Caravan Games

Post by **Ghegs** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 7:14 am

New thread here!

Around 15 years ago, Hudson along with other game companies held Summer Carnival -competitions in which gamers would challenge the games' special modes for prizes and fame. Those days are long gone, but the challenge remains...

The lists show the Top 10 players only.

Format: "Your name - Score" for score attacks, "Your name - Time" for time attacks. Add " - ship used" to the end if applicable. And please use commas in your score (1,234,567 instead of 1234567). Follow the format or your score will not be added to the lists.

Carnival games

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| Spriggan (Summer Carnival '91)        | Recca (Summer Carnival '92)          |
|                                       |                                      |
|     Score Attack                      |     Score Attack                     |
| 01. Ben... - 961,730                  | 01. shadowbringer - 525,669          |
| 02. Luciole - 915,800                 | 02. shiftace - 515,153               |
| 03. LGB - 798,390                     | 03. Ghegs - 512,801                  |
| 04. Ed Oscuro - 631,110               | 04. drboom - 483,960                 |
| 05. MGN - 511,880                     | 05. gs68 - 481,960                   |
| 06. ahnslaught - 454,650              | 06. MLeJazz - 480,505                |
| 07. Sonic R - 452,690                 | 07. Shatterhand - 475,944            |
| 08. PlasmaBlooD - 426,490             | 08. tinotormed - 475,213             |
| 09. Ghegs - 403,350                   | 09. ceph - 463,099                   |
| 10. seb - 285,410                     | 10. Battlesmurf - 460,997            |
|                                       |                                      |
|     Time Attack                       |     Time Attack                      |
| 01. PlasmaBlooD - 3:22:23             | 01. SiKrAiKeN - 4:02:26              |
| 02. LGB - 3:29:28                     | 02. shiftace - 4:10:30               |
| 03. seb - 3:53:10                     | 03. drboom - 4:18:26                 |
| 04. RiverRaider - 3:34:85             | 04. gs68 - 4:23:90                   |
|                                       | 05. Battlesmurf - 4:26:88            |
|                                       | 06. LGB - 4:37:52                    |
|---------------------------------------|--------------------------------------|
| Alzadick (Summer Carnival '92)        | Nexzr (Summer Carnival '93)          |
|                                       |                                      |
|     Score Attack                      |     Score Attack                     |
| 01. Luciole - 592,750                 | 01. Luciole - 606.850                |
| 02. FIL - 573,650                     | 02. LGB - 445,280                    |
| 03. drboom - 559,950                  | 03. DJ Incompetent - 436,780         |
| 04. Andi - 519,100                    | 04. MGN - 419,870                    |
| 05. LGB - 518,000                     | 05. seb - 418,240                    |
| 06. Lynx Winter - 510,850             | 06. RY [kozo] - 414,890              |
| 07. MGN - 510,450                     | 07. Ceph - 409,440                   |
| 08. Sonic R - 504,150                 | 08. gatsu25 - 405550                 |
| 09. szycag - 494,000                  | 09. mjclark - 399,540                |
| 10. Ghegs - 453,500                   | 10. Ghegs - 396,930                  |
|                                       |                                      |
|     Time Attack                       |     Time Attack                      |
| 01. Luciole - 3:40:72                 | 01. Luciole - 3:18:71                |
| 02. LGB - 4:11:58                     | 02. MGN - 4:38:14                    |
| 03. drboom - 4:15:93                  | 03. RY [kozo] - 4:41:91              |
| 04. MGN - 4:35:73                     | 04. PlasmaBlooD - 4:45:25            |
| 05. Andi - 4:42:98                    | 05. Ghegs - 4:51:89                  |
| 06. szycag - 4:55:85                  | 06. seb - 4:56:02                    |
| 07. Lynx Winters - 4:56:50            |                                      |
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Soldier series

