Shmup of the Month Club 2015 (Completed)

[ExedExes]

Shmup of The Month Club 2015
Completed! Thank you all for your participation.
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2015 SOTM Schedule:

January: DonPachi (nominated by TSTR) - Scores
Highest Score: DocHauser - 11,996,360 - Area 2-3 - Max Hit 61 - Type C

February: Batsugun (nominated by Nyukki) - Scores
Highest Score: DocHauser - 3,495,440 - ALL - Type B - Shmupmame 4.2

March: Mushihimesama Futari (nominated by noiseredux) - Scores
Highest Score: Please click on the scores link above, we played too many modes to fit a winner on a single line.

April: Viper Phase 1 (nominated by DocHauser) - Scores
Highest Score: DocHauser - 2,303,948 - 1-4 - MAME

May: Pink Sweets: Ibara Sorekara (nominated by dsheinem) - Scores
Highest Score: DocHauser - 2,496,030 - Stage 4 - Shasta - MAME

June: UN Squadron (nominated by ExedExes) - Scores
Highest Score: ExedExes - 234,230 - Stage 6 - Shin - MAME

July: Dangun Feveron (nominated by mjmjr25) - Scores
Highest Score: DocHauser - 1,748,370 - Stage 3 - Uopoko - ShmupMAME 4.2

August: Radirgy (nominated by dunpeal2064) - Scores
No scores submitted this month.

September: Hotdog Storm (nominated by EllertMichael) - Scores
Highest Score: DocHauser - 544,760 - Stage 4

October: Giga Wing 2 (nominated by foxhound1022) - Scores
Highest Score: Skate323k137 - 1,147,845,251,786,190 - STG 4 - Kart / Barrier - Arcade

November: Racketboy Community Shmup Tournament

December: Raiden (playing with Together Retro) - Scores
Highest Score: Kidpanda - 753,000, 1-5 - MegaDrive
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Previous SOTM threads:

2012 - viewtopic.php?f=9&t=35250
2013 - viewtopic.php?f=9&t=41188
2014 - viewtopic.php?f=9&t=45247

[ExedExes]

Welcome to SOTM 2015! We've got another great community-contributed calendar and lots more shmup goodness coming your way.

This month from TSTR we have the original DonPachi!

*INFORMATION*
MAME romset: donpachi.zip
Description: Donpachi (US)

Other formats accepted: PS1 (Japan), Saturn (Japan), PSN (Japan)
No differences across the versions as far as I know. Please use default difficulties on all versions.

Autofire: Not an issue here as holding down the button simply fires your more powerful laser shot.

Format: Name - Score - Stage - Max Hit - Ship - Version/Port

Thank you and good luck!

[mjmjr25]

Nice. Prolly won't do anything for a couple weeks - but will be in the mood i'm sure by mid-Jan.

[TSTR]

Hayul yeah. Gonna get down on this as soon as I get over being sick AGAIN.

[Nyukki]

Happy new year everyone!

Finally, a chance to really sink my teeth into this game. Gonna post a score early every month and again at the end after as much practice as possible to see how I improve.

Day 1:

Nyukki - 2,953,050 - 4 - 40 - C - MAME

Not familiar with level 4 yet. Nothing more annoying than dying with bombs in stock.

[Omerta]

I am having a terrible time finding my Saturn A/V cable. Hopefully I can find it soon. May have to resort to buying one.

[DocHauser]

DocHauser - 6,147,930 - 5 - 61 - C - ShmupMAME 4.2

This might actually be my best score on Donpachi. I tend to use up my bombs as much as possible, so I could probably improve that score by not bombing and getting a better end-of-stage bonus.

[DocHauser]

Heh. I see that the Shmups Farm hi-score table has a Top 70 and the lowest score is 6.24 million, so I guess my target for this month is to scrape into the lower reaches of the table...

[TSTR]

I've only ever played this for survival, so I'm quick to eat up my bombs too. Especially on bosses, since you get bomb stock refilled +1 at the beginning of the next stage if you're out.

EDIT: Exed's sig = lollerton

[ExedExes]

Yeah, somehow I figured you'd like it. The one who suggested a shmup finds the word itself weird. I needed to swap out my previous quote.

But let me say I'm glad I decided to get you on board and it was also a good one to start our new calendar, because DonPachi's great. You can tell this is one of Cave's first games; it's got a lot of that 1990s shmup sensibility but it's just enough crazy to see the future of what shmups were going to be. A good mix of classic and modern right here, but lacks that visceral punch of DoDonPachi, which is something I don't mind at all. I felt right at home with this, as reflected in my first performance. Hit combos don't get as high as DDP, but they are still just as satisfying.

ExedExes - 3,054,730 - Area 4 - 38 - Type A - MAME