HSC Season 1: Week 6 : Battle Garegga

brianon

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Garegga

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ROMSet: bgaregga

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- Last day is Sunday 10th March 2013.

General Rules:

- Highest score wins.

- No savestates, savestate practices, etc. during the round.

- MAME INP recordings are encouraged but optional.

- A screenshot is required to enter a score (press F12 to save screenshot showing your final score) or take a photo of the game screen.

- Use of autofire or other non-standard hacks within MAME or your PC's OS are not allowed.

Current standings
1. urbanledge (16)
2. sengoku (13)
3. brianon (12)
4. dr bob (5)
4. CathalDublin (5)
4. Sparks43 (5)
7. o1s1n (4)
8. eddhorse (3)
9. unky chop chop (2)
9. krudler (2)
11. keithgeo (1)

List of games is ...
Dig Dug
Kung Fu Master
Smash TV
Smash TV
Mikie
Pac-land
Ghosts'n Goblins
Twin Cobra
1942
Ghosts n Goblins
Gauntlet II
Boulder Dash
Double Dragon

Looking forward to getting into this,
never played before

I hated bubble bobble with a passion

safetyboy

where do the screen shots save to? Will have a go of this later

safetyboy

safetyboy wrote: »

where do the screen shots save to? Will have a go of this later

mame/snap/battlegaregga

I'll kick it off!


661170

The 3rd boss is nails!
great game

o1s1n

Man those invisible bullets are a pain in the tits :pac: they can wipe you out so easily from the very get go on level 1.

804470

safetyboy

tough game, music is top drawer. tiny bullets fuuu

o1s1n

I love the boss battle music. Amazing thumping bass :cool:

safetyboy

second level 90's rave creux, going back in as I'm only over 500000

krudler

nnnng invisibullets! fun game though never played it before now

o1s1n

Woohoo! Broke a million. Had three lives on boss three and lost them all :mad: bastard hit me just before I got my last bomb off!

1117240

Dr Bob

hmm this is not for me I think ...made it to the second level before my eyes gave out , they just couldn't handle watching out for the teeny tiny bullets .
315800 , if I Can get to the opticians this week I'll give it another go..

CiDeRmAn

I only made it into the 250000 myself, those little bullets are a proper pain!
Not helped by the game running vertically on a horizontal monitor

o1s1n

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

Not helped by the game running vertically on a horizontal monitor

Yeah, I'm playing it on a hori tv too. My solution? Sitting a foot away from it

TechnoFreek

Got to play a few minutes of this tonight. A good game, tough and just about fair. The trailing bullets and debris are a complete biaatch though!

safetyboy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8bZ1UmI_IY

o1s1n

yeah that was my high score run last night. Meant to post a screenshot :pac:

Almost beat my high score the other day. Was only off it by a few thousand. I was on boss three and my missus came home. I had to pause the game for a moment.

Nothing harder than trying to pick up a shmup like that about 10 minutes after you've come back to it. Impossible in fact.

Really getting the hang of it now though. Can 1cc the first two stages without too much trouble. Most of stage 2 is pretty easy. Only thing which does get me the odd time is that big assed tank that speeds at you out of nowhere about half way through with giant fast firing cannons.

safetyboy

He milks the first boss fairly well..

The big ass tank is a pain,
Ive just been unleashing some flames on him.
The different layout for your cannons is pretty useless.
Think im up around 700,000

o1s1n

Here's a tip for that tank - his turret can't track as fast as you can move.

If you can dodge the first shot when he comes at you (which is hard in itself) you can keep tracking around him and shooting so the turret can't catch up. Once you shoot the turret guns off he's easy.

TechnoFreek

I only played it a few times last night. Got to just before the third level boss. Beating that guy should blast you well past the 700k mark.

I should really read up on the game and scoring mechanics to see if there is a way to enhance or multiply the scoring.

safetyboy

gonna hook it up to the cab later for better control

o1s1n

The only multiplier I know of (I've been sticking with self discovery rather than looking things up) are those little gold falling medal.

