Shmup Ticker: What are you playing RIGHT NOW?

[mesh control]

G. Darius

Not really sure how to practice this game without a stage select. Once I lose a ship, I fumble around and ultimately ruin my credit.

Yakety Sax starts playing in my head when I start credit feeding.

[ChainsawGuitarSP]

Use an alpha beam on any area you're unsure of. Be sure to aim it at your targets instead of letting them fly into it to help build muscle memory for when you try that part for real. (Unless it was a really good place to build up your multiplier anyway.) Also, when you see those enemies that line up vertically to shoot, be sure to capture them as well as they'll give you a durable frontal shield to work with. Apologies if this advice comes off as redundant.

[RNGmaster]

Save-stated to Ura in Ketsui. This will be my new dodging trainer.

[null1024]

Was playing some DoDonPachi in MAME, bombed through the 4th boss and immediately died upon entering stage 5.

I was surprised I got so far, I was playing on a PS1 pad and haven't had much practice shmupping with it.
Not to mention that this is my first time getting past the 4th boss -- reached him twice before and I can't deal with that alternating jet blast thing it does.

[saucykobold]

G. Darius

Not really sure how to practice this game without a stage select. Once I lose a ship, I fumble around and ultimately ruin my credit.

I think all fairly new MAME builds have proper save state support for G-Darius (I've been using 0.133 myself).

[Siren2011]

It brings me great joy to finally say this...

Espgaluda II on Xbox 360. Loving every minute.

The game (Arcade mode) would have been boring if it wasn't for zesshikai. That mode fucking makes the game for me. <3

[NeoStrayCat]

DeathSmiles 2X (X360) on Christmas, since the setting is perfect though, lol.

[Korszca]

DeathSmiles 2X (X360) on Christmas, since the setting is perfect though, lol.

Heh, I did some of that myself earlier today

[ChainsawGuitarSP]

Finally got myself a fully functioning PSP. Now its possible to finish up all the Darius series 1cc's.
Will also be sure to load up Gradius Portable after that. Just can't seem to resist seeing GIII's legendary difficulty first-hand...

[O. Van Bruce]

At last... after 3 months of intermitent practice:



looped Dai Ou Jou... Or so It should have been. I don't know how to get rid of the "easy" rank (I recall playing easy and normal and they have the same patterns ¬¬) and I think that's why the game didn't let me continue onto the next loop (or should i get some badass requirements to get unto it?)...

Anyway... I dedicate this 1cc to Dr Trouser Plank... for allways non-believing in it.

[mesh control]

Finally made it into the Mars Matrix top 20.
Going to keep practicing. Need that next digit, then need to go for a counter stop. (after I figure out stage 4, 5, & 6 and a decent chain in stage 3.)

[spadgy]

Loads of Bug Princess.

[dunpeal2064]

Played some Gun Frontier today. Got to the final stage, when apparently the game switches to "shoot your 3 bombs through a spinning wall, or die once and game over"

I was actually having quite fun with the game, but that final level seems so out of place.

[NTSC-J]

What was your score? The highest Western score listed in the STG Hall of Records is only up to stage 2.

[dunpeal2064]

570,390 at stage 6

[NTSC-J]

Just missed the top spot...stage 2 has some milking going on, evidently.

[dunpeal2064]

New score, died in the same spot.

829,840

No clue whats goin on in stage 2

[NTSC-J]

The record is yours, nice work. (You are playing with autofire ON right?)

[dunpeal2064]

Yeah, auto fire is on.

Edit for new score

[ZacharyB]

Thanks to your post, I'm quickly checking out Gun Frontier on Youtube... the aesthetic seems very much like Garegga, 5 years prior to Garegga's release. Did the two games share some staff?

[Kollision]

I think the creator of Garegga had the aesthetics of Gun Frontier in high regard or somthing like that.

[dunpeal2064]

The games are eerily similar, thats for sure.

New score: 1,054,290

Still have no idea how to pull off that checkpoint trick, or how to do that last stage, but I will find out somehow.

Thanks ntsc-j, you have me wanting to go for that WR

[kidpanda]

Was playing some DoDonPachi in MAME, bombed through the 4th boss and immediately died upon entering stage 5.

I was surprised I got so far, I was playing on a PS1 pad and haven't had much practice shmupping with it.
Not to mention that this is my first time getting past the 4th boss -- reached him twice before and I can't deal with that alternating jet blast thing it does.

i always sweep with the alternating lasers, start on the right and sweep to left back again i count to two for each shot to make sure im out of the line of fire

[null1024]

Was playing some DoDonPachi in MAME, bombed through the 4th boss and immediately died upon entering stage 5.

I was surprised I got so far, I was playing on a PS1 pad and haven't had much practice shmupping with it.
Not to mention that this is my first time getting past the 4th boss -- reached him twice before and I can't deal with that alternating jet blast thing it does.

i always sweep with the alternating lasers, start on the right and sweep to left back again i count to two for each shot to make sure im out of the line of fire

Will try once I get there again -- I almost never reach Stage 4!
;-;


Also, playing Terra Diver [PS1], apparently I was playing the arrange mode, which is tons tons tons easier than the original mode.
It's like there's fewer but faster bullets, and I'm just getting sniped and point-blanked like hell.

[kidpanda]

i play the ddp in the cab quite often, still 1cc the first loop every once in awhile,... good times

[nZero]

Just missed the top spot...stage 2 has some milking going on, evidently.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSmTCDDVzk4

[gum_drops]

Most recently Blazing Star

[dunpeal2064]

Just missed the top spot...stage 2 has some milking going on, evidently.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSmTCDDVzk4

How does he go back.to that checkpoint? When I suicide there, I come back at a later point.

Quite curious!

Been playing Ketsui. Got to the st3 boss, which is pretty good for me.

[RNGmaster]

Been playing Ketsui. Got to the st3 boss, which is pretty good for me.

Ketsui is awesome. I've been "a day away" from 1-ALLing it for about 2 weeks. No matter how well I do, I always end up with 2 lives going into Stage 5 and no lives/3 bombs for Evaccaneer. And when I do beat it it will be my third 1CC.

Yeah I suck a lot.

[spadgy]

Now I'm switching back and forth between Bug Princess and Mushihimesama PCB. I'm pretty sure the iOS one is improving my arcade game.