The Gamer's Quarter

Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

I actually don't think it's possible to remove an achivement after you've earned it.

That said, which thread should I be looking in?
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Scratchmonkey · . Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 1439

Not entirely sure, myself. I mainly linked to the forum so that people could muck around in there if they wanted. There's a thread about the wipe, that seems to be more about what people are going to do about it.

I imagine that there's some discussion in the 'Official' thread; last I checked, that was 90 or so pages including the aforementioned Yak-Rev silliness, so that's a lot of stuff to go through.

I started playing this last night, I thought for a while that you had to use a Jump Pod to bull enemies off of the rim and was wondering why I was able to bull them even though I hadn't used a Pod. Eventually I figured it out and started to get the feel for the combination of shooting enemies, deflecting bullets and bulling enemies that's necessary for getting a decent score -- even though my score is pitiful, I did notice that in the overall list it's still higher than some folks who got to higher levels than I did.

Dess, you don't show up on my Friends hi-score list.

Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Dess, I broke 9mil in the tutorial and I basically botched the entire second, and most of the third section. You should have no problem with getting 10mil.
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-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932

"There is no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist!"

ApM · Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 2:14 pm Post subject:

I am not very good at this game yet.

Wes is worse than me, though.

JamesE · Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 11:55 am Post subject:

Aerithdead: Here's the weird thing, yeah? I bought a used 360 with a formated drive. I have never been online.

The first CD I ripped was the CD single of "Out of Space"... and it knew what it was called. How is this possible (that is a question for all the internet)? It was offline and shit.

Anyway, it turns out that jumping around the oil rig in Crackdown to early 90s dance tracks gives it a really nice "second series of Gamesmaster" feel.
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dessgeega · Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 7:36 pm Post subject:

world of stuart has a pretty good piece on what does and does not work in space giraffe.
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RadarScope1 · . Joined: 25 Aug 2007 Posts: 24 Location: Missouri

OK, dumb question but please help me out:

How do I use a custom soundtrack in SG? I've put a CD in the drive but it runs completely independently of the game and the light engine. Do I stream it from a computer or the HDD? If the instructions are there in the menus, I haven't found them.

dessgeega · Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2007 11:27 pm Post subject:

i have an ipod plugged into my usb port. i've never tried to play a music cd on my xbox.
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Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

odd, i put a cd in my 360, and it worked with the game no problems! i'm not sure what the problem is.

Also when the hell are they gonan reset the high scores.
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

If you want you can either: Play the cd from the dashboad and start up SG after you have the CD going.

OR: You can hit the center button on the 360 controller, go down to select music, then select the CD to play.
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-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932

"There is no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist!"

RadarScope1 · . Joined: 25 Aug 2007 Posts: 24 Location: Missouri

Wait, they still haven't wiped the leaderboards? I got my 360 a few weeks after the game came out. I assumed they wiped it only a few days after it was released. That sucks, but I guess it's not like I have some killer score anyway.

Here's another thing that's bugging me. Anyone figure out a decent way to play the very first level? I've been able to get a strategy down for most of the levels afterward (that I've gotten to), but the first one is so damn bland that it seems like all you can do is get a 2 or 3 X multi and move on.

I alternately love and hate the way this game insults you when are rubbish. When it says something nice, you really feel like it's a compliment.

daphaknee · Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2007 8:07 pm Post subject:

God when this game doesnt say something mean, i feel like its a compliment!

I'm getting better at space giraffe. Also i notice that im a lot better at this game when im not sober

also i do much better with a custom soundtrack

RadarScope1 · . Joined: 25 Aug 2007 Posts: 24 Location: Missouri

Can I be perfectly honest here? I actually turn the music down to zero to cut down on the background effects.

You can spank me with the "not hardcore" paddle now.

purplechair · . Joined: 28 Mar 2005 Posts: 378 Location: in my pants

As I understand it, there's some glitch that needs fixing that calls for a score reset after it's been applied. So there's a brief period of coding (which has probably been done by now), and then a really long period of Microsoft's QA tests. I think it's typically supposed to take a month or two?

Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Semantics here, but it's Microsoft Certification that's taking Yak for a loop.
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“The average man has a secret desire to be a swaggering, drunken, fighting, raping swashbuckler.”
-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932

"There is no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist!"

Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

damnit, i finally got a decent score (now number 4 on my friends list) this is why i didn't want to play until the boards were cleared, damn you minter, i'll never do that well again >_<

on the plus side, i cleared three achievements in one play which is what i was trying to do. getting a good score was a side-effect! only four achievements to go (i think)

i still think the achievements for this game are PROTIPS in disguise.

also i saw some levels i've never seen before.

most of them made me smile until i started dying lots but hey

that fish-eye one was hilarious it was like WHOA HAHA THIS IS NUTS
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RadarScope1 · . Joined: 25 Aug 2007 Posts: 24 Location: Missouri

A fish-eye lens effect? Damn Minter's on better drugs than I thought. I need to get further in this game! What level is that?

Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

i can't remember the exact numbner... 25, 26? in the 20s somewhere!

EDIT: it's 27
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Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

level 32 is impossible just fyi
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RadarScope1 · . Joined: 25 Aug 2007 Posts: 24 Location: Missouri

Holy crap. The highest one I reached was 26! Admittedly, I did it by continuing. I was just going through to see what the levels were like. I should have stuck with it one further. OK, gotta fire up SG tonight.

What do you guys think about the hit detection of the bullets around the rim? This was bugging me and I've come to find out I'm not the only one. Lots of people have issues with it. But of course Minter just told them to smeg off. Go figure.

I was hoping the patch -- which hit today -- would include a fix for it. Alas that doesn't seem to be true.

dessgeega · Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 12:48 pm Post subject:

so have the scores finally been reset? can i finally play this game again?
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ApM · Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 1:33 pm Post subject:

Generally speaking, the multiples of 16 are the ones that up the ante.

dessgeega I don't understand why you would stop playing this beautiful game just because of an impending leaderboard reset Sad

dessgeega · Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2007 1:48 pm Post subject:

i had just gotten my highest score on the day they announced the pending score reset. foolishly, i thought the reset would come soon. since i was planning to beat my new score anyway, i would wait until after the scoreboards were wiped.

i didn't realize how long it would take.
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Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

i am higher than dess on the scoreboard!

i am number 73... IN THE WORLD!

there is only one way this would be possible!

take the hint!
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dessgeega · Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 5:47 am Post subject:

fuckin finally
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Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

so hey, i suddenly don't suck at this game?

i manged to get to level 91 and scored over 160 million, ranked number 20 in the world as of writing.

bit of a bitch that i was so close to doing the long march, but i doubt i would have survived level 100 on my first go. i decided to continue and see the last few levels and man, 100 is a nightmarish paradise! i eventually completed it, at which point the game ends and you're stuck with whatever score you managed to get up to that point. yak also reveals a special secret to you as a reward.

i think my score is a bit shit, really, it should have been higher but it became a struggle to survive and see the next level rather than score the big points. still, i did pretty good for myself, i think.

but anyway, yeah, this game is amazing.

if you think the first 30 or so levels were insane, abrasive or hard to play, you seriously haven't seen nothin' yet.

a think a few certain levels would cause people with weak stomaches to get motion sickness. it was pretty amazing.

this is the first game i have played where i tried spinning my head 360 degrees to keep up with the action.

there was some slowdown even! that's how chaotic it got.

also dess i am sorry.

time to adore my 64.

(you get an achievement for not dying on this level for good reason).
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daphaknee · Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 12:07 pm Post subject:

what the fuck cycle why are you so good at xbla games
like seriously
what the fuck cycle you're not human at all are you

Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

He IS the worlds greatest Marathon 2 player.
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-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932

"There is no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist!"

Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

Yes. Yes I am.
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aderack · . Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 1105 Location: San Francisco

I was at one point the best-ranked Shenmue Space Harrier player in Maine.

I'm not sure how many ranked players there were in Maine, however.
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RadarScope1 · . Joined: 25 Aug 2007 Posts: 24 Location: Missouri

Got back into it a couple days ago. Got pretty much nowhere and still scored No. 276 on the leaderboards. Ha!

Hate to bring this up again, but does anyone else think the hit detection with the bullets around the rim is much more accurate now?

Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

maybe? the game has felt tighter since it's been patched, but I'm not sure what it was that made it feel that way.
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Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

anyone know if you can download the soundtrack anywhere? i really like one of them.
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dessgeega · Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 1:41 pm Post subject:

i was trying to find the soundtrack for a while when the game came out. no luck! you ought to post a nice thread on the yakyak forums asking jeff to post it.
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Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

Satipn - Redpoint
http://www.apdh96.dsl.pipex.com/redpoint/satipn.zip

Bonus level track (gardening by numbers) - Redpoint
http://www.apdh96.dsl.pipex.com/redpoint/SGBonus.zip

Jedburgh - Side of the Angels
http://jed.gazaxian.com/jedfinalvbr.mp3

Silly (yak track, turns out he created this in fruityloops for fun and it only ended up in space giraffe because some guy kept it from years back)
http://www.medwaypvb.com/downloads/llamasoft/silly.mp3

also

http://www.medwaypvb.com/downloads/llamasoft/giraffe/diffusion_ilovehorsesremix.zip
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Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

dess i'm not sure if you have it already, but the t3k soundtrack is here:

http://www.nuon-dome.com/media.html
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Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

So uh, since I seem to be the only person around here who's finished it (kind of), does anyone else know that this game features a SUPER SEKRET SECOND QUEST?
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ApM · Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 12:22 pm Post subject:

I'd heard about Super Ox mode, but it's gonna be a while before I ever see it. (Having kids cuts into your videogame time wah wah wah) There's a list of all the words it uses to generate the random level names floating around online somewhere.

Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

Yah, it's pretty neat... the levels and their names are randomised, and while the number of enemies remain the same, they are faster and fire more bullets.
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