OSM Week #2 - Pocky and Rocky

Sonic R · Post by **Sonic R** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 11:44 pm

158,520 - Sonic R - Pocky - Stage 3

Stage 3 is too frustrating I get to the point that I'm am running away from all the enemies. Thats no way to score points

Nemo · Post by **Nemo** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 1:33 am

Only got to play twice, never found the 1-up(s) or all this milking people are talking about, but oh well:

467,910 - Nemo - Rocky - All

The Coop · Post by **The Coop** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 3:19 am

488,590 - The Coop - Pocky - All

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 4:56 am

Nemo wrote:Only got to play twice, never found the 1-up(s) or all this milking people are talking about, but oh well:

467,910 - Nemo - Rocky - All

Wait a minute. You played this two times, and cleared it? I only found 1 extend. Not sure if there's another. I find this game pretty challenging, although most of the challenge is in knowing the bosses weaknesses.

Might as well:
Gaijin Punch - 361,860 - Stage 5 - Pocky

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 10:55 am

441,000 - GaijinPunch - Pocky - 6

Damn... last boss. Kicked my ass. Gotta quit sucking so much dick on stage 4 & 5.

RyanDG · Post by **RyanDG** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 12:13 pm

My top score so far is a paltry
144,370

I'm still working on it though, so I'm hoping that I can improve that ugly score.

I honestly can't believe how difficult I find this game.

It reminds me a lot of MERCs, and that's not a good thing for me.

Macaw · Post by **Macaw** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 12:35 pm

509,460 - Macaw - Rocky - All

I dont mean to brag, but I got this clear just now on my first attempt after not having played the game in years. I used to play this game a lot as a kid though, so I still remembered all the bosses and stuff. In my oppinion the defence move is too good as it blocks just about every normal bullet type.

And whats with so little people using Rocky? He's more awesome in every possible way!

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 1:47 pm

500,610 - GaijinPunch - Pocky - A

EDIT: Fuck, thought I took first. Nice score, macaw. In my defense, until this competition, I never got passed stage 2. But, the vids & advice here really helped.

I think the balance is good though. It's a challenging game, but once you practice AND learn weaknesses, it becomes liveable. Very old school style... perfect for OSM.

Nemo · Post by **Nemo** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 4:13 pm

Scoreboard updated. Please remember in the future to follow the correct posting format and edit your original post if you want to post more than one score.

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 4:25 pm

Nemo wrote:Scoreboard updated. Please remember in the future to follow the correct posting format and edit your original post if you want to post more than one score.

I thought this might be the case, but saw no rules posted in this thread. The main OSM thread seems to be rather long & cluttered. Just a suggestion. Anyways, thanks for your work thus far. I am curious why myself & Macaw aren't on the list though.... can't join in the tournament late?

Shocky · Post by **Shocky** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 4:53 pm

103,050 - Shocky - Rocky - 2

Edit: Actually the game didn't end there, it's paused, but I had to submit the score before 17:00 G.M.T. (wasn't that the deadline?)

Sorry for not editing my original score post.. I was in a panic to submit this new score before dl :O

Shocky · Post by **Shocky** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 4:59 pm

Fuck... The deadline was "Monday at 5:00 am GMT", not pm... X_x

RotateMe · Post by **RotateMe** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 5:52 pm

Shocky wrote:Fuck... The deadline was "Monday at 5:00 am GMT", not pm... X_x

Fuck! Sorry dude! I hope you didn't spend to much time on unpleasent playing

The Coop · Post by **The Coop** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 6:02 pm

GaijinPunch wrote:
Nemo wrote:Scoreboard updated. Please remember in the future to follow the correct posting format and edit your original post if you want to post more than one score.
I thought this might be the case, but saw no rules posted in this thread. The main OSM thread seems to be rather long & cluttered. Just a suggestion. Anyways, thanks for your work thus far. I am curious why myself & Macaw aren't on the list though.... can't join in the tournament late?

Two reasons basically...

1) You guys didn't sign up before this tourny started
2) Even if you had, your scores came in after the 5AM GMT deadline.

Sorry dude. Nice scores though.

