Old School Maniax Tournament 2007 - Week #1

The Coop · Post by **The Coop** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 12:35 am

shoe-sama wrote:Can't seem to run Thunder Force without slowdown. Any suggestions?

Play the Saturn version? Try a different emu (Gens+, Kega Fusion, etc.)? The original Genesis and MegaDrive game have slow down in them... period. The only way you're going to get rid of it, is via Saturn version, or by tinkering with the emus themselves to find a setting that puts the emulation into a kind of "overdrive".

Post by **nZero** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 1:01 am

Or overclock your Genesis

Looks like I'm going to have to finish up this leg of the tournament in emulation on my laptop if I can't clear more than a couple of levels before leaving tomorrow...

rockaroller · Post by **rockaroller** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 1:49 am

shoe-sama wrote:Can't seem to run Thunder Force without slowdown. Any suggestions?

I don't what OS you use, but here (a P4 3.0, w/ 1 GB Ram Memory and a GeForce 6500 w/ 256 MB), dgen runs smoothly on Linux.

shoe-sama · Post by **shoe-sama** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 2:00 am

Ok, thanks everyone, I'll see what I can do now.

rockaroller · Post by **rockaroller** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 2:03 am

Houston, we've got a score!

Pirate1019 · Post by **Pirate1019** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 2:13 am

Ok, let me get this straight. We're playing Thunder Force IV and we can only die once right? After we die once we pause the game and get our score. Right?

RyanDG · Post by **RyanDG** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 2:32 am

Here's my top score so far...
This game is vicious...

It seems that once you get the Blade's though, the Air Raid level (I think that's what it's called) is just a gold mine for points.

The Coop · Post by **The Coop** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 3:00 am

Looks been too long since I played last...

The Coop - 368,570

shoe-sama · Post by **shoe-sama** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 3:25 am

Pirate1019 wrote:Ok, let me get this straight. We're playing Thunder Force IV and we can only die once right? After we die once we pause the game and get our score. Right?

Yeah, that + play on maniac mode.

Ozymandiaz1260 · Post by **Ozymandiaz1260** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 3:39 am

rockaroller wrote:Houston, we've got a score!

You died at least three times

Pirate1019 · Post by **Pirate1019** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 3:42 am

shoe-sama wrote:
Pirate1019 wrote:Ok, let me get this straight. We're playing Thunder Force IV and we can only die once right? After we die once we pause the game and get our score. Right?
Yeah, that + play on maniac mode.

That's the only thing I was sure of.

This is trouble. I can hardly score above 5000 regularly. What is the best stage to start on?

Sonic R · Post by **Sonic R** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 4:18 am

Been playing a bit and the best I could do was on Strite with a score of 31,880. If I can get pass the boss I should do better. I think its 20,000 for the boss alone but he keeps killing me at some point in the battle. Hopefully I'll get through that and then gain more points in the next stage.

Maybe I'll do the Air Raid stage next? I'll have the blade right at the start.

Ozymandiaz1260 · Post by **Ozymandiaz1260** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 4:24 am

Yeah, I'd say Strite is the best one to start off with.

The Coop · Post by **The Coop** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 4:32 am

Now we're getting somewhere...

The Coop - 1,254,440 - Stage 7

Ozymandiaz1260 · Post by **Ozymandiaz1260** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 4:36 am

The Coop wrote:Now we're getting somewhere...

The Coop - 1,254,440 - Stage 7

shoe-sama · Post by **shoe-sama** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 5:10 am

Shit, why'd I have to open my mouth?

I was on the brink of clearing Eliminate Down and had to spout off some stuff about milking... -_-

Nemo · Post by **Nemo** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 5:32 am

Edge wrote:Whew, that's pretty frustrating.

I understand you want to increase the challenge to be more difficult than just clearing the game on maniac mode. But still the game itself, when played for score, motivates the player to keep his lifes for the end of game bonus. So the top players still want to finish the game with one life. But since the playing field is very varied how about we keep the initial 3 lifes in stock or 2 or something alike. It's just an idea and I might be wrong, but I think it might be more enjoyable for the majority of participants this way.

I tried to choose an enjoyable game with ED, but everyone wanted to exploit it, so kicking your asses now takes precedence over fun

Plus, it's not that bad, Coop is already on Stage 7.

