Best Tank Busters

The Best Tank Busters table from Metal Slug 2 to Metal Slug 4.

The Best Tank Busters screen is the name for the Metal Slug series' high score table.

Entering One's Score

A player inputs a three letter initial after a game over or completing the final mission. The Mission All Over screen gives information about the number of continues used (the first coin is zero continues) and prisoners rescued (even if the POW count was reset in a mission). The PS2 versions of Metal Slug 4, Metal Slug 5, and Metal Slug 6; as well as Metal Slug 7/XX also record the player's time spent in-game.

Each rank has its own specific default score applied for all tables; for example, 1st rank is 107,400 points. Metal Slug 7/XX has every rank at zero points.

The default Best Tank Buster table has its initials named after animals in descending alphabetical order. Metal Slug: Super Vehicle-001 has NAZ, CAC, ORP, ORA, and TIO written for the 6th through 10th ranks. Metal Slug 6 and Metal Slug 7/XX includes the last character used before a Game Over/Mission All Over.

Metal Slug 6's tables are unique as it has twenty ranks and it averages all the scores from multiple games played.

Gallery

Metal Slug's Best Tank Busters

Metal Slug (PlayStation)

Metal Slug (Saturn)

Metal Slug 4's High Score Top 10 (Home console versions)

Metal Slug 4's Time Used Top 10 (Home console versions)

Metal Slug 5's Best Tank Busters

Metal Slug 5's High Score Top 10 (Home console versions)

Metal Slug 5's Time Used Top 10 (Home console versions)

Metal Slug 6's Best Tank Busters (20th-16th)

MS6 (15th-11th)

MS6 (10th-6th)

MS6 (5th-1st)

Metal Slug 6 High Score (1st - 10th) (PS2 version)

Metal Slug 6 High Score (11th - 20th) (PS2 version)

Metal Slug 6 Time Used (1st - 10th) (PS2 version)

Metal Slug 6 Time Used (11th - 20th) (PS2 version)

Metal Slug 7's Best Tank Busters (Score)

MS7 (Time)

Metal Slug XX's Best Tank Busters (Score)

MSXX (Time)

Metal Slug SV-001's Best Tank Busters

Trivia

• In Metal Slug 2 to Metal Slug 5, the game defaults the player's name to "SNK" if the player fails to confirm one's initials in time, writes the initials "AAA", "ASS", or "SEX", or enters it blank.
  • In Metal Slug Super Vehicle-001, writing the initals "SEX" will set to "OH!" instead.
  • In Metal Slug 4, it defaults the player's name to "MEG" instead.
• Should one player hit the 10th rank and the second player a rank higher, the former player will write one's initials for the 11th place (with the rank sprite included) but will not appear in the Best Tank Busters screen.
  • This feature can be seen in this video , where Tarma's score of 28,700 goes over the default 10th rank score of 15,640, yet Eri pushes him down to 11th by getting 4th and putting both players in a double Game Over.