DoDonPachi DaiFukkatsu — 1.5, Black Label, Novice, Arrange++

[Bananamatic]

1.5
Bananamatic - 20,014,586,878 - Omote ALL - B-Strong

so when I finally get the 100 oku extend I score twice as much purely by luck and even beat Taisabachi with a spare life meaning that I didn't even need all this score

makes perfect sense

[Emuser]

adversity1 > Thanks

ResumeDPosition > Look at my video few posts above. I'm in power, I miss 4 bees, I bomb and loose a life in stage 3, but I get the ura path on stage 4. (I played it on score attack)

Strange, I really don't know then. Shame they couldn't clarify or make it more clear at any point how these things work.

[third_strike]

Laser chain boosting is only effective when you are not killing or making contact with an enemy. Your laser has to be countering the enemy laser only. So there is no way to optimize this in situations where there are a lot of enemies.

Nice know about this.

Only for note tested and this really worked:

1- I got ura patch in stage 1.
2- lose a life after mid boss fight and 1 bee too.
Result: got Ura patch in stage 2.

3- In stage 2 I lose a bee before mid boss and one live after mid boss fight.
Result: got Ura patch in stage 3

I will not have so much time in next weeks to play (only 30 minutes form day), but I will try at least carry a chain until 2nd mid boss in 2-5 omote.
The conditions:
- Start 2-5 with an active hyper at 81% and rank 1.
- Use two hypers before 1st mid boss (rank 2).
- Use one hyper in 1st mid boss fight (rank3).
- Beat deadly laser circle section without use hyper.

[Rechiku]

Hello I'm french shmupper and a huge fan of dfk B.L.

My score(Power Mode)
øS-Rechiku -1.372.109.842.615 - ALL EX1 - type B
(replay available on leaderboard 4th place)

This run is play with superplay dvd path.

Also I have older replay on youtube here : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocwgx2Ud ... ure=relmfu part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMtPfzS_ ... ure=relmfu part 2

[Gus]

I like.

[moozooh]

Great score! Boards updated.

[Masamune_Shadow]

It's up as Masasoul, but I go by Masamune_Shadow

but

1.51
Masasoul - 606,880,870,131 - Area 5 Boss - B-Strong

Wow, That was probably my best run Ever. No Lie.

[moozooh]

Nice, welcome!

[CptRansom]

Died twice in stage 5, second death was close to the end of the boss... Then fell apart on Golden Disaster because fuck it. I'm going to kill that fucking bee, I swear. Don't know if I'm going to keep trying for the Hibachi clear on this or just move on to Power style, so posting this score before I forget.

Whatever. #1 on PAL version leaderboards for BL Novice Bomb style across all ship types, and #3 for BL Novice across all styles/types. I'd be proud of that if it wasn't so pathetic. Check out the replay if you need a laugh.

X360 - Black Label Novice
Ransom - 149,491,286,751 - ALL - B-Bomb - Autobomb Off

[moozooh]

Wow, BL Novice, what a pleasant surprise! How do you find the scoring on this mode?

[CptRansom]

Hypers are pretty much only used for oh shit moments or to speedkill certain midbosses for Bomb style. I haven't tried out Power or Strong yet, but I imagine Strong will be more like regular BL and Power will be similar to Bomb. There just aren't enough bullets to make cancelling them into large stars worth it (well, maybe at the end of stages 3-5 when the chain is 3000+, I don't know and haven't tried it).

EDIT: Yeah, so far Power is exactly like Bomb, except without, you know, bombs. The additional firepower from Boost is nice, and getting more hits in with Normal is cool, but the patterns and everything are exactly the same. The only tricky part now is dealing with the different firepower and the speed changes. As far as scoring goes, I see nothing that makes Power any better or worse than Bomb as far as Novice modes are concerned. I posted in Strategy about hypering with Power-styles in BL, but if there's any difference, I'm not seeing it. Basically Normal if you need speed or to kill something slowly (some midbosses, any bosses where you can handle the increased firepower from "milking" them for more hits), Boost for every damned thing else. =/ I was really hoping for some variation. Oh well.

[trap15]

Where's my medal I want to be high on a leaderboard too! EDIT: I read CptRansom's score as 149 oku. Oops

X360 - Black Label Novice
trap15 - 483,7878,1738 - Stage 4 (boss) - B-Bomb - Autobomb Off

[moozooh]

That score terrified me until I noticed it used the Japanese grouping and wasn't 483 billion. :D

[deexor]

A challenger appears!

Black Label Novice
Bomb Style
deexor - 153,489,966,428 - 5 - Type C - OFF

Complete meltdown on stage 5... entered with 142 billion, died twice at the lasers, once at the first midboss, then before the laser rings, combos dropped... not my day a proper clear is an easy 200 billion. I'll do better next time.

