Best Xbox Shooters

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Best Xbox Shooters

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Well, at the carboot sale last Sunday I was lucky enough to pick up a modded Xbox and its working well.

What shmups do you recommend for the X-Box - doesn't seem to be that many -looking at the xenocide files- whats been missed off the list- both PAL Jap and NTSC?
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shmups for the first model of xbox?

The shikigami series is not bad ;)
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I think it just had:
Psyvariar 2: Extend Edition
and the Shikigami no Shiro games

It did have some Metal Slugs though. :)

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Xyanide was released for the Xbox in NA region only. Never tried it personally, looks average to poor but may be worth checking out?

http://www.gamefaqs.com/xbox/917912-xyanide/images
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With a bit of looking online you should be able to get MAME, FBAXXX and a ton of other emulators. That's what I mainly use my old xbox for these days.
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Xyanide was pretty cool for a rail type shmup, but I'll never know how good because my copy would crash after the 2nd stage.
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Thanks for the suggestions- yeah- I thought about filling it full of emulators- make a good MAME machine at least!

-Seems its a pretty poor Shmup machine- I was hoping for some Jap shmups- oh well then.....
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Psyvariar 2 is an awesome game with a tonne of scorng potential. I'm not massively qualified to comment on the nuances of the Xbox build though...
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The only shmups I have for the first Xbox are Psyvariar 2 and Shiki 2. Both are Japanese imports. Note that modding an Xbox to play imports also mods it for other things.
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Xyanide was pretty fun, had an interesting power up system. More of an arena type shooter with a moving background more than anything, the game was also ridiculously long... I played it for over an hour once and still hadn't beaten it!
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