DoDonPachi

[Zerza]

Ok, here is mine:

Zerza 33,339,950 C-S 6 211

I've still a lot to do....

However, Bern-D wrote:

> You can dodge bullets more easily
> if you speed through them horizontally
> than backing off and seeking an open
> space. Countless times I've died because
> I looked too long for a gap in the bullet spam.

I don't understand this one. Does it mean you should speed through bullet patterns horizontally by luck rather than searching for a gap? Is there a method to find the "right moment" to speed through the patterns? Because i have the same problem, i often die while searching for gaps. Especially at Area 4 Boss attack:[7. Scattering wedge bullets and fast blue bullets] and Area 5 at the two white tanks.

Also i saw the 667 Mill game by Aichi-Ken's. He's speeding through every kind of bullet pattern. I'm wondering if there is a special method for this or is it only training, training and training...

Thanks for any help!

Zerza

[Kewing]

Hi, I'm kind of new to this board, but I've playing DoDonPachi for around a year. Anyway here's my score:

Kewing - 96165650 - C-L - MaxHit 485 - Stage 2-3

I'm still having problems in stage 5 (I had to use a bomb in the madness bit around the middle of the stage ) and Stage 6(specially the boss). Unfortunately, I couldn't perform the entire stage 4 combo, otherwise I'd have been able to break the 100million barrier . If anyone just doesn't believe me because I'm new, just tell me and I'll post a link to my replay movie . BTW, Bernard, you're doing an excellent job with your webpage. I could improve a lot my scores thanks to your strategy guide. Keep up the great work!

[BER]

Ah, hello Kewing! Saw you posted a score back on SGL some
time ago, and I thought, who is this player... Glad to have
you aboard. :)

Originally posted by Kewing
BTW, Bernard, you're doing an excellent job with your
webpage. I could improve a lot my scores thanks to your
strategy guide. Keep up the great work!

Thanks. Do you think you can benefit from a partially
complete Stage 6 guide, too? Or do you know how to do that
chain already?

[Kewing]

hehe so you saw it , at first I didn't want to post my scores on there because I thought they weren't good enough but when I got this one I thought it was time I posted it

Do you think you can benefit from a partially
complete Stage 6 guide, too? Or do you know how to do that
chain already?

Well I can do quite well the first part of that stage and the 2nd half, but I still have some problems in the green-bullet bees bit. Sometimes I get thorugh well, and some other times either I get killed or my chain gets cut off. I'm working on that these days, but the University doesn't leave me enough free time to practice it as much as I'd want ^^;. And later I have to practice stage 5 and 6 bosses, I still can't get through them without using a bomb. Gotta practice more I guess

[BER]

Didn't see your message, Zerza. Sorry about that. ._.

Originally posted by Zerza
> You can dodge bullets more easily
> if you speed through them horizontally
> than backing off and seeking an open
> space. Countless times I've died because
> I looked too long for a gap in the bullet spam.

I don't understand this one. Does it mean you should speed through bullet patterns horizontally by luck rather than searching for a gap? Is there a method to find the "right moment" to speed through the patterns?

I'll give an example.

http://www.shmups.com/beepreying/diary/area5oops.jpg

It's the evil bullet barrage that has ended some of my best
games. When I'm nervous, I see bullets from the top and to
the sides. What does the nervous me do? I back down and
wait. What's wrong here?

By backing down, I'm moving with the bullet flow. I'm not
dodging anything--the bullets are still approaching me. By
waiting, I just hope the pattern glides through me. Unlike
a few patterns in Giga Wing 2, there are no safe spots to
glide through in nearly every bullet barrage of DoDonPachi.

My eyes aren't used to seeing vertically, so it's too
difficult to move up. What I should have done is move
horizontally to the right. Now, it doesn't take luck to
dodge this. It takes countless exposures to this pattern
to see what's going on.

In this case, the blue pattern is about to leave so I
shouldn't need to worry about that. I should have started
at the left edge. Because those red bullets are aimed, I
should just move horizontally to the right to quickly lead
them away from me. What I end up in the middle is a few
bullets that I can easily dodge.

Just remember: by backing down, you are either (1) moving
with the flow of bullets and dodging nothing or (2) losing
speed moving horizontally. By moving horizontally, you are
using all of the speed of your ship for evasion, so that
you don't need to do any pixel-perfect dodging as Aichi-Ken
does.

But it takes confidence to just move to the left or right.
You need foresight to know what these patterns look like
and how they move before you can evade them. Learn the
patterns, and with practice, you should be fine.

Originally posted by Zerza
Especially at Area 4 Boss attack:[7. Scattering wedge bullets and fast blue bullets] and Area 5 at the two white tanks.

The key to the first attack is to keep finding those
openings. As long as you keep moving, you don't need to
worry about those blue bullets

The key to the second attack is to keep leading away those
bullets by using the left side of the screen.

If you need any movies to supplement my capture reports,
please ask.

[Kaneda]

Originally posted by Kewing

If anyone just doesn't believe me because I'm new, just tell me and I'll post a link to my replay movie .

I would actually like to see it. Not that I don't believe you, I just like seeing how people play differently. Might even help my game.

[BER]

Originally posted by Kaneda
I would actually like to see it. Not that I don't believe you, I just like seeing how people play differently. Might even help my game.

Good point, Kaneda. Coming to think of it, I'd like to see,
too.

[Click_Stick]

People are insane.



Yea, it be certianly be cool to see.

My top score of 18 million is utterly pathetic.

[Kewing]

Sure . Here it is : ) It's a Raine 0.34b Replay file. It should work fine on that version, and other versions too, but I haven't tested them by myself.As I said before I could resist without using bombs until the middle of stage 5 and short after that I got killed. I was getting too nervous. Surprisingly, I could perform a quite good combo on the next stage but when I arrived at the boss I decided to go for survival, since I haven't practiced the second loop that much (only the first stage). After getting to the 2nd loop I was too nervous and got killed sequentally like a dumb although I could resist a bit using some bombs . Oh yes, please ignore the game after the continue screen. After that I just wanted play for fun until the Bee boss and I forgot to stop the demo , don't get surprised seeing how many times I get killed; 2nd loop is the HELL @_@. Enjoy it and I hope it helps in any way

[BuddhA]

Well, I just started playing this great game, so my score is pretty weak. I want on the score board anyways.

BuddhA 6,579,160 B-L L3 150 (I used the green heli)

(I beat the default high score at least..heh)

I will post my score again when I reach the 10,000,000+ mark.