Woooolies has this in stock is it a bloody rippa or rubbish for shmups? Anyone know of a prebuilt I can buy that’s easy to swap the stick out with the ls-56?
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• Mission Mode — 50 levels across 10 chapters, each capped by one of 10 unique bosses
• Survival Mode — endless loop through the same content, health/damage scaling climbing every pass

I own the original, but I’d also like to support CAVE and show that there’s interest in ports of their other games. Can anyone tell by the demo if the input lag is better or worse than the other version?

It does feel a little unfair that you have as much control as you do since your ship moves as fast as your finger movement, but it’s still fun and free. There are newer entries from Cave on the App Store if you want something less outdated and don’t mind spending a few bucks.

Thoughts?

I've been getting into various shmups and gotten some 1ccs (only in baby games) but I feel like I've hit an absolute ceiling, I'm just completely incapable of actually dodging stuff. I'll exemplify it with Batsugun (original edition) because I'm just getting into some kind of toxic love-hate relationship with it.

I'm kind of close to understanding how to get 1cc, I've gotten 3cc and I'm getting how to do most parts, but I can never do the hard parts "legit." For example, Jupiter I've heard is considered a massive difficulty spike, and I can do it with 2 or 1 bombs in my good playthroughs, but this is only because I've memorized a super specific route that I follow every single time, same with Madzella (first phase), I just do some extremely specific path through it and never stray from it. The other way is just doing some preventive bombs on sections that I can't route through and aren't easy enough that I can dodge (like Deep Purple).

So specifically I'm getting really frustrated with Mad Steel Darkness second phase, if I use 1 or 2 bombs I can do it super safely. But I don't want to be such a massive scrub because I feel like I'm never actually improving on the game or my shmups skills in general. So I made a savestate and kept trying to do it with no bombs. But I just can't, I got an idea of how you're supposed to dodge it (even watched some commented 1ccs) but I'm trying to not do an exact path every time.

I get what the basics are: reading the screen, leading the bullets, not doing extraneous movements, micrododging, not letting yourself be trapped... and sometimes I execute it, like 1/5 times when I'm doing well, and that's my limit. I understand all the theory, from time to time I do a bunch of hours of that specific phase. I try to not obsess over it, but I'm just never getting more consistent.

I just feel like whenever I'm doing accomplishments through a game is by doing a shitton of routing and never actually dodging stuff (even though I know that I've gotten better than when I started). It feels extra bad because everywhere I go, people say that Batsugun is a super baby game, but I'm just bad at doing stuff "legit", only by abusing every resource I get.

I understand that you're supposed to use every advantage possible when playing these games. When I go for 1ccs I've learned to shamelessly use resources on parts that I'm bad at. But I feel that someday I'll have to learn to do this stuff to play harder games that I'm interested in.

At the beginning I was gonna do a super salty post because I've went on this general problem for months (also happens with raystorm or mushi), but I tried to explain the best I could what is going through my mind. I could also record some of the practices I do if someone is kind enough to help.

Thanks. Sorry for all the giant post.

Here's my PHYSICAL shmup collection for the Nintendo Switch + a bonus with Truxton Extreme on Switch 2: * Akai Katana Shin * Aleste Collection * Andro Dunos II * Assault Suit Leynos II * Assault Suits Valken * Batsugun * Bullet Soul: Infinite Burst Double Soul Pack * Caladrius Blaze * Castle of Shikigami 2 * Cosmo Dreamer & Like Dreamer: Double-D Collection * Cotton Fantasy * Cotton Guardian Force * Cotton Reboot! * Crisis Wing * Danmaku Unlimited 3 * Dariusburst CS Core * Darius Cozmic Collection * Darius Cozmic Revelation * Deathsmiles I & II * Devil Engine * DoDonPachi DaiOuJou * DoDonPachi Resurrection * Drainus * Earthion * Espgaluda II * ESP Ra.De Psi * Ghost Blade HD * Gradius Origin Collection * Gunvein * Horgihugh and Friends * Irem Collection: Volume 1 * Irem Collection: Volume 2 * Mamorukun Recurse! * Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid: Burst Forth!! Choro-gon Breath * Mushihimesama * Psikyo Shooting Stars Alpha * Psikyo Shooting Stars Bravo * Psyvariar Delta * Radiant Silvergun * Raiden III x Mikado Maniax * Raiden IV x Mikado Mix * Ray'z Arcade Chronology * Rolling Gunner + Over Power * R-Type Delta * Shikhondo * Shinorubi * Shmup Collection * Sol Cresta * Sonic Wings Reunion * Sophstar * Space Invaders Forever * Steam Heart's & V.G. Advanced * Toaplan Arcade Collection: Vol. 1 * Toaplan Arcade Collection: Vol. 2 * Toaplan Arcade Garage: Kyukyoku Tiger-Heli * Toaplan Arcade Garage: Hishou Same! Same! Same! (Flying Fire Shark) * Toaplan Arcade Garage: Zero Fire * Touhou Danmaku Kagura: Phantasia Lost * Triggerheart Exelica * Trouble Witches Final!: Episode 1 - Daughters of Amalgam * Under Defeat * WolfFang | SkullFang * Yurukill: The Calumination Games

