/vr/ - Retro Games

Recently I've been enjoying Donpachi on Saturn

I really like this indie hidden gem. Quite easy as well, great for newcomers.

Playing Souky.

>>9743106
>Most of these games seem like they are just designed to eat quarters
aside from the occasional jankfest like Twin Eagle and its retarded chase sequences, most shooters are actually fair and can be memorized

for me its raiden

It's so hard but the music is so good

>>9743106
Start with Batsugun, Hishouzame or Sengoku Ace. they are very easy shmups for beginners to 1cc casually, then do some beginner challenges like nomiss or nobomb or both. Should take 10-15 hours then you can try some real shmups.

>>9743709
>Should take 10-15 hours then you can try some real shmups.
I'd recommend Rayforce, Raystorm, Dodonpachi, Ikaruga, Batrider or Garegga, Gunbird 2, Dragon Blaze, Donpachi, Pink Sweets, all fun for score play which is what good shmups revolve around.

ricmirax never misses a chance to shitpost

>>9743106

>>9743106
R-Type and Raiden

G U N B i R D

rather play this sweet baby

I played Dimahoo a little while ago. Very fun game.

>>9744957
do you feel like the monitor is TOO large?
im on the fence, i want a nice jamma cab that isn't custom built by me
but i dont know how i feel about such a large screen - i usually use a 10-14" monitor

blazing star - neogeo mvs

>>9744957
One of the best shmups ever
Shits on most Cave games that's for sure

>>9744969
Have you ever played on one?

>>9745290
not that size that close
we had a huge sony crt (wood base) but i always sat 10-12 feet away from it

that cab is almost as big and you are 1foot from the screen

how could u even play vertical shmups like that? physically move your head to see all the enemies? kek

>>9745192
wtf does life force have to do with vertical shmups? much less cave developed ones?

esprade and daipujou are godtier
P L E B

came here to say that in the hunt is better than meme slug

Is Deathsmiles considered good for a Cave game?
Also is Mega Black Label better than the original?

>>9745598
Who mentioned vertical shmups anyway? It has vertical levels

>>9745592
It's really not that big. If you don't want the monitor i'll be happy to take it off your hands

>>9745617
I’m not a shmup expert or Cave superfan or anything, but I liked Deathsmiles a lot. Not my favorite Cave game, but I like it. It reminds me of Forgotten Worlds.

>>9746071
I’m gonna correct myself and say that it’s more like Sidearms than Forgotten Worlds

>>9743114
This is a shmup thread

>>9745192
Salamander is Tsuneki Ikeda's favorite game quote from a 2004 interview:
>As for danmaku style shooting… that idea came to me from my own experience playing games. Back when I was playing Salamander, I always used to ask myself: even though the difficulty isn’t that different, why is it more fun to dodge bullets in some stages instead of others? It was then that (...)
https://shmuplations.com/ikeda/

DoDonPachi, DOJ and Ketsui Kizunajigokutachi are great games if you like to find your own routes, practice them and execute them perfectly, the music is amazing and the visuals are wonderful.

>>9745617
DoDonPachi Daioujou/Ketsui>DoDonPachi>Mushihime-sama>DeathSmiles|2>Futari >Ibara>Progear>the rest

im trying to beat slap fight for days, i basically learned everything, the right weapons, i should be able to beat it but i keep fucking up. it has upgrades like gradius so you need to 1cc it.
it's such bullshit i died now at the boss entrance, so close. My hand is numb from spamming fire.
If you want a piss easy shmup to 1cc try gunhed/blazing lazers on pcengine, you get lots of lives

>>9746525
no espgaluda or esp.ra.de
anon i.....

I enjoy shmups from all companies and eras.
>>9746568
>My hand is numb from spamming fire
Use auto fire, Japanese hiscore monsters use it and so should you, damaging your hand is no laughing matter.

