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    MAME ROW #172 - DoDonPachi

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    • IanDaemonI
      IanDaemon
      last edited by IanDaemon

      Dang it! I just remembered that I turned off the electrical circuit in that part of the house to do some plumbing & electrical work yesterday and I can't play my arcade cabinet today. :(

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      • mituM
        mitu Global Moderator @IanDaemon
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        Small improvement, managed to get on the scoreboard: 4 278 080 (red, laser).

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        • sirhenrythe5thS
          sirhenrythe5th @mitu
          last edited by sirhenrythe5th

          My favourite SHMUP of all time and i was on vacation:/
          Good to see it won anyway!
          It has got an awesome scoring system.
          You can finish level one with 100.000 pts.....or with a million pts, depending on your skills.
          Hint: if you dont use any bombs until the stock is full (the beginning of the stage 3) you get 2x points :)

          I wont post my highscore table here, it would be kind of unfair. I play this game since 20 years now and get through it with 1 coin (dont play anything with continues)

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            AdamBeGood @sirhenrythe5th
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            @sirhenrythe5th said in MAME ROW #172 - DoDonPachi:

            My favourite SHMUP of all time and i was on vacation:/
            Good to see it won anyway!
            It has got an awesome scoring system.
            You can finish level one with 100.000 pts.....or with a million pts, depending on your skills.
            Hint: if you dont use any bombs until the stock is full (the beginning of the stage 3) you get 2x points :)

            I wont post my highscore table here, it would be kind of unfair. I play this game since 20 years now and get through it with 1 coin (dont play anything with continues)

            Post it! :p

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            • IanDaemonI
              IanDaemon
              last edited by

              Play with shot only? But you need the laser to get the bees to appear.

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              • sirhenrythe5thS
                sirhenrythe5th @IanDaemon
                last edited by sirhenrythe5th

                @IanDaemon you can use the beam of course (holding button A), it is the bombs (button B) that should not be used to get the big points :) Plus collecting further bombs until the stock is full. If you dont miss any from the start this will be at the beginning of stage 3.

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                • IanDaemonI
                  IanDaemon
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                  I played more over the weekend, but sadly my score didn't improve.

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                  • obsidianspiderO
                    obsidianspider
                    last edited by

                    MAME ROW #173 is now live!

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                    • sirhenrythe5thS
                      sirhenrythe5th @IanDaemon
                      last edited by

                      @IanDaemon said in MAME ROW #172 - DoDonPachi:

                      I played more over the weekend, but sadly my score didn't improve.

                      Hint 2: all the enemy formations and events are scripted. If you play this great game for hundreds of times you can rush through the stages while sleeping :D

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                      • pjftP
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                        @sirhenrythe5th I'd really like to see the high score table :)

                        Tangent intro: a few years back, after noticing that I had a lot of MAME games that I should like but ended up not playing them very much because the process wasn't fun enough, I read an article which is no longer online that made me understand why: https://web.archive.org/web/20181120043643/http://insomnia.ac/commentary/arcade_culture/

                        I ended up learning that this author seems to have some strong opinions on some topics, and tends to write in a controversial tone, but this specific article I save to this day because it changed the way I played MAME games - and made them so much better as a result - precisely because of what you just said very subtly, "don't play anything with continues".

                        As such, I set up a collection on RetroPie where I'd keep some games that I'd just play over and over again, 1 credit at a time, to see how far I'd make it. In the beginning they were Final Fight, Contra and DoDonPachi - I don't think I had any others in my "regular" list. It took me a while to consistently get to the first @mitu score, and afterwards making it to the high score list was an extremely rewarding achievement - that's why I want to congratulate @IanDaemon and @mitu on their scores during just the MAME ROW period! I certainly didn't get to have a score in the high score table in the first week.

                        These days I get to the end of level 2 boss consistently, and the majority of the time I get to the 3rd level and lose somewhere around there.

                        My top score is 8.5M, 4th level - I don't think I ever made it past it with 1 credit.

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                        Still, a lot to learn, but it's one of my favorite games from these past 2-3 years that I've played it. I didn't take part in MAME ROW because I didn't have time, but I'd love to try it out and submit a new score if I get to the high score table again.

                        But do share your score, really - impressive achievement 1cc'ing this game :) Hope to get there one day.

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