dodonpachi DAI-OU-JOU (feat. Black Label and Death Label)

[Despatche]

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GAME - SHIP/ELEMENT
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1.  slateman      -    45,361,280 - 1-4 -  809 Hits
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=with Exy/EXPERT=
1.  jpj           -   509,285,230 - 1-5 - 2663 Hits
2.  Plasmo        -   437,315,450 - 1-5 - 2314 Hits
3.  CRI           -   263,275,360 - 2-1 - 1947 Hits
4.  Shalashaska   -   170,431,540 - 1-5 - 1996 Hits
5.  ELF           -   154,462,060 - 1-5 - 1970 Hits
6.  GaijinPunch   -   144,887,190 - 1-5 - 1643 Hits
7.  freddiebamboo -    55,251,120 - 1-4 - 1056 Hits
8.  budloc        -    46,301,190 - 1-5 - 1269 Hits
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1.  ProMeTheus    -   449,353,550 - 1-5 - 2865 Hits
2.  THE SHMUPER   -    64,921,430 - 1-5 - 1078 Hits
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1.  ProMeTheus    - 1,774,124,370 - 2-5 - 3483 Hits - PCB
2.  Naut          - 1,326,718,060 - ALL - 2669 Hits - ShmupMAME 2.2
3.  Erppo         -   927,314,430 - 2-5 - 3047 Hits - ShmupMAME 2.2
4.  Sapz          -   441,653,170 - 2-3 - 1968 Hits - MAME
5.  jpj           -   396,200,740 - 2-1 - 1717 Hits
6.  Kewing        -   254,774,510 - 2-2 - 1??? Hits - MAME
7.  CRI           -   245,123,420 - 2-1 - 1162 Hits
8.  GaijinPunch   -   215,106,500 - 1-5 - 1167 Hits
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1.  ProMeTheus    -   382,176,940 - 2-4 - 1878 Hits
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[Sapz]

Black Label - A-E
Sapz - 441,653,170 - 2-3 - 1968 Hit - MAME (Shmupmame 2.2)

By far my best run so far, despite dying twice to the 1-2 boss for some reason. Finally nailed a decent chunk of the 1-5 chain in a run, which made up about 160m of that. I can definitely still improve on this, so next target is 500m!

[Third_strike]

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Third_strike    - 148,540,170 - 1-5 - 1375 Hits MaMe(WolfMaMe0141).

Note: I got 1-All in this run

[Kewing]

Black Label - A-E - MAME 0.140u2
Kewing - 254,774,510 - 2-2 - ?? (I know it was over 1k hits)  -  http://img690.imageshack.us/i/ddpdojbl254mill.png/

Sorry but I didn't remember to screenshot the ranking screen instead, so I can't tell exactly the max chain.
First time I ever got to the second loop. I've been playing for a couple of days and I'm actually really surprised with such a huge improvemnt in so little time. I sucked high time on the original WL. BL has barely any differences yet it feels a lot more fun than WL. I used to sort of loathe it, yet I'm quite enjoying  BL.

[ProMeTheus]

Latest score !

Black Label - Type A, Exy
ProMeTheus - 617,490,030 - 2-4 - 2478 Hit - ShmupMAME 2.2



Replay : http://www.mediafire.com/?mgph4skaowervde
ShmupMAME 2.2 : http://www.mediafire.com/?yitn964qdsk78cv#2

[ProMeTheus]

All right, made my current target !

Black Label - Type A, Exy
ProMeTheus - 1,136,881,920 - 2-5 - 3335 Hit - ShmupMAME 2.2



It took a while but really helped raising my consistency in every part of the first loop.

This run has full chains of all first loop, except for one break in Stage 3 and another at the very end of Stage 5. I no missed the first loop, bombing once at the end of Stage 5 and another time at the boss. I needed around 850M in first loop alone because I can usually not rely on making more than 150M in the second loop, since I haven't learned it at all yet. All my chains are "HFD-style", although my level of optimization is still inferior to his of course (my max loop 1 score is 960M whereas his seems to be 1.1B). The hardest tricks to learn were the Stage 3 midboss, and the Stage 4 diagonal platforms without hypers (very methodical). Here you can see a nice full rank Stage 5, I think it's such a cool stage.

In second loop, I managed to survive very well thanks to efficient bombing (I think this replay is a good example of bombing being part of playing for score, weighing risk depending on possible rewards etc). Lots and lots of fun dodging and improvised chaining. I reached Stage 5 with like 3 ships in stock. I got quite owned by the beehive section, but then reassembled and reached the boss with a spare life. Some dodges and bombs later, I was fighting Hibachi, and died to its last form !

Replay + MAME + Playback Instructions : http://www.mediafire.com/?3j351sd84ddwfvg

[supabok]

Sounds like an inspiring run!
Looking forward to checking it out
 

[Shalashaska]

Wow great work Prom! 

[Naut]

Black Label - Type A, Exy
Naut - 1,326,718,060 - 2-ALL - 2669 Hit - ShmupMAME 2.2

Shmupmame 2.2 .inp

[cstarflare]

woah

Major props on that! What's next? Improve your score or move on?

