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Post by ForceDevice »

12 credits. Oh wow. ._.

Well... at least you know your credits average would be a LOT smaller if Ibara didn't count. :lol:

And I don't know if you're aware of that, but from what I noticed, in Ibara's arcade mode you shouldn't use bombers only as a last second resort if you want to make for a decent run. You have to bomb ALL THE TIME, more for killing enemies than just for saving your life.

If you ever credit-feed through Ibara again (on the Raizing marathon, for example), keeping that in mind might help. :)
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Yeah, I've heard that it keeps the rank down.

But seriously, I died like 35 times, I don't think I needed to worry about my rank getting up too high :) Most of the time I couldn't collect more than 1 bomb anyway :D
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Post by Impervious »

i've done a similar thing, except with the gradius series.

i wrote done, 'cause my friend has a copy of the gradius III / IV pack, as well as gradius V. so he came over, and we looped the living hell out of all the gradius...es...[gradii?]. i can't tell if gradius V is infinite loop or not, 'cause we played for hours and hours and hours, looping the game a good four/five times 8)

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Post by ForceDevice »

Impervious wrote:i can't tell if gradius V is infinite loop or not
I heard it loops 256 times.
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nope infinite
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surely the rank maxes out after loop FF?
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The rank maxes out at loop 10. After that, the changes are absolutely insignificant, afaik.
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Plasmo wrote:nope infinite
gtfo..no wonder the difficulty doesn't change after a while.
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Plasmo wrote:nope infinite
Does this mean you or someone has actually played it more than 256 times ???
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Plasmo wrote:nope infinite
In the Options DVD, the designer goes on about wanting to see someone complete all 256 loops. And as we discussed in a way earlier thread, the loop count is most likely an 8-bit counter.
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The only person I'm aware of that reached loop 256 is Succulla.
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