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| Star Soldier Special Version          | Hector '87                           |
|                                       |                                      |
|     2 minute mode                     |     2 minute mode                    |
| 01. AAP - 338,100                     | 01. Ghegs - 371,500                  |
| 02.                                   | 02. AAP - 325,500                    |
| 03.                                   | 03. LGB - 309,500                    |
|                                       |                                      |
|     5 minute mode                     |     5 minute mode                    |
| 01.                                   | 01.                                  |
| 02.                                   | 02.                                  |
| 03.                                   | 03.                                  |
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| Super Star Soldier                    | Final Soldier                        |
|                                       |                                      |
|     2 minute mode                     |     2 minute mode                    |
| 01. Luciole - 520,700                 | 01. Luciole - 769,200                |
| 02. tinotormed - 516,400              | 02. drboom - 720,100                 |
| 03. DJ Incompetent - 501,300          | 03. getbonus - 719,800               |
| 04. aventus - 497,500                 | 04. LGB - 708,000                    |
| 05. gs68 - 486,800                    | 05. tinotormed - 707,800             |
| 06. drboom - 484,800                  | 06. Andi - 706,100                   |
| 07. PlasmaBlooD - 483,200             | 07. Ed Oscuro - 699,100              |
| 08. LGB - 480,400                     | 08. AAP - 666,000                    |
| 09. Sonic R - 476,200                 | 09. Redfield1 - 637,300              |
| 10. Redfield1 - 475,600               | 10. Django! - 625,100                |
|                                       |                                      |
|     5 minute mode                     |     5 minute mode                    |
| 01. getbonus - 2,113,300              | 01. Luciole - 2,255,600              |
| 02. DJ Incompetent - 1,340,400        | 02. getbonus - 2,172,400             |
| 03. Redfield1 - 1,324,200             | 03. tinotormed - 2,153,800           |
| 04. SFKhoa - 1,320,300                | 04. drboom - 2,123,900               |
| 05. PlasmaBlooD - 1,305,800           | 05. Ed Oscuro - 2,068,000            |
|                                       | 06. AAP - 2,038,300                  |
|                                       | 07. Opethian - 1,906,500             |
|                                       | 08. PlasmaBlooD - 1,846,400          |
|                                       | 09. LGB - 1,707,900                  |
|                                       | 10. RY [kozo] - 1,577,900            |
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| Soldier Blade                         | Star Parodia                         |
|                                       |                                      |
|     2 minute mode                     |     2 minute mode                    |
| 01. Luciole - 679,600                 | 01. Luciole - 726,380                |
| 02. FIL - 611,900                     | 02. tinotormed - 668,080 - PCE       |
| 03. Pasta - 609,700                   | 03. Ben... - 644,240 - Paro Ceaser   |
| 04. DJ Incompetent - 590,700          | 04. PlasmaBlooD - 639,100 - PCE      |
| 05. Ed Oscuro - 585,700               | 05. DarkAkatosh - 624,820 - Paro Ceas|
| 06. LGB - 578,800                     | 06. Ghegs - 618,790 - Paro Ceaser    |
| 07. AVE - 557,000                     | 07. seb - 528,270                    |
| 08. SFKhoa - 556,500                  |                                      |
| 09. Ghegs - 548,500                   |                                      |
| 10. Django! - 527,300                 |                                      |
|                                       |                                      |
|     5 minute mode                     |     5 minute mode                    |
| 01. Luciole - 1,817,600               | 01. Luciole - 2,219,130 - Bomberman  |
| 02. AVE - 1,601,900                   | 02. PlasmaBlooD - 1,869,480 - PCE    |
| 03. DJ Incompetent - 1,519,500        | 03. Ghegs - 1,827,910                |
| 04. tinotormed - 1,426,500            | 04. DarkAkatosh - 1,816,070 - Paro Ce|
| 05. SFKhoa - 1,422,100                |                                      |
| 06. Ed Oscuro - 1,355,900             |                                      |
| 07. Sonic R - 1,332,900               |                                      |
| 08. BustaaWolf - 1,203,100            |                                      |
| 09. PsychoGun - 1,145,900             |                                      |
| 10. Opethian - 1,131,800              |                                      |
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| Star Soldier (PS2, GC)                | Star Soldier PSP                     |
|                                       |                                      |
|     2 minute mode                     |     2 minute mode                    |
| 01. Ghegs - 1,046,630                 | 01. TripleA - 2,132,340 - Quantum    |
| 02. TVR - 843,260                     | 02. tinotormed - 1,887,760 - Quantum |
| 03.                                   | 03. groobo - 815,590 - Quantum       |
|                                       | 04. Damocles - 744,500 - Quantum     |
|                                       | 05. Ghegs - 611,490 - Rijndael       |
|                                       | 06. SFKhoa - 594,830 - A.Caesar      |
|                                       |                                      |
|     5 minute mode                     |     5 minute mode                    |
| 01. TVR - 2,216,060                   | 01. TripleA - 4,311,920 - Quantum    |
| 02.                                   | 02. tinotormed - 2,653,130 - Quantum |
| 03.                                   | 03. Damocles - 1,553,630 - Quantum   |
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| Star Soldier: Vanishing Earth         | Star Soldier R                       |
|                                       |                                      |
|     2 minute mode                     |     2 minute mode                    |
| 01. TVR - 38,754,876 - 15,220         | 01. Guigui - 1,042,100               |
| 02. Aru-san - 34,670,414 - 14,495     | 02. Aru-san - 1,037,000              |
| 03. AAP - 27,327,074 - 12,344         | 03. SFKhoa - 1,005,000               |
| 04. sikraiken - 26,121,576 - 8,532    | 04. the2bears - 1,004,100            |
| 05. Cowboy-NOA - 25,255,780           | 05. Bridget - 1,004,000              |
| 06. Ed Oscuro - 24,486,745 - 7264     | 06. gs68 - 1,000,500                 |
| 07. Ceph - 22,620,806 - 7,484         | 07. MJR - 975,800                    |
|                                       | 08. gamingjustin - 969,300           |
|                                       | 09. maxchainsplendid - 960,300       |
|                                       | 10. Alfred - 959,400                 |
|                                       |                                      |
|     5 minute mode                     |     5 minute mode                    |
| 01. TVR - 174,828,581 - 14,880        | 01. dial911 - 2,533,000              |
| 02. Aru-san - 126,402,419 - 12,361    | 02. DJ Incompetent - 2,424,000       |
| 03. Cowboy-NOA - 121,822,518          | 03. maxchainsplendid - 2,300,600     |
| 04. gameoverDude - 120,943,040 - 10924| 04. MJR - 2,142,500                  |
|                                       | 05. Daigohji - 2,032,900             |
|                                       | 06. gs68 - 2,011,700                 |
|                                       | 07. Alfred - 1,815,700               |
|                                       | 08. Zach Keene - 1,800,100           |
|                                       | 09. gamingjustin - 1,342,500         |
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Others