>>9746590
use buttons that are easier to press like qanba or sanwa
you need v low resistance and a double-finger approach

or you can do what the other anon do
turbo fire that mother fucker

This is my favorite shmup of all time, one day I will attempt to 1CC it...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A815FhB1vdI

>>9747103
have you played it yet?

>>9744939
based!

Are there any good shmups where you’re in control of something other than a spaceship or jet?

>>9747965
nobody fucking move.

>>9747965
pretty much any Psikyo game that's not one of the Strikers games

>>9746575
>espgaluda
Literal tranny game.

>>9747965
Cotton Series, Magical Chase, Keio Flying squadron, elemental master, lords of thunder, gate of thunder

>>9743106
My grid of my favorites. I obviously haven't played anything new since i mostly stick to retro games, but these are all solid and pretty varied.

>>9748105
Japanese trannies are based.

Do people play tons of these like they are sampling them?
When do you move on to another game?
Im stuck because Ive tried a couple and I refuse to move from them until I can 1cc them (to be specific they are touhou 2, schatos and chorensha) and its not happening, I play them sporadically but I dont want to try any other ones until I "beat" these, which might never even happen.

>>9748202
>firepower 2000
My nigger I played it as a kid and it kicked my ass but I got pretty good at it as an adult
Shame the final boss makes scoring completely meaningless since you can just farm points infinitely

>>9747965
Game Tengoku.
>Spaceship
>Biplane
>Mecha
>Flying pig
>Flying schoolgirl
>UFO
>Flying car (Cruisinmix)
>Flying baseball player (Cruisinmix)

Cave superplay event live now, first run in 30 mins on Mikado Game Center Europe channel

https://www.youtube.com/live/Q8LwTqcSqS0

https://www.youtube.com/live/Q8LwTqcSqS0?feature=share

>>9743106
something about this one keeps drawing me back, I like the aesthetic and the controls are tight

>>9748276
>When do you move on to another game?
when I 1cc them, unironically
eventually the genre will "click" for you and you'll be able to get those clears, don't worry. they're very memory-based and generally allow for a ton of errors through generous ressources (bombs and lives), so eventually you'll be able to 1cc

>>9748276
Sample them until you find a game you like so much that you can't stop thinking about it and playing it. Keep playing until a 1cc comes naturally, and go for more difficult games/goals as your general shmup skill increases. If you play games you don't truly care about just for arbitrary achievements, you're going to be miserable.

>>9748276
I generally stick to one until I beat it and I always limit myself to three continues so I'm neither credit feeding nor going straight for the 1CC. I'm not super into 1CCing games but I will go for them if I like the game and want to put in the required effort to get it.
Don't change games every five minutes, but don't force yourself to stick with a game more than you want to.
>captcha: AY0STG

>>9748631
>>9748635
I do like these games Im playing otherwise Id have quit
I guess I want to know more about the genre but my autism doesnt let me. I think if I just try a bunch of them for 30 minutes each I wont really understand any of them properly

>>9748651
You know you can come back to them later, right? Touhou 2, Eschatos, and Cho Ren Sha will be around and exactly the same 6 months, 1 year, 5 years from now.
If you're having fun and slowly but surely feeling yourself getting better at the game, then keep going, but if you're not, then try something else out.

>>9748670
>come back to them later
I play all sort of genres, Im not just playing these games every day or anything like that, thats why progress is slow I suppose.
I like to "finish" games and I feel like 1cc-ing is how you finish shmups
And yeah I am having fun with them they are very exhilarating and I am slowly improving, it feels so good
My initial question was that I was curious how other people do it and what their pace is with these games, because at my pace its going to be a long time before I can actually participate in these threads unless the one game I played enough to know anything about and worth saying something about its mentioned

>>9748678
Aim for 3cc and 2cc as well, most penultimate and final stages are made to get you off the machine ASAP so you gotta learn them at least a bit.

>>9748785
I feel bad for continuing but maybe you are right.

