Battle of the Ports - Soukyugurentai / Terra Diver (蒼穹紅蓮隊) Show  

RayForce is my favorite shmup, but this one's not too far behind. There's something about lock-on lasers that I really love. :)

Phenomenal game, one of the best. Thanks for taking the time to put this together!

Fact: When the Saturn version is used in the American console with the region-converter cartridge, the game will be in English along with the "Terra Diver" name. However, the original version is glitchy. It was fixed in the Otokuyou version.

Nice job with Soukyugurentai / Terra Diver Mark. I haven't played this title in years. I almost forgot about it if it wasn't for this video. Now I really need to catch up on on the fun I use to have with it. Thanks Mark, I got mt work cut out for me now! 8^). Anthony...

1990年代のゲームセンスおよび技術は日本が世界一でした。 ライジングが手掛けるビデオゲームは侍クール(笑)な作品があり、蒼穹紅蓮隊は世界観と音楽が素晴らしいものでした。 世界の皆様、これからも日本の多大なる支持と応援をお願いします!!

This is one of my favorite shooters. I love the music, the visuals and especially the gameplay. I always recommend this game for getting into shooters on the Saturn although now for how much it's going for, it's hard to still recommend it. For the price I would go with Layer Section for starting out with shooters on the Saturn. For Soukyugurentai, I have both versions for the Saturn as well. I bought the first release and there were some glitches so I bought the second release and no glitches so I still have both discs for collection reasons but I always use the later release when I play this on my Saturn. Thanks again Yakumo for another awesome Battle of the Ports.

I'm hoping this is the surprise M2 project coming up, Dangun, Garegga and Souky would be the Holy Trinity of 90s shmup.

The way it starts reminds me SO MUCH of Layer Section / Galactic Attack, lol.

I would love to see this game have a Steam port along with Battle Garegga, Radiant Silvergun and maybe Darius Gaiden and the Ray series by Taito.

This game feels like a spiritual successor to the Aleste games. No surprise, as Raizing was founded by former Compile staff, who were later joined by Toaplan refugees. Shooting royalty, for sure. Definitely go with the Saturn version here; it’s a 1:1 match with the arcade system, and the PS1 version slows down too much starting at level 3.

Awesome video as always, bro. In fact, thanks to your Sega Saturn episode I recently bought Soukyugurentai (Otokuyo), also Layer Section. I knew those games for a long time, but your episode helped me to take the decision.

Amazing. As always the Saturn is great at handling 2D sprites. I hope to find this even if I might have to settle for MAME due the Saturn being collectibles. But the PSOne "lacking transparencies?" That is even a worse port offense. I believe Kaitei Daisensou (In the Hunt) port for the PSOne was amazing so it just would be great if ported by the good team.

An ST-V game being superior on the Saturn? Why am I not surprised? X)

I LOVE the PSX intro !

The Playstation version is missing some 2D transparency effects. Oh the irony xD No one gives a crap about the 3D Performance of the early 32bit consoles, what flashed us back then is eye-cancer today. 2D aged very well in comparison and those 2,5D games overlooked in the past are called art today. Hope they finish the Princess Crown translation on Saturn.

one of the examples of a Saturn (well , ST-V board ) being ported to the Playstation and the results are pretty evident. Most times it was the other way around which is why stuff like Die Hard Trilogy or the EA sports games exist (I wasn't that fond of it on the PS either, but at least it ran well) though at least back then consoles were different, and each console had a distinctive look , sound and game selection.

Great game pick, and great video as always!

Another Favorite shooter of all time....

I feel like playing this game on my Saturn right now lol.

This game has been on my mind a lot since you featured it in the Saturn episode and I've been reading up on the ST-V board. Very cool looking game and I do like the lock-on concept also used in Rayforce. I really do need to play both of those somehow. The fact that it is in 4:3 is likely do to the cart-based nature of the board, much like Neo Geo which also used horizontal layouts for vertical shmups. Since the ST-V concept used carts to allow operators to switch carts, they needed a standard cabinet and horizontal made the most sense for all genres. Likely, gamers were quite used to it since there were many good 4:3 vertical shooters for home systems over the years. There's not a ton of ST-V info out there, so I'm not sure if any of the boards had multiple slots like Neo Geo offered. It's also possible that it was a planned feature that was never actually produced. Great work, and cool to see a record of the mobile version, even if it's not good. Thanks for sharing.

You sir, just earned a new sub with this awesome video!

odd tidbit to add: the saturn version has various Raizing tracks right on the disc! some stuff from shippu mahou daisakusen and garegga if I remember correctly. Great video btw. soukyugurentai is like Layer section and Silvergun morphed together with the addition of raizing's typical rank. insanely underappreciated game imo

awesome video, keep it up! We have the SEGA Saturn version, bought new at release. However, do you think it's worth getting the PS version simply for collecting purposes? Any chance that you'll start doing comparison videos of PS / Saturn games that weren't arcade ports (I assume), like Nekketsu Oyako or the Time Bokan games? in any case, thanks for taking the time to make and share these videos. best gaming channel on YT

Sega Saturn, best 2D and also handles great 3D (Exhumed).

And to think I STILL haven't gotten this gem for the Saturn.

I need to get this for my Saturn

nice game. I play it on mame from time to time. reminds me of raystorm a little

So wait... The backgrounds are in 3D, but the actual game is 2D? Well, that's a twist...

Never understood why the PSX version is frowned upon by fans. I mean, it has a few things the Saturn version doesn't, such as an exclusive character, cutscenes, voice acting, and an alternate final boss.

Google translates this to "Sky Red Lotus Team" in Chinese and "Blue Sky Crimson Corps" in Japanese

a bunch of powerups in one ship?!

why does the Saturn version look darker?

What happens if you time out the final boss of Terra Diver?

I played the ports just because i really love this game...but buggers me how the PS1 version was so damn downgrades. Yes...Thunder Force V and G-Darius got the same stuff...BUT! on this game case was very glitchy. I take out the filters of the emulator and i could see some stuff missing...even the FREAKING BOSS MUSIC. And also also...the forth pilot actually is kind of redudant, Swordfish is the balanced type, Mackrell is the laser focus type, and the Gallop is the Vulcan focus type....i not see much of a difference on the forth ship maybe he is all-round and i didn't notice

question this game has polyguns or its 20 scalimg

It seems like the ST-V and Saturn versions rely on 2D Sprite Scaling, with a little touch of 3D Polygons here and there, and the PSX version is completely done in 3D

The PSOne version is okay, but the Saturn/Arcade versions are where it's at! I saw the slowdown you were talking about with the PSOne version, it was at times almost painful to watch. I mean, it's functional and playable, I'll give it that, but by far inferior to the Saturn/Arcade version.

I'm curious, is there one particular game port you consider the absolute worst? Something so poorly made that it almost tarnishes the arcade original by its very existence?

Typical the Saturn owns the PS1 in 2D yet again👍🤣

Saturn.

If there was a nintendo 64 port you would had me massacred lol, the fanboys came up deep on this vid.

European people, like always, didnt´t deserve a fantastic game like this....we had NHL, FIFA, NHP and lots of shit like this...Stupid regional policy of games!