Holiday Season Retro Tournament - ROUND 4

[system11]

Game: Juno First
MAME set: junofrst
Settings
Lives - 3
Difficulty - 1

Code: Select all

Scores will be updated daily

      Player  |  Score
--------------+------------
        Zerst | 670540
     Frenetic | 248170
        xient | 239190
  DoubleThink | 181000
     system11 | 170070
          yyr | 143040
    DocHauser | 133300
Herr Schatten | 80600
          1up | 49570
Iori Branford | 40900

[Iori Branford]

Iori Branford - 40,900

[system11]

system11 - 139170

[1up]

1up - 49,570

wave 5

[system11]

system11 - 170070

[yyr]

yyr - 143040
Fun little game.

[Frenetic]

Frenetic - 124,200

[xient]

xient - 149940

[Herr Schatten]

Herr Schatten - 51,700

The game is much harder than it looks.

[xient]

xient - 204380

[DocHauser]

DocHauser - 133,300

[Nifty]

DoubleThink - 118,950

I was expecting this game; I wasn't expecting vertical momentum and bouncing enemy shots

[Herr Schatten]

Herr Schatten - 80,600

[Frenetic]

Frenetic - 248,170

[xient]

xient - 239190

[Zerst]

Sorry for the compression. I have an inp and a higher size pic.
Zerst - 670,540 (wave 28)

[xient]

... nice!

[Nifty]

DoubleThink - 163,470

Any tips on how to deal with those homing bullets?

[Ed Oscuro]

Scroll them off the screen.

BTW, everybody knows to wait for the bonus before attacking all the enemies (to get the multiplier higher and more easily), right?

[Zerst]

It's completely unintuitive, but try doing a standard shmup tap-dodging rhythm. The game constantly reads your input and traces bullets accordingly, and games that do that can be solved by lots of quick jerky movement. The inertia messes up a lot of that, but if you just tap dodge slightly horizontally, 90%+ of the stuff will miss you. (Even the homing bullets won't hit you, until you reach the side of the screen, at which point you can just use a warp)

[Ed Oscuro]

Wait, are we talking about the intelligent bullets or the standard dumb bullets?

[Zerst]

Both. The intelligent ones seem to read your input and your ship's inertia, and travel towards where your ship will end up extrapolated based on that after a certain delay. So if you just slowly tap with the right rhythm, they'll just kind of hobble along behind you harmlessly until you need to get around them. The regular bullets also use this pathing (but only one "check" instead of every second or so), and it's only an issue if a ship shoots horizontally at you.

Edit: Here's an inp http://replay.marpirc.net/r/junofrst

[Nifty]

DoubleThink - 181,000

I started dying to other things instead

[system11]

Round closed!