SOTM August 2020: Thunder Dragon 2

[kuze]

Standard arcade options, autofire allowed

Name - Score - Stage - Side (1/2P) - PCB/MAME
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radiantsvgun - 1,393,000 - Stage 4 - P2 - PCB - No Autofire
kuze - 906,890 - Stage 4 - P1 - PCB - Autofire
egg_sanwich - 878,450 - Stage 3 - P1 - MAME
Beelzebub - 867,940 - Stage 3 - P1 - MAME - Autofire
ShootTheCore - 829,100 - Stage 3 - P1 - MAME
wataru330 - 813,870 - Stage 3 - P2 - PCB
Skate323k137 - 671,820 - Stage 3 - P1 - MAME - No Autofire
NERDtendo - 637,430 - Stage 3 - P1 - King of Air - Autofire
Ralfakick - 378,350 - Stage 2 - P1 - MAME - No Autofire
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Shmups review: https://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=66226

Shmups guide thread: https://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?t=14411

Fun fact: If you are wondering why the music is so rad, this is the second game Manabu Namiki composed music for (after Super Spacefortress Macross)

OK, Who's next?!

 

[wataru330]

Woo hoo!

This jam is on King of Air!!

 

[Neodogg]

Woo hoo!

This jam is on King of Air!!

I think I have one of those...

 

[kuze]

I'll get us started here

kuze - 758,700 - Stage 4 - P1 - PCB

 

[NERDtendo]

Woo hoo!

This jam is on King of Air!!

I was just getting ready to see if it was on the game list for this. This is good news!

 

[ShootTheCore]

ShootTheCore - 829,100 - Stage 3 - P1 - MAME

 

[kuze]

Nice one!

 

[wataru330]

The sound is out of sync on KoA.
:^(

Putting my buster-ass score up, as inspiration to avoid embarrassment by the end of the month.

I ate shit at the 2nd boss.

God-dayummmmuh!
I kin stee figh yuo!!

 

[egg_sanwich]

Sweeeeeet game.

Got facialed by the st 3 boss

egg_sanwich - 878,450 - St3 - MAME - AF

 

[skate323k137]

How do I setup mame for auto fire?

 

[Beelzebub]

How do I setup mame for auto fire?

Start the game, then press Tab to bring up settings. Go to "Cheat" enable Autofire Status, then enable whatever buttons, and set the delay. I usually just keep it at the default of 3 tbh.

 

[NERDtendo]

NERDtendo - 156,890 - Stage 2 - P1 - King of Air

 

[NERDtendo]

NERDtendo - 174,950 - Stage 2 - P1 - King of Air

 

[NERDtendo]

NERDtendo - 271,320 - Stage 2 - P1 - King of Air

 

[NERDtendo]

NERDtendo - 307,450 - Stage 2 - P1 - King of Air (Autofire)

 

[NERDtendo]

NERDtendo - 384,710 - Stage 2 - P1 - King of Air (Autofire)

 

[kuze]

Good stuff!

 

[wataru330]

Not putting up a new score yet, but a ‘score’ update:

I was playing for survivial/using continues to get the lay of the land. On King of Air...if you continue...there is no ‘1’ at the end of your score.

This pic is an example of that. *not* a score entry.

This many points by the beginning 1/4 of stage three shouldn’t be possible. Even w/ both 50000 items acquired in Stage 1.

Some other observations: Player two ship when fully powered up and missle’d up, is beast mode. Shooting down all the letters in the beginning of a stage
is possible without bombing.

The problem I’m encountering w/ P2 ship, is it shoots blue, and the enemy bullets are blue. I’ve died unexpectedly more than once when there is a ton of action on screen.

 

[kuze]

Yeah it does not increment the score by one if you continue, so we are on an honor system.

I can sometimes clear the beginning of stage letters as player 1 (even on level 1), the trick seems to be to start from one side and pan quickly to the other to get all of the letters moving, then pan back to clear them. If you manage it, you get either a bonus bomb stock or a score bonus.

Player 2 having autofire support is nice and it may be better for scoring, but I prefer P1 overall myself.

 

[kuze]

kuze - 906,890 - Stage 4 - P1 - PCB (Autofire)

 

[NERDtendo]

NERDtendo - 637,430 - Stage 3 - P1 - King of Air - Autofire

 

[kuze]

Hell yeah! Keep it coming

Edit: oh by the way, for an extra bomb shoot down all the missiles the stage 1 boss sends out the first time it comes your way. Also there's other random bonuses for shooting down all enemies in certain waves

 

[wataru330]

I keep dying frustrating deaths.

A poor craftsman blames his tools, so I won’t make this KoA’s fault...but I’m excited to play a real board later this week.

Macross and Macross + are two of my favorites, so it’s not a anti NMK think...but these blue bullets keep colliding w/ my blue ship too much, lol

 

[kuze]

I keep dying frustrating deaths.

A poor craftsman blames his tools, so I won’t make this KoA’s fault...but I’m excited to play a real board later this week.

Macross and Macross + are two of my favorites, so it’s not a anti NMK think...but these blue bullets keep colliding w/ my blue ship too much, lol

Try using the P1 side with Autofire, may help with that given the red ship.

Did you snag the TD2 board that was posted on eBay? Hopefully someone here got it, don't see them too often.

 

[Ralfakick]

Ralfakick 337,930 stage 2 mame no auto fire