STGT2k7- Week#3 Darius Gaiden

bsidwell · Post by **bsidwell** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 8:58 pm

bsidwell - Team SDA - ABDHLQV - 4,399,380 - MAME
Still no ALL

At least I managed to get Risk Storage's tail, though. Apparently that thing is worth insane points.

KNTain · Post by **KNTain** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 9:16 pm

Tain - lets destroy STGT07 - 1,874,280 - ABDH - MAME

There's my late start.

Shocky · Post by **Shocky** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 9:58 pm

Shocky - Oldschoolers - 4,308,940 - ABDHLQV (ALL) - (PS2 Taito Legends 2)

I kidnapped only 2 captains and wasted all my bombs on Risk Storage so the end game bonus was pathetic. I don't think I'll have time to improve, there's a big movie festival starting tomorrow :/

You know what really sucks? (During an excellent run) To forget the auto-fire on after stage H boss and then end up in M instead of L. Say hello to my little friend, Titanic Lance X_x

Sword · Post by **Sword** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 10:23 pm

Sword - IWST - 4.728.090 - ABDHLQV (ALL) - MAME

Kiken · Post by **Kiken** » Wed Sep 19, 2007 10:35 pm

Managed the No Miss, but used all my bombs in the process... and didn't get a single Capture.

Kiken - Team Drink N Fly - 6,910,260 - ABDGLQV (All) - Saturn

Luis Redsun · Post by **Luis Redsun** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 12:14 am

Redsun - Pelé Shooting Team - 7.396.360 - ABEINSY - ALL - MAME

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gavin19 · Post by **gavin19** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 12:25 am

G19 - Underdogs - 7,694,720- ABDGLQV - ALL - MAME

I have no desire to play this ever again.

msm · Post by **msm** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 12:58 am

msm - Underdogs - 1,273,460 - ABDG - (MAME)

nice work Gavin and Infintium on the all clears

Ayanami · Post by **Ayanami** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 1:29 am

Ayanami - Great Lakes Avengers - 8,382,670 - ABDHLQV ALL - Saturn

Having a lot of fun with this one. Auto fire really helps. Just need to work on clearing the game using less bombs and collecting the silver medals at the proper time. That and more captures.

Arvandor · Post by **Arvandor** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 1:30 am

Something tells me Twiddle doesn't like this game.

Just a hunch though. I could be very wrong

sikraiken · Post by **sikraiken** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 1:31 am

Ayanami wrote:collecting the silver medals at the proper time

Good luck with that, they seem random as far as I could tell. : )

Ayanami · Post by **Ayanami** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 1:42 am

sikraiken wrote:
Ayanami wrote:collecting the silver medals at the proper time
Good luck with that, they seem random as far as I could tell. : )

Really? That would explain a lot. I thought there was some system to get them at 50,000 or some shit. Oh well, I just learned Risk Storage's tail is worth a shit load of points. So I am going to try and take care of that first. That and try to save my bombs. Damn Neon Light Illusion always takes at least one from me.

Arvandor · Post by **Arvandor** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 1:56 am

Is Neon Light Illusion the squid? I effing hate that thing. I always bomb it once or twice out of sheer anger.

Post by **nZero** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 2:08 am

nZero - Drink and Fly - 7,072,340 - ABDHLQV (All) - MAME

Picked up one extend, but lost a life at Risk Storage

I did take that bastard's tail from him, though

Usually I manage to capture at least 3 guys, dunno what happened this time

Zebra Airforce · Post by **Zebra Airforce** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 2:59 am

Nevermind...

sikraiken · Post by **sikraiken** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 3:04 am

Zebra Airforce wrote:
Ayanami wrote:
sikraiken wrote: Good luck with that, they seem random as far as I could tell. : )
Really? That would explain a lot. I thought there was some system to get them at 50,000 or some shit. Oh well, I just learned Risk Storage's tail is worth a shit load of points. So I am going to try and take care of that first. That and try to save my bombs. Damn Neon Light Illusion always takes at least one from me.
Collecting them during a certain part of the spin is what does it. It's somewhere around the top right. I have a timing for the first one in the game, but after that I don't really care.

It always changes. Not really sure based on what (yet).

bsidwell · Post by **bsidwell** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 3:42 am

OH SWEET FUCK YES
Sorry about that, but this is kind of a big moment for me. First 1CC ever, and it couldn't come at a better time.

bsidwell - Team SDA - 7,068,790 - ABDHLQV (ALL) - MAME

Davey · Post by **Davey** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 4:04 am

Davey - Great Lakes Avengers - 4,959,850 - ABDHLQV ALL - MAME

Missed the 1up in Q and generally did poorly in Q and V. Playing this game more after having cleared it sounds awfully boring, but that's a pretty crappy score for an ALL.

