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durias · Post by **durias** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 7:10 pm

Chaos Field or Radirgy or Karous and Hori Fighting Stick

SockPuppetHyren · Post by **SockPuppetHyren** » Sun Apr 05, 2009 7:18 pm

durias wrote:Chaos Field or Radirgy or Karous and Hori Fighting Stick

Playing MSC a lot, aren't ya?

Karous and R-Type.

cj iwakura · Post by **cj iwakura** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 4:50 am

Insector X (via Taito Legends 2).

Harder than it looks.

Zweihander · Post by **Zweihander** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 5:44 am

When not remixing, I'm hopping between Radiant Silvergun, Ketsui: Demo Label, and Star Prince (from Retro Game Challenge).

dnbiola · Post by **dnbiola** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 2:48 pm

Homura. I can get to level 4!!!....

...on easy

...with continues.

Ok, I still suck. But I'm getting better.

Zweihander · Post by **Zweihander** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 4:05 pm

dnbiola wrote:Homura. I can get to level 4!!!....

...on easy

...with continues.

Ok, I still suck. But I'm getting better.

I can get to level 4 without continues... then that old fat dude turns into a demon and starts raping me. Then the credit-feeding commences, cheaply negating me from reaching the final battle.

lgb · Post by **lgb** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 7:34 pm

Zweihander wrote:Then the credit-feeding commences, cheaply negating me from reaching the final battle.

You're not controlling this credit-feeding?

Zweihander · Post by **Zweihander** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 7:53 pm

lgb wrote:
Zweihander wrote:Then the credit-feeding commences, cheaply negating me from reaching the final battle.
You're not controlling this credit-feeding?

I'll let the game end if I have a score higher than my top score. If I don't have a new top score, I may as well continue, and become more familiar with whatever killed me. Sort of how I've always done things.

SimpleNate · Post by **SimpleNate** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 8:06 pm

Having a wonderful leaderboard chase on Ikaruga with Hilden from Drunken Gamers Radio.

We both suck, though. Especially Hilden.

cyprien · Post by **cyprien** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 8:18 pm

I've been practicing my Ketsui: Death Label on DS during my commute... Just can't seem to clear Very Hard Mode...

When I'm home I've been jumping between DoDonPachi and Trigger Heart.

Zweihander · Post by **Zweihander** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 8:31 pm

cyprien wrote:I've been practicing my Ketsui: Death Label on DS during my commute... Just can't seem to clear Very Hard Mode...

Good luck with that... If you think Very Hard is bad, wait til you unlock Death Label mode...

cyprien · Post by **cyprien** » Mon Apr 06, 2009 9:36 pm

Zweihander wrote:
cyprien wrote:I've been practicing my Ketsui: Death Label on DS during my commute... Just can't seem to clear Very Hard Mode...
Good luck with that... If you think Very Hard is bad, wait til you unlock Death Label mode...

Yeah, I'm not looking forward to it. DOOM Mode almost made me crack my DS in half.. Haha.

SuperGrafx · Post by **SuperGrafx** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 1:27 am

Nothing aside from Ultimate Shooting Collection on Wii.
Actually get to see the later levels of Karous now that you can earn more credits, unlike the DC version.

cj iwakura · Post by **cj iwakura** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 3:58 am

Beat Metal Black and Darius Gaiden.

I gave up on Insector X and Gun Frontier. More frustrating than fun, but I might try again one day.

Touhou's tiny hit boxes have me spoiled.

fogelmir · Post by **fogelmir** » Tue Apr 07, 2009 10:43 pm

Currently Playing Mushi Futari at Arcade Infinity.

SC Original, Working on Maniac, Currently can get midway stage 4

Still Playing, Espgaluda, Mushi, and Dodonpachi DOJ, all on ps2, trinity of shumps.

