The thing I'm liking about Yagawa games is the fact they're the Bob Ross of shmup games. There are no mistakes, only happy accidents (rank control). Yagawa games I find are more about how well you adapt to the little things that can happen rather than having the Restart Syndrome of more modern bullet hells. Cool run Mark, GGs.
Thanks for clearing a bunch of shit up! I’ve been playing this whenever I’m not playing DOJ and it’s pretty cool to experience how different these games are. Both are fun as heck
Well done! 1cc-ing Garegga is no easy feat, especially when the regular ships feel pretty weak, somehow being overtaken by the Mahou characters (what?), it's still amazing to see people pull it off. I also pray for you once you get to Batrider, because that is even harder than Garegga, especially when people go for 1CCs, where they fight all bosses with one character from each game (Team Edit).
I actually find Batrider a bit easier than Garegga. Mostly because its easier to simply remain in a low rank than it is in Garegga. Scoring both is another story though. I'm currently getting to the second half of Stage 7 on Batrider and I'm working on a Garegga 1CC as well. He has already covered Batrider before btw, like a year ago on a video.
Congrats man! I know you were so close. My later evening viewing tonight has now been sorted. I could always use seeing some good strats and commentary on it as I'm nowhere near clearing it on a credit yet. I've also never played the Miyamoto yet so it will be cool to see it's nuances.
Way to go my friend. Thanks for the schooling. I have a copy of this for the PS4 that I have yet to play. I always knew it was a tough game and now I’m terrified! ;) I need a damn college class to understand this game.
That's why you wanna pick a game you really like and want to get good at. Imagine putting in a ton of time into a game you find tedious? But if it's something you love to play, then even if it can be a grind at times, you'll at least have fun.
This was a pretty helpful guide. I'd put about 16 hours into the game overall since getting it. I watched this video & sat down with Garegga for another 2 hours, and the 1cc on Premium mode was mine (using DGR October). Next up is to grapple with arcade mode.
Hello Mark! 1. Congratulations on your 1cc achievement with Alpha Dragon Master Sensei 😏 2. Listening to your explanation on "How to Garegga", It makes it more clear to me why it's not necessary to hoard lives and resist the rank torture just to complete it deathless. It just wasn't designed to be enjoyed that way and it's perfectly fine and necessary to lose a life and miss collectibles at times. 3. Awesome content as always. I appreciate it for how much you enjoy doing it. P.S. could you consider doing a video on your Top 10 favorite ship designs?
>Getting a 2-all in DDP is harder than getting a 1cc in Garegga I guess I should feel chuffed I managed the former as a teen, but I prefer Garegga and I'm strugglin' to manage a 1cc as a 30smth-year-old boomer. This vid alongside Pearl's vid are helpin' me improve tho, so mebbe one day I'll join the club...
Nicely done! I’m not sure how I feel about the game becoming harder if you’re doing well. The original Gradius had sort off a similar mechanic where if you have all the options, then it becomes more difficult. It’s not the same type of shmup but it’s what I first thought off
Oh yeah power up rank! Psikyo games have that too, it s an interesting and strange mechanic ha. One fun thing about the ps4 garegga port is that you can turn the rank off in custom mode :-)
@@TheElectricUnderground oh ok. To bad it’s not available in Europe digitally. I’m sure more people would know about the game. At least I can import it
Good job!! Don't you think maybe do don pachi increased your skill that when you attempted this run it seemed easier because you've evolved since then?
Hi I got a couple of questions about the game: What are those bullets in the bottom left corner and what if you run out? Wouldn’t not be better just not pick up any items regarding the rank? What’s the meaning of what mark says in the beginning of the video about “keeping the fire rate at 10?” And last the one, what about the “rate” ?you can assign this to a button and I don don’t really know what it is it’s use
Sure so 1. The bullets on the bottom left are your bomb meter, when they run out you don t have bomb any more. 2. It s best to avoid items to keep rank low, only collect the ones you need like bombs or medals. And 3. Rate is how fast your autofire goes and you can actually set this in your control config menu! 10 is the magic number
God you are so good at this! I wanna get this but I don't think it ever came out in europe (where I am) on the ps4. Dunno about the xbox one but is that not an inferior version?
