PatriotDark

Aru-san · Post by **Aru-san** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 8:30 am

Now accepting version 1.0b scores. You can download the game here (freeware confirmed).

PatriotDark is a doujin shmup made by Temperance Lance that borrows gameplay elements from the DoDonPachi series, a mix between Espgaluda and Ketsui, and the Raiden Fighters series. You can play 5 levels of mayhem, topped with a final boss in the full version. Music's not too great, but it's possible to replace the music if one has an audio editor with OGG exporting.

Submit in this format:
Name - Score - Stage Reached (up to 5)(use ALL if you passed 5) - Ship Used - Comment (optional)(up to 32 letters)

You can either post in this forum or PM me your score. You can submit a new score if you want to update your score if it's already listed.

Note: Those that all cleared PatriotDark prior to the full version's release will now be marked with an ALL D (D is short for Demo). All scores done with version 1.0a or 1.0b of the game will be marked with the letter of that respective version (a for 1.0a and b for 1.0b).

You can look at complete high score tables here. The scoreboards below will display the top and bottom 5 of each score board.

EASY

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NO  Name                      Score        Stage  Ship                 Comments (32 letter max)
==================================================================================================TOP 5
01  Ltc                       136,036,830  ALL b  Type-A2 (Suika-B)                                     
02  Heartbeam                 105,128,240  ALL b  Type-A2 (Suika-B)   
03  tinotormed           + 2  82,808,290   ALL b  Type-A (Suika)       No miss til st5 boss.
04  Aru-san              - 1  71,928,140   ALL b  Type-B (Moruten)     It's been a while.
05  Ravid                - 1  70,281,970   ALL D  Type-A (Suika)      
===============================================================================================BOTTOM 5
10  LGB                       27,121,000   ALL D  Type-B (Moruten)    
11  z0mbie90                  24,624,970   4      Type-B (Moruten)    
12  The Coop                  25,036,890   ALL D  Type-A (Suika)      
13  AAP                       17.506.080   4b?    Type-B (Moruten)    
14  Machinehead               8,811,330    3      Type-B (Moruten)    

Recent additions

DATE and NO.   Name                      Score        Stage  Ship                 Comments (32 letter max)
==================================================================================================================
[20101208] 09  tinotormed                37,843,350   ALL D  Type-A (Suika)       No miss.
[20101210] 05  tinotormed           + 4  64,060,910   ALL b  Type-A (Suika)       No miss til st5
[20101218] 03  tinotormed           + 2  82,808,290   ALL b  Type-A (Suika)       No miss til st5 boss.

NORMAL

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NO  Name                      Score        Stage  Ship                 Comments (32 letter max)
==================================================================================================TOP 5
01  Ltc                       158,921,460  ALL b  Type-A2 (Suika-B)   
02  Ravid                     136,287,720  ALL b  Type-A (Suika)      
03  sjoecool1991              103,729,180  ALL b? Type-A (Suika)       Second 1CC.
04  Aru-san                   102,105,960  5b     Type-B (Moruten)     Got lazy at the boss.
05  tinotormed                90,029,040   ALL b  Type-B (Moruten)     +15 mil. One ship left
===============================================================================================BOTTOM 5
13  Ruldra                    43,299,190   ALL b  Type-B (Moruten)     Cleared on my first attempt lolz
14  bob                       42,159,790   3b     Type-A (Suika)      
15  z0mbie90                  35,474,170   4b?    Type-B (Moruten)    
16  bsidwell                  18,228,950   3      Type-A (Suika)      
17  Matsunaga                 16,467,960   3      Type-B (Moruten)    

Recent additions

DATE and NO.   Name                      Score        Stage  Ship                 Comments (32 letter max)
==================================================================================================================
[20101219] 05  tinotormed           + 2  90,029,040   ALL b  Type-B (Moruten)     +15 mil. One ship left
[20130731] 10  sh51                 + 8  58,411,740   5      Type-B (Moruten)    
[20130901] 10  sh51                      64,927,130   5      Type-B (Moruten)