[CptRansom]

Oh god, what have I done.

I really wish I had the JP version of this so I could watch some decent replays. How the hell are you getting into stage 5 with 142B? >.>

EDIT: Nevermind, C-type is a fucking beast in Novice, holy shit.

[deexor]

At stage 4, point-blank laser (not red laser) the first spinning-laser-tower when it enters the screen, until it dies, dumping 4 to 6 hypers at it. Instant 5,000 hits. You'll enter the boss with 10,000 and end the level with well over 100B. I think this only works with C-type, others probably kill the tower too quickly.

Stage 5, use a hyper at both horizontal laser sets and point-blank, for ~2000. After midboss 2, hyper-point-blank the first set of vertical lasers for ~5000 more.

[CptRansom]

I'm trying it right now, and it dies after one hyper. By red laser do you mean shot+laser?

EDIT: Okay, got it jacked up to about 2000. What the hell? I thought shit didn't get added to your chain during hypers in BL? Time to find more places to do this without getting killed!

[deexor]

Yes, just laser, not shot+laser. Get right on top of the tower, in the center between the lasers, cancel your hypers asap and punch a new one in.

[CptRansom]

Got it. That is AWESOME. Yay, finally a use for scoring with hypers!

[Chaos Phoenixma]

Way to distract me from what i was planning to play(which was not DFK in any form)

X360- Black Label Novice
Enigma- 120,724,429,025- B-Bomb- All Ex


Just dropping in on the Black Novice competition.

NMNB all the way to Stage 5. Then a 3M2B Stage 5. The 2 bombs were to try to finish the boss at full red gauge, but I didn't get the max gauge finish. Oh well, the derps stopped me from getting to Hibachi anyway.

[deexor]

Black Label Novice
Bomb Style
deexor - 201,478,719,844 - EX Boss - Type C - OFF

Tried the omote route, much lower score across all stages. Not recommended. Stage 5 ura, but could be improved a lot.

Also not recommended is derping the final bosses. It's hard to concentrate seriously because "it's just novice mode"...

[CptRansom]

Good job!

Now to find out how the hell I can catch up to that. >.< It sucks because I actually do have to concentrate and take it seriously despite being Novice Mode. Blah!

[Chaos Phoenixma]

Tried again with C type this time.

Black Label Novice
Bomb Style
Enigma- 124,282,250,063 -Ex Boss 2- Type C- Off


Why is Hibachi still a thing on Novice Mode? Maybe if I hadn't had a few stupid mistakes. Also didn't get high hit count at start of stage 4, and the chain broke during stage 4.

[CptRansom]

I went into stage 4 earlier tonight with 140bil (with B-type) and one miss. Then I proceeded to die four times throughout stage 5 and game over on the boss with 164. I'll get there, dammit. I feel like there's some trick I'm missing aside from spamming hypers on clusters of lasers in stage 4 and 5. My typical progression (in billions) has been 1.5-1.9 -> 9-10 -> 29-33 -> 115-140 -> fuck-all because I keep dying despite two solid days of practicing stage 5. I obviously need more.

I don't know about C-type (I keep trying it, and while it's great for getting slightly more points, the survivability against bosses and slow speed drive me nuts), but I can consistently down Hibachi in practice with B-type only dying twice (three times if I get really sloppy) going in with max hyper rank. Spam hypers and remember to let off laser once a second or so to cancel bullets. Or bomb, I guess. If you're trying to finish him off with full red gauge... I've got nothin'. I haven't been able to pull that off yet.

[moozooh]

Excellent guys, keep 'em coming!

[CptRansom]

This run was sloppy as FUCK. Died on stage 4, died on stage 4 boss, died twice against stage 5 boss, and died against Golden Disaster. I'm about to give up on clearing Hibachi in a full run... I can run through stage practice damn near flawlessly, but I keep fucking up SO HARD on full runs. 220-230+ should be possible easily if I'd quit being retarded. Have at it, Deexor!

X360 - Black Label Novice
Ransom - 207,297,603,265 - ALL - B-Bomb - Autobomb Off

[moozooh]

Was that a Hibachi clear?

Edit: Seems not; didn't read your post carefully.

[Erppo]

Felt like I had to try this mode since it got so popular recently:

Black Label Novice
Bomb Style
Erppo - 274,412,316,271 - ALL EX - Type C - OFF

No Hibachi because I'm stupid.

[CptRansom]

Dammit. I got to feel decently good about my score for a whole hour and a half!

[moozooh]

Wow, great score. How much more do you think you could squeeze out of it? Last I checked the WR was 311 bil.