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FML :O

It's absolutely a lot more than a Metal Slug rip-off. It takes the best aspects of MS, but adds stuff of its own as well. It's a brilliant game with very few flaws.


I've only played the PGM cartridge version, so I'd be interested in knowing if they fixed a pretty major scoring glitch the game has. There's an item you can only pick up by finding another secret item, but if you don't have that, you can just stand on top of it and your score will keep going up as long as you're touching it.

It's really too bad, because unlike Metal Slug, the game has a real scoring system, but that bug just breaks it completely.

I can't find a video of anyone doing the bug, but it's the item picked up at 4:36 (looks kinda like a hot air balloon) in this *sigh* longplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FojNKSZWX4U&t=276

Cool, thanks for the heads up! Do you know of a strategy guide anywhere? The secrets seem to get rather elaborate.



Metal Slug 2 has slowdowns everywhere and it's still fantastic.

No, like you said there's a massive lack of solid documentation on Demon Front and its mechanics. I didn't understand how to properly utilize the familiar until I saw FunkDoc's commentated playthrough on Twitch... I hope it's still up there somewhere.

Some of the later stages are basically impossible without this knowledge.

True. Dolpin Blue is pretty meh, gameplay wise though. I really tried to like it, but... Metal Slug 2 is fantastic.

Got myself a tiny Rygar PCB

Cute! Essential game too ofc!

Social Distance Rygar?

What is that? Rygar for ants?

Got a few new PCBs:

Drift Out '94 (Visco)





Backfire! (Data East)





Yep, I'm a big fan of 2D isometric rally games.

Knuckle Bash (Toaplan)

Between the motorsports and the buffness, probably the manliest post this thread has seen.

Interesting, I'd not heard of Backfire - at a glance, the name made me recall their belt-view driving STG, Breakthru.

I realize that this is like, a year late, but Dolphin Blue's pretty fantastic. The Dolphin meter giving you an invulnerable dash attack or even just an extra midair hop to evade at low meter is pretty nifty. The lack of autofire means it's mashy like Metal Slug is though.

Incidentally, not to be confused with Tecmo's Back Fire!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn8MF9jtjNc

More isometric rallying fun:

You've become our resident connoisseur! Interesting to see a European-developed coinop example of the genre.

It’s not so often you see European developed coin-ops, period.

Gaelco’s original World Rally was actually the one that established the subgenre, the other games all came later.

I got a Gaelco board myself, Alligator Hunt, but it has a video glitch that people have speculated is due to the suicide battery. I've done everything I can do to revive it following a bunch of guides, though, and absolutely nothing helps
Pretty interesting developer either way. I guess they are most notable for Thunder Hoop 2?