Suggest some shmups for a new psp owner?

[Emuser]

Hey all, was wondering what are some good suggestions for shmups for my psp, whether they be from umd(iso lol), emulator, homebrew, etc. I hacked my psp and got Blazing Star, Last Resort, Metal Slug, and a bunch of Genesis shmups running, but can anyone suggest anything else?

[Blackbird]

Tactics Ogre, Knights in the Nightmare, Riviera: The Promised Land, Yggdra Union ...wait, we weren't talking about JRPGS =P?

In seriousness, I don't know of very many shooting games on the PSP. Let's see...

Darius Burst
Every Extend Extra
R-Type Command
Space Invaders Extreme

Without having played any of these personally, I couldn't say whether they are any good or not.

[drunkninja24]

There's Star Soldier and Neo Geo Heroes: Ultimate Shooting, which are decent, not great though. At least they support tate, lol.

[Drum]

Parodius and Gradius collections are essential.

[Emuser]

Glad to know it just isn't me having a hard time thinking of psp shmups, I guess it really is lacking outside of hacking. Gradius collection is a probability in the near future whenever I get tired of ps2 Gradius V.

[Obiwanshinobi]

PSX games you can buy from the Japanese store:
R-Types
R-Type Delta
Sonic Wings Special (also in the US store)
Zanac X Zanac (I suggest getting busy to Zanac Special Version - easy to overlook, which is a shame)

[dcharlie]

Hack it and put FBA (final burn alpha) on it and you're playing Dodonpachi, Guwange, esprade etc - tate supported! :O

put CPS2 emu on it and you're all sorted for some hot on the go Mars Matrix and Progear

[Drum]

PSX games you can buy from the Japanese store:
R-Types
R-Type Delta
Sonic Wings Special (also in the US store)
Zanac X Zanac (I suggest getting busy to Zanac Special Version - easy to overlook, which is a shame)

How do I switch to the Japanese store? I really want R-Type Delta and Zanac x Zanac.

[xris]

The Twinbee collection is awesome.

[Emuser]

Hack it and put FBA (final burn alpha) on it and you're playing Dodonpachi, Guwange, esprade etc - tate supported! :O

put CPS2 emu on it and you're all sorted for some hot on the go Mars Matrix and Progear

WHAT

AS AWESOME as this sounds, I think I'd have to get used to holding the psp literally vertically to play DDP, Esprade and whatnot right?

[dcharlie]

I think I'd have to get used to holding the psp literally vertically to play DDP, Esprade and whatnot right?

you'll be surprised how quickly you get used to it - it's uncomfy af first but i was able to do it quite easily.

and just to show what it looks like, someone has a 'tube up running in tate

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qScvNeHaeAE

here's Dimaho running tate (theres no music corruption - some reason this users vid screwed up a bit)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxwfVoa8-TA

and here's progear :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c13bk7H3Akc

[Emuser]

Maybe I'll just stick with hori shooters on this psp, I just can't get into tate'd verticals on a psp. No big deal since I could just play them on my computer if I really wanted to.

[PC Engine Fan X!]

PSX games you can buy from the Japanese store:
R-Types
R-Type Delta
Sonic Wings Special (also in the US store)
Zanac X Zanac (I suggest getting busy to Zanac Special Version - easy to overlook, which is a shame)

How do I switch to the Japanese store? I really want R-Type Delta and Zanac x Zanac.

You'd just simply open an new account on your PS3 and select JPN as your country of region. It might get a bit trick navigating around with some pages during intial sign-up (since it's entirely in Japanese). There're a few tutorials how to sign up for an Japanese PS3 account with the sign-up pages with English translations to help you out. Once you're signed up, it's smooth sailing on the JPN PSN site with some cool JPN PS3 game demos to D/L, etc.

Then you'd want to buy some JPN PSN points to be able to d/l your favorite PSX games off of the JPN PSN site & onto your PS3/PSP. The NCSX.com site sells them from time to time.

It's pretty slick running CPS2 emu of Progear No Arashi on a PSP. Sure beats have to lug around a real CPS2 A+B board set of Progear + a micro supergun & a mini RGB monitor setup any ol' day.

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

[lilmanjs]

the 2 shmups I currently have from the PSN store are Flying Hamster and Strikers 1945 plus portable. though the Strikers port has taken out the boss music. dunno why they did it though.

[Horacechin]

You should check out the huge library of shmups on Genesis and Snes. You should also check out these emulators CPS1PSP, CPS2PSP, and MVSPSP. I own a PSP also and the amount of shooters you can play on this thing is amazing also including PS1 games.

[JJXB]

I play:
Soldier Collection
Gradius Collection
Parodius Collection
Final Burn Alpha (DDPDOJ, Espgaluda, Ketsui etc)
CPS2PSP (Giga Wing, 19XX, 1944)
having trouble remembering what else.
but yeah, fun for all the family

[xbl0x180]

Tactics Ogre, Knights in the Nightmare, Riviera: The Promised Land, Yggdra Union ...wait, we weren't talking about JRPGS =P?

In seriousness, I don't know of very many shooting games on the PSP. Let's see...

Darius Burst
Every Extend Extra
R-Type Command
Space Invaders Extreme

Without having played any of these personally, I couldn't say whether they are any good or not.

R-Type Command is also known as R-Type Tactics and is not a shoot-'em-up game like the other R-Types. It's a strategy game. I made the mistake of buying it without even reading what genre it was *facepalm*

For the PSP-3000, I have:

PC-Engine Collection: Galaxy Fraulein Yuna (the 3rd game is a shoot-'em-up)
Gradius Collection
Parodius Portable
Salamander Portable
Twinbee Portable

Hours and hours of fun. I didn't know you could hack the 3000s... hmmm.

The Nintendo DS also has a few, decent shoot-'em-ups. It's too bad I missed my chance at getting the Ketsui game for it...

[cj iwakura]

There should be a lot more shmups on the PSP than there are. The entire Darius catalog for one.

[JJXB]

Hours and hours of fun. I didn't know you could hack the 3000s... hmmm.

yep. look up 6.20, 6.35 or 6.39 PRO-B. it's a temp firmware though so you have to restart it every time you cold reboot the PSP.

[dcharlie]

wasn't aware Ketsui / DDP DOJ ran under FBA on PSP - okay, they aren't perfect to put it mildly, but hell - you can still play them at least

[Zorator]

Bumping this thread because I just found out about Ketsui/DOJ/Espgaluda on PSP. What version of FBA are you people using? Because I can't get Ketsui to work, the backgrounds look alright but all the sprites are completely scrambled. There is a video on Youtube of someone playing Ketsui on PSP but I can't tell the version because it's in Japanese. Could it be my rom?

[JJXB]

Bumping this thread because I just found out about Ketsui/DOJ/Espgaluda on PSP. What version of FBA are you people using? Because I can't get Ketsui to work, the backgrounds look alright but all the sprites are completely scrambled. There is a video on Youtube of someone playing Ketsui on PSP but I can't tell the version because it's in Japanese. Could it be my rom?

that sounds like a rom issue possibly so clear your ket.cache and change the rom? though i use this version of FBA

[greg]

I love playing Xexex on the Salamander PSP collection!

If we're talking shmups, shouldn't this be in the on-topic forum?

[Jockel]

Tactics Ogre, Knights in the Nightmare, Riviera: The Promised Land, Yggdra Union ...wait, we weren't talking about JRPGS =P?

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