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What have you lads been playin these days?

>> No.5692494

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tZQaO17ZCs

>> No.5692516
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>> No.5692519

>>5692489
What game is that?

>> No.5692528

Been playing Harvest moon on my psp, pretty comfy now that I'm on holidays and I'm away from stardew valley

>> No.5692697

>>5692489
Gunhed, SSS, Paranoia and R-type. Got them for free and need to test them before I flip them on eBay.

>> No.5692979

>>5692697
>R-type
Still need to get around to clearing that. The damn box level always throws me off.

>> No.5693000

battle garegga in mame

>> No.5693431

>>5692489
>Gradius Gaiden
>Strikers 1945
>Ikaruga
>Gigawing 2
>Lords of Thunder

>> No.5693446

Gunstar Heroes

>> No.5693456

>>5692489
EDF with homing missiles on snes is peak comfy shmup. It's tough but not unrealistic for beginners. I'm not saying it's the best shmup ever but with like 8 different weapon styles there's a lot of replay value. Also it costs like $10-15. Great graphics, nice sound, and if slowdown happens it feels like a game mechanic rather than an afterthought or problem. I recommend trying it.

>> No.5693473

>>5693456
>EDF
I made it to the final boss with the blue homing bullet things and just had to give up. Really shitty game design when it's impossible to win with a certain weapon selection.

>> No.5693502

>>5692489
Fire Shark and Galaga
Never get old to me.

>> No.5693771

>>5692519
looks like Armed Police Batrider to me

>> No.5693787

>>5692528
Goat shmup series. Which HM?

>> No.5694207

>>5693787
hero of leaf valley

>> No.5694227

>>5692489
I like the genre but because it is so hard for me I don't really play it.

>> No.5694294

>>5694207
>>5693787
shit my bad, didn't know it was a thread just for shmup

>> No.5694342

espgaluda

>> No.5694432
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I prefer Parodius over R-Type 3 AND R-Type Delta, and prefer Sexy Parodius over all of them. What should I play next? Not a weeb btw.

>> No.5694436

>>5694227
The genre isn't a monolith, there are games/modes for all skill levels out there. Try Batsugun Special ver.

>> No.5694468

>>5693771
Definitely Batrider. It's the only game where the Mahou Daisakusen (as opposed to Kingdom Grand Prix's design) version of Bashinet is named.

>> No.5694579

>>5692489
man, there really aint many shooters on the SNES is there? I shoud really get to porting these X68K shooters to the SNES. Man why did the SNES use outdated garbage for a cpu. A 68k integrated with a S-SMP would have been godlike. Anyway, I'm playing thunder spirits

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Layer Section / RayForce is probably my favorite shoot'em'up. It doesn't have much (or any really) variety in weaponry, but it makes up with its multi-planed combat and really fantastic setpiece levels.

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>>5692489

I've been playing Elemental Master for the mega drive.

It's one of my favorite shmups of all time for the following reasons.
>Fantasy setting, no spaceships
>Amazing music
>Cool powers and stages
>Good, if simple story.
>Plays great.
>Is challenging but not "shmup hard" so it was easy to get into as a kid.

>> No.5694934

>>5694579
There are some pretty good SNES shumps, like Biometal and Axelay and Scrambled Valkyrie. But yeah, SNES was the weakest of the 4th gen systems as far as zoom 'n booms go.

>> No.5694939

>>5694579

All the Konami ones are on Snes, plus Rtype. Swiv and others, but sure megadrive was better suited to playing shmups.

>> No.5694943

>>5694939
Never played Swiv, but R-Type 3 has awful level design, and most of the Konami SNES shumps suffer from horrendous slowdown and are better off played on Arcade, or in Parodius 4's case, Saturn.

>> No.5694945

>>5694905
Final boss is fucking annoying and if you lose you have to redo the boss rush level. Great game until this part.

>> No.5694950

>>5694934
>zoom 'n booms
heh.

>> No.5694967

>>5694934
I'll give em a shot for sure. Fuck me why are mega drives so much more expensive? Super Famicoms are cheap as dirt

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>>5692489
anyone play this absolute beast of a game? Oh boy was the x68k good

>> No.5695012

>>5694978
I loved Cho Ren Sha. It's not terribly hard (the game hands out a ton of shields and a ton of lives), and I wish the background changed at all (it'd have been really easy to color-code each stage), but it's a lot of fun.
PC version is a tad harder because it runs at a slightly higher framerate.