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| Super Star Shooter Advance            | Gunhed                               |
|                                       |                                      |
|     2 minute mode                     |     2 minute mode                    |
| 01. tinotormed - 457,750              | 01. Luciole - 349,260                |
| 02. AAP - 435,380                     | 02. Opethian - 323,380               |
| 03. szycag - 424,680                  | 03. Ceph - 321,000                   |
| 04. Nullsleep - 423,510               | 04. Ed Oscuro - 310,780              |
| 05. Ghegs - 422,400                   | 05. PlasmaBlooD - 289,380            |
| 06. Blue Protoman - 413,780           | 06. caincan - 287,590                |
| 07. druuna - 347,780                  | 07. LGB - 227,830                    |
| 08. Pirate1019 - 311,840              |                                      |
| 09. alpha5099 - 307,700               |     5 minute mode                    |
| 10. mjclark - 302,700                 | 01. tinotormed - 1,025,960           |
|                                       | 02. Luciole - 954,920                |
|                                       | 03. PlasmaBlooD - 913,910            |
|                                       | 04. Opethian - 829,240               |
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| Coryoon: Child of Dragon              | Terra Cresta II                      |
|                                       |                                      |
|     2 minute mode                     |     2 minute mode                    |
| 01. AAP - 969,445                     | 01. Luciole - 405,200                |
| 02. Ed Oscuro - 667,388               | 02. AAP - 329,900                    |
| 03.                                   | 03. LGB - 288,100                    |
|                                       | 04. roadrunner - 262,200             |
|                                       |                                      |
|     5 minute mode                     |     5 minute mode                    |
| 01. tinotormed - 2,715,314            | 01. Luciole - 976,300                |
| 02. AAP - 2,308,529                   | 02. roadrunner - 659,200             |
| 03.                                   | 03. AAP - 750,500                    |
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| Blade Buster                          |                                      |
|                                       |                                      |
|     2 minute mode                     |                                      |
| 01. CSF - 504,600                     |                                      |
| 02. gs68 - 497,000                    |                                      |
| 03. tinotormed - 486,600              |                                      |
| 04. astroid - 467,200                 |                                      |
| 05. mjclark - 441,300                 |                                      |
| 06. RGB - 434,500                     |                                      |
| 07. Aru-san - 429,000                 |                                      |
| 08. Ghegs - 425,800                   |                                      |
| 09. z0mbie90 - 409,400                |                                      |
|                                       |                                      |
|     5 minute mode                     |                                      |
| 01. CSF - 1,493,900                   |                                      |
| 02. astroid - 1,409,600               |                                      |
| 03. rancor - 1,300,700                |                                      |
| 04. gs68 - 1,289,100                  |                                      |
| 05. Kaiser - 1,190,800                |                                      |
| 06. RGB - 1,158,200                   |                                      |
| 07. Aru-san - 1,047,600               |                                      |
| 08. mjclark - 1,028,300               |                                      |
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Some links:

