Daily Check: What shooters are you guys playing ATM?

[geise]

I've been trying some high score runs for Sapphire and Dragon Spirit on the pc-engine the past couple days.

 

[Neodogg]

WHAT! you took it out of it's plastic seal! How could you do something like that!

Been 1941 on SuperGrafx this week.

 

[bubba966]

WHAT! you took it out of it's plastic seal! How could you do something like that!

i took a razor blade and carefully cut the wrap off just the spine and pulled the game out. Easy....

Got Aldynes in the SuperGrafx now.

 

[Kid Panda]

WHAT! you took it out of it's plastic seal! How could you do something like that!

Pfft, I do that with all games, or sell them.

 

[Normdog]

1942: Joint Strike, 360

 

[Tarma]

Battle Garegga - Saturn
Progear - CPS2

 

[aoiddr]

Gave up on Radiant Silvergun for the time being as the final handful of bosses are insane. Just trying to gather pink bullets with the sword without getting hit is insanely frustrating.

Went back to playing Twinkle Star Sprites.

 

[Some Mist]

been working on my Battle Garegga board now that I have the zakk roms on there. 1CCing this seems like it's gonna be 10 x harder than 1-ALLing Progear, but I've been seeing tiny progress. Last weekend I was able to break the 3 mil extend and I saw stage 5 more than once but I'm stuck on the midbosses. pretty embarrassing score but w/e



once my cab comes I'll be sinking a lot more time into it.

 

[Chempop]

You using Wild Snail or Golden Bat? It's the same ship, GB you select with A,B,C (he's a lot faster and smaller hitbox).

 

[Some Mist]

been using golden bat (when my fingers hit them all simultaneously at least). that top score is sadly with a golden bat run.

I can make it the furthest with him which is strange since I'd assume some of the great mahou daisakusen characters would have some crazy advantages, but I can't make it past stage 4 with any other ship... and the bonus ships are hard as hell to hit the flamingos in stage 2 with a bomb.

 

[Chempop]

Golden Bat isn't generally a high scoring ship but he keeps rank low. Gain's bomb is great against flamingoes, bomb the castle and then just plop 2 of them right above where they spawn. I almost always have +2mil after them flamingos with him (suiciding twice on stage 1 boss). Gain is also really good against madball (stage 2 boss) because if you land a full bomb directly centered while he's opening up you can get another +1 mil. Also, that opening bomb on stage 3 (technically right before stage 3) gets you a nice pile.
Good luck!

 

[Some Mist]

thanks for all the advice I'm usually at like 1.7 mil around the flamingos, and I leave stage 1 at about 300,000.

I HATE it when my chain breaks right before stage 3, because I usually try to take advantage of that pile. I'll try out Gain again as well and see if I can pull it off.

 

[Chempop]

Oh you are going good then. You don't need any advice from me, until you are getting to stage 6+7 that is
Seriously though, with GB I wouldn't get more than 2 options until stage 6. You only need 2 homing options for stage 5.

 

[Some Mist]

last question - what about the main weapon powerups?
I usually pick up every single bomb fragment that I can - I skip all power ups until stage 3 when my bullets don't do damage, and even then I try to limit powering up my main attack.

also been nabbing that 1-UP on stage 4 which is probably the funnest 1-UP to crank out.

 

[Normdog]

1942: Joint Strike, 360

 

[ViolentStorm]

Last Resort on the mvs, the first stage soundtrack is awesome!

 

[Tarma]

Battle Garegga... still

 

[ballzdeepx]

When my 360 isn't overheating......

 

[Chempop]

I'm going to return to Cyvern and maybe Guwange.

 

[GutsDozer]

Danmaku Unlimited 2 on Steam. actually really fun and challenging.

 

[Chempop]

last question - what about the main weapon powerups?

Certainly a matter of preference to a degree. Some people wait to get options a lot later in the game than I do, definitely don't go overboard with them until stage6+7 (by then I also increase my firing rate). Large shot powerups boost rank less than the few small ones to equal the same increase in shot power, so you may want to just get 1 small on stage 1 and maybe 1 big one on stage 2. Experiment. I actually skip all the bomb frags in stage 1 and even skip the flamingos using golden bat if I'm just going for the clear.

 

[Some Mist]

crazy dude... I'm gonna have to try skipping fragments and flamingos once to see how far I can get.

tried again last night but didn't make it past stage 4. I feel that if I stick with it about a month or so and get at least 1 credit in a day I'll see stage 6 + 7.

 

[Jeneki]

Nyu Media gave me a Steam key for RefleX so I'm remembering how to play that now. Probably the closest thing to a vertical "memorizer" as it gets.

 

[bubba966]

Last shooter was Captain Tomaday on MVS. Fun. But weird...

 

[Splitt442]

Just 1cc'd Zero Wing, Mega Drive style.