STGT 2k6 Week #1: Blazing Star

The Coop · Post by **The Coop** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 8:44 pm

_Bnu wrote:Yeah, okay, I'll just go away.

BONERS - GET IT MORE

Don't forget about doing your best to get lucky.

Anyway, yes it's a shitty score, especially when you consider that I actually beat the game. But now that I can add a new game to my 1CC list, I'm taking a break from this game. I need it just to get the damned announcer's voice out of my head.

"BONAAAH!" "BONAAAH!" "BO-BO-BONAAAH!"

The Coop - Team Old Schoolers - 14,448,220 - ALL - Peplos

Galdur · Post by **Galdur** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 9:13 pm

Galdur - Team Canada - 12,237,930 - 4 - Windina

Posting a quick follow-up due to the massive score increase. Though the game kind of makes sense now, I still don't particularly like it.

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 9:14 pm

Does anyone have this superplay and can save it at a lower quality/cut sound out/whatever? 300mb would take me 7+ hours to download. Failing that, the scores by stage/boss?

68 million wtf. I need to know how and where.

Twiddle · Post by **Twiddle** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 9:21 pm

the bosses of stage 3, stage 4, stage 6, and stage 7

IT'S MILKING TIME

Guts · Post by **Guts** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 9:22 pm

I'm really a looser ...

Guts - Team Loser - 1.837.400 - 3 - Aryustailm (FinalBurn)

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 9:25 pm

the bosses of stage 3, stage 4, stage 6, and stage 7

How much before the final stage? I just don't intend to milk that boss.

I try to milk 3/4/6 to the point of the boss running away and that's a huge gap.

KennyMan666 · Post by **KennyMan666** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 9:35 pm

KennyMan666 - Team Sweden - 1'738'470 - 4 - Windina (MAME)

Well, a bit better. I need to learn to milk the bosses.

Twiddle · Post by **Twiddle** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 9:55 pm

Rob wrote:
the bosses of stage 3, stage 4, stage 6, and stage 7
How much before the final stage? I just don't intend to milk that boss.

I try to milk 3/4/6 to the point of the boss running away and that's a huge gap.

At max rank, about 15 million is gained from the stage 6 boss milking portion. SAI enters stage 7 at a little below 64 million points.

There's a 128x event trick for destroying one of the large missile sub-ships for a whopping 6.4 million points.

zinger · Post by **zinger** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 10:45 pm

Rob wrote:Does anyone have this superplay and can save it at a lower quality/cut sound out/whatever? 300mb would take me 7+ hours to download. Failing that, the scores by stage/boss?

68 million wtf. I need to know how and where.

Here, I cut it down to 50mb (no audio, 50% of the original resolution). You should be able to make out the scores, approximately.

Enjoy:

http://www.megaupload.com/se/?d=D85RCAT0

Belmont · Post by **Belmont** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 10:47 pm

Belmont - Team Looser - 1'271,230 - 4 - Windina (MAME)

Not to bad for a 1 eyed looser, garenteed i will shatter this score by the end of the week though. I still dont get how people get 12 million on stage 4....i must not be chaining everything right.

Jck · Post by **Jck** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 11:11 pm

Jck - Bargiggia Team - 5,249,530 - 4 - Hell-Hound (MAME)

cigsthecat · Post by **cigsthecat** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 11:14 pm

Can someone describe how to enable autofire for MAME .98? It doesn't seem to work the same way as Edge described for the later version.

TalkingOctopus · Post by **TalkingOctopus** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 11:18 pm

cigsthecat wrote:Can someone describe how to enable autofire for MAME .98? It doesn't seem to work the same way as Edge described for the later version.

You need to use Mame32Plus to enable autofire like he described. I don't think autofire can be enabled in standard mame.

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 11:20 pm

zinger wrote: Here, I cut it down to 50mb (no audio, 50% of the original resolution). You should be able to make out the scores, approximately.

Thanks!

Limbrooke · Post by **Limbrooke** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 11:28 pm

RFP/Limbrooke - Team Canada - 607 010 - Windina - 1-3

Figured I better put a score before this was over and I only just started playing. Aye!

msm · Post by **msm** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 11:47 pm

msm - Undredogs - 1,276,330 - 3 - Windina (MAME)

was pretty happy with this run

Galdur · Post by **Galdur** » Tue Aug 22, 2006 11:52 pm

Last update for today, I swear!

Galdur - Team Canada - 18,971,270 - 5 - Windina

EDIT: This game requires the player to do some very specific (and obtuse) things before it relinquishes the big points. Lots of people are probably very confused and wondering why their scores are so low. Clearly the high scorers don't want to reveal their scoring strategies, but perhaps for future rounds important game/chaining rules should be disclosed before the week begins so everyone has a chance.

NRS · Post by **NRS** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 12:00 am

Damn, didn't get a chance to start playing until today...

