darthkur Posted June 8, 2009 Share Posted June 8, 2009 (edited) It seems that the virulent VX-9 virus has miraculously survived the supposed cleansing five years prior on the planet Sirius. It is now infesting the planet Plutos and has transformed the surface into a swarming bio-mechanical malevolence. You must fly there immediately in your AX StarfighteR -Type 242 and stop this nanotechnological nightmare before it spreads across the galaxy. Emulators are fine as is whatever controller you feel the most comfortable with. Screenshots are great but not mandatory. Settings: One player. To select one player the right side difficulty must be changed. When using the Prosystem emulator the F5 key must be held down before depressing the fire button, which will start the game. Contest ends on: 6-22-09 at 1:00am EST. Final High Scores: 1st: famicommander - 145,000 +11 2nd: keitaro - 137,050 +10 3rd: xZanU - 107,800 +9 4th: aftermac - 94,750 +8 5th: darthkur - 90,000 +7 6th: atomickneedrop - 81,500 +6 7th: Atarifever - 41,200 +5 8th: roadrunner - 25,800 +4 9th: LaserHawk - 20,150 +3 Current Standings: 1st - Darthkur (123) 2nd - famicommander (116) (3) 3rd - keitaro (101) (1) 4th - xZanU (97) (4) 5th - roadrunner (85) (2) 6th - atomickneedrop (77) (1) 7th - gdement (66) (1) 8th - HammR25 (64) (1) 9th - aftermac (61) (1) 10th - AtariFever (47) 11th - suaiden (38) (1) 12th - Sauron (37) (2) 13th - doctorclu (34) 14th - Almost Rice (32) 15th - shadow460 (25) 16th - chuckwalla (22) 16th - Shannon (22) 17th - LarcenTyler (18) 17th - rockman_x_2002 (18) (1) 18th - LaserHawk (17) 19th - MrBeefy (14) 20th - Kurt_Woloch (11) 20th - ratfink (11) (1) 21st - Allan (10) 21st - theKLT (10) 22nd - Lord Thag (8) 22nd - thursday83 (8) 23rd - midnight magicman (7) 24th - Artlover (5) 24th - mightymage (5) 25th - AdeptRapier (4) 25th - bfutrel (4) 25th - Zoyx (4) Numbers in RED are accumulated points. Numbers in BLUE are number of rounds won. Link to the official manual: Unfortunately there is no manual for Plutos available. Edited June 22, 2009 by darthkur Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadrunner Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 25,800 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aftermac Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 19,600 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xZanU Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 12,500 This one is gonna be fun : ) Got to find the right powerup combo. I liked the triad missiles and the rapid fire 'fire'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
famicommander Posted June 9, 2009 Share Posted June 9, 2009 29,000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xZanU Posted June 10, 2009 Share Posted June 10, 2009 (edited) 50,900 Ah HA! So I figured out a big thing. At least I think so. Each weapon type [1], [2], [3] Has a max of 4 Stages of that weapon. So if you pick up weapon [1] 4 times in a row (Without grabbing [2] or [3] in between, you basically get a supercharged super rapid fire weapon [1]. I've taken weapon [1] and [3] all the way through their paces. Weapon [3] is my least favorite. It is a fat slow laser blast, it gets stronger at 4, but is still less useful that [1] and [2]. Weapon [2] starts out with the balls that fire out the sides and one up the middle, this is a really nice weapon. At the second stage it does a triad of missiles. I did manage to focus enough one time to get it to its third stage (never got stage 4 with it) and it was this awesome curved shield weapon. I wish I new what the stage 4 weapon [2] was! Weapon [1] is the standard pea shooter you start with, at stage 2 it is bit nicer and stage 3 gives you more shots per second. At stage 4 it is totally badass, really powerful very fast rapid fire. Definitely my current favorite. UNFORTUNATELY! Each new level resets your weapon. I made it to Level 3 on my last run and it is a major pain starting with the dang pea shooter there. The bosses at the end of each level have been fairly easy. The level 1 boss does not fire much and you can pretty much sit in the middle firing at him moving a bit to avoid his shots. The level 2 boss moves around a lot more and goes up and down a little bit, it is also a heck of a lot stronger, took more than twice as long to defeat, but then again I have faced the level 1 boss twice with weapon [1] at stage 4. The level 2 boss I got with weapon [2] at stage 1. That's my experience thus far, sorry for the long post but I thought it might help to know about the weapons/weapon stages. Oh and one more thing, if you have a stage 4 weapon and grab a different weapon in between (usually by accident) it starts over at stage 1 for that new weapon (crummy). Also, if you have a stage 4 weapon, and pick up the same number again, you do NOT get a stage 5, it just goes back to stage 1 of that weapon (ahhhh, why!?). There is also one other type of power-up that I have not figured out yet, it has a number 5 on it (I think) and I can not tell if it is temporary invincibility or temporary more power to your current weapon. EDIT: Old Score - 33,850 Edited June 10, 2009 by xZanU Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mitch Posted June 10, 2009 Share Posted June 10, 2009 There is also one other type of power-up that I have not figured out yet, it has a number 5 on it (I think) and I can not tell if it is temporary invincibility or temporary more power to your current weapon. That's not a 5 it's an S, which stands for shield. It gives you an invincibility shield for around 10 seconds. There's a nice write up here. Mitch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xZanU Posted June 10, 2009 Share Posted June 10, 2009 There is also one other type of power-up that I have not figured out yet, it has a number 5 on it (I think) and I can not tell if it is temporary invincibility or temporary more power to your current weapon. That's not a 5 it's an S, which stands for shield. It gives you an invincibility shield for around 10 seconds. There's a nice write up here. Mitch Thanks Mitch, that makes sense (S) for Shield : ) It was nice to see what the other level looked like too and to get a hint of what was in store. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aftermac Posted June 11, 2009 Share Posted June 11, 2009 31,600 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aftermac Posted June 11, 2009 Share Posted June 11, 2009 51,500 This is quickly becoming one of my favorite 7800 games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aftermac Posted June 11, 2009 Share Posted June 11, 2009 74,400 Made it to level 4! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthkur Posted June 11, 2009 Author Share Posted June 11, 2009 38,950 This is a really fun shooter. It's frustrating when you have a great weapon and then hit another "power-up" and it knocks you right down to the beginning again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xZanU Posted June 12, 2009 Share Posted June 12, 2009 74,400Made it to level 4! You are a trouble maker! Just wait til my kids go to bed and I get another shot at this : ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aftermac Posted June 12, 2009 Share Posted June 12, 2009 74,400Made it to level 4! You are a trouble maker! Just wait til my kids go to bed and I get another shot at this : ) LOL! Yeah, I made a few stupid mistakes that game. My score should improve once I get that fixed! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xZanU Posted June 12, 2009 Share Posted June 12, 2009 94,450 Made it to Level 4, only had one life left and boy is it hard to blow anything up on that level, everything moves so fast! I managed to get My favorite weapon [1] powered up to stage 3 there, but after that I blew up : ( I found it makes a huge difference to get a weapon to its 4th stage and keep it there. I spend almost as much time dodging the [2] and [3] weapon powerups as I do shooting at things. The more stuff you get to blow up the more points you get! I think I hit nearly every single enemy on level 1 and 2 and probably almost as much on level 3. I was lucky to shoot down one out of five on level 4 though as they really do move that fast, very very hard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aftermac Posted June 13, 2009 Share Posted June 13, 2009 85,550 Made it to level 4 with 4 lives and still couldn't beat it... very tough. I WILL beat level 4 before this round is over! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xZanU Posted June 13, 2009 Share Posted June 13, 2009 85,550 Made it to level 4 with 4 lives and still couldn't beat it... very tough. I WILL beat level 4 before this round is over! And just think, there are 6 Levels o.O Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aftermac Posted June 14, 2009 Share Posted June 14, 2009 89,850 85,550 Made it to level 4 with 4 lives and still couldn't beat it... very tough. I WILL beat level 4 before this round is over! And just think, there are 6 Levels o.O Well, I managed to beat level 4, but I still didn't crack 90,000 points. I made it to level 4 with all of my lives and spent most of my time dodging. I just couldn't get my weapon advanced enough to do any damage. By the time I got to level 5 I was on my last life and could only kill 2 enemies before dying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aftermac Posted June 15, 2009 Share Posted June 15, 2009 94,750 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darthkur Posted June 15, 2009 Author Share Posted June 15, 2009 52,900 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
famicommander Posted June 15, 2009 Share Posted June 15, 2009 77,450 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keitaro Posted June 15, 2009 Share Posted June 15, 2009 100800 I used weapon 1 all time except for level 4, I used the 2 firsts weapon 2 here. (I think the 3 way is best here). I died at the beginning of level 5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaserHawk Posted June 16, 2009 Share Posted June 16, 2009 LaserHawk engages the Plutonians and leaves behind this many wrecks score number!! 20,150 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xZanU Posted June 16, 2009 Share Posted June 16, 2009 100800I used weapon 1 all time except for level 4, I used the 2 firsts weapon 2 here. (I think the 3 way is best here). I died at the beginning of level 5. NIce! First one to break 100k : ) I've been trying but have not bested my score yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HammR25 Posted June 17, 2009 Share Posted June 17, 2009 I guess this contest ended before it started. I assume it really ends on the 22nd at 1:00am EDT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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