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Season 7, Week 3: Gunbird 2 (MAME); ROM gunbird2.zip
Topic Started: 6 May 2007, 11:01 AM (3,414 Views)
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OMGZ! .. or whatever the young people say today ... it's one of Opa-Opa's nominations up next ... the fantastic Gunbird 2

Wayhay! - back to shmups! ... and it looks like we are in for quite a treat! Personally I have never played this before but it looks great!

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Settings:

Looks like we will be using default

As always with shooters, NO Continues and NO Autofire allowed.

If you would like to turn continues off for convenience, you need to press F2, then go down to 'Game Setting' in order to do this.

Buttons:

BUTTON 1
This is the primary fire button.
Short taps fire the main weapon.
At Lv 1 or higher, hold down fire for the burst attack.

BUTTON 2
This is the BOMB button.
You must have a bomb in stock.
Different fighters have different types of bomb

BUTTON 3
This the SHORT RANGE attack.
This is a powerful, short range attack designed to hurt big bad guys and bosses
Again, you must be at Lv 1 or higher.

LEVEL INDICATOR
The level indicator is bottom left. It is filled by shooting enemies. At Lv 1 or higher, you can release the "burst" (button 1) or "short range" (button 3) attacks


Final scores:

1) 616600 - Fr@ser = 100.00 points
2) 347100 - Elgin McQueen = 76.06 points
3) 325900 - SirClive = 72.26 points
4) 311600 - TK421 = 69.02 points
5) 305600 - Sureshot = 66.45 points
6) 280300 - Paranoid marvin = 62.31 points
7) 274900 - Opa-Opa = 59.79 points
8) 266100 - Freshmetal = 56.99 points
9) 259400 - RS200 = 54.37 points
10) 252500 - Leezer = 51.73 points
11) 249000 - Fairziff = 49.36 points
12) 248100 - necronom = 47.20 points
13) 247900 - Titch = 45.10 points
14) 240500 - Supermario = 42.42 points
15) 239200 - Zaphod79 = 40.23 points
16) 222500 - RocketRanger = 36.79 points
17) 219700 - Smurph = 34.48 points
18) 196400 - A.J Green = 30.51 points
19) 181400 - Sputryk = 27.21 points
20) 171000 - Madge = 24.28 points
21) 158600 - Merman = 21.19 points
22) 148100 - Markopoloman = 18.26 points
23) 148000 - ghostbiscuit = 16.17 points
24) 132600 - Antiriad2097 = 12.84 points
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titch

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Looks fun - bullets bullets and more bullets..............
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necronom
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165,700

I don't know what I'm doing, but it seems quite good.

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a.j.green
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Its not easy...
First go

141900

Seems like a very good game! :rolleyes:

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Sureshot
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Yay, another shmup! Looking forward to giving this a bash, although I do believe I've played it before.
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markopoloman
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Damn! Back to the lower end of the score sheets for me :(
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paranoid marvin

A really beatiful looking shooter
Some bizarre appenings on screen though!

Anyone care to give a few tps?
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156400

As Mr. Keegan would say ... "love it, just love it!" (and I really do! - this is a FANTASTIC game!)

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Sureshot
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Bearing in mind I've only had a few goes, Is it just me, or are the levels different for each character you select?
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merman
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May 6 2007, 03:02 PM
Bearing in mind I've only had a few goes, Is it just me, or are the levels different for each character you select?

A lot of the Psyiko games play the opening few levels in a random order. But you will play all the levels whichever character you pick, and the difficulty level increases as you collect the four gems.

I've added some useful info about the buttons to the first post in this thread.

And here's my first score:

125200
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Added info about turning off continues.
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200900

And a score.

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Latest: 208200

Quite like this one, short levels and just on the right side of insane for me. The enemy fire is clear against the background, and gives you just enough time to react to it so that it doesn't seem unfair.

Tips so far:
Hold down fire for a second for a secondary attack. Some are better than others I find (I like the robot's one personally.)

The girl on the broomstick's bomb turns all the shots on screen into candy, which can be grabbed for extra points.

Using your bombs at moments where they clear a lot of enemy fire can get a "Nice Bomb" bonus.

Not too sure whether the coins get you anything other than points. Anyone?
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May 6 2007, 04:49 PM
Not too sure whether the coins get you anything other than points. Anyone?

Just points for the coins I think, you get more depending on how much of their face is in view.
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paranoid marvin

Whilst using a bomb , hold down the fire button , as you will then have a powerful shot to use straight away
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May 6 2007, 04:11 PM
Just points for the coins I think, you get more depending on how much of their face is in view.

Thought you were joking, but it seems that this is indeed the case. It really does make a difference too.

I've also occassionally gotten a "spooky face" (not too sure what it is, but you'll know when you see it) appearing just before the cactus area on the desert stage. I'm not sure what triggers its appearance, but if you shoot it, it drop green gems which are good points, and a single blue gem at the end which is worth more.
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249300

weeeee!

