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    What is your favorite Shoot-em-up?

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    • BobHarrisB
      BobHarris @SgtJimmyRustles
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      @SgtJimmyRustles It has been listed already, but it can't hurt to give Raptor some extra attention. :-) To me this game got everything right..especially the music is excellent.

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      • IanDaemonI
        IanDaemon @quicksilver
        last edited by IanDaemon

        @quicksilver Yeah autofire is a huge advantage. In some emulators you can alter the controls and turn on "autofire".

        @SgtJimmyRustles It seems that Raptor allows you to shoot the enemy bullets to destroy them. That seems like a fairly easy way to rush headlong into the fray. This got me thinking... I guess I'd classify shooters into three difficulty categories in this respect.

        1. Easy - You can shoot the enemy bullets to destroy them.

        2. Medium - The enemy bullets are destroyed when the enemy that fired them is destroyed.

        3. Hard - The enemy bullets are never destroyed.

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        • BobHarrisB
          BobHarris @IanDaemon
          last edited by

          @IanDaemon I guess what you think you're seeing is actually the aircraft taking damage. You cant destoy enemy bullets in Raptor by shooting at them. But you can get hit untill your energy bar is depleted.

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          • BobHarrisB
            BobHarris
            last edited by BobHarris

            One advice for anyone giving Raptor a try: Use the Dos setup option to set your gamepad. Uptill now I let Dos think I was using a keyboard (I've used the mapper to assign keyboard keys to my controller; amongst others the arrow keys to my left thumbstick). But flying diagonally was incredibly hard. After I used the setup option to set control type to Joystick I was flying diagonally with ease. :-)

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            • SgtJimmyRustlesS
              SgtJimmyRustles
              last edited by

              @BobHarris said in What is your favorite Shoot-em-up?:

              One advice for anyone giving Raptor a try: Use the Dos setup option to set your gamepad. Uptill now I let Dos think I was using a keyboard (I've used the mapper to assign keyboard keys to my controller; amongst others the arrow keys to my left thumbstick). But flying diagonally was incredibly hard. After I used the setup option to set control type to Joystick I was flying diagonally with ease. :-)

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              • quicksilverQ
                quicksilver @SgtJimmyRustles
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                @SgtJimmyRustles there is lr-dosbox but it's too slow to be useful on a pi. Even on my overclocked pi3b+ it chugged pretty bad on most games.

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                • pjftP
                  pjft @quicksilver
                  last edited by pjft

                  @quicksilver I installed Cyvern but it's often at around 50fps on lr-fbalpha, even with the speedhacks. Am I missing something, or what are you using to play it?

                  EDIT: managed to get the missing files to run it on AdvMame and it runs like a charm there. Thanks for the tip!

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                  • quicksilverQ
                    quicksilver @pjft
                    last edited by

                    @pjft Im using mame2003. I am overclocked but didn't really notice any slowdown unless there was a ton of bullets on the screen. And even then the game was very playable for me. I'll check exact fps when next I'm on my pi. The game itself is extremely hard, but it's making me a better shump player now that I have played it through 4-5 times. I've gone back to play a few other shumps and they feel like a cake walk compared to this game 😂

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                    • quicksilverQ
                      quicksilver @pjft
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                      @pjft I have to say I much prefer the blue "Cyvern" because of it's wide spread shots and chain lightning alt attack. Great for crowd control. Green is good for concentrated fire, not a big fan of the red one though.

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                      • pjftP
                        pjft @quicksilver
                        last edited by

                        @quicksilver I'll give it a shot, thanks! Only played the red one briefly to see how the game went.

                        AdvMame works well for it so I'm sticking with it. Thanks for the tip and a happy Saturday!

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