Shmup of the Month Club 2012

[mjmjr25]

Yeah, the boss milk on the first 2 bosses is huge - i've just started doing it myself. Tons of gold to be had.

[noiseredux]

Yeah, the boss milk on the first 2 bosses is huge - i've just started doing it myself. Tons of gold to be had.

word. But it's all about balance it seems. Knowing how to milk, but also kill within the allotted time. I've also learned that the Pulse Cannon is where it's at, and that absorbing bullets is a must. This game is serious. You really have to know what the F is going on. But it's great fun, even if I've never seen the third stage yet.

[foxhound1022]

Here's the pic for my score.

foxhound1022 - 31,983,874,930 - Exp. 169,839 - Lvl. 4 - Stage 4 - Mosquito 2 - DC



Gonna try and put some real time into this before the end of the month; I'm starting to get it.

[noiseredux]

I'm starting to get it.

I love that you say this after scoring 15x my score.

[mjmjr25]

So do we know if MAME scoring is compatible to CPS2 or or DC/Arcade Mode?

Also, does MAME support Auto Piercing Cannon and Auto-fire like DC arcade mode? Those are huge differences, particularly Auto Piercing - huge.

[skate323k137]

MAME should just be using the CPS2 ROM right?

[jepjepjep]

So do we know if MAME scoring is compatible to CPS2 or or DC/Arcade Mode?

Also, does MAME support Auto Piercing Cannon and Auto-fire like DC arcade mode? Those are huge differences, particularly Auto Piercing - huge.

MAME should be the same as CPS2, but DC/Arcade mode scoring is totally different. Some mame builds have autofire, but most are same as CPS2 - one button for all functions.

MAME should just be using the CPS2 ROM right?

Yes, mmatrix or mmatrixj.

I played a quick credit today with more of a focus on survival rather than chaining. I ended up doing better, making it up to the Stage 4 boss.

JEP - 18,723,889,230 - Exp: 309434 (Level 5) - Stage 4 - CPS2

[ExedExes]

All right, so I played it on MAME today and I bumped the difficulty up to 4 to remain in-line with the DC.

The one I'm using had just one button for all functions. No auto fire or auto piercing. Got to Stage 3 so I saw the bullet blankets that took up the first 1/3 or 1/2 of the area.

ExedExes - 6,416,871,930 - 134172 EXP - Stage 3 - Mosquito 2 - MAME



Now to see if I can get the same EXP amount on the DC port to see how many more pts I'd get.

[ChrisHaha2049]

I'm using an older version of Mame(118), and as little as I know, it doesn't have Auto Pierce...or auto shot.

I did notice a minor difference of another sort from the DC version though. In stage 4, during the Battleship sequence (before the boss). The central turret...it sprays blue bullets in all directions and fires 2 straight lines of pink bullets aimed at your ship. In the MAME/CPS2 version, it also fires another small set of pinks in a wide formation in preset directions...this doesn't occur in the DC version. I don't think it matters much; perhaps makes the CPS2 just a tad more difficult. But I thought it was interesting regardless.

So I figured to give the red ship a go for the heck of it. Lousy chains, relatively, but its spread handles what I think is the toughest part of stage 4 (after the 1up) much easier...And made it to stage 5. *yay* Though the score/exp wasn't as good as I'd have liked.

ChrisH2049 - 80,539,913,680 - exp:609,624 - stage 5 - Mosquito 1 - arcade/MAME (difficulty 3)

[Tyranix95]

Nice Score!

Man, I've got to get me some Lv.4 points.