TRP-STGT 2014 Week 1: Raiden Fighters

[goober]

whatever



goober - 4544870 - some number - Aegis

[Chaos]

old

chaos-44,058,480-C-slave (judge spear)-shumpmame 4.2

[ColonelFatso]

ColonelFatso - 13,474,610 - 4 - Slave (Judge Spear) - MAME

I was a lot better at RF2 and better still at RFJ, I think. Less time to play this year is probably the culprit.

[Aleksei]

This is harder than I thought.
I completely ignored scoring and it ended up being my best score.



Aleksei - 11,735,630 - Judge Spear - 7 - ShmupMAME V42

[Sakurei]

First credit after watching a superplay. Last credit after watching a superplay. It's my typical le turboscrub run. Do the most basic (X-medals in this case) thing and then bomb your way to 1cc. I don't think I know any secret past stage 3, but got a lot of accidental quickshotkills. I laughed when I actually broke 30m, even if it's still garbage.

Sakurei - 30,359,090 - Judge Spear - All - Shmupmame 2.2

Regarding my shot, when I collected the S-icons, I got those option things, so does that make my shot be Slave (Judge Spear)? I have no fucking idea.

http://abload.de/img/unbenanntcvkjb.jpg

V thanks. My slaves were different, so I guess this is right then.

[dunpeal2064]

If you picked Judge Spear, it would just be that. The S icons just give you slaves either way. If your ship was identical to the slaves, then you would have picked Slave (Judge Spear).

If I understood your question correctly that is. Nice score btw.

[spadgy]

New score from me. I'm wondering if I'd do better just ignoring scoring and secrets and play for the long game.

Anyway...

spadgy - XX,XXX,XXX - X -XXX - XXX

[Another new score below]

[cham0mile]

cham -8,986,630 - 3 - Slave (Judge Spear) - shmupmame42


Thank you based secrets.
So close to that tech bonus, maybe tomorrow.
This has been a great learning experience.

[Pinehed]

Pinehed - 20,281,390 - 6 - Slave (Judge Spear) - MAME

Don't think I have the willpower to try and squeeze an additional million or two out of RF. Great game, but I totally overdosed it.

[Despatche]

sajgmasklgnmlskenb i finally get x-medals in stage 2 akjsnvjkanivesonboeis why won't this game just let me have eight digits opajgpovneanbpnesnpnpaniasebknlsklnb

Big thanks to Jeneki to explaining how to get 100k medals here: http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/944128-r ... s/49453661

And BIG THANKS to YOU for pointing that out.
Now this fuckin' thing is finally clear for me, and I feel compelled to try this god-awful game again.

oh my god people actually are refusing to read the first post why why why why why why fuck this forum

<actuallydidit>

THANK YOU christ

[spadgy]

And another new score from me! Probably the last, so no more padding out the thread with my continual updates... sorry Trap15!

spadgy - 20,831,600 - 6 - Slave (Judge Spear) - 360

[Despatche]

Despatche - 11,086,700 - 4 - Judge Spear - MAME

i won

[pandoraXhunter]

pandoraXhunter - 7,231,190 - 3 - Devastator - Shmupmame 4.2



A score, I did with Devastator. Personally, I prefer the Devastator over Aegis because its weapons was way cooler . Still one more day, need... to.... get... that tech bonus.

[THD]

THD - 10,578,000 - 4 - Slave (Judge Spear) - Shmupmame 4.2ui



Finally got that medal chain and a level 4 score.
No idea if I'll have time to put anymore credits in.

[Kollision]

sajgmasklgnmlskenb i finally get x-medals in stage 2 akjsnvjkanivesonboeis why won't this game just let me have eight digits opajgpovneanbpnesnpnpaniasebknlsklnb

Big thanks to Jeneki to explaining how to get 100k medals here: http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/944128-r ... s/49453661

And BIG THANKS to YOU for pointing that out.
Now this fuckin' thing is finally clear for me, and I feel compelled to try this god-awful game again.

oh my god people actually are refusing to read the first post why why why why why why fuck this forum

YEAH WE PLAY THEM GAMEZ WE DON'T LIKE TO READ WE SUCK

Seriously though, Gheg's work is awesome, but Jeneki's description was exactly what I needed to understand
I don't want people saying "you just don't understand"

[mastermx]

mastermx - 20,742,470 - 6 - Slave (Judge Spear) - MAME



This game becomes so much fun after you've sorted out the medals in stage 1-2.

[Frenetic]

Ghegs and Alluro95's guide is really great, don't get me wrong, but just to clarify things why Jeneki's guide (http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/944128-r ... s/49453661) was so important for me (and I think Kollision) was that it really explained Raiden Fighters' medaling system in depth.

