I concede defeat on shoot em ups
I played 1943 on NES for 6 hours today, and can't even get past the level 1 boss. I guess I just can't press the buttons fast enough in any of these games or don't have the spatial coordination or both. If I play a real challenging game like Starship Hector, I just get clobbered.
Anyway, I concede defeat.
Anyway, I concede defeat.
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I played 1943 on NES for 6 hours today, and can't even get past the level 1 boss. I guess I just can't press the buttons fast enough in any of these games or don't have the spatial coordination or both. If I play a real challenging game like Starship Hector, I just get clobbered.
Anyway, I concede defeat.
Keep practicing. Took me awhile but eventually I got good at them
I played 1943 on NES for 6 hours today, and can't even get past the level 1 boss. I guess I just can't press the buttons fast enough in any of these games or don't have the spatial coordination or both. If I play a real challenging game like Starship Hector, I just get clobbered.
Anyway, I concede defeat.
Keep practicing. Took me awhile but eventually I got good at them
Dunno man. I can maybe crank out 3 or 4 button presses per second with my right thumb, and some of these guys on youtube not using turbo seem to be doing at least 7-8 consistently. That's a huge difference in how good you can ever get.
I'm a lefty, so I have more speed over there, but it's wasted on the arrows in these games.
If you game on PC give this a spin:
You just have to keep the button pressed, you don't need to keep pressing them all the time.
Only chumps play shooters with a regular controller, mashing buttons like a crazy person.
Get an NES Advantage and use that turbo! Also, the joystick provides a great "flying" experience.
I just posted this sentiment in another shoot em ups thread, but I would not love shooters as much without it. In fact, I doubt I would play any.
Well, yeah, I have one, but isn't it considered cheating to use turbo on these games?
I'd say no. Most shmups use "contant fire" these days.
I'm a lefty, so I have more speed over there, but it's wasted on the arrows in these games.
Being a lefty, you should check out this project by TotalRadNES over in the brewery. Might be right up your alley.
Dude.... get an NES Advantage.
Only chumps play shooters with a regular controller, mashing buttons like a crazy person.
Get an NES Advantage and use that turbo! Also, the joystick provides a great "flying" experience.
I just posted this sentiment in another shoot em ups thread, but I would not love shooters as much without it. In fact, I doubt I would play any.
http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=22&threadid=169213
I'm a lefty, so I have more speed over there, but it's wasted on the arrows in these games.
Being a lefty, you should check out this project by TotalRadNES over in the brewery. Might be right up your alley.
Dude.... get an NES Advantage.
Only chumps play shooters with a regular controller, mashing buttons like a crazy person.
Get an NES Advantage and use that turbo! Also, the joystick provides a great "flying" experience.
I just posted this sentiment in another shoot em ups thread, but I would not love shooters as much without it. In fact, I doubt I would play any.
I love the Advantage for shmups but turbo defeats the ability of the charge shot in 1943. There's is a rapid fire weapon upgrade though.
Oh yeah... didn't know that for 1943.
I've had fun playing 1943, though, not sure if not being able to charge a shot hampered my abilities in the game, but I wasn't trying to get far or anything.
Either way, even for some shoot em ups where the Advantage doesn't help, I just won't bother playing them.
I play verticle bullet hell games a lot and I'm not the best at it but I'm fairly good with some but I've not 1cc any, yet. My "thing" to do is study and learn my hit box and limitations, then watch for paths or "patterns" and try to remember I don't always have to shoot every damn thing that moves and just keep at it, usually I just go with scoring points and keep trying to beat that I rarely focus on what's going on on screen aside making my hit box not hit anything or get hit. Next thing I know I'm racking up points, dropping bosses, and before long I'm several levels in before I wipe clean out.
The most important thing about games is having fun when playing them. And if turbo makes it more fun for you to play shooters, go for it.
...also there is an upgrade that relieves the need to constantly hit fire
I played 1943 on NES for 6 hours today, and can't even get past the level 1 boss. I guess I just can't press the buttons fast enough in any of these games or don't have the spatial coordination or both. If I play a real challenging game like Starship Hector, I just get clobbered.
Anyway, I concede defeat.
Keep practicing. Took me awhile but eventually I got good at them
Dunno man. I can maybe crank out 3 or 4 button presses per second with my right thumb, and some of these guys on youtube not using turbo seem to be doing at least 7-8 consistently. That's a huge difference in how good you can ever get.
I'm a lefty, so I have more speed over there, but it's wasted on the arrows in these games.
Get a Beeshu Superstick; they have fire buttons on both sides of the stick to accomodate lefties.
Don't use your thumb. With 1943 it's controller on lap + index finger
...also there is an upgrade that relieves the need to constantly hit fire
Don't listen to this guy. The grinder is all thumbs and sandafloor has never posted a better score, than Kobra Kai, in a shoot em up....especially 1943.
The NA beat every NES game in a year thread disallow turbo controllers. I sorta disagree with that ruling, even though I don't use turbo myself.
The most important thing about games is having fun when playing them. And if turbo makes it more fun for you to play shooters, go for it.
The Fester's Quest manual actually advises using Turbo, so the contest rules are conflicting
Focus more on navigation first. Then shooting. If you can avoid enemy fire and fire off a shot here and there you should be fine.
This is really good advice.
Once I get "into the zone" I end up just watching my sprites to make sure I'm not getting hit... then I just fire away like a madman.
The Fester's Quest manual actually advises using Turbo, so the contest rules are conflicting
that's Interesting. I wonder why they wouldn't just program turbo into it then
I played 1943 on NES for 6 hours today, and can't even get past the level 1 boss. I guess I just can't press the buttons fast enough in any of these games or don't have the spatial coordination or both. If I play a real challenging game like Starship Hector, I just get clobbered.
Anyway, I concede defeat.
I know a lot of people will argue this, but I firmly believe that button mashing is a skill. You can get better at it. Try vibrating your whole hand.
BTW, everything in 1943 up to the final stage is easy compared to what you face there. One of the hardest stages in the entire NES library.
I played 1943 on NES for 6 hours today, and can't even get past the level 1 boss. I guess I just can't press the buttons fast enough in any of these games or don't have the spatial coordination or both. If I play a real challenging game like Starship Hector, I just get clobbered.
Anyway, I concede defeat.
I know a lot of people will argue this, but I firmly believe that button mashing is a skill. You can get better at it. Try vibrating your whole hand.
BTW, everything in 1943 up to the final stage is easy compared to what you face there. One of the hardest stages in the entire NES library.
Maybe button mashing is a young man's game. I just turned 40, and an hour of that and I can really feel the arthritis in my future coming on.
I can make it to level 3 now, but my hand just gives out even with the lap + index finger method. I wish I could eventually beat it with the NA contest "no turbo" rules, but it's not for me.