The graphics are great, the soundtrack is amazing, and the stage design is pretty good.
I really like the bullet pattern design, lots of fast shit coming at you.
The game is really damn good.

>> No.5696668

so this is whats left of shmupg? haha pathetic.

>> No.5696680

>>5695012
I really like the background of chorensha and the implication that you were endlessly orbiting some sort of machine dystopia dyson sphere or something

>> No.5697158 [DELETED] 

>>5696668
No, shmupg doesn't even come here. They all fucked off to a discord channel made by their most infamous shitposter.

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>>5697158
chav was hilarious, but he was a fucking moron for herding everyone into a sekrit mandatory-namefag discord and letting the jarpigs win.

>> No.5698195

Psychic Storm

>> No.5698224

DooM

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>>5692489
Batsugun Special Version. Stage 2 boss pattern makes me lose a life almost every run but I'm practicing. I don't like bombing during bosses so it's a good challenge.

>> No.5698476

When is Toaplan going to bring Dogyuun to the Saturn?

>> No.5698530

>>5698476
>Dogyuun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2SPPQCxmow

>> No.5699059

Anyone tried Graze Counter?

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>>5692489
a bunch of compile shooters while i take a break from trying to clear espgaluda. i think im just bad at video games desu.

currently playing gunhed which i don't like nearly as much as zanac/gun-nac

>> No.5700967

>>5699079
Good stuff. One of these days I'll play through Guardian Legend without using the TGL code.

>> No.5700968

>>5698530
That's pretty cool, thanks.

In all seriousness, who even owns Toaplan's games now?

>> No.5701014

been playing the MSX Gradius games

shit is genuinely really hard

>> No.5702915

>>5700967
i actually enjoyed the walking around bits. the shooter segments aren't really upto snuff as a shmup but the game in general i really liked, very comfy end screen

>> No.5702934

>>5692489
What is the name of this game?

>> No.5702952

>>5702934
Buttwider

>> No.5702962

>>5702952
welcum to vioren city

>> No.5704539

I want to get into the SHMUP genre. What are some games that I should start with?

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is there any reason to fire normal shot over boost shot in power mode

>> No.5704975

>>5704539
Darius Gaiden and Batsugun Special.

>> No.5705059

>>5701014
I literally cannot get anywhere whatsoever in any of the Gradius games on MSX (well, I'm playing Konami's MSX collection on Saturn, but still). It's really fucking me up.

>> No.5705064

>>5705059
i've gotten to stage 6 on 2 maybe ONCE and never further.

>> No.5705091

>>5692489
soldier blade and seirei senshi spriggan, emulated on a wii. would love to try image fight II, steam hearts and winds of thunder but it seems like i am too stupid to emulate certain rom dumps

>> No.5705302

>>5704975
Are you sure? I heard they are pretty hard.

>> No.5705408

>>5705302
No, Batsugun Special is one of the easiest shmups to 1cc especially with Beltiana and Darius Gaiden gets very easy with autofire on and offers you easy routes.

>> No.5706202

>>5705302
Where the hell did you hear that? Anyway they were wrong.

>> No.5706435

I want to like Daioujou but the chaining system really annoys me

>> No.5706547
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5706547

Any shmups recommendations?
I've played R-Type 3 and Delta, as well as the only western Parodius release on SNES and Sexy Parodius on PSX.

>> No.5706598

>>5694432
It sounds like you prefer Konami shmups, so play more of those

>> No.5709036

>>5692489
Dodonpachi

>> No.5709074

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1067720/Hellsinker/
The time has come, and so have I.

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>>5706435
No worries, just watch a superplay and do as they do, unless you enjoy mediocrity.

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>>5709074
>Genre: Casual

>> No.5709231

>>5709226
Can't wait for all the newbies to buy it thinking it's going to be a basic SHMUP.

>> No.5709738

how are people expected to 1cc raiden fighters jet without using the slave ships?

>> No.5710848
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5710848

What's the most underrated shmup ever?

