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Season 7, Week 6: Gryzor (MAME); Set 1 - gryzor
Topic Started: 27 May 2007, 01:39 PM (2,221 Views)
Sureshot
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In fact... I have some spare time now. Better late than never, it's Sputryk's second choice this week - Gryzor on MAME (or Contra, as many of you know it by).

NB: you will need the parent Contra as well to play this one.

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Settings:

Default

No continues, no auto-fire

Buttons:

Button 1: Fire
Button 2: Jump

Scores to be in by June 2nd at 12:00 Noon.

Final scores:

1) 1675900 - Fr@ser = 100.00 points
2) 1279200 - Sureshot = 85.99 points
3) 1278200 - TK421 = 83.79 points
4) 507500 - Leezer = 58.62 points
5) 286400 - necronom = 49.85 points
6) 273800 - Supermario = 47.30 points
7) 270700 - Sputryk = 45.03 points
8) 267000 - Smurph = 42.75 points
9) 257100 - RS200 = 40.28 points
10) 225400 - Zaphod79 = 37.16 points
11) 223100 - Paranoid marvin = 34.92 points
12) 200400 - Merman = 32.07 points
13) 183000 - SirClive = 29.37 points
14) 170300 - Freshmetal = 26.82 points
15) 124200 - Opa-Opa = 23.27 points
16) 115900 - A.J Green = 20.85 points
17) 103200 - RocketRanger = 18.30 points
18) 99500 - Madge = 16.01 points
19) 97500 - Antiriad2097 = 13.78 points
20) 87400 - Fairziff = 11.30 points
21) 73600 - Elgin McQueen = 8.72 points
22) 68300 - Titch = 6.39 points
23) 40800 - Markopoloman = 3.39 points
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Freshmetal
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Is a parent Rom needed for this? I can't get it to work.
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tk421
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only way i cud get it too work was to also download contra although to be honest you aint missing much
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Sureshot
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Yeah I think you need Contra too. And what are you on about tk, this is a classic ;)
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necronom
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I don't like this very much at the moment. I may change my mind, but I find it very annoying.

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Freshmetal
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Ok, got it working now. Don't like it much though.

Latest: 82300
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This game is considered one of the toughest around, so don't be disheartened if you don't get too far early on. The best gun to get is the multi-directional one, and you should stick with it throughout the game.
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Bit better, got to the boss of the waterfall. I don't really like the way down is crouch, rather than shoot straight down. It makes the moving and shooting feel clumsy in some places. And you're right Sureshot, the multi-directional gun is definitely the most effective in my opinion.

Latest: 106300
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I used to play this game a lot when I wasn't at the other end of that arcade playing Rygar, Star Force or Twin Cobra.

I agree with Sureshot it's a classic and am glad it's been picked. Hope I can be as good as I used to be (finishing it without being killed - watch out Fr@ser :P )

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paranoid marvin

Wow , tough game!

Couple of tips to get you going

After picking up the 3 way shooter at the beginning of the level , jump down to the bottom of the screen.If you continue along the level staying at the bottom level , you can destroy everything with virtually no return fire , as long as you've got the 3 - way shooter . When you get to the base at the end of the level , you can destroy the guy at the top and the gun emplacements , simply by ju3ping to the top of the screen and keeping out of range of their weapons

The next couple of sections are made considerably easier when you've got the 3 way shooter - the toughest thing is trying to stop the game giving you a different weapon
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Sureshot
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143500

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Here's a run-down of the symbols guys:

Default Rifle: Semi-automatic weapon that fires a single shot per button press. Also, only four shots may be present on the screen at once.
Machine gun = M: Converts the rifle into a fully automatic machine gun. It fires in steady bursts of 6 shots.
Spread gun = S: Change the players weapon into a shotgun-style weapon. Two bursts of 5 shots spreading in a 90 degree arc are capable of being on the screen at one time. This weapon is devastating up close.
Laser gun = L: This weapon will fire a single stream of plasma in a straight line that is 4 times as powerful as a regular shot. Only 1 shot from this gun can be on-screen at once.
Fire Ball = F: A gun which fires small fireballs in a slow corkscrew pattern. Four fireballs are allowed at one time.
Rapid-fire = R: Increases the speed of the individual shots.
Barrier = B: Will make the player invincible for a few seconds - though he can still lose a life by falling into a pit.
Destroy all: Appearing as a grey falcon, this powerup acts as a super-bomb and will destroy all enemies on screen.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contra_(arcade_game)

At least one thing is safe to pick up with your multi-directional gun - Barrier. Rapid-fire I don't know about, but I assume 'Destroy all' can also be picked up safely.
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Contra on the SNES was awesome!!!
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Got into the second tunnel section, but you don't get a lot of reaction time to avoid the hail of bullets in there.

Latest: 170300
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supermario
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Quick tip
When you are in the tunnels you only need to destroy the circular target with the eagle on it to clear that bit of the stage.

156,900

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May 27 2007, 09:44 PM
Got into the second tunnel section, but you don't get a lot of reaction time to avoid the hail of bullets in there.

