STG Thread Stage 4 ~ Like the Night of Hunting Bees

[Naut]

9-7 is fap material

Listen to this man

[Formless God]

Wait what

9-7 ?

16 tries ?

I'm super player BV

Apparently retreating all the way to the bottom right after each photo kind of trivializes the thing altogether.
The spell is much more fun than Kaguya's version IMO. Now if only it doesn't occasionally throw a bunch of crap in my face ... I'm talking about timeouts

[KOA]

9-3 makes me wanna

[FinnKaenbyou]

I always kinda cheated with 9-3. You can shoot the green bombs as they're blowing up if you catch them in slow-mo, which helps if you're stuck in a corner.

[Jaimers]

All I know about that card is the safespot right at the center

Spoiler:

on the first wave

. Dropped it after 4 tries. I don't get how many people consider this the most "fun" SC of DS.

Actually, there's always a safespot in the centre.
And the card is fun because you can get over 2.5 million score on this card alone if you play it right~

[theshirn]

DDP 5cc, should have been 3.  Got to S5 without continuing.  Also got a MAGICAL EXTRA LIFE in S3, where the hell did that come from?

[Jaimers]

DDP 5cc, should have been 3.  Got to S5 without continuing.  Also got a MAGICAL EXTRA LIFE in S3, where the hell did that come from?

If you destroy those four yellow things on the sides of the big ass ship, you get an extra life when you destroy that last big destroyable scenery.
As far as I know, it's the only "freebie" extra life you get in the game.

[Sapz]

If you destroy those four yellow things on the sides of the big ass ship, you get an extra life when you destroy that last big destroyable scenery.
As far as I know, it's the only "freebie" extra life you get in the game.

Other things to note about this 1up; IIRC, you can't activate it if you use a bomb to destroy any of the containers. Also, it's six containers (woo being pedantic). There's technically a second freebie life in the game... but it's actually just the same life on the second loop, so it's not really going to help for a regular 1cc. :V

[Bananamatic]

I've bombed there before and still got the life :V

[ebarrett]

You can't bomb the container with the 1up, everything else is fair game.

[Aisha]

Ugh. DS 9-6. I hate long spellcards. Someone tell ZUN that random lasers aren't part of the lifecycle of a fern.

[Matsuri]

Distance yourself for the last two pictures, and it's a lot easier to dodge.

EDIT: By the way, check this out. I haven't downloaded it yet, but it looks very promising.

[Aisha]

Lucked my way through the last two shots of 9-6. Now 9-7...haha...

EDIT: By the way, check this out. I haven't downloaded it yet, but it looks very promising.

Interesting.. I personally never had a problem with input lag in MAME, but I'll give it a go anyway. I wonder if save states are supported..

[Azinth]

EDIT: By the way, check this out. I haven't downloaded it yet, but it looks very promising.

 
 
 

This could potentially be fucking amazing.  brb downloading

[Aisha]

Fuck. Finally captured all of Stage 9. Onto 10 later.

I dunno. Maybe it's just me but I seem to be the only one who doesn't really have any problems when it comes to input lag in MAME or Touhou or whatever. 

[Azinth]

Fuck. Finally captured all of Stage 9. Onto 10 later.

I dunno. Maybe it's just me but I seem to be the only one who doesn't really have any problems when it comes to input lag in MAME or Touhou or whatever. 

Have you ever tried using some kind of lag-reducing program like the v-sync patches or Radlinker?  A lot of times if you've played a game for a long time, you won't even notice input lag until its gone simply because that's how you're used to playing it.  I didn't even know what input lag was supposed to feel like until I tried PCB with the v-sync patch.  It felt like a whole new game.

If that's not the case, then can I buy your computer off of you? :V

[Formless God]

score

fun

Umm ... :V

On-topic: Finally unlocked Ha-tate. Illusionary Dominance is awesome BV
Still have around 40 spell cards to beat, though =/

[Azinth]

Playing for score is far more fun and engaging than playing for survival could ever be.  Fact.  Well at least if it's a good scoring system.

Go play some Giga Wing and be enlightened.

[Matsuri]

Not even attempting to play shmups for score is like playing baseball, and jumping out of the way after the pitcher throws the ball. You don't swing, so you never hit the ball, but you consider it a personal victory that you were never hit by the ball :V

I totally play DoDonPachi like that. =P

[Aisha]

God damn Iku. As if Shou's lasers weren't enough for one game.

Have you ever tried using some kind of lag-reducing program like the v-sync patches or Radlinker?  A lot of times if you've played a game for a long time, you won't even notice input lag until its gone simply because that's how you're used to playing it.  I didn't even know what input lag was supposed to feel like until I tried PCB with the v-sync patch.  It felt like a whole new game.

If that's not the case, then can I buy your computer off of you? :V

No, I have never used any kind of lag-reducing program. You might be right in that I just need to experience a lag-less game and compare it to how I have been playing before, but I would also assume that if I were experiencing input lag, it would frustrate me much like it does everyone else. One thing that I might be doing differently is using the PS/2 port on my computer to connect my keyboard--I'm not sure how many people do it this way these days. I've read around a bit (and I'm far from knowledgeable in the area), but seems that the PS/2 connection has a dedicated path to the CPU while the USB connection has a bit of overhead, which could introduce some latency. There might be something to that, but all it would take is for one person to disprove the idea, and I'm also not sure how significant this difference is when translated to shmups.

[Matsuri]

Told you Iku was horrible.

[Formless God]

Brilliant Dragon Bullet, Gray Thaumaturgy, Tele-Mesmerism, Magic Milky Way.

What the hell ZUN ?

[ebarrett]

Told you Iku was horrible.

Underwhelming, certainly. But the godawful sprite is the worst part. What the hell, ZUN.

Brilliant Dragon Bullet, Gray Thaumaturgy, Tele-Mesmerism, Magic Milky Way.

Aesthetically, maybe, but as far as mechanics are concerned, only the 10-6/Tele-Mesmerism comparison really works. It's hard to find two cards more unlike each other than 10-4 and Secretly Inherited Art of Danmaku Gray Thaumaturgy.

[LtC]

By the way, check this out. I haven't downloaded it yet, but it looks very promising.

Yeah this is awesome. Removes 1 frame of input lag from pretty much every STG.

[Formless God]

10-4 looked like the first two seconds of Secret(ry's, yeah. The rest is there for the lulz, but seriously I expected something better.

[Aisha]

Told you Iku was horrible.

And I was really looking forward to her danmaku too.

[Formless God]

Okay, what am I supposed to do with that lagless fix ? The archive only contained an executable. And there's this EEPROM error ...

[KOA]

note about mame 137 : some games (cave, new psikyo) now need an EEPROM file, so you need to extract that EEPROM and put it in the nvram folder of you mame directory, this is not a bug.

And on a random note, I fucking hate Gigafacer from Dimahoo.

[Formless God]

so you need to extract that EEPROM and put it in the nvram folder of you mame directory

Uhh ... yeah, the problem is right here. How do I extract the EEPROM ? And extract from where ?

[KOA]

All the ROMs are zip files, right? ... So just open it, take the eeprom file out of the zip and put it in the nvram folder.
(in which case, you gotta make one in the same directory as the MAME exe and put it in there)