Death Smiles: Countdown to North America Invasion

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Sun May 31, 2009 2:34 am

Elixir wrote:Wouldn't it be better for him to die on purpose, use that life's bomb, then get the life up again? At least if I'm thinking this right, the fourth life's bomb will be replenished as well.

Probably, with hindsight.

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Sun May 31, 2009 3:15 am

Forgive me if I've missed it, but has it been confirmed exactly what the conditions are to get Bloody Jitterbug to appear? Maybe missing the cake is one of them? Either that, or the guy's just showing off.

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Sun May 31, 2009 3:21 am

BulletMagnet wrote:Forgive me if I've missed it, but has it been confirmed exactly what the conditions are to get Bloody Jitterbug to appear?

No miss up to the boss, according to this thread.

Maybe missing the cake is one of them? Either that, or the guy's just showing off.

No, he's not showing off. He's being smart. He has 4.5 blocks of life. If he picks up the cake, he gets another .5 -- whoopty shit. He still dies if a bullet hits him. If he dies (even twice) THEN gets the cake, he's back to full life.

You can do something similar w/ the ESPGaluda II last boss w/ a shield.

kk1030 · Post by **kk1030** » Sun May 31, 2009 4:56 am

GaijinPunch wrote: No miss up to the boss, according to this thread.

Not excatly,

1. you can make a mistake during the first 6 stages in lvl999
2. during cave, canyon, castle (up to jitterbug). No miss(you can take half a dmg though).
3. Blood Jitt will appear after Satan, you can die/continue whatever after Satan appeared.

Also take note if you just want to meet w/ Blood Jigg, you can restart if you made a mistake in any of the stages until you get to No miss. But you cannot unlock the achievement this way.

This boss also exist in Acrade version, but not many reports have been seen.

Elixir · Post by **Elixir** » Sun May 31, 2009 5:44 am

GaijinPunch wrote:
Elixir wrote:Wouldn't it be better for him to die on purpose, use that life's bomb, then get the life up again? At least if I'm thinking this right, the fourth life's bomb will be replenished as well.
Probably, with hindsight.

Tried this, didn't work.

Damn.. just fucked up a perfectly good run and my best so far. I've died twice on Jitterbug's second attack (before the up/down final attack of his) on a single credit run of 1.1. And I just made it up to the Canyon boss without dying at all, so what happens? With 3 bombs in stock, I forget what button I have bomb assigned to and die.

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Sun May 31, 2009 6:09 am

Not excatly,

No idea. Just saying what EOJ said, which is apparently reported in Famitsu 360.

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Sun May 31, 2009 9:33 am

he misses jitterbugs "blast" which im sure has something to do with it, i never noticed you could move around during this sequence (never got that far on level 999 anyways).

Elixir · Post by **Elixir** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 6:04 am

Well, I just 1cc'd ver 1.1. Let's see.. I messed up on the canyon early on, losing the extra bomb from the Marsh. Welp, there goes my score. I used 2 bombs on the canyon boss and died there, but I managed to finish him off without bombing again. Then I managed to make it up to Jitterbug, died to the FIRST FUCKING BULLET WAVE, and died to his up/down attack, although I managed to get through it slowly. Powered up when Tyrannosatan did his enclosure attack, bombed on the cubes (and lucked out on them as well). I barely ended up beating him on my last life.

On the positive side, I never thought I'd make it through that run, especially since I messed up Jitterbug almost instantly. I'm also glad I managed to make it through the descending and latter parts of the canyon without dying, as they're my biggest weakness in the entire game. Score was 4.7 or so. My replay should be up on the 1.1 leaderboards (monthly/weekly) if you want to watch it.

The achievement didn't unlock for some reason though. Automatic saving was/is off and it's installed to my HDD. I played via score attack. Maybe it only unlocks via non-score attack, or something.

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 7:18 am

What was the score?

Elixir · Post by **Elixir** » Tue Jun 02, 2009 7:34 am

4.780.723.204

I'm rusty. Moreover, I don't play Canyon or Castle for score, since I'm still fearful of dying (especially on the descending part, and when it pans to the right).

As for the rest of my run.. I see people are hitting 99k before the end of the second stage, but I'm lucky if I hit it before the fifth.

PsikyoPshumpPshooterP · Wed Jun 03, 2009 2:11 pm

stupid question

How do you Absorb/cancelbullets with your option/familiar?

croikle · Post by **croikle** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 2:24 pm

Only suicide bullets are cancellable, but I think those happen automagically.

Taylor · Post by **Taylor** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 6:03 pm

Am I being blind or is there no training mode for MBL? I guess I can use restart to practice the ice palace... cancelling just clicked, having loads of fun.

Elixir · Post by **Elixir** » Wed Jun 03, 2009 10:55 pm

There is no MBL training mode just yet.

