Shmup of the Month Club 2012

[hashiriya1]

OK, that's it for today. Whew

MAME
hashiriya1 - 340,200

[dsheinem]

So is this the "ExedExes" game that nobody knew about that you offered to us ?

http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopi ... 03#p548003

no, it's the one I offered.

Glad everyone is enjoying it. I am about to go fire it up.

Also of interest: http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?t=10787 and http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?t=9865 and http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?t=10867 and http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?t=25110 and http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?t=1702

[noiseredux]

damn you guys are good.

So I have tried all the characters a few times. I can't seem to get the hang of any of them but Sonia.

Oh and yeah the random level thing threw me off quite a bit at first. And it seems to have a big impact on my score in the sense that I find two of the levels a lot easier than the other two.

Ok, so remember that I'm still really new at this whole "playing shmups for score" thing, so be patient with me and my n00bness.... what exactly is a "boss tech bonus" that you guys keep talking about?

Also, am I correct that there are no extends?

[fvgazi]

damn you guys are good.

So I have tried all the characters a few times. I can't seem to get the hang of any of them but Sonia.

Oh and yeah the random level thing threw me off quite a bit at first. And it seems to have a big impact on my score in the sense that I find two of the levels a lot easier than the other two.

Ok, so remember that I'm still really new at this whole "playing shmups for score" thing, so be patient with me and my n00bness.... what exactly is a "boss tech bonus" that you guys keep talking about?

Also, am I correct that there are no extends?

The boss tech bonus happens during a small window of opportunity. The bosses "core" will be exposed for a very short duration usually in the 3rd form/attack sequence. If you use a dismount at the right time you can kill the boss to get a tech bonus.
http://youtu.be/EdNpZirzDLQ - No sound

When the dragon boss turns into the larva fly thing you will see it shoot out a circle at one point and then some star pattern really quickly after. During that star pattern it's "core" is exposed and the dismount is done for a technical bonus. So far all of the 4 stage bosses have tech bonuses. I've hit all of them, but the plant boss is particularly hard.

[dunpeal2064]

yeah, I don't think Psikyo games have extends sadly.

Damn, some nice scores! I have some fun work cut out for me.

[fvgazi]

I really want to break 300,000 by tonight. So close!

[ExedExes]

This is why I was so excited for the score-based shooters months. I think this month will have a lot of participants, and we can all use each other as motivators to get better!

What do you mean by score-based shooter? Are not all shmups score based in some way or another? How else would we enjoy them, or get better at them? Or do you mean some are solely judged by how far one gets on a credit?

Also, am I correct that there are no extends?

On MAME there is. Hitting F2 and looking at the options, default is 600K. Hardly obtainable on a credit (for now) so looks like we got to go with what we got.

[dunpeal2064]

By score-based, I mean that you are getting score for something other than blowing things up and having lives/bombs at the end of the stage.

Scoring varience is my favorite, I love a game that can have a stage 1 score of 1 million, or 10 million, depending on how you play.

Sure, there is score in something like Gradius, but its directly related to survival time/checkpoint milking. The games don't feel like they were built with score competition in mind.

hope that makes sense. Its early, so I'm out of it.

[mjmjr25]

^That.

Meh, hitting 300K-ish every run on MAME, but feeling like much MUCH better is possible. I prob won't get too into this until I tire of Deathsmiles. Then I can rotate the monitor and play the hell out of this game.

[dunpeal2064]

^That.

Meh, hitting 300K-ish every run on MAME, but feeling like much MUCH better is possible. I prob won't get too into this until I tire of Deathsmiles. Then I can rotate the monitor and play the hell out of this game.

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