STGT'10 Week 3: Mars Matrix

[TrevHead (TVR)]

Visually speaking, I think stage 5 with the rotating balls looks quite good, head and shoulders above the other 5 levels.

BTW a couple of questions, Is there a way to change the size of a cube that is dropped, I skimmed thru the strategy guide before it put me to sleep with algebra it remember i mentioning something about want lots of small cubes with the ocational big one to keep the chain timer topped up.

Plus on stage 5 whats causing all the cubes to bounce up when i destroy a ball with my cannon thingy weapon, is there some hidden mechanic i dont know about?

[CRI]

CRI - Fatloli Luftwaffe - 255,948,739,690 - 1,686,425 - 6 - Mosquito 2 - PCB (Japan / difficulty level: 3)


got the score on this awesome setup:


it's a astro city with blast city panel and sony tv.
astro ghetto city!

now i'm home and this awesome game will go right into the egret 2.

[Acid King]

Worst case of restartitis since RFJ, too. But otherwise I'm having a lot of fun with it!

Really? I have yet to get the fever from this game.

[Battletoad]

Battletoad - Fatloli Luftwaffe - 160,101,292,930 - 1,226,353 - 5 - Mosquito 2 - MAME (US)

I can´t see me improving much further. Possibly my last score. Well I should improve my survival skills, stage 6 gives lots of points. At least that´s more likely than me improving the chaining.

BTW a couple of questions, Is there a way to change the size of a cube that is dropped, I skimmed thru the strategy guide before it put me to sleep with algebra it remember i mentioning something about want lots of small cubes with the ocational big one to keep the chain timer topped up.

Plus on stage 5 whats causing all the cubes to bounce up when i destroy a ball with my cannon thingy weapon, is there some hidden mechanic i dont know about?

All cubes in this game bounce up? However for stage 5: when you destroy one of those red enemies, all bullets will turn into gold cubes. How you destroy them doesn´t matter.
The sizes of the cubes are fixed as far as I know. Reflected shots will always be +1 cubes, higher cubes are only dropped by certain enemy types. You want to collect many small cubes (or let´s just say many cubes) because they raise the experience better than few big cubes do. If you collect one +50 cube without chaining, your EXP only goes +50. If you collect fifty +1 cubes in a chain, the EXP goes +1+2+3+...+50.

[Kiken]

Kiken - Drink N' Fly - 7856619830 - 117855 - 3 - Mosquito 2 - MAME

[Teku]

Teku - Team Tax Haven - 26,571,224,440 - 239037 - 4 - Mosquito 2 - MAME

[Juganawt]

Juganawt - Underdogs - 39,549,175,570 - 281,758 - ALL - Mosquito 2 - MAMEUI64 0.139



Finally 1CC'ed this game! I only had 1 second left to kill the last boss, and I was on my last life, but I did it!

For some reason I can't chain though, my EXP and points suck :S

[TrevHead (TVR)]

TrevHead (TVR) - League of Generally Nice People - 3,640,985,190 - 92,036 - 3 - Mosquito 2 - Laggless MAME

The more i play this, the more i like it, I appluade Dex for choosing MM for this weeks game.

BTW With Mars Matrix been a popular shmup I would of thought more ppl had submitted High scores, atleast as many as weeks 1 & 2 had.
Maybe im wrong about Mars Matrix been popular with shmuppers. Too much like a danmaku for retro shmup fans? Also too different from Cave for the Cave / Bullet Hell nuts to like in any great number?

[Aleanil]

Aleanil - Team Lower Quartile - 20,371,847,400 - 259,695 - 3 - Mosquito 2 - PCB

I can either get a good survival run or a good chain... if I could ever just combine the two, I could break into 12 digits. Still a few more days to play though, I'll keep hoping.

[dex]

Scoreboard updated.

[zakk]

Why does player 2 have used continues there?

Juganawt - Underdogs - 39,549,175,570 - 281,758 - ALL - Mosquito 2 - MAMEUI64 0.139



Finally 1CC'ed this game! I only had 1 second left to kill the last boss, and I was on my last life, but I did it!

For some reason I can't chain though, my EXP and points suck :S

[Kollision]

Kollision - Garrincha Shooting Team - 101,842,097,880 - 981,604 - 4 - Mosquito 2 - MAME



Died on the 4th boss.
Need to re-practice him as much as I do stage 4.