Latest: 170300
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Don't forget you can jump over the bullets
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Anyone noticed that some of the in_game music is very similar to R-Type?
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Elgin_McQueen
May 27 2007, 10:38 PM
Contra on the SNES was awesome!!!

Do you mean Contra 3 - The Alien Wars? Or Super Probotector? :D
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merman
May 28 2007, 10:55 AM
Elgin_McQueen
May 27 2007, 10:38 PM
Contra on the SNES was awesome!!!

Do you mean Contra 3 - The Alien Wars? Or Super Probotector? :D

Lol, well as I always knew it as Super Probotector when I was younger i'll go with that one. :P
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necronom
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I like this a bit more now. At least I'm not getting killed after three seconds of starting, then having to wait four hours for the countdown to finish before starting another go.

Am I supposed to just keep shooting at these things at the top of the screen (when they form properly, as shown in the pic), because I was shooting them for quite a while without knowing if I was doing what I'm supposed to do.

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paranoid marvin

This game suffers from respawning baddies and no time limit on the horizontal sections

With an extra life every 70k , with enough patience (ie accumulting a massive score on the horizontal sections in order to earn lots of extra lives) anyone should be able to complete the game on one score

Big oversight on Konami's part
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necronom
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I get a bit further every go. The blue helmet baddies just needed a few more shots.

I'm actually enjoying this now :blink:

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First go, was never a big fan of this after playing the C64 conversion (using the Space bar to jump was a PAIN!)
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Its not easy...
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First go. Well, alright then, third.

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paranoid marvin
May 28 2007, 09:51 AM
Anyone noticed that some of the in_game music is very similar to R-Type?

I'm specifically referring to level 2 part 1
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Not really into this.
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necronom
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It's getting very difficult now :o

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merman
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Much better
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Can't see me getting much further (plus my arm hurts):

267000

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a.j.green
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Its not easy...
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Don't really like this game :(

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necronom
May 28 2007, 08:15 PM
246,100

It's getting very difficult now :o

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You're not kidding!
How are you meant to kill the jeep things?
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Shoot like f**k! I just crouched and shot as fast as I could, luckily I had the rapid fire machine gun for the second one.
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197900

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Sputryk
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138300

Not happy and will get very little chance to do better. Pah!

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Can't find the rom for this. Romnation has changed, and not for the better. Found a contra set there but nothing else.
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Nvm, rom-world it is for Gryzor, won't run on PSP though. Do I have the correct version of Contra? US version? Cause i'm noticing it says set-1 but can't find that anywhere.
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a.j.green
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Got really far without losing a life, then lost a whole bunch on the faces that chuck spikey balls at you.

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BTW Sureshot - I'm 95% sure that's the last bad guy !!!
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Indeed it seems so! Got there a few times now and been mobbed by aliens :(
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paranoid marvin

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May 30 2007, 07:31 PM
Indeed it seems so! Got there a few times now and been mobbed by aliens :(

Hey , you've doubled your score in less than a week - by Sunday , you should be strolling through!
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OK, so I did manage another game. Still not happy, though!

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paranoid marvin
May 30 2007, 08:40 PM
Sureshot
May 30 2007, 07:31 PM
Indeed it seems so! Got there a few times now and been mobbed by aliens :(

Hey , you've doubled your score in less than a week - by Sunday , you should be strolling through!

Slightly earlier than Sunday ;)

1279200

Alien mother blows up! For some reason, it put my lives up to 14 during this.
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Credits roll.
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And... that's it.
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So, back to the high-score table.
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What a short game this is, but awesome nonetheless. There's one bit at the end that will probably really bug you, which is that if you get to a certain point with any weapon other than the standard one, you WON'T get a barrier to battle the giant alien head with, meaning you will die very quickly. This means, you basically have to stock up on as many lives as you can, die before the barrier part and grind out the lives on the end boss with your pop-gun.
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Looks like I won't be playing then. <_<
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paranoid marvin
May 28 2007, 12:03 PM
This game suffers from respawning baddies and no time limit on the horizontal sections

With an extra life every 70k , with enough patience  (ie accumulting a massive score on the horizontal sections in order to earn lots of extra lives) anyone should be able to complete the game on one score

Big oversight on Konami's part

Indeed, just been testing this out for myself. Leeched on the first level until I got bored, and had 200k and 5 lives by the end of the first boss. I did actually die for no reason once while I was standing there leeching, so perhaps there is some kind of timer going on in the background. However, it must be in about 10 minutes or so as I was there for a while.

Anyway, carried on going through, leeched at the end of the waterfall section for a while and then again on the middle of the snow level. By the time I died (on one of those big things chucking the spiked frisbees), I had almost 500k.

Ridiculous, really, especially due to the fact that the only way I can get a better score in this game now would be through leeching.
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I think I lost 4 lives on a massive alien half way through this level, then my last one went on a heat-seeking spikey ball thing.

I must have been close to the end. I actually though the massive alien was the end baddie. I went from being really pleased, to quite annoyed, when it continued the level.

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