Soldier Blade RQ

Recca ST & RQ

Super Star Shooter Advance discussion thread with download link

Blade Buster

X68000 Caravan shmup high-score thread. Covers Zero Master-Striker, Zero Rei, Super Star Shooter and Star Fighter.

SFKhoa · Post by **SFKhoa** » Thu Jan 27, 2005 5:48 am

Super Star Soldier - 2 minute mode
443, 400

druuna · Post by **druuna** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 6:24 pm

Oooops...I'm sorry my highscore is for the Advance game:
Super Star Shooter Advance
305,860

gs68 · Post by **gs68** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 6:56 am

Star Soldier: Vanishing Earth is missing.

shiftace · Post by **shiftace** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 7:09 am

Ah, you added Recca this go-round, I had been thinking about making a high score thread just for it.

Recca, in FCE Ultra:
Score attack: shiftace - 515,153
Time Attack: shiftace - 4:10:30

These scores are pretty old...

Post by **Ghegs** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 8:39 am

gs68 wrote:Star Soldier: Vanishing Earth is missing.

If somebody posts a score for it I'll add it. I didn't even know it had caravan stages, to be honest.

druuna · Post by **druuna** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 12:13 am

Summer Carnival '92 - Recca -

Score Attack

338448

Time Attack

5.00.00
I'm not sure but it seems that time stops at 5.00.00 , I think we have to add also highscore in the time attack if this is true..

Post by **Ghegs** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 9:51 am

druuna wrote: I'm not sure but it seems that time stops at 5.00.00 , I think we have to add also highscore in the time attack if this is true..

The idea of Time Attack is to reach a pre-determined amount of points in the shortest time possible. 5:00:00 is the "deadline", if you can't collect the necessary points by that time you've failed. So there's no need for highscore there, since the score is always the same after successfully clearing the mode, it's just the time taken to reach that score that we're looking for here.

EDIT: Played some Star Parodia for the first time in a while, added my scores on that one.

seb · Post by **seb** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 12:58 pm

Some low scores from an undedicated player:

- Caravan games -

Final Soldier
. . 2mn: 589400
. . 5mn: 1392800

Soldier Blade
. . 2mn: 377200
. . 5mn: 847800

Star Parodia
. . 2mn: 528270

- Carnival games -

Spriggan
. . 285410
. . 3:53:10

Nexzr
. . 418240
. . 4:56:02

And there is a Caravan version of Gunhed, named Gunhed Taikai. Forget about getting the HuCARD (Gunhed Special Version), but the rom is out there. So you can add Gunhed if you think it belongs here.

Post by **Ghegs** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 1:15 pm

Welcome aboard seb, nice to see fresh blood here.

What ship did you use for the Star Parodia score?

I'm aware of Gunhed Special Edition, but since nobody seems to be playing it (ie. hasn't posted a score) I've opted to leave it out for now.

Oh, and this goes for all of you (except shiftace), please post your scores in the proper format, makes it easier for me to edit the scores in.

seb · Post by **seb** » Fri Feb 25, 2005 4:56 pm

Thanks, I wish I was fresh blood. But I'm a long time user (since the shmups mk2 forum) I just don't post often. Of course I like a good welcome every now and then, so cheers.

My new Soldier Blade score:
seb - 444,800

I don't remember which ship I used for Parodia, I'll check if the Duo remembers it. Chances are it was the Paro Ceaser.

adam76 · Post by **adam76** » Mon Mar 14, 2005 10:05 pm

Soldier Blade - 2mins - 374000
Final Soldier - 2mins - 398900

SFKhoa · Post by **SFKhoa** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 1:29 pm

