Ok I've been studying the superplay of my favorite Shmup, Progear for a few days now. It seems as though the person playing it enters some kind of code in the begining to unlock harder enemies that fire more bullets than normal. Now I own the PCB and have tried many many times to unlock this mode. You can see exactly what i'm talkin about in this 1 credit video run: http://www.super-play.co.uk/?superplay=223
Apparently if you are in "super hard mode" you can get 3million+ points in level one which earns you a 1 up (very handy later in the game).
Some one fill me in please! I've been searching for a while on this with no luck
billd420 wrote:It seems as though the person playing it enters some kind of code in the begining to unlock harder enemies that fire more bullets than normal.
Apparently if you are in "super hard mode" you can get 3million+ points in level one which earns you a 1 up (very handy later in the game).
Only Progear can get me off my ass and register here, enough lurking
Yeah it looks like the logo changes or something at the title screen, there is definately some pause there while something is happening.
Specifically the yellow planes in the first stage. I put my CPS2 board on Level 8 and still couldn't get them to spray that many bullets at me.
And yes, not only is he scoring a free life before the end of stage one, but he scores about 6 total before the end of the 5th stage.
i think that's just a normal effect of rank increase, which presumably is controlled by jewel count, or maybe just score. I have another progear vid called Futobishi_Progear_AllClear where the player ends the first stage with nearly 4 million, and there is no title screen colour change in that one. Also one of the AST team has a video up somewhere on arcade-extreme.com where the same thing happens. Even with my modest score at that point (max about 600k i think) i see a similar level of bullets pumping out from those yellow planes. if you play the japanese version on default difficulty and achieve a similar score/jewel count to the one in the superplay video i reckon you'll see just as many bullets, turning them all into diamonds isn't easy though.
Is it my connection (Cable modem), or does it always take a while for the superplay vids to play? Everytime I click "download", it goes straight to my Windows Media Player and says "connecting....". And it stays that way for a long time. Same thing happened for this Porgear vid.
so long and tanks for all the spacefish unban shw <Megalixir> now that i know garegga is faggot central i can disregard it entirely
<Megalixir> i'm stuck in a hobby with gays
Here is the super secret code for the title screen colour change.
It's a really tough and complex code and only japanese player can do that with their animal-like reflexes
Be warned !!!
The Code : Insert....a.....coin,........and the logo becomes golden
I dunno I play progear on pretty much a daily basis, and the planes in the first level dont' shoot that many bullets. Even if I dont' shoot them and let them fly off the screen they dont' spray that much.
By the way, I am playing on the real hardware, my game is the non-boot CPS2 Jap version.
Man, just when I think I know what this game about something even deeper is discovered. Nice find. But as noted, this seriously is not a code/adjustment to the PCB's settings? It really is all being done by jewel/rank manipulation of some kind?
edit: And my board is the Jap/green PCB as well. Newly revived by Razoola into CPS2 immortality.
Same thing happened for this Porgear vid.