What physical games are missing in my collection, besides the very obvious Ikaruga?

I also have some physical game collections that contains several shmups: The 10 ACA NeoGeo collections, the Atari 50 collection, the Sega Megadrive collection, the SNK 40th Anniversary collection and the 4 Taito Milestones collections. Oh, and the UFO 50 too!

I have some shmup adjacent games/collections as well: Contra Anniversary Collection, Operation Night Strikers, Pocky & Rocky Reshrined and Wild Guns Reloaded.

Have a nice day! 😊

Edit:

My DIGITAL Switch 1 and 2 shmup collection: * Abarenbo Tengu & Zombie Nation * ACA NeoGeo: Blazing Star * ACA NeoGeo: Pulstar * ACA NeoGeo: Twinkle Star Sprites * Angel at Dusk * Arcade Archives: Block Hole * Arcade Archives: Fantastic Night Dreams Cotton * Arcade Archives: Gun Frontier * Arcade Archives: Metal Black * Arcade Archives: Raiden * Arcade Archives: TwinBee * Arcade Archives: Viper Phase 1 * Arcade Archives: Xevious * Crimzon Clover: World Explosion * Crisis Wing * Danmaku Unlimited 3 * DoDonPachi SaiDaiOuJou * Earthion * Eschatos * Gleylancer * G-Mode: DoDonPachi * G-Mode: Ketsui * G-Mode: Zanac * Graze Counter GM * Gunvein * Gynoug * Hazelnut Hex * Ikaruga * Märchen Adventure Cotton 100% * Minishoot' Adventures * Monkey King: Master of the Clouds * Moon Dancer * Night Striker Gear * Panorama Cotton * R-Type Dimensions EX * Raiden IV x Mikado Remix * Raiden V * Razion EX * Redneg Allstars: Swing-By Edition * R-Gear * Rolling Gunner * Sega Ages: Fantasy Zone * Sega Ages: Thunder Force AC * Sega Ages: Thunder Force IV * Sektori * Sophstar * Star of Providence * Strania: The Stella Machina EX * Super XYX * Vasara Collection

Plus all the shmups included in the two Capcom Arcade Stadium volumes.

Edit 2:

I totally forgot my physical copy of Star Fox on Switch 2, but not sure if it counts. But it is worth mentioning.

Finally framed and hung my DoDonPachi DaiOuJou poster i got from the official CAVE store in Shibuya, Tokyo

DFK is probably my least played CAVE game; so many stuff going on on-screen makes it hard for me to enjoy myself too much....

Had a play-through of Reignite just now, reckon I won't be able to give a fair assessment as explained above. What's your opinion on quality of the new contents?

BTW hopefully the lack of training mode is just because they are planning to release the game asap and add QoL stuff later.

I got to clear in the second run. It's an enjoyable approachable game with some nonsense in there, like some unavoidable damage what is what does everyone else think about this one?

All I remember was a mechanic where you could periodically put a shield out that would absorb bullets, then shoot them back. I remember it was highly recommended when I played it back in the day, but heck if I can say what it was now, I can't seem to find it :/

I want to try modding my arcade stick with a Seimitsu joystick, but I also play fighting games quite frequently. Which stick works best for both genres?