Introduction and Dreamcast Shmups Recommendations

[AleFillman1]

Hello everyone The names Ale and I am glad I found this board. Pretty sick. I just won a Dreamcast and am looking for anyone to recommend some fun Shmups for me. I love anything like Contra, Metal Slug, Life Force, Gradius, Blazing Lazers, R Type. Never had a Dreamcast b4 so not sure what to grab.

[ChainsawGuitarSP]

http://vsrecommendedgames.wikia.com/wiki/Dreamcast

[AleFillman1]

Hey thanks, great list here.

[AleFillman1]

Cannon Spike looks pretty cool. U ever play it?

[chempop]

The real question is: will you be forgiven because of your cool avatar?

Go preorder Sturmwind now.

[Guardians Knight]

cannon spike (gun spike) looks great and plays ok. It's available cheap enough so I'd say grab it.

[AleFillman1]

ahahha I don't know, Chempop, will I? Gonna check out Sturmwind. Yeah I think will pickup Cannon Spike as well. Thanks.

[AleFillman1]

Sturmwind looks pretty F'N Sick man thanks. Love the over the top huge Boss fights.

[chempop]

The joke was because a lot of new users start threads asking about DC games and they almost always get locked.

I'd usually recommend some of my favorite DC verts: Mars Matrix, Gunbird 2, Gigawing, and Under Defeat. Since you mentioned hori memorizers I think Sturmwind is a perfect game for you, despite not knowing how it'll turn out, I think it'll rock. Also look into Last Hope: Pink Bullets

[AleFillman1]

Thanks. Yeah man I def want to snag Gunbird 2. I was watching some gameplay earlier. Another reason I got the Dreamcast was for that new one Fast Striker but now i see its out of stock. Hoping they make some more copies. Looks ILL!!!

[KBZ]

welcome to the boards. There are plenty of great shmups for the system. Many of my favourites are NTSC-J only though. You can get around this with a boot disc.

DCHAKKER can be used to boot imports

http://www.dcevolution.net/index.php?id=dchakker

or you can google around and look for the legal CDX demo that will do the same thing.

Or there's a mod+software option to change your console's region

http://www.lyris-lite.net/fu_archives/000601.html

You could also install a modchip. Looks like they've become tough to find though.


best of luck!

[AleFillman1]

welcome to the boards. There are plenty of great shmups for the system. Many of my favourites are NTSC-J only though. You can get around this with a boot disc.

DCHAKKER can be used to boot imports

http://www.dcevolution.net/index.php?id=dchakker

or you can google around and look for the legal CDX demo that will do the same thing.

Or there's a mod+software option to change your console's region

http://www.lyris-lite.net/fu_archives/000601.html

You could also install a modchip. Looks like they've become tough to find though.


best of luck!

Awesome Info. Thanks for taking the time. Man I am getting to stoked to get this DC now. Should have it late next week I need to grab an arcade stick too.