YOU AER net of doll

Phantasmagoria Trues and yes

MiSTer 68000 core IIRC handles wait states correctly, so within like 1%, DDP should be correct. I'll also say with confidence that the earlier (better designed) Cave games don't have problems with slowdown emulation in MAME, and are 100% playable even without it (unlike non-Yagawa SH3-era games)

Peak list, bookmarked

Box of FoxBase+ for the Macintosh thick enough to be used as a bludgeoning device

Fox

No matter which way you look at it, it's Taito all the way down

YouTube video by 夢中ステラ 結月ゆかりのケツイ裏二周実況/Ketsui

youtu.be/6Zqy2WGnmss here's an annotated ketsui ura 2-all using one lol

Nowadays there are many consumer level eye tracking devices and some shmup players have uploaded clears using them, very useful as a visual aid if you want to figure out how the top level players handle things.

the right studios were contracted, joshprod of all holding companies ensured a triumphant return for andro dunos by contracting out the sequel to piccorine soft with only a little bit of executive meddling

Wasn't Psyvariar Medium Unit and Revision done entirely inhouse? The only Psyvariar game I remember definitely being outsourced was 2 to Skonec.

It's all ransomware and/or targeted attacks now instead. Sign of the times I suppose.

Or Parodius Da aiming which is actually terrifying (only 16 fixed directions, no angle correction for trajectory based on the position of the bullet instantiator)

Neither of these are spikeout, 0/10

18) sfc has the best shmups of the 16-bit generation between super aleste, biometal, dezaemon, konami ports & originals, r-type iii, and the best macross shmup not made by nmk, among others

Someone coming forward as the perp would ruin the sanctity of it in the hacker/counterculture world and public consciousness more broadly. In that light, I never expect anyone to confess.

Holdless TI is mainly something you can do in Shirase, since Shirase doesn't demand much out of you besides execution at speed and the randomizer is very fair in dealing out pieces

Cool, would probably be a double feature with Hello World Project as well since his pre-Galaxy Frontier output also fits those qualifications and is on the whole pretty obscure

daisuke koizumi deserves a whole thread of his own btw, all of the alphasecretbase stuff he did before galaxy frontier and the collaboration with hello world project is really interesting and also falls into the rare category of doujin games which are actually foss games as well

(as for why dfkbl is the cutoff, I basically infer it based on daisuke koizumi being the lead programmer for akai katana and saidaioujou, and the ports for those games along with the ps/mmp doublepack (ygw orig) using cave's second porting library which is totally unrelated code-wise to the first)

17) hamster needs to bring back rabio lepus, and it can't be a hack job like what happened with sonic wings reunion

(if you have a PS4/5 or Switch 1/2 and have a comfortable control setup, the Arcade Archives rereleases of TGM1 and 2 are excellent, on par with or better than any MAME, and are 100% Arika-legal, in general, if this is an option you can take, you should)

Almost none of this is good advice. For TGM1, vanilla MAME is best nowadays, for TGM2(+), shmupmametgm is the best, TGM3 (using loaders) is damn near unplayable and even things like altinput are sketchy. Relatedly, if you want to play a new-style TGM on PC, TGM4 is objectively the best option.

16) battle bakraid is the best game yagawa ever made and the prerenders are actually super nice looking, better than anything cave put out for a long time (I don't think cave had a really good looking game based on prerenders until espgaluda ii)

It's bound to happen at some point, not like it's a Ferrari or anything lol

it's good to be back~ ^^

15) the three best shot width balancings I've seen are star force (narrow two column), cho ren sha 68k (1/3 screen spread at all power levels) and type-z' crimzon clover (wide screen clearing spread attached to a fast ship)

I suspect most of the "cute girls" influence internally at Cave was coming from people like Akira Wakabayashi and Shinobu Yagawa, not Junya Inoue (who was basically not involved with Cave after DOJ except for contract work with Deathsmiles I and II)

yes, they alluded to the outzone thing once in an interview and the rest is experimentally known from reverse engineering of various cave codebases, see shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.ph... and shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.ph...

14) proper shmup/ochimono crossover will happen eventually, and when it does, it will be glorious (I have *ideas* around this, but I'll save them for when I have a working prototype). also related to above, luxor is a shmup.

if there's any one thing from the hot takes thread I would urge everyone here to do, it's this www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwnO... it's "gratuitous sensory overload the shmup" in the best possible way

I think a few doujin games have done Takumi-adjacent approaches, but no arcade games after 2005 that I'm aware of off the top of my head.