Battle Bakraid

Post by **Icarus** » Wed Mar 09, 2005 11:52 pm

Normal Course:
Icarus - 26,329,530 - Saber Tiger [C] - ALL

Lets see...

Ended the Naval stage (stage 3) with about 18mil, chaining as far as the bomber before the three-turrets-four-subs bit (and messed that up, along the with 16x on the large battleship before Leviathan)
Rather luckily 64x'ed the large tank at the Seaside (but missed the four large planes and the four tanks)
Took two lives to Cloud. Managed to last the whole trip, suiciding to keep my 64x on the two bombers before Gigamanta, and then Gigamanta took out my other spare life during the first form, trapping me with the downscreen fourway and the red arrow patterns. Finished the credit with half a bomb to spare

Time to practice and improve my stage strategies.

Smraedis · Post by **Smraedis** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 7:05 pm

nice scores

I've been trying all day to get the 10m on Axebeak but I've never been able to do it

I've not been able to improve on my score at all too, I hope I do..

Rastan78 · Post by **Rastan78** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 12:55 am

Advanced:
18,349,860 - Flame Viper [C] - Stage 5

Boss Only:
10,225,970 - Flame Viper [C] - Stage 3 (Bahamut)

Post by **Icarus** » Sat Mar 12, 2005 3:52 am

Special (Boss Only) Course:
Icarus - 12,792,550 - Saber Tiger [C] - Stage 6 (Gigamanta)

Took a bit of time out from heavy Normal Course practice to give Special Course a go, and got this. I think I've figured out a very good strategy to counteract Saber Tiger's homing missiles (to stop too much damage being done to Axebeak's main body) as well as a good method of weakening the cockpit to set up for the three 64x for the 11.5mil score.

Right now, I think I've nailed the timing for the two bombs on the wings, which now means I'm consistent enough to get between 8 - 11.5mil on each credit, which helps in gathering Extends for practicing the long Naval chain. I still have a bit of trouble taking out the cockpit properly though, as sometimes Axebeak hides the cockpit at the top of the screen during it's floaty movements, making it hard to target.

On this credit, I got to Cloud carrying three of my total five extra Extends (lost one to Balrog), only to have a string of errors leading up to Gigamanta. I mistimed a dodge during Gigamanta's second form's bullet hell and found myself on the wrong side of the trap vulcan, and promptly died.

On an unrelated credit, I made it to the second form of Golem on Special Course (the 6mil score at the bottom of the table in the screenshot), only to be totally unprepared for the radial splash attack after it tries to stomp you.

I don't think I'll attempt Advanced Course until I am comfortable navigating ALL of Normal Course

Rastan78 · Post by **Rastan78** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 9:31 pm

Almost but not quite . . .

Normal:
Rastan78 - 25,911,910 - Solid Ray [START] - Stage 6

Post by **Icarus** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 1:55 am

Rastan78 wrote:Almost but not quite . . .

Normal:
Rastan78 - 25,911,910 - Solid Ray [START] - Stage 6

Indeed. Good score with the Solid Ray, not the easiest of ships to use.

Normal Course:
Icarus - 27,409,240 - Saber Tiger [C] - ALL

Goddamn my newly rekindled snooker addiction

This is the first time I've played Bakraid in over a fortnight, quite out of practice, but still managed to chain Axebeak and the first half of Naval

Rastan78 · Post by **Rastan78** » Sat Apr 02, 2005 2:28 am

Normal:
Rastan78 - 28,451,490 - Solid Ray [START] - Stage 6

I'm starting to keep x64 going farther into the Naval stage now. Usually all the way past the submarines and rail turrets if I'm lucky. That next section with the large battleship leading right up to the boss looks like it'll be tricky to learn. I also want to learn to x64 the railroad boss but I keep putting it off out of pure laziness.

Rastan78 · Post by **Rastan78** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 9:28 pm

Advanced:

28,214,300 - Flame Viper [C] - Stage 6

Rastan78 · Post by **Rastan78** » Sun May 01, 2005 1:35 am

Advanced:

32,419,250 - Flame Viper [C] - Stage 6

Rastan78 · Post by **Rastan78** » Wed May 04, 2005 6:45 pm

Advanced:

36,784,460 - Flame Viper [C] - Stage 4

Finished stage 2 Naval at 32+ million and then didn't do much else. On Naval I had x64 throughout including the last boss except chained only three of the four important parts of the boss first form.

AWJ · Post by **AWJ** » Tue Sep 06, 2005 5:55 am

Bumping this dormant thread with my pathetic score.

Normal:
AWJ - 2,867,160 - Saber Tiger [S] - Stage 4

I've generally been doing best with the Blade Owl, but my top score so far (less than 24 hours after playing this game for the first time in my life) was with the Tiger.

I just noticed that what's actually enhanced about the B ships' bomb is the duration--it lasts quite a bit longer with the same number of bomb chips. Maybe B is the variation of choice for crazy extended chaining?

Tychom · Post by **Tychom** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 9:36 pm

Assuming this thread is for Unlimited version as well as normal..

Result for Normal course:

Tychom - 7,036,950 - Flame Viper[C] - ALL

Very weird actually, first time i've played it in months, first time I've picked up any shmup really in months. And I go and do my first Bakraid 1CC on the first run.

zinger · Post by **zinger** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 10:29 pm

Tychom wrote:Very weird actually, first time i've played it in months, first time I've picked up any shmup really in months. And I go and do my first Bakraid 1CC on the first run.

