what settings do you play on?

Hardstepah · Post by **Hardstepah** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 5:23 am

name your games how far you get on 1c and what settings you use (difficulty, lives, bombs, etc...)

ikaruga: 1cc, normal, default settings

gradius gaiden: 1c, stage 6, default settings

radiant silvergun: 1c, stage 5, normal mode, 10 lives

shoe-sama · Post by **shoe-sama** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 5:29 am

Hardstepah wrote:radiant silvergun: 1c, stage 5, normal mode, 10 lives

LOL

kengou · Post by **kengou** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 5:59 am

Maybe you're thinking of http://shmups.system11.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1944 that thread?

Hardstepah · Post by **Hardstepah** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 6:18 am

no im curious to know what kind of settings everybody plays on not just what games they are playing or can 1cc.

shoe-sama your a fucking idiot get off my nuts already about it already. "OMG somebody likes something i dont i better show how elite and cool i am to the rest of the forum"

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 6:23 am

up up down down left right left right b a coin mech

...is for pussies

Rob · Post by **Rob** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 6:30 am

Max bombs & lives, lowest difficulty.

Either that or always default.

Pixel_Outlaw · Post by **Pixel_Outlaw** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 6:41 am

Rob wrote:Max bombs & lives, lowest difficulty.

Either that or always default.

I too am a shmup wuss.

TWITCHDOCTOR · Post by **TWITCHDOCTOR** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 7:02 am

Defaults,defaults,defaults.
In other words, "normal Mode".

Neo Geo stuff, AES Japanese versions.

Gradius III (PS2) probably easy!!!
Forgotten Worlds (Genesis) HARD!!!

So yea... default settings/normal is where its at for me.

Play on!

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 7:06 am

when youre done sucking on defaults WHY DONT YOU TRY VERY HARD!

i myself never get tired of sucking on defaults altho sometimes i crank it up for practice purpouses.

EOJ · Post by **EOJ** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 7:21 am

I only play games that have invincibility hacks available. That way I can 1-life clear every game I play.

black flag nc · Post by **black flag nc** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 7:55 am

Dude, usually as easy as I can get it! It's not a contest. Make the games fun for YOU. That's what it's all about.

szycag · Post by **szycag** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 8:00 am

When I buy shmups I usually just watch the demonstrations, saves me from having to do anything like press buttons. All you people actually playin the games, HA. Might as well put the quarter in your ass cuz you just played YOURSELF

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anyways I almost always go full default, i'll kick the difficulty down a few notches if i'm practicing or something. there aren't many games where i'll choose to make it harder on myself, save for games made to play like that like mushi's ultra mode

RGC · Post by **RGC** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 8:54 am

black flag nc wrote:Dude, usually as easy as I can get it! It's not a contest. Make the games fun for YOU. That's what it's all about.

Just curious, how do you derive fun without a challenge? I'm not baiting here, but to me the challenge is the fun, up to a certain point. There seems to be a number of players who will automatically switch to easy before giving normal a fair attempt.

shoe-sama · Post by **shoe-sama** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 9:13 am

Hardstepah wrote:shoe-sama your a fucking idiot get off my nuts already about it already. "OMG somebody likes something i dont i better show how elite and cool i am to the rest of the forum"

i was talking about the 10 lives

Twiddle · Post by **Twiddle** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 9:15 am

The setting that lets me tape down a button and win.

black flag nc · Post by **black flag nc** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 9:30 am

RGC wrote:
black flag nc wrote:Dude, usually as easy as I can get it! It's not a contest. Make the games fun for YOU. That's what it's all about.
Just curious, how do you derive fun without a challenge? I'm not baiting here, but to me the challenge is the fun, up to a certain point. There seems to be a number of players who will automatically switch to easy before giving normal a fair attempt.

There's a difference between making things easier and taking the challenge out of a game. Invincibility codes for example should be outlawed.

shoe-sama · Post by **shoe-sama** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 9:36 am

lol there's already easy games for that

donpachi bomb spam

RGC · Post by **RGC** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 9:41 am

black flag nc wrote:
RGC wrote:
black flag nc wrote:Dude, usually as easy as I can get it! It's not a contest. Make the games fun for YOU. That's what it's all about.
Just curious, how do you derive fun without a challenge? I'm not baiting here, but to me the challenge is the fun, up to a certain point. There seems to be a number of players who will automatically switch to easy before giving normal a fair attempt.
There's a difference between making things easier and taking the challenge out of a game. Invincibility codes for example should be outlawed.