Soldier Blade
2 min : 427,400
5 min : 1,097,400

SUPER Star Soldier (edited to avoid confusion between the NES Star Soldier and this one... although the NES Star Soldier doesn't have caravan stages anyway.)
2 min : 468,600
5 min : 1,320,300

adam76 · Post by **adam76** » Thu Mar 17, 2005 6:35 pm

Soldier Blade
2mins: 403,200

captain ahar · Post by **captain ahar** » Sun Mar 20, 2005 8:00 pm

Soldier Blade

2-min
captain ahar - 432,000

5 min
captain ahar - 952,000

Post by **Ghegs** » Tue Mar 22, 2005 4:30 pm

I just picked up Spriggan to clear up my "you should be able to 1CC these, so get with the program"-pile. Took a stab at Score Attack, too:

Spriggan

Ghegs - 403,350

SFKhoa · Post by **SFKhoa** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 3:34 pm

Damn, I got 2min and 5min score for the Star Solder remake, but it's not listed in here.

Post by **Ghegs** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 6:40 pm

SFKhoa wrote:Damn, I got 2min and 5min score for the Star Solder remake, but it's not listed in here.

Ah, right, in the old forums there was a separate thread for that game by someone else. Just post your scores and I'll add 'em.

druuna · Post by **druuna** » Tue Apr 26, 2005 7:27 pm

Super Star Shooter Advance
347,780

Post by **Shatterhand** » Sun May 29, 2005 1:58 am

Recca, score attack

Shatterhand - 4754944

And just for the curious, my record in the normal game is 4669673 - ALL

shiftace · Post by **shiftace** » Mon May 30, 2005 7:57 pm

Shatterhand wrote:Recca, score attack

Shatterhand - 4754944

That's... ungodly. Impossible, maybe. 7 digits? The highest I ever saw anywhere else online is about 530k.

My normal record is 4,907,920 in 18:08:48, with I think 2 deaths.

Post by **Shatterhand** » Tue May 31, 2005 2:38 pm

YES , sorry, my score is obviously wrong

I typed an extra digit there.

my score is 475944

18 minutes? My time was around 30 minutes with that score... how you do it so fast?

uwfan · Post by **uwfan** » Tue May 31, 2005 10:58 pm

i know nothing about these games :O

are they arcade or console format? which console? etc etc....

someone please fill me in.

shiftace · Post by **shiftace** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 12:53 am

They're mostly PC Engine games by Hudson, the first post explains Caravan Mode(s). Recca was a Famicom game and not made by Hudson.

As for normal mode Recca... I don't think I ever cleared it in over 20 minutes, definitely never over 21 minutes. All of the boss fights can be won in 10 seconds or less, especially if you use the B weapon. There's no score advantage to playing fast, though, because you get 100 points for eating a bullet and 5 points/frame for not firing with a fully charged bomb (also, 1 point/frame while the bomb charges, which takes 128 frames). I found all this because Recca was the first shmup I played very seriously, and I played the hell out of it for several months, so I got to observe a lot.

Some day... maybe I'll break 525k score attack. Or 4 minutes time attack. Or maybe write an ST.

Post by **Shatterhand** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 1:25 am

I played the game very seriously during 1 week for the oldschool competition. I studied the score attack level.. I was lucky to have some free time at that point, so I could play for many hours in each day.
After that, I still played the game for a while, I even thought about writing a faq for it... but then I just didn't do it

Does the time keeps running after you finish the game, while showing the credits? If it does, then maybe this can explain why my high time

That last boss is crazy ,isn't it? The first time I got into it, I thought "HELL, that's IMPOSSIBLE!"

shiftace · Post by **shiftace** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 1:46 am

The timer does stop about a second or two after the final boss dies. And yes, it's an amazingly brutal opponent. Usually, if I get there with 2 spare lives, I can just outlast it, since it has low armor. But with less than 2 lives, my chance of success drops to about 10%. Are there any other games where a boss moves faster than you do, all the time?

captain ahar · Post by **captain ahar** » Wed Jun 01, 2005 6:46 am

all this talk of Recca is making me jealous.

captain ahar · Post by **captain ahar** » Mon Jun 20, 2005 7:27 pm

improvement, finally.

Soldier Blade - 2 minute mode
captain ahar - 450,500

forgotten the joys of caravan, thanks Ghegs! ^_^

SFKhoa · Post by **SFKhoa** » Tue Jun 21, 2005 7:02 pm

yay, improved my score as well.

Soldier Blade -
2MINUTE - 474,000
5MINUTE - 1,154,100

captain ahar · Post by **captain ahar** » Tue Jun 21, 2005 7:08 pm

^ curses, i was so proud too.

congrats, storm-cloud.