Unironically having a lot of fun with this one, might pick up the Switch version so I can understand the story. Do people usually do story mode or arcade mode when going for 1cc?

>>9748678
I usually bounce between two shmups that I have specific goals for, usually beyond a 1cc, either a score I'm happy with or a no death run.
I try to play a bit everyday and watch streams or replays as well, it helps with memorization.
I also play other genres casually without goals; I try to "get gud" at shmups mostly, they're very rewarding to replay and improve at.

>>9748301
>Shame the final boss makes scoring completely meaningless since you can just farm points infinitely

Farther than me and my bro could make it. I think the first lava industrial level is where we could make it.

>>9743106
the main thing that was an issue is the difficulty (of certain games) getting unmanagable for a lot of people, but shmups that have a good difficulty curve to them are really fair. But yeah, Truxton 2 is like that where its a quarter-muncher to anyone but the most diehard, and evne then its not even much "fun" in a traditional sense more like "whew, I actually survived this time", but thank god not every game in the genre is like that or I would've stopped playing em a long time ago...

>>9749545
>thankfully there are piss easy shmups for shitters like me
ok what are your clears and best results?

>>9749716
games are meant to be fun

>>9749741
>getting good overcoming challenges isn't fun
why?

>>9746590
>>9746602
Fuck it, too late, next shmup will be played with autofire for sure. I finally did, on my first try today I cleared the first loop without a single death, lost all lives on the second though.

>>9751140
good shit

>played Kamui
>finished RefleX
Devs clearly loved Rayforce and Giga Wing and decided to refine their gameplay mechanics to be as good as possible. The battleship fleet raid with Sagittarius in RefleX is by far my favorite level.

>>9747698
saved

>>9747965
C O R Y O O N
other general recs:
metamor jupiter
spriggan mark 2
VIPER PHASE 1
strikers 1945
viewpoint

>>9751282
I fucking loved RefleX. Funnily enough I hated the game at first, found it way too harsh until the reflect shield finally clicked for me, and figuring out that it regens faster when you stop firing. It's also rather fair with "lives" as it regens your HP between levels, I'm a shitter but I managed to reach the last level on one credit with enough planning.
Make sure to play Alltynex Second from the same guys.

>>9751140
10hz is the norm for autofire, do note there are some games like Darius Gaiden where you do not use autofire since it breaks the game.

>>9751713
>Autofire is cheating
Said the shitters with no results oof

>>9751814
I didn't say it was cheating in fact I'm one of the poster who said to use autofire but for very few games it does break them completely.

>>9751845
>Break games
It doesnt, it means you can push them further and your goals should be higher than non autoz, that's ilall

whats the fun of these games you memorize sos much

Uhhh.... Any Thunder Broce around here?

>>9752452
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnLAC5AJPuM

>>9743106
Too busy playing JRPGs to play shmups, but I love shmups

>>9749716
Batsugun Special 1 loop, Super Aleste and Gun Nac are my only 1ccs outside of a couple Touhous on normal

>>9755310
now try Tatsujin Ou 1cc

Steam ports of Cave games worth it(Mushiimesama, Deathsmiles, and DDP Daifukatsu are on sale) or should I just stick with arcade emulation?

>>9755718
Avoid the Deathsmiles 1 port by Degica/Komodo, that has inaccurate slowdown in some modes. Those were fixed in the City Connection port. Mushihimesama is fine, but DDP DFK has the same slowdown inaccuracies in a lot of modes.

Get Progear if you want (that's DLC for the Capcom Arcade Stadium 1) and wait for Akai Katana to get a massive price drop.

>>9755753
Thanks brother, I'll just get Mushi and Progear for now then. Shame they only barely discounted Akai Katana since that's the one I really wanted out of all of them.

Is there even ANY other 8-way shooting, vertical scrolling STG besides Cybattler?

