Mega R-Type Full Demo Loop - Sega Genesis & Mega Drive 

And all that's left of Compile NOW is Compile Heart, which means that if they remade the game, they'd have Idea Factory do it and put lots of softcore porn in it.

@@jessragan6714 Haha. Man. Sad but true :P Made me laugh, thank you! It's funny what can be the result of decades of mergers and more frequently acquisitions; the end result rarely retain anything of what it used to be, who it used to employ, what it used to "do" eh. Still, there's still art even there, unlike freaking pachinko BS imho. Or worst, mobile casinos masquerading as games (a real issue with younger segment of the crowd; not a surprising when it's pushed knowingly by large creators monetize the trust youngsters easily give to them. They knowingly push that crap on kids. But to older guys it's a great way to filter content TBH ;) And NO, you DON'T NEED to SELL YOUR SOUL to shady casino companies to make a living here. You can use it to make MORE money, there's a distinction. I say it because there's always an idiot coming out of the woodwork with that demonstrably false argument. In life, not only in RU-vid and since forever, you will have MANY occasions to "make MORE money"; sometimes the only limit is your own morals, if you have any. Civie is a channel about mostly obscure DOS FPS, and he's now a giant and NEVER, EVER, not a SINGLE time, used a sponsor (aside spoofs lol). He's making a lot of money. Could he and have been making more money? YES! But he told them to GTFO because of principles. Same with guys like SLX and sooooo many others. I think my wake up call was when AVGN, YES, THE channel about horrible games and anti-consumerism in the industry shilling for Raid:SL... A "game" owned by a literal casino cartel in the middle east; So not a bad but cheeky good game, no. A "if you have any sort of casino related weakness you WILL waste your money AND time" in the most boring and insulting gaming loop possible. Not sure why I felt like writing this, but I did, and it felt good. Sorry guys lol. Thank for the vid SLX. But about that, R-type has active rights holders so they use the visibility given by channel like yours to test the water, probe the beast a little, instead of doing ALL the work and getting a C&D letter the next day. It's love to hear their plan for that. I navigated those water with Sony with the PSP and VITA CFW/ hacking scene, and SNK + various hardware companies they used for their last 6 years of products or so (since the Neo Geo Minis I think, all the way up to the MVS X, which is when I left because the main team decided to fold everything even though no one had a right to stop freely distributing a hack/CFW without actual roms; it's been a long standing caselaw since the Nintendo landmark case loss to Game Genie guys AGES ago). But here, I mean, it's directly the IP of another company. Hope they refuse donation, for now at least, or it will come back to bit them in the a$$ even if it's a negligible amount.

I remember my friend and I finding that stage. We wrote down what we did, got a screenshot, and sent it in to EGM and GamePro magazines. Turns out we were beaten to the punch by 3-4 days by someone else. It was still a pretty epic little find.

​@@jessragan6714 OH GOD. 😳

def is what intrigued me the most. didnt disappoint.

That emoji is something fierce! When did that come out and how did you get it?

I'm not hearing what others are and I'm pretty nit pickish about me audio shtuff... Especially compared to the arcade or other games that would have released when this game originally did.

What I don’t like about the audio in this remake is the arranged version of the R Type arcade soundtrack is she excessive use of the PSG chip it drags an otherwise awesome rearrangement of the original R Tyoe arcade soundtrack i much prefer the original version which sounds very clean and close to the arcade original.

This keeps up? I'm sure one will come to fruition.

Me too guys i definitely would buy a boxed original cartridge

All code is written from scratch, just playing the game and looking at videos. I have no access to any source code unfortunately...

The Genesis is better suited for shooters and sports games than the SNES, because of the faster CPU. But it's a different story with fighting games and RPGs, those games are usually better on SNES. Both of those great systems, have their pros and contras.

SNES probably better overall for arcade ports with the SA-1 chip. You could run this at full 60hz instead of 30hz on mega. And you'd have the superior sprite count, color, and wavetable synthesis of the SNES hardware.

@@Isoquant with SA-1 for sure, it's a huge improvement for the comparable slow 3,58mHz CPU. But I guess he meant how those games are running on stock hardware without any helper chips. Like I said, it depends on the genre and the game itself, and altrough the Genesis has the bigger shmup library, there are also very impressive S-tier shmups without or close to no slowdown on SNES, like Rendering Ranger R2, Super R-Type 3, Super Aleste, Axelay and other great titles.

@@greensun1334 Yeah, that makes sense about the stock hardware.

