Shmup Ticker: What are you playing RIGHT NOW?

[Moniker]

Now that you mention it, I think I was down to my last life on previous runs. I had 2 extra on this one. If you're right about that, it makes me a happy panda.

[ronald0]

DDP Resurrection on XBOX 360. I'm new to bullet hell shooters and have a fun time trying to figure it out.

[Drachenherz]

Strikers 1945 II.

Wöw. Just wöw... I'm in love with this game. I'd never thought that Psikyo would grow on me like that, but here we are. Those fast bullet patterns are pure adrenaline, and the simple gameplay (compared to cave shooters) is really refreshing.

And those faster bullets really help advancing my shmupping skills in general.

Btw, playing like this:

Hehehe. Finally moved my Blast City back to my place. (and yes, thats esprade in the pic - I switched the pcbs just this evening.)

[Skykid]

^ Is that a baby on board?

[mjclark]

Shikigami No Shiro II on Dreamcast on 27" tated CRT in my bedroom- what a pleasure and I just love that tension system...

Like Drachenherz just said about Strikers, it's a really refreshing mechanic...

[Drachenherz]

^ Is that a baby on board?

Jap, our little baby girl, born 2 1/2 weeks ago. She's my luck charm...

[mjclark]

To continue the refreshing theme and to celebrate the forthcoming Combatzeal and the excellence of Triangle Service just switched to XII Stag on PS2- titter ye not fools, it has the most satisfying main shot of any game I've ever played and guess what haterz?- I've got RSA turned on too

[Illyrian]

^ Is that a baby on board?

Jap, our little baby girl, born 2 1/2 weeks ago. She's my luck charm...

Does your kid push the bomb button for you? Cause that would be awesome.

[mugicha]

Shikigami No Shiro II on Dreamcast on 27" tated CRT in my bedroom- what a pleasure and I just love that tension system...

Also enjoying Shiki 2 tate! vga cable on a sony monitor, tied to a chair......with belts.....

[Ed Oscuro]

I got to the fourth boss in Batsugun and didn't know what to do

No deaths, only two bombs up to that point (damn third boss patterns don't seem to give outs all the time, you get smashed into the corner by those two streams of red bullets). Missed some piggies. Speaking of things, do you milk points from pigs when you hover next to one (without picking it up)? It seems that way...and does that number get multiplied by number of pigs? Ugh, something else to deal with. I think I'll go back to point blanking in Omega Fighter Special.

Also, fuck you and your nihil, Iceman.

[Sapz]

More DFK1.5, this game is too much fun. Currently trying to make some Ura loop routes for A-Bomb.

[Moniker]

I got to the fourth boss in Batsugun and didn't know what to do

Missed some piggies. Speaking of things, do you milk points from pigs when you hover next to one (without picking it up)? It seems that way...and does that number get multiplied by number of pigs? Ugh, something else to deal with.

IIRC, if it's Batsugun Special, hovering near the brownish pigs gets you points, the more pigs the better. I don't quite know what the pink ones do, though. I don't think you can pick them up and they don't seem to respond to hovering. In regular Batsugun I think you're supposed to hover near the pink pigs (no brown ones in vanilla).

NB: I'm not really sure about any of this, and the ST doesn't describe it all that clearly either. If someone's in the know, please correct me.

[NTSC-J]

You almost got it. Hover next to the regular pigs for points in both modes, and hover over the pink pigs in Special to fill up your experience bar and get bombs. No pink piggies in normal.

[moh]

Currently playing deathsmiles & radiant silvergun.

Whats weird is that when i first bought RSG i completely hated it...but for some reason its started to grow on me.
Im having a great time with the two of them, but they're still both really tough games D:

[rancid3000]

I'm playing DDP: Resurrection on Xbox 360. Going for a 1.5 Power 1-All and a Black Label 1-All.

That pic of the monitor strapped to the chair is awesome but the pic of someone using a pair of converse shoes to keep their LCD from sliding is still the best.

[Ed Oscuro]

IIRC, if it's Batsugun Special, hovering near the brownish pigs gets you points, the more pigs the better. I don't quite know what the pink ones do, though. I don't think you can pick them up and they don't seem to respond to hovering. In regular Batsugun I think you're supposed to hover near the pink pigs (no brown ones in vanilla).