>> No.5712130 [DELETED] 

>>5710848
>Konami shmup
>underrated

>> No.5712194

>>5692494
Based

>> No.5714161 [DELETED] 

SHMUPGANG ASSEMBLE

>> No.5714169

nothing, shmups feel like a chore at this point

>> No.5714174

>CTRL-F "Tyrian"
>No Results
Am I the only one who absolutely loves this game?

>> No.5714215 [DELETED] 

>>5714174
Watch out, the autistic weebs here will chase you out for liking a Western shmup.

>> No.5714684

last one i was playing was air gallet
pretty gud for an obscure shoo em up
up there in quality with cave/raizing/toaplan

>> No.5714849

>>5714174
I was going to mention it myself actually. If I were to keel over dead while playing it I would die a satisfied man.

>> No.5714868

>>5714849
Agreed. Everything is so smooth(Especially if you're playing with a good 486).
I'm honestly surprised it never got a re-release or a port.

>> No.5714872

>>5714868
>>5714849
Ok technically it got a re-release in the form of "Tyrian 2000" but it never got pushed onto an NT platform.

>> No.5715083

>>5692489
Checking Tonnor's twitter every 6 hours for a new hellsinker update

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>>5710848
Not kidding. This might be better than Blazing Lazers.

>> No.5715236

>>5698348
>Batsugun Special Version. Stage 2 boss pattern makes me lose a life almost every run but I'm practicing. I don't like bombing during bosses so it's a good challenge.

this is my current situation as well lol

>>5699059
there's a demo on Steam

>> No.5717120

why play console shootemups when you can play arcade ones?. you all cray cray

>> No.5717140 [DELETED] 

>>5717120
arcade shumps are full of artificial difficulty so that they could steal your quarters

>> No.5717475

what are your favourite bgms?

https://youtu.be/KeC0u8gu28g
https://youtu.be/_m3fvbOo1g8

>> No.5717821

>>5717140
dunno about that buzzword but they often have memorization prone parts that kill you in rapid succession

>> No.5718036

>>5717140
Let me correct you:

arcade shumps are full of real difficulty so that they could steal your quarters

>> No.5718043

>>5714174
It was my first shmup, but cmon dude, it's pretty much a crappy euroshmup. The graphics look great, but the playfield is too wide, and the game mechanics aren't well designed... at all. Seriously you owe it to your self to try out better games (anything by CAVE is gold in my book), and once you do you'll look back on your tyrian love with embarrassment. And this is coming from a guy who used to play Tyrian a crapton.

>> No.5718048

Not retro, but does anyone know if darius burst is worth picking up while it's on steam sale?

>> No.5718053

>>5704975
Don't start with Batsugun, that game is so easy you'll think the whole genre's a cakewalk! Play something with some balls like Dodonpachi or Battle Garegga that will give you a true taste of the kind of adrenaline fueled fast paced action that a real shmup can provide. Leave watered down milquetoast trash like Batsugun back in the playpen where it belongs.

>> No.5718054

>>5718036
arcade shumps are full of real difficulty so that they could earn your quarters by providing entertainment and a path of self-improvement

>>5717475
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUP_yAmJbNU
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sbx2ezMtdao

>> No.5718163

>>5717140
>artificial difficulty
literally what video games are dumb jarpig. nothing but artificial resistance and goals created for the sake of fun

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>>5692489
I'm on a huge PC Engine kick at the moment. This is what I'm rotating through at the moment.
>Soldier Blade
>Gunhed
>Coryoon
>Air Zonk

>> No.5718338

>>5718192
>Coryoon
Is Coryoon worth playing?

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>>5692489
>lifelong shmup fan
>only just now heard of Metal Black
I mean the gameplay itself is okay but it's an absolute masterwork in presentation. Is there any other shmup with this level of atmosphere?
Also that first boss roar. Chills down my spine

>> No.5718519

>>5718436
It's a spiritual sequel to Gun Frontier, and Gun Frontier has amazing presentation as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5mRqbwxmug

>> No.5718524

Raiden Fighters Jet appeared at one of my local places tonight. What a cool game, that medal combining system is lots of fun. Gotta learn how to do that shit that makes the gold bar medals appear.

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>>5718519
Darn you were right, the quality in this one doesn't drop from start to finish. The literal gun ships are just a little silly though.

>> No.5718549

>>5718338
absolutely. It was made by some of the people who worked on Air Zonk, and it very much feels like a spiritual sequel to it. There's a lot of shit that gets thrown at you on screen. It has a very cute artstyle with an amazing use of colors.

