Gradius V - US/JPN Differences?

[Valgar]

It is quite simple.

1P = Blue Lasers
2P = Red Lasers

End of story.

[DeBurgo]

Something I'm curious about: Does the game end? Like, I mean, does it ever stop looping? What's the highest loop someone's gotten up to?

I know the difficulty stops increasing after loop 16 or something (maybe it was 32, I forget), but that's all I know.

[Ghegs]

Something I'm curious about: Does the game end? Like, I mean, does it ever stop looping? What's the highest loop someone's gotten up to?

I know the difficulty stops increasing after loop 16 or something (maybe it was 32, I forget), but that's all I know.

I think it was on one of the DVDs (either Options or The Perfect), an interview with someone on the staff reveals that there are 256 loops.

[MSZ]

Something I'm curious about: Does the game end? Like, I mean, does it ever stop looping? What's the highest loop someone's gotten up to?

I know the difficulty stops increasing after loop 16 or something (maybe it was 32, I forget), but that's all I know.

256 loops.

The difficulty maxed out at 10. But some people in Japan claimed the game gets slight harder after loop 31.

[Minzoku]

Something I'm curious about: Does the game end? Like, I mean, does it ever stop looping? What's the highest loop someone's gotten up to?

I know the difficulty stops increasing after loop 16 or something (maybe it was 32, I forget), but that's all I know.

The game ends when your PS2 melts from all that nonstop play.

[ST Dragon]

The biggest (sacrilegious) thing I noticed is that "Options" are called "Multiples" in the US version >:(

That's Heresy!
The savages! The Infidels! They should be burned to the stake!

What about in the EURO-PAL version... Are they called "Options" or "Multiples"?
Does it also have the Vic-Viper booklet or any other extra goodies?