2011 shmups goals thread

[Kaiser]

So i'm limited to one full run per week in each game (including credit feeding)

Use save states.

You do realise I don't even have enough time to spend 2 hours daily on save-state? On one game that is.

[RNGmaster]

Setting up savestates takes a while, but it saves a lot of time because you can focus on the stuff that's hardest for you rather than having to go through the easy parts (and therefore waste time). It's a lot more efficient to, say, just practice the Stage 4 midboss of Progear (to use an example) rather than going through the entire game every time you want to get to the challenging parts.

In short, you don't improve as fast by doing full runs as you do by save-stating and practicing the hardest parts.

[spadgy]

It's a lot more efficient to, say, just practice the Stage 4 midboss of Progear (to use an example) rather than going through the entire game every time you want to get to the challenging parts.

I'd argue that Progear in particular is a case in point for why it is worth drilling through every second of the game. There's always new tricks to discover, usually through making mistakes or daring to take risks in familiar bits and learning something new.

Anyway, that's a bit off topic.

On topic, I'd also like to dedicate some of 2011 to giving the Thunder Force series some attention. And Empire of Steel. I've neglected too many hori's.

[Smraedis]

At the moment I'd like:

Raiden Fighters 2 - 95m
Mushi Futari -Original 250m, maybe more
Darius 2 - 1 Life on the up all route
Ketsui - 100m 1-ALL
Battle Bakraid - Advanced ALL with a good score

[CptRansom]

My only goal is to lrn2play.

[Drachenherz]

My only goal is to lrn2play.

This.

And stop drinking when I'm playing. Or stop drinking in general.

[EllertMichael]

Deathsmiles (Japan)- 1cc
DoDonPachi (Saturn) - 1cc (finally)
Daifukkatsu - 1cc 2-ALL (I 1cc'd the first loop the other night. still feelin' awesome.)
Ketsui - 1cc 1-ALL (I've been putting a lot of time into this game and still haven't made it past Area 3. it's hard. hehe)
Mushihimesama Futari BL - just play more and improve.

Also, I'd like to get a Hori EX-SE for the 360. but that Radiant Silvergun stick coming out might be the better (cooler) choice...

[Drachenherz]

Deathsmiles (Japan)- 1cc
DoDonPachi (Saturn) - 1cc (finally)
Daifukkatsu - 1cc 2-ALL (I 1cc'd the first loop the other night. still feelin' awesome.)
Ketsui - 1cc 1-ALL (I've been putting a lot of time into this game and still haven't made it past Area 3. it's hard. hehe)
Mushihimesama Futari BL - just play more and improve.

Also, I'd like to get a Hori EX-SE for the 360. but that Radiant Silvergun stick coming out might be the better (cooler) choice...

ATM, you can get an hrap ex-se for around 100 $ amazon.com... ^^

[EllertMichael]

ATM, you can get an hrap ex-se for around 100 $ amazon.com... ^^

Hey Thanks for the heads up! I actually saw that on Amazon last night, and with free shipping it's a pretty sweet deal. But with MAGfest coming up I decided I should probably not drop the cash yet haha
ATM I'm using a Hori EX2 but the buttons SUCK. I guess it's better than nothing though, it'll have to hold me over in the meantime...

[Drachenherz]

Yesterday night, I ordered one on an impulse... Because... I allready got FOUR sticks...
But as I never had a seimitsu stick before, and as the price is quite reasonable. And it is actually shipped to switzerland... I just "clicked" and voilà, 1 hrap ex-se in your cart, order confirmed and... off we go...

yeah, but I'm soooo looking forward playing on this stick...

[SFKhoa]

I don't have any long-term goals, but at the moment, my aim is to make it into top 5 of Daifukkatsu Arrange A's Leaderboards.

[Van_Artic]

1.2bil AT LEAST in Futari BL original

[ratikal]

Ketsui 1-ALL with score above 100M or 2-ALL Tsuujou with score about 200M
DFK 1.5 2-ALL
Ketsuipachi ALL

[drauch]

Win the lottery that I don't play and buy Sylphia on pc-engine.

[Aquas]

Ketsui 1-ALL: I'm about 70% there.
Xexex 2-ALL: I put in the practice during STGT'10 to possibly have a 2-ALL run, but the run never occurred. For some reason my saturn pad was acting up and throwing me into walls. I think I needed to practice the cyber boss more, that janky motherboard fucker.
Dragon Spirit 1cc: I'm about 80% there as of this moment, I learned most of the tricks to survive but the last couple stages I need to brush up on.
1cc either Twin Bee Yahoo! or De tana Twinbee! These games have haunted me for a while.
1cc Deathsmiles
1cc a Parodius game.

Get into Mushi Futari 1.5 Maniac or Black Label God mode some more.

[ebarrett]

-Battle Bakraid advanced ALL with at least 40M.
-Battle Garegga ALL, hopefully with a noncowardly score.
-Darius Gaiden top route ALL. Maybe bottom route as well.
-Daifukkatsu 1.5 Tsuujou 2-ALL. Probably Arrange A too.
-Mushi Futari God Mode ALL.

[Icarus]

One main game at a time, and a side project for fun and variety. Concentrating on a select few, rather than spreading myself too thin playing everything I can find, like I used to.

Primary targets:
Mushihimesama Futari 1.5 Original - 400mil+ ALL (currently: 323mil ALL, Lx0, Bx1)
Dodonpachi Daifukkatsu 1.5 - 300bil+ Ura (currently: 109bil 2-2 Ura on iOS AC ver)
Muchi Muchi Pork - 180mil+ 1-ALL, or get to the 2nd loop.