DJ Incompetent · Post by **DJ Incompetent** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 7:04 pm

Hokey Smokes

192,620 - DJ Incompetent - Rocky - 3

Shocky · Post by **Shocky** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 7:12 pm

RotateMe wrote:
Shocky wrote:Fuck... The deadline was "Monday at 5:00 am GMT", not pm... X_x
Fuck! Sorry dude! I hope you didn't spend to much time on unpleasent playing

Nah, I actually like playing this, it's just that I was at work, anxiously waiting to get home and try this again... so it was a bummer to notice that it was all for nothing. "Luckily" I got killed by those f*cking turdle-things on the raft pretty soon after submitting the score.

What got me confused was that the tournament kind of started on a Tuesday, but the playing week wasn't/isn't a full week. Anyway now I've learned my lesson and will deliver scores (if any) in time.

Some more recommendations:

-Guwange, of course.

-"Hi no tori" (a.k.a. Hinotori a.k.a. Firebird) for the MSX2 computers. It's based on Osamu Tezuka's Phoenix manga and is available in japanese only. Great music, nice graphics. The setting is medieval Japan with mythological creatures.

-Knightmare on the MSX1. It's a bit simplistic but gets better in the later stages.

-There was this really cool asian game for DOS, it was known as "Devil" or maybe "Devil III", but I don't know the original name. Anyone know this one?

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 10:58 pm

The Coop wrote:Two reasons basically...

1) You guys didn't sign up before this tourny started
2) Even if you had, your scores came in after the 5AM GMT deadline.

Sorry dude. Nice scores though.

Ah... I too am one of the 5AM PM guy's. Guess we should check before. Oh, well, I don't really play for competition anyway.

shoe-sama · Post by **shoe-sama** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 1:07 am

GaijinPunch wrote:
500,610 - GaijinPunch - Pocky - A

EDIT: Fuck, thought I took first. Nice score, macaw. In my defense, until this competition, I never got passed stage 2. But, the vids & advice here really helped.

I think the balance is good though. It's a challenging game, but once you practice AND learn weaknesses, it becomes liveable. Very old school style... perfect for OSM.

Well to be fair, the Jap version is like 50% faster.

Nemo · Post by **Nemo** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 1:19 am

GaijinPunch wrote:
Nemo wrote:Scoreboard updated. Please remember in the future to follow the correct posting format and edit your original post if you want to post more than one score.
I thought this might be the case, but saw no rules posted in this thread. The main OSM thread seems to be rather long & cluttered. Just a suggestion. Anyways, thanks for your work thus far. I am curious why myself & Macaw aren't on the list though.... can't join in the tournament late?

No, sorry, you had to register before the first week. I don't mind people not in tourney posting scores and I considered adding you two to the HS table, but didn't to simplify things for the actual participants. Obviously anyone is free to create a separate, normal thread for this game.

Ayanami · Post by **Ayanami** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 3:41 am

110,960 - Ayanami - Pocky - Stage 2

I could have had a better score but was too busy playing other stuff.

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 5:09 am

shoe-sama wrote:Well to be fair, the Jap version is like 50% faster.

What do you mean faster? The frame rate? I popped in the US version briefly and didn't notice any differences...definitely not 50%. Wouldn't that make it harder as well?

@Nemo: No worries. This is most likely the only week I can actively particiapte in anyway. Sam made a big kiki Kaikai thread a while back. I've posted my score, effectively bumping it. Hopefully everyone will jump in.

Macaw · Post by **Macaw** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 6:31 am

GaijinPunch wrote:
shoe-sama wrote:Well to be fair, the Jap version is like 50% faster.
What do you mean faster? The frame rate? I popped in the US version briefly and didn't notice any differences...definitely not 50%. Wouldn't that make it harder as well?

I think Shoe-sama has been playing the PAL version. Pal releases of all nes, snes, etc titles run about 15-20% slower than the NTSC versions. Give the PAL pocky and rocky a run in an emulator and you will see, its quite a shocking difference after playing the NTSC versions.

shoe-sama · Post by **shoe-sama** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 2:13 pm

oic... XD