TRP-STGT Week 3: Battle Garegga

[trap15]

Playing week has ended

Dynamic scoreboard at http://dodonpachi.daifukkat.su/stgt/

Tournament main thread: http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?t=43289
Discussion thread: http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?t=43473

Rules
Japanese defaults only.
- Japanese/World ROM set only (NO China set)
- Saturn version is acceptable (NO Red Ball mode)
- To set up Japanese defaults: Bonus Life should be "Every 1000k", and Region should be "Japan", and Lives should be "3".
NO Stage Edit.
1 credit only.
Autofire is allowed.
Be attitude for gains.

Scoring system
Blow shit up
Bomb shit up
Don't drop medals

Submission format
name - score - stage - ship (subtype) - version

[KAI]

KAI - 5,560,050 - 5 - WILD SNAIL (ABC) - Shmupmame 2.2

For the first time in my life, I feel the need of watching a video or a strategy for this game.

[Meseki]

Meseki - 826,110 - 3 - Silver Sword (A) - Mameplus .143u6 lagless

Subtype is the button used to select the ship, right? I haven't looked up anything about this game yet; I just recall something saying that pressing Shot a lot increases rank. Thankfully, I don't use autofire.

EDIT: According to the ST thread, region makes a difference. I had it set to Europe for this.

EDIT 2: This score is invalid, since the region wasn't Japanese.

[trap15]

Kusoscore to start. I know I'm much better than this

trap15 - 2509930 - 3 - Wild Snail (ABC) - MAME w/ Lagless Patch

Subtype is the button used to select the ship, right?

Yup!

[ED-057]

ED-057 - 3,180 - 1 - Silver Sword (A) - MAMEplus106
:p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p :p

[Iori Branford]

Iori Branford - 4,580,020 - 5 - Gain B - MAME .143u6 Lagless

[Meseki]

Meseki - 916,870 - 4 - Silver Sword (C) - Mameplus .143u6 lagless

Japanese region this time.

[SuperSoaker360]

SuperSoaker360 - 2,512,100 - 5 - Wild Snail (A) - ShmupMAME 2.2


I don't even care about scoring. This game is just so good.

[Bananamatic]

Bananamatic - 3,617,780 - 6 - Wild Snail (C) - shmupmame 3b


you said there would be good games

[Nifty]

DoubleThink - 5,719,040 - 5 - Bornnam (ABC) - MAMEUI

New PB off a mediocre credit isn't a bad place to start I suppose

[gs68]

welp this is what i get for not playing week 2

it's okay my rival didn't either

TIME TO TRY HARD

[Deca]

deca - 5,086,860 - 5 - Gain (C) - shmupmame 2.2

It's probably been nearly a year since I was working on this game and I can't put down a half decent run for anything right now Here's hoping it all comes back before Thursday.

This is also my first time playing it seriously in mame, I'd only worked with the Saturn version before. Maybe I can make something happen with some savestate practice.

Regardless I just love this game <3

[Eaglet]

OHYES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Credit coming up in an hour.

Edit:
Eaglet - 8,300,860 - 6 - WILD SNAIL (ABC) - PCB

A bit rusty with some bad planning for The Wall. Worthless bird gain for some reason.
Looking forward to playing some more this week!

[TrippyCake]

TrippyCake - 3,755,700 - 5 - Wild Snail (Wait until the game starts - I guess that one is the same as ABC) - Blackoakmame

[RaidenViper]

RaidenViper - 3,541,360 - 5 - Wild-Snail (c) - Mame

Would prefer if we played a version with visible bullets...

[Eaglet]

Sharpen your eyes, son.

[CStarFlare]

CSF - 4,845,880 - 5 - Gain (A) - MAME

Broke my medal chain by a hair in the middle of stage 4 - should have been 5 mil, easily.

[CStarFlare]

CSF - 6,372,420 - 5 - Gain (A) - MAME

I'm suddenly loving this game. I do hope someone beats this score though, because I didn't record an inp.

Messed up the bomb on Mad Ball 2. Could have had a reaaaal nice run if I'd hit it - maybe been able to get through Black Heart with the extra life?

[CptRansom]

Only ever kinda half-assed this game a few times over the last few years... started to seriously go at it an hour ago.

CptRansom - 3,951,710 - 3 - Gain (ABC) - MAME

That score was a punch to the balls.

[trap15]

Holy fuck hngggghhh

trap15 - 3543260 - 3 - Wild Snail (ABC) - MAME

[blackoak]

blackoak - 6,563,830 - 7 - Wild Snail (ABC) - PCB

New personal best, though was just a throwaway credit. Now to get to learning the score/milking tricks in MAME...

[KAI]

KAI - 6,137,620 - 6 - Wild Snail (ABC)

Need more milk.

[CptRansom]

CptRansom - 4,751,040 - 5 - Wild Snail (ABC) - MAME

I'm falling in love with this game.

[Frenetic]

Frenetic - 1,871,910 - 4 - Gain (ABC) - blackoakMAME

[Macaw]

I hadn't played this for years! Totally forgot how satisfying it can be.

Macaw - 6,387,360 - 5 - Wild Snail (ABC) - MAME

[Deca]

deca - 6,519,860 - 5 - Gain (C) - shmupmame 2.2

Fucking idiotic mistake on Black Heart drones, one dropped a medal and I dove straight into one of the other drones fire on reflex. I can do better, I haven't even beat my personal best yet, it's just a matter of having time to do better...tomorrow is my last day to play, really Thanks for giving me a full uninterrupted week for Gun Frontier milking and 3 days for for one of my favorite games.

[Xeno]

Xeno - 2,801,830 - 4 - WILD SNAIL (ABC) - PCB

[coturnix]

coturnix - 2,688,000 - 3 - Wild Snail(B) - MAMEUI64 0.147u2

Good thing this game got picked. Learned how to switch to Japanese version (lives every 2 million in Europe version was driving me nuts), and discovered there are different ship types depending on the button you push when choosing it! This B type Wild Snail felt faster than the others, dunno about the green bullets (i don´t see the differences explained in the strategy thread).

To put the cream on top, i make my best run ever (no doubt helped by extra ships at 1m) and reach third boss, very nice start

[Xeno]

Xeno - 3,955,400 - 5 - WILD SNAIL (ABC) - PCB

[Zerst]

Not in tournament but here's a replay I just did of A,392,640 with Gain.

http://replay.marpirc.net/r/bgaregga