Jed Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 (edited) SPL takes to the skies in his fighter called.. http://i51.tinypic.com/efmfsw.jpg DIP SWITCHES / ROM: ROMSet: Raiden.zip Lives: 3 Difficulty: Normal Bonus Life: 150,000 + 400,000 Raiden Description In the year 2090, Earth has suddenly become the target of deranged aliens. Following the invasion, a new cutting-edge weapon, the Raiden Supersonic Attack Fighter, based on a destroyed alien craft, is created for humanity's hope for survival. IE shoot stuff, pick up powerups, shoot more stuff. Number of Simultaneous Players: 2 Maximum number of Players: 2 Gameplay: Joint :025: Control Panel Layout: Multiple Player Controls: Joystick: 8-way Buttons: 2 [FireBomb] More info: http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=9244 Your scores need to be in by next Sunday 13th of February BY 7PM. (NSW daylight savings time) Games for MGL12 are selected at random from the MGL 12 nomination thread.To nominate games after the competition has started, play in a game and submit a score, then you can add your nominations. They will be added to the MGL12 list. Progress Scores: spl 669,190 Taverner 536,920 Ramere 388,840 Rat 370,340 Dkong 341,120 Brad 288,370 Kane 214,440 Jardine 214,050 Jammasized 196,720 Knight76 177,230 Wingtipvortex 64,710 Dezbaz 4,430 Edited February 13, 2011 by Jed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wingtipvortex Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 Never given this a good go, but interested to see some big scores here. Im sure there are some Raiden fans out there....SPL, show us your skills:D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spaceballs Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 Nice :cool: missed Moon Patrol so will def. give this a go Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DKong Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 Difficulty : normal :unsure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taverner Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 Love this game :) My favourite shooter and in fact when I first heard about Mame back when mame.dk was around this was one of the first games I used to play with me and a mate playing 2 player and sharing a keyboard. Raiden 2 has to be one of the best arcade games that still isn't emulated by mame. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jed Posted February 6, 2011 Author Share Posted February 6, 2011 Difficulty : normal :unsure Oops yeh mate normal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knight76 Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 75250 May as well get a score registered. http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y242/knight76/0003.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spl Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 Cool - finally a game I can get into. :) Don't know how much time I will have to play but will definitely post something up during the week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dezbaz Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 4430 http://www.dsbelec.iinet.net.au/raiden.png I am going on a cruise, so won't get time all week (unless internet works on the ship) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taverner Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 202,360 I haven't noticed too big a jump since switching the difficulty from Easy (default?) to Normal but it got me thinking it's suprising that more games, then and now, don't link the scoring to the difficulty level, it cuts out any question as to what setting it was played on and gives a little more incentive to replay/switch games to harder settings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jed Posted February 7, 2011 Author Share Posted February 7, 2011 I haven't noticed too big a jump since switching the difficulty from Easy (default?) to Normal but it got me thinking it's suprising that more games, then and now, don't link the scoring to the difficulty level, it cuts out any question as to what setting it was played on and gives a little more incentive to replay/switch games to harder settings. Yeh I agree, and since a lot of the MGL history got deleted ie before MGL 8, it's hard for people to go back and see what the MGL records were set at, as far as dip switch settings go. Doesn't seem to be an easy solution as there isn't a 'medium' that can be applied to all games, which is why we decided to go with the current 'record setting' standard of Twin Galaxies dip switch settings. I played this not too long ago in Retroleague, i'm not a fan of this genre of Arcade games but I don't mind this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wingtipvortex Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 Hey Jamma, i think AK archived the deleted threads before MGL 8, i will shoot him a pm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DKong Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 Hey Jamma, i think AK archived the deleted threads before MGL 8, i will shoot him a pm. Shoot away :laugh: maybe you should send it to Brad now;) If either of you have time you could update the hi score list to include the dips used, most early MGL games used the default Mame settings anyway to make it easy for you ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jed Posted February 7, 2011 Author Share Posted February 7, 2011 Shoot away :laugh: maybe you should send it to Brad now;) If either of you have time you could update the hi score list to include the dips used, most early MGL games used the default Mame settings anyway to make it easy for you ;) :D liisting 144 sets of dip switch settings doesn't really tgrab me ;) I was thinking more along the lines of if anyone's interested in challenging a high score then look up the mgl it was played in and find the