RQ: Dodonpachi hitbox

[MovingTarget]

Ok I know its small, but I cant quite figure out where it is, would anyone like to describe where exactly on type A the hitbox is? In some shmups its not dead centre, and it'd be handy to know.

[it290]

If anyone has the info, I'd love to see the type C hitbox as well.

[Plasmo]

I need the Type B hitbox plz....

[Venom]

This is where I've always taken it to be. It's around that diamond thing in the middle. Might not be a long as I've drawn though.

[MovingTarget]

Thanks venom, it makes sense it being there I'll take it as being the diamon shape in the middle.

[ReKleSS]

After playing around a bit, the type A hitbox is as Venom said, type B is the little box thingo on top of the rotor, type C is the little box thing towards the back of the ship. In Donpachi the hitboxes seem to be in about the same places, but maybe slighty bigger and harder to find.
-ReK

[Kewing Darksun]

From my experiences with the game, the hitbox for Type-C should be like this:



That's the vital area. The actual hitbox might be 1 or 2 pixels bigger, but I don't really know exactly.

Any suggestions/corrections are more than welcomed

[TrevHead (TVR)]

Heres some other pictures of APPROXIMATION hitboxes of the 3 ships.





I found these on the french shmups.com site with a shitload of other hitbox images including Guwange of which all ours are dead.
Heres the thread http://forum.shmup.com/viewtopic.php?f= ... 1&start=60
And heres the place where i got the ddp pics from (thx goto San for posting the original pics) http://sanch3z.free.fr/hitbox/

Maybe a mod could save the pic files so we can never have em go dead in the future. Possibly putting them up on a thread of their own where more pictures can be added and kept for prosperity.

[Dave_K.]

I found these on the french shmups.com site with a shitload of other hitbox images including Guwange of which all ours are dead.
Heres the thread http://forum.shmup.com/viewtopic.php?f= ... 1&start=60
And heres the place where i got the ddp pics from (thx goto San for posting the original pics) http://sanch3z.free.fr/hitbox/

Those are approximation and not accurate (especially c-type), as mentioned previously here.

[ncp]

[incorrect hitbox picture goes here]

[Dave_K.]

I haven't gone back to DDP in a long while, but remember it being a bit longer including the cockpit area than just the front glass part...but could be my tests didn't account for bullet hit boxes?..

[ncp]

I've never actually done "tests" for it before that's just how it seemed to me after a bunch of play time. I was pretty sure in my previous picture though, but that can't compare to someone who actually tested it, heh. So I figured out how to make mame run slow and did some testing at 1/5th speed. You're right about it being higher up. This is my new estimate:



This is a 4x5. 1 pixel row shaved off the bottom of my previous picture, and 2 pixel rows added on top.
Evidence pictures:




Didn't die on any of them, even that bottom left one, lol. It's hard to tell the angle of the bullets, but most of the bullets are moving sideways between 45 and 90 degrees (except the bottom left and bottom middle). It MIGHT even be 4x6 with another row on top, although I don't think so...

Is that more in line with your tests?

Deleted the other picture since I was definitely wrong on that one.

I'd like to get 100% accurate hitbox pictures for each type since it comes up every once in a while and all the existing pictures are approximations. Help me out here

[TrevHead (TVR)]

Ahh thx for the info chaps, although I havnt done any tests myself ive noticed that the bottom left pic bullet (2nd stage boss) has a really odd hitbox as just by the look of it one would think it to be the same size as the sprite.

[moozooh]

It should at least be the same width as the sprite (2 px). Since the smallest bullets usually have the least non-lethal areas, they should be the best for finding the actual sizes. 4x5/4x6 sounds accurate, btw.

[Square King]

Logically, type C HAS NO HITBOX