Soukyugurentai difficulty ST-V vs. Saturn

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Soukyugurentai difficulty ST-V vs. Saturn

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Hi all,
I have been competing with a friend in Soukyugurentai/Terra Diver.

I am playing the game from the original ST-V system and cartridge, he is playing it on Saturn.
We are quite close in high-scores BUT we don't know whether we are playing the same difficulty.
My ST-V board is from Europe, hence it plays as Terra Diver. The default difficulty setting on this is 4 ( Normal ), and is what I have been playing on.
The Saturn version also defaults to difficulty 4 and is what he has been playing on – BUT – I read here and there that difficulty 5 on the Saturn match arcade difficulty. Are the difficulty levels equal on Saturn and ST-V, and would that mean that the EU ST-V defaults to a lower difficulty than the JAP ST-V? Or are there actually differences in the difficulty levels on the two systems?

My difficulty settings looks like this:
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This dispute is quite important since he has just broken my high-score!
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Re: Soukyugurentai difficulty ST-V vs. Saturn

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Good question. Doesn't it say AC (as in Arcade) when you set the difficulty setting to 5 on the Saturn? What does it say when you set it at 5 on the ST-V?
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Re: Soukyugurentai difficulty ST-V vs. Saturn

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DMC wrote:Good question. Doesn't it say AC (as in Arcade) when you set the difficulty setting to 5 on the Saturn?
Yes it apparently does
DMC wrote:What does it say when you set it at 5 on the ST-V?
Then it says HARD
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Re: Soukyugurentai difficulty ST-V vs. Saturn

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I just tested the japanese bios and rom in MAME, and the settings look exactly as mine on the EU board.
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Re: Soukyugurentai difficulty ST-V vs. Saturn

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It seems you've solved it then. ST-V EU has the same default as JP - 4 - which correspond to Saturn 5.
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Re: Soukyugurentai difficulty ST-V vs. Saturn

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Seems so! My friend will be unhappy 8)
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