Flying Shark/Sky Shark

Large · Post by **Large** » Mon Jan 16, 2006 12:52 pm

AWJ wrote:As I get closer to perfection in stage 1 (letting fewer green planes escape to the sides) I'm starting to see the 1-up at the beginning of stage 2 appear more regularly. For a while I thought it appeared if you got over 80000 points in stage 1, but last night I finished stage 1 with 80020 points and it didn't appear.

Yeah, this was one of my thoughts, too. But it's not right. Maybe it is something like the little buggy in Tiger Heli...

Large

AWJ · Post by **AWJ** » Tue Jan 17, 2006 8:15 pm

Large wrote:
AWJ wrote:As I get closer to perfection in stage 1 (letting fewer green planes escape to the sides) I'm starting to see the 1-up at the beginning of stage 2 appear more regularly. For a while I thought it appeared if you got over 80000 points in stage 1, but last night I finished stage 1 with 80020 points and it didn't appear.
Yeah, this was one of my thoughts, too. But it's not right. Maybe it is something like the little buggy in Tiger Heli...

The little buggy appears if your number of shots fired since the start of the game is divisible by 16. The first one is easy--destroy every target up to the railroad (including both railroad barriers) with one shot and it'll appear. The later ones are pretty much dumb luck, especially if you go for the other 10000 point easter egg in stage 1.

Large · Post by **Large** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 10:15 am

AWJ wrote:The little buggy appears if your number of shots fired since the start of the game is divisible by 16. The first one is easy--destroy every target up to the railroad (including both railroad barriers) with one shot and it'll appear. The later ones are pretty much dumb luck, especially if you go for the other 10000 point easter egg in stage 1.

I know. My point is: maybe it is a similar system in Flying Shark.

AWJ · Post by **AWJ** » Mon Feb 06, 2006 9:56 pm

Is this thread still being maintained? My score from weeks ago hasn't been added...

Tomtom · Post by **Tomtom** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 4:53 am

Sorry about that AWJ, I know I saw your score, but my computer's being weird and I think it must've shut off as I was about to edit the post or something...at any rate, it's done now.

Large · Post by **Large** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 9:31 am

Yeah, I finally looped it yesterday! It was a great fealing after all. ^_^

797530 - Area 142.

But I recognized today that some of the dips were changed since I played it before during our last arcade meeting. So I think the score might not be counting for the highscore table. Could somebody please tell me what dip-settings and difficulty setting/bonus playes/extend are the default ones?

Best Regards
Large

llaoyllakcuf · Post by **llaoyllakcuf** » Mon Jun 05, 2006 9:15 pm

Could somebody please tell me what dip-settings and difficulty setting/bonus playes/extend are the default ones?

all the dip switches should be off for default settings.

default:
- normal/medium difficulty
- 1 coin = 1 credit = 3 ships
- first extend at 50,000 and then every 150,000

link

belated edit: changed url

Large · Post by **Large** » Tue Jun 06, 2006 6:26 am

Thanks for the answer. Well, I think not all the dips are off and I think there have been more than three ships. So please don't count my score for the highscore table.

BTW: Yesterday I played again and got 1.034.410 (area 170)

. I have to try this again with the 100% correct dip settings.

Regards
Large

Large · Post by **Large** » Tue Jun 13, 2006 8:51 am

har har, put me on the list!

Large 1.050.580 Area 181 with default settings!

Best Regards
Large

Ed Oscuro · Post by **Ed Oscuro** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 2:47 am

Ed Oscuro - Area 45 (?) - 255,990 - MAME

lols

One of my favorites. Will have to try it on my X68000 as well.

lowemark · Post by **lowemark** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 5:19 pm

seems like this thread haven't been updated for a while, but ill still add my poor score.

lowemark - 320,000 - Area 68 - (pcb)

missed a 1up right before i died

DEL · Post by **DEL** » Fri Apr 27, 2007 11:20 pm

DEL - 1,673,480 - Area 299 - PCB - Flying Shark

I tried it again yesterday and lost my first life at 970,000, but I ended up dying at that nasty spot on loop 3's sea/battleship stage. The bit where you die time and time again as your new life appears. This bit is so bad that immediate bombing doesn't save you. Until I figure out a safe route for that bit of loop 3, I'm gonna give this game a miss.
My mate UBN's 24 loop 12mil score is under no threat whatsoever

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emphatic · Post by **emphatic** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 1:31 pm

Flying Shark, PCB, default settings:
799100 pts

Emph

DEL · Post by **DEL** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 10:39 am

Looks like tomtom has gone, my measly score from April 2007 hasn't been added to the rankings.