http://bigcore.rsdio.com/zakk/replay Improving scores, one failure at a time Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:45:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The last (and double) week of STGT 2k9! I spent/wasted a bunch of time sorting out some MAME stuff during this playweek; I still managed to improve upon my previous Garegga score....by about 4000 points. Didn't even make it to Mad Ball Mk2. Oh well, I'll take it. [flashvideo filename="Battle Garegga/videos/garegga-6.2M-STGT.mp4" width="336" ... http://bigcore.rsdio.com/zakk/replay/?p=112 STGT 2k9 Week 4. I am really bad at Psikyo games except for maybe Gunbird 2 (where I am only sorta bad) and Dragon Blaze (where I am just confused) I think I was the lowest score on my team; I'm not even sure why I'm putting this video out for public ... http://bigcore.rsdio.com/zakk/replay/?p=109 STGT 2k9 Week 3! The announcer voice in this game is terrible. Other than that it plays like a slower Dangun Feveron and kinda bores me. Also this was 'dragon week'; in which we apparently operate under a very liberal definition of said week. [flashvideo filename="Thunder Dragon 2/videos/ThunderDragon2 - 1.7M.mp4" width="336" height="448" ... http://bigcore.rsdio.com/zakk/replay/?p=108 STGT 2k9 Week #2! A game I know how to play! I had to unlearn all my Normal difficulty habits; had to actually learn boss patterns and change up where I bomb. Doubled my previous arcade score. My crappy consistency with sim45 held me back from a much better score, I ... http://bigcore.rsdio.com/zakk/replay/?p=107 STGT 2k9 week #1. Bleh. [flashvideo filename="Varth/videos/varth-2.5M.mp4" width="336" height="448" link="varth-2.5M.mp4" image="Varth/scoreboard-2.5M.png" /] http://bigcore.rsdio.com/zakk/replay/?p=106 Getting the 8x miclus in the first stage of raiden fighters jet. I've done this twice, including this time. I feel like I've seen the Loch Ness Monster or something... [flashvideo filename="Raiden Fighters Jet/videos/rfj-sim018x.mp4" width="336" height="464" link="Raiden Fighters Jet/videos/rfj-sim018x.mp4" /] http://bigcore.rsdio.com/zakk/replay/?p=105 All clear of Deathsmiles; no EX stage, no death mode. I select the train stage first which probably reduces my potential score a bit; ideally I'd go with Halloween Town first but I suck at that stage at rank 3. Halloween Town gets rank 1 and the swamp gets rank ... http://bigcore.rsdio.com/zakk/replay/?p=104 Cleared RF2 Normal with the Fairy. All grazing is unintentional! As of this post this is the top score on the RF2 Normal leader board. This game is easy; it's even more easy on 'Normal'. Additionally, it's pretty much cheating to use the fairy. The need to learn boss patterns ... http://bigcore.rsdio.com/zakk/replay/?p=103 Finally got the 100M point achievement for Raiden Fighters Aces, via Jet normal. Now to work on clearing Jet... I am also very terrible at Real Battle Phase 2. [flashvideo filename="Raiden Fighters Jet/videos/rfj-normal-104M.mp4" width="480" height="542" link="Raiden IV/videos/rfj-normal-104M.mp4" /] http://bigcore.rsdio.com/zakk/replay/?p=102 A run through the 360 port of Raiden IV; Normal difficulty Lite mode. This is not a particularly difficult game on these settings. However, being true to the Raiden name, a tank still manages to snipe me. [flashvideo filename="Raiden IV/videos/RaidenIV-26M.mp4" width="480" height="542" link="Raiden IV/videos/RaidenIV-26M.mp4" /] http://bigcore.rsdio.com/zakk/replay/?p=101