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Toaplan Arcade Garage: Flying Fire Shark
The Shark series, created by legendary Japanese studio Toaplan, is a landmark shoot 'em up series. Flying Shark (1987), which was well received for its simple rules and exquisitely tuned difficulty…
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Do you know about Stunting in the GTA series? It's a dedicated subculture of GTA players who put together stunt compilations. The stunts themselves take months to perfect and accomplish. My friend Burnito just released his newest Stunt video: "Coperation 2" www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV0v...
[GTA Stunting] Coperation 2
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The uncertain atmosphere of a new adventure is encapsulated in the opening town music of Metaphor: ReFantazio; in Grand Trad's theme.
I've broken the 19 Million barrier in Pink Sweets today! It's a new WR for Shasta with 19,076,030pts. Phew... Replay (Live broadcast footage only): www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YQR...
[WR] Pink Sweets: Ibara Sorekara (MAME) 19,076,030pts ALL (Shasta) [No Bugs / No Infinite Lives]
YouTube video by neoxaquas
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This might be one of the last Xeno Crisis runs I post for a while: a scoring run on Hard, Modern version. What to do: Melee everything for X2 bonuses. Survive until the end, endure the final level for true optimization. www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKm1...
Xeno Crisis (PS4, Hard, Good Ending) 2,069,550pts ~Scoring run~
YouTube video by neoxaquas
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Finished Black Myth: Wukong last night. Took a long time with this playthrough but I genuinely enjoyed it. I do wish the game was a bit more friendly in introducing the Journey to the West story. Still, Game Science did an awesome job with this one. The polish is outstanding.
I made some 4x6 photo prints of the pink sweets rose sisters and rosy future. Sorry freesia, you didnt make the cut.
Xeno Crisis (PS4, Hard) Infinite Mode 1,977,100pts I think I could keep improving on this score. Allowing less threatening enemies to consume an active enemy slot is a fairly stable strategy when you have the skill to back it up. For survival and scoring. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnH1...
Xeno Crisis (PS4, Hard) Infinite Mode 1,977,100pts
YouTube video by neoxaquas
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If you've been following MAME CV1K emulation from a certain individual's work: Bio_endio. He has tuned the CV1K slowdown for PinkSweets to about 95% accuracy to PCB! I performed a full scoring run and clear yesterday on this build. No audio glitch either. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt67...
Pink Sweets (MAME) 17,543,060pts ALL (Shasta) [No Bugs, No Infinite Lives]
YouTube video by neoxaquas
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I wanted 18 Million by the end of last year. Here we are, 5 months later. Got it! Replay later. Will continue pushing for 19.
Building steam again. Today is an update to my Pink Sweets Shasta PB. 425K Increase to 17.9 Million. A few deaths were too unfortunate and I couldn't finish this run out. Played in ShmupMAME 5.4. Replay to YT later.
Trying to come out of stagnation with my guitar playing and improve lately. A song I've been working on for the past week from Chrono Cross - Another Arni Village
Oh hey I improved the time for Xeno Crisis again. RTA 27:16 > 26:40. Weapon drops came our way and I did my thing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQi4...
Xeno Crisis (PS4, Hard, Good Ending, Seed: 15382) RTA speedrun in 26:40
YouTube video by neoxaquas
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Been a few months since my last Pink Sweets score update. This time in MAME - I switched from Xbox360 because the slowdown accuracy drastically improved thanks to bio_endios work. 200K increase to 17,563,560pts to Stage 7. (Shasta, no bugs).
It's time again. Ghosts 'n Goblins Main Series Marathon ~ Spring 2026 "IRL Loop 2" Edition. Meet incentives to create loop 2 of the whole marathon to extend this specific stream. This Saturday, April 25th @ 12:00pm CDT on my Twitch channel twitch.tv/Aquas
It's time again. Ghosts 'n Goblins Main Series Marathon ~ Spring 2026 "IRL Loop 2" Edition. Meet incentives to create loop 2 of the whole marathon to extend this specific stream. This Saturday, April 25th @ 12:00pm CDT on my Twitch channel twitch.tv/Aquas
Beat Pogostuck map 1 yesterday. It's an amazing game really, never played anything quite like it. We'll try some other maps soon.
Threw away a PB 27:0X Random Seed Good Ending Xeno Crisis run because I got completely stuck in the final boss when I started phase 2... Gah!
20 Years of Pink Sweets eh? In 2006 I was 19 years old, and I would only begin my love for STG within a year or so after that, playing Raiden Fighters Jet at a local arcade that I would spend all day at. I truly began my obsession for arcade games and STGs at that point.
Completed Ghosts Babe of Dimension (custom map) in Jump King. Got tested pretty hard through out 45 hours. I feel like my skill has improved without me realizing it, considering the amount of 2 framers. Rick King next, I think.
Booga-Boo on MSX. Basically it's just Jump King, but from 1983. You can only jump, and the meter determines how far. Make it back to the top. A lot of fairly tight jumps, but it's only like a 40 sec run once you have control. This seems like the best port. 🦗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD5y...
Booga-Boo (MSX) 1 Loop 54.85
YouTube video by WhiteHat94
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The 'Cross' button my PS4 Dual sense controller suddenly stopped working. How peculiar. Will open it up to see if I can fix it eventually. That was my Xeno Crisis controller, dangit!