I agree with the sound. A BGM and SFX Volume slider would be good.

This is something we talked about a lot but it's not easy to balance. Right now the music driver in sgdk doesn't allow software control of volume, so once music and sfx are authored, that's what you get. If you can point out a timestamp where you hear this conflict it would be of great help to use as a reference for further adjustmenets.

@@therobozRemember this is just my opinion, so no offense at all but the music sounds like it’s on the same volume level as the sound effects so if the music were 2 maybe 3 levels lower I can focus on the task at hand, firing weapons and hearing enemies being hit & eliminated as it is the music at same levels making that difficult, for me at least. The visuals look fantastic and regardless of sound effects & music levels I’d buy without hesitation.

we're working on balancing this, looking for opinions after everyone tries the demo @@dwightdixon8508

This video was 60fps.

As long as R-Team doesn't try and sell it, it should be ok. Unless it was a Nintendo game. Then of course a cease and desist would have been issued instantly.

The Leo tree ships are VERY op in R Type Final 2 though you can compensate by just playing on R-Typer difficulty.

I think it's due to the megadrive sample rate. all sfx are sampled straight off the arcade rom but converted to a smaller format that mangled high frequencies a lot. The anti air ribbon laser specially sounds quite different and we'll see what to do near the end of the project

The respawn in position was tried in R-Type Dimensions and it doesn't work. The game is not balanced for this. It's not fun and only serves to beat the game despite losing. The fun is the power up system and kicking ass.

R-Type 3 did respawn at checkpoints and always had power ups there to give you a chance of beating the level. Had it put me back at the beginning I would have just given up.

@@rsmith02 Sure. To be clear, I am speaking about the original R-Type arcade and ports of it, such as this Sega Genesis port. The stages are so brutal to start mid-way (there's only one checkpoint per stage) that it's much better to start at the beginning. Sure it means more back tracking, but it also means less replays of the 2nd tougher half of the stage with no fire power. Adding onto this the multi-power-up system (options, force, missiles) which takes several stages to max out, more stage time = more chance to max it out.

Just have it as an option, in the settings menu to re spawn at checkpoint or at start of stage, then every ones happy.

OMG. I hope so!!! that would be awesome!!!

It's actually a neat idea, i'll try to do something once more levels are done!

@@theroboz Thanks! Cause 2 player or more games are the only thing I collect now. Just makes the games more enjoyable for me.

Welcome!

They did.

@@SegaLordX eh?

@@zxspectrum16KB You can choose it in the options menu.

@@edy1361 have you seen the coc and zx spectrum versions? Maybe there's hope for nemesis!

This is something we talked about a lot but it's not easy to balance. Right now the music driver in sgdk doesn't allow software control of volume, so once music and sfx are authored, that's what you get. If you can point out a timestamp where you hear this conflict it would be of great help to use as a reference for further adjustmenets.

It's not out yet. End of the month ETA.

@@SegaLordX Okay cool, can't wait! This looks excellent.

Yup. But killing the cool boss in 3 seconds hardly makes for a good demo of the visuals.

@@SegaLordX fair

It's still a good point. I could have launched it a few times around the stages just to show the mechanic. Didn't honestly think to do it.

@@SegaLordX bro. Your doing fine. This channel is a can't miss for me. When ever i get a notification of another post from you I literally say "awesome" out loud. FYI I play the sms R Type constantly so when I see this game I can't help it .

It's the secret stage from the Master System release.

@@SegaLordX !!!!!!

how so? it look virtually identical to the arcade. just like the pc engine, its pretty much pixel perfect. Plus this have parallax scrolling like the arcade.

@@abcmaya I watched a long play of the pce version and the genny version looked rough to me.

​@@misterbigg3336Made up to see this on the MD, bit of a dream come true. But it does highlight how great the PCE version is. The Engine has a better colour palette & the port was programmed by Hudson who designed the PCE hardware. Still, this MD version is a fantastic achievement

This wasn't made for you. Go play Sonic :)

Maybe you're just not good. It's okay though keep at it and you'll get better each try!

R-Type was never good, doesn't give any examples as to why. Was this the new thing to do on the internet, lol.

Edgy

Seriously, that response fails at every level. If you can't give an opinion without any details as to why you have it, then your opinion does absolutely nothing to sway my nor anyone else's perception of this game. From what I can see from this footage, the game appears to be pretty damn decent.

Say you just suck at shmups and rather play a million more Sonic and Streets of Rage hacks😊.

Looks like it is in early access E T A end of this month to general public