London Casino Crew meets (RIP the Arcade)

[spadgy]

The Darius Burst cab at Casino was a location test unit due to be installed at the Trocadero. With that closed, Casino owner John (who is very close with Taito) secured the machine.

If he's that close, tell him to get some Egrets installed. Or salvage some of Troc's leftover Egrets. :p

I've already dropped a hint or two about that (although with a slight bias to getting the Initiald D 4 machine in at Casino).

[hzt]

Have you tried just chaining the stages well and trying to pointblank things to build up the counter with W Power? If you can survive properly (boy it's easy to die stupidly in that game!), you should be able to get half-decent scores, and you can worry about the midboss counter milking later (And milking everything else even later, but midbosses are critical obviously) I'm a chaining addict though, so of course I liked Mushi Maniac when I could play it

Unrelated but does any of you guys play fighting games? I'm thinking of trying to learn a bit of SSFIV (casually of course) while I'm away along with my Blazblue.

I was trying to score by chaining before but I'm not so much of a fan as you. My score yesterday will have been from accidental chaining though.

I started learning to play fighting games a while ago but I haven't had the time for them. Don't think any of the regulars really play (Illyrian maybe?).

[dan76]

I used to play Darkstalkers: Vampire Saviour a fair bit. In fact they used to have it in Casino, but I find fighters difficult with a stick - to used to the old Saturn pad. I also picked up SSIV but haven't put any time into it. Chi kicked my ass on Street Fighter 3 once...

With Mushi rather than using C I've started slowly tapping A instead. This alone seems to make some difference to scoring -

[CHI]

[DEL]

The Old Mills APPROACHES FAST

[CHI]

speaking to John on thursday... he mentioned about Darius Burst AC going to some event this september: http://www.eco.co.uk/event/eurogamer-expo-2011/393
and i believe he said the engineer is back!

who's down next week? i'll be around tuesday, wednesday and thursday after 6pm... maybe monday too

[DEL]

Those youtube videos of it are driving me nuts
I must approach fast

[Illyrian]

I'll be down on tuesday, same as last week.

[CHI]

I'll be down on tuesday...

see you there
will be meeting dan76 and hopefully catch the engineer to install DS

Those youtube videos of it are driving me nuts
I must approach fast

... and how fast is that

[Illyrian]

Wait...Deathsmiles?

Nice.

Might motivate me to ACTUALLY PLAY IT.

[hzt]

I thought that was going to be a SECRET SUPRISE or something.

I'll try and make it in Thursday if you get DS installed but otherwise I'm not around this week.

[spadgy]

Maybe CHI is just getting a Nintendo DS installed as a secret surprise.

Anyway - I'm in Germany all this week at GDC Europe and Gamescom.

See you all next week!

[DEL]

BIG CHI wrote;

DEL wrote:
Those youtube videos of it are driving me nuts
I must approach fast

... and how fast is that

Next month. Still moving house...
btw. I'm torturing myself with youtube vids of BURST

[dan76]

Deathsmiles is in

Almost didn't happen - got lucky as the engineer seemed quite busy - CHI worked his magic. It's in the old Red Earth cab, the screen is ok, a bit washed out but at least it doesn't induce an epileptic fit with every explosion. At the moment the balltop is missing from the joystick as it kept coming unscrewed whilst I was playing (there's always something with Casino...). The hi-score tables are pretty much empty. Looking forward to see how anyone can actually play with Casper.

I'll be down thursday.

[hzt]

Excellent, I'll make some kind of attempt to come down and show you my Casper "skills" on Thursday.

[mr_m0nks]

Hi guys long time no post but I just have to say that looks class!

I hope to make it down before Christmas and will give plenty of notice for a quick meet up and a few credits

Ben

[spadgy]

It would be awesome to see you again m0nks! (To those who haven't met Ben; he's a Casino regular of a couple of years back who moved away, but he'll always have a place in the upper echelons of the Casino Crew!).

m0nks - if it would make your visit easier/cheaper, you and your better half would be welcome to stay at spadgy towers.

I hope all is well deep in the shire!

EDIT:

Deathsmiles is in

Wicked news! I'll be in next week for sure. See if I can push my old DS score.

