finding a mame build that doesn’t completely fuck over mouse control wrt after burner’s finicky vertical aim, I decided to try my hand at the game I got halfway through before totally eating shit.

first 15 or so attempts: die on stage 3 barrel rolling into missiles
next attempt: die on stage 6 barrel rolling into missiles
final attempt: make it to canyon, get first extend (the only non-secret code extend in the game) and then barrel roll into a missile in stage 9

babby steps!

by the way this has absolutely nothing to do with after burner climax coming out for xbla/psn and is most certainly not one of my prospective video capturing projects. nope.