Andykin Skysk8r | 49 Posted January 29 Share Posted January 29 20 hours ago, Crabmaster2000 said: Messed around with R-Type tonight to see what I'm dealing with. Not too terrible so far. Lots of power ups, 3 continues, additional options, can use the one upgrade as either an option or a shield on the front or the back. I made it to stage 5 without much trouble. Unless there's something crazy in one of the final levels it's just gonna be a matter or learning a few enemy patterns and knowing which power ups are the most useful in which areas. If I remember right the last stage has a bit of annoying slowdown but you should be fine. Have you finished Sinistron yet? Its not as bad as Sinistron imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 502 Posted January 29 Share Posted January 29 2 hours ago, Andykin Skysk8r said: If I remember right the last stage has a bit of annoying slowdown but you should be fine. Have you finished Sinistron yet? Its not as bad as Sinistron imo. Sinistron's last 2 levels are tough, but the game has unlimited continues which is one of the best possible tools to help someone beat a shmup. R-Type's limited continues makes it significantly harder than Sinistron imo. I've got the first 3 stages down REALLY well now in R-Type. Rarely if ever lose a life on any of them any more. Stage 4 I'm around 50% of the time making it through without a death as well. As long as I get to 5 with the Red power ups I do good, but if not I'm able to recover in that stage after a death now that I've figured out how to beat the boss with no power ups. Stage 6 seems all about memorization and I'm starting to get to the end fairly consistently, but haven't quite figured out the final room yet. I looked up a video of the rest of the game and Stage 7 looks pretty frantic if I don't enter it with some options and power ups so that'll likely be tough, but 8 looks very simple as long as you don't miss your shot to get your guns into the boss when it opens up. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 502 Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 Had a run on R-Type where I didn't lost a credit until stage 6 (and that was a very dumb death of me driving into a wall). Finally got to stage 7 and even made it to the checkpoint on my first try! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 502 Posted January 30 Share Posted January 30 Made it to stage 8! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 502 Posted January 31 Share Posted January 31 Can make it to stage 7 pretty much every run now. Can typically make it to 6 without a death. 6 is super frustrating because it's not a hard stage. I often die just because I misjudge my size due to the extra equipment on my ship and just accidentally run into a wall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 502 Posted January 31 Share Posted January 31 Had a really lucky run just now and R-Type is done! As usual had a flawless run up to Stage 6 and then promptly smashed myself into the first wall in the whole level. The last Stage is incredibly difficult if you don't have both options available and very easy if you do. I only knew about options on Stages 1, 4 and 7. Since I died at 6 I was expecting to go into Stage 8 with just one. I didn't realize that during the boss fight in Stage 7 that amongst all the junk that is getting tossed at you it can also throw the occasional power up. In fact I didn't even see it drop me an extra option during the fight and only when the fight was over and the game automatically moves you to the center of the screen did I pick it up by default. Boy was that exciting to go into Stage 8 with and thankfully I didn't screw it up. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andykin Skysk8r | 49 Posted February 1 Share Posted February 1 5 hours ago, Crabmaster2000 said: Had a really lucky run just now and R-Type is done! As usual had a flawless run up to Stage 6 and then promptly smashed myself into the first wall in the whole level. The last Stage is incredibly difficult if you don't have both options available and very easy if you do. I only knew about options on Stages 1, 4 and 7. Since I died at 6 I was expecting to go into Stage 8 with just one. I didn't realize that during the boss fight in Stage 7 that amongst all the junk that is getting tossed at you it can also throw the occasional power up. In fact I didn't even see it drop me an extra option during the fight and only when the fight was over and the game automatically moves you to the center of the screen did I pick it up by default. Boy was that exciting to go into Stage 8 with and thankfully I didn't screw it up. Are you a streamer of any kind? Typically only streamers can just grind on and on for months like this. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaia Gensouki | 1,079 Posted February 1 Share Posted February 1 @Crabmaster2000 Excellent job on beating R-Type! What a tough game and you almost made it sound easy. But it's good to know that the level 7 boss can give you another power up, because without them the level 8 and the final boss would be a nightmare. I might give R-Type another chance some time later this year just to knock it off for myself. After all, it's a great port and a fun game, just a bit too difficult for my taste. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 502 Posted February 1 Share Posted February 1 1 hour ago, Andykin Skysk8r said: Are you a streamer of any kind? Typically only streamers can just grind on and on for months like this. Not a streamer, just persistent. I do record all my playthroughs though. Here's R-Type: 25 minutes ago, Gaia Gensouki said: @Crabmaster2000 Excellent job on beating R-Type! What a tough game and you almost made it sound easy. But it's good to know that the level 7 boss can give you another power up, because without them the level 8 and the final boss would be a nightmare. I might give R-Type another chance some time later this year just to knock it off for myself. After all, it's a great port and a fun game, just a bit too difficult for my taste. It definitely wasn't easy. So far it's the hardest game I've beaten on the TG16. It took tons of hours and so much memorization (and a little luck in that last run). It's not something I'd go back to for fun. I much prefer several other shmups on the system that take much less effort. