True tate in NA Raiden Project (Cheat device needed)

[Neon]

Where do these words "Yoko" & "Tate" come from?
Are they used only in this forum?

They are Japanese and seem to be in common usage there. For instance, in DOJ and ESPgaluda, you actually select between tate and yoko (I actually have tatehose1 selected, whatever that is).

Be warned...tatehosei is scaled/filtered which might not be a big deal if you don't use RGB. Actually I use RGB and it's not a big deal, but just so you know, better image quality in standard tate.

Raiden DX > 2, btw.

[PC Engine Fan X!]

This code rocks!!! It does indeed work flawlessly and gets rid of the need to have import a copy from Japan. If you save the settings without fiddling with the screen options, it will stay in true tate mode, when you load the game up without the device next time. Just make sure you don't fiddle with the screen settings at all. For some reason, true tate makes the game alot easier. I got alot farther than usual on Major in this setting.

god

I'd hate to bump an old thread

but since this only works with PS1s

Is there anyone willing to save the setting to my PS1 memory card so I can have the feature?

Yo Roker,

What version of PSX or PSone do you have? If you have an original PSX with model number 7550 and below, then an external Gameshark or Action Replay cheat device would be need to store the U.S. Raiden Project "Fix Tate Controls" option.

If you have the 9000 model PSX console (the back 'Parallel Port' was taken out by SCEI as they didn't officially see the need to support it & to cut production costs of manufacturing the 9000 series PSX consoles), then a CD-Rom based Gameshark (was manufactured to circumvent the "missing" Parallel Port problem) does exist with saving the Gameshark codes to a regular PSX memory card (this Gameshark CD-Rom setup holds true for the PSone console as well).

If you're in the USA, then heading down to your local Toys-R-Us to look for the U.S. Gameshark for PSX and PSone will be needed to input the "U.S. Raiden Project Tate Controller Fix"...it shouldn't be no more than $15-$20 for it brand new (assuming that you can still find it).

I have two external Gameshark cheat devices -- the gray-colored 1.2ver one & the later released all-black colored 2.0ver with built-in Memory Card functionality + two Super Game Wizard cheat devices (aka the Action Replay or better known as the "Goldfinger").

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

[llabnip]

Raiden DX > 2, btw.

While I agree (Raiden DX is one of my all-time favs!), I enjoy both Raiden 2 and DX almost equally and play both reguarly and get different experiences out of both. Raiden DX is like an arranged mode 2. It would be better if 1/2/DX were on the same disc, but they are different enough to be worth owning individually and all three games are worth playing. There was a time when I slightly preffered Raiden 2 to DX (I liked the non-arranged music better and the detail of debris pit-marks on the ground which looks cleaner on Raiden 2 and the level design and difficulty were a bit more to my liking). I've since taken a real shine to DX but I've never quite thought of it as a replacement for 2 even though it was designed as a more polished upgrade.

[roker]

This code rocks!!! It does indeed work flawlessly and gets rid of the need to have import a copy from Japan. If you save the settings without fiddling with the screen options, it will stay in true tate mode, when you load the game up without the device next time. Just make sure you don't fiddle with the screen settings at all. For some reason, true tate makes the game alot easier. I got alot farther than usual on Major in this setting.

god

I'd hate to bump an old thread

but since this only works with PS1s

Is there anyone willing to save the setting to my PS1 memory card so I can have the feature?

Yo Roker,

What version of PSX or PSone do you have? If you have an original PSX with model number 7550 and below, then an external Gameshark or Action Replay cheat device would be need to store the U.S. Raiden Project "Fix Tate Controls" option.

If you have the 9000 model PSX console (the back 'Parallel Port' was taken out by SCEI as they didn't officially see the need to support it & to cut production costs of manufacturing the 9000 series PSX consoles), then a CD-Rom based Gameshark (was manufactured to circumvent the "missing" Parallel Port problem) does exist with saving the Gameshark codes to a regular PSX memory card (this Gameshark CD-Rom setup holds true for the PSone console as well).

If you're in the USA, then heading down to your local Toys-R-Us to look for the U.S. Gameshark for PSX and PSone will be needed to input the "U.S. Raiden Project Tate Controller Fix"...it shouldn't be no more than $15-$20 for it brand new (assuming that you can still find it).

I have two external Gameshark cheat devices -- the gray-colored 1.2ver one & the later released all-black colored 2.0ver with built-in Memory Card functionality + two Super Game Wizard cheat devices (aka the Action Replay or better known as the "Goldfinger").

