STGT'09 Week 5 - ...do I even need to tell you?

[Enhasa]

Dependent on whether scores from a savestate (after I unlocked the Mahou characters) are acceptable, since that locks in the stage order

Stage order is the exact same every time anyway (unless you edit it). Savestate to lock in stage order is useful for Psikyo games, although dubious. Also Batrider special course.

How do I watch rank?

Get this, then turn it on in the cheat menu.

HAHAHAHAHA, those tiny little MSPaint lines count as bullets?

That's why you gotta read the SECRET GUIDE.

[dex]

BTW, that should be stage 5...
Can someone just list the stage names in the OP, please?

stage 5 is actually called Cloud, not Sky. it goes Valley, Plateau, Factory, Plant, Cloud, Base, Airport...

That's how it goes. If you don't remember the name of the stage, just say the number and my script will turn it to the name automagically .

Scoreboard updated.

[third_strike]

Third_strike Pelé Shooting Team 2,425,080 Plant Iron Anything MAME
Pointless play overrated games in STGT
Cool!

[Ruldra]

Ruldra - Garrincha Shooting Team - 5,876,230 - Cloud - Gain ABC - MAME

Ugh...it takes 30 runs to make it to stage 5 without breaking your medal chain

[third_strike]

Did you 30 runs ?
I did 4, I need like 2 weeks for do 30 runs in one game.
Cool!

[RGC]

RGC - Team Royale - 3,182,680 - Cloud - Myamoto (C) - MAMEPlus!

Come on then, how do you change bullet colour from invisible-brown?

[Warp_Rattler]

Warp_Rattler - Shooting Snobs - Factory - 2,381,780 - Rust Champion - MAMEPlus!

Starting to get the hang of it. I think medal chaining is simultaneously the most rewarding and most frustrating means of scoring, ever. It's like, "YES! I've got the 10k medal! NO! There it goes!"

[Enhasa]

Come on then, how do you change bullet colour from invisible-brown?

I think there's a way to get the round orange bullets for everything, like use a newer version rom like bgareggat2, but I don't think it's worth it personally.

Pointless play overrated games in STGT

Yeah, it's too bad there aren't enough hidden gems to play a game like Varth every week. If only people's computers were good enough and we could expand to zn-1, st-v, g-net level games.

[clp]

im still waiting for hidden gems that actually are gems like the vasara series to make an appearance .

[sven666]

sven666 - shooting snobs - 4240750 - stage 4 - Gain (A) - PCB


LOVE this game, havent played it for yeeeears now so the stgt is just the excuse i needed to get it going again, actually have some time to play aswell so heres hopeing i manage to pull something off, definetly gonna break my old HS and aim for a letter score

[Tigershark]

Tigershark - Underdogs - 1,023,710 - 3rd stage - 4th Ship that fires homing missiles when bombing - Saturn

Hey, everyone's got tp start somewhere! This is bloody hard. If I break 2m I'll run down the street naked.

[emphatic]

emphatic - Team Sweden [Blue] - 2,364,170 - stage 5 - Chitta - MAME

I'm not sure it's Chitta I'm using, it's the second ship to the left on the lower line up.

Edit: Picture:

[Ruldra]

Broke my previous record!

Ruldra - Garrincha Shooting Team - 6,841,030 - Base - Gain ABC - MAME

[Edge]

Edge - Gothloli Luftwaffe - 3,311,960 - 4 - Golden Bat - MAME

Let's see if this 2 weeks can finally convince me of this game. As this one and Ikaruga are, among the most famous shmups, the only ones I personally can't really share much love for. They are both very stylish in presetation, but when played for highscore they weren't that much fun for me... yet.

[unsane]

unsane - Drink 'N Fly - 1,361,680 - Plant - Shatter Star - MAME

[nZero]

victoly - Drink N Fly - 3,834,860 - 4 - Gain - MAME

I'm actually having more fun with playing this for attempting a decent leaderboard spot than I ever did just trying to enjoy playing it before.

[The Coop]

I can play this with my comfy Saturn pad. This is a good thing...