Also, I had an interesting meeting with RSG yesterday, and I'm aloud to talk about some of it with the Casino Crew! Some cool things to discuss.

[JDE]

Deathsmiles is in

Brilliant news! I'll be down all evening on Thursday to play it, and will bring a ball-top for the stick in case it hasn't been replaced by then.
And Ben, it'll be good to meet you when you come down to visit the new and improved Casino!

[Illyrian]

What time are you down on Thursday JDE?

I normally get there at about 4.20pm

[JDE]

I'm aiming to arrive around 5:00 PM, shouldn't be any later than 5:30.

[Illyrian]

Might be there playing Deathsmiles, but I'm not sure, depends on whether I'm going to the gym or not.

Edit: Won't be down this evening, got some boring at home stuff to do

Second Edit: I will be down tonight after all

[spadgy]

I can't do Tuesday this week, so I'll try for Wednesday, even though it's bloody deadline day on the magazine!

[hzt]

Went down earlier, made less mistakes than before and actually got to Tyrannosatan with Casper. Then I lost all my lives stupidly, failed to clear it and ended with 110mil or something like that. Went out for a cigarette, then sat back down and got my 150mil...

...with the wrong fucking character!

It's just because of the clear bonus, Tyrannosatan is so much easier with Rosa it's not even fun to play (not once did it make me want to punch myself in the face). I think this is the limit for Rosa on my current route but it suggests that if I can just stop making mistakes and no miss Tyrannosatan my Casper score on this route will top out closer to 200mil than 150.

In summary, Tyrannosatan is a proper dickhead.

End of blog.

I will be there Wednesday, I'm excited about this RSG news so you'd better make it spadgy!

[spadgy]

Sorry everyone - I told a lie! I can't do Wednesday. I CAN DO TUESDAY! I got the days muddled up (I'm going to a gig Wednesday night).

See you there Tuesday hzt (and everyone else I hope!).

[dan76]

@hzt, I had a credit as Casper and found the Forest Stage pretty easy. I don't know what it is about that stage that gives you the fear. I tried to do the Volcano recharge and failed, ended up scoring virtually nothing. I'll give Rosa a try next time I'm in. What route did you use?

Having this in Casino has made me go back and have a look at some Japanese replays. Some of them are amazing. A new high score (no EX) was posted a few weeks ago for Follette - 460mil and it blows my current strategy out of the water - he doesn't do the volcano recharge with a bomb, he lets it run out and recharges at the bottom of the large rock on the green eyeballs - makes over 100mil on that stage alone. The Train and Swamp still seem the most difficult stages to score on. Goes into the Castle at 260mil.

I certainly think trying to emulate a superplay is a bad idea though. I've always found it more useful to look at replays slightly above my own score, picking up adjustments along the way.

Also, I had a go on the balltop with a pair of pliers - should be stuck on there for good now. I'll be in early tomorrow, around 5.

[hzt]

@hzt, I had a credit as Casper and found the Forest Stage pretty easy. I don't know what it is about that stage that gives you the fear.

Mostly it's the fact that unlike you I suck at shmups. There's just too much stuff to dodge in the second half.

You don't need to recharge on the Volcano with Casper, just use shot and don't mash it, tap fairly slowly. I've seen someone get 70mil+ by doing this and even I can get 50+. So you can't score as much as with Follet but I'm not sure recharging would actually add to the score because you can get all the way through the rocks anyway.

My Rosa route was the same as I was doing last week, Port (2), Graveyard (3), Forest (1 orz), Volcano (3), Lakeside (3), Swamp (2). Although I might have done the port at 3, I can't remember.

[Illyrian]

I'll be down tomorrow fo' sho!

Going to try and beat my best "at home" score of 55 million on DS.

Also would be nice to meet the spadgy one.

[spadgy]

Cool - I'll be there just after 7pm. Be nive to finally meet you Illyrian!

Looking forward to seeing you all.

[JDE]

I won't be able to make it tonight unfortunately.
Spadgy, please PM/email me with your mysterious RSG news since I won't be in Casino to hear it in person!

[Aliquantic]

Ditto, unless it involves a certain Deathsmiles competition that Torisu just mentioned on his Twitter earlier today