DonPachi ps1/psx ending question

[dink]

Hi guys, DonPachi has a peculiar ending when I play it, I don't know if its because I have a bad copy, or its just
how it is supposed to be, or even maybe a problem with my Playstation emulator.
After the last boss is beaten, a couple screens of Japanese text come up; (sorry for the scroll!)





and then it fades out, and in a huge font it says "7 years later" .... "LAST MISSION" ... then the game starts again at level 1.

I thought, maybe something is wrong with the disk image I used, so I found 3 totally different disk images and played them to the end, and get the same exact behavior. So my question is, is this normal for the ending of the Playstation version of DonPachi?

thanks & best regards,
- dink

[ptoing]

Nothing to do with the PS1 version, this is just how Donpachi is. It has 2 loops, meaning that you have to play all the levels again, but you get return (suicide) bullets from the enemies, and I think stuff might be a bit faster, not sure.

And then you get a true last boss at the very end, after which you get the real ending.