Shooting Love 200X is surprisingly fun

CHR_AeON · Post by **CHR_AeON** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 1:34 pm

rtw wrote:. Rocket, it has bits you can shoot off but then what ?

You have to shoot all of the bits without hitting the rocket.

rtw · Post by **rtw** » Tue Mar 10, 2009 7:53 pm

CHR_AeON wrote:
rtw wrote:. Rocket, it has bits you can shoot off but then what ?
You have to shoot all of the bits without hitting the rocket.

Thank you for that information!

Hydeux · Post by **Hydeux** » Wed Mar 11, 2009 7:12 pm

Does anyone know to play with the unit 3e ??? I've seen this ship on some of the online replays, obviously, you got to pick the (normal) unit 3, do some kind of secret stuff and you then play with this 3e ship.

It's much better than the 3 version : it gets x11 multiplier !!!

Rupert H · Post by **Rupert H** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 12:12 am

Okay, so I've just settled down for an intimate evening in with DDP DOJ Extra and Shooting Love 200X only to find I have a bit of a screen display problem. Both games seem to have massive borders on the top and bottom (or the sides when tate'd) of the screen. It's as if the 360 is displaying them in widescreen.

My 360 is running through a 4:3 CRT monitor and is set to 4:3 on the dash board which displays perfectly. I have every other tate 360 shmup and they all display perfectly in 4:3 mode, displaying a full frame picture when overscan has been adjusted. I have set DDP DOJ Extra to 4:3 in the options and I can't see an option for that in Shooting Love 200X.

How are other people running the games here? Have you managed to get a full screen tate picture on a 4:3 monitor? Maybe there's something glaringly obvious that I'm missing but I'm really drawing a blank here. Help would be much appreciated.

Hydeux · Post by **Hydeux** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 6:36 am

Can't check this right now but it seems to me that I had to set the scale of the screen in the shooting love options, and it worked fine : I have now a fullscreen 3/4.

(anyone about that unit 3e ?)

antares · Post by **antares** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 9:39 am

@ Rupert H

I have the same problem when the resolution is set to 1280 x 1024. You have to set your X360 to a lower resolution to play fullscreen on a tated 4:3 screen.

Elixir · Post by **Elixir** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 3:54 pm

Packed, this game is around 4.3 GB.

Unpacked, it's around 7.8 GB.

When the game itself is extracted from the raw .iso, it's around 500 MB.

So we roughly have around 7.3 GB of dead data.

Except when installing it to your HDD, it's 3.4 GB.

Yeah, try to figure that one out.

Also, Minus Zero is crack.

Rupert H · Post by **Rupert H** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 6:15 pm

antares wrote:@ Rupert H

I have the same problem when the resolution is set to 1280 x 1024. You have to set your X360 to a lower resolution to play fullscreen on a tated 4:3 screen.

This really wouldn't be such a big deal if it was consistant across all 360 shmups, but Raiden Fighters Aces looks like a complete mess if the dash board is set to 640x480.

antares · Post by **antares** » Thu Mar 12, 2009 6:37 pm

Yeah it's pretty annoying. My VGA screen has no "auto" feature and I have to resize the overscan manually every time I change the resolution.

Shooting Love works also in 1024x768 but I haven't played RFA or Raiden IV since I changed to that resolution. I hope RFA looks as good in 1024x768 as it looked in the high resolution and I don't have to change every time.

professor ganson · Post by **professor ganson** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 8:17 pm

Exzeal is really dull so far, but it's great playing Trizeal again. Since I already have it for DC, the price I paid to play a minor variant on the 360 was much too high. I don't really mind, though, because I'm having so much fun with it.

E. Randy Dupre · Post by **E. Randy Dupre** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 8:20 pm

Oh, I like the little I've played of Exzeal so far. I'd not played Trizeal before picking this collection up, though, and I've only had a couple of quick goes on it, so my opinion's barely even part-formed yet.

P_HAT · Post by **P_HAT** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 9:04 am

Elixir wrote:Packed, this game is around 4.3 GB.

Unpacked, it's around 7.8 GB.

When the game itself is extracted from the raw .iso, it's around 500 MB.

So we roughly have around 7.3 GB of dead data.

Except when installing it to your HDD, it's 3.4 GB.

Yeah, try to figure that one out.

Also, Minus Zero is crack.

lol@Install size

Elixir · Post by **Elixir** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 8:37 am

Is there a way to narrow searching on the leaderboards to just your friends only? You can narrow it to your own rank with X, but that seems to be about it.

antares · Post by **antares** » Sun Mar 15, 2009 6:14 pm

Like in Otomedius you can't search for friends

antares · Post by **antares** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 9:15 am

In Exzeal Stage 6 you fly by a rock statue. Somehow you can make it stand up and salute you. Does anyone know how to do this?

Also everyone check out the Achievement Guide and contribute missing secret achievements if you have any

http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?t=24786

Hydeux · Post by **Hydeux** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 10:06 am

antares wrote:In Exzeal Stage 6 you fly by a rock statue. Somehow you can make it stand up and salute you. Does anyone know how to do this?

