Raiden series

Strider77 · Post by **Strider77** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 8:21 am

i bought raiden 3 and have played 1 and 2 way back when but never got really into the series..

i was wondering what home ports there are and what ones you all would suggest me pick up. tell me your favorites and why ect.....

btw... I'm a new poster here

CIT · Post by **CIT** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 9:27 am

Raiden - A ton of homeports on most systems, but "Raiden Project" for Playstation is the only one one really needs to bother with

Raiden II - Also a perfect port on "Raiden Project"

Raiden DX - A remixed version of Raiden II, with a scoring system and some other tweaks. Generally considered the best Raiden of the original series.
Good review here: http://users.pandora.be/twin-dreams/PSo ... en_DX.html

Raiden III - well, you know about that one

The other Seibu stuff like Raiden Fighters series or Viper Phase One has not been ported, but they're emulated nicely in MAME.

PFG 9000 · Post by **PFG 9000** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 6:51 pm

Speaking of Raiden Fighters in MAME, mine won't work. Do I have to do anything with the ROMs besides dropping the zipped file into the Roms folder? Is there some other file I need to download or tweak to get them to work? The original Raiden works fine, but I can't get any of the other games in the series to work.

Twiddle · Post by **Twiddle** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 7:15 pm

1. Set JP1 dipsw to "UPDATE".

2. Wait six minutes for the counter to go down to 0.

3. Set JP1 dipsw to "ON".

4. Reset.

99pence · Post by **99pence** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 8:47 pm

Does Raiden on the PSone have proper rapid fire? Not just the really slow and pointless one on the coin op.

CIT · Post by **CIT** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 9:55 pm

99pence wrote:Does Raiden on the PSone have proper rapid fire? Not just the really slow and pointless one on the coin op.

Yup.

99pence · Post by **99pence** » Thu Jul 27, 2006 10:19 pm

Thanks.

BeauZilla 002 · Post by **BeauZilla 002** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 12:53 am

So hows Super Raiden for the PC Engine?I'm getting a Duo soon & was wondering about this one...

JBC · Post by **JBC** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 1:14 am

Twiddle wrote:2. Wait six minutes for the counter to go down to 0.

The throttle seems to speed this up slightly, but not as much as you'd expect.

But for VP1 i suggest listening to the tunes for a second as they are kind of relaxing and sets the mood for the game a bit. Ahhh...

CIT · Post by **CIT** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 8:13 am

BeauZilla 002 wrote:So hows Super Raiden for the PC Engine?I'm getting a Duo soon & was wondering about this one...

It's actually a pretty good port/version. I would still go with Raiden Project though, since it is still way better AND cheaper.

Save the cash on Super Raiden, and get some PC-Engine-exclusive shooter like Spriggan instead, that would be my advice.

ASK · Post by **ASK** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 11:39 am

Raiden II was also ported to the PC (which works out nicely since MAME's emulation of it isn't perfect). It's easily found on most Abandonware sites (like Home of the Underdogs), but the copies you find are usually lacking music. There's usually a few legit copies floating around on eBay for only a few bucks though!

Strider77 · Post by **Strider77** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 8:37 pm

I've noticed some games i disliked when I was younger I appreciate more now. But I remember being pretty board with Raiden, I thought they were really plain looking and playing.

CIT · Post by **CIT** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 8:41 pm

I pretty much agree. For me Raiden is just a total rip of of Twin Cobra.

Raiden II is pretty good tho.

gameoverDude · Post by **gameoverDude** » Fri Jul 28, 2006 10:28 pm

ASK wrote:Raiden II was also ported to the PC (which works out nicely since MAME's emulation of it isn't perfect). It's easily found on most Abandonware sites (like Home of the Underdogs), but the copies you find are usually lacking music. There's usually a few legit copies floating around on eBay for only a few bucks though!

ePSXe will play the PS1 Raiden D/X perfectly (and IIRC, Raiden Project).

When initializing SPI games in MAME, the counter seems to run down faster if you're also maxing out the frameskip to 11 while the throttle is off.