once or twice.

Twiddle · Post by **Twiddle** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 6:39 pm

Twiddle - 6,229,190 - Stage 6 - Gain (A+B+C)

Beat Black Heart and my previous record, and killed myself at 0 lives left in excitement first thing I did in Stage 6.

Twiddle · Post by **Twiddle** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 11:47 pm

Twiddle - 7,168,620 - Stage 6 - Gain (A+B+C)
Inching away at this!

Post by **Icarus** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 11:50 pm

Twiddle wrote:Twiddle - 7,168,620 - Stage 6 - Gain (A+B+C)
Inching away at this!

Hey, good stuff! Grats on a good Gain score. ^_^

I just put up a preliminary write up for Stage 6 on the strategy thread, which should give you a good idea of how to tackle every Garegga player's nemesis: the turret wall (along with the rest of the stage), if you're interested. Keep it up, the end is in sight! ^_-

Vorpal · Post by **Vorpal** » Mon Jun 26, 2006 4:32 am

Vorpal - 8,197,090 - Stage 6 - Golden Bat

Even though I said I wasn't going to compete anymore due to input-delay frustrations, I couldn't stop playing this damn game ;o

edit: I can now reliably take down Stage 6 boss, but I lost my "touch" on the wall of death lately and keep losing a life there. Also keep losing a life at the spot in stage 6 where 3 heavy missile tanks come out from the left side, bleh.

However, I can live with this, if I could stop dying at random stupid moments inbetween. I had a 5 life stock when I entered stage 6... so 1 on the wall of death, 1 of the missile tanks, then usually 1 life lost at the mini wall of death on stage 7, leaves 2 lives to spare on Black Heart Mk II. If I get that "perfect" run where I only lose lives at these moments, I think I can 1CC this... as in savestate runs I have killed Glow Squid without dying.

Off I go to fill more HD space with botched replays.

jpj · Post by **jpj** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 1:26 pm

got this yesterday, so this is more of an opening gambit

jpj - 3,194,000 - gain (B button)

http://img103.imageshack.us/img103/1239/imag00109xi.jpg

Vorpal · Post by **Vorpal** » Fri Jul 07, 2006 7:04 pm

Vorpal - 9,188,760 - Stage 7 - Golden Bat

Lost my last 3 lives very, very stupidly ;(

Vorpal · Post by **Vorpal** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 5:57 pm

rrrRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAGH

The past 5 runs I did, the mini-blackhearts dropped my option-shot right as they detonated at the bottom of the screen, leaving me without the homing options for stage 6 ><

jpj · Post by **jpj** » Wed Jul 12, 2006 2:27 pm

slightly upped my score. died on the boss run of stage 5 = stupid.

jpj - 4,800,840 - stage 5 - (gain B button)

http://img57.imageshack.us/img57/5287/imag00036yr.jpg

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 1:00 am

Helping with the ST got me playing this for a bit again, and I improved my Bornnam score:

BulletMagnet - 4,768,660 - Stage 6 - Gate of Hell

As a small note, I think I misread Chitta's B ship, I believe it's supposed to be the "Neo-Gundalf," you might want to edit that.

Randorama · Post by **Randorama** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 1:05 am

The hell i'm uploading that, repent your sins and be born again under the truth of rank if you want the score up !!1!

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 1:36 am

*draws lightsaber*

*waves hand in circular motion*

"You WANT to post that score...you like posting scores...you WANT to post that score..."

Randorama · Post by **Randorama** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 9:48 am

Ack, someone has uploaded the score while i was away! I blame the obscure powers of mainstreaming for this

(??!!)

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 5:57 pm

*whistles innocently*

jpj · Post by **jpj** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 7:00 pm

i can't quite believe it.... from being chronically stuck on the bosses of stage 5... in the space of a week, i cained stage 6... and 7... and that glowsquid... for the 1CC !! admittedly, once i lost the medals at start of stage 6, i was just playing for survival. but i can't believe it.......

jpj - 7,738,860 - Stage ALL - Gain (B button)

http://img321.imageshack.us/img321/4261/imag0006cv3.jpg

i used to slag off this game

i will be back!