[Naut]

Move on until Prom beats my score.

[Erppo]

Black Label - Type A, Exy
Erppo - 927,314,430 - 2-5 - 3047 Hit - ShmupMAME 2.2

[ProMeTheus]

Going after Naut, learned 2-1, 2-2 and 2-3. Here I come !

Beat my previous score after a few tries !
[Black Label] Type A - Exy
ProMeTheus - 1,262,136,880 - 2-5 - 3208 - ShmupMAME 2.2

[ProMeTheus]

Reclaiming #1 !

For some reason I'm quite consistent with stage 1-4 and up, and quite inconsistent with stage 1-1 to 1-3. I've indeed spent a lot of time practicing 1-4 and 1-5 only. So most of the runs I've played these past days were me actually missing in those first 3 stages >.<

Here I messed up the chains in those early stages, losing 120M, but I'd be lying if I said it didn't happen all the freaking time lawl. Then all good, sexy 1-5 "perfect" (for me) chain. Missed @2-1 boss losing maximum bonus. Did ok with the rest, some luck in 2-4 allowed me to keep living a little longer than I should have with a nice little chain. Cool "random" dodging in 2-5. Hibachi pretty much hammered me again. I'll kill him another time !

[Black Label] Type A - Exy

ProMeTheus - 1,463,027,040 - 2-5 - 3623 Hit - ShmupMAME 2.2



Replay : http://www.mediafire.com/?51076m4eizfae2k
ShmupMAME 2.2 : http://shmupmame.wordpress.com/download/

CooL !

[ProMeTheus]

Got a nice run going just now :



Black Label - Type A Expert
ProMeTheus - 1,591,143,690 - 2-5 - 3593 Hit - ShmupMAME 2.2

Basically cool play with very few "big" mistakes until Hibachi, although the chaining wasn't always there and I did lose Maximum Bonus @2-3 boss. All went quite well until that boss, with a few chain breaks but overall very solid play. Very nice 2-4, with near full chain ! 2-5 impro survival that went ok. Lots of good dodging. Got to Hibachi with 4 lives but got hammered again lawl. Fuck him. That was only my 22nd attempt though :3

Back into practice mode !

Replay : http://www.mediafire.com/?unwr7szj6t7rbqu
ShmupMAME 2.2 + playback info : http://www.mediafire.com/?5jf9mvecaln6hqp

[ProMeTheus]

Hey guys! I am travelling in Japan this month, I had wanted to go for such a long time. Of course, I had to take a look at all this arcade business, so in Tokyo we met up with Adversity1, NTSC-J, Erhune, Eaglet and mdl and went to Ebisen and HEY. We also were at Washoii\Tougeki, where we witnessed some pretty crazy live superplays. More on that later.

At Ebisen, I played a DDP run (crap), went out for a smoke, and when I came back in... SOF-WTN himself was starting a run O_O So, jet lagged and uber tired to the max, I witness the DDP UltraMaster demonstrate some of the tricks that make 749M possible.

Also met Kamui and SPS among others (garegga and Ketsui). SPS played a 495M 2-ALL run live just like that... lol.

Anyway, got a bunch of DOJ runs done on cabs. Recently, I had finished learning the full game and was going to start playing full runs soon, so being here is a good opportunity to do that with sticks before I go for the real deal with keyboard. After a lot of shit, got a little more consistent and some chains started coming, etc. Now I'm in Kyoto, played like 6 runs in the major arcade here, and beat my high score :p

Black Label - Type A Expert
ProMeTheus - 1,774,124,370 -2-5 - 3483 Hits - PCB
My first PCB entry



Perhaps some will recognize the A-Cho arcade. Its a cool place, has a nice bunch of Cave games, including SDOJ, DOJ, DDP 2 (lol), Ketsui, Futari BL, DFK BL... Haven't seen a huge affluence on shmups so far but I've not been on busiest days or hours.



This was one of those runs where I died in stage 1-1 for a nice start. This kind of stuff happens a lot more often to me when I play with sticks. But I got a smooth first loop going after that, bombing one of the patterns of stage 5 boss however, losing max bonus for the next two stages. Then I think it was death in 2-1, and maybe 2-3, some other stuff like that, can't remember precisely. I got to Hibachi with only 1 life in stock, but I managed to get to the last pattern, last form health at like 40%. It seems quite clear that a stick 2-all would be possible, which is exciting. However, even though I will come back to play some more, I have a lot of other things I want to do or see while I am in Japan obviously, so I think it probably won't happen.

Anyway, I guess this will make the very last few "elitists" guys that I've heard about who still say stuff like "eh, sticks in arcade is the true way, guys who play on MAME\Keyboard\Ports\whatever else can't do it the proper way" think again. To be honest, this "argument" of theirs already looked like a ridiculous last rempart for a long discredited dogma, and I'm sure people who are still thinking that way are very scarce nowadays.

Of course, I will improve on this and 2-ALL after I get back home. As always, thank you guys for all the past encouragements that have helped make this and the rest possible !

To Western Shmupping !

ProM