HARD

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NO  Name                      Score        Stage  Ship                 Comments (32 letter max)
==================================================================================================TOP 5
01  Ltc                       201,450,370  ALL b  Type-A2 (Suika-B)   
02  Ravid                     191,686,320  ALL b  Type-A (Suika)      
03  tinotormed                67,010,050   ALL D  Type-A (Suika)      
04  Aru-san              - 1  55,240,070   3      Type-B (Moruten)    
05  spongdangly          - 1  40,371,930   3      Type-A (Suika)       Fuck this is hard
===============================================================================================BOTTOM 5
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Recent additions

DATE and NO.   Name                      Score        Stage  Ship                 Comments (32 letter max)
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[20101211] 03  tinotormed                67,010,050   ALL D  Type-A (Suika)

EXTRA (obtained by 1CCing any difficulty level)

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NO  Name                      Score        Stage  Ship                 Comments (32 letter max)
==================================================================================================TOP 5
01  Ltc                       334,310,350  ALL b  Type-A2 (Suika-B)   
02  Aru-san                   235,205,930  5b     Type-B (Moruten)     Died at boss. BEAT KOA. =D
03  SuperSoaker360            230,733,040  ALL b  Type-A (Suika)       First time clearing Ex
04  SFKhoa               - 1  213,117,880  ALL b  Type-B (Moruten)    
05  Sasupoika            - 1  160,083,770  5b     Type-A (Suika)      
===============================================================================================BOTTOM 5 
06  Dale                 - 1  158,361,110  5b     Type-B (Moruten)    
07  Ravid                - 1  131,011,690  3b     Type-A (Suika)      
08  Icarus               - 1  124,122,140  ALL D  Type-A (Suika)      
09  Zaarock              - 1  112,474,620  3b     Type-A2 (Suika-B)   
10  tinotormed           - 1  105,006,390  ALL D  Type-A               One ship left. That was close!

Recent additions

DATE and NO.   Name                      Score        Stage  Ship                 Comments (32 letter max)
==================================================================================================================
[20120203] 03  SuperSoaker360            230,733,040  ALL b  Type-A (Suika)       First time clearing Ex
[20101211] 09  tinotormed                105,006,390  ALL D  Type-A               One ship left. That was close!

EXTRA2 (1.0b only, obtained by 1CCing EXTRA)

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NO  Name                      Score        Stage  Ship                 Comments (32 letter max)
==================================================================================================TOP 5
01  Ltc                       348,499,800  ALL b  Type-A2 (Suika-B)   
02  Dale                      154,289,590  4b     Type-B (Moruten)    
03  Ravid                     92,241,460   3b     Type-A (Suika)      
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Recent additions

DATE and NO.   Name                      Score        Stage  Ship                 Comments (32 letter max)
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Machinehead · Post by **Machinehead** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 3:51 pm

8,811,330 - Stage Reached: 3 - Type B Ship

http://i335.photobucket.com/albums/m452 ... 1215964043

Aru-san · Post by **Aru-san** » Sun Jul 13, 2008 11:35 pm

Little tips for scoring:

- The more bullets, the more gains. The more gains, the more points.
- Don't die. Otherwise, your gains (with a x500 point bonus in the end of a level) will be cut in half, you will lose a life (with a x100,000 point bonus in the end) and will result in a loss of bonus points.
- If there are any extra parts (aside from the main body) to a boss, destroy them with your laser shot to earn gains.
- As with the DoDonPachi series, CHAIN. Doing so will lead to bonus points (your max combo for that level x 1,000) in the end. Using the laser shot will pause the meter, however killing too fast will result in breaking the chain.
- Extends are 15,000,000 points and 45,000,000 points. There is also an extend in the mid-boss on stage 3 if it is no-missed. By the end of stage 3, provided you successfully 1-life clear this version will result in a 500K end-of-game life bonus (at least for the 2008/07/04 version).
- Memorize where the auto-gain portals are. You will know if you have hit an auto-gain portal when you see small, glowing marks spinning. Hover over them for a few seconds to activate them. Activating those not only gives you gains, but it also rewards 500K for activation.
- If your laser gauge is depleted and there are no small enemies to release crystals (to replenish the laser gauge), bomb to turn all bullets that hit the bomb into crystals. The bomb serves only for enemy destruction and crystal conversion and will not even touch any aspect of the scoring system.