>>9755753
I'm so glad City Connection nailed the Cave ports after the Cotton fuck up, they need to stop with the Saturn emulation titles.
>>9756574
Psyvariar Delta has the mech from Cybattler as a ship and she plays the same, Delta is a remake of Psyvariar Medium Unit and Psyvariar Revision by the same devs.

>>9749116
All the valid 1CC runs are in arcade mode. If you choose home mode, you can just ignore chaining and start with level 30 weapons. That's also, literally, the version found in Japanese arcades where people do high score runs of course.

This is extremely hard, by the way. Radiant Silvergun is one of the hardest shmups to 1CC from arcade mode.

Any Hellsinker fans here? I got into it a while ago. Everything about it great. Awesome visuals, audio, and gameplay.

My favorite thing is just how freaking WEIRD it gets. The mechanics and systems are also just totally bizarre and baffling. This is a downside at first, but then you learn to appreciate that it's doing its own thing.

>>9756920
weird shooters time?
psychosis
ordyne
choanki
keo flying squadron
harmful park
dragon breed
mystic riders
game tengoku
trouble shooter

>>9747965
peep this list brother

>>9743106
Is Homebrews allowed here?

Currently playing Deathsmiles 1 and Crimzon Clover World EXplosion. Trying to 1cc the former and it's an easy game for a beginner like me to get into. I tried DoDonPachi DaiFukkatsu as my first shmup but I want to get some more experience playing those games in general before getting back into it.

>>9757780
Game?

>>9758041
Blade Buster

Beat Gradius today. Game was not as hard as I remembered probably because I wasn't 8 years old anymore.

>>9758234
>baby gameboy version
try the arcade version, see if you can do 2 loops or more

>>9758247
or nes* version, whatever

Tyrian 2000

>>9756908
I wasn't sure if people would consider arcade non-legit since you can skip some stages. It's a really cool game though! I think I like it better than Ikaruga. The scoring system really clicked with me and makes the game more interesting. I can sometimes make it through all of the first stage without dying, but some of the later levels are going to take practice for sure. I might try to 1cc some simpler games first.

Does anyone know what game this is?

>>9760180
battle garegga with the mahou daisakusen ships unlocked

>>9760185
wow, thanks a lot

>>9758247
>>9758260
Don't be a ass anon, while it's not the arcade version Gradius NES is not a walk in the park.

If you haven’t beaten Giga-Drain D you aren’t a SHMUP fan as far as I’m conderned

>>9757049
Megablast could probably fit into that list as well.

>>9756920
Holy shit, thanks for making me aware of this game. Looks great. It's apparently on sale for another twenty minutes on Steam.

>>9761091
Is that a Bubble Bobble reference? How'd they get away with that? The game doesn't seem to have anything to do with Taito

>>9761393
Never mind, I was looking up the wrong game (Xenon 2: Megablast). Megablast the arcade game was made by Taito.

>>9758234
do you have to get lucky and not get hit by the volcanoes or is it actually possible to evade by skill

>>9751528
I'm playing Second and I'm having a bitch of time trying to get used to the sword. Feels like this game heavily prioritizes getting into point blank range and slash bosses since your main shot doesn't do nothing to them, but certain bosses are so bullshit that I end up struggling.

>>9760882
pls anon
>china emulation
>spams rewind and savescums

he didnt beat shit

I got my first 1cc today. It was Batsugun on special mode (normal difficulty) but still feels good.

>>9765591
ridonk

i can get through a stage or two without dying or taking a hit but never an entire playthrough

>>9765591
Congratulations man! Batsugun Special is a great pick too

>>9765591
>>9765674
>>9765679
Batsugun special is ranked 3/50 on difficulty in the wikia shmups list. Is this really supposed to be an accomplishment? Batsugun Original is already easy to clear with misses and bombs, but Special is a joke with the shields and stronger bombs.

By "1cc" you cleared just the first loop, not all four loops, yeah?

