Truxton II/Tatsujin Oh [ARC] (second thread)

[Mills]

Reached first part of stage 5 twice yesterday.

[Ruldra]

Welcome to the toughest part of the game. I've practiced that section a thousand times and only no-missed it like twice.

[CHI]

Tatsujin Oh
Mills - 744,850 - 5 - -M- - PCB

[Mills]

typical chi uploading the wrong score what happen to the 800,000 plus score?

[CHI]

typical chi uploading the wrong score what happen to the 800,000 plus score?

Tatsujin Oh
Mills - 814,770 - 5 - -M- - PCB

[Ruldra]

Tatsujin Oh
Ruldra - 1,114,140 - 6 - RUL - MAME

Inp + emulator here

If you're too lazy to watch the run, here's how it went:

- Very stupid death on stage 3.
- I reach the 3rd boss without bombs, so I suicide to recover them. Instead of crashing on him however, I fight him normally and get about 3k points before dying.
- On my next life I let him time out normally.
- I need 3 bombs to kill the 4th boss at max rank. With that in mind I let go of the stage 4 1UP.
- Had to use a bomb at the midboss because I ran right into the lasers to get the powerup. Really stupid.
- Reached the 4th boss and managed to kill him with only 2 bombs.
- I reach stage 5 at full power. Now I'm feeling confident that I'll survive the first section easily...
- ... except that I fail miserably right at the start, lol. On my next life I get lucky and survive the whole section.
- Halfway through stage 5 there are 2 1UP structures and I blow up both of them. But the game has a limit of 4 items on the screen at a time, so the second 1UP doesn't show up. Crap.
- Died at the 5th boss, then on my next life everything went down perfectly. He died without too much trouble.
- At this point I enter stage 6 with 4 spare lives. I'm not too familiar with the stage yet so it goes down from here. Still managed to reach the midboss though.

Now to practice stage 6

[Plasmo]

Huge score there! Keep it up and you'll get that first loop clear!

[lgb]

Paradigm shift! I need to expect these sooner.

[Mills]

Tatsujin Oh
Ruldra - 1,114,140 - 6 - RUL - MAME

Inp + emulator here

If you're too lazy to watch the run, here's how it went:

- Very stupid death on stage 3.
- I reach the 3rd boss without bombs, so I suicide to recover them. Instead of crashing on him however, I fight him normally and get about 3k points before dying.
- On my next life I let him time out normally.
- I need 3 bombs to kill the 4th boss at max rank. With that in mind I let go of the stage 4 1UP.
- Had to use a bomb at the midboss because I ran right into the lasers to get the powerup. Really stupid.
- Reached the 4th boss and managed to kill him with only 2 bombs.
- I reach stage 5 at full power. Now I'm feeling confident that I'll survive the first section easily...
- ... except that I fail miserably right at the start, lol. On my next life I get lucky and survive the whole section.
- Halfway through stage 5 there are 2 1UP structures and I blow up both of them. But the game has a limit of 4 items on the screen at a time, so the second 1UP doesn't show up. Crap.
- Died at the 5th boss, then on my next life everything went down perfectly. He died without too much trouble.
- At this point I enter stage 6 with 4 spare lives. I'm not too familiar with the stage yet so it goes down from here. Still managed to reach the midboss though.

Now to practice stage 6

I pretty much do the same as you via reaching the 3rd stage boss without bombs (normally have 4 bombs or 5 if im lucky to get a bomb very early at the beginning of 1st stage) and last it out, get to 4th boss and destroy it with 3 bombs at point blank range, then i just lose all my lives trying to do the 5th stage which is obviously a pattern.

[Neo Gold]

I love this old skool masterpiece
Truxton II
Neo Gold - 573,960 - Stage 4 - N.G - Original Pcb.
Played on Taito E2 metal.

[lgb]

Welcome to Truxton II! Nice progress for what seems to be an opening gambit.

[Neo Gold]

Welcome to Truxton II! Nice progress for what seems to be an opening gambit.

Thankyou! ..progress was very difficult earlier!..Losing life early on lev 1 demoralizes!!..& losing a life in certain places is suicide to carry on!!.
You seem to get over-confident once @ full power...& easy misstakes are made!.
Tiz a real toughie...how is the jpn vers harder!?
I wanted this shump so badly when the FM-towns arrived damn! i could never afford the pcb back then!..an original pcb is here with me now though!!

[lgb]

Tiz a real toughie...how is the jpn vers harder!?

Enemies fire more often and bullets are faster. It's hard to notice on the first stage but later on you'll definitely feel it. A cheap way to see this is to turn on invulnerability, fast-forward to the 3rd boss and fight him at full power. He fires way more often, especially his drones.

[Neo Gold]

Thankyou for that lgb! ....a few hours play today revealed this minor improvement..up to lev-4 boss.
Truxton II
Neo Gold - 663,300 - Stage 4 - N.G - Original Pcb

[Mills]

So no one knows of any decent jap replays other than the youtube video?

[Ruldra]

There's a 1st loop no-miss run at superplay.co.uk, but it's useless if you want to learn the first part of stage 5. The player just shoot everything and dodges all bullets with superhuman skill.

http://www.super-play.co.uk/index.php?superplay=265

[Ed Oscuro]

Truxton 2
Ed Oscuro - 356,660 - 2 - EAH - MAME Plus! 0.134u1

I dunno, I got better, lol

Actually, it's strange - but this score is just from surviving most of Stage 2 (my run ends at a spot where you need more firepower than the straight cannon because you get swarmed, and you can't recover). After feeling limited by Stage 1's low scoring for so long, Stage 2 is nice. I managed to get past the first boss without dying on my first try, too.

