2d horizontal shmups

tizerist · Post by **tizerist** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 7:53 pm

i like 2d hori's,my collection is as follows:

thunder force 4
thunderforce 3
einhander
border down
g darius
r type delta
r type final
gradius v

is there anything else out there up to the standards of these games (apart from TF 5)
I own a ps2, dc and a pc which will of course emulate anything.
nice one

Neon · Post by **Neon** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 7:58 pm

Salamander deuce

darius gaiden and hyper duel are ok.

Plasmo · Post by **Plasmo** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 8:06 pm

darius gaiden is EXCELLENT!

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 8:09 pm

I recommend Harmful Park (PS1), Progear (Arcade), and Blazing Star (Neo-Geo/Arcade).

EDIT, after reading following post: Almost forgot, try Bike Banditz (PC) as well.

angrycoder · Post by **angrycoder** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 8:09 pm

harmful park on the PS1

Angeraze 2 and Airade Air on the PC

tizerist · Post by **tizerist** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 8:16 pm

salamander! good answer. (did you mean no.2)
ive been researching the deluxe pack for ps1.
its jap only isnt it? and very expensive...

http://search.ebay.co.uk//search/search ... ander+pack

darius gaiden on ps1.
whats it like compared to g darius then???

Palmer Eldritch · Post by **Palmer Eldritch** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 8:46 pm

Defender and Stargate, obviously. Gley Lancer (SMD) is excellent also.

I´ll second those who recommend Harmful Park and Border Down.

Dale · Post by **Dale** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 8:52 pm

Gaires and Zero Wing for Genesis are good.

tizerist · Post by **tizerist** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 8:54 pm

i like defender 2 actually. older than crocodiles themselves and plainer looking than A4. but its speedy and classic. only on NES was it??? i think i had that on my spectrum back in the day...

and yeah i came across gleylancer, quite good, but just a bit too ugly, and a cut below those in my collection thus far i would say . (though defender 2 slips through)

at the moment im leading towards :
darius gaiden (RARE on ps1)
or salamander pack (ps1)

llabnip · Post by **llabnip** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 9:05 pm

tizerist wrote:i like defender 2 actually. older than crocodiles themselves and plainer looking than A4. but its speedy and classic. only on NES was it??? i think i had that on my spectrum back in the day...

Atari 2600 had Defender 2 under the "Stargate" title. The NES rev was quite good (as was the 2600). The Midway pack for the XBOX has Defender 2.

As to the original question... Gradius Gaiden - the best Gradius, IMO (though I, II and V are excellent too).

UnscathedFlyingObject · Fri Jan 27, 2006 9:41 pm

Gradius Gaiden

SAM · Post by **SAM** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 1:14 am

How about the

Parodius series
Coton 100%
Coton Orginal

?

(It seems that I am always into Cute'm up....)

Stormwatch · Post by **Stormwatch** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 2:15 pm

Sol-Deace for the Genesis (or Sol-Feace for the SegaCD) deserves more love!

CIT · Post by **CIT** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 2:22 pm

tizerist wrote: thunder force 4
thunderforce 3
einhander
border down
g darius
r type delta
r type final
gradius v

If you like those games, you must try:

- Xexex
- Last Resort
- Pulstar
- Blazing Star
- Gate of Thunder
- Lords of Thunder
- Gleylancer
- Eliminate Down

All of these are classic.

zinger · Post by **zinger** » Sat Jan 28, 2006 3:21 pm

Gynoug (Wings of Wor), Metal Black and Cotton 2 are nice aswell.

tizerist · Post by **tizerist** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 7:47 pm

lots of possibilities there guys. nice one.
if you could just refer to a platform for the games your mentioning, though. some of you recommended neo-geo games, which i will never be able to get.
cheers though. keep em coming

Post by **BulletMagnet** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 7:51 pm

If you can emulate, as you say you can, you can try most of the Neo games on MAME, Kawaks, or some other such program.

tizerist · Post by **tizerist** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 8:35 pm

okay.im now downloading neo rage, along with blazing star. its a lot of memory. hope its worth it!

tizerist · Post by **tizerist** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 9:01 pm

well that was a waste of time innit.
long story short- lots of memory and it didnt work anyway

zinger · Post by **zinger** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 9:10 pm

tizerist wrote:well that was a waste of time innit.
long story short- lots of memory and it didnt work anyway

