STGT'09 Week 1 - Varth: Operation Thunderstorm

[Warp_Rattler]

Warp_Rattler - Shooting Snobs - 454,700 - 4 - Fixed - MAME(World)

Seemed like each credit I threw at it, I managed to get a little farther, or discover another point item. The game's pretty damn brutal, though, and I still need to get used to the ideas that A) bombing is good (but not too close to the stage's end) and B) your bombs come back. Smart pods supposedly keep the rank from increasing as much as fixed, but the wonky bullet absorption really doesn't make this as helpful as it should be. I'll take the greater bullet storms in exchanging for knowing just exactly where my ship IS protected (until you get to the boss whose shots pass magically through your pods... fucker).

[Arvandor]

At first I was kind of enjoying this game.

Now I just want to swear so proficiently I'm not comfortable typing it out, even here.

"Don't snipe me bro!"

[TodayIsForgotten]

It definitely makes a difference though versus not wiggling.

I meant I saw no difference between wiggling as fast as I could and doing so at a speed I was comfortable with.

Ah, alright. I misunderstood.

TodayIsForgotten: I'll make a post about how fast you have to do it until doing it any faster doesn't matter soon.

I"m really not sure how to interpret this. I will continue to wiggle about as fast as I can... which is, pretty damn fast.

[Twiddle]

Twiddle - Slap Chop My Nuts - 2,960,200 - 17 - Smart - MAME (World)

Relearning game, so no podless clear for me.

I forgot that 50% of the enemy's shots lead you when you have max power wwwwww

[charlie chong]

PICKING UP THE LAZER MAKES MY EYES CRY

Charlie Chong - Ketsui Defense force - 1,121,500 - 8 - Smart - ps2

[Breakdown]

Breakdown - Team Sweet Tacos - 3,079,700 - 15 - Smart - MAME (World)

I really didn't like this game at first, but it's starting to grow on me. The train boss is awesome.

[zoonel]

zoonel - Team Free Agents - 2,436,500 - 12 - Smart - MAME (World)

I just try to survive between 2 bombs launch ^^.
As i'm totaly new with this game, why are you all so enthusiast about the machine gun ?

[dex]

Scoreboard updated.

[unsane]

unsane - Drink 'N Fly - 1,478,100 - 8 - Smart - MAME (World)

Was on a slump, unable to beat yesterday's record. Had a few swigs for the first time this week, and true to the team name finally beat it.

[Kaiser]

Kaiser - Team Oldschoolers - 3,625,800 - 21 - Smart - MAME (World)



used mameplus_bin_x86-0.133u4r4361-20090830 to play with autofire. Varth: Opeartion Thunderstorm world version played on this run.

[LtC]

As i'm totaly new with this game, why are you all so enthusiast about the machine gun ?

Yeah I don't understand that either, laser seems perfectly fine in some levels.

LtC - Team Downrank - 3,396,600 - 17 - Smart - MAME (World)

And how does the extra digit glitch exactly work on the st4 boss? Also what kind of end of stage bonuses are there overall? How is the 'perfect' bonus triggered?

[Erodion]

Redsun - Garrincha Shooting Team - 3,994,914 - 24 - Fixed- MAME

Wait... 914?? Used 14 continues or what? lol

[charlie chong]

BURN THE CHEATER !!

[ShadowWraith]

ShadowWraith - Team Hard Gay - 1558500 - 8 - Fixed - MAME (World)

Got the buggy bonus from the stage 4 boss but was stupid and lost a life to it's debris. ._.

[KMM]

donotcare95 - Free Agents - 892,000 - 6 - Smart - MAME (World)

I got the podless bonus at the end of level three because I had died but not grabbed my pod item. I have no idea how to get the glitch bonus, but if I did I'd've already reached my goal of seven digits...

[Danbo]

Redsun - Garrincha Shooting Team - 3,994,914 - 24 - Fixed- MAME

Wait... 914?? Used 14 continues or what? lol

[DC906270]

there is different scoring between different versions of the roms, we should specify which version of the game to play.

[Plasmo]

Plasmo - TCACTRM - 3,456,800 - 17 - Fixed - MAME (World)

[clp]

why has redsuns score been added when its the ONLY score that ends in 14 and not 00 ? , have we distinguised whether there is different scoring versions?

[Large]

Large - Gothloli Luftwaffe - 2.919.500 - 16 - Smart - pcb

[Dragoforce]

Weird@redsuns



Dragoforce - Team Sweden [Blue] - 5,030,200 - 29 - Smart - Mame (World)

Never play a 50 minutes shmup before breakfast. I was so hungry at the end that I started chewing on my hair.

[sikraiken]

Redsun used more than one credit, that's all. He probably didn't know. Dex, you probably should add 1 credit only and no old scores to the first post.

[Edge]

Edge - Gothloli Luftwaffe - 3'288'500 - Stage 18ish? - Smart - MAME (World)

I am sorry, I have no idea what stage I was in. But it was probably twice as far as I have been in that game so far (Stage 18ish?). I triggered the boss bug and after that I mainly tried to focus on survival. All the slow down in the game helps a lot to dodge or safe bomb unknown enemy attack patterns.

[ArcticXC]

ArcticXC - Team Mancos - 2,804,000 - 14 - Smart - MAME (World)

Kindof a bullshit run. No-missed to 10, died twice in about 5 seconds, same for stage 14. Uugh.

[MX7]

MX7 - Team Royale - 2,168,600 - 12 - Smart - MAME (World)

[ShadowWraith]

ShadowWraith - Team Hard Gay - 2,003,000 - 10 - Fixed - MAME (World)

Fuck the Dragon Fly, I burned 2 lives on that bastard. No-miss up to there, then lost my extend life on the asteroid chains on Stage 9. At least I broke 2 million this time.

[miipasu]

miipasu - Team Hard Gay - 1569600 - 7 - Fixed - MAME (World)



I do not approve of buttraping planes.

[moozooh]

Hard Gay invasion!

moozooh — Team Hard Gay — 3,094,600 — 15 — Smart — MAME (World).

First time past stage 10. Only two stupid deaths. Stage 4 boss glitch captured, stage 9 perfect bonus captured. I'm amazed it went so well.

[croikle]

Whee!

croikle - letsdestroystgt09 - 2,501,200 - 12 - Smart - MAME (World)

[Hiki]

Hiki - Team Sweden [Yellow] - 2,775,100 - 14 - Smart - MAME