Second boss is a royal pain in the ass though, even using red shot (I find myself using nothing but red now). I didn't get to it this time, otherwise I would have ~400K instead. I hate these "dodge like a crazy man" sections of Toaplan games, mainly because I'm playing on a keyboard and it takes a while to switch directions because I have to move my fingers about.

[Ruldra]

To Mills, TomuS or whoever attempts to beat this game: I uploaded a video of myself no-missing the first section of stage 5. That part is a big wall for everyone and I guess any help is welcome.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=FLJXE9LN

The best approach, imo, is to destroy all enemies quickly before they overwhelm you. So you need to memorize when and which enemies appear at all times.

The order of appearance of those small drones is:

1) Bottom left corner (8 drones)
2) Bottom right corner (8 drones)
3) Upper left corner (4 drones)
4) Upper right corner (4 drones)
5) Upper left corner (8 drones)
6) Upper right corner (8 drones)
7) Repeat steps 1 to 6
8 ) Midboss

The most dangerous drone waves are the ones that come from the bottom, but the video shows how to deal with them: make it so that your napalm hit all incoming enemies before they shoot at you.

Also, a big red ship appears with every drone wave. What you need to know about them:

a) If you destroy one of those plates covering its guns, that side won't shoot anymore
b) If you destroy both plates, the ship will self destruct

Watch the video for reference and practice, and you should get past that part.

[Mills]

Yeah that what im currently working on. I just need to get more consistent with passing stage-3 boss without losing a life and dodging 4th level boss with full firepower without using a bomb, ive only done it once with a slight fluke.

[TomuS]

Thanks Ruldra, I'm trying to learn that strategy! I've made some progress:

Tatsujin Oh: TomuS - 674,130 - 4 - MAME
Truxton II: TomuS - 781,410 - 5 - MAME

I was so close to stage 5 on Tatsujin Oh, but I messed my remaining lives at the fourth boss..
lgb, my 3-letter name is TMS.

[TomuS]

Truxton II:
TomuS - 1,010,200 - 5 - MAME

I finally survived the first part of stage 5!

[Ruldra]

That's a really nice score for stage 5. Good job

[ave]

Is it normal that the volume is a bit reluctant? When I push the volume knob to the max it's as loud as Batrider on the minimum.

[Enhasa]

I don't remember if the difference is quite that large, but yes, it's like that for me too. Assuming it's emulated correctly, those are just different ends of the spectrum in terms of volume. Also worth noting that default volume in MAME is max, i.e. -0 dB.

If you want all the different games to have roughly the same volume, turn on volume normalization in the audio options (you might need mameplus for this, but I know it exists). I always leave normalization/replaygain off everywhere, but that's because I'm such a purist I guess, that I like to hear everything at its intended relative volume. Although even the most diehard audio snobs usually go for album replaygain at least.

[ave]

I play it on PCB, so no volume normalization for me.
But thanks for your answer, I was already getting worried

[Mills]

My new high score for Truxton 2

roadrunner - 118,220 - 1 - RUN - MAME

http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/4623/trux0000.png

Do we really need to know this when most of us stressing over stage5

[Mills]

To Mills, TomuS or whoever attempts to beat this game: I uploaded a video of myself no-missing the first section of stage 5. That part is a big wall for everyone and I guess any help is welcome.

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=FLJXE9LN

The best approach, imo, is to destroy all enemies quickly before they overwhelm you. So you need to memorize when and which enemies appear at all times.

The order of appearance of those small drones is:

1) Bottom left corner (8 drones)
2) Bottom right corner (8 drones)
3) Upper left corner (4 drones)
4) Upper right corner (4 drones)
5) Upper left corner (8 drones)
6) Upper right corner (8 drones)
7) Repeat steps 1 to 6
8 ) Midboss

The most dangerous drone waves are the ones that come from the bottom, but the video shows how to deal with them: make it so that your napalm hit all incoming enemies before they shoot at you.

Also, a big red ship appears with every drone wave. What you need to know about them:

a) If you destroy one of those plates covering its guns, that side won't shoot anymore
b) If you destroy both plates, the ship will self destruct

Watch the video for reference and practice, and you should get past that part.

Dont know what im doing wrong but i cant play this vid or the superplay link.

[Ruldra]

Your PC is probably lacking the proper codecs to run the videos. Install this codec pack and it should work: http://www.codecs.com/download/K_Lite_Codec_Pack.htm

[Enhasa]

Instead of bothering with codecs, the easiest thing to do is watch in something like SMPlayer (VLC is also popular but it's slightly more involved). If you're really lazy and haven't clicked yet, here is the direct link. Just download, unzip it, and open smplayer. No installation or whatever, it's that easy.

It's only 8 MB unzipped but I've never encountered a video it couldn't play. Plus it has cool-ass features for watching superplays like fixing if it needs to be rotated or if the sound is only coming out of one speaker, useful for some of the crappy encodes you see sometimes.

[Mills]

Can't be asked to do any of that esspecially since ive manage to get past 3rd level boss on first life with 5 bombs, wasted two on stage-4 and then didn't have enough to bomb out the 4th level boss (it wouldn't die with 3 bombs at point blank range using red firepower). stage-5 not worth talking about.