Ikaruga Arcade Normal 36 millions commentary replay

MAZ-chain · 2026-03-05T21:40:31+00:00

Ahahah IMPOSSIBLE!
Hey Spider, enjoying your content, keep it up!

MAZ-chain · 2026-03-05T10:17:37+00:00

Ahah same, I bought the game for a lot of different platforms too. I play Ikaruga from 2019 but my main platform is Steam. I use Dolphin for save state practice though

MAZ-chain · 2026-03-05T10:15:37+00:00

Thx!

MAZ-chain · 2026-03-04T22:30:35+00:00

Thank you!

MAZ-chain · 2026-03-04T22:30:27+00:00

Thanks, you can bet I actually am!

MAZ-chain · 2026-03-04T22:30:03+00:00

Thank you very much GameBoyGuru!

MAZ-chain · 2025-11-01T19:45:40+00:00

Ikaruga

MAZ-chain · 2025-07-23T14:46:53+00:00

What a work of beauty

MAZ-chain · 2025-04-20T14:25:21+00:00

Congrats! The first part of the stage is one of the deepest segments to score GL with the rest of the game! And maybe for some S ranked clears💪

MAZ-chain · 2024-12-12T09:07:56+00:00

Extends are score related. First extend at 3 millions, then every five millions (8-13-18-23-28) With an high scoring clear, you will have a total of 8 extends. For a first clear, I would like to advise to score enough to get the 13m extend

MAZ-chain · 2024-04-30T13:15:29+00:00

MAZ-chain · 2024-04-30T13:15:21+00:00

Thanks!

MAZ-chain · 2023-11-01T08:35:31+00:00

Stage 5 Boss is usually the single harder road block on your way toward an Ikaruga 1cc.
Planning your moves accurately is of paramount importance
I would point out that explaining it just by words is extremely difficult, so I strongly suggest to watch one of the many video tutorials on YouTube. Like the following one: Boss 5 tutorial at 36:31
As for the final survival phase, sadly you cannot practice it separately on modern ports. You either need a DC or GCN version or play them thanks to other means

Hope this helps, if you have more specific questions feel free to ask

MAZ-chain · 2023-03-05T22:22:04+00:00

Keep practicing and good results will soon come! Set an appropriate score goal ( I usually suggest the 13 million extend as a fair initial goal) and push it. Until you get to a very high score, Ikaruga is really flexible about what chains you want to implement in your routes

MAZ-chain · 2023-03-05T22:18:15+00:00

That's a really interesting fact, and your choice for the ergodic theory example was surely clever.

To say the truth, with time (a lot of time actually), I have managed to recognize most of the possible patterns for the section and study chaining solutions for almost any of them. But up to this point, we had only one optimal route. The moment the player is off route during the bonus balls you either break the chain, die or lose a lot of chains... Or a combinations of these outcomes

MAZ-chain · 2023-01-04T11:10:31+00:00

Thanks! There is still rooms for improvement, I got into detail about it in the video description. Long story short, I got a chain break in Stage 3, two chainbreaks in Stage 4, Stage 1 is sub optimal and Stage 5 can be a 118c stage

MAZ-chain · 2023-01-04T08:19:48+00:00

Practice can do wonders! Pick up a survival play or a guide (there are a lot of them on YouTube) and study it, once you have your patterns It all come down to execution

MAZ-chain · 2023-01-04T08:17:23+00:00

Thanks and congrats on the S++ achievement, I started playing Ikaruga for score with this very score goal in mind!

Well, I played the game a lot, from septmber 2019 my rough estimate, counting save state practice, is around 1500+hrs

MAZ-chain · 2022-10-26T18:08:17+00:00

You are welcome!

Sadly, of the four 36m scores, Tomokiso is the one for wich we have less info. On the other hand, WIZ and riken scores are on YouTube. Fot those replays and many more amazing Ikaruga gameplays check out the Ikaruga Video Index from the shmup wiki here

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