[AC] Gun Frontier - ALL Clear (No-Miss) + Rank Gadget

[@drivelikej9962]

Fascinating how long it took to figure out the rank mechanism. Glad to have a reliable, commentated replay with rank strats. A huge help to me, and a real service to the community. A couple things that might have been overlooked in the fantastic commentary: 1. The MAX coin on Stage 4 powers you up, but also gives you a full bomb instantly. Still exciting if you make it there with max-level shot! 2. You don't just have a carpet bomb, you have The World Famous Steerable Carpet Bomb (TM). You can influence the direction of the bomb with your movement. The control is just inverted. If you want to steer the explosion right, move left etc. (I know you know, just thought it would be a nice addendum for anyone surfing the comments.)

[@triplehate6759]

Not to be confused with Leiji Matsumoto's Gun Frontier, though there are definitely similarities between the two (this one definitely leans harder into the science fiction aspects, despite the other's connection to Leiji Matsumoto's multiverse of space operas, galactic trains, and pirates fighting for freedom).

[@Shepardus]

I always enjoy reading your commentary. The way stocked bombs multiplies the rate of rank increase reminds me of Parodius Da's rank system - in that game the second and third speedups, as well as the shield powerup, each double the rate of rank increase, so if you have all of them your rank increases at eight times the normal rate.

[@DarthJend]

Wow, management really set the devs up to fail. "We want in-house quality, but at the budget we give our subcontractors. We're cutting your programming staff to the bone, the deadline is your birthday (don't miss it or else!), and this waterfall scene absolutely MUST be in the game, or we'll can the whole thing. Oh, and we're too cheap to pay for proper AC, so you'll have to program that scene while dying from heatstroke." Yeah, I think I know why Taito's planning chief suddenly quit...

[@netdoll]

And then you have the Saturn port where a young T. Fujino (later famous for Triangle Service among other things) got handed the graphics data for the arcade version and nothing else and got told to reprogram the entire game as a copy by eye job.

[@nate567987]

@@netdoll and he rocked it

[@MylstarElectronics]

@@netdoll T. Fujino's name is *Toshiaki* .

[@MusicalMinerdude]

​@@netdollFor what it is...that's dang commendable.

[@netdoll]

@@MusicalMinerdude oh absolutely, it's amazing for a copy by eye job and actually my preferred version of the game.

[@alexhndr]

Okay, that Rank explanation is on par with how to do high score on Battle Garrega *Looks like Raizing took some notes from this game. Damn, Taito*

[@Xx_Henry_xX]

after all garegga was a big homage to this according to yagawa

[@julianseph842gamez5]

How rank system works in "Gun Frontier" -The game starts with the rank at level 16. For every 60 seconds, the rank will increase by 1 level. The rank can reach up to level 255. 「ガンフロンティア」のランク制度について -ゲームはレベル16のランクから始まります。 60秒ごとにランクが1段階上がる。 ランクは最大レベル 255 に達することができます。

[@BIL0471]

Superb detailed notes as always!

[@Azel954]

The rank system is fascinating. Appreciate the detailed notes.

[@Rivalseeker]

Well, I'm happy to have bought this game on Switch... but seeing this makes me wish that Hamster included a similar plug-in that shows how the game is calculating its unique ranking system. Well, thanks for showing how it works here!

[@MusicalMinerdude]

Hamster finally bothered with one for Daioh, thankfully. Even if it is still the most basic you could get.

[@weebnerdgaming4908]

GG! Very interesting to see a deliberately low rank run.

[@FatDragonHats]

The filter effect looks pretty good, oh and nice run etc

[@adolx5828]

Awesome and very hard shoot-em-up

[@tuxysmagicaljukebox5431]

Wikipedia said something about finding secrets. How do you get to these secrets and what do they provide? And how come you aren't shooting most of the enemies? And the shmup wiki says something about "Defeating the blue medium-sized planes in stage 2 with a bomb awards 10,000 points per plane destroyed, but also raises the rank by 5 for each plane destroyed. For example, destroying 4 planes with 1 bomb awards 40,000 points, but also increases rank by 24 (5 rank * 4 planes + 4 rank * 1 bomb)."

[@AndrewBlechinger]

Popcorn that can anticipate your moves and lead their shots accordingly? Man, that's fucking DUMB. Also didn't ZUN work at Taito once upon a time?

[@alexhndr]

Correct me if i am wrong, but yes He is one of the programmer at TAITO And i believe he is also part of Zuntata, "Rayforce" Composer team. He quit TAITO shortly after. So if you are wondering where the ZUN name came from, now you know. *Touhou x Rayforce fangame when?*

[@armormodekeeg]

@@alexhndr He never did music for Taito, and he was largely there in the early 2000's, with programming credits on games like Graffiti Kingdom and Bujingai. ZUN comes from his real name, Jun'ya Ota; he's stated that the similarity to Zuntata is coincidental. But yes he did work there!

[@nate567987]

also hope to see a scoring video using this new info

[@Ishmokin]

GG!

[@SleepyDirty]

Is there any difference between Gun Frontier and Gun & Frontier? I notice the title screen on this video shows Gun & Frontier. Chinopolis clear of Gun Frontier doesn't have the ampersand, and the intro text on that video is in Japanese.

[@Blahblahblah28504]

This is the only game I can think of where the most dangerous enemies are not the larger foes, but the popcorn. I hate stage 5 with a passion.

[@zerwardzelaiine7622]

I'm very new to shmups, so...what does _no miss_ mean? You destroy all targets or something?

[@Shepardus]

No deaths.

[@zerwardzelaiine7622]

@@Shepardus ahh ok, ty

[@nate567987]

need a video on how frames on and off tl to autofire

[@soratheorangejuicemascot5809]

How the hell is Gun Frontier related to Dino Rex????

[@dougggtheoof]

Yeah I was thinking the same thing. Dino Rex is, well... Dino Rex. But this actually looks like som effort was put into it.

[@kirimusse]

Hey Jaimers, are you open to recommendations? There's a fun little game called Chain Blaster in the 3DS's eShop. Btw, if you don't feel like buying it yet, you can still buy it after this month's 29th by doing this ( kzbin.info/www/bejne/ipisanpqm7eZa68 ); I'd be kinda interested in seeing a playthrough on that game done by you…

[@kot32_fake]

What exactly does 30Hz'ing mean in the context of this shmup?

[@JaimersSTG]

30hz autofire translates to pressing the shot button 30 times per second. For a 60fps game that's the fastest you can shoot with external autofire, since it takes one frame for the input to register.