Tviks Gradius III (Asia) 3-7 mame replay file

landshark · Post by **landshark** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 3:45 am

Ok, I normally would have kept something like this in the Hiscores area where it all originated. But seeing someone get to 3-7 in this unforgiving game is downright amazing.

And it's Tviks.

http://home.comcast.net/~landshark9/Gra ... _tviks.rar

You'll need Mame 0.100 and it's the Asia version.

I haven't watched yet it, but I saw his 2-6 replay and it was insane.

Shalashaska · Post by **Shalashaska** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 3:51 am

Will definately give it a look, cheers for hosting.

mannerbot · Post by **mannerbot** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 4:08 am

If I liked Gradius more I'd probably want to have Tvik's babies. Thanks.

captain ahar · Post by **captain ahar** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 4:55 pm

i wish i could see it, mame is sanskrit.

yes, i am whiny by nature.

landshark · Post by **landshark** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 6:10 pm

I wish I had moderation over this thread so I could ban all posts complaining about how hard and how much work it is to get a mame replay going.

No offense Cpt. Ahar - it's just frustrating to me because it's so easy to do. Now if it's a moral thing, that's a different story.

parodius · Post by **parodius** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 6:16 pm

Watched it earlier, awesome skills.

Interesting to watch but I still cannot get myself to play one of Konami's horis that don't involve some penguins and a few octopuses.

Bloodreign · Post by **Bloodreign** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 6:27 pm

Highlight game that the replay is for, click file, playback input wait for it to load, enjoy, it's that easy. Just make sure you have the exact game for the replay to work (ie.. Gradius 3 Asia version).

xipe · Post by **xipe** » Tue Oct 04, 2005 9:32 pm

Some of the dodging is unreal!

The 3rd loops moia stage is awesome.

landshark · Post by **landshark** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 4:19 am

Seems like he just can't catch a break in the last level of both loops so he can have full options for level 1.

I still can't believe he recovers from a death on the Moai stage and defeats the miniboss with nothing.

Tviks - do you have any plans to do the bonus stages?

tviks · Post by **tviks** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 4:52 am

Thanks, landshark.

You probably should have waited though until I beat this game with difficulty maxed out (beyond loop 4) before making a topic.

. Anyway, I might complete the bonus stages on the first loop next time, although I don't find them that interesting, and they'd also slow down my progress. Also you can't score much in them.

I recommend using MAME32 for those who are unfamiliar with the command line version. You can get it at http://www.emulator-zone.com/. After that there shouldn't be any problems finding out how to play the .inp file.

Since people don't seem to give Gradius the credit it deserves, I'm thinking of starting to practice some more popular title on MAME someday to make more name for myself. I just don't know which. Any suggestions?

landshark · Post by **landshark** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 2:15 pm

Both loops of Gunbird 2?

Though, Gradius III is well known to be a terribly difficult shmup; very few of whom can get through the 1st loop at all let alone multiloop it.

MSZ · Post by **MSZ** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 9:33 pm

Gradius is easily the most popular shmup in Japan.

But yea, it doesn't get enough credit in the western world.

tviks · Post by **tviks** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 10:04 pm

landshark wrote:Both loops of Gunbird 2?

Heh, too bad that I find that game just too lame to seriously get into it. I'm only as good in Gradius as much I love it, you know.

And I'm definetly no fan of vertical shmups, they are all just too much of the same for me. Hell, I guess it is safe to say that I don't care about anything else than Gradius. And R-type.

MSZ wrote:Gradius is easily the most popular shmup in Japan.

Really? I didn't know that. That's good to hear. You know, one thing that I love about Gradius is that it has always been in english, even if it originates from Japan. Even Gradius V had great english voices in the japanese version. For some reason, I just get annoyed if I hear those japanese screamings and grunts, like in Gunbird. And I'm not a huge fan of anime either.

ArrogantBastard · Post by **ArrogantBastard** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 10:09 pm

What about the Salamander series?

MSZ · Post by **MSZ** » Wed Oct 05, 2005 10:14 pm

tviks wrote: You know, one thing that I love about Gradius is that it has always been in english, even if it originates from Japan. Even Gradius V had great english voices in the japanese version. For some reason, I just get annoyed if I hear those japanese screamings and grunts, like in Gunbird. And I'm not a huge fan of anime either.

No wonder why you don't play Parodius at all.

But hey, I have one less competition now, a very strong one too.

landshark · Post by **landshark** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 4:01 am

tviks wrote:
landshark wrote:Both loops of Gunbird 2?
Heh, too bad that I find that game just too lame to seriously get into it. I'm only as good in Gradius as much I love it, you know. And I'm definetly no fan of vertical shmups, they are all just too much of the same for me. Hell, I guess it is safe to say that I don't care about anything else than Gradius. And R-type.

I don't personally like Gunbird's atmosphere either. But as far as a challenge, it's pretty high up there. Seems harder than Dragon Blaze.

SFKhoa · Post by **SFKhoa** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 1:56 pm

Also consider the Strikers 1945 Series.

Klatrymadon · Post by **Klatrymadon** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 4:05 pm

Really, really impressive stuff. Just out of curiosity, what controller or stick were you using?

ArrogantBastard · Post by **ArrogantBastard** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 4:47 pm

He mentioned in the Gradius III High Score thread that he uses Playstation controller.

Klatrymadon · Post by **Klatrymadon** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 5:32 pm

Ah, cheers.

MSZ · Post by **MSZ** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 9:09 pm

SFKhoa wrote:Also consider the Strikers 1945 Series.

He said he doesn't like vert shmups.

tonyjh · Post by **tonyjh** » Sun Oct 09, 2005 3:28 am

Great replay! I would like to see more like this, especially from players like tviks.

landshark · Post by **landshark** » Sun Oct 09, 2005 5:24 am

tonyjh wrote:Great replay! I would like to see more like this, especially from players like tviks.

http://marp.retrogames.com

Zero · Post by **Zero** » Sun Oct 09, 2005 6:54 am

Awsome run. I just got into playing Gradius III lately again, and I'm enjoying the heck out of it.