The Coop - Team Oldschoolers - 2,651,200 - Cloud - (the regular plane all the way on the right) - Saturn

[ColonelFatso]

Seems so far I've only been able to either a) keep my medal chain up or b) do the other special scoring tricks, would love to have a run that did both. Also getting past level 3 would probably be fun too.

ColonelFatso - The Team with No Name - 2,216,890 - Factory - Golden Bat - MAME

[Warp_Rattler]

Warp_Rattler - Shooting Snobs - 2,476,950 - Plant - Iron Mackerel - MAMEPlus!

Slowly getting better...

[charlie chong]

that bugger blackheart trapped me as per
charlie chong - ketsui defense force - 5,584,350 - cloud - golden bat - pcb

[crithit5000]

crithit5000 - letsdestroystgt09 - 2,152,680 - 3 - Gain (B) - MAME

[zakk]

Dependent on whether scores from a savestate (after I unlocked the Mahou characters) are acceptable, since that locks in the stage order

Stage order is the exact same every time anyway (unless you edit it). Savestate to lock in stage order is useful for Psikyo games, although dubious. Also Batrider special course.

Consistent stage order in Psikyo games is just a matter of resetting with 'shift-F3'; the stage order of the games is fixed on the first credit after power on. It deviates after that based on a variety of factors.

Most people don't notice this because they just hit F3 to reset, which is just 'soft reset' and doesn't clear out all memory etc; so random stage order persists across that type of reset.

[dex]

dex - Tacos - 4610210 - 4 - Gain (C) - MAME

Let's see if this 2 weeks can finally convince me of this game. As this one and Ikaruga are, among the most famous shmups, the only ones I personally can't really share much love for. They are both very stylish in presetation, but when played for highscore they weren't that much fun for me... yet.

I think Garegga actually gains a lot when playing for score. When I first played it, I tried going for survival without reading the strategy thread... big mistake. I think I never managed to go past stage 3 that way, really annoying and I hated it for a while. Then, some credits with score in mind made me like it. Credits played for score are just awesome fun when you know how the game works.

As for Ikaruga, don't like it either.

Scoreboard updated.

[stanski]

stanski - Team Sweet Tacos - 5,674,310 - Cloud - Gain C - mame

done this game absolutely blows to try and score in and i tried a little bit to get better than the survival route i did before (tried to 1cc it a while ago completely ignoring score). Just generally don't like this games scoring and how random fucking birds are at all sry.

[BIL]

I know I said I wouldn't participate this year, but Garegga is moreish like crack and I ended up playing all lunchtime. So in the spirit of fun and sweet flamingo tacos, here's a score.

Bill - Slap Chop My Nuts - 3,981,860 - Plant - Wild Snail (B) - MAME

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[Plasmo]

Plasmo - TCACTRM - 9,633,910 - Cloud - Gain (ABC) - Saturn

Slowly relearning my old tactics.

[clp]

stanski - Team Sweet Tacos - 5,674,310 - Cloud - Gain C - mame

done this game absolutely blows to try and score in and i tried a little bit to get better than the survival route i did before (tried to 1cc it a while ago completely ignoring score). Just generally don't like this games scoring and how random fucking birds are at all sry.

Those birds arnt that random , its just knowing where to place bombs . I get over 2 mill on the birds every single time .

[Voxbox]

Voxbox - Team Sweden [Yellow] - 2,229,000 - Factory - Wild Snail - Mame

I started binding ABC to one single button after this.

[Ruldra]

Consistent stage order in Psikyo games is just a matter of resetting with 'shift-F3'; the stage order of the games is fixed on the first credit after power on. It deviates after that based on a variety of factors.

Most people don't notice this because they just hit F3 to reset, which is just 'soft reset' and doesn't clear out all memory etc; so random stage order persists across that type of reset.

Ohh nice, I didn't know about that. I'm using that next time I play Psikyo games.

(1000 posts GET)

[clp]

clp - Ketsui defense force - 9,785,260 - Base - Gain (A) - Mame

Quite consistently getting to almost A score just havent got the raw twitching skills for stage 6 midboss and after then in general .