November SOTM club Progear+Soldier Blade!!

[Mugicha]

This will be a November to remember because we will be playing 2 very awesome shmups this month.

Progear received the winning vote, but I will also be setting up a score card for Soldier Blade Caravan mode. Why? because it's my month and I can do whatever I want and also the wife digs it.




default settings, auto-fire enable ok, 1 credit, no continues.

Name - Score - Stage - Pilot/Gunner - Format - Region

1) Frenetic - 14,622,540 - 1-ALL - Bolt/Nail - CPS2 - JP
2) Kidpanda -14,017,610 - Stage 7 (boss) - Bolt/Chain - CPS2/Jp
3) mjmjr25 - 9,747,010 - stage 5 (boss) - Bolt/Nail - CPS2/JP
4) Gum_Drops - 6,004,810 - Stage 4 - Bolt/Nail - CPS2 - JP
5) pipes - 4,690,170 - Stage 4 - Bolt/Nail - CPS2/Jp
6) codecrank - 4,125,630 - Stage 4 - Bolt/Nail - MAME - USA
7) Mugicha - 3,227,180 - Stage 3 - Ring/Rivet - CPS2/JP
8) Jambitboom - 2,625,200 - Stage 3 - Ring/Rivet - MAME - USA
9) Tyranix95 - 2,599,950 - Stage 3 (Boss) - Bolt/Nail - CPS2/US

despite the pic, this score card will be for the 5 minute game mode

Name (yours! not the game!) - Score - Format

1) ebinsugewa - 1,576,500 - Ootake
2) lychee bites - 1,443,300 - PC-Engine
3) EllertMichael - 1,421,500 - JP
4) Frenetic - 1,364,800 - Magic Engine 1.1
5) Mugicha - 1,115,800 - PC-Engine
6) kidpanda - 1,096,100 - PC-Engine
7) wataru330 - 1,040,000 - wii VC
8) Official Ninja - 869,100 - PCE Duo-r
9) whisper2053 - 855,200 - PCE Duo-R

 

[ebinsugewa]

Soldier Blade - 1,015,400 - Ootake

 

[EllertMichael]

EllertMichael - 1,092,500 - JP

 

[Mugicha]

EllertMichael - 1,092,500 - JP

damn man, how did you have time to post this after that awesome t-shirt post last nite? this better not be an old score

Soldier Blade - 1,015,400 - Ootake

hey silly, we know the name of the game, yer supposed to put your own name in front of the score

so I took some liberties with your name on the card

nice score btw!

 

[whisper2053]

Yay Soldier Blade! Time to fire up the Duo and get down on some 5 minute runs

 

[Kid Panda]

No autofire on PG? That should cause some cramps lol!

 

[wataru330]

Was ROLLIN' w/ 6 ships, full power, and 45 seconds left on the final boss...then my daughter woke up from nap, lol.

Waiting for my progear to arrive from CA; then it'll be oooooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnn!!!

wataru330 - 853300 - wii VC

wataru330 - Score - Stage - Pilot/Gunner - CPS2 - JPN

 

[ebinsugewa]

Man Soldier Blade is fucking fun. Good choice. I love Hudson and Compile shooters on the PCE. I wish I still had one.

ebinwhatever - 1,255,700 - Ootake

 

[EllertMichael]

damn man, how did you have time to post this after that awesome t-shirt post last nite? this better not be an old score

It only took 5 minutes! & nope! not an old score.

ebinwhatever - 1,255,700 - Ootake

Nice one!

Spoiler:

I took a look at the high score table on the shumps forum and 1st place score is 1,817,600 - so there's a lot more points to be found

 

[Mugicha]

Spoiler:

score card updated, and bump for cibo matto!

No autofire on PG? That should cause some cramps lol!

Spoiler:

 

[Mugicha]

time to get the ball rollin!! I get to enjoy 1st place for once

Mugicha - 1,644,790 - Stage 3 -Ring/Chain - CPS2

 

[Tyranix95]

Hey Mug:

Allow Auto-Fire for Progear.

Enable it in the Test Menu--And then use the "C" button.

It's the way the game is played.

 

[mjmjr25]

Hey Mug:

Allow Auto-Fire for Progear.

Enable it in the Test Menu--And then use the "C" button.

It's the way the game is played.

On JP boards it's default I think, but on US boards you have to allow it in the settings.