1CCing any difficulty will unlock Extra.
1CCing Extra will unlock a Dark version of the ship you cleared Extra on. These ships will show up as Type-A2 or Type-B2.

Ravid · Post by **Ravid** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 9:07 am

This is a really cool game and we NEED MORE SCORES

Hard mode
Ravid - 39,239,840 - Stage 3 - Type-A (Suika)

I'll submit easy and normal scores later

EDIT:
Easy Mode
Ravid - 42,658,430 - Stage 3 (all) - Type-A (Suika)

Normal Mode
Ravid - 43,798,850 - Stage 3 (all) - Type-A (Suika)

Aru-san · Post by **Aru-san** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 3:31 pm

Ravid wrote:This is a really cool game and we NEED MORE SCORES

Seconded. It'll come eventually...I hope.

Time to put in some scores I didn't put in yet (probably because of the lack of high score submitters on this board).

Ravid · Post by **Ravid** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 10:52 pm

Whoops, looks like I made a mistake here

Hard mode I died on stage 3, normal mode was all. Scores are all right tho
(You had to just edge out my Easy mode score didn't you

)

bsidwell · Post by **bsidwell** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 12:39 am

This game seems to have 2-3 scoring systems going on at once.

Normal mode
bsidwell - 18,228,950 - Stage 3 - Type A

Matsunaga · Post by **Matsunaga** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 8:41 pm

Matsunaga-16,467,960-stage 3-type b
normal mode

Lordstar · Post by **Lordstar** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 8:44 pm

Cool! I will get in on this for sure

*goes to download*

Dale · Post by **Dale** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 10:17 pm

Dale-62,754,360-Stage3-TypeB
Extra Mode

BER · Post by **BER** » Sun Jul 27, 2008 12:24 pm

EASY:
BER | 47,912,430 | ALL | Type-B (Moruten)

This play-through was actually sloppy. I broke my Stage 3 chain before the midboss, and I lost a life at the very end of the Stage 3 boss. But this game's a fun diversion, anyway.

Ravid · Post by **Ravid** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 8:28 am

I knew it was possible...

Easy Mode
Ravid - 70,281,970 - Stage 3 (all) - Type-A (Suika)

Dale · Post by **Dale** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 8:19 pm

Dale-76,589,810-Type B-all
Extra Mode

Edit:
Replay
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RYQ36RRI

Aru-san · Post by **Aru-san** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 1:02 am

Back from my 4-day cruise I went on with my family. Updated the scoreboards. It seems this thread got popular over the weekend.

Freakin' dang on Ravid getting a darn high score on Easy.

Ravid · Post by **Ravid** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 3:30 pm

Normal Mode
Ravid - 71,981,910 - Stage 3 (all) - Type-A (Suika)

Not the best run by any means, but I'll post it anyway in the hopes of breathing life into this topic and encouraging people to post more scores. I'll report back when I reach my target of 80 million.

Dale · Post by **Dale** » Sat Aug 16, 2008 9:28 pm

Dale-78,725,260-Type B-Extra Mode-all

Played like shit on level one but got back into the swing of things from then on.

The Coop · Post by **The Coop** » Sun Aug 17, 2008 5:25 am

The Coop - 25,036,890 - All - Type A (Suika) - Easy

spongdangly · Post by **spongdangly** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 9:41 am

Version 1.0 has been released. The full version has 5 stages. I only played a few runs, this game is pretty damn good though.