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 502 Posted February 1 Share Posted February 1 Now to start next grind on Battle Royale 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 502 Posted February 1 Share Posted February 1 Battle Royale may not be as tough as I anticipated. I had two attempts tonight that made it to the Championship match and I just got overwhelmed by 3-4 Fighters at once. Just need a good run where I can get Mongo out early and I think I've got it. Hopefully tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 502 Posted February 1 Share Posted February 1 Battle Royale is finished. I greatly overestimated it's difficulty. I can get to the final Championship match (on Professional difficulty since it is required for the ending) every single time now. It was only the final Championship match that gave me much trouble and took about 7-8 losses (you only get 1 rematch after a fail and then you have to start from the beginning of the 15 fights) until I finally had a run straight through to victory. The CPU don't really care about each other much and all tend to target you so I just learned to protect my back and learned when to run and heal strategically. In the final fights against 4 of them they would sometimes bunch together which would allow you to take someone out really early in the fight when they couldn't find room to retreat. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 502 Posted February 1 Share Posted February 1 Working on Dragon Spirit now. No continues....ooof Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andykin Skysk8r | 49 Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 For whatever reason Dragon Spirits was often a go-to game for me and my friends when we were drunk at 3am as teenagers. Good times, its a really fun game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 502 Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 1 hour ago, Andykin Skysk8r said: For whatever reason Dragon Spirits was often a go-to game for me and my friends when we were drunk at 3am as teenagers. Good times, its a really fun game. Any tips? I'm finding it quite challenging with the big hit boxes and slow movement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andykin Skysk8r | 49 Posted February 2 Share Posted February 2 Haven't played it in ages but from what I remember it was just about learning the levels like most shmups. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 502 Posted February 3 Share Posted February 3 Had a run that made it to stage 8 right at the end, but the hallway of retracting spikes did me in. This game sucks. Your sprite is enormous and is so slow. The speed up drops are random and rare so I almost never get to the speed I want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 502 Posted February 4 Share Posted February 4 Finished up Dragon Spirit finally. Really didn't enjoy my time with this one. Huge character sprite, super slow default movement speed and the speed upgrades are randomly dropped and very rare, really nasty corridors leading into most boss fights that are meant to drain you of any upgrades (especially the final one is brutal), no continues, extra lives are super sparse and only really awarded very late in the game. Much prefer the NES version of the game. 1 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 502 Posted February 4 Share Posted February 4 (edited) I'm down to just 10 games left on my personal list now!! Aero Blasters Alien Crush Bonk’s Adventure Bonk’s Revenge Bonk 3 Bonk’s Big Adventure Davis Cup Tennis Jack Nicklaus’ Turbo Golf Psychosis Space Harrier Time Cruise Edited February 4 by Crabmaster2000 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 502 Posted February 4 Share Posted February 4 Thought I'd try out Psychosis now. I tried it quickly to check out each power up and then restarted the console for a fresh run....and 1cc'd it!!......and then there was a false ending and harder 2nd loop that crushed me. I was really excited about that for a hot second. Damn multiple loops.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 502 Posted February 6 Share Posted February 6 I'm getting to Stage 4 on the second loop pretty consistently, but having a lot of issues with it. Really feel like the boss and stage 5 won't be as tough if I can just get through this one stage though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 502 Posted February 8 Share Posted February 8 Haven't had much time to play lately. Did a run just now though that was promising. Stage 4 on the 2nd loop is where I've been stuck. If I can get there with full power ups the stage is actually fairly easy if you know just a couple spots to watch out for. I dont know if I can recover from a death in Stage 4 though so Ive only got one attempt each time. The Stage 3 boss has been my issue because he wrecks me pretty often, but I got a MUCH quicker kill on him this last run so assuming I can do that again I feel like I'll be able to finish this off. Stage 5 I'm not too worried about even though I havnt played the 2nd loop version of it yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 502 Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 Finally was able to finish up Psychosis today. Did both loops 1cc!! That second loop is crazy hard if you have a single death to recover from, but if you can manage to hold onto all your power ups the last few stages are not too bad (if you know to watch for just a couple tricks and how to deal with the bosses). When you finish the 1st loop the Devil Ugar's hand pops through the background and starts wagging his finger at you before you get the Psychosis World II message to start the 2nd loop. The ending for the 2nd loop doesn't really make any sense to me. "What a Crush! But look out...." and then the game just sits on that screen and doesn't ever go any further. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 502 Posted February 9 Share Posted February 9 Started Space Harrier, which I've always wanted to try, but never got around to before. Crazy fast and frantic! Seems super tough. The manual states that there is a continue code that only works three times once you put it in and only works after stage 5. I played around with it a bit and that seems to be wrong though. Feels like once you put the code in you can use a continue as much as you want and it essentially checkpoints you at Stages 6 and 13 once you reach them. So thankfully I only have to do the game in 6 stage chunks which seems doable. Just need to put aside some time to brute force my way through it now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crabmaster2000 | 502 Posted February 12 Share Posted February 12 Put a good effort into Space Harrier tonight and couldn't quite get it done. Many many many runs to Stage 17 (18 is the last one), but was never able to quite pull that one off yet. 18 looks to be a boss rush and the bosses are the easiest part of the game so I feel like if I can make it to 18, even with a single life left, I'll be able to finish this off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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