>>9765907
>Batsugun special is ranked 3/50 on difficulty in the wikia shmups list. Is this really supposed to be an accomplishment?
If you're going by the list I think you are the higher the number the harder the game is, still getting a 1cc in any game is still a feat that should be praised.

>>9765907
for like aktane, ricmirax, even a Batsugun SP 1-all is something to cheer on and get hoiyped for

>>9765907
cringe tryhard
>>9765591
congrats dude

Best Caravan shmups?

>>9766706
good question
i think shmupjunkie did a video on these

>>9765907
well think of it this way, yes for some batsugun is piss easy, but for someone who has no experience it can be quite the challenge. It also depends on your metric of what an accomplishment is. Do you struggle trying to 1-all ketsui? Well for Magolor that's easy, so it's not really that hard. Do you see the problem here?

>>9748628
It's a great game, I agree. It's pretty laid-back for a shooting game too which I appreciate every now and then.

>>9765907
You should come hang out in shmup general in /vg/! We love to downplay any accomplishment unless it's a blindfolded nmnb unreleased DOJ pcb with full handcam and motion tracking suit!

>>9765907
Retard

>>9767001
Batsugun Special is an extremely, extremely easy 1CC, nothing to be proud of. What part of that post is "retard"?

>>9767009
No one ever calmed it was a hard achievement you moron, the poster even downplayed it when he posted about it.
Got to start somewhere you retard. Even you did but you probably don't really remember or think about it anymore.

>>9767009
The entire post was the retarded part.

>>9767015
>>9767021
>feels good
>congratulations!
>ridonk
this is not an appropriate reaction to merely clearing the first loop of such a braindead easy game. Even for a new player, it should pose very little to no challenge.

You wouldn't congratulate someone for posting a meal of buttered toast just because they are new to cooking. It's the same logic.

>>9767042
Got to start somewhere you retard.

>>9767042
Foooooooooooooooooood analogy.

>>9766906
>and motion tracking suit
kek

>>9765907
>Starting with an easy shmup for my first 1cc
What's the problem, anon? I wanted to get something under my belt before spending dozens of hours on a more difficult game.

>>9767042
It's his first 1cc and all he said was it feels good. He had fun. That's enough to share and talk about it, this is a shmup thread. Even easy clears are on topic and not every clear is about inflating your ego or looking for praise. Dont assume he was trying to impress anyone

Anyone know where I can download entries of the Yakouga series? Searching leads to a bunch of dead links

>>9767470
At the very least, here looks to be the demos
http://www.oldgamesfinder.com/?m=1&q=Yakouga
For something like this you legit may need to check PerfectDark to see if it's on there

Does anyone knows where to download the eXceed trilogy? Never had a chance to buy all of them on Steam before they got delisted.

>>9744990
Have some pretty good memories of playing that as a kid in between my sessions of 1CC'ing the KOF series but never managed to 1CC that one. Have to give it another try nowadays with a joystick instead of a keyboard.

>>9767856
You can find all three of them on cs rin ru. You will also need one of the Steam emulators available over there to crack the games.

>>9767470
Yakouga 2 to 5:
https://www1.zippyshare.com/v/5flEQvEr/file.html
https://www1.zippyshare.com/v/GIaeWjma/file.html
https://www1.zippyshare.com/v/pHF2ZINj/file.html
https://www1.zippyshare.com/v/LxNMN8nm/file.html

>>9767470
Yakouga 2 to 5:
https://www1.zippyshare.com/v/5flEQvEr/file.html
https://www1.zippyshare.com/v/GIaeWjma/file.html
https://www1.zippyshare.com/v/pHF2ZINj/file.html
https://www27.zippyshare.com/v/j6XWLRG2/file.html

Had to fix one of the links.

I actually rolled this for a retro game gauntlet recently and I loved it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sms4md9DgiE

time for your weekly Gradius 3 study session /vr/

>>9768980
>zippyshare
Living fast and loose arn't we lol, links will be hard dead in one week when the site shuts down.
But thanks for the downloads anon, shit looks intresting.

