Dragon Blaze *new thread*

Breakdown · Post by **Breakdown** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 7:27 am

My plan was to hold off on posting an improvement until I got to 1-6. That took a little longer than anticipated but my scoring in the initial stages has improved dramatically. Finally saw that level 5 boss die today and that put a big ass smile on my face. Credit ended just before the first mid-boss in 1-6.

Breakdown // 957,600 // Quaid // 1-6

stuminator · Post by **stuminator** » Thu Aug 14, 2008 10:22 am

stuminator // 957,400 // Rob // 1-7

1-7 boss is just evil. And I thought the 1-6 boss was tough.

innerpattern · Post by **innerpattern** » Sat Aug 16, 2008 9:42 am

innerpattern // 299,400 // Quaid // 1-4

First day with DB, about 3 hours of practice. Great game, maybe my favorite shmup ever! Throwing dragons is addictive as all hell.

stuminator · Post by **stuminator** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 6:32 pm

stuminator // 1,081,700 // Rob // 2-1

professor ganson · Post by **professor ganson** » Sun Aug 31, 2008 3:51 am

Wow, congrats on the first-loop clear! I will update asap.

astrodan88 · Post by **astrodan88** » Fri Sep 19, 2008 9:09 am

Be it ever so humble... Been busting my hump over Batrider so I thought I would take a break with my fav Psikyo. Had to go through a lot of stupid deaths before I got a decent run.

astrodan88 // 564,900 // Quaid // 1-5

professor ganson · Post by **professor ganson** » Sat Sep 27, 2008 10:40 pm

Updated, finally. Thanks for your patience, especially Limbrooke.

stuminator · Post by **stuminator** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 6:53 pm

Taking a short break from Strikers, I had a few crappy runs then managed to pull off by far my best run in this game:

stuminator // 1,425,000 // Rob // 2-3

elfhentaifan · Post by **elfhentaifan** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 7:06 pm

from whom is the top score?
btw congrats!

stuminator · Post by **stuminator** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 7:17 pm

elfhentaifan wrote:from whom is the top score?
btw congrats!

I don't know - it was on the board when I purchased it, and I never bothered to reset it. Kinda gives me something to shoot for someday.

Breakdown · Post by **Breakdown** » Fri Oct 10, 2008 10:13 pm

That's a great score, especially considering you're using Rob. Congrats!

stuminator · Post by **stuminator** » Wed Oct 29, 2008 7:37 pm

Managed to beat my previous post by nearly 250k:

stuminator // 1,673,100 // Rob // 2-4

Necronopticous · Post by **Necronopticous** » Sun Dec 07, 2008 9:07 am

I played Dragon Blaze on a friend's cabinet today for the first time. Easily one of the greatest games I've ever played. This was my best run of the day:

Necronopticous // 618,900 // Quaid // 1-6

professor ganson · Post by **professor ganson** » Mon Dec 08, 2008 4:31 am

Congrats, stuminator! Updated.

Arvandor · Post by **Arvandor** » Mon Dec 08, 2008 4:35 am

Breakdown wrote:That's a great score, especially considering you're using Rob. Congrats!

Who's supposed to be the best for scoring? The Necromancer dude?

IlMrm · Post by **IlMrm** » Mon Dec 08, 2008 4:45 am

I have to say DB's second round is twice as hard as 1999s.

Limbrooke · Post by **Limbrooke** » Mon Dec 08, 2008 4:49 am

Arvandor wrote:
Breakdown wrote:That's a great score, especially considering you're using Rob. Congrats!
Who's supposed to be the best for scoring? The Necromancer dude?

Ian? He's really good as he's fast and can destroy objects fast, making it easier. However his bomb is balls, easily the worst in the game. Mind you cigs clearly doesn't mind.

The best overal character as one glance on the score board suggests is Quaid. Reason: screen clearing bomb. Otherwise his speed is right behind Ian and otherwise all other attacks are useful.

IlMrm wrote:I have to say DB's second round is twice as hard as 1999s.

Ohh yeah, suicide bullets out the wazoo. Also Necro, nice first entry, you'll soon be knocking at the million point club. And amazing score stuminator, especially for Rob.

Arvandor · Post by **Arvandor** » Mon Dec 08, 2008 8:00 am

Limbrooke wrote:The best overal character as one glance on the score board suggests is Quaid. Reason: screen clearing bomb. Otherwise his speed is right behind Ian and otherwise all other attacks are useful.

Oh, durr. For some reason I got Rob and Quaid mixed up. I was thinking "I thought the fire dragon was best for score? But if it's not him... It'd have to be Ian..."

Yes... Rob makes much more sense, no wonder everyone is impressed with his score. How can you even dodge those later stage boss patterns with that lack of speed? Way to go.

AKRATEN · Post by **AKRATEN** » Wed Dec 10, 2008 1:40 am

AKraten // 411,300 // Quaid // 1-4

more progress soon!

Fu · Post by Fu » Wed Dec 31, 2008 10:52 am

Fu // 1,192,500 // Ian // 2-1

Don't want to learn the 2nd loop so probably not going to improve that.

professor ganson · Post by **professor ganson** » Sun Jan 18, 2009 9:53 pm

updated

stuminator · Post by **stuminator** » Mon Jan 19, 2009 9:30 pm

2-6 baby!!

stuminator // 1,909,300 // Rob // 2-6

Necronopticous · Post by **Necronopticous** » Tue Feb 24, 2009 5:45 pm

Dragon Blaze came home!

Necronopticous // 851,400 // Quaid // 1-6

Necronopticous · Post by **Necronopticous** » Thu Feb 26, 2009 6:13 pm

Approaching 1,000,000+

That stage 6 boss is a motherfucker.

Necronopticous // 954,500 // Quaid // 1-6

Necronopticous · Post by **Necronopticous** » Fri Feb 27, 2009 3:08 am

First time to 1-7. Grabbed the tech bonus on 1-6 with the help of a bomb.

Getting close to the first loop clear.

Necronopticous // 1,041,200 // Quaid // 1-7

Ex_Mosquito · Post by **Ex_Mosquito** » Sat Apr 04, 2009 5:58 am

Been thinking of starting playing this again. I dont have the PCB anymore but how accurate is the ps2 version considered? are there any conversion issues? Ta

freddiebamboo · Post by **freddiebamboo** » Sat Apr 04, 2009 1:39 pm

It's excellent, from what PCB owners have said it plays exactly the same mate. I think the graphics are not quite as sharp on the port, but I have only read this and never actually noticed despite playing it a lot on mame before I bought the PS2 version. Also has a very useful practice mode too.

The Japanese version comes with Sol Divide, so make sure you get the UK one

Necronopticous · Post by **Necronopticous** » Sun Apr 26, 2009 1:32 am

Necronopticous // 1,325,000 // Quaid // 2-1

unsane · Post by **unsane** » Wed Apr 29, 2009 7:48 pm

I picked this one up thinking i'd get myself out of last place on here, but it turns out i have that honor on GB2 not DB! Ah well, i musta learned something while not touching this for a year - move me up a spot:

unsane // 335,600 // Quaid // 1-4

I suck at this game.

professor ganson · Post by **professor ganson** » Thu Apr 30, 2009 10:01 pm

Keep the scores coming! I'll get this updated by the end of May when classes are over and papers are graded.

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