R-Type, R-Type II & Raiden Legacy are all on sale for iOS &

[Knockworstface]

R-Type, R-Type II & Raiden Legacy are all on sale for iOS & Android devices. They all have external controller support and play great using the iCade for iOS devices. Can't go wrong with any of the game for $1 dollar.

[MathU]

You can if it's a shitty phone port.

[Pretas]

You're forgetting the fact that they're ported by DotEmu.

[Knockworstface]

You can if it's a shitty phone port.

Not a shitty port at all. Just like the original arcade games. I highly recommend any of them. The Raiden Legacy app/game is awesome. You get the original Raiden, Raiden Fighters, Raiden Fighters II and Raiden Fighters Jet.

[MathU]

I'm pretty sure I've never come across an R-Type machine with a horrendous touchscreen input method. But eh, what do I know.

[Pretas]

I don't think you could sound more like a paid shill right now if you tried. They are all readily identifiable as low quality, slapdash ports to anyone familiar with the arcade PCB versions, or the definitive console ports available in R-Types & Raiden Fighters Aces.

[DestroyTheCore]

[Knockworstface]

I don't think you could sound more like a paid shill right now if you tried. They are all readily identifiable as low quality, slapdash ports to anyone familiar with the arcade PCB versions, or the definitive console ports available in R-Types & Raiden Fighters Aces.

Are you always this big of a cunt when someone posts a sale to help others out? Get your head out of your ass. I was just trying to do people here a favor. It's also obvious that none of you have played any of these ports. If you did you wouldn't be acting like a bunch of self absorbed know it all douchebags.

[Pretas]

The internet is full of cunts who get paid by various shady agencies to troll forums and comment threads for the purposes of swaying debates, manipulating public opinion and acting as stealth advertisers. Considering that your 23-post history on this forum almost entirely consists of glowing praise and apologetics for smartphone games, you could easily be one of them.

[cave hermit]

[Sly Cherry Chunks]

Estebang has less expertise than me. I don't know where his negativity comes from.

Does this game have 1:1 dodging? Might be interesting for the bus.

[Kollision]

I want to enter a time machine and return in 10 years.
Will phone games be dead by then?

p-p-p-leasy please?

[rjosal]

I'm only missing the original r type and JET pcbs. Trouble is, I haven't found a way to get any of my 7 arcade cabs on the bus with me. I think the only real solution to get rid of these terrible phone ports is a Bluetooth supergun straight to my phone! Then again, sometimes I like the touch screen input. The routes you should take change and really breathe new life into a game. Maybe there is a way to jack touch controls into a PCB...

[JBC]

Wish Raiden Legacy had Viper & II in it, but it's still awesome.

[Austin]

The ports are fine for a buck a piece and if you have a separate physical joystick or gamepad setup. If you don't, I'd pass even for that price. I picked them up when they were new just as a fan of the games and only played them once. Pretty much a waste of money in the end for me. They are awful with touch controls, as are most (if not all) shmups. The emulation is also somewhat questionable, particularly with the original Raiden.

[JBC]

They updated them. The touch controls were changed a lot & offer a new way to play Raiden. It's not necessarily empowering or game breaking, either. It's a new spin, it's Raiden - /on iOS/

[BPzeBanshee]

For once I'm in complete agreement with Pretas - DotEmu's ports are generally shit, they've refused to acknowledge such by fixing the existing bugs, made stupid design choices purely for ease of use (starting with 5 lives and forced autofire last I checked), claim to support a large set of devices and then blame said device for performance issues - all of which I found out the hard way when playing it and paying full price.

The only people being helped by putting any money to these ports is to DotEmu continuing its bad precedent of making more broken and unsatisfactory ports of the games we love and ruining the original game's reputation by showing a buggy demonstration of it. It's been extensively covered in the last 50 threads concerning the ports, none of this should be news to anyone.

[Knockworstface]

I honestly think that ones so critical of these ports have never played them. The R-Type ports are identical to the original arcade games. The iOS ports that is.

[MathU]

I have plenty of experience with their IREM Arcade Hits collection and I can tell you that they stopped responding to complaints about the serious stability issues about a month or so after release and never touched it again afterwards.

[IseeThings]

The PC versions of Raiden Legacy also contain a whole bunch of MAME code, badly butchered to give a worst overall experience than MAME in the process.

I'd not want to give money to those guys. Actually, based on that, and their lousy support, I'd advise boycotting them instead.

[cave hermit]

Why are you so adamant about the quality of these iOS ports? The people who are complaining about the ports obviously have had some first hand experience with them.

Think about it this way: why would members of a shmup enthusiast forum, who know very well that companies have little commercial interest in the genre, try and boycott the few iOS ports that exist? The only logical reason they would have for this would be that the ports are half-assed and terrible.

[Knockworstface]

Why are you so adamant about the quality of these iOS ports? The people who are complaining about the ports obviously have had some first hand experience with them.