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This would be a pretty good game if I could actually play it.

>> No.5720579

>>5720258
why can't you play it?

>> No.5720584

there's not even a difference between shoot em up and shoot em right why is it a different genre

>> No.5720598

>>5720579
the slowdown is absolutely abysmal

>> No.5720721

>>5720598
then use mame (supposedly audio works now) or ps2/pcsx2 (taito legends 2). ps2 port has slightly less slowdown than the arcade original.
the ps1 port messes up other stuff anyway, like music transitions, so even if some hacks would fix the slowdown it still wouldn't be the best version to play.

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I decided to 1cc this. Currently learning it.

>> No.5721353

Whatever happened to the shmup thread on /vg/?

>> No.5721540 [DELETED] 

>>5721353
They made a sekrit club on Discord.

>> No.5721542

>>5721540
No way, they constantly posted about how discord was for trannies and all that shit

>> No.5721852

What are some easy 1ccs? Also do you guys practice by using continues or do you just keep powering through to see how far you can get on one continue until you eventually clear?

>> No.5723207

>>5721852
I've been using this list: https://shmups.system11.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=56123 .

Here are the ones he ranked the easiest (this is out of 16-bit console shmups):

Ai Cho Aniki (using the invincibility move)
Battle Mania/Trouble Shooter
Battle Mania Daiginjou
Coryoon
Daioh Gale
Final Soldier
Magic Girl
Power Gate
Psychic Storm
Star Parodier
Sylphia

Here's what I've been doing for practice. Play through from the beginning and create a save state at the start of each level. Repeat each level until I can clear it without dying. Once I've played through to the end like this, I'll attempt a full run as a 1cc without savestates. If that fails I'll practice individual sections or levels and repeat the full run again until I get the 1cc.

>> No.5723345

>>5721542
>they
The thread was not one person, Mad Max

>> No.5723346

>>5723345
I still have no idea who this guy this

>> No.5723349

>>5723346
Add

clp
#9432

to ask to enter if you're interested. It has most of the best ex-shmupg posters. Tons of activity, many topics and no jarpig shit.

>> No.5723356

>>5723349
current members 8
Cee, Gus, Iconoclast, InFireX, NTSCJ, Retardo, SER, Semenfairy

>> No.5723367

>>5723349
>come join us, Cee's here
Equivalent to someone beckoning you into a bathtub filled to the brim with diarrhea.

>> No.5723394

>>5723349
Holy fucking shit there's seriously a discord because they needed a safe space, this is too good

>> No.5723413

>>5723394
The regulars into shmups got tired of the machine gun spam by jarpigs while shmup regular's got banned instead. You couldn't talk freely there due to the jarpig mod bias. TY steam sales for bringing RPG faggots in.

>> No.5723534

eXceed 2's OST is so damn good.

>> No.5723540

>>5723413
This thread is not specifically for you. Anyone can discuss shmups, it's not a sekrit club. Stop sperging out that your niche hobby occasionally gets some new blood. You sound like the kind of person whose identity rides on liking unpopular shit.

>> No.5723546

>>5723540
>new blood that only spams RPG posts because after trying the games a bit they found out they don't really like them

>> No.5723550

Ah the schizophrenic ramblings of /shmupg/, takes me back

>> No.5723554

This is the equivalent of mocking the founding fathers for escaping British tyranny with
>lol they need a safe space xd

>> No.5723559

>Play some japanese games
>This deserves to command the same respect as founding Britain

>> No.5723578

>>5723554
Honestly though, I was perfectly happy alternating between mocking and ignoring the jarpigs. Shmupg was great, and letting the gay-elf fags kill it in favor or a mandatory namefag chat just doesn't sit right with me.

>> No.5723581

>>5723578
It's because it was never a shmup discussion thread, it was a place for idiot namefags to jerk off

>> No.5723584

>>5723581
t. queen of jarpigs

>> No.5723759

Battle Garegga is listed as supporting the Saturn 3D controller. Does it actually have analog movement? Are there any other shmups with analog controls?

>> No.5723980

>>5723759
Yes. Feels fucking great. Soukyugurentai has it too.

>Are there any other shmups with analog controls?
Ikaruga, maybe some other DC shmups.