The RGF Shmup League - Season #3 Game #3: taking nominations

[Sel Feena]

First few bashes. Um, yeah... There's no shortage of stuff to shoot at, I'll give it that.

Sel Feena - SEL - 350800 - Fixed - MAME (Mouse cursor's a giveaway )

EDIT: Jesus, 2 million? You people are freaks! Need to put some time in...

[AmidstStorm]

Yay Sel has returned! Welcome back buddy.

fixed or smart? Also are you playing on Mame?

[Sel Feena]

Whoops, sorry. Edited.

[Vyothric]

Welcome back Sel.

The difficulty is a bit weird. Stages 2 & 3 are awkward but it gets (relatively) easy for a while up until around stage 8.

[AmidstStorm]

(Mouse cursor's a giveaway )

i'm hungover

rankings updated

[Sel Feena]

Have noticed that holding down fire gives a short autofire boost but still I'm gonna get a sore thumb on this one.

[kollisionBR]

Have noticed that holding down fire gives a short autofire boost but still I'm gonna get a sore thumb on this one.

but why not activate autofire?

[coffeejoerx]

coffeejoerx - CRX - 1,260,900 - Stage 8 - smart - MAME

[kollisionBR]

kollisionBR - EDW - 2,016,500 - Stage 10 - Fixed - PS2

[AmidstStorm]

Does anyone know how to activate auto fire via mame?

I remember Misery going into detail about it but that was ages ago.

EDIT: This is bullshit! i just watched someone take out the Stage 4 boss in seconds without pods (but Smart selected).. i had a level 8 maxed out Machine Gun and bombed at what seemed to be the same times and I lost 2 lives.. Can someone fill me in.. I'm playing on default difficulty 4, without autofire and Fixed pods on the World rom.

If autofire is giving such an advantage as the one ive just seen in that video then perhaps we don't allow it to be used... hmm

Just to repeat myself once more.. the emulation is god awful on this game.. can barely see wtf is going on!

AmidstStorm - AMS - 591,300 - Stage 05 - Fixed - MAME



rankings updated

[AmidstStorm]

Small improvement.. don't know what you guys are doing to get such good progress but the stage 4 boss is still sucking my lives away..

AmidstStorm - AMS - 815,700 - Stage 06 - Fixed - MAME

[weakboson]

weakboson - FJK - 1,957,800 - Stage 10 - Fixed - MAME

Not sure how much more I'll play this. I like it and I want to get further but I may just end up playing other games.

Also if you haven't got it yet you can turn autofire on by going into the game, pressing tab to bring up the menu, navigating to autofire settings and turning it to on for P1 button 1. At least that's how it works in the version I'm using.

[Sel Feena]

Well if Autofire does suck out the challenge, I'm happy not to use it. I like the feeling of being overwhelmed this game aims for.

[AmidstStorm]

I don't mind it being used but I've watched that guy beat that stage 4 boss in literally a matter of seconds and something isn't right, because I get my arse kicked if I try and do the same without auto fire.. He attacks the left turret point blank and bombs it. Does the same to the 2nd turret then finishes of the centre part. The boss doesn't even get time to fire any shots.

[kollisionBR]

Guys, no autofire in a game like this is just insane.
C'mon, get it on.

If I can't autofire Varth I'm out.