Shmup of the Month Club 2012

[mjmjr25]

The rom link on page 1 of the vote thread is good.

The emulator trap linked in the sss score thread is good.

It is running at 100%, full graphics and sound on my crappy laptop.

However, I have no idea how to interface with it at all. Nothing on the keyboard does anything except for "escape" which acts as a pause button.

[mjmjr25]

This sounds fun:

Oh right, this game uses the XF1 keys. Seems I forgot everything about X68000 emulation today!

Don't bother with Joykey Mode or whatever. Go to Tools->Options and click the Keyboard tab. You've probably already done this part (I don't know if TFII uses numpad or not)... scroll down until you hit the 40s (in the "No." column), and the binds for the numpad keys should be there; click on the binds for numpad 2/4/6/8 and set them to the appropriate arrow keys. Then scroll down to the 50s and find XF1 and XF2; map those to Z and X. Bind another if you want, though this game only uses 2. If any of this doesn't work, delete XM6g.ini and try again, I guess.

Also, I figured out how to "unstretch" the screen. Tools->Options, click the Display tab. Find the slider for 31khz Width (third one on the right) and set it all the way to the left (75%). Everything else will be squished, but the "square verts" (Super Star Shooter, the Zero games, Moon Cresta & Terra Cresta, others) seem to be made for this size. I have no idea if the normal stretching is standard hardware behavior and you need to manually change it yourself, or if games automatically switch some settings when they load, etc.

[Hobie-wan]

Right, so link to that post with the rom since that's more helpful.

http://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.ph ... 83#p828083

*edit*

Ok, so got the disk image by itself. Also downloaded the xm6typeg file which has th egame disk image in it too. But after extracting and running the emulator, it tells me there's a problem and reinstalling it might fix the problem. I see nothing to tweak in the ini file.

The WinX68K High Speed asks for a BIOS rom that I'm not finding.

[Hobie-wan]

Also FWIW I'm not bothering with STGT next year. I'm always distracted, there's always some bullet hell which I don't like (so be it), but for fuck's sake it is tiring reading about people bitching about the games. Even if I wasn't always scraping the bottom of the barrel score wise, all the fucking whining that people do in the decision and score threads is annoying as shit and sucks fun right out of it.

[Hobie-wan]

Ok, for PC peoples, I have got just the SSS 2.0 game and the emulator in a nice easy extract and go file. I have a joystick set up on my PC and it is just working for me the way it is set up. If you need it, let me know and we'll get it your way. It is only 1 meg or so for the zip.

[dsheinem]

Here's a zip file for PC with the game and all the needed BIOS and everything - like Hobie said it runs pretty easy with the joypad/joystick (uses buttons 1-4 for me). You'll just need to load the game using the basic windows interface once the emulator starts.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/ihtfjx

I'd still like to know if there is a permissible PSP/GBA/Wii version of this, but not getting any answers over there...

[ExedExes]

I got the emu and game from the shmups forum link; the only issue I had was a "side-by-side configuration" error which was fixed by getting and installing the correct Visual C++ Redist file. Runs fine, and mapped the right keys to the keyboard.

Also FWIW I'm not bothering with STGT next year. I'm always distracted, there's always some bullet hell which I don't like (so be it), but for fuck's sake it is tiring reading about people bitching about the games. Even if I wasn't always scraping the bottom of the barrel score wise, all the fucking whining that people do in the decision and score threads is annoying as shit and sucks fun right out of it.

Yeah, any STGT or shmup forum veterans know what's up with that? I haven't seen any posts there that were real positive about any games we played there, even those that were nominated. I'd say something positive about some of the games but I don't want to be thrown to the wolves. I haven't played any of those that we've done so far, and it really has expanded my perspective on certain series and devs. It's been great, but for a "friendly" competition that only comes once a year on a genre forum that people study, research, and play extensively, you'd expect a *little* more excitement, right? Even going back to previous years it's always been a bitch-fest. For me, it's something I'd look forward to and just *play*, but even so I'd be a minority there with that kind of view.

[foxhound1022]

Also FWIW I'm not bothering with STGT next year. I'm always distracted, there's always some bullet hell which I don't like (so be it), but for fuck's sake it is tiring reading about people bitching about the games. Even if I wasn't always scraping the bottom of the barrel score wise, all the fucking whining that people do in the decision and score threads is annoying as shit and sucks fun right out of it.

Word. I was thinking the same thing.

[dsheinem]

I sort of take the "negativity" there in stride concerning the STGT picks, as much of it is just posturing and trolling and even those who "hate" the picks end up playing anyway. I think that there's an uber-competitive subset of players on the forum that get their forum-posting jollies through penning one-upping hyperbole about their "anger" surrounding the games chosen. It's a vocal minority, really, and I don't think they are worth taking seriously at all. They certainly can't ruin the enjoyment I get from trying new titles are trying to get better at familiar titles.

[foxhound1022]

I sort of take the "negativity" there in stride concerning the STGT picks, as much of it is just posturing and trolling and even those who "hate" the picks end up playing anyway. I think that there's an uber-competitive subset of players on the forum that get their forum-posting jollies through penning one-upping hyperbole about their "anger" surrounding the games chosen. It's a vocal minority, really, and I don't think they are worth taking seriously at all. They certainly can't ruin the enjoyment I get from trying new titles are trying to get better at familiar titles.

I agree. I did have fun getting to try all of the new games that I probably may have not been exposed to otherwise, being a relative noob to the shmup genre. I basically try to brush it off, but after awhile it just becomes tiresome.