NRS - Team Loser - 13,689,280 - 5 - Windina (MAME)

_Bnu wrote:BONERS

I'm really happy to know that I'm not the only one who thought the announcer was saying that!

howmuchkeefe · Post by **howmuchkeefe** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 12:04 am

hmk - Team Old Schoolers - 1,323,830 - 1-2 - Aryustailm (MAME)

Uhm... I blame input lag! And USB. Terrorists in my FSB.

Hopefully I'll have more time to do better later tonight.

WTG, The Coop! Inspiring stuff!

Post by **Shatterhand** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 12:14 am

Shatterhand - Team Old Schoolers 1,770,280 - 1-3 - Peplos - MAME

Thanx to changing tips with a few teammates, I managed to better my score, in spite of chaining a lot WORSE now with the Peplos ship.

Is it ilegal to use Save States for Practicing? I think I need to get the last pattern of the 3rd boss rightly to beat it, and using a save state here to understand it better would help me a lot.

In the old shmeet hosted by Ramus I used it a lot in Cyvern and Gradius.

Post by **Icarus** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 12:16 am

Galdur wrote:EDIT: This game requires the player to do some very specific (and obtuse) things before it relinquishes the big points. Lots of people are probably very confused and wondering why their scores are so low. Clearly the high scorers don't want to reveal their scoring strategies, but perhaps for future rounds important game/chaining rules should be disclosed before the week begins so everyone has a chance.

I've been doing some espionage, and it appears there isn't much team communication either, so you're not alone. ^_-
There are some comprehensive strats posted in our Strategy Forum (like this one), as well as one decent thread at super-play.co.uk's forum, and one at Arcade Extreme (needs Babelfishing).

Those tips are free of charge. ^_-

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 12:19 am

Shatterhand wrote: Is it ilegal to use Save States for Practicing?

lol no.

savestate high

: 32.5 million (maybe I can hit 40 after seeing the video... almost finished).

KennyMan666 · Post by **KennyMan666** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 12:21 am

I think I'm starting to get the hang of this.

KennyMan666 - Team Sweden - 2'606'390 - 4 - Windina (MAME)

freddiebamboo · Post by **freddiebamboo** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 12:33 am

Icarus wrote: I've been doing some espionage

This really does intrigue me!!!

I want to know what underhand methods you use

Skyline · Post by **Skyline** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 12:50 am

Skyline - California Dudez - 13,335,800 - 5 - Windina (WolfMAME)

Got all that I could out of that Stage 3 boss...completely stuffed up Stage 4, losing two lives. -_-

Post by **Shatterhand** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 1:15 am

Improved my score a lot

Shatterhand - Team Old Schoolers - 4,039,370 - 1-4 - Peplos - Mame

Had never seen level 4 before... got there after losing only 1 live for the 3rd boss (That last pattern of him is great for milking, but a pain in the ass to milk).. just shot everything without trying to chain anything in level 4, died once for a rear enemy (The 2nd wave of smaller ships, the 1st one which actually seemed to be harder I managed to dodge), then died for a bullet I didn't see coming.

I used to hate that game, now I kinda starting to aprecciate it...

howmuchkeefe · Post by **howmuchkeefe** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 1:18 am

Am I doing it right?

Collect first score multiplying angel before the last enemy wave to appear before the toughish red ship on the first level. Collect the power up angel before the teensy enemy generator finishes spitting out enemies in order to maximize the powerup items.

Collect second score multipling angel during lull before boss fight. Kill boss ASAP, without causing second power up angel to appear

Activate second power up angel.... ???? sometime during first part of level two?

Therafter, shun score multipliers. Each one shunned doubles the value of the next, to a maximum value of 128. When you do collect the item, the point value of every enemy you destroy while under its influence is multiplied by the multiplier value of the angel. You'll need to know when activating the angels at X64 might get you more points than waiting for the X128 value.

Kill enemies with charge shot when possible.

Milk 2nd boss and beyond.

...that's what I've got so far.

Zigfried the Trizealot · Wed Aug 23, 2006 1:50 am

Here's my FIRST TIME EVER playing Blazing Star score:

Zigfried - Feka USA - 1'292'600 - 4 - Hellhound - (MAME)

Next time, I plan to actually pick my ship instead of accidentally hitting the wrong button. ^_^

//Zig

DarkWolf7 · Post by **DarkWolf7** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 1:53 am

What a misleading scoring system. I spent the first 15 or so plays concentrating solely on chaining (not paying too much attention to the blue point items). Took me a while before I noticed that the point bonues increase w/ the more you get (w/o missing any).

Anyway, a few plays after this revelation:

DarkWolf7 - Feka USA - 5,178,920 - 4 - Windina (MAME)

Should definitely be able to improve this by the end of the week but posted it just in case I don't.

Limbrooke · Post by **Limbrooke** » Wed Aug 23, 2006 2:08 am

RFP - 1 140 640 - Windina - 3 MAME

I'm beginning to get the hang of it. Now to sort out better boss milking...and survival too.