Post by **spadgy** » Thu Jun 04, 2009 10:14 pm

Taylor wrote:Am I being blind or is there no training mode for MBL? I guess I can use restart to practice the ice palace... cancelling just clicked, having loads of fun.

I just got this game finally, and I love it. You're a Progear fan Taylor - are you as happy as I am to get another taste of Cave hori?

And how are you mate - long time no see!?

Taylor · Post by **Taylor** » Thu Jun 04, 2009 11:24 pm

I’m really liking it, I played it (vanilla) before and couldn’t wait to get my hands back on it. While I love Progear I have to admit it feels like a Vert that fell over, whereas this feels more like what I would envision a Cave Hori to be. :)

I'm doing good, it's unfortunate all the times I've been down in London you've not been about. Hopefully I'll catch you sometime soon!

SFKhoa · Post by **SFKhoa** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 12:55 pm

So apparently the patch is out.
Though I keep getting this error when trying to connect w/ Elixir.

NTSC-J · Post by **NTSC-J** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 1:15 pm

"Unable to find a room that you can enter. Either this game session does not exist or a game is already in progress. Return to the game select menu."

msm · Post by **msm** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 6:28 pm

SFKhoa wrote:So apparently the patch is out.
Though I keep getting this error when trying to connect w/ Elixir.

you say apparently....does that mean you have the patch or not? as these things sometimes take a while to roll out, so if one of you has it and the other doesn't, that might be why it's not working.

kemical · Post by **kemical** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 6:52 pm

I just played last night and got the update.

Did anyone see the single MBL 360 replay that is up for the #1 spot?

emphatic · Post by **emphatic** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 6:58 pm

Does the patch affect MBL as well as DeathSmiles (regular)?

jonny5 · Post by **jonny5** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 7:00 pm

SFKhoa wrote:So apparently the patch is out.
Though I keep getting this error when trying to connect w/ Elixir.

central canada to new zealand would be a pretty brutal ping,ya?

could that be the issue?i know nothing about XBLive tho so im just guessing

Elixir · Post by **Elixir** » Thu Jun 11, 2009 8:23 pm

jonny5 wrote:
SFKhoa wrote:So apparently the patch is out.
Though I keep getting this error when trying to connect w/ Elixir.

central canada to new zealand would be a pretty brutal ping,ya?

could that be the issue?i know nothing about XBLive tho so im just guessing

SF4 is playable, right Khoa? poke poke poke

Actually we managed to get into a game and into Halloween Town, but it ran at like, 4 fps. Now that the update is out, we can't even CONNECT.

Taylor · Post by **Taylor** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 5:25 pm

I'm pretty sure one of the things you must do to pass microsoft submission is pause the game when the controller is disconnected. When my pad ran out of juice at jitterbug, I discovered DS does not do this...

8 1/2 · Post by **8 1/2** » Fri Jun 12, 2009 5:57 pm

Taylor wrote:I'm pretty sure one of the things you must do to pass microsoft submission is pause the game when the controller is disconnected. When my pad ran out of juice at jitterbug, I discovered DS does not do this...

Submissions are based on a points system. You have to get a certain score to pass, so they may have flubbed that one but still come in with a high enough grade to get the game out.

emphatic · Post by **emphatic** » Mon Jun 15, 2009 3:24 pm

So, how many buttons do you "need" for DeathSmiles on the 360? My high res cab has support for six buttons + start and my console arcade stick (that I plan to convert for 360) has four buttons + start & select.

I plan to hack a pad into a project box, and put the "not needed ingame" buttons on top of that. This box will connect to either my cabinet through a JAMMA fingerboard or though some sort of connector to the arcade stick. I don't have a 360 (yet) , so this would be appreciated info before it arrives.

charlie chong · Post by **charlie chong** » Mon Jun 15, 2009 3:57 pm

you need 2 buttons for shooting in either direction (press both to power up) a 3rd button for bomb and start for start. i would wire up the home or back button to select. the other modes such as 1.1 are a bit different and a pain for joystick users.also a button for lock on would be good (i dont use it much tho

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emphatic · Post by **emphatic** » Mon Jun 15, 2009 4:13 pm

Thanks, I'll be playing mostly arcade/360 upscaled mode I guess. If I wanna play 1.1, I can use the pad.

MADEIRA STEVE88 · Post by **MADEIRA STEVE88** » Mon Jun 15, 2009 8:01 pm

Would love to play this but alas i only have a Pal 360, and can't justify paying for another console.

Fudoh · Post by **Fudoh** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 3:18 pm

Scanline update !!

(not really...)

But there are nice workarounds. Why not do it yourself, if the publishers don't get it done.... more info to come here: http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?t=26736