Secondary targets:
Mushihimesama Futari 1.5 Maniac - something respectable, maybe…
Mushihimesama Futari BL Original - 1bil+ (currently: 590mil ALL, Lx1, Bx2)
Mushihimesama Futari BL God - something respectable, maybe…
Ketsui - 100mil+ (currently: 75mil st5)
Pink Sweets - 10mil+ ALL, with or without infinite lives.
Dodonpachi Daifukkatsu BL / Daifukketsui - see what comes along…

[marus]

My main goals are:

1CC Espgaluda II with at least 350mil
Break 240mil in Touhou EoSD Normal
1CC Espgaluda using only one hand
Play some Shmups outside of CAVE and Touhou
Keep meets alive in Seattle

[Sandlegs]

ALL Mushi Futari Maniac
1CC DFK Power
Make SOME progress on Dai-ou-jou.
Play Twin Cobra more
Try to give Deathsmiles more love.

Recieve DFKBL, Ketsupachi, MMP and Pink Sweets and play the shit out of those.
I know one will come through with the power of the USPS.

[Sapz]

Reach Hibachi in DDP, and to get off my ass and beat my old score, and learn that god damned 1-4 chain. Ideally 120m+. (current best 2-5, high score 92m)
DDP DFK Ura 2-All, and to get... some kind of high score. I dunno what exactly, but 100b+. (current best Tsuujou 2-all, high score 30b)
Make some kind of progress with DOJBL. (current best is 2-4, high score 240m)
Break 180m+ in Ketsui. (current high score 131m)
Battle Garegga 1cc. (current best is reaching Black Heart 2)
ESPGaluda 1cc in Overheat mode. (current best is stage 5-2)
1cc the first loop (at least) of X-Multiply. (current best is 1-6)
1cc the first loop (because ha ha no chance I'm surviving the second) of Strikers 1945. (current best is 1-8)

Probably some other stuff will also come up and I likely won't manage everything, but those are the main goals.

[RNGmaster]

I'd love to see more videos out of you, Sapz. Don't forget to upload your plays to YouTube as inspiration for the shmuppingly-challenged among us.

[Emuser]

Personally all I want to get done in 2011 is:

DFK 1.5 300+ Billion Score
DOJ BL 1-Loop ALL + High Score of some sort
Ketsui Ura 2-ALL

[Sapz]

I'd love to see more videos out of you, Sapz. Don't forget to upload your plays to YouTube as inspiration for the shmuppingly-challenged among us.

Thanks, man. Sure thing. If I do something nice, it'll get uploaded.

[Naryoril]

1CC Futari Black Label Original
and after that 1CC Futari 1.5 Original

[Kaiser]

Setting up savestates takes a while, but it saves a lot of time because you can focus on the stuff that's hardest for you rather than having to go through the easy parts (and therefore waste time). It's a lot more efficient to, say, just practice the Stage 4 midboss of Progear (to use an example) rather than going through the entire game every time you want to get to the challenging parts.

In short, you don't improve as fast by doing full runs as you do by save-stating and practicing the hardest parts.

Well. if I HAD to use savestates every day, I would be only able to use it on one game daily. AND the worst part is that I practiced so much in knights of the round on savestate. That it doesn't even help me anymore.

But yeah still, i'm gonna have a rough time trying to go all through these challenges.

[TrevHead (TVR)]

Play in a more focused and effective way

Finally 1CC Mars Matrix ARC with a decent score (after flirting with this game for months ive finally got back into serious play)
1CC any cave game (atm all ive done is 1 ALL DDP)
1CC Rayforce
1CC Crimson Clover and possibly continue playing for score
1CC Zen Ichi or the c69 remake

[antares]

My main goal is to spend more time playing shmups in 2011 than I did in 2010 and less time playing other genres.

[Battletoad]

Giga Wing 1 & 2 - 1CC with new personal high score
Zero Gunner 2 - 2-ALL (Will this ever happen? And how much time will it take... )
Mars Matrix - get some practice on the Arrange Mode
Dragon Blaze, Homura, Fast Striker - get respectable scores

EDIT: And get rid of my lousy skills at Crimzon Clover.

[burgerkingdiamond]

Reach Hibachi in DDP, and to get off my ass and beat my old score, and learn that god damned 1-4 chain. Ideally 120m+. (current best 2-5, high score 92m)
DDP DFK Ura 2-All, and to get... some kind of high score. I dunno what exactly, but 100b+. (current best Tsuujou 2-all, high score 30b)
Make some kind of progress with DOJBL. (current best is 2-4, high score 240m)
Break 180m+ in Ketsui. (current high score 131m)
Battle Garegga 1cc. (current best is reaching Black Heart 2)
ESPGaluda 1cc in Overheat mode. (current best is stage 5-2)
1cc the first loop (at least) of X-Multiply. (current best is 1-6)
1cc the first loop (because ha ha no chance I'm surviving the second) of Strikers 1945. (current best is 1-8)

Probably some other stuff will also come up and I likely won't manage everything, but those are the main goals.

X-Multiply? Nice. I like that game but it kicks my ass. I haven't sat down and really try to memorize it like is needed for R-typish games.

[BIL]

beat the ninja in Gun.Smoke.

You'll manage it, knowing some of your shooter feats.