Yuzo Koshiro is making new MD shmup.

[Steven]

Hell yeah 32 megabits~

They seem to be showing off that the game has a massive amount of animation frames and scaled sprites for various things, so they may end up needing those 32 megs. They could push it over that with bank switching if they really wanted to, but at that point I think that that would be having a big ROM size just for the sake of having a big ROM size. See: Demons of Asteborg, the game where the selling point is the ROM size and certainly not the quality of the (pretty boring) game itself.

[Stevens]

Not going to lie. When this news first broke I was in the "That's cool, but whatever" camp.

Now that the trailer has dropped - this is going to be hype. Yuzo and company have brought the sauce. This one is going to be awesome.

I haven't been this excited for a shooter since Crisis Wing.

[SuperDeadite]

Hell yeah 32 megabits~

They seem to be showing off that the game has a massive amount of animation frames and scaled sprites for various things, so they may end up needing those 32 megs. They could push it over that with bank switching if they really wanted to, but at that point I think that that would be having a big ROM size just for the sake of having a big ROM size. See: Demons of Asteborg, the game where the selling point is the ROM size and certainly not the quality of the (pretty boring) game itself.

Kai Magazine's "The Secret of the Four Winds" doesn't even use rom chips of any kind. It's a microSD card in a cartridge lol.

[Sumez]

This definitely isn't going to use ROM chips either. That would make no sense. Like I said, expect some kind of flash memory (and it's definitely going to be way bigger than 32mbits, too). Every modern cartridge release does, unless it's homebuilt using old reused EPROM chips.

[Steven]

Hell yeah 32 megabits~

They seem to be showing off that the game has a massive amount of animation frames and scaled sprites for various things, so they may end up needing those 32 megs. They could push it over that with bank switching if they really wanted to, but at that point I think that that would be having a big ROM size just for the sake of having a big ROM size. See: Demons of Asteborg, the game where the selling point is the ROM size and certainly not the quality of the (pretty boring) game itself.

Kai Magazine's "The Secret of the Four Winds" doesn't even use rom chips of any kind. It's a microSD card in a cartridge lol.

Never heard of this game, but lol that certainly is a way of providing storage space.

[spmbx]

Earthion news coming at SHU-TAISAI 2025 — Japan’s annual festival for shmups!
🗓 June 14, 17:00 JST (08:00 UTC) – SuperDeluxe Games segment
I’ll be playtesting Earthion live!
🗓 June 15, 14:00 JST (05:00 UTC) – exA-Arcadia segment
Streamed via Game Center Mikado’s YouTube
https://shootersfes.com/

[m.sniffles.esq]

Release trailer

(coming july 31)

Retro webpage thing

[Steven]

Half of me says "hell yeah!"

The other half of me says "WHERE THE FUCK IS THE JAPANESE MEGA DRIVE VERSION?!?!?!"

This is honestly a lot sooner than I thought this would release. I was expecting to wait until like November~December for this to release, so this makes me pretty happy.

[Daytime Waitress]

One of the few times I might have bothered to go physical - it's a bit puzzling that they're doing so much "check out how Mega Drive this is!" and then just dodging the MD release at launch.
But it will be nice to have GabeSoft version in August.

[SuperDeadite]

Half of me says "hell yeah!"

The other half of me says "WHERE THE FUCK IS THE JAPANESE MEGA DRIVE VERSION?!?!?!"

This is honestly a lot sooner than I thought this would release. I was expecting to wait until like November~December for this to release, so this makes me pretty happy.

Ancient announced that the MD version will come in 2026. Seems that they want to wait and see how the modern version goes, and if they make any updates to improve it, they want them in the MD cart too. So seems modern systems are getting the beta? Lol.

[soupbones]

Pushing the Mega Drive version to 2026 smells like some double dipping bullshit tactic to me - it was developed from day 1 as a MD title.

And it will work - on me at least.

[LDigital]

Modern platform versions are available to or pre-order
No Megadrive yet

https://limitedrungames.com/products/ea ... 1119362101

[Sengoku Strider]

it's a bit puzzling that they're doing so much "check out how Mega Drive this is!" and then just dodging the MD release at launch.

I'm still waiting for a cartridge release of M2's Space Harrier.