ED-057 wrote:
Davey wrote:For example, the i686 command line MAME can run this game at 170-180% on my computer, whereas it runs at only 70-75% with MAME32Plus (and the fact that it defaults to "Draw Every Frame" instead of autoskipping bothers me, especially in a tournament setting, since it actually slows down the game instead of making it choppy).
Press F8 during the game to cycle through frameskip settings. Under mame32/plus one might also try setting 320x240, no hardware stretch, and triple buffering to get better speed.

I tried messing with the video settings but it always ran slow and looked fuzzy (command line WolfMAME is easier - I just pass the "-nofilter" argument to remove the blur, although it runs smooth either way). Regardless, my issue is that "Draw Every Frame" is a dumb default, yet it seems to be the default for the various MAME GUIs. If your computer runs the game at, say, 90%, the game might be fast enough that you wouldn't know it's slow (assuming you've never played it before), yet slow enough to give you a minor edge. I'm not losing any sleep over it or anything, but it is something to think about.

joystickchris wrote:Which one would be optimized for a core 2 duo? I'm rollin on mame32 0.114u1 and it seems smooth to me. No autofire, but I have my hrap for that..

Any i686 (or P4) optimized build should work well. I don't think any compiler optimizations will exploit multiple cores, though; the MAME code itself would have to be written with that in mind (e.g., multithreading). I could be wrong, though. And if it runs smooth and you already have autofire, just stick with what you have.

Ayanami · Post by **Ayanami** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 4:27 am

Slight improvement.

Ayanami - Great Lakes Avengers - 8,582,760 - ABDHLQV ALL - Saturn

Macaw · Post by **Macaw** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 6:26 am

I really do just love fighting big fish.

I really do.

I like Darius.

*Note to make this post have purpose* I think the gray bonus icons arnt random, its just that if you collect them when its just rotated past the 3o'clock point (which lasts such a short time I doubt its possibly to get it consistently) then it ends up giving you like 100 points.

I could be wrong, but I'd like to think I'm not.

ayuh · Post by **ayuh** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 6:32 am

mad thanks to Herr, Coop, Raiken, and Icarus for the help getting autofire on a mac. If anyone else wants the elusive version of Unofficial Mame+ (seemingly shutdown by MameDev? maybe someone who speaks japanese can look into it) just let me know and I'll hook it up (thanks to Herr for the copy!)

Anywayyyy

my first run with autofire!!

ayuh - Team Lurker - 2,100,580 - ABDHL - MAME

KNTain · Post by **KNTain** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 6:45 am

Tain - lets destroy STGT07 - 2,643,250 - ABDHLQ - MAME

Thanks for pointing out the optimized builds of Mame32 Plus, Davey. I'm genuinely amazed at how much faster things run. I mean, I figured things would be slightly better, but I'm getting a pretty drastic leap.

ED-057 · Post by **ED-057** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 7:46 am

yay

ED-057 - Oldschoolers - 6,303,010 - ABEHLQV (all) - MAME

Sword · Post by **Sword** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 7:47 am

Sword - IWST - 5.509.400 - ABDHLQV (ALL) - MAME

Another All with no lives or bombs left, but at least i managed to get Risk Storages tail.

zinger · Post by **zinger** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 8:10 am

Macaw wrote:*Note to make this post have purpose* I think the gray bonus icons arnt random, its just that if you collect them when its just rotated past the 3o'clock point (which lasts such a short time I doubt its possibly to get it consistently) then it ends up giving you like 100 points.

I could be wrong, but I'd like to think I'm not.

I've gotten 52k picking it up at a lot of different times. That goes for all Darius games.

Macaw · Post by **Macaw** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 8:29 am

zinger wrote:
Macaw wrote:*Note to make this post have purpose* I think the gray bonus icons arnt random, its just that if you collect them when its just rotated past the 3o'clock point (which lasts such a short time I doubt its possibly to get it consistently) then it ends up giving you like 100 points.

I could be wrong, but I'd like to think I'm not.
I've gotten 52k picking it up at a lot of different times. That goes for all Darius games.

Maybe each individual bonus item has its own state of when it gives you 52k.

If so.....pure insanity.

BrianC · Post by **BrianC** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 8:29 am

BrianC - Oldschoolers - 1,482,300 - ABDH -PS2 TL2 US

javel · Post by **javel** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 8:31 am

Javel - Team Sweden - 10,583,370 - ABDGLQV (ALL) - MAME

shoe-sama · Post by **shoe-sama** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 9:15 am

Macaw wrote:Maybe each individual bonus item has its own state of when it gives you 52k.

If so.....pure insanity.

Memorizing timing (when to reveal + amount of time to wait before grabbing) for each one is the only possible way to successfully pull it off. The positioning isn't a factor, but can be used as a timing guide.

CIT · Post by **CIT** » Thu Sep 20, 2007 9:45 am

CIT - Sturmvogel - 4,682,980 - ABDGKPV (ALL) - Saturn