Dodonpachi 3rd boss still giving me problems

Kiken · Post by **Kiken** » Wed Apr 08, 2009 1:31 pm

ESPGaluda. I'm determined to break 50 million with Ageha. For me, playing with Tateha is a lost cause.

drboom · Post by **drboom** » Wed Apr 08, 2009 4:10 pm

Twin Cobra. Got to loop this sucka!
ESP Ra. De. as well. Got to 1cc that. So, so close.

lgb · Post by **lgb** » Fri Apr 10, 2009 2:13 am

1942 [ARC], Andro Dunos [ARC], Samurai Aces [ARC], Touhou Humaroku [PC-98].

Xonatron · Post by **Xonatron** » Fri Apr 10, 2009 6:38 pm

Ikaruga. Just bought it. (And my own game in development, of course.)

null1024 · Post by **null1024** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 12:19 am

Darius Gaiden.
Once I realized not to panic when loads of stuff filled the screen [and not to credit feed], I easily got to zone D on a 1 credit run. I screwed up a bit on zone B's boss, and died at the very beginning of zone D.

Also, I only d/led the game 15 minutes ago.

Little Nemo · Post by **Little Nemo** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 10:41 pm

I'm playing the Capcom CPSystem 2 shmup Eco Fighters, also known as Ultimate Ecology. It resembles the Genesis game "Bio-Hazard Battle" (also known as "Crying") in a way, though it uses two buttons to rotate the little shooting bit; in Bio-Hazard Battle, the bit just rotates with you. Makes the Eco Fighters bit a bit harder to control, but once you DO figure out how to control it, it seems better than the Bio-Hazard Battle kind.

As my avatar gives away, I'm also playing the TurboGrafx-16 port of Twin Hawk... well no, my avatar gives away that it's the PC-Engine port of Daisenpu! Oh whatever, this isn't the arcade game, no need to differentiate from a nonexistant game (here, that would be a TurboGrafx-16 version of Twin Hawk). Anyway, it's not a bad port, although even the Hard difficulty setting is still easier than the default Normal setting in the arcade game. Still, I like this game better than the Sega Genesis port for whatever reason...

Maybe I'll play the arcade version of Twin Hawk more when I manage to get to the second loop on the PC-Engine version. Got to start with small steps.

durias · Post by **durias** » Mon Apr 13, 2009 11:38 pm

Chaos Field or Radirgy or Karous and Hori Fighting Stick

fogelmir · Post by **fogelmir** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 12:15 am

I just got that collection too.

Playing Karous the most

durias · Post by **durias** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 12:49 am

fogelmir wrote:I just got that collection too.

Playing Karous the most

Nice! Are you using the fighting stick? It's great.

fogelmir · Post by **fogelmir** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 3:21 am

I don't have one yet!

Maybe I can borrow one from my friend

The gamecube controller is not working very well.

Chaos Field is the hardest one for me so far.

googlymoogly42 · Post by **googlymoogly42** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 5:16 am

playing raiden 2 on major on ps3(60gig) from raiden project. just scored 1,337,880 1-5.

null1024 · Post by **null1024** » Thu Apr 23, 2009 10:48 pm

Mars Matrix.
After several crappy runs, I got one decent one, where I got my gun to level 3 on the first stage, and made all the way to the 3rd stage, where I lasted 20 seconds before dieing.

Kollision · Post by **Kollision** » Fri Apr 24, 2009 12:23 am

Working my way on Radirgy (almost there!) and R-Type Complete on the Turbo Duo.
And slowly, veeeery slowly, getting a grip on DoDonPachi.

Post by **Icarus** » Fri Apr 24, 2009 3:13 am

Cloudphobia, RF1, and RF2.

null1024 · Post by **null1024** » Fri Apr 24, 2009 11:58 pm

Some Einhander [which I'm starting to love, but it's too traditional of a shooter for my tastes, feels like an R-Type or a Gradius with it's memorization requirements...], and some Cho Ren Sha [which I'm getting better at, but level 3 still hates me.]

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