PSX Longplay [203] R-Types 

And then R-Type Delta gave us the R-13 Cerberus, the ship that gets a bad ending by default.

And then R-type final, where all endings are depressing F-A: Destroyed Bydo Core, but your ship is damaged and there's no one rescuing you F-B: You become a Bydo and kill every single one of your squad mates, without even knowing they're you're squad mates. F-C: Go to the future to get help defeat the Bydo in the past.... But your ship becomes the very cause of the creation of Bydo in the first place

Out of interest, do you know if it’s the same as the PAL PS1 versions as they run at 50hz? Maybe they go adjusted?

Are these ones ports to the Japanese version? Not the world's version?

@@hell-yeah8776 They very well may be the Japanese ports, though I don't think there were all that many, if any differences between the regions versions. The arcade versions ran at 55 instead of 60 FPS (some have even said 58 over the years) no matter the region.

That would be R-Type Dimensions.

@@Bloodreign1 yes, I think that's the title.

It was haunting too tho wasn't it? The longer version is even scarier. You gotta hear it. You'll question your childhood for no reason lol

+slightlytwistedagain The original intent of a longplay was to showcase a game, a longplay is not a skillrun. Tool assistance is fine (and in many case required, since longplays are recorded as a single video) as long as it doesn't impact on the quality of the video (say, making no effort to avoid projectiles because you turned on godmode). It ultimately depends on the player (or the forum guidelines, IIRC longplays.org allows reasonable cheating): death is fine but makes for a lower quality video, while tool assistance makes for higher quality, but if you abuse it you're not really playing or showcasing the game (and that's why slowdown is ok, godmode is not). In closing, there's enough room for let's plays of any flavour.

rainwizard My comment wasn't a criticism, just an observation.

+slightlytwistedagain Mine neither. I was just explaining that yes, it's quite possible, and it's not unheard of. I don't think we'd get many SHMUPs longplays otherwise (even thought, most of them are by the same 1 or 2 players, which suggests it's people that know their way around bullets, so I bet they'd be perfectly capable of pulling a no-death run).

Super R-Type really wasn't an arcade port, but a mishmash of parts 1 and 2 with some new stuff thrown in. And absolutely no checkpoints whatsoever. Die at a boss? Too bad, do the stage again.

That's what I'm trying to say 🤣

While is possible to have very good reflexes to do this, there is some moments that make me think the player is using a emulator and the game is running at half speed, making much more easy to manuever the ship at this speed. Then he just reencode the video to play two times faster.

If you didn't pick this one up years ago, I'm afraid you'll pay through the nose for a copy. I bought mine ages ago, for a mere $10 off Ebay, back when copies were plentiful (they likely still are, but price gouging these days and stuff), and everyone was all too happy to get this one off their hands for cheap. Hell, I gladly paid the 10 bucks for 2 classics on 1 disc.

SMS version is far easier (Compile actually ported R-Type 1 to the SMS), this version is as hard as the arcade originals.

That's because super r type was more or less a remake of r type 2

@@dam9505 A mishmash of both arcade R-Type games, parts 1 and 2.

The second loop of both games are considered the "ending" of them. A lot of Irem games went 2 loops, unlike Konami's infinite loop games of the time, like Gradius.

@@Bloodreign1 I cant see anything that changes about the ending of the second loop

@@IgorWelkenbach Sure you do, you get a game over screen, can input your initials, and consider the game truly beaten. Irem believed in 2 loops with games (Games like Legend of Hero Tonma, Image Fight, X-Multiply, and Ninja Spirit all had 2 loops, as well as some other Irem games, like Mystic Riders and Dino Breed).

Except far, far better, very close to the arcade, other than screen resolution being different to the arcade versions.

@@Bloodreign1 Isn't the NTSC PS1 versions of both games run too fast?

@@Nestalgba92023 Yes, by 5 FPS faster, which if you ask me, makes the experience a little better as the games run slightly smoother.

Yes, it is for the PS1.

Absolutely cannot stand the arranged music of the PCE CD version, much like Super Darius II (Super Darius 1 used the arcade music thankfully). The only reason the PCE CD version exists is due to Japanese players not being pleased their hucard version was split over 2 hucards, while in the US, the entire game was it onto 1 hucard.

hawkhack lynx this is an arcade collection, not an actual new game for the PSX. It's like saying that if a fighting has an anime intro, it should have anime sprites. It's dumb.

Ai But why 3D openning?? That's kinda miss leading, you could have Pixel animate like in CD version, plus PSX Already has 3D grafic, why not use it???

A lot of games that were 2D, arcade ports or not, used CGI 3D intros. There is R-Type Delta for PS1 if you like 3D R-Type. Myself I prefer 2D sprites, so the first two games on this compilation fit the bill nicely. Not taking anything away from Delta as it is a great game, but I don't find it quite as good as the 2D shooters on R-Types. Some games, like Contra, don't make the transition to 3D all that well, these arcade ports likely wouldn't make a great transition either.