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[Caine]

206,323
Got just past One Eyed Joe's helicopter thing in the shaft but then he got me on the next bit. Which way do you go after stage one? I always go to the research centre - although only because I figured out how not to die going that way first and stuck with it.

Ouch, you're getting awfully close there. This is going to be a competition after all

I also choose to go to the research centre. It seemed to be easier, though I have no idea which area provides a better score.
I can clear it all the way up to level 6 now, but I have yet to do so in continue-less run.

[skeezix]

Damn, I suck; got all the way to 55000 Parodius with no lives lost, then bam, 3 of them down in like 20 seconds

Parodius

skeezix 57500

jeff

edit; lol, I guess Eight Bit and I are quibbling over 100 points

[Eight Bit]

lol! bumped into huge clowns too? I went for a retry just now and did a tiny bit better because I got some sort of powerup with big letters coming out of it

Parodius, 61300

[Caine]

Finally! Managed to get a fairly decent run and finished stage 4 and stage 5 up to the final boss (unfortunately I performed a slide just a second too soon).

New high score: 243.840 (contra)

[levi]

Whoo, finally got past the second penguin thing for the first time - only to fly into the first piece of scenery I could find!

Parodius Da!
118100 Levi

I'm still having trouble with the clowns. Looks to me like if you go in there with a maxed out ship their rate of fire increases to something stupid. Shame you don't have the option controls you do in gradius V, but then I suppose the standard PC Engine pad doesn't have enough buttons!

Edited by levi, 26 February 2011 - 02:14 PM.

[MonkeyChops]

I'm getting past clowns with the dude that has the spread shot and the punch missle. I get to that point with 2 or 3 options and my shields up, then they aren't too much of a problem. The problem becomes switching to the tail gun to kill the dudes that roll in during the dancing girl scene. When I got my high score, I made it though the dancer with all my power ups. Yea, tough damn game!

[mihcael]

Parodius

71,100 didnt give this much time, not as enyoyable as i thought it might be. Maybe another go on the weekend...

88,800 - mihcael

Getting better but i still haven't passed the dancing lady

Edited by mihcael, 25 February 2011 - 10:56 AM.

[StarG]

Contra: 23800 with the tiny robot. Will do better

[jasio]

I'm not improving at Parodius. I equaled my best score of exactly 80000 once and came pretty close a few more times. But I rarely get past the dancing girl and when I do I get killed by the eagle in American colours.

[Tickles]

Contra
232,813 Tickles

I can't believe how long it took me to work out how to avoid the giant spinning laser at the end of stage four. By the way is anyone else starting to get really annoyed with the talking bits between stages? My Pandora's buttons take more abuse during them than any other part of the game

[john4p]

Contra - Hard Corps

137,174 john4p

got 1 boss further:

178,980 john4p

Edited by john4p, 27 February 2011 - 10:25 AM.

[skeezix]

The clowns and dancing girls are really annoying Oh, in parodius, too

jeff

[LGR]

Finally got some time to play the Parodius. Its fun, but some parts are pretty annoying, like the dancing girl.

Parodius: 124,600 LGR

Sadly, I don't think I'll get to give it another go. Glad I was able to get a handful of hours in on it.

[Caine]

I can't believe how long it took me to work out how to avoid the giant spinning laser at the end of stage four. By the way is anyone else starting to get really annoyed with the talking bits between stages? My Pandora's buttons take more abuse during them than any other part of the game

I keep spamming start and the action buttons during those sequences in the hope that someday the game finally understands I want to skip them.

Did you ever try climbing up the wall above the first door between the three turrets and the virtual zone? You get an arena fight followed by a cheesy game ending.

I feel like you're about to beat my highscore and I'm stuck here writing a conference paper with little time to do something about it

[Caine]

Something stupid happened tonight.

I was playing contra while waiting on my train. I had reached the boss of level four in a near perfect run and decided to create a savestate for future practice and continued to fight the boss. At the point that I reached the final phase of the boss fight my train arrived so I paused my game, closed my pandora and got in.

Upon opening my unit again I noticed my savestate had been reloaded (oh crap , the R button, how could I forget). Upon unpausing the game the emulator was extremely laggy because my CPU was still downclocked so I immediately died. I waited for the framerate to recover, reloaded again and continued the boss-fight which went identical as before (perfect run), defeated him and continued to beat my high score with a new score of 270.100.

My question to you guys. Is this a valid high score as I accidentally reset to the start of the boss-fight (to my own disadvantage, undoing a perfect run) or is this run too tainted to enter (After all I did load a save-state)?

Naturally, I feel obliged to myself to beat this score in a single straight run and eliminate all doubt, but time is running out, so I might not manage.

-Caine.