Xbox 1 is probably better to be honest, I have dangun on my Xbox and it runs really well and feels super responsive! I 'll probably get garegga on Xbox here soon
@@TheElectricUnderground Oh nice! And as it so happens that one actually came out over here! Certainly going to treat myself very soon (and actually plug my xbox one in for the first time in nearly a year haha)
Has this been tested on a ps4 emulator? I know its a bit "bad" to do that since ps4 is still around, but just wondering since I might not get a ps4 till its pretty cheap to buy used
alright i've try learning garegga with Mahou characters and im using Gain cuz he's quite fast(not fast as miyamoto, but still fast) and also he's my fav character in STG and i have using him in every Raizing games like Mahou, Batrider and Dimahoo, and so far, the longest run i have ever reach is stage 6 (in midboss precisely) well i have several things i want to comment/ask there: 1. is the auto-fire rate is located next to the stage name at the middle top? because i remember it labeled #10 is that mean my auto-fire rate is 10? or is that the indicator of my rank level?( i play on shmuparch 7 btw) 2. if the rank based on amount of the player life extend. why i feels the game is still hard? it's unlike Crimzon Clover arrange when i can feel the difficulty rank spike even i didn't saw the indicator.(if it because my auto-fire rate it make sense why the game still hard even with 1 left lives) 3. 7:39 i remember when T3Kamui scoring by AFK XD. she just adjusting the enemy weapon/pattern to make it safe and re-position herself to the top left screen with the option shooting at the enemy postion and she put her wallet on the fire button on the cabinet/arcade stick so the button sticking firing automatically while she drinking or talking to her watcher while she streaming on youtube, checking her phone/social media and even taking selfie while scoring the game lol. this happen 2 times when she fight the 3rd boss and the 6th stage midboss. 4. the thing that i hate about medal chaining is the enemy bullet keep me away from the medal so i cannot catch the medal properly. this also happened on Batrider as well....oh btw in Batrider the announcer said "NOOO" when we miss the medal after getting high medal. and i love that tbh. it represent that missing medal chain is frustated. i have make that meme post on twitter lol (pbs.twimg.com/media/FPqJp-JVQAMS3Wr?format=jpg&name=large) 5.speaking of stage 5 garegga. if you compare stage 5 garegga and stage 3 DOJ tracks, it sounds little bit similiar. i love when Manabu Namiki do the same element even thought they're both comes from different company. 6. its also comes from stage 5. i hate when i should try carefully picking the item that i shouldn't pick power ups/option items. especially at the battleship section.
Oh gain is really cool! The thing about gain is that he is very good for scoring because of his bomb, but for survival he is harder to play because he builds up rank really fast. So I d say moto is easier to get the 1cc with, but gain is really fun!
@@TheElectricUnderground i saw T3 Kamui recently use Gain and the way she scoring is kinda something confused me, its like bug or something. she sarifice at stage 1 and at stage 2 near extend score, she also sacrifice until she ran out of live and then during dying she got the extend and start bombing everywhere and she gain extend live up...
@Mark - Epic 1CC - But... Pink colored bullets? Think you could do it on the real Garegga PCB with the hard-as-hell-to-see-dimmed-silver-bullets all over the place? : )
@@TheElectricUnderground i get that, but how do you know you’re on a chain or that the chain was broken, in this game? It’s not as obvious as fighting games combos.
@@TheElectricUnderground oh! Thanks man! Hadn’t noticed! This is a really great game, feels like it’s alive. But it’s pretty hard to really get it completely. I used to play Galactic Attack/Rayforce/Layer Section and i still love it, very straightfoward. Probably my favorite shmup ever, as i never got into the “bullet hell” style, with the exception of Mars Matrix. Keep going man!
it is! But it's super brutal, this clear a bit higher rank than usual. But to get a 1cc i definitely recommend to try your best to learn rank reduction otherwise the last two stages are insane.
15:05 That micro - to - macro dodge transition is fascinating 😂 The port doesn't have a visible hitbox option, does it? Though I gotta say, the ship sprites all are designed in such a way that you can kind of intuitively tell where they are (for example, the "jetpack" on Moto or the red dot on Gain)
Since M2 ShotTriggers got 2 of the Raizing's titles, they need to port most of their games (Terra Diver, Armed Police Batrider, Battle Bakraid, Kingdom Grand Prix, Dimahoo, and Brave Blade).
People who can play this at all are wizards to me. I stay in an utter state of "what killed me!?" the whole time when I play it. Bullets blend in with the stupid debris flying all over and I nevcer even see what I failed to dodge-- UGH!
"One bomb for safety, just 'cause I'm scared" is the most shmup comment ever :D
:-D ha yeah wasn t fully needed. At least garegga is forgiving about bomb use
You dont beat garega, you survive garegga
The thing I'm liking about Yagawa games is the fact they're the Bob Ross of shmup games. There are no mistakes, only happy accidents (rank control). Yagawa games I find are more about how well you adapt to the little things that can happen rather than having the Restart Syndrome of more modern bullet hells. Cool run Mark, GGs.
