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#41
My adventures in Neo-Geo STGs continue, this time with a 1CC in Blazing Star, which took me about a week of practice.
20,674,710 - Windina - ALL - ACA NEOGEO (Xbox Series X)
I played with low to medium rank (collected all blue medals I could, but avoided powerups and all lucky panels). I still haven't figured out how to pull off that scoring trick on the ST6 boss where you get 6.4mil (the floating rainbow angel never spawns at the right spot for me), so if I manage that my score could be about 27-28mil with my current patterns. Not sure if I'll keep playing though. It's a pretty good game, but I'm not a big fan of the scoring system.
20,674,710 - Windina - ALL - ACA NEOGEO (Xbox Series X)
I played with low to medium rank (collected all blue medals I could, but avoided powerups and all lucky panels). I still haven't figured out how to pull off that scoring trick on the ST6 boss where you get 6.4mil (the floating rainbow angel never spawns at the right spot for me), so if I manage that my score could be about 27-28mil with my current patterns. Not sure if I'll keep playing though. It's a pretty good game, but I'm not a big fan of the scoring system.
#42
#43
OK, I got the 1CC in Pulstar. No miss clear. 
1,093,520 - ALL - ACA NEOGEO (Xbox Series X)
I also cleared the first loop in Last Resort for the first time today, and got up to 2-2. My name turned up empty because I didn't enter the letters fast enough. Oh well.
351,700 - Stage 2-2 - ACA NEOGEO (Xbox Series X)
1,093,520 - ALL - ACA NEOGEO (Xbox Series X)
I also cleared the first loop in Last Resort for the first time today, and got up to 2-2. My name turned up empty because I didn't enter the letters fast enough. Oh well.
351,700 - Stage 2-2 - ACA NEOGEO (Xbox Series X)
#44
I started playing Pulstar about a week ago, and I'm really loving it. Easily my favorite STG on the Neogeo (I also really like Last Resort). Trying to get the 1CC. So far I have gotten up to the end of the last stage:
1,031,410 - Stage 8 - ACA NEOGEO (Xbox Series X)
Pretty brutal when you lose a life in this game. In some stages I can recover, but in this run I couldn't recover at the end of ST8.
1,031,410 - Stage 8 - ACA NEOGEO (Xbox Series X)
Pretty brutal when you lose a life in this game. In some stages I can recover, but in this run I couldn't recover at the end of ST8.
#45
Thanks, I'll look into that.
#46
Quote from: EOJ on April 08, 2026, 04:27:31 PMAs someone with a mac instead of a PC, it doesn't look like I'll be able to play the Steam version.Why not? With CrossOver, most Windows-only Steam games run just fine on Apple Silicon Macs.
#47
It's been over 6 months since Livewire introduced the laser bug into DFK BL and DFK BL Arrange. They still have not fixed it, but I found this reddit comment from 3 weeks ago:
https://www.reddit.com/r/shmups/comments/1odceeh/comment/nx2o7du/?force-legacy-sct=1
The user stated they contacted Livewire about a month ago and alerted them to the issue, and Livewire said they would investigate. We'll see. In the meantime, I've had to pull my X360 out of the closet just to play DFK BL.
I also have the Japanese cart for DFK on Switch (which is v 1.0.4; the patched version is 1.0.7), but when I try to launch the game I get a message saying I must first download the patch.
https://www.reddit.com/r/shmups/comments/1odceeh/comment/nx2o7du/?force-legacy-sct=1
The user stated they contacted Livewire about a month ago and alerted them to the issue, and Livewire said they would investigate. We'll see. In the meantime, I've had to pull my X360 out of the closet just to play DFK BL.
I also have the Japanese cart for DFK on Switch (which is v 1.0.4; the patched version is 1.0.7), but when I try to launch the game I get a message saying I must first download the patch.
#48
Apparently the ROM for this was dumped and made public this week (though where one could find it, exactly, I do not know):
https://www.arcade-projects.com/threads/thanks-for-helping-get-this-cave-dumped-you-fine-gentlemen.37225/#post-494690
https://www.arcade-projects.com/threads/thanks-for-helping-get-this-cave-dumped-you-fine-gentlemen.37225/#post-494690
#49
I had to ban trev1976's account as it was hijacked by a spammer that started posting porn site links. 
#50
BTW, for those wishing to play these and other Neogeo games on the current consoles, the Xbox ACA versions of these games are a lot better than the PS4/PS5 ones. They have 4 save state slots + 1 quick save (vs only 1 quick save on the Sony versions), a rewind function, output at 4k instead of 1080p, and have various other bells and whistles (CRT filter, etc.) not on the Sony versions. Input lag might be a frame better on Xbox, but I don't know for sure.
From what I've read the Switch ACA games are the same as the PS4/PS5 versions (maybe with an extra frame of input lag?), but I don't own any of those.
From what I've read the Switch ACA games are the same as the PS4/PS5 versions (maybe with an extra frame of input lag?), but I don't own any of those.