What Shmups may never appear on home console?

[null1024]

R-TYPE LEO

This, and it makes me sad.
Oh, and Ketsui is probably getting ported finally. I feel pretty optimistic about it.

PS: Is DDP2 really that bad? I've always wanted to try it, but...

[Annoyboy]

Pink Sweets and Muchi Muchi Pork ;_;

[Jockel]

PS: Is DDP2 really that bad? I've always wanted to try it, but...

Like i said, it's not bad. But not very good either.

[Shelcoof]

I'll play devil's advocate and state that I'm more distraught over the non-shooting games that won't make it to consoles. There's only a handful of shooting releases over 10 years old that are very hard to play: meaning the PCBs are at least attainable and somewhat affordable. Some that come to mind would be offbeat, like Scramble Spirits (24khz display and somewhat rare... and not all that sought after).

Other ones though, like Planet Harriers: there's no Hikaru driver in sight, and I've never once seen a board for sale. Even if you do, then you've got controller issues. There's still no near perfect way (all ports & MAME are noticeably flawed) to play Night Striker outside of the PCB (again, even if you have the money and patience to find one, you've gotta sort out an analogue controller).

I shed a tear all the time when I hear or read something regarding Planet Harrier. Absolutely want to play that game since I heard about it back in the Dreamcast days.

I'm glad After Burner Climax is coming out though.

[Limbrooke]

Interesting topic, didn't notice it until now although it's mainly a disappointing subject. Most bases have been covered so far (Raizing) so I throw in my two cents.

Viper Phase 1, Raiden 2 NEW, Zero Gunner, Cyvern, Brave Blade, Sengeki Striker, and G-Stream G2020.

[Ed Oscuro]

Meta Fox & the Twin Eagle games

never forget

"BAAAAWWWW Wooooow waaaaaw gonna take it down, something blah blah turnaround"

[saucykobold]

I don't think these Irem games have been ported:

Dragon Breed
Air Duel
Gallop / Cosmic Cop
Gun Hohki / Mystic Riders
Fire Barrel

Meta Fox & the Twin Eagle games

never forget

"BAAAAWWWW Wooooow waaaaaw gonna take it down, something blah blah turnaround"

I think it's "Woah woah woah, gonna break it dowwwwn... the table will turn around, you'll see..."

[gameoverDude]

Double Wings (Mitchell) : Somewhat like an unofficial prequel to the Raiden series, with a WWII setting. The EOS bonus is similar to Raiden's, as are the boss battles. You choose from one of three planes similar to the later 19XX. MAME32FX's recent build (0.136) will play it, even though it claims the game isn't working. I'd like to see Mitchell take a break from Magnetica/PuzzLoop at least long enough to port this to XBLA/PSN/VC.

[TomuS]

Meta Fox & the Twin Eagle games

Agreed. Twin Eagle got a port on NES. But.. it's about as far from the arcade version as possible.
A "Seta Shooting Collection" would be awesome, including those games + Arbalester & Tokusyu Butai U.A.G.

[gameoverDude]

Meta Fox & the Twin Eagle games

Agreed. Twin Eagle got a port on NES. But.. it's about as far from the arcade version as possible.
A "Seta Shooting Collection" would be awesome, including those games + Arbalester & Tokusyu Butai U.A.G.

The arcade TE isn't bad. As for the NES port - it lacks the intensity of the arcade. TE is a game that should have been saved for one of the 16-bit systems.

[MathU]

I don't think these Irem games have been ported:

Dragon Breed
Air Duel
Gallop / Cosmic Cop
Gun Hohki / Mystic Riders
Fire Barrel

Thunder Blaster/Lethal Thunder (these are almost two different games)
Gunforce
Geostorm/Gunforce 2
Some great beat 'em ups like Ninja Baseball Batman

I would absolutely love for Irem to make an arcade collection someday, including all the great stuff they never ported.

[kernow]

Space Phallus, which is a shame.

I'd buy it on PSN.

[Shocky]

I don't think these Irem games have been ported:
Dragon Breed

Not on consoles, but it was ported to many home computers. The Amiga version is close enough to the arcade original.

[Shocky]

I don't think these Irem games have been ported:
Dragon Breed

Not on consoles, but it was ported to many home computers. The Amiga version is close enough to the arcade original (except you could only select music OR fx... then again, at the arcades one usually doesn't hear much anything but noise).

[gs68]

Speaking of non-shooting games...fuck you TTC (and Microsoft). Way to make the only console Tetris TGM suck. (or rather, be not TGM)

[NR777]

Pink Sweets, Ibara BL.

[RoninBuddha]

bakraid
progear
ketsui
ikaruga

[EinhanderZwei]

ketsui
ikaruga

Lolwut?

[BrianC]

I don't think these Irem games have been ported:

Dragon Breed
Air Duel
Gallop / Cosmic Cop
Gun Hohki / Mystic Riders
Fire Barrel

Thunder Blaster/Lethal Thunder (these are almost two different games)
Gunforce
Geostorm/Gunforce 2
Some great beat 'em ups like Ninja Baseball Batman

I would absolutely love for Irem to make an arcade collection someday, including all the great stuff they never ported.

Gunforce 1 was ported to SNES, but I haven't heard many good things about the SNES version.

[EinhanderZwei]

Gunforce 1 was ported to SNES, but I haven't heard many good things about the SNES version.

You won't hear them from me too Irem are so IREM to make a shitty port of a shitty game...

[ROBOTRON]

ketsui
ikaruga

Lolwut?

Ikaruga was on at least 2 consoles...I have the Dreamcast version.

[Dale]

never forget

"BAAAAWWWW Wooooow waaaaaw gonna take it down, something blah blah turnaround"

My all time most hated power up system, Fun game none the less.

Edit:Your singing Meta fox's music right?