Terra Cresta and Terra Cresta II - All Formats

spadgy · **Posted:** Sun Oct 18, 2009 10:59 pm

Welcome to the Terra Cresta and Terra Cresta II thread

High Tech! Hi Fi! Proven Money Making Performance!

LAST UPDATE: December 28th, 2014

All versions accepted (for Terra Cresta PCB, MAME and PS2 share a board. C64 and NES have their own board// For Terra Cresta II there's just the one of course). All defaults please. Thanks to raiden for running the previous thread. Here's Shmups.com's review of the game and here's a strategy guide for the first game over on Strategy Wiki.

Formatting like this please: Name - Score - Format

Enjoy, and whatever your score, good or bad, please submit!

TERRA CRESTA

PCB/MAME/PS2

Code:

    Name             Score         Format
  Luy              2,156,500     MAME
  CHI                520,700     MAME
  djgylend           408,200     MAME
  Rob                303,800     MAME
  djgylend           303,200     MAME
  Mero               258,700     PS2
  professor ganson   229,600     PS2
  incognoscente      191,100     MAME
  Ed Oscuro          173,400     MAME
spadgy             156,600     MAME
raiden             151,100     PS2
Despatche          136,800     MAME
Estebang            91,600     MAME
SAM                 71,700     MAME
mr_m0nks            54,100     MAME
roadrunner          45,200     MAME





NES

Code:

    Name               Score
  Rob              1,161,000
  Sonic R            296,700
  Turrican           270,400
  Ed Oscuro          257,200
  Tar-Palantir       245,700
  roadrunner          88,300
  mr_m0nks            62,100





C64

Code:

    Name               Score 
  Ed Oscuro          40,400   
  mr_m0nks           30,000
  roadrunner         11,600



TERRA CRESTA II

TG16

Code:

    Name               Score
  Perikles           4,787,300   
  PlasmaBlooD        4,631,300
  UGO                4,414,300
  roadrunner           149,900  
  
  
  
  



CHI · Joined: 27 Jul 2006 Posts: 1507 Location: CASINO!

lol... check the first two scores captain spadgy...

will get back on this game once i've more time at home!

spadgy · **Posted:** Mon Oct 19, 2009 8:31 am

Shit - teach me to set up boards in the middle of the night when I should be in bed. Twice I did that this weekend!

Thanks for the heads up CHI, and I'm fixing it now....

:oops:

DEL · Joined: 25 Jan 2005 Posts: 4148 Location: Oort Cloud

An interesting classic old game (Arcade ver). If I can make the time, I'll give it another go.

spadgy · **Posted:** Tue Oct 20, 2009 12:07 pm

I'd love to see what you could score on this DEL. Actually, didn't you say there was a cab running this in London a while back? Was that back at the game's launch, or more recently?

This really is a great game, and underrated, or at least under-played. I think I'm right that it was fairly seminal as one of the mid-eighties shooters introducing several stalwart elements to the genre.

Get playing people!

incognoscente · Joined: 25 Jan 2005 Posts: 928 Location: Georgia, USA

incognoscente - 191,100 - MAME

Your turn, Will.

spadgy · **Posted:** Wed Oct 21, 2009 9:02 am

Dah! But fourth place had my name written all over (next to) it!

Good work though, and I'll see what I can do this weekend.

Glad to see there's some people playing this, and a bit of competition in the board! Invite your friends!

Updated

Estebang · Joined: 17 Oct 2009 Posts: 1437

Estebang - 91,600 - MAME

spadgy · **Posted:** Wed Oct 21, 2009 7:29 pm

Another one! Excellent stuff. Updated!

spadgy · **Posted:** Sun Oct 25, 2009 5:26 pm

No luck getting back at you this weekend incognoscente - I was just playing terribly - but I'll have you yet!

Hopefully DEL, CHI and maybe mr_m0nks will have something to submit soon...

roadrunner · Joined: 25 Oct 2009 Posts: 104

Hello, is it ok if i join in?
I played this game on MAME
40,600
I have a screenshot, but i don't know how to insert a image or url.
How do i attach a file on this site.

roadrunner · Joined: 25 Oct 2009 Posts: 104

http://img41.imageshack.us/i/terracrestamame40600.png/

I think i might have figured out how to post a url.

edit, that works!

spadgy · **Posted:** Mon Oct 26, 2009 10:27 am

Of course you can join in roadrunner. The more the merrier!

Welcome to this thread, and welcome to the forum!

I've updated the table with your score, and I've added in some new blank spaces so people know there's plenty of room for new scores.

And roadrunner – here's a little guide to inserting images and URLs. You need to upload the image to something like FiickR or Photobucket and get the image's URL.

To insert an image type (obviously you replace the caps):

[img]IMAGE_URL_GOES_HERE[/url]

To insert a link into text:

[url=URL_GOES_HERE]Text you want linked[/url]

See; here's your image!

Or here's your image!

mr_m0nks · Joined: 11 Mar 2008 Posts: 597 Location: Stuck on level 4!

has 5 credits on this today managed to get 42100

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k208/ ... Cscore.jpg

i havnt properly linked the images as photobucket is being a bit of a spaz over the image name

spadgy · **Posted:** Mon Oct 26, 2009 12:28 pm

Updated!