The roms that work with Neo Rage (superior, from what I've seen) seem to differ from the ones that work in MAME, you sure you got the right ones? You need NG BIOS aswell, but you probably knew that.

captain ahar · Post by **captain ahar** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 9:11 pm

just go with mame, absolutely painless, and there IS a version that will work for you.

and blazing star is incredible and worth any trouble you may experience obtaining it. my favorite ship is the blue one woth the energy burst charge shot (forgot name). i just love headbutting everything in the face, there is nothing better than a game that makes you feel like a badass (unless its one that kicks your ass at the same time

).

aside: its interesting, less than a year ago i was bitching about how difficult mame was to use. today, i just got the latest command line version and am itching to get home and see if my speeds are any better in brave blade, g-darius, and guardian force. ^_^ i am emulation whore (my worst enemy).

Post by **nZero** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 9:18 pm

tizerist wrote:long story short- lots of memory and it didnt work anyway

We're better able to help you if you define what exactly it was that didn't work

zinger wrote:The roms that work with Neo Rage (superior, from what I've seen)

Superiorly ancient and unsupported, superiorly crappy sound, superior need for hacked ROMs to support newer games... basically it's superior if you're still trying to play KoF'98 on your 200MHz Pentium. Or if Nebula/Kawaks/MAME32 are somehow too difficult to comprehend and use.

zinger · Post by **zinger** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 9:23 pm

nZero wrote:Superiorly ancient and unsupported, superiorly crappy sound, superior need for hacked ROMs to support newer games... basically it's superior if you're still trying to play KoF'98 on your 200MHz Pentium. Or if Nebula/Kawaks/MAME32 are somehow too difficult to comprehend and use.

Go figure. The roms i tried in MAME awhile ago barely worked at all, distorted graphics and whatnot. I'll check out Kawaks then.

Edge · Post by **Edge** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 9:37 pm

I like Mame most of all emus too.

Here are some other good horizontal ones, although I think most of them where already reccomended.

Gradius I
R-Type I & II
Parodius (series)
Cotton
Gynoug
Pulstar
Blazing Star
Last Resort
Area 88 / U.N. Squadron
Axelay (like Salamander, a mix between horizontal & vertical shmup)

tizerist · Post by **tizerist** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 9:40 pm

i thought you could play MAME rom on neo rage.
that was the problem.
go ahead, laugh.
no seriously, ill download mame emulator tomorow, cos the rom took half hour to download, and i deleted it, so my enthusiasm has gone now.

blazing star looks wicked. ill report back tomorrow

tizerist · Post by **tizerist** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 9:44 pm

STUFF THAT! IM DOING IT NOW!
ill report back in about 45.......
after my bacon sandwich!!!!!

tizerist · Post by **tizerist** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 10:27 pm

file not found when i try to load?

Edge · Post by **Edge** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 10:45 pm

If you want to play Neo Geo games, you need a Neo Geo bios and put it in the folder roms. The bios file is only a few kb.

elvis · Post by **elvis** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 11:04 pm

MAWS to the rescue!

A list of all games under the "shooter" genre (you can narrow down the search using the "category" search for Shooter/Flying-Vertical or Shooter/Flying-Horizontal etc) with horizontally oriented monitors:

http://www.mameworld.net/maws/srch.php? ... entation=1

Initiate your own search by going to the main page:
http://www.mameworld.net/maws/

Click "delux search" and go crazy.

The whole point of MAME is to document arcade games. Sites like MAWS serve as more than just a MAME catalogue, but essentially an arcade game catalogue (think KLOV, but with more info), and are great for people wanting to track down a particular type of game. Within the information parts of each game are a list of console ports that the game made it to as well as similar games of the same style. Very helpful!

superhitachi4 · Post by **superhitachi4** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 11:09 pm

zinger wrote:
nZero wrote:Superiorly ancient and unsupported, superiorly crappy sound, superior need for hacked ROMs to support newer games... basically it's superior if you're still trying to play KoF'98 on your 200MHz Pentium. Or if Nebula/Kawaks/MAME32 are somehow too difficult to comprehend and use.
Go figure. The roms i tried in MAME awhile ago barely worked at all, distorted graphics and whatnot. I'll check out Kawaks then.

NeoRage (specifically NeoRageX for XP) works great, but it hasn't been officially supported for some time... Emulation is quite accurate, and compatibility is high. Most people who have issues with it just don't have the right versions, or configure them correctly. XP versions aren't official by the way.

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