UFO: Stocking lives/bombs past max displayed?

[Nobu]

So I was playing UFO the other day and was having a good run, and managed to completely fill my extra life bar with stars. Instead of switching to Green UFOs right away, I got another fragment or two from a Red UFO which I figured were useless since I already had max lives, but to my surprise when I died soon after, I still had the 1/2 of life fragment I obtained when my extra lives were maxed out.

So, does this mean you can stock as many lives as you want past what can be displayed, just one past what can be displayed, or do I smoke too much crack while playing Touhou? Has anyone else noticed this?

[Zengar Zombolt]

No, it seems like UFO has no life cap AFAIK.

[Polttopallo]

maybe this no life cap thing is a bug?

[Heartbeam]

Okay, this is what I'm seeing after several practice runs with stage four Normal, Sanae B.  In short, it looks like there is only one extra life after the eight life stars shown on the screen.

The practice run starts with this filled as well so nine spare lives.  No number of life pieces will push you past that ninth extra life.  If you catch a 1up with the ninth life full they'll cancel out each other.  Catching a 1up with a partial ninth life will do nothing, or perhaps it fills up that life, cancels, then the rest spills over into the empty star.  Same end result.  Oh actually, no.  Then that means collecting the 1up with a full ninth star would have left you with another full one instead of an empty life like it does.

[skutieos]

this happened to me just today.

[Esoterica]

As far as I'm aware, you can stock pieces beyond the max, but not actual lives, and you can stock up to 10 bombs.

A bit iffy on the bombs since I always go for reds and rainbows now after all greens proved to be an ineffective strategy in the demo, though.

[Ranmilia]

Both the life and bomb counters will stock up to 9 full stars, one past the displayed maximum.  Anything past 9 is lost.  If you pick up a full bomb (or the full 1up from stage 4 Nue) when you have 8 and fractions in stock, it is entirely lost and does not raise you to nine.  This was true in the 0.02 demo as well, at least for bombs (I didn't test lives in the demo since it's nearly impossible to acquire more than 8 on stages 1-3.)

[Nobu]

Thank you Ranmilia (and everyone else who provided input). Sounds like an update to the Wiki is in order.