DC906270 · Post by **DC906270** » Mon Aug 07, 2006 7:07 pm

very well done jpj

Vincere · Post by **Vincere** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 10:11 am

Ok, I haven't posted scores in a while now so here's some. I am the previously-named "Guwanger" so change it in concordance with the scores below.

I almost never played with Gain so I played a bit with him and really wanted to know how bad the rank could go. So I fired non-stop, lost 0 lives and came at max power at Stage 6, just to see what was happening. No need to say it has been "The Official Vincere's Slaughterfest". I lost 6 or 7 lives in 3 minutes ha ha ha.
Still here's the score I got:

D-ku VCR - 6 393 050 - stage 6 - Gain (A+B+C)

Otherwise I'm a regular Golden Bat player so here's my top score at the moment:

D-Ku VCR - 6 713 060 - stage 6 - Golden Bat

Finally, 2 requests:

-Rando, could you just write which ship's name is associated with which button? For exemple, I don't know for Gain so I wrote (A+B+C). Thank you.
-I watched my ranking page (playing it on saturn) and aside the score was some figures like 08/08, 10/19 etc. What does it mean?

stratos · Post by **stratos** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 11:14 am

"-I watched my ranking page (playing it on saturn) and aside the score was some figures like 08/08, 10/19 etc. What does it mean?"

I can only guess that those numbers represent the day in wich the score was obtained...

However, your score isn't so great, but I think it's a good score because you reached stage 6....

I think the key in this game it's especially in rank managing, and think that the most frequent cause of rank jumping it's the loss of the medal chain...

If you lose your medal chain, you have to grab small medals that affect heavily your rank, especially if you grab tons of them destroying the releasing structures, like the rails in stage 3...

Probably, for us biginner it's better to focus on medal chain and powerups limitation, and some boss milking too... bah, this game punishes me without pity whatever strategy I use

But I like it the same

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Vincere · Post by **Vincere** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 11:19 am

stratos wrote:
I can only guess that those numbers represent the day in wich the score was obtained...

However, your score isn't so great, but I think it's a good score because you reached stage 6....

I think the key in this game it's especially in rank managing, and think that the most frequent cause of rank jumping it's the loss of the medal chain...

If you lose your medal chain, you have to grab small medals that affect heavily your rank, especially if you grab tons of them destroying the releasing structures, like the rails in stage 3...

Probably, for us biginner it's better to focus on medal chain and powerups limitation, and some boss milking too... bah, this game punishes me without pity whatever strategy I use

But I like it the same

No, these score have been made this week actually. And I didn't claim my scores are any good (even if I think so to a certain extent).

stratos · Post by **stratos** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 12:03 pm

And I didn't claim my scores are any good (even if I think so to a certain extent).

Of course, I were not provoking, it was only a technical comment

And I think it's a good score to a certain extent, and in Battle Garegga these are really good achievements. I never saw stage 6 myself in a 1cc run

Good luck

Randorama · Post by **Randorama** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 12:14 pm

The types/names in the specific graduatories are: normal (type B, type C, type A+B+C)

Vincere · Post by **Vincere** » Thu Aug 10, 2006 1:46 pm

Ok, thanks Rando.

Could have figured this out by myself...

Edit: Rando, I am Guwanger actually, I changed my nick so erase him from the Wild Snail ranking.

Salem Witch Trials! · Sat Sep 02, 2006 11:48 pm

SalemWitchTrials - 6,637,060 - Stage 6 - Golden Bat

I have a higher score where i got to stage 7, but I didn't write it down because I'm stupid. I'm sure I'll break it soon though with the amount of garregga I've been playing lately.

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 7:33 pm

Improved my Miyamoto score a little, and finally squeaked past the 5 mil mark:

BulletMagnet - 5,093,820 - Stage 5 - Ninjyutu-Bomb

DMC · Post by **DMC** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 7:27 am

DMC - 6.563.900 - stage 6 - Iron Mackerel

jp · Post by jp » Tue Oct 31, 2006 8:21 am

Yay! Got this game in the mail today. Don't really have any "worthy" scores to throw up right now (my last run ended at the boss of level 4 and I only had 2.5 million I think, prolly would've beat him too had I not had some horribly stupid deaths at the level 3 boss), but I will definitely be doing some strategy guide reading this weekend so I can figure out the "correct" way to play the game.