Scrobins

That's a fine lookin gator, I gare-on-tee!

Happy birthday! 

They were bracing themselves for an adversary far worse than Shredder or Krang: Michael Bay.

14 minutes ago, cartman said:

Any trailer?

Here’s a video with some gameplay:

Here’s where I get my styrofoam blocks:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/261381772920

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Shmup Speed Leaderboard

Username               Score                Date

bertsampson           203               6/17/2020

JamesRobot             197               6/17/2020

guillavoie                  189               6/21/2020

Gloves                      183                6/16/2020

BriGuy82                  178               6/10/2020

Bearcat-Doug          173               6/16/2020

Red                           158               6/21/2020

Scrobins                   146               6/5/2020

driveshaft                 119               6/21/2020

ecmyers                   110                6/14/2020

NESfiend                  109               6/13/2020

Ausden                     106               6/18/2020

Deadeye                   103               6/6/2020

Homebrew Leader Board Competition 2020 - Game 6: Shmup Speed

Play Period: Friday, June 5, 2020 - Sunday, June 21, 2020

Download the rom here at the bottom of the page.

All hail Daddy @Gloves!! In addition to providing this digital roof over our heads, Gloves participates in the Extra Life 24-Hour gaming marathon to raise money for charity, a worthy endeavor he continues every year. Because he's such a straight shooter, for his 2018 outing, Gloves commissioned a unique homebrew: Shmup Speed. This game/tool represents a development dream team: with coding by KHAN Games; design, sprites, and planning by Gloves himself; packaging, manuals, and labels by Sole Goose Productions; carts by SNESNESCUBE64; and music by Thomas Cipollone. Need help improving your enemy-blasting skills? Shmup Speed measures your "presses per second" for a brief period as you mash the hell out of the A & B buttons on your NES controller, or whatever you have handy. Not much of a shooter? That's ok, Shmup Speed is a tool to focus on your finger blasting, so there aren't any enemies to shoot up. Who's got the fastest fingers on VGS? We shall soon see...

Gloves gave 5 CIBs of Shmup Speed to the development team and offered 5 more in an auction on NA. Sadly those are the only legitimate physical copies in existence. But fear not, the Shmup Speed rom is available here.

How to submit your score:

1. Scores shall be submitted by posting a picture to that month’s game thread.  Screenshots of a computer screen (print screen) are not acceptable.

2. The picture must include the entire screen and have your VGS user name within the picture on a piece of paper.   Username can not be added digitally to the picture.

3. Type out your score in bold on your thread post.

4. Scores must be submitted within the posted time frame.

5. Do not submit scores from previous runs.

6. Use one post for your score.  You can submit as many as you like by editing your original post.  You can bump the thread to announce your new score.

Rules:

1. NTSC only, no PAL.  This will create a level playing field and not create differences based on timing.

2. OEM, FPGA, and clone consoles are OKAY.

3. Emulators are OKAY.  Play game at 100% speed.

4. No save states allowed.

5. Flashcarts (i.e. Everdrive / Power Pak) are OKAY.

6. No turbo or slow motion controllers are allowed.

7. No game genie codes.

8. Do not use glitches in the game to boost your score.

Added Touhou Rououmu, a shmup being developed on the Famicom.

42 minutes ago, Gloves said:

Masks finally came in the mail, so now I don't have to look like a cowboy with a bandana. 

You’re still a cowboy because those locks are the Wild West and cannot be tamed 

4 hours ago, Gloves said:

I've not helped anyone, to my knowledge.

Untrue. You helped me learn to laugh again during that Contra “no-death” run for your last charity marathon.

Edit: #congratsquaze

As someone who has been a member for (checks profile) a week, are you really situated to say what questions this site is or isn’t the right place for?

Moved The Warp Coin Catastrophe to here from the Horizon thread.

Also, 5seven Records has put up two copies of their 2nd NES chiptune release of Polygondwanaland on eBay with all proceeds going to charity, here is the link to one of them: https://www.ebay.com/itm/8-bit-Escapades-King-Gizzards-Polygondwanaland-On-River-Gator-Green-NES-Cart/114234055517?hash=item1a98e15b5d:g:o8wAAOSwNp1eyY0J

Added Quest Arrest for Gameboy.

Bump for the holiday weekend

Added Exit Loop (from Midwest Gaming Classic 2020) and updated price for Bovinium Quest.

Thanks for sharing, Ferris!

For those interested in Bovinium Quest or already have it, our own @Deadeye posted in NA last year with some of the codes to unlock other characters in the game. Just don't try to Konami code!

https://connect.gocollect.com/discussion/188384/bovinium-quest/p1

Edit: In fact, I think Chris and my friendship began over Bovinium Quest!

As a lawyer, my brain is short circuiting over an e-mail that meshes together caveat emptor, English common law, and “legal president”.

2 hours ago, ecmyers said:

A couple of Famicom games that aren't on the list yet:

Haradius Zero: https://impactsoft.booth.pm/
NES release in the works, with Infinite NES Lives, I believe:

 

And Astro Ninja Man: https://www.kadenken.com/view/item/000000001072

Exciting news for sure! I’ll add an update when an order link is available. But since both were already released for the famicom, they’ve been in the Almanac thread. 

And Debtor is now open for pre-orders, aiming for a July release with Foxyland releasing around June.

1 minute ago, CasualCart said:

Dr. RoBobRossnik?

-CasualCart

There needs to be a new reputation icon that represents “so much yes”!

I tried to purchase on my own last week but asked the seller via twitter for help completing the bank transfer since the confirmation page didn’t give as much information as my bank requires for a transfer. He told me to email his info@ address so he could help me. That was 5 days ago. I’m pretty sure he’s going to cancel my order at this point because I wasn’t able to complete payment within his required 3 business days.

1 hour ago, CasualCart said:

Don't be disappointed. There's always time for a Bob Ross Boss Rush.

-CasualCart

Is this the final boss in Snoic? Where do I pre-order?

Decided to vary my sunglasses game for my daily jog and I’m channeling my inner post-apocalyptic punk