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Staralfur

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Staralfur: 2008-04-22 12:20:38 pm

2008-04-22 09:56:31 am

hello there

400,420 - suriipasu - ALL - Black Steel

Progress!

My last two stages are still pretty shit though.

stanski

2008-04-22 09:58:26 am

wise fwom yo gwave

Oh, the engrish in this game is awesome as well. Who the fuck didn't want to do special course at first? Seriously, its 20 times better than any of the other courses.

Lag.Com

2008-04-22 10:40:32 am

sda loyalist

UNFORTUNE

Sorcerer88

2008-04-22 11:15:28 am

I have no solution, but i admire the problem.

213,410 - Sorcerer88 - Stage 10 - Black Steel

How in hell do the box physics work? Sometimes i crash into a box and it won't budge, sometimes i barely touch it and it does.

scaryice

2008-04-22 11:48:50 am

289,320 - scaryice - Stage 10 - Mist Bay

scaryice

2008-04-22 11:50:02 am

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How in hell do the box physics work? Sometimes i crash into a box and it won't budge, sometimes i barely touch it and it does.

I think you just need a little bit of momentum.

Breakdown

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Breakdown: 2008-04-22 10:34:42 pm

2008-04-22 12:11:55 pm

Haters gonna hate

~~530,700 - Breakdown - All - Black Steel~~

I think that's plenty for one day.

Edit: I lied.

568,550 - Breakdown - All - Black Steel

And that was with a bad level 9.

I did take a screen shot, but I must admit ignorance on how to post it.

Edit #2: Thanks Cromarty

Ouranos

2008-04-22 04:20:14 pm

Y'a donc ben des mongols

457,000 - Ouranos - ALL - Regular ball

Cromarty

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Cromarty: 2008-04-22 05:03:42 pm

2008-04-22 04:40:12 pm

astral guard

~~375,790 - Cromarty - ALL - Mist Bay~~
467,300 - Cromarty - ALL - Black Steel

Breakdown:
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and then put the url in the middle (upload the image to imageshack or something).

freefang

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freefang: 2008-04-22 07:07:15 pm

2008-04-22 05:20:40 pm

8((.)7(.))3

~~232,270 - freefang - Stage 6 - the defult ball~~

The game doesn't run at a decent speed on my pc, and the
framerate is very inconsistent, so I don't think my scores are
realy 'fair' (Unintended slowdown, but inconsistent shocks in gameplay speed. :\ )

Edit: nvm, I missed the posts about doing special mode.

sunburstbasser

2008-04-22 06:43:02 pm

Silver Hawk!

Damn, I only just broke 100,000 this morning.

This is a lot of fun though. Good choice!

AquaTiger

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AquaTiger: 2008-04-22 06:51:02 pm

2008-04-22 06:47:31 pm

Never give up!

71,030 - AquaTiger - Stage 5 - Space Invader
Score is on Special Course.

The switch to the Special Course has forced me to put up another score on this game. But honestly, I may still give it a few more chances this week, and I'll probably have a score for every course (just because) before this week is out. I at least want to hit six digits somewhere (probably on Special) before I stop completely.

Why I like this course more than the Expert course, I have no idea. It might help that, thanks to some random frustration with level 4 of the Special course (I couldn't get anywhere, got frustrated and hit the button on my controller that I'd assigned to this game's Button 1 at the time), I now know there's a button to add some force to the player's movement if done right (I believe this would be the 'tilt' stanski's referring to, and from here on out I will refer to it as such).

And with the Special Course I may give Black Steel another chance - because Space Invader (heck, any character that isn't perfectly round) gets stuck on just about everything that isn't round (helps for breaking stuff sometimes, but not so good when you're trying to go around a lot of corners).

71,030 - AquaTiger - Stage 5 - Space Invader
Score is on Special Course.

The switch to the Special Course has forced me to put up another score on this game.  But honestly, I may still give it a few more chances this week, and I'll probably have a score for every course (just because) before this week is out.  I at least want to hit six digits somewhere (probably on Special) before I stop completely.

Why I like this course more than the Expert course, I have no idea.  It might help that, thanks to some random frustration with level 4 of the Special course (I couldn't get anywhere, got frustrated and hit the button on my controller that I'd assigned to this game's Button 1 at the time), I now know there's a button to add some force to the player's movement if done right (I believe this would be the 'tilt' stanski's referring to, and from here on out I will refer to it as such).

