DoDonPachi Daioujou Ps2 Port vs PCB?

[PROMETHEUS]

2 things to get better at a game : memorizing it, getting enough skill to play it like it's meant to.

When you play full runs all the time, memorization of the latter parts is obviously much slower. Plus, when you have mastered or nearly mastered the first stages, time you spend on it will teach you much less than time spent on the parts you don't know well.

Then since the latter stages are much harder, they also teach you a lot more in terms of skill. You don't get really good at dodging and reading patterns by playing stage 1, you do that by playing the crazy stuff. If you spend all of your time on the crazy stuff, you're gonna get better faster.

I thought that was obvious and they are things I already said T.T I don't see what's so hard to understand about that.

You almost sound like you think it's okay to waste time. Well, life is time limited. There's only so much you can do and if you want to do as much as you can, it's a good idea to try to reduce your practicing time by 100s of hours for the same achievement. Now if you choose you like to play with full runs and don't mind using up more hours, it's fine. Just a choice.

[wiNteR]

I think you missed a point. Your general skill would increase faster in a game if you use save states/stage select for practice. Indeed you improve quickly by using save states. But I think getting better at a game without using any of them provides a measure of skill. That's what I think the the other poster was trying to say. And honestly I think if you are talking about medium difficulty games (exclude 2nd loop cave/psyiko etc.) it shouldn't take that much time for a clear either way.

[PROMETHEUS]

But a clear isn't the only kind of achievement you may be pursuing.

Besides, memorizers too are much faster to learn with save states.