dips. Maybe default mame dip switch settings would be better to play under for most games :unsure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DKong Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 (edited) :D liisting 144 sets of dip switch settings doesn't really tgrab me ;) I was thinking more along the lines of if anyone's interested in challenging a high score then look up the mgl it was played in and find the dips. Maybe default mame dip switch settings would be better to play under for most games :unsure Actually it's in the rules section 1 (I) Quote " • You can use ANY build of Mame and ANY front end to run Mame. ALL GAMES USED IN THE MGL WILL NEED TO BE SET TO THE GAMES DEFAULTS IN THE SETTINGS (Refer to FAQ’s for more information) " :lol Edited February 7, 2011 by DKong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super Moderator Foot Posted February 7, 2011 Super Moderator Share Posted February 7, 2011 I think Trav told me that he had to get rid of the archive becaue he needed the extra space to test stuff. So no MGL history Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DKong Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 I think Trav told me that he had to get rid of the archive becaue he needed the extra space to test stuff. So no MGL history Well shoudnt matter with the rules that we all read:rolleyes Where are all these new MGL admins when you need them , guys the rules are yours now:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jed Posted February 7, 2011 Author Share Posted February 7, 2011 (edited) Well shoudnt matter with the rules that we all read:rolleyes Where are all these new MGL admins when you need them , guys the rules are yours now:) Like anyone actually reads the rules, even the game dip switch settings for that matter :lol But seriously.... if the majority of players would prefer to use default Mame settings rather than the 'official' TG high score dip switch settings, then happy to do that :) I actually thought that's what was being used in all MGL's as I never read the rules either :redface Edited February 7, 2011 by Jed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rat Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 When I stared Raiden up on my new version of mame it was set on diff normal, so that must be default. I like the idea of using TG dips because then we can compare our scores to theirs, but it doesn't really bother me either way. Man I need some warming up on this game, I used to play it well but I'm not this morning. One of my favourite shooters, Raiden, Twin Cobra and Flying Shark all get the difficulty progression right and the weapons well balanced. Later Raidens stuff that up, WTF were they thinking with that big arching laser where you just hold the button? stupid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spl Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 When I stared Raiden up on my new version of mame it was set on diff normal, so that must be default. I like the idea of using TG dips because then we can compare our scores to theirs, but it doesn't really bother me either way. Man I need some warming up on this game, I used to play it well but I'm not this morning. One of my favourite shooters, Raiden, Twin Cobra and Flying Shark all get the difficulty progression right and the weapons well balanced. Later Raidens stuff that up, WTF were they thinking with that big arching laser where you just hold the button? stupid. The purple toothpaste laser? haha yeah it's pretty useless. Raiden DX which is the remix of Raiden 2 is considered the "best" Raiden by alot of people. It still has that purple laser though. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kane Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 109,760 So what is everyones preferences? Red or Blue shot, Homing or Straight Missiles? I like the Blue with Homing Missiles I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wingtipvortex Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 64,710 Had a few games tonight, 5 to be exact. This is all i can come up with so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taverner Posted February 8, 2011 Share Posted February 8, 2011 So what is everyones preferences? Red or Blue shot, Homing or Straight Missiles? I like the Blue with Homing Missiles I think. I'm switching about and finding I'm getting similar scores with any of the 4 combinations, like Rat said there's seems to be a fairly nice balance with the weapon choices. There's also some clever stage design using the fact that the play area is bigger than the screen. The point where you get the two M/H in the second stage has the tanks funelling in from either side at the same time as there's the power up ship and the tempation to chase after the M/H. I'm dying there a lot at the moment :). And in the 3rd stage every time you move left or right you're uncovering enemies beside you. But it's that temptation to chase stuff up the screen that gets me killed time and time again. Edit: And from memory I liked raiden 2 purple toothpaste and all, although seeing as it's not mameable it's probably been 20+ yrs since I played it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DKong Posted February 9, 2011 Share Posted February 9, 2011 341,120 Getting done on the stage 1-3 boss atm. Hopefully I can beat my best score, some good bonus's if you can keep your bombs as they act as a multiplier against the collected medallions at the end of every stage ( provided you don't die) Great game, I have an original Raiden Deluxe :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knight76 Posted February 9, 2011 Share Posted February 9, 2011 Here I was happy with the 123k I just scored. Great score Dkong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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