Ayanami · Post by **Ayanami** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 6:40 am

Damn, stage 7 with out death? I don't think I could ever pull that off. I will try though.

The Coop · Post by **The Coop** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 9:02 am

$#&%*! I was doing quite well, and fucked up on stage 6's boss. Lost all of my fresh shield...

1,317,670 - Stage 7 - The Coop

Edit: Oooooooooooooooh ho ho hoooo...

Some of that TF4 groove is startin' to come back...

The Coop - 2,290,670 - Stage 9

rockaroller · Post by **rockaroller** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 11:08 am

Ozymandiaz1260 wrote:You died at least three times

I can assure you I didn't. My version allows me to choose 0 lives without the 99 lives cheat. So I only died once, paused the game and took the screenshot.

Well, anyway, it seems that Coop is gonna be the winner. I think that probably no one is able to top his score.

I haven't had the needed amount of time to practice. I've been promoted two weeks ago and working a lot more since then.

RotateMe · Post by **RotateMe** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 12:13 pm

rockaroller wrote:
Ozymandiaz1260 wrote:You died at least three times
I can assure you I didn't. My version allows me to choose 0 lives without the 99 lives cheat. So I only died once, paused the game and took the screenshot.
Well, anyway, it seems that Coop is gonna be the winner. I think that probably no one is able to top his score.
I haven't had the needed amount of time to practice. I've been promoted two weeks ago and working a lot more since then.

When you get the first extend on 10k I would have thought you'd get a few more reaching that score, that's why I too thought that you died more often...

Anyways, can't get over 40.000 points right now

Edge · Post by **Edge** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 12:14 pm

Nemo wrote: I tried to choose an enjoyable game with ED, but everyone wanted to exploit it, so kicking your asses now takes precedence over fun Plus, it's not that bad, Coop is already on Stage 7.

Hey, taking The Coop as an example is not fair, he is also known as Team Thunderforcers so you can expect him to clear the game on maniac with 1 life, he have done that before anyway...

So, after a lot of resets:

Edge - 187'700 - Stage 2

Ozymandiaz1260 · Post by **Ozymandiaz1260** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 2:14 pm

rockaroller wrote:
Ozymandiaz1260 wrote:You died at least three times
I can assure you I didn't. My version allows me to choose 0 lives without the 99 lives cheat. So I only died once, paused the game and took the screenshot.
Well, anyway, it seems that Coop is gonna be the winner. I think that probably no one is able to top his score.
I haven't had the needed amount of time to practice. I've been promoted two weeks ago and working a lot more since then.

Then why are there three ghosted out ships in the upper right corner?

shoe-sama · Post by **shoe-sama** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 2:17 pm

It starts with one ghosted ship when I leave it at the default 3 lives.

Ozymandiaz1260 · Post by **Ozymandiaz1260** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 2:26 pm

shoe-sama wrote:It starts with one ghosted ship when I leave it at the default 3 lives.

Hmm, it doesn't do that on my version. Oh well, it's not a big deal, I was just curious.

shoe-sama · Post by **shoe-sama** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 3:17 pm

25,460 T_T

Well, at least I'm not coming in last.

And does changing the engine speed affect bullet speeds? I can't tell.

Ozymandiaz1260 · Post by **Ozymandiaz1260** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 3:25 pm

shoe-sama wrote:does changing the engine speed affect bullet speeds? I can't tell.

It doesn't seem like it does to me.

Sonic R · Post by **Sonic R** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 3:54 pm

Ok I have now reached 35,710

I have the day off work and I WILL beat the boss which is 20,000 alone. Then if I play the Air Raid stage I can net an extra 10,000 for the ray gun.

Must....not.....die.......

at this rate I think I'm going to wear out the reset on the ol X'eye!

so long as I can finish a few spots above last then I guess I'm ok. No sense in trying to compete with the likes of The Coop

RotateMe · Post by **RotateMe** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 4:23 pm

The desert level (what's its name? i'm at work right now) is best suited for me for I can score a good 30.000 till I get to the midboss... this one will always kill me... any strats to avoid his tail attacks? (especially when moving is not save because the ships will spawn above or below you when you don't move).

it290 · Post by **it290** » Fri Mar 02, 2007 4:24 pm

it290 - 243,680 - Stage 3