Best Dreamcast Shmups

Post by **ott0bot** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 10:42 am

I just re-bought a Dreamcast. Yeah! And when I owned one before I was never into shmups. I know about Cannon Spike and Ikaruga.
But what are the best Dreamcast shmups you've played?

Post by **racketboy** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 10:59 am

Personally I enjoyed Cannon Spike, Zero Gunner 2, and Trigger Heart Exelica.
Ikaruga and Bangai-O great, but very challenging, IMO.
Everybody seems to like Under Defeat & Castle of Shikigami 2, but I haven't had a chance to play them much yet.

Here's a list for you:
http://www.racketboy.com/retro/2006/03/ ... oters.html

Post by **GagaMan** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 5:16 pm

Mars Matrix, Gigawing 1+2, Under Defeat and Bangai-O are my favorites.

Post by **claudio** » Tue Nov 13, 2007 5:58 pm

you must get under defeat, its better than ikaruga most people will agree with me.

racketboy, i cant believe you havent played it yet, we were just on this topic a few weeks ago!

i demand you play it right away and write a personal review on it right away!

Post by **Adderall** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 12:17 am

I went on a 3 month mars matrix bender a few years back (eat, sleep, mars matrix, repeat)... pretty much got me into shmups. Between the dreamcast and saturn, the only thing missing is a good gradius title.

Post by **claudio** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 4:01 am

Adderall wrote:I went on a 3 month mars matrix bender a few years back (eat, sleep, mars matrix, repeat)... pretty much got me into shmups. Between the dreamcast and saturn, the only thing missing is a good gradius title.

lets not forget about how we need a thunderforce game, which was in the making, and may be released finally someday names as "Broken Thunder"

http://segagagadomain.com/welcome-news.htm

Post by **GagaMan** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 8:12 am

Adderall wrote:I went on a 3 month mars matrix bender a few years back (eat, sleep, mars matrix, repeat)... pretty much got me into shmups. Between the dreamcast and saturn, the only thing missing is a good gradius title.

Yeah collecting all those points for the unloackable contest can takes forever. Still need me a proper copy of this game =)

Post by **racketboy** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 9:11 am

Adderall wrote:I went on a 3 month mars matrix bender a few years back (eat, sleep, mars matrix, repeat)... pretty much got me into shmups. Between the dreamcast and saturn, the only thing missing is a good gradius title.

The Saturn has the Gradius Deluxe Pack (which includes I & II)

Post by **marurun** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 11:27 am

But not Gradius Gaiden, which was included with the PSX version of the deluxe pack. Sore spot for Saturn owners, I think.

Post by **ott0bot** » Wed Nov 14, 2007 2:30 pm

I'd like to play some of the imports, but I haven't modded my dreamcast. Is there an a place I can obtain a boot disk easily? I tried a couple sites to find the Utopia disk or copies of the Action Replay CD-X, but I can't get them to work.

What's the easiet way to play imports anyway. I read the Racket boy guide, but the links to the boot disks are not working anymore. Someone needs an update....hmmm...