fricking arcade thread

I got to the stage 5 boss of Dodonpachi on a single credit. The base 1cc is within range of the next month. Thank you based LS-32.

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    What are the best Cave shmups besides Dodonpachi? Really not digging the lil kawaii girls and theme

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Espgaluda is probably the best or most underrated at least. Amazing soundtrack and slowdown use

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Early gratz to you man. Once you've learned stage 5 that 1cc is basically free

      Dangun Feveron is probably their most widely appealing game. I generally don't care for score but Dangun's scoring system hits too well to ignore.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The original Donpachi is also very good.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Cave is trash, if you want good arcade shmups look to ones developed by Konami, Namco, Irem, Toaplan, Seibu, Psikyo.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >not digging the lil kawaii girls and theme
      I mean I absolutely get this in any other circumstance but the theming is so secondary in ddp I can't imagine being bothered by it. even the one after daioujou that I can't remember the name of leaned more into it but it's still so ignorable that I forget there are anime girls involved at all (I dislike that game for entirely unrelated aesthetic reasons)

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    DingDongwhatchi?.. just more cookie-cutter, boring "shots-everywhere" junk to BORE me to TEARS, sorry. Last one of these new games I tried was Ikaraga... Sorry! but I learned to play color-matching games when I was two, don't need to do it anymore! Deleted THAT computer application from my Dell desktop after about 20 minutes.

    R-Type, Gradius, Darius... those classics are a little more up MY alley. No TINY hitboxes to make the game look harder than it is, no half-naked japanimation cartoon girls, no gimmicky scoring to cover up the total lack of any real substance... just a little thing called good old-fashioned GAMEPLAY that seems to be forgotten nowadays... yep, I love all the super-duper powerups, and checkpoints.. yes recovery is HARD but not IMPOSSIBLE. You actually have to put in a little elbow grease to get your strength back! Something the little ones today could stand to learn from, if you ask me! They seem to want games where you can kill everything on the screen with one button press, right after inserting a coin! Instant gratification with no challenge. And personally, I usually prefer a "side-view" kind of shooter compared to a "bird's eye view" one, all those obstacles give levels a lot more personality, not such a common thing when every me-too game wants to look and play the same.

    Me, I've been playing a lot of R-Type part two lately. I can only clear a couple of boards on my first man right now. I may wear out my joystick before I can manage my one quarter win! But I don't quit! What can I say, I prefer a little hard work to getting a free handout! Playing some Wings of Wor on my Sega too, and Biohazard Battle. Great vintage stuff!

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >horizontal
      cringe

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      weeping

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Do fighting game 1cc's require hardest or default difficulty?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      they require why would you fricking do that, playing fighting games single player is dumb

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        It's pattern recognition like any other game.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          there are quite a lot of things that require pattern recognition that I wouldn't engage in for fun, that's damning with faint praise

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            k

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    How often should I grease my LS-32?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      The way I go by is to look inside under the dust cover and see if any grease is left in the grease traps. Those are the little grooves in the body of the joystick that the pivot sits in. As long as there is still a good amount of shin etsu grease in that groove it should still be automatically greasing itself.
      At least that's my logic. I'd like to see a statement from Seimitsu about it.

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Finally got the no-miss on VS. Super Mario Bros. tonight on normal difficulty. Celebrating with a diet coke.

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    see

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    https://i.imgur.com/tdSEjFq.jpg

    I got to the stage 5 boss of Dodonpachi on a single credit. The base 1cc is within range of the next month. Thank you based LS-32.

    Question about arcade pads. I was thinking of getting one, but I kind of enjoy couch gaming. is it safe to assume they're not good for gaming on the couch?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Do you mean an arcade stick / fight stick?
      They work just fine on the couch. The only genre they have a slight disadvantage in are fighters. But with practice even that disappears. 99% of tournament players that use sticks play with a stick in their lap instead of placing it on a table.

      If you mean an actual arcade pad such as HORI Fighting Commander those work very well.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        well son of a b***h, i just assumed they were meant to be on a desk or table.
        i'll look into getting one. mostly for shmups but arcade games in general

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >The only genre they have a slight disadvantage in are fighters

        they are inferrior to dpads in everyway in every genre when it comes to performance. there is waaay more travel moving a stick than rolling a thumb on a dpad.

        now I use arcade sticks to play arcade games because I'm not trying to be some kind of pro gamer homosexual. but there is no game in existence where you wont get faster reactions with a pad.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          k

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Gamest + Online Character Recognition + DeepL translation is the magic combo.

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Thinking of removing the plexi from my arcade stick so I can have the LS-32 mounted exactly as it is supposed to be like that pic.

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I got to 2-6 in Dodonpachi with a gamepad, don't need stick, and keyboards are good too.

    [...]

    DDP doesn't have waifus or weeb music instead it has rock music that will frick your ears, it's not reddit it's based

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    what do they say?

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous
  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Excellent arcade records pdf but it is in Italian.
    https://www.mameretroavengers.com/documenti/arca-general-dei-record-arcade/

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Wait, Wonder Boy is actually good?

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    How do I get into them? Anything must play that screams "this is a Taito game and couldn't be anything else"?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Darius series
      Ray trilogy
      Gun Frontier
      Metal Black
      Night Striker
      Rastan Saga (I & III)
      Elevator Action Returns
      Psychic Force 2012

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    I want to make my own arcade pad.
    What are the best buttons to use ?

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      It depends on what games you plan on playing and whether you value historical accuracy over convenience.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Convenience mostly.
        I want to use it for all kinds of different games.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Then you will want to go with Sanwa or Seimitsu buttons. I prefer Seimitsu because of the more tactile feel.

  16. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    This is kind of cool.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      neat, too bad the cabinet design is pretty ugly

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        The slant on the control panel is the weakest point imo. Back in the day this was somehow considered ergonomic but it's the complete opposite.

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