Weird places you got your ship into/get your ship in w. pla.

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Weird places you got your ship into/get your ship in w. pla.

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What are the weirdest places you got your player ship into,

Please provide pictures.
Getting in weird places on purpose is allowed.


Places such as :

-stuck after a part of the layout moves
-untouched in the middle of an attack that is really hard to dodge the way you did it
-inside a boss you're not supposed to be inside of
-behind a boss you're not supposed to be behind
-secret passages
-glitches
-just funny positions.


I will post a picture of me doing it once someone else replies
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You show me yours and I'll show you mine.
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GradiusuiraD wrote: -just funny positions.


I will post a picture of me doing it once someone else replies
First Dunpeal is considering getting donkey-punched so I can buy his J360, and now you're going to post a picture of you doing it in a funny position? Jesus, Shumps Farm.

I always though that this boss at seven minutes in had to be an unintentional speed-kill trick.
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this is a test of interest.

If nobody posts with a position they temselves got in, then this thread will get locked immediately due to not being appreciated.
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Finding safespots is the most fun you can have with difficult attack patterns, and should be something that every player learns to do.
Like this safespot I found on Crimzon Clover Unlimited, second stage midboss. Not really useful when you just sit there doing a small amount of damage, but I reworked it (and two other safespots I found earlier in the session) into a workable midboss strategy.
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Were you involved one way or another in the making of P-47 Aces? (Too lazy to dig up a video, sorry!)
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I pretty much always get above/behind things you're really supposed to stay in front of, and I complain if games are designed such that I can't even if it is blatantly stupid and pointless to do so. I just like the top of the screen.

I glitched and walked across a hole (that you're supposed to fall down and die) in Outzone once which fucks up the game, spadgy and CHI did it to even greater effect before though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yf2YvL5uqWE
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Aliquantic wrote:Were you involved one way or another in the making of P-47 Aces? (Too lazy to dig up a video, sorry!)
Haha, I was having some fun with that the other day...getting bounced out of the screen somehow when I was off to the left, but not at the edge, on a flat section of ground, is always fun.

A strange one is Gigandes - I have a savestate in a recent MAME Plus! build where I simply could not get the second boss (the one that crawls dominoes across the top and bottom of the area) to die, no matter how long I shot it. Was really easy to get a highscore and I could milk it forever (actually, I couldn't get it to die) and I tried flying inside the apparently open area in the center of the being. Surprisingly you don't die immediately when you do this, although I found that inevitably something would kill me after some seconds, though I was not sure what.
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pictures please.

EDIT: a picture from Progear coming up, too!
DOUBLE EDIT:postponed.
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Sadly, I don't have a picture of it, but I somehow managed to squeeze between the pink bullets in one of the "waves" that Crimzon Clover's stage 4 midboss's final form shoots.

I also managed to fly through the blue lines vs. the Ketsui's stage 3 boss's first form once, although that's just typical Cave hitbox magic.
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to make a picture, press print screen.


Then go to MS paint and make a square with the tool used for moving image parts.

right click it and click paste.
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I don't have replays of either run, and I don't think I can recreate either of those, though.
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