Easy:
spongdangly - 38,871,750 - Stage 5 - Type-B (Moruten)

Normal:
spongdangly - 33,356,940 - Stage 3 - Type-B (Moruten)

Aru-san · Post by **Aru-san** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 3:30 pm

Should I start a new high score list for ver. 1.0? This score list is...uhmm...sort of populated with v. 0.1 scores right now.

spongdangly · Post by **spongdangly** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 6:12 pm

Aru-san wrote:Should I start a new high score list for ver. 1.0? This score list is...uhmm...sort of populated with v. 0.1 scores right now.

That's your call. However I figured you would just switch the scoreboard over to the new full version since v.0.1 was basically just a demo.

Aru-san · Post by **Aru-san** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 7:06 pm

Edited to include the following:

- Your 2 scores.
- Info that a new release is out.
- Old ALLs are now ALL Ds.

Observer · Post by **Observer** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 8:15 pm

I was going to mention the site issue... I cannot access it at all. =/ Wouldn't you mind to drop me a pm if you find an alternate download source? I'll search myself too.

And I've been wondering: this full version is commercial or the game stayed freeware?

Ravid · Post by **Ravid** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 9:03 pm

Yeah I can't access it either... perhaps spongdangly would be kind enough to upload temporarily for those impatient among us? That is, assuming it's still freeware.

spongdangly · Post by **spongdangly** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 9:15 pm

Observer wrote:I was going to mention the site issue... I cannot access it at all. =/ Wouldn't you mind to drop me a pm if you find an alternate download source? I'll search myself too.

And I've been wondering: this full version is commercial or the game stayed freeware?

Not sure, I'm wondering this myself. The sites been down for the past few days.

*Note* Do not edit the "save" file. I made the mistake of doing this (I was just adding a letter to my name for the hi score) and it became corrupted.

Aru-san · Post by **Aru-san** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 9:21 pm

Fun fact. If you have the old version of PatriotDark (in other words, the version that this thread had a download link to), you can transfer the "save" file to the new version. It will transfer all of your scores, settings, ships unlocked, and Extra mode if you have unlocked it.

spongdangly · Post by **spongdangly** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 9:34 pm

The first extend is now at 20 million pts, second extend is still at 45 million pts.

When you activate the auto-gain portal how do you make it give you gains? I know that I'm activating it right since it becomes a full circle but I can't seem to figure out how to get gains out of it (sometimes some gains come out, other times they don't).

Aru-san · Post by **Aru-san** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 9:44 pm

spongdangly wrote:The first extend is now at 20 million pts, second extend is still at 45 million pts.

When you activate the auto-gain portal how do you make it give you gains? I know that I'm activating it right since it becomes a full circle but I can't seem to figure out how to get gains out of it (sometimes some gains come out, other times they don't).

I think it just spews out gains periodically. I'm not really sure if it's related to attacking or if it just spews them out periodically.

Also, DAMN, Extra mode got some real difficulty pumped in that mode. Even though it's now freakishly hard, I still enjoy playing Extra mode for the joy of cancelling suicide bullets which, not surprisingly, spew out even more gains!

Ravid · Post by **Ravid** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 9:54 pm

spongdangly wrote:The first extend is now at 20 million pts, second extend is still at 45 million pts.

When you activate the auto-gain portal how do you make it give you gains? I know that I'm activating it right since it becomes a full circle but I can't seem to figure out how to get gains out of it (sometimes some gains come out, other times they don't).

Gain portals give you a gain every time a bullet passes through it after it's been activated. In the demo at least, they're pretty much useless.
btw thanks

lgb · Post by **lgb** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 11:12 pm

Does anyone have it yet? spongdangly seems to. Can you upload it?

The Coop · Post by **The Coop** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 11:43 pm

I believe people are still trying to find out if it's freeware or not before any links get posted.

shmups.system11.org

PatriotDark

PatriotDark

A short treatise from Aru-san