SOTM January 2018: Gunlock/RayForce - Galactic Attack/Layer Section
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Getting better. I really like this game, its driving me to keep pushing on, similar to pulstar.
The_Chosen_One
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Chosen One - 1801900 - Area 5 - Saturn
Really clean run for me up until stage 4, made some mistakes there and wimped out and took the legs off the boss. Died pretty early on 5.
Oh man ... Yesterday was the first time I tried running the F3 through an OSSC. I didn't know this was so damn problematic. For a while, I thought I wasn't going to get it to work at all, not even in passthrough mode. Figured out the whole odd-odd signal business, made it work, was too tired to play and went to bed. Also, those 1 mil + scores are intimidating.
geise
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Hell yeah! Nice scores guys! Board updated. Nice to see others joining in.
Neodogg it's really memorizing patterns of enemies to utilize and max out the lock on laser. The rank plays a big part on the difficulty the longer you stay alive. There is also apparently extra points on certain bosses based off how they die. I am really not that great at this game for having it since 96. I would just play for clear and never worry about score. So, I am still learning on this game myself. I got my score from practice and playing this game over the past few decades. It is one of my favorites!
Neodogg it's really memorizing patterns of enemies to utilize and max out the lock on laser. The rank plays a big part on the difficulty the longer you stay alive. There is also apparently extra points on certain bosses based off how they die. I am really not that great at this game for having it since 96. I would just play for clear and never worry about score. So, I am still learning on this game myself. I got my score from practice and playing this game over the past few decades. It is one of my favorites!
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Do you guys suicide or anything like that to manage the rank?
The_Chosen_One
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Hahaha this. I’d think about suiciding if I wasn’t already losing lives to stupid shit anyways. Although when I do die that first time or two I like to tell myself it’s okay, I’m just dropping the rank.
geise
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Nice Kid! Next up Area 7 right? maybe an ALL? I am to busy the rest of this week with work, but maybe I can pull myself away from company this weekend and do a few runs.
BTW In regards to rank after dying, for me it doesn't seem to change the difficulty all that much.
BTW In regards to rank after dying, for me it doesn't seem to change the difficulty all that much.
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Kid Panda
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Dude ... That is bananas. Morale destroyer deployed.
On a sidenote, what boards save hi-scores? I really appreciate the fact that Neo does, but CPS 1, 2 and 3 definitely don't. F3 doesn't either. Naomi doesn't ... What's the point of Top 50 on CPS when it all goes on power-off?
Kid Panda
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Back when arcades were around more, many machines would stay on pretty much forever.
Not at any of the arcades I knew about. Once they closed for the day, everything was powered down. Why wouldn't it? No point in ramping up the electricity bill when no one is paying to play.
Kid Panda
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Laundromats here have/had machines, they run 24/7
The_Chosen_One
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STV and the Kaneko Supernova save scores as well.
Killer clear Kid, I don’t think I’ll get there but I think I can up my score a bit.
Kid Panda
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If you can make it to the 7th stage with at least one man in reserve, you can pull off a clear, last boss is actually kind of easy unless you wanna try and milk all his parts off.