Thunder force 6

Darius11 · Post by **Darius11** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 7:00 pm

I have heard on and off about this game for years! anybody have some facts?

PC Engine Fan X! · Post by **PC Engine Fan X!** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 7:36 pm

Darius11 wrote:I have heard on and off about this game for years! anybody have some facts?

For Darius11,

This Thunder Force 6 game was supposed to be developed by Technosoft for the Japanese Dreamcast console platform back in 2000 but was cancelled. A short clip of the opening FMV with fully-generated CGI animation was released on the internet a while back... is kick-ass and top-notch animation indeed! Makes you wish that TF-6 was released upon viewing it for the first time..... ^_~

I'm pretty sure that support for DC Ascii/Agetech Arcade Stick controller would've been included for this DC release of TF-6 shmup title. ^_~

A OST Music CD was released in limited numbers in Japan a few years back that was to feature background music on the full-version DC GD-Rom disc of TF-6.

I'm not sure if this DC Thunder Force 6 shmup title was to continue where TF-5 left off or not...would've been interesting to see if it was a true sequel -- continuing from the ending events revealed at the conclusion of TF-5's "good ending" or a wholly different Thunder Force storyline arch altogether -- the world may never know..... ^_~

Technosoft seems to have vanished or disbanded...so TF-6 will never be made unless another developer secures the rights to finish it. ^_~

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

Post by **Icarus** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 7:41 pm

Thunder Force VI, LOL.
We're more likely to see ThunderFuture finished before an official sequel is announced.

Kaiser · Post by **Kaiser** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 7:50 pm

Icarus what is thunder future huh? I don't know japanese so i don't catch that

The Coop · Post by **The Coop** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 7:56 pm

Icarus wrote:Thunder Force VI, LOL.
We're more likely to see ThunderFuture finished before an official sequel is announced.

And considering how long Thunder Future's been in development, and how far it has to go yet, that's going to be a long time.

As for the TF VI soundtrack came in two flavors. The first is "Broken Thunder: Noise Image Soundtrack Volume 3", which features just the tunes that would have been in the game, and "Broken Thunder: Project Thunder Force VI" which features all those tunes, plus various remixes of music from the TF series' past.

Regarding Technosoft, from what I recall, they were bought by Twenty-One Company, a pachinko maker in Japan. Not exactly sure why a pachinko maker wanted a video game company, but Technosoft was eventually swallowed up by their R&D division, effectively desolving the shmup maker.

PC Engine Fan X! · Post by **PC Engine Fan X!** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 9:28 pm

The Coop wrote:Regarding Technosoft, from what I recall, they were bought by Twenty-One Company, a pachinko maker in Japan. Not exactly sure why a pachinko maker wanted a video game company, but Technosoft was eventually swallowed up by their R&D division, effectively desolving the shmup maker.

For The Coop,

I see that the current crop of the latest Japanese pachinko machines that have those cool high-tech LCD-based screens for the 'fever'-slot mini games...it would take a software developer some time to come up with some custom programming for those "spinning reels" on the latest pachinko machines -- so much fun to play them but reeks to high heaven because of all that damn cigarette smoke in them pachinko parlors!... (Please no offense to smokers here on this forum...I'm not a smoker myself -- that's all.) ^_~

Too bad that cool Star Wars pachinko machine ain't setup for play here in the USA...damn! ^_~

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

Vexorg · Post by **Vexorg** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 9:35 pm

Based on the Syrinx being shown in the trailer as Fire LEO V, I would imagine it would not have been related to TFV, which was essentially a side story.

PC Engine Fan X! · Post by **PC Engine Fan X!** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 9:39 pm

Vexorg wrote:Based on the Syrinx being shown in the trailer as Fire LEO V, I would imagine it would not have been related to TFV, which was essentially a side story.

So then TF-6 would've continued where TF-4 ended, right (if TF-5 is to be regarded as a "side-story")?

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

Alpolio · Post by **Alpolio** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 1:16 am

I can't imagine that the programmers at Technosoft would stick around just to make some pachinko machines. I just wonder what happened to the "brains" behind Technosoft after the buy-out?

shinsage · Post by **shinsage** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 3:21 am

What's this then, V was a side story?
What a bum about TS, being swallowed by a pachinko company...

coffeejoerx · Post by **coffeejoerx** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 5:44 pm

Hi guys, in this site:

http://down.skyhu.com/SoftView/SoftView_4405.html

have an OST from Thunder Force VI.

This site is slow.

Zeether · Post by **Zeether** » Mon Dec 25, 2006 6:54 am

Success turned into a pachinko company, then came back to make Psyvariar...maybe Tecno Soft will do the same

JoshF · Post by **JoshF** » Mon Dec 25, 2006 2:14 pm

Wasn't there a minigame in Segagaga that was taken from Thunder Force VI?

JBC · Post by **JBC** » Mon Dec 25, 2006 2:29 pm

It is kind of wierd to think about the series as a whole, with it beginning at 1 and ending at V. It's like all these battles really were being shown to us for a reason leading up to our own species' near destructon. The dangerous legacy of one world ends up drifting across the stars and falling into our incapable hands, ensuring we suffer the same fate as this civilization we have watched and controlled and rooted for throughout thier epic battles. It's a fun thing to contemplate.

Koa Zo · Post by **Koa Zo** » Mon Dec 25, 2006 6:55 pm

JoshF wrote:Wasn't there a minigame in Segagaga that was taken from Thunder Force VI?

Not just a minigame, the whole last boss fight was Thunderforce-esque.

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