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supermario
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Enjoying a few games here on this nice Sunday afternoon

173,600

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Now I know about the coins I'll be back later with a higher score.

ME.
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Latest: 225900 (+ a sore thumb)
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Also, re coins, you can 'chain' them if you collect more than one in a row when its fully face on (2000 for the first, 2000 + 500 for the second, and so on).

Love this game, got the Gunbird collection for the PS2 a while ago, top nomination.
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Oops - sorry for my blatant cheating in the last post by puting in the wrong score - here's a vast improvement which I hope should make it OK :ph43r:

174,000

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paranoid marvin

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getting better - I'm finding Tavia to be the best for this game

I'm assuming some of the more experienced shmup Retrogamers will be getting scores in the millions though

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paranoid marvin

I'm finding that the third button short attack can be really lethal againat even the hardest of bad guys - didn't even realise there WAS as 3rd button until I saw the comments some-one has kindly left on here

The only difficult decision now is whether to keep my 2nd firebutton finger on the smart bomb or the short attack - I can't handle 3 buttons at the same time with all those bullets to concentrate on!
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201500

Blooming heck there aint many bullets is there...............
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paranoid marvin

BTW are there any extra lives to be won in this game?
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As I was saying to SirC in IRC, I ALWAYS check the inputs on a game before I start playing it. To do this, press tab and navigate the necessary menus.

Marvin, you get an extra life at 600k.
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Its not easy...
Slight improvement

154700

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May 6 2007, 08:50 PM
As I was saying to SirC in IRC, I ALWAYS check the inputs on a game before I start playing it. To do this, press tab and navigate the necessary menus.

Marvin, you get an extra life at 600k.

Cheers - I'm not sure I'll ever get to 600k , but then again I didnt think I'd get to 200k in Twin Cobra at the beginning of the week

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Speaking of Twin Cobra, this one is killing my wrist even more than that.
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paranoid marvin

There seem.to be times when you 'autofire' for several seconds by first rapidly tapping button 1 then holding it down - doesn't seem to work all the time , so not sure if this triggers it

What character is everyone using ? I've found Tavia to be pretty good , especially with a couple of power-ups . Her smart bomb and short range attacks are pretty good also
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Level 3 is just such an intense amount of bullets. I have a feeling strategic bombing and using your melee on enemies you know are gonna be badass is the way forward.

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I'm using Valpiro and Alucard mainly.
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Confusing, overwhelming but oddly enjoyable.
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This one is definately a re-starter for me. If I lose a life before the end of 1-2 then I am better off killing myself and starting again.
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Bullet Hell! Also, why does the first level seem to change when I have a new go?

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..Also..Don't stand in the way of the Queen Pirates!!

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current score 202300
I'm sure I'll get better , but not much

I can see that collecting chains of coins rather than killing bad guys is the way to get a bigscore,which kind of spoils it a bit for me .

I think the reason why there's a storyline as the game wants to keep keep 'continuuing' pumping credits in , but after level 2 there are so many bullets on sceen, that unless you've got any smart bombs , it's virtually impossible to continue much further on 1 credit

I'm gonna re-assess my comment that some will get millions by pedicting a max score of 500k by anyone
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Sigh - I long for the days when the machines used to slow down when there were so many bullets on the screen :P

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I'm finding Tavia the best just now. Good power and a reasonable bomb.

ME.
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paranoid marvin

agreed , Tavia defo seems to be the best character with a great smart bomb and a prety lethal short range attack
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I read a guide somewhere that said Tavia was good for beginners only, so i've been avoiding.

Edit: ignore, that's Marion. Tavia is a good pick.
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Level 3 is so tough, some of the bullet patterns are just too random. Definite moneygrabber!

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279700

Almost downed one of the 1-3 bosses on a couple of occasions.

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248,100

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Apologies for the quality, only just caught it before the fade out.
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If anyone is interested in picking up Gunbird Special Edition on PS2 (includes both GB games), Gamestation's website has it listed for £2.99 new!
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Well, either I'm blind or MAME32 doesn't have Gunbird2 listed. Not on my machine, anyway. Looking like a good score for me this week! :huh:

Any ideas?
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Sputryk
May 7 2007, 07:22 PM
Well, either I'm blind or MAME32 doesn't have Gunbird2 listed. Not on my machine, anyway. Looking like a good score for me this week! :huh:

Any ideas?

What version of MAME32 are you using Sputryk?

I think this game was not so long ago emulated so you might need a newer version. I am using 1.06 and it's there! :)

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May 7 2007, 07:05 PM
If anyone is interested in picking up Gunbird Special Edition on PS2 (includes both GB games), Gamestation's website has it listed for £2.99 new!

with £1.00 P&P this is looking like a great buy!

I have to say this is one of the best games I have played this year! ... would love this on XBLA! ... 2-player mode !! :D
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221400 Good fun this game, blooming sore on the old trigger button tho :(
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