STGT'09 Week 2 - Raiden Fighters Jet

[D3m0nZ]

dex - Team Sweet Tacos - 53671072 - Level 40 - Slave (Judge Spear) - MAME

blarf

D3m0nZ - Team Mancos - 36,415,166 - Phase 1 - Slave (Judge Spear) - RFA (US)

Did you select arcade difficulty?

Scoreboard updated.

Tonight i will post another picture, now im in the job.

Arcade was selected, but meh, wait for the picture.

[Large]

Large - Gothloli Luftwaffe - 33.546.990 - Level 40 - Ixion - PCB

Good run for me.

[LLCoolDave]

LLCoolDave - Team Hard Gay - 43,222,388 - Sim Level 40 - Slave (Judge Spear) - Mame Plus

Died at the same time as the Level 40 boss by hitting the very last bullet, I seriously need to figure out how to deal with Level 30. Will get 50M this week, not sure how much higher I can get.

[dex]

Arcade was selected, but meh, wait for the picture.

Okay. The 'US' in the submission made me weary, sorry. I added you to the scoreboard now.

Guess what happened to what.

[Ruldra]

Ruldra - Garrincha Shooting Team - 53,777,424 - Phase 1 - Slave - MAME

[Icarus]

Mmmm, RFJ. 90mil Phase2 is a good target, 120mil+ ALL3 for the experts. Good luck.
I expect good things from you, Twiddle. ^_-
(And I'm playing along this week for fun, as my J360 and Aces arrived last week.)

[mrtie]

MrTie - TeamLetsDestroySTGT09 - 35,495,186 - Phase 1 - Slave - PCB

[Enhasa]

This was a great week for labor day, good planning! I got this late last night but I was too tired to post it and got distracted. And I had to get up early today and I'm paying the price.

Enhasa - Team Sweet Tacos - 62,865,392 - Phase 1 - Slave (Judge Spear) - MAME

[Zaarock]

Zaarock - Team Downrank - 34,188,563 - Sim 35 - Ixion - MAME

notes: lost a life on Sim15, then beat the boss without using any bombs. Got through Sim20 without losing any lives. Got sniped and then screwed up my bombing on the Sim35 boss.

I liked Sim35 a lot, it was like 30 except a lot of fun(and the bullets were visible). I also like such level size boss levels anyway.

Beat Ed Oscuros score by 7000 pts, heheh.

[mrtie]

MrTie - TeamLetsDestroySTGT09 - 41,839,204 - Phase 2 - Slave(Ixion) - PCB

[Herr Schatten]

I had trouble last year getting this to run on my PPC Mac, trying MacMAME 0.103u2, MAME OS X 0.124, and sdlmame 0.127u7 and 0.131. However, I just discovered that MacMAME 0.96u4 (0.97u1?) runs it, albeit with a few graphical glitches. If anyone else has a machine like mine and has problems, that version is available here.

I'm much in the same boat. Thanks for posting the link. I do find that the glitches make the game almost unplayble, though.

Ah, well, however, here's my abysmal first score:

Herr Schatten - Team Oldschoolers - 9,528,688 - Sim 15 - Slave (Judge Spear) - MAME

[Danbo]

why are there so many tanks

Danbo Daxter - MANGO SENTINAL - 47,574,018 - Phase 2 - Slave (Ixion) - MAME

[Enhasa]

I've never been a fan of rank-based difficulty (punishing a player for scoring well is poor game design, duh)

Just saw this post but luckily for you, real-life/most-games subscribe to the rich-get-richer/win-more school of duh design.

Once a long time ago, I considered making a thread with the goal of correlating rank preference and political positions, but that would be really stupid plus I think I already have the answer on that one.

[Dale]

Dale - Team Lower Quartile - 31,399,692 - Miclus - Real stage 1 - Mame32plus

So this is what it's like to play a modern shmup for score. Thanks for the explanation Icarus. Has anyone started getting the gold bars at the start of stage2?