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

I forgot to mention that all I have is a PS2 and all my buddies traded their PS1s in

I just need someone to take my memory card and save the Tate settings on it to save me the trouble of doing all that dirty work

[professor ganson]

Speaking of PS1s, I found a really nice, white, mini PS1 for $20 yesterday. I traded in my GBA SP to get it.

[spadgy]

Resurrect!

So, I'm done with this checkpoint nonsense on the JPN version of Project. So I want to take the Gameshark/US copy route. However, my experience of Gameshark devices is limited to zero, and my PS1 situation is somewhat unusual.

So, I have a de-bugging unit PS3 (thus plays all regions for PS1, PS2, PS3, and featuring a bewildering array of ‘advanced options and settings’). So, it plays every game under the sun, and doesn’t strictly have a region of its own (strangely, while I don’t need to change settings when I play games of different regions, there is a region setting to change, which does help with issues like the sound skipping of Gradius Gaiden PS1 JPN).

Anyway, what game shark could I use with my PS3 to get true TATE in Raiden Project PS1 US? I want to do this because of the nice sticks I have for it (I do have a region hacked PS1 somewhere abouts I could dig out).

Thanks!

[antron]

Remember the lady who sued MC Donald's because she spilled hot coffee on her lap?

That's the most misquoted lawsuit ever. The lady didn't sue McDonalds because she spilled hot coffee on herself. She sued McDonalds because she found out that the manager of that particular McDonalds was selling 2 different types of cofee - a poor cheap brand for the drive-thru customers and the standard brand for the inside customers. The manager discovered that if you super heat the cofee well beyond normal temperatures, it was so hot that it deadened enough taste buds so you couldn't tell the taste difference between the really bad cheap coffee and the good coffee - and on cold mornings he felt he could get away with it and make a profit. The lady wasn't suing because warm coffee was... warm... she was suing because the manager was superheating bad coffee in an attempt at decieving customers. I personally think there are far too many unnecessary lawsuits in the world... but this is not one of them.

she sued because 6% of her body had 3rd degree burns from a 49¢ cup of coffee:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liebeck_v. ... estaurants

[PC Engine Fan X!]

Resurrect!

So, I'm done with this checkpoint nonsense on the JPN version of Project. So I want to take the Gameshark/US copy route. However, my experience of Gameshark devices is limited to zero, and my PS1 situation is somewhat unusual.

So, I have a de-bugging unit PS3 (thus plays all regions for PS1, PS2, PS3, and featuring a bewildering array of ‘advanced options and settings’). So, it plays every game under the sun, and doesn’t strictly have a region of its own (strangely, while I don’t need to change settings when I play games of different regions, there is a region setting to change, which does help with issues like the sound skipping of Gradius Gaiden PS1 JPN).

Anyway, what game shark could I use with my PS3 to get true TATE in Raiden Project PS1 US? I want to do this because of the nice sticks I have for it (I do have a region hacked PS1 somewhere abouts I could dig out).

Thanks!

The CD-based Gameshark might be your best bet, spady. Or if you can find your region hacked PSone console, again using a CD-based Gameshark cheat device that came out during the era of the gray colored PSX console with the 9000 serial number on it. The game shark codes are saved to a standard PSX memory card for posterity (whereas on the old "external" based Gameshark cheat devices for use with the older parallel-port based PSX consoles, they had the Gameshark codes stored in memory). ^_~

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

[spadgy]

Thanks again PCEFX! So a standard PS3 CD Gameshark.

And I just remembered - I have an OST to send you don't I!

[LoneCynic]

How on earth did you get your hands on a debug PS3 that will play games from all regions? That sounds almost too good to be true! ( I believe you though) I'm quite envious.

[spadgy]

Work I'm afraid. That said de-bug PS2s offer the same (no PS3 obviously) and are all over the place now if you keep you ear to the ground.

If it makes you feel better I can't play DVDs or BlueRays on it!

EDIT: Sometimes they are listed as 'test' units on eBay, instead of 'de-bug'. The person that owns it shouldn't be selling it though, as I think they technically remain property of Sony. However, the last thing they want back is all the Test PS2s they got rid of as the PS2 grew old...

[drunkninja24]

Just so I'm clear here, this disc:

http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-GAME-SHARK-LITE ... 25569f6331

Is the one I need in order to use the code on my PSOne?