>>9769510
already did my G3 homework for this year Vrocs, but have fun

>>9769662
Still can't get used to Zippyshare being on a death sentence.
https://mega.nz/folder/g1tlBLzQ#QzUjdtcLLHsW03rWL5wQXA
This one also has Yakouga 7, but it's no longer a shmup. And the demos for 1 and 6 which is all I could find of them.

>>9769703
Yeah its a shame. Its really a Retroshare situation all over again with Zippy. I'm sure some stuff will become hard to find again if it was never on other sites like Mega.
But appreciate the uploads anon, thank again

>>9769678
Good lad

>>9769703
>>9768980
Thank you so much anon, I was going mad trying to find this stuff, grabbing a bunch of shady downloads, and getting a bunch of virus reports (probably false positives but whatever). Thanks again

>>9769286
You got lucky! It’s really a shame that more people don’t know about it.

>>9769970
You're telling me!
Sometimes I forget how vast the Famicom library is. There are definitely a lot of good unknown games on the system, but just as much, if not more, terrible games to roll.

>>9743106
Shmups always came across to me as the most video gamey genre there is

>>9743106
Have to look into a lot of the recommendations on this thread, but I spent a lot of time playing R-Type, Silkworm, SWIV and Battle Squadron on the Amiga as a kid.

>>9743106
I was looking into the PC engine library and I also started to look a little bit into the genre. There are many recommendations in this thread but I'm a bit shocked nobody has mentioned Twinbee yet, it's a cute and super fun series of games and I recommend you give them a try.
Also play Gate of thunder and lords of thunder, they are great.

>>9770714
they autoscroll which takes away a lot of player agency, something like beat em ups, platformers and racing games are more gamey

>>9771195
Detana!! Twinbee is fucking brutal, one of the best Twinbee games is the remake of the Gameboy Twinbee by M2 that was in their Twinbee collection on PSP.
>Also play Gate of thunder and lords of thunder, they are great.
Yes, same team that made Thunder Force 3 made them and they are even better.

>>9770714
Space Invaders was one of the first huge games, and its imagery often used to represent video games as a whole.

>>9771691
Gate of Thunder is great. Lords of Thunder is trash.

>>9755718
I wish M2 would stop being dickheads and port DOJ/Ketsui/Garegga to PC

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2023/02/toaplans-arcade-bullet-hell-batsugun-is-coming-to-switch-in-may

Batsugun coming to Steam!

>>9772232
problem is it's kinda hard, and there really isn't enough money in it. I mean look at how Komodo ports did for mushi and ddp dfk.

>>9772450
I think they struggle to get the frame rates right on Windows 10+ for some reason, so they aren't releasing anything until they figure it out (which may be never)

>>9772508
>so they aren't releasing anything until they figure it out (which may be never)
Pic related is on Steam and it was made by M2. Same goes for G-Darius HD.

>>9772549
I don't believe those games have intentional slowdown like Cave games

I can't remember if Garegga does

>>9772557
G-Darius HD has intentional slowdown, and you can turn it off if you want.

From 2018:

https://www.siliconera.com/m2-discusses-most-highly-requested-ports-why-they-havent-released-on-steam-and-more/

>Why don’t M2 bring their releases to Steam and PC? M2 planner Kazuki Kubota acknowledges that even on their trailers for the M2 Shot Triggers series of titles on Youtube, lots of people complain that the games aren’t being released on Steam. Horii states that the reason is because they have to account for various PC hardware environments. While their releases work decently on Windows 7, as soon as it hits Windows 10 slowdown occurs, and they haven’t found an acceptable solution yet. As soon as they find one, they’ll put more effort into PC releases.

>>9772754
damn, and it's been 5 years.

