DoDonPachi SaiDaiOuJou (Arcade) - Hibachi ALL (A-L)

Special thanks to baf for making this video's thumbnail: / @baf__
Played on MAME 0.256
This ship is fun to play with but remains a bit of a pain, the narrow shot width just makes some sections questionable (zako rush after stage 4 midboss is a good example: went really well here, but most of the time the extend goes too far away and usually you'll need to go off-route to get it before it leaves) and it's easy for a situation to spiral into getting hit because you missed one small zako. A-L can feel somewhat "unstable" as a result and there are definitely a few ugly moments here.
The highlight of this run is entering Hibachi with 5 lives, 1 bomb and a high hyper level, basically the best I could do during practice. Despite these resources, ironically I was quite paranoid about choking massively and ending up somehow not clearing. It's actually hilarious how nervous I was during the 4th pattern in the first phase, I was very worried I'd overshoot a move and ram into a bullet (I died like that during this pattern in a previous credit and ruined what was otherwise a pretty good fight up to that point). Overshooting moves is also a huge issue during the second phase when Hibachi uses the DDP final.
To fight Hibachi you need to meet two conditions after defeating Kouryuu/Big Bee:
-Get Bee Perfect in at least 3 stages.
-1 death or less.

[@emperorIng360]

very nice run, I could see the nerves during the hibachi fight. Why hold off on hypering until stage 5?

[@Andrew-tu1pp]

It makes the midbosses section in stage 5 really straightforward and you always reach Hibachi with low rank.

[@riversand8646]

what are your thoughts on saidaioujou through mame? I tried playing it a few times and felt that there was a significant amount of input delay, making some patterns harder than they otherwise would be

[@Andrew-tu1pp]

For me it plays well on MAME minus a few problems with slowdown, it's a lot less frequent which is a bit problematic in a few select spots for Shot/Laser ships, and pretty horrible the whole way through if you play Expert. There is also an issue where the game can freeze when loading savestates that can be annoying at times. You could try enabling the low latency option in MAME. From the main menu click on 'System Settings', then click on 'Advanced Options' and you'll find it.