[spmbx]

Pushing the Mega Drive version to 2026 smells like some double dipping bullshit tactic to me - it was developed from day 1 as a MD title.

And it will work - on me at least.

Looking at LRG's shipping schedule you're looking at xmas for the physical standard and May 2026 for the collectors edition at best so it's 2026 anyway for whatever physical version you want, 2025 only digital.

[EmperorIng]

Digital release, the (delayed) md cart, and now an Exa version (with your requisite Exa "hyper mode scoring system!")? This is crazy, I hope Yuzo is making bank with this aggressive campaign. He's been redoing his image into that of some type of dad rockstar lately it seems so I hope he can leverage that retro goodwill and streetcred with some local comiket groupies.

[ChurchOfSolipsism]

Pushing the Mega Drive version to 2026 smells like some double dipping bullshit tactic to me - it was developed from day 1 as a MD title.

And it will work - on me at least.

Fuck that, I'd have bought the md version straight away, but now if the reviews aren't glowing, I won't part with my hard earned cash

[SuperDeadite]

If you preorder the game from Beep, it comes with an exclusive Yuzo Koshiro BROMIDE.
LOLOLOLOLOLOL!
https://channel.beep-shop.com/products/detail/72154

[SuperDeadite]

On Twitter, Ancient has stated that MegaDrive digital rom will come before the cart. Again as they want the cart release to be fully up to date and perfect. But, this will mean many players will be buying multiple times for sure lol.

[Stevens]

They were streaming this yesterday. I forced myself to only watch the first stage. It looks great.

[xEbb1993x]

https://www.timeextension.com/news/2025 ... en-delayed

Bad news. The console versions of the game have been postponed to mid-September. But on the positive side, at least the Steam version is still releasing on July 31st. The Genesis version isn’t coming until next year, however.

[PC Engine Fan X!]

Our resident fellow shmupper, Faith, will finally be able to try out the much hyped Mega Drive based Earthion stg out on Steam this coming July 31st, 2025 -- I know I will with much awaited eager anticipation. It'll certainly will be well worth the wait for it indeed.

To have an Earthion Exa-Acadia release with some exclusives added, will certainly spice up the Japanese game centers & in the hands of privateer arcade gamers with such deep monetary pockets to add to their overall Exa-Arcadia stg collection alrighty. The 2025/2026 timeline is looking to be quite bright with this much anticipated and newfangled MD/Genesis cart release of Earthion (is it running some kind of "specialized black magic or voodoo" under the hood that we don't know about?). Hmmm...

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One of our in-house shmupper tech wizards will have to crack open such an mysterious & unearthly Earthion cart & "all shall be revealed" in due time. Could it be the so-called promised "second coming" of the MD/Genesis messiah of Earthion as spoken by the mystic prophets in feverant quiet whispers/murmurs of the past? We shall see if that is so...
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PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

[xEbb1993x]

I just hope we get it on PS5, Switch, and Xbox Series S/X before the end of the year, at least...

[PC Engine Fan X!]

Here's the link to the upcoming Earthion EXA-Arcadia game with a July 2025 release date: https://exa.ac/en/games/earthion-exa-label/?v=

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

[Daytime Waitress]

A buddy just hit BitSummit and said console versions now are slated for 10/30...

[DietSoap]

A buddy just hit BitSummit and said console versions now are slated for 10/30...

Just console versions? Or PC as well?

[Daytime Waitress]

A buddy just hit BitSummit and said console versions now are slated for 10/30...

Just console versions? Or PC as well?

Pretty sure it's just the console ones.
Steam wasn't mentioned, so its 7/31 date is still valid AFAIK.

[xEbb1993x]

I just hope we get the console versions before the end of the year...

[bobrocks95]

Gotta say this Exa Arcadia announcement hurts more than others, the game isn't even finished yet... Is it delaying the other releases? Is it a mode that would have been in the main game if it wasn't siphoned off for an arcade release?

As someone else said I hope Yuzo's being paid well at least.

[Sumez]

A buddy just hit BitSummit and said console versions now are slated for 10/30...

10 30 what?

[Daytime Waitress]

A buddy just hit BitSummit and said console versions now are slated for 10/30...

10 30 what?

October 30th.