>>9772980
Yeah, it's a shame, Garegga, Ketsui, and DOJ on Steam would be great

>>9771691
Now that you mentioned Twinbee collection on the PSP, it's pretty sad that Konami never tried another Twinbee collection or rerelease for modern consoles. The Konami arcade classics collection only as the original game.

>>9772508
>I think they struggle to get the frame rates right on Windows 10+ for some reason,
Read up on the Tickless Kernel that was rolled out in Windows 8+.
Windows is unable to keep accurate time accurately since then all for battery optimization for mobile phones that now don't exist anymore.

>>9771771
I like Lords.
>>9772232
>>9772754
I've never bought that reasoning I think it's more about budget because lets be real these are passion projects and M2 has been doing then in between actual work, I like Toaplan but they probably should have stuck with Cave or Razing titles which are much more in demand
>>9772549
Published by Taito, the PC versions actually have multi monitor support, I'm hoping we get the Ray’z Arcade Chronology.
>>9773294
Hamster does a lot of Konami's shmups and does them very well, I would recommend them if you want those games on a modern console.

https://www.romhacking.net/hacks/4270/

Slap fight pink bullets for genesis is so good

>>9773468
I love Toaplan, but this is one of the worst shmups I've ever played (MD version). Is the Arcade version worth playing or no?

It's weird because I even really liked Tiger Heli but Slap Fight just sucks in every way.

>>9755753
the good thing about the ports is they will run on old hardware (core2duo, gf 7900gtx, DX9) , so if u have a genuine taito typeX2/nesica machine, in a cab, ur hardware is supported.

the disappointing thing about city connection ports is they use unity, unity dropped DX9 support back in like 2017, so all city connection games will only run under DX11, stupid when theres games that originally ran under DX9 like deathsmiles 1, deathsmiles 2 cave-pc version, akai katana on the typeX, now they only run under DX11,

theres also other games like gunbird, 1945, tengai, samurai aces, all DX11 only, these guys are professionals they know the score, everything arcade should have DX9 support.

most devs do get it right like M2, the darius cosmic collection works perfectly on a geforce 7900, G-darius also runs on the same gpu, tho it runs like shit, even on a 2500k/980ti, its just a mess of a port.

even the 2020 version of crimson clover runs 60fps@720, probably as its largely unchanged from the original arcade version on the typeX2, i dont know why city connection didnt take that approach with akai katana, what could be better than just updating or re-releasing the arcade version, instead of remaking the game in unity for DX11?

honestly its better to just play the typeX version of akai katana using teknoparrot, since it will be running on genuine hardware.

also exa arcadia owns the rights to akai katana and DDP, they sent a cease and dissist to mame forcing them to remove the games from mame, so fuck exa arcadia, dont buy any products they are trying to make money from. especially since they are trying to sell their arcade cartridges for like $1500-2000, its a joke!

TLDR; play the original arcade version of akai shin katana for the typeX2, or download the recent release from gamepciso

>>9773839
V-V does the vertical Gradius way better and I'm not sure why it's so rarely brought up in Toaplan discussions

>>9743109
donpach, dondonpach, both amazing games
go play mars matrix

>>9747965
SILVER SURFER?
MORE LIKE SILVER SHIT

>>9748678
i can 1cc ikaruga but not with S++ rank on every mission
so
did i really beat it? i would argue no.

>>9748276
I pick a game to 1cc, practice more or less seriously and play other stuff sporadically/casually. Its always nice to go for a casual run of Garegga to kill time

>>9755753
>Avoid the Deathsmiles 1 port by Degica/Komodo, that has inaccurate slowdown in some modes. Those were fixed in the City Connection port. Mushihimesama is fine, but DDP DFK has the same slowdown inaccuracies in a lot of modes
Degica ports are fine, you didnt even play arcade ports to know the differences at all

>>9773839
when you say MD version, do you mean the MD arrange, or just the regular game but ported to the MD (as seen in the screenshot in the post you replied to)
the MD arrange is actually considered better than Arcade but it's a completely different game and I don't like making the comparison. the arcade game is better than the port because it feels less cramped and looks a little bit less shit, but it's still the same stage and weapon design, so I doubt you'll like it.
so yeah, in both cases I don't think you'll like the arcade version actually.