Ha that s a great way to describe it! Thanks my dude :-)
Beautiful analogy dude!
This helps me to understand it better and how to enjoy playing it.
Congrats Mark, epic achievement. You're providing so much to the shmup community as a whole, we have a lot to thank you for 😎👍
That s awesome to hear :-)
Thanks for clearing a bunch of shit up! I’ve been playing this whenever I’m not playing DOJ and it’s pretty cool to experience how different these games are. Both are fun as heck
Congrats man! That's such an achievement!
Thank you my dude! It was a real grind for sure!! Enjoy the vid!
Wow! Impressive to say the least. Congrats my guy : )
Congrats on the 1cc!!!
Nice Work! This will help when I go for my own 1cc in Garegga.
Well done! 1cc-ing Garegga is no easy feat, especially when the regular ships feel pretty weak, somehow being overtaken by the Mahou characters (what?), it's still amazing to see people pull it off.
I also pray for you once you get to Batrider, because that is even harder than Garegga, especially when people go for 1CCs, where they fight all bosses with one character from each game (Team Edit).
I actually find Batrider a bit easier than Garegga. Mostly because its easier to simply remain in a low rank than it is in Garegga. Scoring both is another story though. I'm currently getting to the second half of Stage 7 on Batrider and I'm working on a Garegga 1CC as well. He has already covered Batrider before btw, like a year ago on a video.
Congrats man! I know you were so close. My later evening viewing tonight has now been sorted. I could always use seeing some good strats and commentary on it as I'm nowhere near clearing it on a credit yet. I've also never played the Miyamoto yet so it will be cool to see it's nuances.
Yeah last month I played garegga for a week straight and came close, but couldn't close it out
What is that character, in my arcade BG, there are only spaceships/airplanes.
Way to go my friend. Thanks for the schooling. I have a copy of this for the PS4 that I have yet to play. I always knew it was a tough game and now I’m terrified! ;) I need a damn college class to understand this game.
Ha I know what you mean, this will really help:
shmups.wiki/library/Battle_Garegga
What a great video. 5 hours a day during a week. Man, I really admire your dedication.
Thanks my dude! It felt like a pretty big achievement when I got the clear, probably my 2nd best clear after my DDP 2-All. It was a ton of fun though.
That's why you wanna pick a game you really like and want to get good at. Imagine putting in a ton of time into a game you find tedious? But if it's something you love to play, then even if it can be a grind at times, you'll at least have fun.
Great run!
Thank you!! Took forever to pull off!
This was a pretty helpful guide. I'd put about 16 hours into the game overall since getting it. I watched this video & sat down with Garegga for another 2 hours, and the 1cc on Premium mode was mine (using DGR October). Next up is to grapple with arcade mode.
Nice I'm glad to hear it! Yes premium mode is a really cool way to sink your teeth into the game :-)
Hello Mark!
1. Congratulations on your 1cc achievement with Alpha Dragon Master Sensei 😏
2. Listening to your explanation on "How to Garegga", It makes it more clear to me why it's not necessary to hoard lives and resist the rank torture just to complete it deathless. It just wasn't designed to be enjoyed that way and it's perfectly fine and necessary to lose a life and miss collectibles at times.
3. Awesome content as always. I appreciate it for how much you enjoy doing it.
P.S. could you consider doing a video on your Top 10 favorite ship designs?
Thanks my dude! Yeah that sounds like a cool 💡
Nice run.
My god.. so darn good!!
>Getting a 2-all in DDP is harder than getting a 1cc in Garegga
I guess I should feel chuffed I managed the former as a teen, but I prefer Garegga and I'm strugglin' to manage a 1cc as a 30smth-year-old boomer. This vid alongside Pearl's vid are helpin' me improve tho, so mebbe one day I'll join the club...
Hello! Which arcade stick do you use for PS4?
Nicely done! I’m not sure how I feel about the game becoming harder if you’re doing well. The original Gradius had sort off a similar mechanic where if you have all the options, then it becomes more difficult. It’s not the same type of shmup but it’s what I first thought off
Oh yeah power up rank! Psikyo games have that too, it s an interesting and strange mechanic ha. One fun thing about the ps4 garegga port is that you can turn the rank off in custom mode :-)
@@TheElectricUnderground oh ok. To bad it’s not available in Europe digitally. I’m sure more people would know about the game. At least I can import it
Good job!! Don't you think maybe do don pachi increased your skill that when you attempted this run it seemed easier because you've evolved since then?
