The_Pro Wrote: Double cabinets? Genius.

Yeah, I really like all the double cabinets and think they are a great way to stick with original boards/controls while increasing the number of games available. I could see certain record keeping organizations (TG) complaining, but you can't please everyone, and personally I don't care.

For those that don't know, double cabinets are things like putting both an original Time Pilot and a Time Pilot '84 PCB in the same cabinet and having a switcher that controls which one you are playing. Galloping Ghost has quite a few double cabinets like this.

-George

I hope to someday make it up there too!  Can't afford to go much anywhere at the moment.

The_Pro Wrote: Might as well revive this old post. I'm doing another trip to the Galloping Ghost. Sometime in the second half of september, driving in by car so my schedule isn't fixed, I might make various stops on the way. Anyway, I know there's some FGC stuff going on there. I'm pretty casual in fighters, I like to watch mostly, except Soul Calibur II, anyone up there still play that? I can never find opponents, I'd totally drag my gamecube up there.

Dude, SoulCal 2 is my jam!  Unfortunately, the FGC at the Ghost is mostly MK, Killer Instinct, and Injustice.
The arcade does have a Gamecube, and if they don't have it, maybe I can request them to get SoulCal 2 down there for sure.

Locked in my dates for September 18th to 25th.

Rodeway Lyons, kinda shitty but it's walking distance.

I do really like those games but I've never committed a lot of time to getting near WR scores on them, being fully aware of what the WR scores would involve time wise. I hate the chaining in donpachi so at best I could go for a finished game, maybe around 20 million? It's not the mechanic itself but the timing is just so unfair compared to Dodonpachi. I used to finish Ikaruga on the gamecube but with minimal chains, full chain would take a long time to learn, especially stage 4.

Anyway, I'll practice what I can before coming down. I can surely put up some new aurcade high scores but I don't have any true WR's up my sleeve for shooters at the moment.

Gotta love the Rodeway. Perhaps we can plan a trip to Headquarters, Underground Retrocade, and/or Logan's while you are here. I should be able to take a day off one of those weekdays to head drive or join you on the train.

Is your Donpachi score for 2 loops? Seems like it should be more than 7 mil even without chains.

Yeah I'm down for driving around since I have a vehicle this time.

I shouldn't say it's "super low" I just really fucked up level one and had about 400,000 less than I should have because I broke an easy chain. I almost gave up on the game but I kept going just to practice and ended up with the 1CC. Go figure. Watched part of your stream from last night. Are you aware of how the Get Points System works for chaining? There's no full chains in the game, but which enemy you kill first in the really big autochains it makes a tremendous difference in score. Killing the largest enemy first is always the objective. Play around with that in level 1 with that big tank towards the end.

I also prefer the C ship to the A ship, but that's because it's easier to chain with. You give up a lot in speed and maneuverability.

I'm 99.99% the DonPachi settings are US now at the Ghost (I was the one who had them reset after the shmups forum/zerst complained). I'll confirm that this weekend. The 6.7 million score was when the machine was on Japanese settings. They're on US now, and that 9.7 score is a low 1CC on US.

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