[Skyline]

Skyline - Team Bemaniso - 84,757,081,920 - 963,137 - 4 - Mosquito-2 - MAME

[ColonelFatso]

ColonelFatso - team with no name - 8,045,438,860 - 3 - mos-1 - mame

Awesome game, but chaining FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

[ShadowWraith]

ShadowWraith - Team Sweet Tacos - 43,934,920,570 - 895,089 - 5 - Mosquito 2 - MAME

[Nifty]

I actually really like the chaining. What annoys me is that unless I do the absolute exact same thing every single time at any point past stage 1 I wind up dead.

DoubleThink - The Team With No Name - 12,613,232,120 - 170,530 - 3 - Mosquito 2 - MAME

Finally got a run that no-missed up to stage 3, but OH SURE I die three times on the way to the boss because it only takes half a second to get boxed into a corner by those stupid little turrets that I can't even shoot at. Current plans for this week now are to get the extend on stage 4 and just get as far as I can from there. I don't really care to learn any more than that, and it doesn't help that the stage 4 music is nasty :/

[VgameT]

VgameT - Haru's Time Machine - 47,462,315,100 - 518,502 - Stage 4 - Mosquito 2 - MAME

Sweet run! No-death up to the stage 3 boss. Then I died twice, another time on stage 4, barely beat the midboss and got the extend, and then died twice more shortly thereafter. Once I get more of the game down I think I can improve this by a lot...assuming I don't explode in a geyser of rage first.

[KennyMan666]

Whelp

KennyMan666 - Team Sweden - 8,446,450,960 - 217,143 - 3 - Mosquito 2 - MAME

[ryu]

Getting tired of restarting on stage 1 after losing the chain for the most retarded reasons over and over again.

ryu - Mechaloli Luftwaffe - 860,435,380 - 2 - Mosquito 2 - MAME

[Sasupoika]

Sasupoika - INFINITE FLAMINGOES - 74,931,615,740 - 990,975 - 4 - Mosquito 2 - MAME

Fucked up stage 4 good time. What a shame...

[ryu]

First time I managed an accetable score for stage 1. fucked up stage 2 though.

ryu - Mechaloli Luftwaffe - 1,688,954,970 - 2 - Mosquito 2 - MAME

[Matsunaga]

Matsunaga - Underdogs - 8,491,817,360 - 116,826 - 3 - Mosquito 2 - MAME

[Battletoad]

Battletoad - Fatloli Luftwaffe - 196,615,480,680 - 1,209,255 - 6 - Mosquito 2 - MAME (US)

Sadly no 200 billion, but holy shit, didn´t even expect this score! The stage 5 boss scared the shit out of me, lost my second to last life on his first form. But somehow I got him beaten, with nervous dodging and tap reflects on his last form. Oh and I no missed the stage 4 boss. First time ever.

[DJW]

F##K Mars Matrix.
DJW - Mechaloli Luftwaffe - 11,035,709,000 - 229,214 - 3 - Mosquito 2 - Mame (US)

[Rhete]

Rhete - Team Sexy Socks - 11,786,196,880 - 189,556 - 3 - Mosquito 2 - MAME

[Herr Schatten]

Herr Schatten - Team Oldschoolers - 1,644,342,500 - 68,370 - 2 - Mosquito 2 - MAME

[Hattori Hanzo]

HANZo - Team Dickpenis Cockenstrudel - 8,980,000,000 - 100001 - 3 - Mosquito 2 - MameFX lagless 137b

I haven't screenshoted and only remember the first three digits. I was one enemy away from beating a teammate
I also don't remember the Exp, but I got an extend and also doubt that I will be tied with that score.

And thanks dex for choosing a game that is fun, not something like xexex all over again :p

[CRI]

CRI - Fatloli Luftwaffe - 293,248,801,150 - 1,680,938 - 6 - Mosquito 2 - PCB


lost 2 lifes at the st.4 boss 2nd form and broken chain at stage 5.
so there is still room for improvement.

[sirmax]

sirmax - Zombieloli Kampfgeschwader - 5,861,113,390 - 121068 - 3 - Mosquito2 - Mame

Yeah, better than expected. Got the extend and lost it immediately.

[DJW]

DJW - Mechaloli Luftwaffe - 12,713,507,090 - 220,672 - 3 - Mosquito 2