I had about 10 credits never getting past 70k, and then suddenly one life took me to about 140k, where I then ballsed it all up - it's one of those games where what you can do on one life is all important.

roadrunner · Joined: 25 Oct 2009 Posts: 104

spadgy wrote:

Of course you can join in roadrunner. The more the merrier!

Welcome to this thread, and welcome to the forum!

I've updated the table with your score, and I've added in some new blank spaces so people know there's plenty of room for new scores.

And roadrunner – here's a little guide to inserting images and URLs. You need to upload the image to something like FiickR or Photobucket and get the image's URL.

To insert an image type (obviously you replace the caps):

[img]IMAGE_URL_GOES_HERE[/url]

To insert a link into text:

[url=URL_GOES_HERE]Text you want linked[/url]

See; here's your image!

Or here's your image!

Thanks for the posting tips!

I'm glad to be here on this very friendly website!

mr_m0nks · Joined: 11 Mar 2008 Posts: 597 Location: Stuck on level 4!

i might have to try the C64 port, see what it's like

spadgy · **Posted:** Tue Oct 27, 2009 5:32 pm

Definitely do. It would be great to see a C64 submission, and you're the man to represent our beloved Commodore - and you can tell us if the scoring is the same...

mr_m0nks · Joined: 11 Mar 2008 Posts: 597 Location: Stuck on level 4!

The C64 version of awful but I will persevere with it just to get a semi decent score.

Ed Oscuro · **Posted:** Wed Oct 28, 2009 7:22 pm

Ed Oscuro - 173,400 - MAME Plus! 0.134u1

Autofire on just to save my hand. You can't pump out more shots at a time than the game will let you, it makes the fire rate pretty constant. I actually like how this game treats quick firing, although no doubt it'd be frustrating to people who want to point-blank.

Doh, I finally started using the secondary attacks :oops:

The good part of that is that I got through a whole slew of bosses I'd never seen before on my first try, including the one with all the sickles and rocket hands (heh, reminds me of an old 80s scifi movie...)

I really had never appreciated how much like Ninja Emaki this is, lovely. Got to hunt down the board now.

roadrunner · Joined: 25 Oct 2009 Posts: 104

I tried out the Commodore 64 version of this game and i got 9,200 points.

http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/7634/terrac64.jpg

mr_m0nks · Joined: 11 Mar 2008 Posts: 597 Location: Stuck on level 4!

Got a couple of new scores :mrgreen:

54100 MAME

30000 C64

the trick to playing the C64 version is to mute the sound :S

evidence if needed:

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k208/ ... core-1.jpg

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k208/ ... 4score.jpg

mr_m0nks · Joined: 11 Mar 2008 Posts: 597 Location: Stuck on level 4!

also tried the nes version.

62100 NES

http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k208/ ... escore.jpg

this was just my second go.

in my opinion the NES version is significantly easier than the arcade and the C64 version is significantly harder

Ed Oscuro · **Posted:** Thu Oct 29, 2009 1:25 pm

I don't know. NES version has some easier formations, is missing the extending enemies entirely, but has some enemies that fly up from behind and so is a bit difficult to get the hang of. I only got ~100K after a few tries yesterday.

mr_m0nks · Joined: 11 Mar 2008 Posts: 597 Location: Stuck on level 4!

I found the NES version easier based on the speed of your craft, it just seems easier to dodge stuff in the NES version.

Rob · Joined: 26 Jan 2005 Posts: 8001

The port is good but it's not arcade perfect, so the two versions shouldn't be lumped together.

spadgy · **Posted:** Sun Nov 01, 2009 10:46 pm

Already sorting it! Sorry I hadn't done this earlier, but as soon it became apparent in the few post above, it was clear they need to be split.

doing it now...

EDIT: Done it, or at least for now. So we have some new members in new top-spots! Until I get a chance to look into it, for now I'm keeping PS2 with MAME and PCB. I've only played a couple of credits on PS2; it felt close enough, but the aspect ratio is crazy different.

And thanks for all your efforts with getting this thread 'on the level'. I'm glad to have it split properly, and glad to hear Ed's news on Autofire; that makes like easier.

Now for some more playing please! I'm off to Russia on a work trip for a few days, but once I return I'll try and get myself playing the NES or C64 versions.

Updated!

roadrunner · Joined: 25 Oct 2009 Posts: 104

I played the NES version this time, it's pretty good.

roadrunner - 88,300 - NES

http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/6089/terracrestanes.jpg

Ed Oscuro · **Posted:** Mon Nov 02, 2009 2:48 am

Ed Oscuro - 226,200 - NES - default formations - autofire pattern: 1 on, 1 off, offset 0

Not too bad. Last time I played I had come straight off the arcade version and the differences are enough to throw one off. It's definitely easier with the lack of certain enemies and extends come pretty frequently. Also, as with the arcade I don't think that autofire rates make a difference.

Rob · Joined: 26 Jan 2005 Posts: 8001

Rob - 268,400 - NES

boo

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