Don't you juste have to use the right way (I mean : not the left way...) to make this happen ? and it's must be worth 100k I think. I'll check this today !

Any clue about that "unit 3e" ???

And : what the f*** do you have to do against that massive ship in Shmup Skill Test ??? The one with that kind of shield closing in (and killing me when only half of its lifebar got away !!!)

Hydeux · Post by **Hydeux** » Wed Mar 18, 2009 5:58 pm

Double post to underline the fact I said crap right above this post :

1. Going on the right (level 6) doesn't make that guy in the middle stand up and salute you.

2. For that massive ship and its shield closing-in, you just need to shoot the core as fast as possible...

3. HOW CAN YOU PLAY WITH THE UNIT 3e ? (please !)

Kiken · Post by **Kiken** » Sat Mar 21, 2009 6:35 am

Hydeux wrote:3. HOW CAN YOU PLAY WITH THE UNIT 3e ? (please !)

Highlight ship type 3 and wait for the countdown to hit 13. Then select the ship with the Shot button. I tried it a couple of times using this method and it worked each time.

Hydeux · Post by **Hydeux** » Sat Mar 21, 2009 7:35 am

@ Kiken : thanx a lot !!!!

EDIT : It works fine indeed, and with this unit 3E, you get x11 multiplier, but you got no rapid shot.

antares · Post by **antares** » Sun Mar 22, 2009 8:40 pm

I just noticed that the online leaderboard for Shmups Skill Test always saves my latest score but not my best. Is this a bug or meant to be?

Hydeux · Post by **Hydeux** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 6:46 am

Same thing for me, not a bug...

ZacharyB · Post by **ZacharyB** » Mon Mar 23, 2009 6:57 am

I guess they only want to take stock of your current skill.

Hydeux · Post by **Hydeux** » Sun Mar 29, 2009 2:09 pm

I'm trying to play the fourth unit.
Quite weird ! (never played XII Stag...)
Cooooooool !

But how come your multiplier is sometimes x12, x8, etc... ???? (I mean : how are you sure to always get x12 ???)

I've watched some runs through stage 1 with that fourth unit, at some times (twice in the 1st stage), the guy stays down-left and gets loads of points obviously doing nothing at all

Somebody knows how to trigger this ?

THANX !

Kiken · Post by **Kiken** » Sun Mar 29, 2009 4:25 pm

Hydeux wrote:I'm trying to play the fourth unit.
Quite weird ! (never played XII Stag...)
Cooooooool !

You can play as the XII Stag ship in Trizeal as well.

Hydeux wrote: But how come your multiplier is sometimes x12, x8, etc... ???? (I mean : how are you sure to always get x12 ???)

The multiplier raises as you kill enemies in quick succession. The multiplier will slowly drop when you're not killing anything (it's displayed in the lower left of the screen).

Hydeux wrote: I've watched some runs through stage 1 with that fourth unit, at some times (twice in the 1st stage), the guy stays down-left and gets loads of points obviously doing nothing at all Somebody knows how to trigger this ?

THANX !

It appears to be an abuseable glitch in the game. A couple of guys on the DVD make use of this trick to bolster their scores.

Hydeux · Post by **Hydeux** » Sun Mar 29, 2009 4:33 pm

Thanx a lot !
Anyway, I wonder if i'd ever 1cc that one (Exzeal I mean) : getting to the last boss is not hard, but the last boss IS hard ! (or rather : those f*** patterns between the appearences of the last boss

)

Trying to improve on Shmup Skill Test then... (167th today, not too bad, but not too good either

)

antares · Post by **antares** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 10:15 am

Wow, I just got to rank 18 on shmups skill test in the leaderboard.

Now I don't dare to play again as my next score will surely be lower

Skyline · Post by **Skyline** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 11:49 am

Wow, Laser on Trizeal Remix is waaaay overpowered now.

Hydeux · Post by **Hydeux** » Mon Mar 30, 2009 12:06 pm

antares wrote:Wow, I just got to rank 18 on shmups skill test in the leaderboard.

I'm not skilled enough to post anything more here !

Elixir · Post by **Elixir** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 6:36 pm

I am somehow rank #1 on the leaderboards of the "save the earth from the asteroids" challenge, and rank 3 for the "destroy all tanks" challenge (first one). This game's actually pretty fun.

It's pretty sad that I'm enjoying the minigames over Trizeal and Exzeal, but I'm sure I'll warm up to them some other time.

antares · Post by **antares** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 8:38 pm

Elixir wrote:I am somehow rank #1 on the leaderboards of the "save the earth from the asteroids" challenge, and rank 3 for the "destroy all tanks" challenge (first one). This game's actually pretty fun.

Congrats! Did you use an autofire joypad?

Elixir wrote: It's pretty sad that I'm enjoying the minigames over Trizeal and Exzeal, but I'm sure I'll warm up to them some other time.

There's nothing sad about that as shmups skill test is easily the best game on offer here. It would have made for a great XBLA game imo.
Actually I think Exzeal is one of the worst games I've ever played in my life.