[mjclark]

Rise again thread!!!! nZero referred me here after my enquiry about tate controls
This gameshark code has at last made Raiden Project a joy to play so thankyou very much.
As has been discussed before it seems so bizarre that they should include a horizontal screen mode but not rotate the controls. I get that they might want to discourage tateing (I famously nearly needed an ambulance after getting trapped in a corner by a 27 inch CRT I was tateing alone in the house lol) but why bother to include horizontal mode at all, unless it was to offer a hori version (but then the score displays don't change orientation)?
I've never had any call for a gameshark until this thread but now have Gameshark 4.0 disc so is there any more shmuppin' fun to be had with it?
I don't need a Strikers tate option cos I got it on PS2 with that but are there any other interesting or useful cheats to be had?

[toaplan_shmupfan]

Not for Tate, but another cheat for Raiden II is right within the in-game status window when the game is paused. Change the player's bombs from one type to another (e.g., from Fire Bomb to Cluster Bomb), then resume the game--now all the player's bombs are immediately that type of bomb.

[BPzeBanshee]

Rise again thread!!!! nZero referred me here after my enquiry about tate controls
This gameshark code has at last made Raiden Project a joy to play so thankyou very much.
As has been discussed before it seems so bizarre that they should include a horizontal screen mode but not rotate the controls. I get that they might want to discourage tateing (I famously nearly needed an ambulance after getting trapped in a corner by a 27 inch CRT I was tateing alone in the house lol) but why bother to include horizontal mode at all, unless it was to offer a hori version (but then the score displays don't change orientation)?
I've never had any call for a gameshark until this thread but now have Gameshark 4.0 disc so is there any more shmuppin' fun to be had with it?
I don't need a Strikers tate option cos I got it on PS2 with that but are there any other interesting or useful cheats to be had?

Apparently Sony's US division was worried about a lawsuit, or some bullshit like that. I prefer the US release with this cheat compared to Japan anyway - WiiSX crashes on the Japan version and the 3D menu ran poorly to begin with anyway, whereas US version's rocksolid.

[Kollision]

Ressurrect yet again!

Anyway, I was warming up to Raiden II and was about to fetch the Japanese version of Project when I saw this:

So, I'm done with this checkpoint nonsense on the JPN version of Project. So I want to take the Gameshark/US copy route.

Does it mean that the games in the Japanese disc have mandatory checkpoints?

[nZero]

Does it mean that the games in the Japanese disc have mandatory checkpoints? :shock:

Only Raiden IIRC. I don't think there was ever a version of Raiden II with checkpoints.

[toaplan_shmupfan]

The North American release of Raiden II for the PC (ported by Cyberfront and published by Interplay) did have an option for Start Back mode. The default was instant respawn after losing a turn.

Also, I just tested the North American version of Raiden Project for the PSOne--from the Main Menu select Adjust Settings, Miscellaneous and set Start Back mode to On. This will affect both Raiden and Raiden II. The default is Start Back mode Off.

[saucykobold]

The blue ship gets checkpoint restarts in the Japanese version of Raiden II, I guess as a punishment for starting with cluster bombs. Which is waaay too excessive a punishment, seeing as how blue also misses out on the six bonus bombs at the end of the item sequence (in all versions of the game).

[Arino]

Talking about Raiden (1) TATE mode on Raiden Project for PSX, the US version has messed up controls and the JP version has checkpoints.

Is it possible to fix the controls of the US version without the Game Shark device? For instance, is there any boot CD I could just download and burn to enter the code which fixes the controls in TATE mode?

[PC Engine Fan X!]

You could try & d/l PS-X Change version 2 as it has import PSX bootup + built-in Goldfinger cheat program as well. Aside from using a Gameshark or Goldfinger cheat device, it's not possible to fix the current control scheme with the USA region version of PSX Raiden Project.

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

[Arino]

You could try & d/l PS-X Change version 2 as it has import PSX bootup + built-in Goldfinger cheat program as well. Aside from using a Gameshark or Goldfinger cheat device, it's not possible to fix the current control scheme with the USA region version of PSX Raiden Project.

PC Engine Fan X! ^_~

Thanks a lot! I will try this later

[Arino]

IT WORKS!

Just in case someone needs a tutorial:

Download and burn PS-X-Change Version 2.0, put it in your PSX and switch on the console
Press Select
Enter 80050BAC0003 (first line)
Press Select
Open console
Insert Raiden Project US version
Close console
Press Start

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