Topic: Arcade SHMUP High Score Thread

@Moroboshi876 For a first attempt that's not bad at all. Glad you enjoyed the game and hope to see some improvements.

@Shmupsnstuff Can't help you there since you are much further in the game that me. I'm also struggling with it quite a bit.

New highscore, but just barely

Well, I tried Tengai today. On a Raspberry, though. Just to clarify: it's 3 lives and 3 credits, right? No 0 credits. I guess it was a mistake.

If it wasn't, please don't take this score into account. If it's 3 credits then this is my score for now.

Hi @Moroboshi876, sorry for the late reply, but it should be 0 credits for this challenge. Still a nice effort though.

@Corneel No problem, thanks for the clarification! <Moroboshi freezes and shatters like glass>

I'll put my efforts into getting 1st place on DK3 and get as far as I can in Metal Slug 2.

Getting ready to go on vacation starting this weekend, don't know if I'll get any more time to improve scores so I'll post these before I forget.

Beat the first level. I think I'd have really enjoyed this one if not for the insane lag. Didn't have the patience to deal with it.

Here is mine, I try to have some runs before the challenge ends

For the Vulcan venture, I think I got to the stage 3, haven’t played it much though. pic comes later

@bushidosnail What game are you experiencing lag in? I'm finding what I'm perceiving as lag in VULCAN VENTURE (Gradius 2) or perhaps this just how the game plays? I'm playing it in the digital KONAMI ARCADE COLLECTION on Switch. Even using auto-fire seems slower than spaced-out taps of the fire button. Rapid button taps just seems to result in a sense of lag?

@Lroy Metal Slug 2. I should have said frame rate drops not lag to be more accurate. It's supposedly accurately emulating the original release, which is fine. I've been long overdue for some time off from work, and little things like that irritate me more than they should right now.

@bushidosnail Ah no worries. Yeah the slow-down on METAL SLUG 2 is well documented. It can actually help as much as prove a hindrance but it certainly upset enough people at the time for a re-release to be made METAL SLUG X. Well worth a purchase if you get an itch to try a version of METAL SLUG 2 again. I own both on Switch. Needless to say ‘X’ fixes the slow-down that plagued ‘2’.

@GFoyle Wow. Just, wow.

Today is the final day for the final round of this season! Be sure to post your pictures if you haven't done so already!

@bushidosnail Enjoy your vacation!

@Corneel Last day! That has flown by. Think I’ve posted all my progress (or lack there of 😉) over on Adult Switch Gamers. If I manage to squeeze in any more runs, it’ll likely by on DK3 which has emerged as my favourite game of these challenges.

@Lroy Certainly has flown by again. You made some good progress with Donkey Kong 3 and the Tengai score is not bad, you even beat @CW13 by 100 points! I love how we invaded the Donkey Kong 3 top 100 leaderboard with 6 entries.

My final score for Tengai (433,300):

And got to stage 5 on Metal Slug 2:

@corneel You cheeky so and so. I’m well aware my performance in TENGAI was less than stellar, no need to soften the blow, lol!

Yeah DK3 was so much fun, I actually ended up just playing that over trying to get further in METAL SLUG 2 or VULCAN VENTURE. But enjoyed all the games and will be playing them out of competition for sure.

My final probably..

Thanks, but I had a bit of head start as we had Tengai 1 week challenge early 2018 and I probably put 20 hours in that week to the game (slightly different rules with the 2 continues). I haven't played the game much between these challenges, but a lot of the things came back quite quickly when this challenge started. If there would be better tools for practicing in the Switch version, I would practice to get that 1cc (first loop), but now it would take too long to get consistent with the stages from 4 onward.

Great game though, one of my favourites from Psikyo definitely.

Donkey kong 3 - 126300

Metal Slug 2 Mission 5

Final round results time! Again thanks to all of you for participating during the last 5 months. Amazing to see we have invaded the Donkey Kong 3 leaderboards with at least 6 entries! Now it's time for a holiday brake. Let's play some Super Mario Maker 2 and then in about a month and a half we will start season 2!

TENGAI
786,400 @GFoyle
531,800 @Tatanak
433,300 @Corneel
412,300 @Agent721
383,600 @Shmupsnstuff
360,100 @BushidoSnail
275,500 @Lroy
275,400 @CW13

DONKEY KONG 3
168,800 @RetroGamerAdrew
137,900 @CW13
134,400 @Lroy
126,300 @Tatanak
124,200 @Agent721
119,600 @Moroboshi876
111,800 @Corneel
80,200 @BushidoSnail
75,100 @DanB

VULCAN VENTURE / GRADIUS II
Complete stage 1: @Corneel @Lroy
Complete stage 2: @Agent721 @GFoyle
Complete stage 3: @Zkibu

METAL SLUG 2
Complete 1st mission: @BushidoSnail
Complete 2nd mission: @Lroy @Moroboshi876
Complete 3rd mission: @mauhlin12
Complete 4th mission: @Corneel @Tatanak

Oh, crap! I keep thinking the deadline is about half of the month... I could have improved my DK3 score, and yet I got a much worse rank than I expected.

Congrats to all the others! It's been fun!