The purple pigs raise your experience points (counts towards your next power up level). Thanks!

[null1024]

DoDonPachi [need to work on not sucking at stage 3, I make it to stage 4 [and bomb past the stage 3 boss], but then it all goes to hell], and Dangun Feveron [jeeeeeeeeeeez, I haven't played this in forever, so now I suck at it again...].

Also, I'm pretty amazed how nicely a PS1 DualShock works for this job [the D-Pad of course, not the stick ].

[AttObl]

Espgaluda.

I made it to the Stage 4 boss! *Dies to the Train boss.*

Also, I "completed" eXceed 3rd: JADE PENETRATE Black Package. I didn't meet Remedy, though.

[Moniker]

Picked up Futari again after a long hiatus. Beat my highscore by a lot on the first credit. I credit the fancy new fightpad with microswitches.
Revisited DDP as well.. discovered that you can use bombs to not die. Now I get to stage 5 without much trouble.
Finally a credit here and there of Samurai Ace, mostly for the music and art. Gotta love that dark soundtrack.

[null1024]

Radiant Silvergun [wow, I forgot how much lag MAME has for this], Progear [haven't played in so damn long], and Mars Matrix [same].
Naturally, I'm really really bad at all of these right now due to only having played these for the first time in months.

[RNGmaster]

I almost looped Ketsui. 1DNB going into Stage 5 due to a stupid thing on Cinderella Amber's first form, NDNB past Trafalgar, then a few mess-ups later I got to EVAC with about 4 lives remaining and 5 total bombs/deaths. I got the shakes and fucked up so bad - on a boss I've perfected - that I couldn't 1cc.

[saucykobold]

Sexy Parodius has been my main gaming project for the last several weeks. The major obstacle preventing me from getting the score I want is the Indian palace. The stage is incredibly mean when the rank has been poked and prodded. I found a way to trivialize the last three gunwalls but I usually die earlier in the level.

Also, after years of completely ignoring the game's distinctive scoring mechanism, I'm happy to say that I've finally learned how to do something with purple bells (if only for the first stage).

[trap15]

DoDonPachi Arrange (no I'm not shortening nor am I making a typo)
Can get to Hibachi, but I'm just not good enough to even get past first form. Oh well.

[dunpeal2064]

Last night, I put a couple credits into Mushihimesama Futari 1.5 Original, which I haven't played in quite some time. Got to Larsa for my first time ever, which was pretty exciting. I think with just a bit of practice I should be able to get this 1cc. its been long overdue. Score was 162m with Palm

[mesh control]

DFK 1.5

B)

[Erppo]

DoDonPachi Arrange

I'm sorry for treating your game like this:



First credit too! You might want to look at how the end game bonus works together with the extends (I still had over 20 leftover lives though ).

[Weak Boson]

Sexy Parodius has been my main gaming project for the last several weeks. The major obstacle preventing me from getting the score I want is the Indian palace. The stage is incredibly mean when the rank has been poked and prodded. I found a way to trivialize the last three gunwalls but I usually die earlier in the level.

Also, after years of completely ignoring the game's distinctive scoring mechanism, I'm happy to say that I've finally learned how to do something with purple bells (if only for the first stage).

I was playing this recently too as part of a freindly little competition over on the retrogamer forums. I'd called it a day at 940k but it'd be interesting to hear what your strategy for the last few walls in stage 6 is. In fact since you have the western record I'm sure any tips you can share would go down well. Good luck improving your score.

[tommyb]

Been playing a lot of Futari Black Label and DFK 1.5 on my tate'd Magnavox CRT.

Finally broke the 200 million mark by the end of stage three with Palm.

[chempop]

That is still the best queen bee in the series, and one of the coolest bosses of all time.

[trap15]

DoDonPachi Arrange

I'm sorry for treating your game like this:
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First credit too! You might want to look at how the end game bonus works together with the extends (I still had over 20 leftover lives though ).

Aha, yeah, Sas pointed that out to me this morning; I've got a fixed version uploaded now.