Quick question about the Darius Gaiden Extra Version, in which I'm currently exploring all the routes I skipped in the past. Is Zone T supposed to spawn so many of the tier-6 Captains (the purple fish with the big gatling guns on their heads)? The midpoint of the level seems to go differently every time for me. Sometimes I get two or three Captains, sometimes many more, and some of them seem to disappear after capturing their orbs, leaving only one fin visible. On my last run I managed to survive their onslaught and capture several of them, only for the game to freeze and basically reset (back to the "wait a moment" boot-up screen). The resetting has happened before under different circumstances, and is presumably related to the excessive amount of stuff going on. It's still possible to clear the stage if you choose not to capture them (I'm working on a Z-route 1LC at the moment), but is it supposed to spam Captains at this point? In the original version it appears as zone H and has no Captain at all, and in the 2P all-stages mode it also appears as zone H, following the original game's zone map, so I can't compare these behaviours to anything.
Has anyone else played any routes involving zone T extensively? There doesn't seem to be any footage of it from other players on YT or Nico, nor any discussion of it as a 'known' issue. I figure it could just be an emulation issue, but if so, it's consistent across various older and newer builds of MAME I've tried...
Getting back to matters of Darius Love, what happened to Hidecade's astonishing Mega Drive conversion of Darius? All mention (and footage) of it seems to have been removed.
Edit: you can see what I was talking about at about 15:20
here.