[DMC]

Enhasa: haha, brilliant idea. I'm far on the left and love rank, as predicted?

[Necronopticous]

Has anyone started getting the gold bars at the start of stage2?

I start to get gold bars at the end of stage 1.

[Dale]

Has anyone started getting the gold bars at the start of stage2?

I start to get gold bars at the end of stage 1.

Damn dude, nice. Where do you manage to find nine after you get the max medal?

[ColonelFatso]

There's a miclus under the first parked plane on the right during the boss battle.

[Zaarock]

Has anyone started getting the gold bars at the start of stage2?

I start to get gold bars at the end of stage 1.

Damn dude, nice. Where do you manage to find nine after you get the max medal?

The miclus under the first plane to the right of the boss. You can get a max medal with all the medals before that in the level(remember to quick shot the medium sized planes at the start or one of the tanks wont show up) Then just trigger the miclus and shoot and you should trigger the bars.

edit: lol @ 3 posts at once

[Necronopticous]

There is a Miclus conveniently placed underneath one of the jets parked on the right side at the beginning of the boss fight. You can max your medal just as you reveal him, collect it, and let the miclus spew out medals for the nine required. There are two more medals dropped by popcorn tanks after that, too, so you can go into the the second stage at the 30,000 level on the gold bars.

[mrtie]

MrTie - TeamLetsDestroySTGT09 - 47,172,720 - Slave(Ixion) - Sim 50 - PCB

Worse survival, much better medaling.

[crithit5000]

crithit5000 - letsdestroystgt09 - 32,386,034 - Sim 30 - Slave (Ixion) - MAME

Holy crap, fuck Sim 30. My eyes can't take that shit.

[Warp_Rattler]

Warp_Rattler - Shooting Snobs - 19,601,715 - 20 - Slave (Blue Javelin)

So can anyone tell me what the deal is with collecting the eagle medal with 9+ other medals onscreen, and not a damn thing happens? Alternatively, when collecting the eagle medal on a dodgy moment ("Did I get it before that one floated offscreen??"), why does it sometimes take a good 5+ seconds for all onscreen medals to disappear with confirmation that you are now in medal mode?

[Ravid]

feeble improvement
Ravid - Team Royale - 56,407,754 - 40 - Slave (Ixion)

[Warp_Rattler]

I've never been a fan of rank-based difficulty (punishing a player for scoring well is poor game design, duh)

Just saw this post but luckily for you, real-life/most-games subscribe to the rich-get-richer/win-more school of duh design.
Once a long time ago, I considered making a thread with the goal of correlating rank preference and political positions, but that would be really stupid plus I think I already have the answer on that one.

Pretty sure I've got a good understanding of the way real-life works regarding "rank", thanks. What if any relation that has to my preference for game design concepts vis-a-vis rewarding a player for doing well vs. the inverse of increased difficulty caused by higher scoring, which seems most represented in this particular genre, I'll never know.

Rank preference and political position is a cute idea, but I've never been a fan of trying to force real-life meaning out of gaming preferences or concepts. It's one of those things that I'm sure the harder you look you'll find correlation for anything.

[dex]

Scoreboard updated.

[Rupert H]

Rupert H - Team Royale - 30,473,998 - LV.40 - Slave (Ixion) - Xbox360

I have genuine love for this game. Possibly the most demanding (not necessarily difficult) shooting game in exsistence. So much to think about and at such frantic pace.

[dex]

dex - Team Sweet Tacos - 64159891 - Level 50 - Slave (Judge Spear) - MAME

Biggest scoreboard update in history!

[Kiken]

Kiken - Drink N Fly - 77,517,890 - PH2 - Slave (JS) - XBox 360

18 hours to go.

[DJ Incompetent]

Goddamn fast planes. How do you know? How do you know?

DJ Incompetent - Drink 'n Fly - 58,820,174 - P1 - Slave (JS) - RFA (US)