DoDonPachi Arrange

[the.borg]

If you haven't done it yet, advertise properly for your hack in the "shmups chat" section (in a separate thread than your future Ketsui hack) it'll get more attention. Just my thoughts.

[tommyb]

I thought that too, couldn't find a thread on it.
I've been advising all of my shmupping friends in the Great Lakes region to give it a go =]

[emphatic]

Would it be possible to do a faux Campaign Ver by watching videos alone?

[moozooh]

I believe the main problem with CV is that most of the patterns (as well as the scoring system) are significantly altered compared to the original, and tuning each of them by the eye is a damn lot of work. :(

[Vamos]

clp - 344,038,630 - C-strong - 2-7 - 834 Hit

Only a second go score and alot of fun it is to! I hope everyone gives it a whirl .

[Illyrian]

Would it be possible to do a faux Campaign Ver by watching videos alone?

Bear in mind Campaign version also has a hyper meter, albeit with no graphical change when it's activated.

There are entirely extra enemies and stuff as well.

[Lance Boyle]

This is awesome. I love having a black laser for the C ship and how the helicopter is actually viable now. Make another one of these sometime.

[jonny5]

Sorry to post this in the score thread, but I couldn't find another thread.

I cant seem to get this working in anything. I did exactly as it says on the site, but it just loads normal DDP when I load the rom?

I extracted both roms to a folder, ran it through the .exe, removed the .bak and re-archived. Pop the rom in rom folder, re-audit roms, and on the mame builds it actually worked in( several kept giving me cannot find u26 or u27, even though they were there) it just loads normal DDP.

Am I doing something wrong? Is there a particular build I should be using? I got Ketsui arrange working no problem in shmupmame 3b, but no luck with this.

Any help would be most appreciated.

[trap15]

The ones that say it's missing are probably correct . You can't run modified ROMs from the builtin MAME GUI. You need to run from command line, or from a frontend.

[Giest118]

So, question.

For Strong style, is the laser aura supposed to be that of the weaker laser?

The Weak laser has the Strong laser aura. They're basically mixed up. Also, the Laser activation time on Strong style is that of the Weak one and vice versa (That is, when using Laser type in original DDP, the activation was almost instant, but when using Shot type, it takes a few extra frames).

Any of this intentional?

[jonny5]

The ones that say it's missing are probably correct . You can't run modified ROMs from the builtin MAME GUI. You need to run from command line, or from a frontend.

But I am running the ketsui arrange through shmupmame 3b no problem? All versions of Mame I have tried this with were versions with frontends(mame32ui, shmupmame 2.2 and 3b, etc.) And the ones that say u26 and u27 are missing is weird too, as they are in there(shmupmame 2.2 did that iirc).

Very odd. I will mess with this some more this evening. I wanna try this out.

[DJ Incompetent]

DJ Incompetent - 100,160,030 - A-Strong - 2-2 - 529

[ptoing]

2012/02/12 ARRANGE..
ptoing - 150,915,430 - C-W - 2-2 - 844

[ptoing]

ptoing - 242,934,210 - C-W - 2-3 - 844

[gs68]

EXTENDS, GET YOUR EXTENDS HERE

gs68 - 162,994,110 - A-S - 2-2 - 752

[tinotormed]

Finally got past that crazy 2nd loop, aaaaaaaaaand got nicked by Hachi.

2012/02/12 ARRANGE..
tinotormed - 288,956,830 - C-Str - 2-7 - 836

[nesrulz]

1CC, first loop.

2012/02/12 ARRANGE..
nesrulz - 147,087,810 - C-Str - 2-2 - 827



Replay (inp) - recorded with CAVEUI64 v1.3.3 SE.

This is a modified version of the DDP, but...

[Bananamatic]

Bananamatic - 331,335,190 - C-S - 2-ALL - 826

second credit, it's fun to pretend you are good at this game when you don't even know the stage layouts

[nesrulz]

... it's fun to pretend you are good at this game when you don't even know the stage layouts

I like it because it can be played on your reflexes. This mode is not for players who have memorized the entire game.

[trap15]

I don't think cheesing through a game because I decided shitty mechanics was ok particularly counts as "playing on reflexes". I hate this game. I'm not updating the scoreboard for this anymore, sorry. Anybody who wants to can take it over, just let me know so I can link to it in the OP.

[ekorz]

Would it be possible to do a faux Campaign Ver by watching videos alone?

Yep.