Ikaruga

[blueskied]

Another slight improvement for me tonight:

22,265,400 Max Chain-162 / Chapter A (1 life remaining)

But that's sort of crap really.
One of these days I'll stop making stupid mistakes and bump it up to 23+ million.

And yeah, that's an excellent score Kiken!! I have the Hori pad too, but I don't know how anyone can use that. It's way too loose and the buttons don't feel right. Maybe I got a defective one, I don't know.

Are any of you playing proto?? I have a decent score of 25.2 million there. It would be nice to have some competition. Please give it a few runs and post your scores in the "prototype mode" thread I opened a few days ago here!

[blueskied]

Woo-hoo! I hit 23 million this afternoon. Here's the new high score:

23,424,350 Max Chain-164 / Chapter A

I finished with 2 lives left over for a 1 million bonus. Level scores were 361/503/339/532/498 (all decent except L3, which was crap!). This is verifiable through the ikaruga-atari.net ranking.

I made a couple small mistakes that cost me a couple lives. Watch out Kiken, I'm gaining on you.

[Victrix]

I'm thinking I never should have watched some of the videos floating around there. They depress me so intensely I never want to play this game again

[JM]

Woo! Another crap score! I feel kinda silly submitting this right next to a 23 million score. :P

5,026,760 - Chapter 4 - 78 Chain

JM

[Dave SS]

kiken, how did you make those vidoes on your website mate?

i'd love to be able to do that.

[Kiken]

DaveSS, I use Adobe Premier as my capture program and the ATI TV Wonder VE as my capture card (I'm currently running Windows 2K as my OS).
I first record the demonstrations to videotape (this way I can play on my TV without any distraction) set to SP recording. I then have a second VCR plugged into my PC which I pop the tape into, cue it up and then capture a segment in Premier (uncompressed video for Windows format in 640 x 480 res at 44.1 kHz audio, roughly 250 Megs per minute).
I compress to the AVI MPEG4 hack using MP3 audio compression (which keeps the files down around 8 Megs per minute). After that I just upload them to my page.

BTW, DaveSS, you may want to watch out for that UCG-Trial guy on the net rankings.

[Dave SS]

yeh he's past my score already, not to worry
I've got 5 scores around the 26.3-23.6 region mate, putting it all together is bloody tough

videos....
sound complicated to me LOL my PC know-how is limited to say the least. I have tried recording onto VHS but as i'm from the UK my PAL video can't record the NTSC image. You can buy NTSC compatible video recorders though, i might try it

[Dave SS]

aaaagggghhhhh!!!!!
i'm going insane

i've got 10 seperate 26 million scores now. no matter how hard i try, i can;t put a good run together. If my scores are good, i die too many times, if i get to level 5 without dying, my scores are crap anyway

I'm not giving in till 27mil at the least is top place on my score board

[japtor]

got the gc version recently, and somehow got a high score with the wavebird.

japtor / 10,869,490 / chapter 4 / 113 chain

finally got through to the boss. still cant do the zig zagging part on chapter 1 with the gc dpad well though, i get it like 1/50 tries. same with the circling/closing enemies in chapter 2. i gotta get/make an adapter for my joystick soon. at least im up to 25 on the gc ikaruga score page now.

[japtor]

scratch that.

japtor / 11,578,820 / chapter 4 / 148 chain

had like my best chap 1 and 2 then died 3 times on 3.