And with the Special Course I may give Black Steel another chance - because Space Invader (heck, any character that isn't perfectly round) gets stuck on just about everything that isn't round (helps for breaking stuff sometimes, but not so good when you're trying to go around a lot of corners).

freefang

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freefang: 2008-04-22 08:18:24 pm

2008-04-22 07:09:54 pm

8((.)7(.))3

I missed the part about the change of modes, my last score was on the other setting.

Edit: 222,080 - freefang - Final stage - the defult ball
...on my first try... This is way easyer!

soteos

2008-04-22 09:30:39 pm

30 - soteos - Stage 1 - Mist Bay

Normand Nubcake

2008-04-22 10:16:31 pm

452,430 - Normand - ALL - Dr. Cameltry

scaryice

2008-04-23 12:03:21 am

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289,320 - scaryice - Stage 10 - Mist Bay

320,150 - scaryice - Stage 10 - Black Steel

Staralfur

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Staralfur: 2008-04-23 07:16:24 am

2008-04-23 05:21:26 am

hello there

467,590 - suriipasu - ALL - Black Steel

I'm optimistic for 600k.

EDIT: lol, I just realised I got 5:32.9 and two (much) higher scores in here took up to a minute more. Maybe I should slow down and try to get some easy timer additions/stops.

EDIT 2: I might go for a pure speedrun of this sometime in the future. Maybe. Though it's about as likely to fabricate as the rest of my proposed projects (i.e. not very).

Breakdown

2008-04-23 07:54:37 am

Haters gonna hate

580,220 - Breakdown - All - Black Steel

This can still go up a lot, I'm trying to find the right combination of things to go after and things to skip point/time boxes wise, and level 9 continues to be a stumbling block.

Xaggoth

2008-04-23 08:03:22 am

117,200 - Xaggoth - Stage 7 - space invader

Such an awkward game to play, but different.

Enhasa

2008-04-23 09:05:20 am

everybody wanna tell you the meaning of music

Our scores absolutely paste the shmups.com scores btw. What this means is we work harder on random games and are less disaffected I guess.

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EDIT 2: I might go for a pure speedrun of this sometime in the future. Maybe. Though it's about as likely to fabricate as the rest of my proposed projects (i.e. not very).

Yes, my secret plan is for someone to speedrun this game for SDA after this. Of course, if I was really thinking, I would pick 5 games that can be run, which I'm not.

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<LigerOfFortune> enhasa why dont you make it obscure good nes/snes games, and the competition to be who can finish them the fastest- This will inspire some to speed run awesome obscure nes/snes games

If I ever did a speedrunning tourney, it would be something like this. You can replace nes/snes with just older console though.

CannibalK9

2008-04-23 10:11:36 am

give me your eyes!!!

156,060 - CannibalK9 - 7 - standard ball...

Special course is more intuitive but I think I have a headache, that'll do.

Don't blame AquaTiger for getting frustrated not knowing about the speed-up button, although it is explained in the tutorial (as if I played through that).

Breakdown

2008-04-23 10:37:20 am

Haters gonna hate

One more for tonight.

594,890 - Breakdown - All - Black Steel

Over 600k most likely coming soon, but no more for now. Playing this too long gives me vertigo.

MrSparkle

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MrSparkle: 2008-04-23 05:40:11 pm

2008-04-23 04:59:05 pm

Doin Good

154,250 - LinkTetra - Stage 8 - Mist Bay

I could using the acton button more, but I am not that very good at this game. First time I got past level 5 without extra credits. Later on I may try Black Steel and/or a 200k score.

I am enjoying this game so far. Great choice for starting off this torney, I think...

BoltR

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BoltR: 2008-04-23 05:54:19 pm

2008-04-23 05:50:45 pm

yes, mario riding nothing

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Over 600k most likely coming soon, but no more for now. Playing this too long gives me vertigo.

Playing for an hour a day makes me feel like going on a murderous rampage.

mikwuyma

2008-04-23 06:10:29 pm

My feelings on The Demon Rush

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Playing for an hour a day makes me feel like going on a murderous rampage.

BoltR's detached IRC commentary sometimes makes me feel like going on murderous rampage Sad