Emuser012 | [Phoenix II] - Xaniea Lambda Apex (Explosive Arrival) @Emuser012 | Uploaded February 2019 | Updated October 2024, 37 minutes ago.
Explosive Arrival is a good apex ability albeit a bit tricky cause it can't kill armored Ravens at full health and you have to be careful to not teleport in a spot a bullet appears in shortly afterward and to not teleport onto a turret which will instantly kill you if the enemy survived
Explosive Arrival is a good apex ability albeit a bit tricky cause it can't kill armored Ravens at full health and you have to be careful to not teleport in a spot a bullet appears in shortly afterward and to not teleport onto a turret which will instantly kill you if the enemy survived
![[Phoenix II] - Xaniea Lambda Apex (Explosive Arrival)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/SknOieTpRfk/hqdefault.jpg "[Phoenix II] - Xaniea Lambda Apex (Explosive Arrival)
Explosive Arrival is a good apex ability albeit a bit tricky cause it cant kill armored Ravens at full health and you have to be careful to not teleport in a spot a bullet appears in shortly afterward and to not teleport onto a turret which will instantly kill you if the enemy survived")
![[STG] - R-Shark Expert 1Loop ALL (Dooyong, Arcade, 1995)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/UNKCU3aOgrA/hqdefault.jpg "[STG] - R-Shark Expert 1Loop ALL (Dooyong, Arcade, 1995)
Since I couldnt find a legitimate replay of anyone interacting with the medal/bonus system, I decided to take matters into my own hands. Done on 2nd credit in 3 months late at 1AM.
R-Shark is a relatively easy game once you come to grips with the messed up ship speed. It is impossible to miss the moment you start playing, left/right movement is super fast and up/down is way off in comparison. The key for someone to survive in R-Shark without hard memo (aka me) is to learn about the C button aka the bonus button, and understanding how it affects end stage bonuses as well as end stage extends aka the only way to get extends in the game. Basically, the C button will convert any pickups/power ups to turn into bonus medal indicated by the symbol that floats upward each time this is done.
Your goal is to reach at least 100K points of end stage bonus total so that an extend is given to you, calculated by [(5000 x Bomb Stock) + (2500 x Medals collected)] at end stage. In terms of weapons, weapon 1 is hands down the best in the game, weapon 2 is ok but lacks homing missiles for any coverage and the weapon itself isnt strong enough to compensate. Weapon 3 generally just sucks because of the limited number of shots that can be made with the thing. Weapon 1 will be the only thing you squeeze the entire game, even ignoring the chance to power up a different weapon quickly and instead focusing on collecting excess power ups and speed ups as bonus items, but not bombs. You legit want to let go of C before collecting a bomb since its value if held is twice that of a medal, but at the same time it is safer to turn it into a medal for guaranteed points even if you die. Getting the bomb generally outweighs safety guaranteed points in this instance though.")
![[STG] - Game Tengoku/The Game Paradise 15M 1-ALL (Jaleco, Arcade, 1995)](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/V1_V0l7YPlE/hqdefault.jpg "[STG] - Game Tengoku/The Game Paradise 15M 1-ALL (Jaleco, Arcade, 1995)
This isnt an optimal run as I could have 18M+, but there were some cool chains I wanted to show off in a full run and am fairly content with this for now on the basis of playing only through the past 48 hours for the first time since 1 1/2 years ago.
Something about the way I recorded this video freezes my computer when I try to load it in an editing program, I dunno why. Anyhow, the audio may be a little distorted since I had to use desktop boost to amplify the sound audio to normalish levels.")