That's the weird thing about this game, seems to happen to everybody! One day I couldn't even beat the third stage, the day after I almost beat the final boss on my first run! I'll wait for five years now, give it another try, and then post my 50 million score.

zimmy · Post by **zimmy** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 3:30 am

I was playing Raiden Fighters 2, practicing more and more so that I can eventually 1cc it(itll be my first 1cc, so I'm starting with somethin easy), and I beat it using 1 less credit(from 5 credits to 4), so I was feeling pretty good and decided to play some other games to get a little variety. When I played Bakraid, I started off alright, died once during the first boss(his second form always gets me, I dont know why), and I passed railroad(I was happy, but I had done it before). I got passed naval without a scratch and just thought I was getting lucky. But then I went on to pass desert(even the boss! a first!)and seaside, and I just started to freak out. Its just incredible how some games seem to work that way. Bakraid just seems to be a more "emotional" game, where its more about going into it with a good attitude where you're confident and able to pull off crazy moves than memorizing all the attacks. I still like Battle Geregga more(the stages just seem more cinematic and I like the ships better in Geregga), but since my rom for that isn't working completely(it always exits before the 2nd level boss), I've been playing bakraid more and more, and it is a damn fine game in its own right. Anyway, as I wasn't concentrating on score too much, my end score wasnt that impressive, but I'm still proud of it:

advanced: 2,631,740; Flame Viper[A]; stage 6

Acid King · Post by **Acid King** » Sun Oct 09, 2005 4:26 pm

Just got my cab so now I can actually play the Bakraid PCB I bought six months ago. Scores coming soon...

Acid King · Post by **Acid King** » Fri Oct 14, 2005 11:31 pm

Normal

Acid King - 8,758,010 - Flame Viper [A] - Stage 6

tiktak · Post by **tiktak** » Sat Mar 18, 2006 2:26 pm

This is so wicked;o after running this game in a past few times I 1CC'ed it yesterday... whilst stoned;o I never 1CC shmup , I even never 1CC'ed easy game but this game gave me "completed" whilst playing it on keyboard;o
And I was wondering "why so many bosses in a row??" rotfl. This is so evil

I would like to post a score but I didnt save it, too shocked;| It was smth above 4mln;/

Acid King · Post by **Acid King** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 5:47 am

Sinc ethere was some slight activity in this thread, I might as well post my newest score from a month or two ago.

Acid King - 14,845,550 - Flame Viper [A] - ALL

Rastan78 · Post by **Rastan78** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 2:40 am

Is this score from normal mode?

Acid King · Post by **Acid King** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 3:49 am

Rastan78 wrote:Is this score from normal mode?

Yes... i forgot about that.

Smraedis · Post by **Smraedis** » Thu May 25, 2006 7:52 pm

After a long time away from this game, I made a big improvement

Normal:
Smraedis - 20,783,270 - Blade Owl [C] - Stage 6

freddiebamboo · Post by **freddiebamboo** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 4:30 pm

Been playing this quite a bit recently trying to get the axebeak milking trick, but still yet to get anywhere.

Got a small improvement on my old score though.

Normal

freddiebamboo - 7,318,700 - Flame Viper [A] - Stage 6

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d124/ ... akraid.jpg

By the way, what is the code for seeing the multiplier counter? Ever since sheeps site went I've been clueless.

freddiebamboo · Post by **freddiebamboo** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 9:24 pm

Failed to get the stage select and got 150,000 on axebeak, but starting to chain better after watching Icarus and the crazy superplay video.

Normal

freddiebamboo - 9,557,740 - Flame Viper [C] - ALL

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d124/ ... aidnew.jpg

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Mon Jul 31, 2006 3:58 am

Crud score but I have to post it, since it's my first Raizing 1CC (Normal course, obviously):

BulletMagnet - 5,035,700 - Steel Bat [A] - ALL

Not all that impressive an achievement on the whole, but I at least now know that I've successfully waded across the "kiddie pool" of Raizing shmups.

From here I can work on scoring a little bit...

ill6 · Post by **ill6** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 3:49 pm

ill6 - 4,001,590 - Blade Owl - Stage 6

KennyMan666 · Post by **KennyMan666** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 5:37 pm

KennyMan666 - 3,640,440 - Saber Tiger - Stage 5

I shouldn't be playing Raizing shmups since I always obsessively try to collect everything that drops and thusly get shafted to the extreme by the rank. But oh well. :P

Edit: Sorry, yes, just normal.

Rastan78 · Post by **Rastan78** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 6:04 pm

I'm assuming these are both normal course. Kennyman, you shouldn't have to worry about the rank too much in Bakraid especially on normal course. It really only gets tough if you have like 4 extra lives in stock. Even then, dying a few times will lower it right back down. Normal can be 1 lifed fairly easily while collecting pretty much everything in sight.

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 6:10 pm

KennyMan666 wrote:I shouldn't be playing Raizing shmups since I always obsessively try to collect everything that drops and thusly get shafted to the extreme by the rank. But oh well.

It's not quite as big a deal as you might think: off the top of my head, only Garegga and Soukyugurentai penalize you for powering up, most other Raizing shmups only get angry if you're playing for score instead of pure survival. Bakraid will only come after you if you score high enough to start hoarding lives, if you play mainly for the 1CC it shouldn't get too hard.

Trust me, if I can 1CC the bugger, anyone can.

EDIT: Dang, beaten to it.

KennyMan666 · Post by **KennyMan666** » Mon Aug 14, 2006 6:15 pm

Heh, I see. Just now I haven't played Bakraid seriously in forever - that score I posted I got... *checks* whoa, I got it the 10th of August... 2005. Need to start practicing again if I want to get those 4 million :P

Kaiser · Post by **Kaiser** » Sat Sep 23, 2006 7:51 am

This thread is still alive? anyway here's my score
Kaiser - 2,818,530 - Saber tiger (A) - Stage 6 (Cloud) - Normal course damn i'm so close to 1cc normal course