Yuzo Koshiro is making new MD shmup.

[Steven]

Hell yeah 32 megabits~

They seem to be showing off that the game has a massive amount of animation frames and scaled sprites for various things, so they may end up needing those 32 megs. They could push it over that with bank switching if they really wanted to, but at that point I think that that would be having a big ROM size just for the sake of having a big ROM size. See: Demons of Asteborg, the game where the selling point is the ROM size and certainly not the quality of the (pretty boring) game itself.

[Stevens]

Not going to lie. When this news first broke I was in the "That's cool, but whatever" camp.

Now that the trailer has dropped - this is going to be hype. Yuzo and company have brought the sauce. This one is going to be awesome.

I haven't been this excited for a shooter since Crisis Wing.

[SuperDeadite]

Hell yeah 32 megabits~

They seem to be showing off that the game has a massive amount of animation frames and scaled sprites for various things, so they may end up needing those 32 megs. They could push it over that with bank switching if they really wanted to, but at that point I think that that would be having a big ROM size just for the sake of having a big ROM size. See: Demons of Asteborg, the game where the selling point is the ROM size and certainly not the quality of the (pretty boring) game itself.

Kai Magazine's "The Secret of the Four Winds" doesn't even use rom chips of any kind. It's a microSD card in a cartridge lol.

[Sumez]

This definitely isn't going to use ROM chips either. That would make no sense. Like I said, expect some kind of flash memory (and it's definitely going to be way bigger than 32mbits, too). Every modern cartridge release does, unless it's homebuilt using old reused EPROM chips.

[Steven]

Hell yeah 32 megabits~

They seem to be showing off that the game has a massive amount of animation frames and scaled sprites for various things, so they may end up needing those 32 megs. They could push it over that with bank switching if they really wanted to, but at that point I think that that would be having a big ROM size just for the sake of having a big ROM size. See: Demons of Asteborg, the game where the selling point is the ROM size and certainly not the quality of the (pretty boring) game itself.

Kai Magazine's "The Secret of the Four Winds" doesn't even use rom chips of any kind. It's a microSD card in a cartridge lol.

Never heard of this game, but lol that certainly is a way of providing storage space.

[spmbx]

Earthion news coming at SHU-TAISAI 2025 — Japan’s annual festival for shmups!
🗓 June 14, 17:00 JST (08:00 UTC) – SuperDeluxe Games segment
I’ll be playtesting Earthion live!
🗓 June 15, 14:00 JST (05:00 UTC) – exA-Arcadia segment
Streamed via Game Center Mikado’s YouTube
https://shootersfes.com/

[m.sniffles.esq]

Release trailer

(coming july 31)

Retro webpage thing

[Steven]

Half of me says "hell yeah!"

The other half of me says "WHERE THE FUCK IS THE JAPANESE MEGA DRIVE VERSION?!?!?!"

This is honestly a lot sooner than I thought this would release. I was expecting to wait until like November~December for this to release, so this makes me pretty happy.

[Daytime Waitress]

One of the few times I might have bothered to go physical - it's a bit puzzling that they're doing so much "check out how Mega Drive this is!" and then just dodging the MD release at launch.
But it will be nice to have GabeSoft version in August.

[SuperDeadite]

Half of me says "hell yeah!"

The other half of me says "WHERE THE FUCK IS THE JAPANESE MEGA DRIVE VERSION?!?!?!"

This is honestly a lot sooner than I thought this would release. I was expecting to wait until like November~December for this to release, so this makes me pretty happy.

Ancient announced that the MD version will come in 2026. Seems that they want to wait and see how the modern version goes, and if they make any updates to improve it, they want them in the MD cart too. So seems modern systems are getting the beta? Lol.

[soupbones]

Pushing the Mega Drive version to 2026 smells like some double dipping bullshit tactic to me - it was developed from day 1 as a MD title.

And it will work - on me at least.

[LDigital]

Modern platform versions are available to or pre-order
No Megadrive yet

https://limitedrungames.com/products/ea ... 1119362101

[Sengoku Strider]

it's a bit puzzling that they're doing so much "check out how Mega Drive this is!" and then just dodging the MD release at launch.

I'm still waiting for a cartridge release of M2's Space Harrier.

[spmbx]

Pushing the Mega Drive version to 2026 smells like some double dipping bullshit tactic to me - it was developed from day 1 as a MD title.

And it will work - on me at least.

Looking at LRG's shipping schedule you're looking at xmas for the physical standard and May 2026 for the collectors edition at best so it's 2026 anyway for whatever physical version you want, 2025 only digital.