I do agree, but surely making each game as easy as you can possibly make it is the same as saying "taking as much challenge out as possible".

Mortificator · Post by **Mortificator** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 11:04 am

Default - the two sweetest words in the English language.

If I want to take it easy with a shooter, I'll allow myself more credits instead of changing the default settings. That way I'm still dealing with what it throws at the player at normal difficulty (rank nonwithstanding) so if I do decide that game is worth making a serious attempt at, I won't just get blown out of the water.

Except Garegga. Nowadays I usually just use the MAME cheat to turn off its rank system.

The various rank tricks like timed suicides and holding fire make for an interesting game, and I had fun playing around with them for a while, but now it's more brain sweat than I feel like putting into a game about blowing shit up.

PROMETHEUS · Post by **PROMETHEUS** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 1:58 pm

Default since it's the normalized challenge that was intended by the developpers. Also it's better everybody uses default so it can be possible to compare scores :p

neist · Post by **neist** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 3:35 pm

I havent been playing many games in the modern genre yet, but I've been cranking them all up to max.

If nothing else its excellent practice.

Frederik · Post by **Frederik** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 4:00 pm

PROMETHEUS wrote:Default since it's the normalized challenge that was intended by the developpers. Also it's better everybody uses default so it can be possible to compare scores :p

This.

Mortificator wrote: Except Garegga. Nowadays I usually just use the MAME cheat to turn off its rank system.

Heh, I did that too so don´t feel too bad

That way it turns into the "normal" shmup some people wish it was.

unsane · Post by **unsane** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 4:40 pm

PROMETHEUS wrote:Default since it's the normalized challenge that was intended by the developpers. Also it's better everybody uses default so it can be possible to compare scores :p

^

I also sometimes play on training and advanced modes with games that offer them (Armed Police Batrider, Battle Bakraid...) Training when i'm sick of getting brutalized, Advanced for fun/practice or if i've mastered Normal.

Bloodreign · Post by **Bloodreign** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 5:04 pm

Playing for fun, increase lives a little, but don't touch the difficulty, playing for hi scores, default settings.

shmupmyhump · Post by **shmupmyhump** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 5:55 pm

RGC wrote:
black flag nc wrote:Dude, usually as easy as I can get it! It's not a contest. Make the games fun for YOU. That's what it's all about.
Just curious, how do you derive fun without a challenge? I'm not baiting here, but to me the challenge is the fun, up to a certain point. There seems to be a number of players who will automatically switch to easy before giving normal a fair attempt.

I usually lurk here but I feel compelled to reply to this topic. I'm horrible at all shmups. Literally. Most of them I can't even get past the first level, even on the easiest settings. So what do I do? Cheat codes! See, what attracted me to shmups in the first place was never the challenge. For some reason I've always been attracted to the ship design, weapon design and level design. I also love seeing all of those bullets fly everywhere. So whenever I get the chance I'll cheat my way through them. And sometimes, like an above poster jokingly said, I'll sit there and watch the demo. I don't know what it is but I love seeing them in action. It honestly never gets old. Maybe it's because I have horrible ADHD and shmups are one of the few genres that hold my attention anymore.

Anyway, I just wanted to throw that out there. I doubt there's anyone else on these boards that is the way same (which is why I lurk instead of posting).

iatneH · Post by **iatneH** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 6:01 pm

For score play I will use full defaults, but lately I just want to chill out and not get a heart attack or rip out my hair from restarts so I have dropped the difficulty much lower.

Hardstepah · Post by **Hardstepah** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 6:13 pm

i think im as good as i am ever gonna get at the games i play. i never really progress anymore and if i up my score its only by a few thousand (or 100k depending on what im playing).

stuminator · Post by **stuminator** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 7:50 pm

Rob wrote:Max bombs & lives, lowest difficulty.

Either that or always default.

You forgot to include autobomb.

Hulkcore · Post by **Hulkcore** » Thu Feb 21, 2008 8:04 pm

On my MAME I usually have infinite lives on so I don't have to keep reselecting my ship and crap. As far as the few non-MAME games that I have, I usually don't have a consistent setting. I like to switch it up. I usually max out lives and/or continues, but I rarely use bombs so I don't worry about them.

Hardstepah · Post by **Hardstepah** » Fri Feb 22, 2008 4:09 am

shoe-sama wrote:i was talking about the 10 lives

i know pretty lame right? that game is hard as a rock. i do better on DDP DOJ and most people would probably say thats harder

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