>>9774264
>but DDP DFK has the same slowdown inaccuracies in a lot of modes
DDP DFK is plenty fine on PC except for one mode, the DDP DOJ remix one, I forget what it's called (Version A?), that one is fucked on PC for some reason, it has no slowdown at all. Kind of fun to play a mode with no slowdown, but it does make it janky as fuck at times when huge amounts of bullets are on screen. All other modes play just fine though. Shame, that mode is fairly fun, but I do use my 360 for that one.

I honestly want to start collecting PCBs.
And yes, I used to be one of these guys who would berite "coomlectors", but you know... sometimes you just want to own shit, as Zappa said. I've emulated enough.

>>9774951
Psikyo, DOJ, Ketsui and Esptrannylugda are affordable PCBs

>>9774264
>Degica ports are fine
Try doing a 1CC on Deathsmiles MBL without the intentional slowdown.
>>9774948
They did fix that on the Switch port by Livewire.

>>9775427
>They did fix that on the Switch port by Livewire.
Been meaning on checking out the switch port since my 360 has been acting up. Not a RROD, but it's fans spin up and nothing else happens when powered on.
Hope there isn't too much latency if you emulate the switch version...

OP's photo is the only one that helps an STG thread survive more than a week?

>>9776840
who deosnt like dodonpachi ?

By pure chance I discovered that Natsuki chro. and ginga force are super discounted on steam
Anyone played them? are they actually good?

>>9777462
Natsuki is very good, Ginga force not my style too much story shit and rpg elements and too long

>>9777462
I have the exact same opinion as the other anon. Ginga Force did grow on me after a while (mostly thanks to the soundtrack), but it's definitely more of a console game than an arcade game.
>>9774951
>sometimes you just want to own shit, as Zappa said.
Any sort of ire you might draw for "coomlecting" is balanced out by you being a Zappa fan. Go buy some.

>>9777134
That's DonPachi, not DDP.

>>9777724
pretty sure its called Dodonpachi I can tell by the laser

>>9777735
DonPachi is the game before DDP. The screenshot is from DonPachi (which also has the laser...)

>>9777770
maybe you remember it differently? I played Dodonpachi in the arcades and am familiar with it for a long time; so we'll agree to disagree

>>9777796
maybe it's Bee Storm the chinese romhack of DDP

>>9777796
>maybe you remember it differently?
Nope, you're just retarded.

>>9777796
>agree to disagree on objective reality
that's DonPachi you retard. Just look at the bomb gauge.

technically not retro, but raiden 4 is my favorite. i like the other ones, but i never played them the way i played raiden 4.

Man Progear is so good, a shame it never got any arranges.

Did anyone ever play the flash game Heavy Weapon?

Used to love that when it was on browser. I was so shitty at it back then but I tried it again recently and I still suck ass.

This game is not easy.

>>9772549
It is m2 but not shottriggers i believe which is the team that does the super acurate ports with a bunch of extras

shmups peaked with 1944 the loop master

>>9780852
I like that game, but I love 19XX - The War Against Destiny (best subtitle in the world, by the way)

Its gameplay is very tightly timed to the music, almost like how Touhou does it where transitions in the song happen when certain events are going on onscreen. Its also pretty fair, reminds me of a slower version of a Psikyo game. Its just a beautiful, underrated game.

>>9780748
Yes! I loved this game to death. I've been a big fan of PopCap in general for most of my life. They were churning out one hit after another in the 2000s.
I found out recently that it got a PS2 port. I'm gonna try it out myself soon since I'm curious as to how well it would play with a controller.

>>9780895
Oh shit mother fucking ZUMA!

Totally unrelated to SCHMUP but ty for that reminder.