Yes I ve improved a lot as a player since then :-)
You can get fighter ships on here too I seen ships🕹🎮😀👍🏾
I finally feel like I understand Garegga
At least one of us does! Lol
I m really glad to hear that!
Hi I got a couple of questions about the game:
What are those bullets in the bottom left corner and what if you run out?
Wouldn’t not be better just not pick up any items regarding the rank?
What’s the meaning of what mark says in the beginning of the video about “keeping the fire rate at 10?”
And last the one, what about the “rate” ?you can assign this to a button and I don don’t really know what it is it’s use
Sure so 1. The bullets on the bottom left are your bomb meter, when they run out you don t have bomb any more. 2. It s best to avoid items to keep rank low, only collect the ones you need like bombs or medals. And 3. Rate is how fast your autofire goes and you can actually set this in your control config menu! 10 is the magic number
@@TheElectricUnderground ah! I see! Thanks 🙏!
I wish I could see the rank percentage
God you are so good at this! I wanna get this but I don't think it ever came out in europe (where I am) on the ps4. Dunno about the xbox one but is that not an inferior version?
Xbox 1 is probably better to be honest, I have dangun on my Xbox and it runs really well and feels super responsive! I 'll probably get garegga on Xbox here soon
@@TheElectricUnderground Oh nice! And as it so happens that one actually came out over here! Certainly going to treat myself very soon (and actually plug my xbox one in for the first time in nearly a year haha)
@@TheElectricUnderground I have gerrega on xbox series and ps5 its better on xbox.
Has this been tested on a ps4 emulator? I know its a bit "bad" to do that since ps4 is still around, but just wondering since I might not get a ps4 till its pretty cheap to buy used
Oh I don t know! Is there a functioning PS4 emu?
@@TheElectricUnderground I’m not sure about functioning but I heard PCSX4 exists
alright i've try learning garegga with Mahou characters and im using Gain cuz he's quite fast(not fast as miyamoto, but still fast) and also he's my fav character in STG and i have using him in every Raizing games like Mahou, Batrider and Dimahoo, and so far, the longest run i have ever reach is stage 6 (in midboss precisely) well i have several things i want to comment/ask there:
1. is the auto-fire rate is located next to the stage name at the middle top? because i remember it labeled #10 is that mean my auto-fire rate is 10? or is that the indicator of my rank level?( i play on shmuparch 7 btw)
2. if the rank based on amount of the player life extend. why i feels the game is still hard? it's unlike Crimzon Clover arrange when i can feel the difficulty rank spike even i didn't saw the indicator.(if it because my auto-fire rate it make sense why the game still hard even with 1 left lives)
3. 7:39 i remember when T3Kamui scoring by AFK XD. she just adjusting the enemy weapon/pattern to make it safe and re-position herself to the top left screen with the option shooting at the enemy postion and she put her wallet on the fire button on the cabinet/arcade stick so the button sticking firing automatically while she drinking or talking to her watcher while she streaming on youtube, checking her phone/social media and even taking selfie while scoring the game lol. this happen 2 times when she fight the 3rd boss and the 6th stage midboss.
4. the thing that i hate about medal chaining is the enemy bullet keep me away from the medal so i cannot catch the medal properly. this also happened on Batrider as well....oh btw in Batrider the announcer said "NOOO" when we miss the medal after getting high medal. and i love that tbh. it represent that missing medal chain is frustated. i have make that meme post on twitter lol (pbs.twimg.com/media/FPqJp-JVQAMS3Wr?format=jpg&name=large)
5.speaking of stage 5 garegga. if you compare stage 5 garegga and stage 3 DOJ tracks, it sounds little bit similiar. i love when Manabu Namiki do the same element even thought they're both comes from different company.
6. its also comes from stage 5. i hate when i should try carefully picking the item that i shouldn't pick power ups/option items. especially at the battleship section.
Oh gain is really cool! The thing about gain is that he is very good for scoring because of his bomb, but for survival he is harder to play because he builds up rank really fast. So I d say moto is easier to get the 1cc with, but gain is really fun!
@@TheElectricUnderground i saw T3 Kamui recently use Gain and the way she scoring is kinda something confused me, its like bug or something. she sarifice at stage 1 and at stage 2 near extend score, she also sacrifice until she ran out of live and then during dying she got the extend and start bombing everywhere and she gain extend live up...
I have a question. I have PS4 and witch version disk I should buy?
