MAME ROW #36 - DonPachi

pjft

I just tried the blue ship and got to the end of the 1st level only. It was my second attempt at the game, but it's thoroughly enjoyable.

I got 173k points or something - still far from your scores - but obviously suggests that my previous score was more like 19k and not 190k <shame>.

Still, I won't have more time to play this in the coming days, but thank you very much for getting me to be exposed to such a fun game. I will definitely be coming back to it! :)

dankcushions

finally beat @meleu's score, but only thanks to his blue ship strategy :) 1717050.

meleu

@dankcushions damn! Now I have two arcade gaming items on my ToDo list:

Beat @lilbud 's score on Phoenix.
Beat @dankcushions 's score on DonPachi.

Cheers!

lilbud

@meleu Good luck trying :)

Also, look at this beast of a player Phoenix

Phoenix WR - 1,008,000 points

lilbud

@meleu I'm on vacation and I found a Phoenix machine. Now where did I put my baseball bat...?

meleu

@lilbud hey, take a picture of this ~~odious~~ precious machine! :)

lilbud

@meleu I'll get one tomorrow. It's more of a Mame machine

lilbud

@meleu

Found it

mediamogul

@lilbud

There's a pretty big movie theater in my town that has one of these. I wonder if these games are being licensed?

lilbud

@mediamogul Probably not, they have had a for sale sign on that cabinet for years now. $1900 and it's yours...broken mechs and all.

mediamogul

@lilbud

$1900 and it's yours...broken mechs and all.

What a bargain! If the controls are sticky and the audio has enough of a warble to it, I'm sold.

lilbud

@mediamogul well the speaker is very tinny, the controls are shit, and it's been there since at least 2008

mediamogul

@lilbud

I wonder if they'd take $2100?

lilbud

@mediamogul Well, it's down here in Wildwood NJ if you want it.

VictimRLSH

I used Savestate not to get this score, but to train any point where I was having a problem, particularly bosses. Just keep restoring state and replay every sticking point (even if you win) until you have it down pat. The 4th boss was just too tough to get through on one play for me now matter how hard I trained it, but there are peeps on Youtube that have played through the whole game both times (there is a 'secret' ending after the 2nd play through)

Don't forget that unlike virtually all other vertical shumps with bombs, your supply of bombs is restored after each boss win, so don't be shy about using bombs first at the tricky spots in the boss battle, then worry about dodging.