Yes!!! I beat my personal record on the real TGM twice in three days. My record on 2/23 was 11:29:13. My current record from 2/25 is 10:53:63. I've been playing TGM1 on nullpo, but TC doesn't have a leaderboard for that, that's why I haven't been posting my progress xD I have the .inp files.
Gentlemen, Started playing normal TGM again after playing 20G for a while ... So speed looks good now, stacking has to improve though. AAK
10:00:48 GM from dehacked Uli: you can try to throw in a couple of tetris>triple>double combos in the early sections, might help you to reach S9 more easily
I had guessed ! Ok so it is nice ! with your post I thought it was a 10:00:48 lost around 996.. EDIT : I wanted to say that : it is really strange, that the biggest majority of people still makes fun and neglect the fact that I use the oldest MAME ever, I only hear "schmupmame" all the time...And with my crap MAME I domine other versions way more recent. So we should wonder why...I already proposed ofcourse many times to people to try mine again.
ShmupmameTGM doesn't really offer a big advantage for TGM1. The input filtering hardly makes a difference if you only have soft drop, and even then it only matters when you play on keyboard (input filtering is useless with a joystick). There is the theoretical advantage of the increased poll rate but the brute force nature of it combined with the fact that MAME's ZN-2 emulation is pretty inefficient, makes it more of a disadvantage because you need at least a 2.4GHz processor to even get 60fps playing TGM1 on ShmupmameTGM. TAP however is a different story. Even on joystick you have the 1 frame of removed lag from the SH-2 patch, and on keyboard the input filtering is very important when drop-locking. The increased poll rate is just an added bonus because TAP is very light on CPU load so there's really no disadvantage to it.
Need to see a video to find out where your issues are. You should be able to make the first half in about 6 minutes and a bit without too much issue. Good pace for 20G would be a section in the time it takes the music to loop through once assuming your stack stays at about the same height on average. But a video would be nice.
Another GM I was on track for a sub-13 minute GM grade, but had a couple bad misdrops in a row around level 920. Getting faster, though. GM 13:04
