HSC Season 1: Week 4 : Shinobi

brianon

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinobi_(video_game)

KLOV: http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=9516

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ROMSet: shinobi

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Default Settings.

- Last day is Sunday 24th February 2013.

General Rules:

- Highest score wins.

- No savestates, savestate practices, etc. during the round.

- MAME INP recordings are encouraged but optional.

- A screenshot is required to enter a score (press F12 to save screenshot showing your final score) or take a photo of the game screen.

- Use of autofire or other non-standard hacks within MAME or your PC's OS are not allowed.

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*There will be an extra point for the furthest stage reached*

Shinobi is available on XBLA and Wii VC. Both versions are ok to use for this competition. Screenshots required as usual.

Current standings...
1. urbanledge (13)
2. brianon (10)
2. sengoku (6)
4. dr bob (3)
4. o1s1n (3)
6. eddhorse (2)
7. keithgeo (1)
7. CathalDublin (1)

List of games is ...
Dig Dug
Kung Fu Master
Smash TV
Smash TV
Mikie
Pac-land
Ghosts'n Goblins
Bubble Bobble

krudler

Ha cool haven't played Shinobi in years, Galaxian was bastard hard, hope Bubble Bobble comes up next, something Im actually good at :pac:

Dr Bob

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
I love Shinobi but I'm terrible at it!

I take it its 1 credit,
I've never rely played it.
Think I had it on the megadrive and It was rock

I take it its 1 credit,
I've never rely played it.
Think I had it on the megadrive and It was rock

brianon

urbanledge wrote: »

I take it its 1 credit,
I've never rely played it.
Think I had it on the megadrive and It was rock

1C ofc

o1s1n

urbanledge wrote: »

I take it its 1 credit,
I've never rely played it.
Think I had it on the megadrive and It was rock

The original arcade version wasn't released on the Megadrive (you probably had The Revenge of Shinobi - which is also pretty tough!)

yeah your right,
it was revenge!
I was only a nipper too

krudler

Which one is the one with the dog? is that Shadow Dancer?

CathalDublin

I like this actually
Hadn't played Shinobi since the C64 version back in the eighties.
Whats a good score?

eddhorse

Have to reconfig my controls as my fire button was using my shinobi
When that was wasted i could fire normally...

First in with a bad score :

Dr Bob

ngggg, forgotten how much I suck at this
35010

eddhorse

Dr Bob wrote: »

ngggg, forgotten how much I suck at this
35010

Good job, level 2 haha. I do love this game

CathalDublin

krudler wrote: »

Galaxian was bastard hard, hope Bubble Bobble comes up next, something Im actually good at :pac:

Whats your high score on BB?
See if I want to vote it for next week

44090 - at least I progress at this game, can get to the 1st boss without loosing a life, Some Ninja one kick in the leg and he's dead lol
tip - to skip the continue countdown press 2P

eddhorse

Should do Qbert next http://m.kotaku.com/5984937/a-man-has-played-qbert-for-over-80-hours-to-break-a-30+year-world-record

o1s1n

Great game, I haven't really played too much of it up until now. Can really see where Shadow Dancer on the Megadrive got it's whole gameplay mechanic.

43470

Level 1 boss is a pain in the ass. Hadn't a clue where I was going at the start of level 2.

o1s1n

Ah, finally figured out where to go on level 2!

51020

o1s1n

52310

That's me for the night

CathalDublin

o1s1n wrote: »

Great game, I haven't really played too much of it up until now. Can really see where Shadow Dancer on the Megadrive got it's whole gameplay mechanic.

43470

Level 1 boss is a pain in the ass. Hadn't a clue where I was going at the start of level 2.

1 boss is easy once you master him, walk to crack from top of wall closest him, just keep jumping/shooting when 1st set of flames are about to hit you use your shinobi, then just stay there jumping/shooting and he should be dead before he gets to shoot again




Is there any significance in shooting the boss at the end of each stage before he legs it?

52970

krudler

**** me does this game have the most infuriating first boss ever?!

Dr Bob

53470 middle of 2-2

definitely a lot of patterns to memorise for this one , its nice though I like shinobi but probably wouldn't be playing it this much normally.
You can manipulate what bonus you get from the hostages depending on what (I think) the last 3 digits of your score is ....

o1s1n

I've found the end of level time bonus really adds a lot. Been trying to fly through the levels as fast as possible.

Looking forward to giving this another go tonight.

krudler

Gotta say I'm enjoying playing games in a an old school manner i,e for score not for say plot or cinematics like we play games these days. Can bomb through the first level of this in fairly quick time but the boss is a pain in the hole, twice i've riddled him in seconds mostly I die quickly, its the timing of the jump/shuriken throwing that gets me I keep twatting him in the chest. this is fun

o1s1n

Focus on dodging the fireballs first and remembering their pattern. Better to stay alive than to get the hits in. He's quite easy when you do it like that.

Treat it like a bullet hell shmup

krudler

you can kick him if you're close enough too, few clatters in the head and he goes down. the bonus level is a good score hoover if you get a perfect, had over 45k by the 2nd stage doing that.

CathalDublin

I can't finish that bonus round, I swear its running faster than the YouTube vid I watched online, can get up to 40k by the end of the bonus stage, the 3rd mission with the divers with swords is impossible

krudler

CathalDublin wrote: »

I can't finish that bonus round, I swear its running faster than the YouTube vid I watched online, can get up to 40k by the end of the bonus stage, the 3rd mission with the divers with swords is impossible

if its mame you're running on have a look in the dipswitches and see if there's an option to slow it down? I know some games have bullet speed you can adjust maybe this has something similar

krudler

krudler wrote: »

if its mame you're running on have a look in the dipswitches and see if there's an option to slow it down? I know some games have bullet speed you can adjust maybe this has something similar

Ah here,leave it out

brianon

Now where'd I put that banhammer ?

unky chop chop

Giving this a whirl tonight.Hard a sh1t as I remembered.

76640 is what reads on that distorted dubious image...was in a rush:)


got near end of level with those feckin scuba diving knife wielding buggers.
Got the bonus stage as well.

o1s1n

Did pretty bad on the bonus level, but decided to go on and managed to get to level 3

63340