Think about it this way: why would members of a shmup enthusiast forum, who know very well that companies have little commercial interest in the genre, try and boycott the few iOS ports that exist? The only logical reason they would have for this would be that the ports are half-assed and terrible.

Because they're good ports. Plain and simple. Anyone that's played them using an iCade or with an external controller knows this.

The people complaining about them haven't played them. They like to complain just for the sake of complaining.

I have yet to see anyone here actually bring up a legitimate complaint that's valid other than the fact that they don't like touch screens.

That's the one thing that's pretty consistent here is bitching just to bitch. Like a group of cackling hens bitching and moaning just for the sake of bitching and moaning.


No one has made a detailed complaint about why the iOS ports are bad or half assed.

[Pretas]

Why are you so adamant about the quality of these iOS ports? The people who are complaining about the ports obviously have had some first hand experience with them.

Because he's either a paid shill or a manchild troll with a personal interest in promoting mobile app development, even the suckiest examples of it.

[cave hermit]

I have yet to see anyone here actually bring up a legitimate complaint that's valid other than the fact that they don't like touch screens.
No one has made a detailed complaint about why the iOS ports are bad or half assed.

For once I'm in complete agreement with Pretas - DotEmu's ports are generally shit, they've refused to acknowledge such by fixing the existing bugs, made stupid design choices purely for ease of use (starting with 5 lives and forced autofire last I checked), claim to support a large set of devices and then blame said device for performance issues - all of which I found out the hard way when playing it and paying full price... ...It's been extensively covered in the last 50 threads concerning the ports, none of this should be news to anyone.

The ports are fine for a buck a piece and if you have a separate physical joystick or gamepad setup. If you don't, I'd pass even for that price. I picked them up when they were new just as a fan of the games and only played them once. Pretty much a waste of money in the end for me. They are awful with touch controls, as are most (if not all) shmups. The emulation is also somewhat questionable, particularly with the original Raiden.

Not trying to start a fight here, but when I see bullshit I call it.

[JBC]

You guys don't know how to work these new fangled smart phones

[Knockworstface]

Why are you so adamant about the quality of these iOS ports? The people who are complaining about the ports obviously have had some first hand experience with them.

Because he's either a paid shill or a manchild troll with a personal interest in promoting mobile app development, even the suckiest examples of it.

Again this coming from someone who's never played any of these games on an iOS device.

[Knockworstface]

I have yet to see anyone here actually bring up a legitimate complaint that's valid other than the fact that they don't like touch screens.
No one has made a detailed complaint about why the iOS ports are bad or half assed.

For once I'm in complete agreement with Pretas - DotEmu's ports are generally shit, they've refused to acknowledge such by fixing the existing bugs, made stupid design choices purely for ease of use (starting with 5 lives and forced autofire last I checked), claim to support a large set of devices and then blame said device for performance issues - all of which I found out the hard way when playing it and paying full price... ...It's been extensively covered in the last 50 threads concerning the ports, none of this should be news to anyone.

The ports are fine for a buck a piece and if you have a separate physical joystick or gamepad setup. If you don't, I'd pass even for that price. I picked them up when they were new just as a fan of the games and only played them once. Pretty much a waste of money in the end for me. They are awful with touch controls, as are most (if not all) shmups. The emulation is also somewhat questionable, particularly with the original Raiden.

Not trying to start a fight here, but when I see bullshit I call it.

Again, vague generalizations that don't pinpoint or go into any detail to support the argument. More bitching for the sake of bitching.

[Pretas]

Knockworstface, I advise you to acknowledge your defeat in this argument and gracefully bow out of this thread for your own good, lest you end up on the receiving end of another large-scale forum drama like this one from your foolishness.

[opt2not]

There ain't no way I'm going to buy an iCade or an external controller to play yet another rehashed port when I can get a known good port on the psx for cheaper. (Raiden Project)

Or in the case of R-type, I much prefer getting the XBLA/PSN version that is a pretty awesome port with lots of great features. Plus arcade sticks are easier to acquire and feel less awkward for those systems than playing off an iDevice, and they're natively connected to proper screen.

R-type or Raiden on the go, you say? No thank you touch screen, and I personally don't carry around an external controller on my commute to work, or while I'm waiting in line at the movie theatre.

Besides, it's back up to $5.99 now.
That's a premium app price, and unfortunately this port is not premium.

[Knockworstface]

Knockworstface, I advise you to acknowledge your defeat in this argument and gracefully bow out of this thread for your own good, lest you end up on the receiving end of another large-scale forum drama like this one from your foolishness.

Defeat in what? This all boils down to a matter of opinion. I like the Raiden and R-Type ports on iOS. I also like the ports of Tengai and Strikers 1945 part II.

How are the Taito ports of Rayforce, Raystorm and Dariusburst SP on iOS? Anyone here have any thoughts or opinions on those ports?