If you collect them in a row and don't drop any, the score multiplies. It gets into the thousands very quickly.

twice i got the gun pods to follow me,
so if i moved right the the pods were lined up to the left.
is that just form collecting the green tokens??
might look some stuff up later.
gotta get past that 3rd boss on 1cc

TechnoFreek

Button C moves the pod positions I think.

no this wasnt one of the normal pod positions,
it was really good.

no this wasnt one of the normal pod positions,
it was really good.

In addition to the player's main shot, picking up green Option powerups will add up to four support pods to your craft. The formation of these Options can be changed to one of five presets with the C button, and there are additional secret formations that can be accessed by dropping a certain number of powerups before picking up the next. Both shot and options are fired by holding the A button

sengoku

I was never bitten by the schmup bug.

364940

CathalDublin

Gotta fix the ini file for this later and submit a score cause it plays tiny on my arcade monitor.

TechnoFreek

Still can't beat the 3rd boss.

TechnoFreek

Do I get to nominate or pick a game as I've submitted a high score?

How does that work?

o1s1n

Yeah you do, just throw up a game title here

I nominate Battle Garegga (US edition)

No, I kid, I kid

I'll go with Mercs this week.

Andrew76

o1s1n wrote: »

Yeah you do, just throw up a game title here

I nominate Battle Garegga (US edition)

No, I kid, I kid

I'll go with Mercs this week.

Interesting. So I could throw up any ole score for Garegga and nominate Raiden or Aliens. /legs it
:pac:

TechnoFreek

o1s1n wrote: »

Yeah you do, just throw up a game title here

I nominate Battle Garegga (US edition)

No, I kid, I kid

I'll go with Mercs this week.

Ill see your Mercs and raise you a Shock Troopers.

I.e. I vote for Shock Troopers.

Sparks43

Didnt get a chance to play this week

But i will pick Boulder Dash again for next week

o1s1n

Andrew76 wrote: »

Interesting. So I could throw up any ole score for Garegga and nominate Raiden or Aliens. /legs it
:pac:

Yep! Please do! Your gaming tastes aren't too far off my own. More chance of me playing something I like

TechnoFreek wrote: »

Ill see your Mercs and raise you a Shock Troopers.

I.e. I vote for Shock Troopers.

Class! I've never played for a high score on that. Be interesting with the multiple path choices.

brianon

First go 645k. Will try again later.

TechnoFreek

Andrew76 wrote: »

Interesting. So I could throw up any ole score for Garegga and nominate Raiden or Aliens. /legs it
:pac:

To be fair, some games make it bloody tough to get on the score table.

TechnoFreek

brianon wrote: »

First go 645k. Will try again later.

That's a great first tome score!

o1s1n

TechnoFreek wrote: »

That's a great first tome score!

I better have my stick and Saturn ready for zero hour just in case!

brianon

If I do post a decent score I'll do like an ebay bid and post at 10 seconds to midnight

o1s1n

Hahaha, score sniping! That's hilarious. Maybe I should have a backup ready to submit in the last 10 seconds

brianon

When I said 645k was my first go, I meant my first go in a while. I've played this before on Saturn and Mame.

Better score there now. Stage 4. I think I remember the way the medal scoring works now. But maybe not.





And I pick Twin Cobra for my game pick.

brianon

1248000

966750

fairly happy with that,havent beaten the 3rd boss yet tho.
Really enjoyed this one!

Im putting forward
Altered Beast!

TechnoFreek

That seems a good score urban given its still on the third level.

I find that my first play on each session is always my best. Any subsequent score from the same session is worse!

o1s1n

It's on!

1402560

Almost had a heart attack trying to get this score.

sengoku

I can't improve on my score, I rage quit the game too many times and still came back for more.

I turned the laptop on its side to get a full vertical screen view and used a USB Playstation adapter. I could see the oncoming bullets a lot better but the PS joypad is not made for shmups. In fact I played even worse and did a Super Rage Quit, I threw the joypad against the wall.

TechnoFreek

What level you getting to oisin?

brianon

Had a few more goes but couldn't improve. Great game, if a little frustrating.