(Arcade) Carrier Airwing / US Navy - Completed 1 credit, 1CC 1080p60

I've decided to revisit this game to improve on my score I did at Galloping Ghost Arcade last month. While I did 1cc it there, I relied pretty heavily on the shop items to carry me through the tough areas of the game.

I wanted to see if I could a better run with less purchased at the shop, and therefore scoring higher. Like most Capcom games of this era, the less you spend at the shop, the bigger your end-game bonus is, as all leftover cash gets converted to points.

In this run, I managed a decent improvement and got a score that I am satisfied with (for now). With this run, I placed # 2 on the shmups forum leaderboard (shmups.system11.org) which is a great place to learn and see where you stack up against other players from around the world.

One other key aspect to scoring (other than the money) is picking up all the hidden items that are in the background. These are worth 10,000 points each and there are a total of 10 in the game, so that is a decent amount to get (or miss!)

Another scoring tactic is one that I unfortunately didn't do as well as I'd hoped is the "perfect" stage bonuses. If you managed to shoot down all enemies in any given stage, at the end of the level you get a point and cash reward. In this run I only managed half of them, and I can usually get 7/10 in practice runs.

Finally, there exists ways to cheat the shop in this game. You can essentially "steal" items without lowering from your cash total, but this is only possible using autofire. All scores above 2.4 million used this tactic; It adds considerably more potential to your score because you get a end of level "credit" for not using all your purchased weapons.

Final score = 2,209,760 points

Played on default difficulty without autofire. Recorded with wolfmame .190, and as with all my runs - no TAS (tool assistance), cheats, hacks or save states are used. INP file availble on MARP: http://replay.marpirc.net/r/cawing

As always, thank you for watching!