I would get so frustrated having a drone killed that once I got to 10k medals, but in Jeneki's guide he says they'll stay that way at 10k. So, I would get another drone and then still have time to kill a miclus to get to 100k medals instead of restarting over and over.

Jeneki also includes something which is very key, he mentions in his guide that in order to increase medal value, you must make sure that there are not other medals on the screen or else any new medals spawned will be at that fixed value. This became very apparent on the last miclus on the Forest Stage when I would kill one blue ship and not pick up the medal before hovering over the miclus to quickly max out medals to 10k.

oh my god people actually are refusing to read the first post why why why why why why fuck this forum
YEAH WE PLAY THEM GAMEZ WE DON'T LIKE TO READ WE SUCK

[mastermx]

Ghegs and Alluro95's guide is really great, don't get me wrong, but just to clarify things why Jeneki's guide (http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/944128-r ... s/49453661) was so important for me (and I think Kollision) was that it really explained Raiden Fighters' medaling system in depth.

I agree. This was the case with me. I'd seen the emporium guide but I was still confused, jeneki cleared things up for me.

[Blackbird]

Dropping in a score in case I don't get another chance later. Not sure if I'll be able to improve it more, there are so many things that can go wrong in this game and bork your score.

Blackbird - 15,621,140 - 5 - Judge Spear - ShmupMAME 4.2

[Lilium]

Update:

Lilium - 30,747,800 - 7 - Judge Spear - ShmupMAME 4.2



This time I learned how to get X-medals. Quite an annoying process but from then on, it was just a question of getting enough runs past stage 3 which I found to be the easiest to get sniped in. Most of the patterns in this game doesn't seem very hard but the sniper enemies and the X-medal system still makes the game annoying. Hope that next weeks game is more fun since this one is usually a boring game punctuated by occasional challenges.

PS: Real good job on getting those 40m+ scores people!

[Kollision]

a little tiny bit less kuso

Kollision - 8,783,950 - 4 - Aegis - Shmupmame 3b

[Sakurei]

I fucking hate myself. Why did I do this to myself.

Sakurei - 40,819,920 - All - Judge Spear - Shmupmame 2.2

I forgot to take a screen when I beat the last boss. I hope I won't be forced to repeat this with an on-time screenshot or some shit, lol. This with a game over would actually require me to play. Missed a miclus in stage 7. I was tempted to reset if not for the fact that I had already beaten my PB. Also dropped the chain right before the stage 6 boss. I don't even know what I missed. Only collected a few bigger secret (like the fucking plane in stage 2 or stage 6 quickkill fairything) Ice stage miclus is fucking obscure. I'll probably never play this again. Got some double kills on some easy things like the cranes in stage 3 and some turrets in stage 7. Nothing fancy. As I said, 35m is free, 40m is little effort.

http://abload.de/img/unbenannttgj0u.jpg

[BIL]

BIL - 13,369,170 - 4 - Judge Spear - ShmupMAME 4.2

Will try to improve a bit, haven't had much time this week.

[japanesesuperplayer]

JPS - 11,268,510 - 3 - Slave (Judge Spear) - Shmupmame 2.2

I made it to stage 3! Avoiding the slaves in stage 1 is hard!! I'm ganbatteing my best though!

[CStarFlare]

I used to love this game when I was playing Aces on default. Five years later, I still can't deal with Arcade difficulty's speed.

CSF - 14,513,490 - 4 - Judge Spear (Slave) - X360

[Emuser]

Emuser - 36,909,300 - 7 - 360

Not sure how much more of this I can take, I might be done.

[galagaking]

galagaking - 3,327,410 - 3 - chaser slave - mame

i like this because it has galaga ships

[Nifty]

Nifty - 23,420,600 - 6 - Slave (Judge Spear) - MAME Plus! Ash-Build

Second target reached, I'll play a little bit more later

[EmperorIng]

I used to love this game when I was playing Aces on default. Five years later, I still can't deal with Arcade difficulty's speed.

CSF - 14,513,490 - 4 - Judge Spear (Slave) - X360

Keep at it; one more day to go! I'm glad one of us at least got the technical bonus.

I am still practicing - it only took me up till now to know just what exactly was going on in terms of medal scoring.

[Icarus]

Thought I'd join in the festivities this week, as I wanted to get a 50mil score in this game and finally put the game to rest. Been practicing the game the past couple of days.

NON-PARTICIPANT
Icarus - 50,762,390 - ALL - Slave (Judge Spear) - X360



I expect some people to beat this, but I'm happy as I have finally achieved my target with this game, and will not push any further with it.
(51.5mil to 52mil is the absolute maximum I can get with my route.)

Twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/icarusfw/c/4274203
Replay also up on J-XBLA.