Thanks minty you ruined my god damn life trying to beat the par time in Victory Run. I am not sure it is possible.
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i played some victory run last night. my best time was like 2:41, which was also the only time i completed the track 
game is hard!!! those little bumps in the road will throw you completely off the track if you aren’t ready for them
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for anyone new to galaga '88, i have a HOT GAMER PROTIP for you:
during the “galactic dancing” bonus stage, do not move or fire your weapon the entire time for a 10,000 point bonus
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also there is a level of power beyond having two ships stuck together
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AND if you hold up while pressing RUN, you can play the hard mode. In the first stage of the hard mode, the last enemy drops a red capsule that upgrades your ship to the highest level.
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The bit of sad farewell jazz playing on g’88’s game over screen made me pine for more chip tune jazz like it. The JP PC Engine/coregrafx is the cutest damn home console and i love that you can plug a bunch of stuff into it to arguably make it as much of a voltron monster as the genesis setups
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Some Victory Run tips from a guy who is able to get under 2:05
Get used to hearing how fast you’re going instead of looking at the speedometer. The highest speed sounds distinctly high pitched. A decent speed that’ll keep you safe from sharp turns will sound much lower.
You barely need to slow down to prevent launching from a hill. Just briefly let go of the accelerator and you’ll be okay.
Cars and sand pits appear in the same places so you can potentially memorize nasty sections. I’m thinking of a three card spread two thirds through the first leg.
Slowing down or breaking is always preferable to going off road or tapping another vehicle.
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my theory is that the absurd amount of addons is why it’s called the pc engine. the console itself is the engine that powers it all, and then you add on the interface unit, the cd romrom, the multitap, the pachinko controller, and so on.
also, even though it means i’ll probably never get to play arcade card games on it, and even though i had to open it up and change a gear which involved handling very very tiny metal clips, i am pleased that i have the interface unit/cd romrom setup as opposed to the super cd rom or a duo onsole. it looks so nice and so 80s japan
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Having nightmares about that 3 car spread and that heat seeking motorcycle at the end of the track.
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The Duo-R is, admittedly, kind of big and crap and plastic-looking. ^ _^
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that photo is the worst i’ve ever seen it looking!
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saw a duo on sale at maybe… play expo like ten years ago and was seriously tempted before actually looking at the price
also watched someone pay £150 or so for rondo
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holy humping monkeys!
heavies get more hominid while hinged doors and hearths harbinge an evil evolved
I did start to employ save states at the zone 4 (out of 6) boss battle, a pair of shield wielding goons guarding the cult compound. The game is a bit cruel when it throws multiple aggressive enemies at you as would be the case in the multi-level maze that was most of the rest of the game. Enemies that bait you, fly at you and zigzag around in pressuring patterns, it gets hairy but with save states something became apparent: just a step or two forward would often make the difference between spawning one enemy vs. three or four to deal with which is when the recharge attack mechanic really wraps the noose around your neck (and most enemies don’t respawn when you backtrack a bit)
idk if it’s intended/desirable/The Fun Way to play it this way but I took it pretty slow, one or two enemies at a time managing their movements or simply being prepared as they flew at me with my attack metre on full for one-hit, sometimes two-hit KOs. By this point I had enough crystals/power-ups that a maxed out metre was deadly business, felt good for the final act!
The final boss wasn’t so tough, just get out of his way while your attack power maxes and WHACK and repeat. Coolest looking thing in the game, as it should be (warning: flashing lights)
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I think The Legendary Axe is the best PC Engine game.
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can you put it behind a details caret?
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it also reduced it to a text link that way : (
EDIT: hyperlinked it
EDIT EDIT: made it an MP4, why didn’t I think of that b4 -_-
also, will share my Galaga 88 score i̶f̶ when I break six figures
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I woke up today at 3 am and couldn’t go back to sleep. I decided that it would be a good use of my insomnia to figure out how to get machine translation working through Retroarch. I figured I would get bored and fall back asleep. Instead, I got it working and put it to the test with Sadakichi Sebun: Hideyoshi no Ougon, an adventure game that takes place in Osaka. Right away, I learned about several of the program’s limitations. For a game like this that has text all over the screen, I would have to limit what the program tries to translate; otherwise, it wound up looking really chaotic and confusing.
Luckily, there is a guide on GameFAQs that explains the menu actions and sequences every step needed to beat the game. Some of these actions are unusual. Of course there are the usual “search,” “talk,” and “hit” commands, but there are also “praise” and “joke” commands, too. I played through the first chapter and now I want a full fan translation.
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there doesn’t seem to be anything unusual about this
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Yūyū Jinsei
This is an adaptation of LIFE. It even recreates the rainbow-numbered spinner.
I really thought I was going to become a doctor, but then something terrible happened.
I had to start from rock bottom and my life took a different turn. I…discovered I had other talents.
It was demoralizing to see my colleagues have amazing luck in their lives, becoming successful pop stars, winning hundreds of thousands of dollars in video contests, and raising beautiful children. Meanwhile, terrible things kept happening to me.
Retiring in debt, I took out a loan to gamble at a casino. I could see my future before me.
Except the person sitting at the beach with a cosmo wasn’t going to be me. I lost it all. I was forced to work in the frontier so my wife could have something to live on. I was broken.
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Who the fuckin’ man…
OK so Yokai Dochuki is much easier if you use rapid fire and just reset if you don’t win over 20k at gambling near the start of the game. Like, coming out with any money is probably fine but if you lose it all just start over!! Every enemy but the stupid rock spirit is a fuckin’ pushover once you get the 30k zap powers and the entire game can be beaten in like 15 minutes once you know what you are doing! There’s a rank system where the game gets much harder if you dilly dally too much so constant movement is key!
You can also get totally fucked if you open the chest after the little strip tease bit. It’ll randomly grant you either 10k or turn you into an old man and Elderly Nise Kitaro cannot shoot at all so chances are you gonna die at the start of the next level. I trusted that undersea lady who teased me . . . I got burned . . . I shoulda known better . . .
The final boss is Buddha, who does not shoot you none but does endlessly assail you with a bunch of really silly questions unless you just mash “no” and hold right. I had to look up the solution for this Buddha problem. Maybe this is all very obvious if they teach you about Buddha in school or something but I spent like 5 minutes trying to answer questions truthfully like some kind of boob. Like this PC Engine knows whether or not my mom’s got an innie or an outie! Shit, I don’t even know!
Was worried he’d bust out a Shooting Watch and test me but he didn’t question me non.
Well, yeah. I like this game though.
Refused to choose “no” on this one whenever it popped up. Not as popular as I should be but I am still widely beloved and Buddha needed to know it.
No way I got it for like pennies, PC Engine games used to be so cheap, didn’t play it then though, sorry for waiting like 15 years before actually giving you a shot, Youkai Douchuki.
…you motherf . . .
To get the best ending you have to clear the final level without killing enemies or collecting any money. It’s not very hard but I did spoil a few runs cuz I reflexively blasted ghoulies the second the level began even though I’d just been thinking “OK, remember, don’t shoot anything!” Those are screenshots from those runs, I think there are five endings total, who knows what the missing one is, my boy YD probably becomes an accountant or something.
Anyway good game, good game, use rapid fire in all your PC Engine games, it’s totally legal and fun as heck too!!
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