Limited run if it s affordable, if it s expensive go with Korean version
@@TheElectricUnderground thanks! Going to amazon order it :D
@Mark - Epic 1CC - But... Pink colored bullets? Think you could do it on the real Garegga PCB with the hard-as-hell-to-see-dimmed-silver-bullets all over the place? : )
I refuse to play against the pcb ninja bullets, pink bullets all day every day. Thank you m2 for fixing the worst part of the arcade version ha.
@@TheElectricUnderground Church.
I’m new to this type of gameplay. What exactly is chaining?
Chaining is a scoring system where you basically combo your kills together on a timer, it s actually really hard but really cool
@@TheElectricUnderground i get that, but how do you know you’re on a chain or that the chain was broken, in this game? It’s not as obvious as fighting games combos.
Oh so in garegga the chain is shown by the size of the medal, if the medal shrinks back down to being small you dropped your medal chain
@@TheElectricUnderground oh! Thanks man! Hadn’t noticed! This is a really great game, feels like it’s alive. But it’s pretty hard to really get it completely. I used to play Galactic Attack/Rayforce/Layer Section and i still love it, very straightfoward. Probably my favorite shmup ever, as i never got into the “bullet hell” style, with the exception of Mars Matrix. Keep going man!
Yeah garegga is amazing! Can t go wrong there
To the outsider it’s like running at full speed through a torrential downpour and not getting wet.
I bet ha!!
I am dying to try this game but it costs 35 bucks on the Xbox live store , hoping it goes on sale one day
I own it on series x and ps5 it's the best shmup along with dodonpachi doj
It's it possible to beat the game at a high rank?
it is! But it's super brutal, this clear a bit higher rank than usual. But to get a 1cc i definitely recommend to try your best to learn rank reduction otherwise the last two stages are insane.
Now try with one of the planes and original almost invisible bullets..
JK good job
Silver sword!! I might play some silver sword in the future :-)
@@TheElectricUnderground Ha, cool Can see why.. I always need to go back to the Grass Hopper because of the badass machineguns..
Where can I play this outside of emulation?
Ps4 rev 2016 port!
@@TheElectricUnderground Darn it!! No pc.
@@TheElectricUnderground xbox too!
15:05 That micro - to - macro dodge transition is fascinating 😂
The port doesn't have a visible hitbox option, does it? Though I gotta say, the ship sprites all are designed in such a way that you can kind of intuitively tell where they are (for example, the "jetpack" on Moto or the red dot on Gain)
Oh I think it does? I 'll have to double check!
I really wish I could get the purple bullets in an emulated version. I want to love this game but I get hit by things I can't even see way too often.
Yeah for sure!! One of the best parts about the port
It may look easy for some people, until they try to play... It's hard, but awesome.
Since M2 ShotTriggers got 2 of the Raizing's titles, they need to port most of their games (Terra Diver, Armed Police Batrider, Battle Bakraid, Kingdom Grand Prix, Dimahoo, and Brave Blade).
Yeah I think we will see batrider at least
sadly there's no miyamoto in arcade version....i use mame to play garegga so far...
There is he s just hidden :-) you do a code at the title screen
@@TheElectricUnderground ahhh....gonna find out that secret there...
I want to know how to get faster. I see super players like yourself move really fast. How do I move that fast?!?!?!
Oh press the c button or abc at ship select, you ll get a faster ship version
@@TheElectricUnderground does that work for the Saturn version? I'm just now getting into shmups as an adult. I'm hooked.
Tons of items... that you should avoid taking! I really never understood this game xD
ha yeah in shmups you don't play garegga, garegga plays you.
Hey can you take a look at my garegga run?
Sure!
@@TheElectricUnderground what did you think of my run in garegga if you saw it?🤔
People who can play this at all are wizards to me. I stay in an utter state of "what killed me!?" the whole time when I play it. Bullets blend in with the stupid debris flying all over and I nevcer even see what I failed to dodge-- UGH!
Yes gotta turn on the pink bullets!! That s how I play because I can t see the bullets without them
The tiny gray bullets that blend into the background are the worst here. Probably the very reason I wouldn't attempt a 1cc.
Raizing games are insanely broken. Avoid weapon upgrades = easier bosses
They have a really strange design for sure ha
😂 That little dirtbag Pearl literally stole your Garegga content step by step.
i hate how the arcade version has such terrible bullet visibility
Which system did you play it on?
Thanks
PS4 :-)
@@TheElectricUnderground Thanks my friend.
Excellent run 🥇