Too lazy to rotate a monitor back to hori tonight, so playing on MAME today, plays fairly smooth.

mjmjr25 - 2,455,170 - ring/rivet - stage 3 - MAME

 

[Mugicha]

My board is phoenixed and I just booted up in both US and JP regions, auto fire had to be enabled on both regions, it was not a default setting hence why I opted not to allow it. But I'm open to suggestion and it's obviously not a cheat or anything, it's just not default. I'll edit the initial post to allow for it.

another thing I noticed while booting in both regions, the default difficulty settings weren't the same. US default difficulty was set at 2, while JP was set at 4. I'm not sure if this is just a relative thing, or if they are actually easier or harder in different regions, I'd like to hear your guys thoughts on this.

I generally play in JP mode for everything, but the score I posted earlier was in US mode.

Mj, nice score man, I did enjoy my brief time at the top

 

[Tyranix95]

JP OPs like a stronger setting for the 1CC Crowd.

US OPs like a weaker setting for the Quarter Dumper (play to see the ending) Crowd.

 

[wataru330]

Set it to 3, and split the diff?

Progress...

Gotta try w/ classic control.

 

[Official Ninja]

Soldier Blade
Official Ninja - 869100 - PCE Duo-r

Untitled by CharliePel, on Flickr

I voted for Progear, but can't score high enough to enter initials....

 

[mjmjr25]

I think it's 2mil to enter initials, first extend is at 3mil iirc.

 

[Mugicha]

lol, guys I love you seriously. I really do. but please check the format for submitting your scores. it makes it muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuch easier for me to copy and paste it to the score card

wat, your new pic doesn't have your info, so I gotta put the score in manually lol. Official ninja you, like evan^ also need to write your own name when posting a score. I realize we are doing 2 games this month so you guys might feel inclined to tell me the name of the game you played, but the pics are a dead giveaway, i can tell exactly whats what

thx guys....lol

 

[wataru330]

Lemme edit my post... It's awesome that we get to play two this mo. Least we could do is make it easy for you. ^_^

 

[Kid Panda]

Soldier Blade Caravan 5 Minute
kidpanda - 1,096,100 - PC-Engine

http://www.justin.tv/scoopskp/c/3188007
For the video of two runs with the second being my highest score.

Ootake is a PCE-TG16 Emu for the PC, pretty good actually. Just for info's sake

 

[mjmjr25]

The differences in difficulty 2 vs difficulty 4 are minor and are really quite negligible. The difference primarily is how quick the enemies start shooting, but speed and patterns stay the same. There may be more bullets, just because enemies are firing them a fraction faster, but it's hard to notice. I play on level 4 JP region, but really, it's to anyone's advantage to play at a higher difficulty since this isn't an ALL competition, it's high score, and the more bullets, the more points with the ring / stone scoring system.

The JP scoreboard (default 4) scores are significantly higher than the US scoreboard (default 2) precisely due to more bullets available to cancel.

Ring is your faster / wider shot character.
Bolt is slightly more powerful with a more direct shot, slightly slower (negligible).

Chain and Nail play somewhat similar as your gunners - with chain having a bit more power, but when you use Chain as your gunner, she slows you down considerable more than the other gunners and is tough to use her unless you are dedicated to her only.

Rivet slows you down the least, and her homing shot has the widest range, it will seek enemies just about anywhere on screen, but is the least powerful.

Don't play difficulty 3, that requires everyone to change default settings and most will probably forget each time they fire it back up. So i'd propose allowing any difficulty since the difficulty of the added bullets adds to score potential, ie, a wash. Or, have everyone play at level 4 so only one group is changing settings instead of both.

 

[Mugicha]

Lemme edit my post... It's awesome that we get to play two this mo. Least we could do is make it easy for you. ^_^

sorry if I was bitching, I wasn't mad, it was more of kinda thing lol. thanks to Official for editing his entry as well. also thx to panda for the notification on ootake, [(dafuq?)] removed from score card.

And of course mj, thx for the character info and difficulty analysis. while there might be a slight difference in actual difficulty between the 2 regions, I've found it to be negligible during gameplay. I'd also prefer that no one changes difficulty from default (either lower or higher), but for info's sake I'd like to add an amendment to the entry template, I know it's long already, sorry but how about we specify what region we are playing as well?

Name - Score - Stage - Pilot/Gunner - Format - Region

 

[lychee bites]

Lychee Bites - 906,100 - coinops

 

[Mugicha]

just realized my first score was on her screen ^

so I'm on the board now as well

Mugicha - 776,700 - coinops