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Okay, about midway through Stage 3, there's a part where there are four statues and a cauldron (?). If the statues are blown up, the cauldron releases some items. Typically it's just a weapon powerup and a bomb. Sometimes though it releases an item that restores half a life bar.

I messed around with savestates a bit, trying to destroy the statues in different order, waiting different amounts of time to destroy them, etc etc... I tried everything I could think of, and I couldn't find any reliable method to get that life-up to appear. As you know, that life-up is important since when you have a full bar it adds 2000 to the chain. Stupid combo-reliant scoring system... bah, anyway. Do you know what the deal with this is?

Oh yeah, here's the area I'm talking about:

OK, you must defeat all enemies on the screen (also the two birds that fly from right), after to have kill the birds you must concentrate the spirit on the first statue on the left (you must make it before that the screen moves towards the high), the spirit must be activated on the statue without to touch other still alive enemies

(sorry for my english)

GHEMANT wrote:OK, you must defeat all enemies on the screen (also the two birds that fly from right), after to have kill the birds you must concentrate the spirit on the first statue on the left (you must make it before that the screen moves towards the high), the spirit must be activated on the statue without to touch other still alive enemies

(sorry for my english)

Hmm... I coulda sworn I got the lifeup to appear once when the birds were still on the screen. And I've gotten it by destroying the statue at the top-right, instead of the bottom-left. I'll try this again though.

Could it be possible that you have to destroy a statue when the "combo meter" (the skulls) are flashing gold? That would kinda make sense.

two methods exist

to hit the first statue when this appears on the screen

or

to defeat all the enemies in the screen and to hit the first statue

the important is

to eliminate the enemies without to touch the statues

or

to eliminate the statues without toccre the enemies

(use the spirit only)

the world record is 99.999.999 player: YUSEMI

for your curiosity:

stage 1 points 593.000 hits 3142
stage 2 points 4.944.000 hits 8593
stage 3 points 34.968.000 hits 19.198
stage 4 points 43.418.000 hits 25.580
stage 5 points 54.860.000 hits 34.152
stage 6 points 87.418.000 hits 64.579

+ bonus for ending, life remaining 33/48

total 99.999.999

GHEMANT wrote:the world record is 99.999.999 player: YUSEMI

for your curiosity:

stage 1 points 593.000 hits 3142
stage 2 points 4.944.000 hits 8593
stage 3 points 34.968.000 hits 19.198
stage 4 points 43.418.000 hits 25.580
stage 5 points 54.860.000 hits 34.152
stage 6 points 87.418.000 hits 64.579

+ bonus for ending, life remaining 33/48

total 99.999.999

.......

Holy shit.

3000+ chain on the first stage? HOW?!?! Man, I would love to see an inp of that.

Now that I'd like to see.

is not inp, is a video in real player from original cabinet of guwange

Gemant,how many points you can do on METAL SLUG X AND 3??

metal slug x (aes version, about in december 1999) 5.602.300
all clear (difficulty MVS)

sorry, in metal slug 3 I don't have hi score